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Old 23-Apr-2006, 14:27
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Dear Sir/Madam,
I do translation of lirics by Anathema band into my nativ language and I got stuck. The fragment is:
"An impassive depravity of a cadaverous epiphany"
I know the meaning of each seperate word but can't find a sense as a whole.
I'm asking you to put me the sentence in other words.
Please, help me.

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Without more context, I can't make much sense of it either. The 'cadaverous epiphany' is presumably some divine being in physical form, though if the are depraved, it suggests that it is not a good deity, but a devil or similar.
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Yes, it seems indeed to concern someone like Stormlord,
anyway, thank You ever so much
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OK, so Stormlord is a depraved deity in physical form and shows no emotion about its depravity.
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There appears to be an error in the line. The line should read,

An impressive depravity . . .

Source: The Lord of Mortal Pestilence, lyrics and songs
http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/song/12946.html
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