I was listening to "Beneath the Mire":http://musicbrainz.org/track/b6739f1b-a188-4b65-8de8-66b6f45a4a14.html from "Ghost Reveries":http://musicbrainz.org/release/39858f32-d9f0-41e1-ad92-aabc0740bcb1.html, and it struck me that the lyrics concisely summed the pathos infused music:
bq. Beneath the mire
drowned desire