"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
I close my eyes, the lantern dies
The scent of awakening, wild honey and dew
Childhood games, woods and lakes
Streams of silver, toys of olden days
Meadows of Heaven
Meadows of Heaven
The flowers of wonder
And the hidden treasures
In the meadow of life
My acre of heaven
A five year-old winterheart
In a place called home
Sailing the waves of past
Meadows of heaven
Meadows of heaven
Meadows of heaven
Meadows of heaven
Rocking chair without a dreamer
A wooden swing without laughter
Sandbox without toy soldiers
Yuletide without the Flight
Dreambound for life
Flowers wither, treasures stay hidden
Until I see the first star of fall
I fall asleep
And see it all
Mother's care
And color of the kites
Heaven, oh oh oh
Heaven
Meadows of heaven, oh oh oh
Meadows of heaven
Heaven (heaven)
Meadows of Heaven
Meadows of Heaven, oh oh oh
Meadows of Heaven
Meadows of Heaven
Heaven, heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven, heaven
The scent of awakening, wild honey and dew
Childhood games, woods and lakes
Streams of silver, toys of olden days
Meadows of Heaven
Meadows of Heaven
The flowers of wonder
And the hidden treasures
In the meadow of life
My acre of heaven
A five year-old winterheart
In a place called home
Sailing the waves of past
Meadows of heaven
Meadows of heaven
Meadows of heaven
Meadows of heaven
Rocking chair without a dreamer
A wooden swing without laughter
Sandbox without toy soldiers
Yuletide without the Flight
Dreambound for life
Flowers wither, treasures stay hidden
Until I see the first star of fall
I fall asleep
And see it all
Mother's care
And color of the kites
Heaven, oh oh oh
Heaven
Meadows of heaven, oh oh oh
Meadows of heaven
Heaven (heaven)
Meadows of Heaven
Meadows of Heaven, oh oh oh
Meadows of Heaven
Meadows of Heaven
Heaven, heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven, heaven
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Meadows Of Heaven Lyrics as written by Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I agree with LastoftheWilds. This is song is more about the experiences of childhood that never come back again. 'Dreambound for life'. Quite self-explanatory.
This song did make me cry, at:
"Rocking chair without a dreamer A wooden swing without laughter Sandbox without toy soldiers Yuletide without the Flight"
I'll always love Tuomas for this song. For ALL his songs.
I like how in the end it sort of goes into one of those Gospel Choirs. And Anette is doing one hell of a good job! Great voice.
Actual Lyrics:
I close my eyes The lantern dies The scent of awakening Wildhoney and dew
Childhood games Woods and lakes Streams of silver Toys of olden days
Meadows of heaven
The flowers of wonder And the hidden treasures In the meadow of life My acre of heaven A 5-year-old winterheart In a place called home Sailing the waves of past
Meadows of heaven
Rocking chair without a dreamer A wooden swing without laughter Sandbox without toy soldiers Yuletide without the Flight
Dreambound for life
Flowers wither, treasures stay hidden Until I see the 1st star of fall
I fall asleep And see it all: Mother`s care And color of the kites
Meadows of heaven
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This song is so beatiful and i cant beleive more people havent commented on it! I agree with lastofthewilds, its about a lost childhood, how when we grow up we lose all the wonderful thigns we had when we were young, and now we can only dream of them, hence 'I fall asleep and see it all'. This is such a sad and beautiful song, it makes me cry =) Im not sure about the godpel at the end though, that spoils it for me slightly. However, agree with wormjuice that Anette really is doing the band justice =)
This song is believed to be about a Childhood Utopia.There are references to child memories, such as the lyrics ("Sandbox without toy soldiers.") Also the album illustration is of a farm house in a grassy meadow. It is the memory of the Childhood of someone who lived as a farmer and remembers the fields as "Meadows of Heaven", but has left the fields after their childhood.This is arguably the most passionate and emotional song on Dark Passion Play.It is also made reference to in "The Poet and the Pendulum", ("My home was there 'n then / Those meadows of heaven / Adventure-filled days / One with every smiling face"), perhaps the Poet (Tuomas Holopainen) being the one who is remembering the Childhood.This would make sense because, Tuomas, along with all of the members of Nightwish (except Marco Hietala and Anette Olzon) came from the rural village of Kitee, Finland.
Beautiful song
Of course it is about Tuomas. Most of his songs are personal, with him as the lyrical self. Only a few are fictional.
This song makes me cry, too. Though "The poet and the pendulum", "Eva" and "Bye, bye Beautiful" are great songs, for me this one is the very best of the whole album. It just touches me, and as i read from your comments, those of you who grasped it's meaning are touched, too. This is because there is a childhood-utopia in everyone. As a child everything is new and magical, but when we grow up we dont see things, but see again. We learn to thing in standards, and the magic is gone. Although i really try to keep the "child within me" alive, most of the things are no longer magical to me. And this is very, very sad to recognize.
I think that the child Tuomas so often mentions is an actual child, not a metaphor, a child that died, probably HIS child. In this song, the lines "a woodenswing without laughter" and "sandbox without toy soldiers" are the things he had dreamed about sharing with his child, then after their death, the things dont seem right anymore. The childs toys without the child, all the dreams and hopes he had for his child, all gone. I think Dead to the World and For the Heart I Once Had are about this child too. But I could of course but completely wrong
Either you've JUST become a Nightwish fan, or you don't know much about them. Tuomas has never had a child, at least so far we know - he refers to himself as the 'Child' and 'Poet'.