| Nightwish – Gethsemane Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Jesus in Gethsemane is an supremely powerful image - that of a man who knows he is going to die praying, crying to be saved. In the story he is alone as the others sleep, so it is about being alone and torturing yourself. This is unrequited love her... but adds that his ambition will forever be his by virtue of her being the cause of so much pain. | |
| Nightwish – Bare Grace Misery Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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'A Little Match Girl freezing in the snow' Interesting phrase - the match girls were workers in Britain who were treated harshly by the factory proprietors. Indeed they are famous for their strike. What does this infer? I think it - like so much of Nightwish - is making reference to someone who has be treated poorly, who is left with no one caring but is defiant nevertheless. I see this song as that of a woman who has been corrupted - perhaps there are hints of a rape - and who has been transformed by the experience into someone far more cynical, perhaps even hedonistic. 'Die for my sins' is an odd phrase there. Is this a reference to the corruption of childish innocence they always refer to - a spiritual death - hence why she is the 'dark side', that side of adult awareness that is dark. She has been maltreated, no one has cared for her, and her childhood has been destroyed - but what she has left is the ability to spiritual transform others in this was, in a manner that the 'unashamed appetite' suggests they are naively walking into with impetuous desire. |
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