| Tarja Turunen – I Walk Alone Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Tarja is dead for me,but I won't miss chance to spit on her grave whenever I can." That's just plain disrecpectful and childish... no wonder why your mail involves the compound "wildchild" Are you like.. 10 years old? Spit on her grave, FCS, people like you shouldn't be taught to read or write, not worth it with all the garbage in your little head. If you don't like her then don't come and comment her songs, go lit some candles for Tuomas-yourhero-Holopainen. About the song... yeah, the Winter Storm are her fans and I do thing it's a song about making an statement about being still alive and present in the media. About the "diva" stuff... I think we should stop thinking about her and her behaviour and feelings, she's an artist, not our spiritual leader. |
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| Nightwish – A Return To The Sea Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this is about a "de-evolution" in a beautiful kind of way, the arrival of an utopic world in wich we all can live and let live. The water is definitly life, we have all this "Evolution of species" reminders -in wich water is the craddle of life-, it talks about the fittest, and I think here the fittest is whomever is willing to respect life, the tyrant is anyone that attempts it's destruction. When it talks about seadrops foaming empty skulls it refers to true (utopic) wisdom -in the phillosophic way, where noone that gets to know REAL goodness could never do any wrong- overflowing the materialistic minds at last. I guess the reference to Atlantis means that the Utopy is reached, Atlantis was originially used by greeks as an anti-ideal realm, was later used in modern literature to describe an utopic society, but the important part is that both versions agree that Atlantis was destroyed (in ay case, Utopy undone) and along with Darwin's resurrection, it means life for every being... Or "some sort" of life, not the life we know from everyday (let's not forget allusions to death characters) reminds me of the "Evangelion" anime's ending. And I think "Fox and Hound" reminds us that Tuomas loves Disney's movies, as "Giant spiders" alludes to Tolkien's LOTR. |
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| Nightwish – White Night Fantasy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I see this as a metaphore of the blissed resting of the soul when it is in peaceful sleep. Begins with an invitation to an oniric world, like a seductive snaring siren's chant that the dreamer follows and then is relieved from awakeness. Like a blank mind that worries no more, being now in a different layer of existence, resting for the night from the troubles of everyday life, embraced in unconciousness: free. |
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| Nightwish – The Carpenter Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Thanx, candyG. I don't really relate it directly with Jesus -I mean jesus being the "main character" in the song- because of what Tuomas supposedly said already several times (Quoting: FallenRose24 on 12-26-2005 @ 04:56:40 AM This song is NOT about Jesus Christ. Tuomas has stated several times that Christ was not the subject of the lyrics... ) I began my interpretation from the statement that the song is not a tale of Jesus... but it could be. I personally think Tuomas is ever-confused about himself, his lyrics (he admits that "Elvenpath" gets wako at some point -or sauna-), what he wants, his feelings... I don't think we would ever get to a definitive interpretation without studying his life 'first hand' in a very extensive biography. When historians make an interpretation they gotta know every possible thing about the life of the artist, influences, cultural baggage, traditions of his mother tongue, the historical circumstances at the moment the work was written... and lots of stuff. Well, based on what little I know about him, I'd say either interpretation is possible: We know he seems to write a lot about sins, guilt, biblical stuff, and Bible-related books (let's remember Tolkien is very influenced in LOTR by the christian beliefs and that Tuomas likes LOTR vey much) |
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| Moloko – Familiar Feeling Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It is about a predestinated relationship and the point that the special thing it has is more important than the result. | |
| Moloko – Dirty Monkey Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Couldn't have said it more accurately... LOL | |
| Nightwish – Two For Tragedy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this is about a mother that had a somewhat bad, evil, or maybe just incomprehended son. They never got to understand each other, they both suffered much, he was scorned by the rest of the people, that made the mother totally unhappy, because no matter how proud or stubborn or different he was, still remained her son for all eternity. The son is now dead, finally in peace, and the woman is somewhat relieved that it's all over and he suffers no more. She recognizes maybe she shouldn't be crying for him for it was the best, but cannot avoid it, being a mother is a sacrifice after all; and she regrets she never reached him. Now she just wants to mourn him and think of nothing else, keeping the memories of what was really important: the love she had for him; not thinking about what is good, what is bad, or even what is beyond death. |
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| Nightwish – The Carpenter Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think it is about people who try to accomplish great things, like gifted people that belive that human salvation lies in their hands, and their life-sacrifiyng trials they must overcome, sometimes imposed by themselves. And the way we all seem oblivious to their efforts and don't follow their examples. About the grial, I think it is pointing the fact that Jesus is a humanized god, that suffered for us... why did our salvation required a god's sacrifice? why was not a human sacrifice enough, if so many people immolate themselves for the sake of humanity? I think it mentions a carpenter because it is a humble, common profession, and maybe alludes to Joseph; the Virgin Mary is venerated, while Joseph goes almost ignored. Also, if Jesus became human, he had the same tools every human's got and some use with no recongnition. "The one they Lick...promises of eternal peace", I think this alludes to the fact that people wants a savior to avoid their own fights, they'd rather "lie on the grass and observe their saviour" and I think in this paragraph, God and nature are one and the same, that's why he is "crucified to the chirping of birds", something like the voice of god prophetizing the crucifixion, birds singing for the dawn -God foretelling an espiritual dawn- that required the sacrifice of a goddish human, because we are not pure and worthy enough to save ourselves no matter how much we try. |
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