| Epica – The Obsessive Devotion Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm not sure about this, but I think the Latin means this: Fortuna exprimitur artibus falsis et mendacem memorem esse oportet = Fate is enforced by misleading tricks and one must be aware of the lie Adoratio permanebit. Quotiens me eges, adero = Adoration will continue its existance. As long as you long for me, I will appear Venia ad vitam aeternam, non mihi, non tibi, sed nobis = Come to the eternal victory, not for me, not for you, but for us Fortuna mutual coniuncti per tota saecula future = Borrowed destiny and future generation are fully interconnected Venia ad vitam aeternam = Come to the eternal victory As others said, the song is about not being able to leave the one you love and hate at the same time. |
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| Sonata Arctica – My Dream's But A Drop Of Fuel For A Nightmare Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'm not a native English speaker and I'm pretty young, so I probably misunderstood this song (and sorry for any grammatical mistakes I might have made), but I think it's about a man who can't control his own feelings. He feels depressed, but he does not act like that to the outside world. He lives in a happy dream, but because he's actually very sad, that dream turns into a nightmare for him. The happy outside world is like a kitten scratching him, and his life is like a theater piece. His friends aren't real friends, they are weak translucent ghosts haunting his nightmare. He isn't actually dreaming, but his life is like a dream. Metaphorically, he looks in a mirror to see himself, but that mirror breaks. He steps on the broken glass of that mirror - he cuts his feet with the ruins of his own life, the broken glass, which means he cannot handle his life. He tries to avoid it, but he can't, he steps on the broken glass twice. Also, he literally dreams about his mask of happiness. He dreams about all kinds of happy things and he tries to believe those dreams. He tries to believe the 'happy painting', but it just isn't reality. He is stuck in himself, he is his own prison. The dream turns into a wild ballet. The few good parts of his life (the parts he uses to pretend everything is going well) and the *real* bad parts get mixed together. His dream turns into a nightmare, he tries to kill himself in his dream, he jumps, he falls, he expects to die, then he wakes up again to continue living in his non-existing happy life. It's impossible to live in such a bad dream, so in the end, he actually commits suicide by jumping off the carousel. That colourful carousel is pretended to be his so-called good life, and it finally kills him. |
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