| Vanessa Carlton – Half a Week Before the Winter Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| She's said about this song "I've always had a thing for vampires- I find them to be quite sexy, and I essentially wrote a song about vampires killing unicorns. It's a spin of Darwin's survival of the fittest theory, which I think is basically a sham." | |
| Nightwish – For the Heart I Once Had Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Like a lot of the Dark Passion Play songs, I think this is another reference to the split between Nightwish and Tarja. He was in love with her, yes, but not in a sexual way, I belive. As he says: "Let's say that we had a special and emotional relationship without any romantic attatchments. The fire was burning between her voice and my songs." I believe that in this one he feels lost without her guiding light... but maybe I'm just crazy. |
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| Nightwish – Escapist Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Honestly, I wish this made the album cut in place of Amaranth. But that's just me personally. I definatly think this is about someone who is called by... something or someone to get away. When he says "this night whispers my name, all the dying children," I belive he's referring to being called outside, looking for his lost innocence or something like that. He's said many times that only innocence will save the world, and that as he grew up, understood the full brutality of the world, he lost his innocence, so I think that that line means that children are being forced by modern times, wars, internet, everything like that, to grow up so much faster and lose their innocence sooner. This is echoed in the "virgin snow beneath my feet," with virgin meaning white or new-fallen, untouched innocence. It also shows how innocence is lost because the snow's newfallen perfection is ruined by boot tracks in it... In the chorus, he's saying that he's locked within Earth's limitations. "A nightingale in a golden cage / that's me locked inside reality's maze." It may look beautiful, but it's still caged, still trapped and stifled. And life is often very confusing, hence the "reality's maze" bit. I think the rest of the verse is referring to him wanting someone, his mother, perhaps, or a soulmate, to take him back to childhood, comfort and soothe him with a lullaby, so that he forgets the troubles of life. |
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