| Sonata Arctica – Everything Fades To Gray Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I always view it as two people finally admitting they're in love, but one of them is dying. They finally die when the music stops, and it starts off again with the other lover killing themselves (hoping to be together in the afterlife). | |
| Sonata Arctica – Deathaura Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| True. Like I said, it's full of plot holes XD It wasn't he was expecting her to die, it was just more he was thinking it may be the only way out for her, and him dying too, because he didn't want to go back to the evil/killing ways, but she'd saved his life so he must save hers too. | |
| Sonata Arctica – Deathaura Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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To sum that up in short: The Male is the witch, but Female saved him from that life and all the evil and killing. Female ends up thinking shes the witch coz she's always thought she was different and has a dream about it. Someones paid to say Female is the witch. Male forgets about the evil and killing, and kills the entire town, except Female. Then they both live together. |
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| Sonata Arctica – Deathaura Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I can't really argue with RyuheiAoi's interp, because it's insanely knowledgable and, well, I agree with it a fair bit tbh. I think that it goes like so: The Premonition: This isn't when they were younger, it's later on the life and they're together, but in secret, she (We'll call her: Female Lover) is reminding him (We'll call him: Male Lover) about when they were younger, and first faling in love, how she told him not to love her, coz shes different (but not magical different; possibly in a "drifter" different. She has no one, no friends or no family; hence "girl without a name" and she tries to "stay behind the curtains", so to speak, and shes felt like she's been more/less human than everyone else), but now it doesn't matter, because the town's coming to kill her (Female Lover has some sort of "premonition" about it), and he (Male Lover) is going to be hated by them too. But it's Male Lover who's the "witch", (somehow the girl has the premonition though, this is the major flaw in my version. It could possibly be that she has it when theyre both in bed together, and his "witchcraft" has sorta "passed over" to her) so he thinks to himself: "And until I get my peace I'm but a shade..." Basically meaning: Until I reveal who I am and put an end to the danger Male Lover has put Female Lover in, he's nothing more than a pretender, and he's been living in fear that they'll find him out and Female Lover will get caught up/killed in it all. The Witch-Hunt: Some time passes (days, weeks, whatever) and Male Lover hears a whole crowd of people (I imagine it being each line in the quotes is said by a different person) agreeing there's a witch around, and she must die. Female Lover is there too; and she feels like she is a witch, because of the premonition she had, so she's suffering because she can hear them all say they're going to kill and burn her when they find out who the witch is. Male Lover also sees this "There I see you, amongst the good people, suffering..." and feels bad for it, but won't yet open up that he's the "witch". Exposing The Heathen: Someone (We'll call them Inquisitor) thinks he knows who the witch is (sings the first to lines in quotes) and tells the Priest/Father to follow him, he'll show him who she is. Male Lover then says the next lines, but Female Lover isn't actually dead yet, but he knows that because he loved her, she's going to die: "For five-fold kisses, my only love had to die" Envy: Inquisitor thinks that Female Lover is the witch, and is accusing her so, because her crops are being helped to grow thanks to Male Lover's powers. He's saying he's going to tell the town she's the witch, and they'll come and get her. The Fear: This happens around the same time as Envy. It's basically saying any people in town, even the good ones, are afraid and worried about the "witch", that anything is a sign of witchcraft. This bit isn't Male Lover saying it, but it's about Male Lover: "Every night, so painful's the memory of love in the dark. One wheel of the year ends their short lives in fear" He's still regretting ever loving the girl, and for what he's done to her... But we also learn Male Lover's true intentions: He's going to kill the whole town so that, finally, "I hear her in the wind, the bane of our town. Come with me, oh, father the heathen is exposed." Inquisitor has come back to town, saying he knows Female Lover is the witch. The Grudge: In the age of burning times, you saved my life ...The blaze grew ever higher. Male Lover was going to let Female Lover take the blame for it, and probably let her burn, so he no longer has to use his powers for evil... But then Male Lover remembers Female Lover saving him at some point in the past (Through them being in love, he stopped using his evil and powers, so people stopped finding out he was a witch/trying to kill him, thus saving his life, and possibly morality) and realises that all the townsfolk should be killed; they were the ones who did this to them! The rest of it he's talking to the town and saying "You all become consumed by what you feared, by what you wanted and by what you thought shouldn't be, and didn't try to accept me for who I am. But, and though it'll hurt me [this is where Female Lover finds out he's the evil one, and he lied to her and put her in danger. So its hurting him to come out and tell her, as shes in the crowd of townsfolk], and though you all all trusted me to by your Cunning Man... It turns out I'm the evil one, and I curse you all for what you have done to me!" [and Female Lover] The Curse: This is the bit where Male Lover places his curse on the town; they've been fed fear, the unknown and a poison that attracts death (basically a plague-like curse which will kill them) The Flames: The curse has been done, some days have gone by, and bodies are being burnt of those who've died of the plague, making the townsfolk think they'll be getting rid of it, but they know that any of the healthy people could be next... But Female Lover gives the "punch line": "Unless morning finds all of them somehow hexed!" they're all going to be dead by tomorrow anyways. Endless Inquisition: The rest of the town folk die from the plague, until eventually no one is left. Male Lover and Female Lover run away. Eventually, the town is found as a ghost town, and there's an endless search into what happened there. ...Together, Today, For All Eternity: Male Lover tells Female Lover that he remembers when Female Lover said he shouldn't love her, but he was going to say the same thing, with him being the true witch. They know can both live together without having to hide who they are, like they have had to do for so many years. "But they paid someone to say their torment has a name" this is just saying "Someone pretended they knew that Female Lover was the witch, because they were paid to do so" It's sorta sketchy and full of holes, I'm sure xD But it's another way I see it. Though the more I think about it, the more I think RyuheiAoi's is right :P xD |
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