| Epica – Living a Lie (The Embrace That Smothers Part VIII) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I really don't see how any of the 'Embrace' songs about about Islam; to me, they seem to be more aimed toward Christinaty/Catholicism's faults. But, on a different note, does anyone know the lyrics to 'The Classical Conspiracy' version of this song? |
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| Epica – Death of a Dream (The Embrace That Smothers Part VII) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| For me, this tells the neverending story of how religions seek to expand themselves and make followers of everyone, destroying an nobelievers in thier wake, but never really succeeding in totally destroying doubters because, no matter what they did, there was always at least one person that looked beyond the ignorant little story that the religion taught to try to find another answer. | |
| Visions Of Atlantis – Pharaoh's Repentance Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This sounds like someone who fought their way onto a throne that they probably wouldn't have otherwise gotten, and, looking back, regretted the horrible things he did to achieve power. | |
| Nightwish – Passion and the Opera Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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YAY! Thanks Yachiru! Now I don't feel that I'm the only one who thinks of Phantom of the Opera when I hear this song, however loosely. What I always think of whenever this is a conversation I had with my Mom about Phantom, about how if Christine had been in the opera business all by herself (as in, without the Phantom or Raoul) she probably would have had to take on a 'protector', someone whom she would be a mistress for in exchange for them protecting her from being fired, having to deal with sexual harassement (depending on how high up the social food chain they were, at least), ect. This song makes me think of a girl who doesn't want to to have a protector, yet needs to have one at the same time, and is having difficulty dealing with the consequences of taking one on (for example, some of lyrics suggest that feels dirty, and that looks at the sex in order to keep her protector as something akin to rape). So I basically have the interpretation as TaraK1028, except with more of operatic backround, instead of just straightforward protitution. |
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| Nightwish – Amaranth Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Ummm...okay. I'm going to respect your interpretation of the song, but: 1) Lucifer hasn't faded. If he had, there wouldn't still be a lot of study/interpretation/general talk going on about him in modern times. 2) pencil3 didn't specifically say that Scandinavia was The Land of Daybreak, merely qoted the songlyrics for maximum effect for thier arguement. And, this could be a moot point either way, because it's very possible that the line is just Tuomas' view of his home, and is therefore an opinion, which may or may not have been documented. 3) If you read into pencil3's arguement, you would know that they did say the song was about devil worship. pencil3's interpretation goes into the wrongdoings of God, and points out the possibility that Lucifer may have innocent of the 'crimes' he goes down in history for. |
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| Nightwish – The Carpenter Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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For some reason, whenever I hear this song I always think of The Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier. The Unknowm Soldiers "who for us has died" would be the hundreds of thousands of nameless, faceless, soldiers during wars that perished in the defense of thier country, but would only ever be remembered as a statistic. For example, I learned in my history class that over 20,000 people were wounded or died in the Battle of Antietam. I learned that anywhere between 30,000 and 100,000 people died in the World War II Bombing of Dresden, but I never learn the people's names, and I never learn who they were. I mean, I know it would probably a waste of time (and a totally useless actiion) to try to discover every little thing about everyone that died in a battle, but my point is that now they are simply a nameless, mostly unknown statistic. And, on the American Tomb of the Unknowns, there is always a sentinel present, who is armed with one of the timeless 'Tools of The Carpenter' that goes back hundreds of years: a gun. But I think the main purpose of the lines 'The Carpenter/Carved his anchor/On the dying souls of mankind' was to get across the point that these Unknown Soldiers wouldn't want more fighting to occur. They would want to save 'the dying souls of mankind' by preventing more wars of any kind, by they ones fought with guns, of ones fought with words, or any other weapon, as humanity has proved itself to be extremely versitile when it comes to hurting (or killing) another person. They would want a "a strong foundation" of peace, hramony, and love for people that they died to protect. Citations for Numbers and Quotes and Stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_the_Unknown_Soldier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antietam http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWdresden.htm http://askville.amazon.com/anchor-symbolize/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=4179542 |
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| Nightwish – Ever Dream Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Yeah, and I don't blame him. I wouldn't want to announce my unrequieted love to a married person to the entire world either. | |
| Nightwish – Come Cover Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I fail to see why so many people think this song is about sex. Personally it struck me as being about about a relationship that an outsider ruined, and now one of the hurt parties would like to get back together despite what has happened. Yes, 'Come cover me in you/For the thrill/'Till you will take me in' tends to be a suggestive phrase, but it loses some of it's innuendo with the next part of the chorus. 'Come comfort me in you/Young love must/Live twice only for us' made me think that the 'Take me in' line was less about sex and more about acceptance. Someone wanted to be accepted by the one that they loved, and that was how they desribed it. |
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