| Tarja Turunen – Boy And The Ghost Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think this song is based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale "The Little Match Girl", with the exception that, of course, this is about a boy instead of a girl. The tale is about a girl who roams the streets in some Nordic town during NYE to sell matches, but no one's buying any. If she returns home without money, she'll be beaten by her father, so she's afraid and stays out all night. While she's out, she looks through the windows and sees people celebrating the Holidays. Eventually, she sits down in a corner and lights one match to warm herself, and then some more. With each match she lights, she imagines that she is in a better place, such as at a dinner table, or under a Christmas tree. She also starts seeing her grandmother, who passed away, but her grandmother disappears as soon as the match is burned out. So the girl keeps striking the matches to keep her grandmother with her. In the end, her grandmother "takes her in her arms and they both flew away"... in other words, the girl dies. I think the song resembles this story, since the boy is also wandering the streets, in the freezing cold, and wishing for things like a big family dinner. Both of the children have no one who cares about them except a ghost / deceased person, and they both eventually die when the lights go out. |
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| Bring Me the Horizon – Who Wants Flowers When You're Dead? Nobody Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this song is about the Japan bombing. I checked a video with the lyrics this week and it seemed to make no sense, but I watched the same video again after I finished watching the movie Black Rain (about Yakuza), and I realized it was about the bombings. It's just the first lines; cherry blossoms are associated with Japan much, aren't they? And what I remember from reading a book about WWII in Asia, the streets were literally filled with corpses. |
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