sort form Submissions:
submissions
Nightwish – Bare Grace Misery Lyrics 14 years ago
I have a little different interpretation.

I think the song is about a lady that wants a loving man in her life but failes, because all the man just want sex - nothing more.

She is looking for the real romantic love - but doesn't understand she didn't get it this way.

So -->

Sweet boy, come in
I am the dark side of you
Die for my sins
Like the one once did

--> she is looking for someone. Found a "boy" (well I think this is meant for a young and inexperienced man), who's lusting for her (I am the dark side of you). She is agreeing (die for my sins), I think "die" means something like a orgasmn here (Le petit mort).
But it also means he will have to sacrifice at least a part of him, "like the one once did" --> jesus died for the sins of men. So the "boy" will also offer something to the lady, perhaps some time or his virginity.

Cinnamon bed
For your unashamed appetite

--> I also think this refers to Hansel and Gretel - just a line, that the boy really wants her.


A figurante
This dance will hurt like hell

--> But she is only a mute (span. figurante) in his life, just like the meremaid in the life of the prince. She will "dance" for him - hoping he will love her, even if it hurts - but he won't fall in love with her.

Oh, bare grace misery
Just a Child without a fairytale am I
Dark but so lovely
A Little Match Girl freezing in the snow

--> The lady knows, that the man will not love her for this night, she is just like the little match girl --> hoping everything gets better, lighting some matches and dreaming of a better world - but she knows in reality she is freezing to dead.

Love lying, enticing
(Bare grace misery)
Crowning the moment
(Bare grace misery)
This is what I am
Bare grace for the end of days

--> she's just lying there, just for being enticing and for crowing the moment (sex/orgasmn for the man)
Bare grace misery means she is a desperate naked beauty. She knows she will stay like this.


Romantic scent
Spoiled Lucrece lies warm for you

--> She is dreaming again (romantic scent), but in reality she is just a playmate for the man.
spoiled lucrece means - she would love to be like lucrece - well she isn't.

There's no such priest
That can pray me to heaven

--> in the end of the fairytale "the match girl" a priest helps the match girl - and the match girl will never suffer again, because she's in heaven. (well dead - but in heaven^^)
The lady knows this will not happen, the man will not fall in love with her - so there is no heaven for her.

When done with me
Forget if you think I feel ashamed
A wild thing
Never felt sorry for anything

--> in the end she knows, she won't feel ashamed just because the man left her with nothing.
perhaps she will try this another time ;)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I also have a REAL different interpretation :D

She could also be a nymphomaniac.^^
Seducing some man, everytime hoping for satisfaction she can't get.
In the end she doesn't feel ashamed because she's just a little evil^^.

* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.