| Dream Theater – Forsaken Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| John Petrucci says in the making of DVD that this is a music about a vampire sucking the protagonist's blood and taking him in the end. THIS is the true meaning of the song, unless he'd lie to the fans in the album's official DVD. | |
| Nightwish – The Islander Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think the song is quite explicit in its meaning if you stop and read it all as one. I believe it's about an old man who's lost his love and children and is now facing suicide. As the video clip hints to (see it, EVEN if you have already). The first strophe shows us an old sailor forgotten by the world, so we may deduce whatever took his love and kids away from him also has something to do with him being forgotten. Old age? I don't think so. Because the second strophe clearly states "sea without a shore" - so there's no way back home for him, and "banished one" - so I believe he's in exile, and that's what took them away. And now he's grown old. "He lightens the beacon, light at the end of world". This beacon, "showing the way lighting hope in their hearts / the ones on their travels homeward from afar", I believe to be some sort of distress call from the old man, not meaning an actual home for the ones in their travels, but making them think it's home. The third strophe, after the chorus, is straightforward, as he daydreams of "the time before he became / one of the world`s unseen", or, as I said, an exile. He had a wife or companion, and kids, "life gave him it all". Fourth strophe comes back to today's time, as his love's gone, and he prepares to set sails one list time, towards the next life. The rest of the strophe is shown in the movie, go see it. The chorus, I think, is detached from the narration, and is just Nightwish singing who this song is for. For the long forgotten exile crying at the end of the world, for all the memories they left behind. So that excludes the people that were "lucky" enough to be exiled to the Americas :P |
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