| HammerFall – Dark Wings, Dark Words Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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After reading what was released from George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, I am pretty sure that Clarinetfiend is right. Dark Wings, Dark Words was an idiom used in the book series' fictional word and it refers to their tradition of sending messages by ravens (Dark Wings, 'dark winged messenger' from the chorus) and most news aren't good (Dark Words, 'dread his darkened' words in the chorus). When I googled it, it threw me a load of Game of Thrones stuff, if I added that I don't want to see anything with Game of Thrones, the results were only lyrics of this song. Their recent song Winter is Coming makes it clear that they drew some inspiration from these series. This song was released in 2006 in the Threshold album, and at that time four books of A Song of Ice and Fire were released (for those who haven't read it, it's the content of approximately the first 4 seasons of the Game of Thrones series). I'll be further referring to the books because it's obvious that somebody in Hammerfall read these books (the series were aired since 2011, 5 years after this song was released). It's been a long cold winter... Referring to the very long winters that occur in ASoIaF's fictional universe, most likely meaning that the events described took place after a winter. He came down from the mountains into our frozen world The event took place somewhere on the far north. Spoke of revolution, fed us with his words The man was a good speaker. A sacred man from the other side 'the other side' might be referring to The Wall, that was a large wall made of ice that separated the civilised lands from dangers from the north (these dangers are described in the son Winter is Coming), but some people, mostly outcasts, lived beyond that wall, kneeled to nobody and called themselves Free People. To sum up, it describes a man, a good talker, who crossed the wall north and joined the people there. In the story, there were two people who crossed the Wall to live with people north of it, Jon Snow and Mance Rayder. Jon Snow came when the winter was coming and wasn't a leader, while Mance Rayder arrived long ago and was their king, so it's about Mance Rayder. His right hand gave us freedom, while the other stole the pride Not very sure what was this about, probably that the Free People considered themselves free (even their king became king for persuading them to follow him, not for being a heir), but didn't have a big ego. We thought he had the answers standing by his side Tales of a world, not so far away, we got entangled in his vows He promised the people to bring them into the world beyond the Wall (a world not so far away) where the weather is not so harsh so that they could live a better life there and they followed him (occurred in the third book of the series, Storm of Swords). How could we be so blind A graven image, shattered, a meltdown of our wonderland As the sun rise slowly we try to understand They were defeated by the Night Watch, the ones who were guarding the wall, who were unexpectedly supported by King Stannis' knights. They failed to reach their wonderland. But we found a way back home from dusk came clarity Not sure what is this, the Free People were later captured and forced to change their faith and believe in Lord of Light by King Stannis, but this wasn't much a salvation for them (later, in 2011 was released the fifth part of the series A Dance with Dragons where they joined the Night Watch to protect the Wall from the horrors from the north, but that was written after this song was released, so I don't know if they guessed it right or what). In short, it was the story of Mance Rayder, leader of the Free People (or Wildlings) from the A Song of Ice and Fire series. Anyway, nice song and good to know that people read books. |
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| Insomnium – Lose to Night Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think that this song tells that whatever has a beginning has an end, and so do the friendships. | |
| Helloween – Church Breaks Down Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think this song is about the mankind's realisation that the knowledge indoctrinated by Church is not the actual truth. First they called them heretics, but they eventually lost to the nowadays' science. And evolution is one of the last verifiable things they tend to disagree with. | |
| Omnium Gatherum – White Palace Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I was trying to understand the meaning of the song for quite some time, and arrived to a hypothesis, though it might be wrong. I think that it is like some other Omnium Gatherum songs that were explained here about forgetting the past and focusing on the present. The first clue I found was 'Strong is the hand that builds the white palace'. It suggests that the thing called white palace is something that is hard to achieve. 'Dark gardens surrounding the white palace' indicates that there is a contrast between the white palace and its surroundings, something good surrounded by something bad. 'A heart is crying for the world' seems to mean that we are saddened by the would around us. 'Keeping it open it bleeds Keeping it open it heals', where 'it' seems to refer to the surrounding world maybe means that the the world can care about itself (it is probably metaphorically called a bleeding wound). I am not quite sure what 'Sometimes we are away Sleeping through the day' means in relation to this, maybe that we know the world around us has survived our absence (or avoidance to think about it). The surrounding world might be dark gardens around the palace. Perhaps the above mentioned white palace is an inner peace we can find within ourselves, separated from the worries about things we cannot change. 'Lay down all worry and trouble that is done' and 'for what is the purpose in a search for something that is gone' probably refers to forgetting about past things that cannot be changed any more. So maybe the wounds identify the things we cannot change as the past. However, in other parts, the wounds seemed to refer rather to something that surrounds us, so I can't be sure which possibility is it. |
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| Dark Tranquillity – Uniformity Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think that the title describes well what the song is about, unlike many other songs from Dark Tranquillity. Expressions like 'take down ambition', 'the faceless' sound like synonyms to uniformity. There are also words trying to make people rise up from this uniformity (sounds like if it was also servitude), like 'connect the fallacies, detect autonomy', but 'is there life in the distance, a faint beacon on light' seems to mean that it won't be easy, because of the 'inner ceiling', something believed to be limit of possibilities, though it's not. I don't quite understand the meaning of the rest. | |
| Stratovarius – Papillon Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The book 'Papillon' is about a guy who escaped from prison many times, based on various stories from prison by a guy who actually escaped from a prison (where he was sitting for murder). I don't think it's about escaping from prison. However, I don't know what is this song about, the only thing that I noticed is that the verse 'One day to play' might refer to the fact that butterflies (=Papillons) usually live only for one day. Maybe the rest is just describing is that one beautiful day where the butterfly can fly freely. |
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| Dark Tranquillity – Inside the Particle Storm Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I don't think it is meant to be something related to LHC. The frequent use of words related to physics suggests that Dark Tranuillity know that reactions in LHC are many times weaker than reactions happening in the atmosphere all the time. Also, the usage of words 'napalm' and 'sarin' suggests this is about something related to war. My attempt to analyse it: Words like 'napalm' and 'sarin' suggest that it is about war. 'Particle Storm' or 'Particle blaze' may mean quickly moving particles, like plasma, or, less generally, flames. 'Where ages collide into nothingness' may mean that something that existed (and/or evolved) for long is being destroyed (like mankind). 'Clogging the bloodstream of Earth' may mean that the ways the nature worked will not work anymore. It seems like if all life on Earth was damaged by the event. 'Proclaiming the end of days' obviously means that it is about the end of the world. 'We leave now, Nothing will follow, nothing at all, The cleansing flames of entropy, To devour us all' probably means that the mankind is being totally removed from existence, returning to the original, chaotic stage of nature. Because high entropy usually means high temperature, it may also mean that the mankind was being killed by something very warm. 'Our lungs are filled with sarin, Our children drowning like dogs' sounds like some kind of merciless mass slaughter. 'Handcuffed to the weight of cold dark matter, Without purpose, meaning or name' may describe that the mankind was being reduced to anorganic, non-living, absolutely unimportant matter. 'The poisoned gene of humanity, Nullified' may mean that the mankind destroyed itself. 'When black ships anchor to the skies' may be about death in general, maybe something about Charon transporting humans into the World of the Dead, but this thematically does not fit the song. 'The heavy hands of chaos, Descend in merciless demise' is similar to the part about 'cleansing flames of entropy', about the arrival of a more chaotic era. 'With the promise of one final dawn' seems to indicate that somebody caused this in order to achieve some kind of greater good. I would say it is about the destruction of mankind by itself, in a war, probably using hydrogen bombs. |
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