| Nightwish – The Islander Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think it metaphorically reflects the last days of ernest Hemmingways life. He was an adventurer for a long time, he gave light in between the mass media with his critical journalism about war, but his illness led him astray from what he once was. He traveled to horizons and beyond and in the end killed himself. While in his last days his mood was often described as a manic, melancholic vitality, the person in the song leaves this world with "a smile beneath his brow", so he maybe seeks joy and finds it in death, like hemmingway, who often described the gun he shot himself with, as a brown loved one. There are a few more references to hemmingways stories, like "the old man and the sea" or the protagonist of "islands in the stream and his situation" but it would take me so long, so i close this text with the fact, that the sea man in the offical music video looks a lot like hemmingway in his last days. |
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