| The Gathering – Nighttime Birds Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I believe it's about spirits of people who have just died making their journey to the Other Side / Heaven. (they want to be certain / of a warm surrounding) The lyrics says the are "as beautiful as nighttime birds", which means they aren't really birds. But they can fly with the wind, and very peacefully for what I can see, they are just following their own way ("Their ways are open / they spread as their wings). I may be very wrong, but that's what I think about. |
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| Within Temptation – Say My Name Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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My story with this song is kind of funny, actually. When I came across to it and listened for the first couple of times, I would swear it was a song about losing your beloved one, in the terms of ending a relationship - in other words, I thought it was very boring LOL Since English isn't my first language (I'm Brazilian), I have some troubles to understand what people say when they sing, I then search for the lyrics (a long time after I listened to it for the first time). And well, I must say my jaw totally dropped when I read them. It wasn't AT ALL what I was expecting/thinking of it; and though it also reminds me of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, this ISN'T a love song. This is about a person who has a parent/grandparent with Alzheimer/amnesia; the lyrics are very clear: "Say my name / So I will know you're back you're here again / For a while" SHe begs to this person to say her name, so she will see that he/she remembers her (I say the narrator is a girl only because of Sharon 8D But it can be a boy as well). "Tell me about / The days before I was born / How we were as children" It's here where I see that this person is way elder than her; and when she says "how we were as children", she actually meant herself and her brothers/sisters. "You touch my hand / As colors come alive / In your heart and in your mind" When the person with alzheimer/amnesia remember, for a moment, who the girl is. "I cross the borders of time /Leaving today behind to be with you again" She "leaves today behind" because she's lost in her own memories of when that person was healthy and knew who she was. "Do you remember how you used to touch my hand? / You're not aware / Your hands keep still / You just don't know that I am here" This part says that the person isn't dead or in coma, he/she. "It hurts too much / I pray now that soon you're released / To where you belong" Though it hurts, she longs that this person dies, so he/she will be in peace after a long time of suffering =/ "Please say my name / Remember who I am / You will find me in the world of yesterday" Again, about the memories she has with this person, but he/she doesn't have anymore "You drift away again / Too far from where I am / When you ask me who I am" As I said, the lyrics are very clear =/ And as EternalDreamSpace said, I also read somewhere that this song was written after Sharon den Adel's Grandmother, who has Alzheimer; I don't know if it is true, since i read it on a fan forum, not in an interview on a magazine scan/video, but I believe it is, for two reasons: 1- the emotions Sharon conveyed while singing it and 2- I don't know any live version of it, so I see it's very personal o_o |
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