| Nightwish – Nemo Lyrics | 4 months ago |
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"Nemo sailing home Nemo letting go" One of the most heartbreakingly powerful lyrics of all time. |
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| Def Leppard – Photograph Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[howdytherefolks:52436] the ride out solo by Steve on "In The Round, In Your Face" is one of the greatest solos of all time. | |
| Nightwish – Sleeping Sun Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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While the generally known song meaning is that it was written for the eclipse, complete with the math lining up in the song even, Tuomas is legendary for having deeper meanings in his lyrics. The original version with Tarja was a beautiful journey from this reality, but it wasn't until I heard the live version with Floor at Tampere that a deeper meaning revealed itself (for me at least). "I wish for this night-time to last for a life-time The darkness around me - shores of a solar sea Oh how I wish to go down with the sun Sleeping Weeping With you" As a statement between lovers, I interpret this as "Even if we only ever have a single night together in each other's company, that makes the rest of this lifetime worth it." "Sleeping, weeping, with you" - both tears of joy being together, and sorrow knowing it will end, be it a literal single night or a metaphorical one (we aren't on this planet long - similar to the message of "While Your Lips Are Still Red) - dare I say it is his version of "It is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all." Even if "lost" in this context isn't even a failed love, but lost to the progression of time. And regardless of how deep you dig, the version at Tampere in my opinion is what you end up with if you distilled beauty and awe and gave it music and lyrics. Absolutely mesmerizing. |
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| Nightwish – The Poet And The Pendulum Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Of all the Nightwish epics, and as much as I adore Ghost Love Score at Wacken, this is my favorite of Tuomas' epics, both because of what it addresses and because of the message behind it. Floor's delivery on it live (as with her delivery on all of the music from that era) is absolutely crushing with the amount of emotion she puts into her vocals. It never fails to bring me to tears hearing it (same with Ghost Love Score, and Sleeping Sun at Tampere). I have to believe part of why Tuomas wrote the song, and especially why he wrote it the way he did, was so that someone else could hear the message he needed or wanted to hear when he was down that far in that dark of a place. The second to last line of the song especially, "You have such oceans within", is one of the most powerful lyrics I have ever heard. I say that re:Tuomas' motives because I got that line tattooed for that reason (along with a semicolon) - when I was at that point, music was my release, my hideaway. It ultimately saved my life. I like to think his reasoning was similar to mine with the tattoo: if even one person hears the song/sees the tattoo and it gets through when they are in that same dark place, it's worth it. I also am blown away by the ability Tuomas has to turn that kind of pain into something beautiful. My best work comes from the darkest parts of my soul - I relate personally to that - but he has a gift for creating in a way that boggles the mind. Add in Floor Jansen's ability to directly touch your soul with her voice, and it truly opens a window into the hell Tuomas was living in when he wrote this song. |
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| In Flames – Stay with Me Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| The last few screams at the end of the song get me every time. That's the sound of someone watching someone slip away and being helpless to stop it. I've had that happen once in my life, and Anders captured that emotion perfectly in this song - the shift from "please don't go down this path" to "stay with me, please don't die" is masterfully done, and chillingly real to anyone who's ever experienced it. Kudos to In Flames for this masterpiece. | |
| Queensrÿche – Jet City Woman Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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I view this song as the prog metal version of "Faithfully" honestly. The writer wants nothing more than to be with his beloved while out on the road, and the thought of being able to see her again is what allows him to keep going. And in the case of the writer, it seems like at the end of the second verse he even admits to trying to live the "rock star" life and quickly realizes it's hollow and empty ("fortunes are lost on women I've seen, but without I can't breathe, you're the air to me"). His only true love is the only one that does it for him - no amount of shallow entertainment will ever rival the feeling he gets from being with her. |
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| Savatage – Strange Wings Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Almost 2 decades ago, @[coconut33:52239] got the first part of it right. The writer is absolutely smitten (borderline obsessed even) with a mysterious woman. But the chorus tells a different story... "She flies strange wings, behind a thin disguise" I view "strange wings" as the opposite of "wind beneath ones wings" - there is no "wind", the wings shouldn't be capable of flight, but still they fly. She has no "wind beneath her wings", and the second part of the line shows she's barely holding it together, "behind a thin disguise". The writer can absolutely see that, as well. "She flies strange wings, still tears she cries" And she doesn't WANT to always be her own rock, she doesn't want to always be the only one there for her. It's almost a cry for companionship, to have someone else take over flying for a while. The writer can see all of it, and the struggle is that he wants to be that rock, to take over the wings so to speak. Anyone who's ever dated/married someone strong and independent knows that that's a battle in and of itself - you want to be there for them without also making them feel smothered, and it's a delicate balance. At the extreme end of it, you want to be there if they need that break to rest their wings, but don't want to replace or diminish that independent fire (at least for me, that's part of the attraction, and part of what I end up falling in love with). "She's still a mystery, in her arms I long to be" And last but not least, the writer describing the perils of becoming obsessed, and even frustrated - he knows she's on a difficult path and only wants to help, but that same path feels like a paradox when the person rejects the one thing they seem to want most (thus "still a mystery"). All in all one hell of a deep song, at least as I interpret it, and easily one of my top 3 favorite songs of all time (sharing a spot with Ghost Love Score and Hallowed Be Thy Name). /End 2am ramble/ |
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