Lagoon

This song is about how you can imagine things to feel happy, even when there are no people around, not in real life nor in your fantasies. It's really beautiful.

i think this song wants to say that happiness, this kind of happiness, is rare, because it doesnt have the elements someone needs to be happy..beautiful song indeed...

I thought this song was more towards being happy with yourself surpassing your own fantasies and desires. Nonetheless, one of my favourite Nightwish songs.

There is so much truth in "imagine a perfect hideaway without a time"...

Well, at the first look there are examples for that things need some specific components to be "perfect". But then there is the serpent, being whispert after "a friend", so it seems to be meant quite ironically. Or do you need a serpent in a perfect eden? Well, in the bible the serpent (the devil) is a false friend to Adam and Eva, making them eat the forbidden apple. But in this song to me it sounds as if Tuomas means any friend with serpent... maybe that there is something bad in every friendship. And then there is the "ocean soul", of which i think as an overflowing soul, full of thoughts and feelings, but content in itself... So i think this song is about that someone with an "ocean soul" does not need things other people need to feel happy.

Actually, I think that 'without a friend (without a serpent)' could possibly mean that friends are likely to betray or mislead you at one point in your friendship. Either way, Tarja's vocals in this are amazing.

Imagine a perfect beach without a mermaid ----> Tarja Inagine a perfect Eden without a friend (without a serpent) ----> Marcelo

As someone pointed, in the Eden there was Adam and Eve (Tuomas and Tarja). But the serpent ruined everything by convincing Eve to eat the apple.

In Tuomas' mind, Marcelo disrupted the connection they had by putting ideas into Tarja's mind.