White Night Fantasy

its kinda hard to see the meaning behind this song but its an amazing song

this song used to make me cry

Crestfallen soul Rest for this night Love is here Right here under my wings

I think this song is just someones dream of how perfect the world could be, as opposed to the amount of strife in it now

I think this song is all about finding peace in nature...if you are ever stressed out, try taking a walk in the woods on a winter's night and you will see exactly what the song means!

I see this as a metaphore of the blissed resting of the soul when it is in peaceful sleep. Begins with an invitation to an oniric world, like a seductive snaring siren's chant that the dreamer follows and then is relieved from awakeness. Like a blank mind that worries no more, being now in a different layer of existence, resting for the night from the troubles of everyday life, embraced in unconciousness: free.

This song is quite unique I think, musically, for Nightwish. i really like it now though, and the lyrics are, once again for them, touching.

God. I can't interpret this song at all. The first verse or so is sung so oddly (not badly, mind you) that all I can do is giggle at picturing Tarja's face while recording it. Ridiculous, I know.

Firstly, i love this song mainly because you can tell by her voice that Tarja was smiling while she was singing this song. It's quite unique and she doesn't sound like this in any other Nightwish song. Please let me know if anyone else thought along these tracks though: Almost each line in the song adds up into the overall theme of a unfaithfulness. Through the shroud of snow (the relationship) i saw paradise (the enchantress) Running with wolves refers to the lust for adventure and in this case straying from a partner. The chorus and the part about lengthening the night seems to allude to the feeling of false security lying in someone else's arms. Maybe Im just taking everything metaphorically nowadays haha

It's a song about a child who is saved from suicide. Here's how I came to this point. The beginning of the song shows me a small girl within a home, a dagger resting over her heart. She prepares to bring it down, but just as the song begins to use the instruments the angelic figure (which is the second voice in the song) comes in and rests a hand over the girl's hands, and tells her to come meet her at a lake in the night. Curious, the girl agrees and at nightfall she follows the sound of the song (or the memory of it) to a simple lake. She sees the angelic creature again, who literally gives the girl a temporary paradise to escape the world's horrors. During this time the girl becomes one with the world, nature and its creatures, learning of it and finding that there are still some things in the world worth living for. The angelic creature literally has given the girl a night of rest and peace, one night to simply decide on the world and see if it is worth living for. And whether the girl decides to live or die, either way the angel gives her the rest she wants.

Personally I think this song in Tuomas's interpretation of King Arthur's meeting with "The lady of the Lake" when she gives him Excalibur and informs him he will become King. A great deal of nightwish songs draw meaning from different mythologies. Also the beggining of the song mention meeting the enchantress of at "the lake"