Ain't Your Fairytale

It sounds like another werewolf song. A great job by Sonata Arctica, might I add.

"I have always known the storm would come... Listen now, my young ones This not a story I tell of midnight, moon and sun...

Are you ready to walk the forbidden road learn again what we tried to forget The dark can now take over you"

Lyrics are retelling of their past of being werewolves, different from humans. The dark can now take over you is a reference to the full moon, which causes them to change to their wolf-like forms.

“We have a common past, an ancient bond The people once broke We would only take what we need, They would harvest our weak,

But they hunted us all, We ended the last of them, thus far, ten lifetimes ago In hopes of healing the sore, but the war still went on”

Again, about humans hatred of such creatures. They were hunted until very few remained, and they remain in hiding to survive.

“Preying for the moon, Hiding for the day These might be our last times I ain't gonna see you taken away...

Heading for the dawn Of our way of life You're welcome to give it your best try... Look me in the eyes, oh, wolver This ain't your fairy tale...”

About the hunting of them, again. Apparently, the narrator is hoping that they and her children and family wont be discovered as what they really are, and run to keep themselves hidden. This ain’t your fairy tale probably means that it is the truth, this is real, you can’t close your eyes and it would simply go away.

“It took us many years to teach them How to cry wolf We made the people serve the purpose Those ignorant fools... my young ones!

Teach the ones below you something you've learned. And learn from the ones above you Fear is your deepest wisdom For these last days...”

They revenged by making people fear them, afraid of them, despite what the werewolves wanted.

“The ones who seek justice, will pray for it all their lives... They can and they will skin us all one day... oh can you hear them cries As far as the man can run from us we're following the trail of blood So hunt my young ones, the pack they have always feared is back”

The wolves want justice to the wrongs done to their race. The leader wants the pack to hunt down the humans who took their own and make them regret ever doing it.

“They don't fear the wolf, but the wild within no glory to the way this must end This is a story I told Unfolding before you”

This is bound to happen for all eternity, for as long as they exist. They have to live with this curse, and for as long as they do, they will be hated and hunted.

I can kinda see a way for it to be about NA's too. Not saying it is, but still.

"They can and they will skin us all one day..." skinning was popular during that time.

"As far as the man can run from us we're following the trail of blood" Trail of tears/blood from being forced west.

"Are you ready to walk the forbidden road Learn again what we tried to forget The dark can now take over you"

Trying to forget how they were treated.

" Preying for the moon, Hiding for the day These might be our last times I ain't gonna see you taken away..."

Trying to hide as to not being taken into slavery.

Werewolves? yall are thinking about Full Moon too much. its strikes me as being about Wolves being hunted to extinction. definitly a interesting take on a serious situation

This is a power metal band, it pretty much HAS to be about Werewolves.

Sounds to me like the plight of the native americans

Haha, it has nothing to do with Native Americans.

Tony said that this is the fourth of the wolf songs (Fullmoon, Wolf & Raven, The Cage) and it's pretty self explanatory. Very well written, probably my favorite lyrics for one of my least favorite songs.

As far as the man can run from us we're following the trail of blood So hunt my young ones, The pack they have always feared is back

Worship this shit.

Seppo~, The Cage isn't about werewolves, its about a normal kind of wolves, which are trapped, u can go there and see my thoughts and I am 100% sure its not about werewolves as W&R and Fullmoon.

A song continuing the Wolf saga. It's about a group hunting down the wolves. (I'm thinkin' goblins for some reason. Mainly the way the singer sounds. XD)

My sister pointed out that "wolver" means "one who hunts wolves"... so the song is actually essentially a threat--"stop trying to kill us or we'll return the favor".