Songs as a seduction of sirens
The elf-folk is calling me
Mielikki, Bluecloak, Healer of the ill and sad
Open the gate and let me follow the uncarven path
The way to the lands
Where as a hero I stand
The path where Beauty met the Beast
Elvenpath
Ruled by magic and mighty swords
That makes my soul long for the past
Elvenpath
Introduced me to her old friend Home Gnome
Told me to keep the sauna warm for him
Bilbo, Sparhawk, goblins and pixies,
Snowman, Willow, trolls and the seven dwarfs
The path goes forever on
And as sleep takes me by my hand
Madrigals from the woods
Carry me to neverland
In this spellbound night
The world´s an elvish sight
It pays homage to fantasy and the places it takes your imagination. It makes me think of a girl lying in bed under an open window surrounded by all these books and then being swept away to the same fantasy worlds she had been reading about that day. But it turns out she was just having a dream about all the wonderful things in her books.
grrrreat!! love it.
And really, she sings elvenBath! No mistaking that b-sound. This is, as pointed out on some IRC channel, about "nekkid elves gettin' wet".
This song rocks I like the way Tarja talks its cool.
this song is ridiculous.. i laugh so much at these lyrics.. no diss to nightwish thom they're sound is good..
Actually nidhoggr I always thought Tarja pronounced the p in path as a g. As in "the elvengoth" instead of elvenpath. Makes even less sense then bath.
I usually like Nightwish's lyrics but this one really is silly.
I admit that the song is somewhat childish, but listeners have to relieze that Nightwish has progressed so much from this song that, we have higher expectations of the group. Anyway, I think that this song is about longing for something different in our lives, something more mystical and magical. It's all a dream.
It is childish, but isn't ever dream of our hearts childish?
it is about longing for a diffrent world, world of books, world of dreams. world of witches, Bilbo, elves, Beauty and the beast...
Atagamay41 has got it right on.
"At the grove I met rest-the folk of my fantasies Bilbo, Sparhawk, goblins and pixies, Snowman, Willow, trolls and the seven dwarfs The path goes forever on"
Also, the background dialogue about 3 minutes in is from Lord of the Rings. It's simply an homage to fantasy stories.