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Know Why The Nightingale Sings Lyrics

What does the free fall feel like?
Asks the boy with a spark in his eye
Know why the nightingale sings?
Is the answer to everything

Taking a step to a world unbound
Spinning my fantasies all around
Freed from the gravital leash
I swear the heaven´s in my reach

Dancing with the spirit of the air
In this ocean so open and fair
Making love to the gods above
On my maiden voyage so bold

Landing safely to the blue lagoon
Don´t know if this is the earth or the moon
Joy of living is no more a mask
The Eden I found will forever last

Migrating with the geese
My soul has finally found peace
Doesn´t matter that man has no wings
As long as I hear the nightingale sing...
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I disagree with you Emej. I saw the same interview, but i think his sister's answer and most importantly Tuomas's interpretation of what happened are different from what you said.

Here's a little more detail on what was said in the interview. Tuomas's sister was very into parachuting and did it a lot, which made Tuomas (a boy at the time) curious, so he asked her why she spent so much time in that. She replied with a question "why does the nightingale sing?"

The nightingale sings because it's what it lives for, it's what fulfills it and makes it feel alive. Just like Tuomas's sister with parachuting. This is all given with a very happy and inspiring undertone, which is reflected clearly in the lyrics and the music.

I think your explanation was lacking that aspect, which, to me, is what makes this song so amazing.

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The song is about Tuomas finally being able to make music and to write "poems" as he calls them. It sounds like the view from someone writing for the first time who takes "a step to a world unbound/Spinning my fantasies all around". Knowing why the nightingale sings is like knowing why the writer writes.

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Know why nobody posted any comment here

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this reminds me of Peter Pan for some reason.

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Reminds me of Romeo and Juliet

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Nice toughs, Zughiaq. At first time it reminded me on Petar Pan, but this is very interesting view.

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Anybody thought about Cinderella ? I mean, in the Disney's version, there's a carol sung by Cindy (at least in the french version) which gives in English : "Sing, Nightingale, sing (2*) Aaaaah...in the night" Don't know if english lyrics look like that.

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Nightingale male bird sings at night to call female nightingales, to do.. something...

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This song fills me with hope, after listening to it i feel as though i could do anything!

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this sure is a happy song!

 
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