This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
I stand alone in the darkness
The winter of my life came so fast
Memories go back to childhood
To days I still recall
Oh how happy I was then
There was no sorrow there was no pain
Walking through the green fields
Sunshine in my eyes
I'm still there everywhere
I'm the dust in the wind
I'm the star in the northern sky
I never stayed anywhere
I'm the wind in the trees
Will you wait for me forever?
The winter of my life came so fast
Memories go back to childhood
To days I still recall
Oh how happy I was then
There was no sorrow there was no pain
Walking through the green fields
Sunshine in my eyes
I'm still there everywhere
I'm the dust in the wind
I'm the star in the northern sky
I never stayed anywhere
I'm the wind in the trees
Will you wait for me forever?
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I think this song is about a man that has died. He says the "winter" of his life has come, meaning that the end of his life has come, as winter is the end of the year. He is saying that he is the dust in the wind, the stars in the sky and the wind in the trees. In other words, his spirit will live forever. This is one of the few songs that nearly made me cry when I first heard it.
Jutah is very much correct. Timo Tolkki composed this song for his father who passed away, and it's most likely about remembering the good times they shared and that he will always remember him.
the lyric is so clear, it's about a man remember his childhood. i love this song... beatifull lyric!!!!
yeah this is about his childhood... but i mean, wow, this is like a Stratovarius classic! what a song!!! Stratovarius is one of the best metal bands there is.. although this song is not metal... how come no one comments on Stratovarius, this is an awsum band...
This song is probably the most beautiful song ive ever heard...
I just saw them live yesterday and I felt goosebumps when they played this song, It's so melacholic you can't help but love It, Strato I'll never forget you guys!
if only they would ever come to singapore.. if only bands like them ever do..
i agreed the songs is about the childhood of the character (wich names is unknow in this case) but he remebers his childhood when he (form what i understood) its about to die, and he has a flashback of his life on that moment
I completely agree with Jutah. The last verse is about him being everywhere around us.
This song is so beautiful.