Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Out in the distance
There's so much gold
The treasure that I've found
Is more than enough
Far to be the hill we've to go
Over the mountain and seas
To the old hill
Where the old dragon sleeps
Blind in the dark dungeon's night
So God please take me away from here
And Gollum shows the way right out
I'm alive
The dying dragon brought trouble and pain
And horror to the halls of stone
I'll take the mighty stone
And leave the dwarves behind
Ice and fire and forest we passed
And horror in the halls of stone
Trolls in the dark
The dawn took them all
Caught in the wood
By the wooden kings' men
But now I'm alone
'Cause I've made up my mind
By the spell of gold
The king under the mountain
Will risk the great war
Oh what a fool
He's losing control
So I am trying to find a way
Blind in the dark dungeon's night
Then darkness comes from the northern side
And Thorin clears his mind
There's so much gold
The treasure that I've found
Is more than enough
Far to be the hill we've to go
Over the mountain and seas
To the old hill
Where the old dragon sleeps
Blind in the dark dungeon's night
So God please take me away from here
And Gollum shows the way right out
I'm alive
The dying dragon brought trouble and pain
And horror to the halls of stone
I'll take the mighty stone
And leave the dwarves behind
Ice and fire and forest we passed
And horror in the halls of stone
Trolls in the dark
The dawn took them all
Caught in the wood
By the wooden kings' men
But now I'm alone
'Cause I've made up my mind
By the spell of gold
The king under the mountain
Will risk the great war
Oh what a fool
He's losing control
So I am trying to find a way
Blind in the dark dungeon's night
Then darkness comes from the northern side
And Thorin clears his mind
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I know Middle Earth incredibly well, but I don't think that this is specifically one of its tales. It is saying that even though you may be forgotten by people the tales of your deeds will be sung by the bards for all eternity. And when people hear the songs of your deeds they may not have known you but the memory of you will be with them always.
The song itself is actually based around the concept album that it appears in, Somewhere Far Beyond. Every song on the album is about a character who finds themself in a different world. Time What Is Time, for example, is about a man who finds himself in the Blade Runneresque setting.
The Bard Song: In The Forest, is about each character from the songs on the album coming together for a meeting themselves. You can see them all on the front cover of the album. Clever, huh?
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I think that the lyric of this GREAT song is linked with the lyric of "Imaginations From the Other Side": IFTOS is about fables and great stories in which sadly the speaker can't involve himself anymore, as he has grown too much; while The Bard's Song - In the Forest is about the great Bards who sang about that stories ( and Tolkien is involved for sure )
I think that the lyric of this GREAT song is linked with the lyric of "Imaginations From the Other Side": IFTOS is about fables and great stories in which sadly the speaker can't involve himself anymore, as he has grown too much; while The Bard's Song - In the Forest is about the great Bards who sang about that stories ( and Tolkien is involved for sure )
Both songs are abot Tolkien's book "The Hobbit". "In the forest" is about King Bard of Esgaroth, who slew a dragon named Smaug, and then became king. The other song, named "The Hobbit", is about Bilbo Baggins who is the main character in Tolkien's mentioned book.
I had a change of perspective with this song today as it was in my car and I had a pet die lastnight. I can't speak for the band's intention with this song, but I think interpretation can go beyond a song for the sake of romanticizing the historical legacy of the bard or representing a specific story.
It's really a very moving depiction of a final farewell - quite likely from a deathbed. There are numerous allusions to concepts of ending, finality, mortality, and erosion of memory.
Here's a few lines that really seem to point to a death theme, in my opinion.
"When hours have gone by, I'll close my eyes." Recognizing the time that's behind them, and admitting that their time has peacefully come.
"In a world far away, we may meet again. But now hear my song, about the dawn of the night. Let's sing the bard's song." Comforting the audience with the notion that death is a new beginning (dawn of the night), and requesting that we sing with them to ease their passing while paying a romantic tribute to the moment.
"Tommorrow will take us away Far from home No-one will ever know our names But the bard's song will remain" Time will change everything, all memories will fade, and we can't possibly know what lies ahead ("far from home" being symbolic of the unknown beyond). I think "the bard's song" is a metaphor for death itself.
"Tommorrow will take it away The fear of today It will be gone Due to our magic song" The bard's song (death) will lift all our burdens.
"There's only one song Left in my mind" The narrator is finished with their life. Perhaps they see their past as a collection of tales, and death is the only song left for them.
"Now the bard songs are over And it's time to leave" Obvious.
"Noone should ask You for the name Of the one Who tells the story" We all face death, we're all commemorated in some fashion, and death is a momentous occassion for all of us. Perhaps asking who tells the story (who is god? why does he let us die? what does he has in store for us? etc.) only bogs down our lives. The narrator is asking the audience to leave all that out of it. It's his moment. His death. He knows what he faces is a mystery, and he's just going to move forward gracefully. No stumbling over blind attempts to appeal to the unknown for entrance to whatever possible afterlife and such.
"Tomorrow all will be known And You're not alone So don't be afraid In the dark and cold 'Cause the bards' songs will remain They all will remain" We'll all know the truth eventually. Don't sweat it. We all go there so you're not alone. "The dark and cold" is another metaphor for the unknown, which is where all of us are in our final moments. We don't know what lies ahead. Whatever it is, we all face it eventually so there's no use being afraid.
My interpretation can't account for the whole song, but I've had it turning over in my head all day anyway. I sang it whenever I was in the car today to pay tribute to the passing of Ninja, my sugar glider.
hmm......of Old is told the Tales of the Bards of Esgaroth.....roughly the area of the Lonely Mountain and Lake Town..Dale, etc. If anyone has read 'The Hobbit', then you are familiar with'Bard'....or rather 'King Bard', as he is of noble lineage that ruled that land before the coming of lesser men from the south and east. Bard's songs are akin to sagas the Vikings told. FYI: There was great love between the Bards and Dwarves in Esgaroth before the waning of men, and the Bard...of that lineage, probably learned of his ancestry through these 'Bard songs'..and so on...perhaps.
I believe it's like a monologue of Bilbo Baggins after the Battle of Five Armies ,where dwarves,men and elves have fought together. He also talks about Bard King of Esgaroth . There many ways to interpret this song when you have tolkien's mythology in mind though,so I may be not correct.