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Black Winter Day Lyrics
This is how the lucky feel
How the blessed think
Like daybreak in spring
The sun on a spring morning
But how do I feel
In my gloomy depths?
Like the flat brink of a cloud
Like a dark night in autumn
A black winter day
No, darker than that
Gloomier than an autumn night
This song's lyrics taken directly from kalevala the national legend of finns...it must be the monologue of aino the virgin after her brother promised to give her to an old bard vainamoinen.
It's straight out of the Kalevala, but I'm pretty sure it's the bride's monologue from Runo XXII.
It's straight out of the Kalevala, but I'm pretty sure it's the bride's monologue from Runo XXII.
@Noxaru That's "Better Unborn" lyrics.
@Noxaru That's "Better Unborn" lyrics.
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RUNE XXII. THE BRIDE'S FAREWELL.
RUNE XXII. THE BRIDE'S FAREWELL.
sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/kvrune22.htm
sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/kvrune22.htm
From the language used (almost identical to the Kalevala translation I've read), this is translated from the monologue of Louhi's daughter after being reminded of how her life will change with her marriage to Ilmarinen. This is close enough that there's pretty much no doubt.
Just giving the exact quote (from the W.F. Kirby translation of the Kalevala, about 100 years old so the language is dated, and imitating the unusual metre of the original Finnish text so possibly slightly rearranged) I'm going to put it against the individual lines of the song to show the similarity, all the lines kept in the order they're in in the Kalevala.
Just giving the exact quote (from the W.F. Kirby translation of the Kalevala, about 100 years old so the language is dated, and imitating the unusual metre of the original Finnish text so possibly slightly rearranged) I'm going to put it against the individual lines of the song to show the similarity, all the lines kept in the order they're in in the Kalevala.
Kalevala: "Such the feelings of the blessed, Such the thinking of the happy" Song: "This is how the lucky feel, How the blessed think"
Kalevala: "Such the feelings of the blessed, Such the thinking of the happy" Song: "This is how the lucky feel, How the blessed think"
K: "As the spring day at its dawning" S:...
K: "As the spring day at its dawning" S: "Like a daybreak in spring"
K: "Or the sunny spring-day morning" S: "The sun on a spring morning"
K: "But what thoughts do now torment me, And what thoughts arise within me?" S: "But how do I feel, In my gloomy depths?
K: "Like unto a pond's flat margin" Not sure about this one, I guess it just isn't included in the song
K: "Or of clouds the murky border" S: "Like the flat brink of a cloud"
K: "Like the gloomy nights of autumn" S: "Like a dark night in autumn"
K: "Or the dusky day of winter, Or, as I might better say it, Darker than the nights of autumn" S: "A black winter day, No, darker than that, Gloomier than an autumn night"
I'd say the two are close enough that they're almost certainly translations of the same text, especially given the fact that Amorphis have done entire albums on the Kalevala (Eclipse, Silent Waters, Skyforger and The Beginning of Times).
Any major differences can be justified by the 100 years between the two translations and the fact that one was translated to be a song and the other to be a direct English equivalent of the original Kalevala.
He could be happy because he likes the darkness...
Wow, a truly beautiful song. It's probably suggestive of what many Finnish people live through each day, being that many of them suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder resulting from the dreary weather.
The lucky feel good like light in the spring but he does not feel happy he's depressed more than they are happy.
This song is about the christianization of Finland. The lucky and blessed refers to those who have converted to Christian side. The main character in the song remains in his ancestor's religion but still feels melancholic seeing the former myths/glories of his people fading away. Well you can't do anything in an age when wailing ass martyrs are taking the places of saga heroes.