I think, to figure out what this song is about, the first thing one will have to do is to find out what an escapist is:
Answer from Google: "a person who escapes into a world of fantasy"
I think this fits well with the rest of the song.
Many of the songs Tuomas has written is about fairytales and mysteries, and this song might simply just be about him being someone who wants to escape this world and live in a dream (I don't blame him, thinking of how nast reality sometimes can be.)
The image he uses of a nightingale in a golden cage could be that this world (the golden cage) can look nice and seem like somewhere one can really be happy at times, but he (the nightingale) still feels trapped by it and wants to get out. This is my own theory which makes somekind of sense to me, I'd wish some other people would comment and share their views at such a great sung like this...
I think, to figure out what this song is about, the first thing one will have to do is to find out what an escapist is: Answer from Google: "a person who escapes into a world of fantasy" I think this fits well with the rest of the song. Many of the songs Tuomas has written is about fairytales and mysteries, and this song might simply just be about him being someone who wants to escape this world and live in a dream (I don't blame him, thinking of how nast reality sometimes can be.) The image he uses of a nightingale in a golden cage could be that this world (the golden cage) can look nice and seem like somewhere one can really be happy at times, but he (the nightingale) still feels trapped by it and wants to get out. This is my own theory which makes somekind of sense to me, I'd wish some other people would comment and share their views at such a great sung like this...