I think it's possible this song is about abortion or miscarriage. She's mourning that life, but also acknowledges that in his death, he's free. Tuomas often writes about feeling lost and desolate, and longing to die or return to a state of unconsciousness, such as with the song Nemo. It could be that he's commenting on a possible positive side to losing your child when they're still so young or even unborn - they will never have to feel that way.
--'Sleep Eden Sleep
My fallen son
Slumber in peace
Cease the pain'
-- She wants to preserve the good and the innocence, without the pain of consciousness. 'Eden' could mean innocence.
---'Life's just in vain
For us to gain
Nothing but all the same'
--- Speaks for itself, really. We're all going to die anyway, that is the destiny of everything and everyone, and life is superficial at the end of it.
--- 'No healing hand
For your disease
Drinking scorn like water
Cascading with my tears'
--- She has no choice, but they share the pain. Especially if this song is about abortion, it could be saying that even though she's made that choice, it doesn't mean she doesn't love her child (Perhaps the scorn is toward her), she feels as if she couldn't do anything else.
--- 'Beneath the candle bed
Two saddened angels - in heaven, in death
Now let us lie
Sad we lived, sad we die
Even in your pride
I never blamed you'
--- She's not blaming her child.
---'A mother's love
Is a sacrifice'
--- Again, perhaps she did it out of compassion because she didn't want him to suffer, or if it was a miscarriage, she is saying the sadness of loss is the risk we take when we love.
That's my interpretation of it. As well as the fact that it's called 'two for tragedy', which is a clear subversion of the magpie song:
One for sorrow
Two for mirth
Three for a wedding
Four for a birth
I think it's possible this song is about abortion or miscarriage. She's mourning that life, but also acknowledges that in his death, he's free. Tuomas often writes about feeling lost and desolate, and longing to die or return to a state of unconsciousness, such as with the song Nemo. It could be that he's commenting on a possible positive side to losing your child when they're still so young or even unborn - they will never have to feel that way.
--'Sleep Eden Sleep My fallen son Slumber in peace Cease the pain' -- She wants to preserve the good and the innocence, without the pain of consciousness. 'Eden' could mean innocence.
---'Life's just in vain For us to gain Nothing but all the same' --- Speaks for itself, really. We're all going to die anyway, that is the destiny of everything and everyone, and life is superficial at the end of it.
--- 'No healing hand For your disease Drinking scorn like water Cascading with my tears' --- She has no choice, but they share the pain. Especially if this song is about abortion, it could be saying that even though she's made that choice, it doesn't mean she doesn't love her child (Perhaps the scorn is toward her), she feels as if she couldn't do anything else.
--- 'Beneath the candle bed Two saddened angels - in heaven, in death Now let us lie Sad we lived, sad we die Even in your pride I never blamed you' --- She's not blaming her child.
---'A mother's love Is a sacrifice' --- Again, perhaps she did it out of compassion because she didn't want him to suffer, or if it was a miscarriage, she is saying the sadness of loss is the risk we take when we love.
That's my interpretation of it. As well as the fact that it's called 'two for tragedy', which is a clear subversion of the magpie song:
One for sorrow Two for mirth Three for a wedding Four for a birth