Beautiful song, it reminds me of the legend of Sappho, who, in the Greek myth, committed suicide because of his love with Phaon, and died in the ocean... The lyrics are vey similar to the beautiful poem "Ultimo canto di Saffo" (Sappho's Last Song), by Giacomo Leopardi.
Should I dress in white and search the sea
As I always wished to be - one with the waves
Ocean Soul
Also I think Tuomas always considered himself like a beats, an ugly person, being in love with a beautiful woman (i guess, and I like to guess she was Tarja). But he never confessed his love to her, because he felt deep in himself that Tarja couldn't love one like him, so he never tried to confess his feelings to her.
I only wished to become something beautiful
Through my music, through my silent devotion...
This is in my opinion the key to understand many Tuomas poems: he is a beast, that TRIES to become something beautiful through its art (another link to Sappho's Last Song), and this topic is present also in other songs, like Beauty of the Beast and Swanheart, some of Tuomas' most personal songs.
Definitely, Ocean Soul is the clef-de-voute to understand all Tuomas' poetry, and it looks very strange to me that this song has such few comments, while it's one of the most difficult Tuomas' poems to undestand.
Losing emotion
Finding devotion
These lines wanted to say, in my opinion, that Tuomas' love for Tarja, in the years he wrote Century Child, was not an emotion, but something more than it, a DEVOTION... he saw her like an angel sent on Earth, something like Beatrice in Dante's Divine Comedy, while he knew that this character of ethereal woman couldn't exist, and this topic (the fading of the angelic image) is the main topic of the album Once, that, on the artwork, shows what?? A fallen angel crying on a marble tomb...
One last thing... I think that all Nightwish songs have great lyrics, that I like to comment and study like true poems, because Tuomas, in my opinion, is one of the best contemporary poets I ever read, and one of the few writers of these times that I like... But I think that all his songs are nothing that a great loveletter to Tarja Turunen, his one and only love... I started to think at it when I saw Ever Dream performed in End Of An Era, so I read all the lyrics and I found many refers to her, so I like to think it... it's so romantic... :D
And... sorry for my English... XD
@leopardi I just read your comment. Are you still willing to analyse Tuomas' lyrics as poems? I too think they should be studied and I agree that they are a great love letter to Tarja Turunen.
I know you're comment is from 2008 so maybe you've totally move on :D
@leopardi I just read your comment. Are you still willing to analyse Tuomas' lyrics as poems? I too think they should be studied and I agree that they are a great love letter to Tarja Turunen.
I know you're comment is from 2008 so maybe you've totally move on :D
Beautiful song, it reminds me of the legend of Sappho, who, in the Greek myth, committed suicide because of his love with Phaon, and died in the ocean... The lyrics are vey similar to the beautiful poem "Ultimo canto di Saffo" (Sappho's Last Song), by Giacomo Leopardi.
Should I dress in white and search the sea As I always wished to be - one with the waves Ocean Soul
Also I think Tuomas always considered himself like a beats, an ugly person, being in love with a beautiful woman (i guess, and I like to guess she was Tarja). But he never confessed his love to her, because he felt deep in himself that Tarja couldn't love one like him, so he never tried to confess his feelings to her.
I only wished to become something beautiful Through my music, through my silent devotion...
This is in my opinion the key to understand many Tuomas poems: he is a beast, that TRIES to become something beautiful through its art (another link to Sappho's Last Song), and this topic is present also in other songs, like Beauty of the Beast and Swanheart, some of Tuomas' most personal songs.
Definitely, Ocean Soul is the clef-de-voute to understand all Tuomas' poetry, and it looks very strange to me that this song has such few comments, while it's one of the most difficult Tuomas' poems to undestand.
Losing emotion Finding devotion
These lines wanted to say, in my opinion, that Tuomas' love for Tarja, in the years he wrote Century Child, was not an emotion, but something more than it, a DEVOTION... he saw her like an angel sent on Earth, something like Beatrice in Dante's Divine Comedy, while he knew that this character of ethereal woman couldn't exist, and this topic (the fading of the angelic image) is the main topic of the album Once, that, on the artwork, shows what?? A fallen angel crying on a marble tomb...
One last thing... I think that all Nightwish songs have great lyrics, that I like to comment and study like true poems, because Tuomas, in my opinion, is one of the best contemporary poets I ever read, and one of the few writers of these times that I like... But I think that all his songs are nothing that a great loveletter to Tarja Turunen, his one and only love... I started to think at it when I saw Ever Dream performed in End Of An Era, so I read all the lyrics and I found many refers to her, so I like to think it... it's so romantic... :D And... sorry for my English... XD
@leopardi I just read your comment. Are you still willing to analyse Tuomas' lyrics as poems? I too think they should be studied and I agree that they are a great love letter to Tarja Turunen. I know you're comment is from 2008 so maybe you've totally move on :D
@leopardi I just read your comment. Are you still willing to analyse Tuomas' lyrics as poems? I too think they should be studied and I agree that they are a great love letter to Tarja Turunen. I know you're comment is from 2008 so maybe you've totally move on :D