Well after sitting and listening through these lyrics 4 time in a row I think I have some interesting ideas, just tell me what you think of my lyrical breakdown.
A snowy owl above the haunted waters
poet of ancient gods
Cries to tell the neverending story
prophecy of becoming floods
(This is Tuomas, the snowy owl before his birth, the poet of ancient gods. He wished to become a man to tell his stories, to shout out his prophecies. But in doing so he became exactly what he hates about this world)
An aura of mystery surrounds her
the lady in brightest white
Soon the incarnate shall be born
The Creater of the night
(this is yet another hint toward himself but as a human. The lady dressed in white, the innocence...his innocence will soon be lost to the man. The incarnate shall be born and his innocence will be gone)
Deep dark is his Majesty's kingdom
A portent of tomorrow's world
There shall the liquid give Him power
The red-eyed unborn lord
(This is the ocean, with which Tuomas has always had a lifelong love affair. The ocean being deep and dark and unexplainable, the liquid shall give him power)
Fatal embrace of the bloodred waters
The cradle of infinite gloom
The spell to master this Earth
Carven on an infant's tomb
(this is Tuomas now fully grown, harkening back to the time of his innocence. The bloodred waters being the ocean, but not the ocean that he is of, but instead the ocean of this world and the depravity of men.)
"I will die for the love of the mermaid
Her seduction, beauty and scorn
Welcome to the end of your life
-Hail the Oceanborn!"
(He would die to gain back the love of the ocean, now fully a man and cast in the image of a man. Welcome to the end of his life as he is now mortal and will one day die. Hail the oceanborn!)
"Disgraced is my virginity
Death has woven my wedding dress
Oh, Great Blue, breathe the morning dew
For you are the cradle for the image of god"
(virginity again being innocence here, death is all around him and he cannot fight it. He visits the sea often to try and reconnect with it like he once was, but he is a man not the image of god like he once felt.
"Brave now, long rest is sweet
With me here in the deep
(the ocean telling him he will rejoin him one day, upon his death)
"I Prayed for pleasure, wished for love
Prayed for your..."
"Never pray for me!"
(Tuomas begging the sea, the ocean for things that he once had, but when he tries to pray for the ocean itself the ocean rejects him as he is only a man)
"Who the hell are you for me
But a mortal dream to see"
(Tuomas questioning his faith in the ocean, as he has been a man far too long)
"This apathetic life must drown
Forever just for me"
(The ocean waits to reclaim him as he will die one day)
"Leave me be
Leave me be
Leave me be..ee eeee... e"
(Tuomas hating the ocean for rejecting him, but still wishing to return to his position of innocence from so long ago)
"From cradle to coffin
shall my wickedness be your passion
(Simply the truth, men cannot help but be passionate for wickedness, the ocean being the progenitor of both)
We shall come to set the dolphins free
We shall wash the darkened bloodred sea
Our songs will echo over the mountains and seas
The eternity will begin once again in peace
(Resolution, Tuomas will one day prove the ocean wrong and regain his innocence, even as a man)
In the end the story is of tuomas before he was birthed being a blamless soul and after his birth into the oceans of the world, his innocence is darkened. The ocean represents the evils of the world but also what used to be the goods of the world, more like "Tainted Innocence" and this is what I get from the term "Ocean Soul."
A soul that represents the oceans, and the in turn represents the world. At one time so clean and untainted, but now is darkened and black...stained with the wickedness of mankind. Tuomas wanted to become a man to tell his stories and his poetry but in doing so he lost the innocence. Unable to get it back to the position that it once was he has resigned himself to spend time with the sea and plans to one day return to it and hopes to regain his innocence once more before he dies so that he may return to the position he once held.
Just my opinion, probably not right...just kinda what I get after cross referencing some of his other songs that deal with similar subjects.
Well after sitting and listening through these lyrics 4 time in a row I think I have some interesting ideas, just tell me what you think of my lyrical breakdown.
A snowy owl above the haunted waters poet of ancient gods Cries to tell the neverending story prophecy of becoming floods
(This is Tuomas, the snowy owl before his birth, the poet of ancient gods. He wished to become a man to tell his stories, to shout out his prophecies. But in doing so he became exactly what he hates about this world)
An aura of mystery surrounds her the lady in brightest white Soon the incarnate shall be born The Creater of the night
(this is yet another hint toward himself but as a human. The lady dressed in white, the innocence...his innocence will soon be lost to the man. The incarnate shall be born and his innocence will be gone)
Deep dark is his Majesty's kingdom A portent of tomorrow's world There shall the liquid give Him power The red-eyed unborn lord
(This is the ocean, with which Tuomas has always had a lifelong love affair. The ocean being deep and dark and unexplainable, the liquid shall give him power)
Fatal embrace of the bloodred waters The cradle of infinite gloom The spell to master this Earth Carven on an infant's tomb
(this is Tuomas now fully grown, harkening back to the time of his innocence. The bloodred waters being the ocean, but not the ocean that he is of, but instead the ocean of this world and the depravity of men.)
"I will die for the love of the mermaid Her seduction, beauty and scorn Welcome to the end of your life -Hail the Oceanborn!"
(He would die to gain back the love of the ocean, now fully a man and cast in the image of a man. Welcome to the end of his life as he is now mortal and will one day die. Hail the oceanborn!)
"Disgraced is my virginity Death has woven my wedding dress Oh, Great Blue, breathe the morning dew For you are the cradle for the image of god"
(virginity again being innocence here, death is all around him and he cannot fight it. He visits the sea often to try and reconnect with it like he once was, but he is a man not the image of god like he once felt.
"Brave now, long rest is sweet With me here in the deep
(the ocean telling him he will rejoin him one day, upon his death)
"I Prayed for pleasure, wished for love Prayed for your..."
"Never pray for me!"
(Tuomas begging the sea, the ocean for things that he once had, but when he tries to pray for the ocean itself the ocean rejects him as he is only a man)
"Who the hell are you for me But a mortal dream to see"
(Tuomas questioning his faith in the ocean, as he has been a man far too long)
"This apathetic life must drown Forever just for me"
(The ocean waits to reclaim him as he will die one day)
"Leave me be Leave me be Leave me be..ee eeee... e"
(Tuomas hating the ocean for rejecting him, but still wishing to return to his position of innocence from so long ago)
"From cradle to coffin shall my wickedness be your passion
(Simply the truth, men cannot help but be passionate for wickedness, the ocean being the progenitor of both)
We shall come to set the dolphins free We shall wash the darkened bloodred sea Our songs will echo over the mountains and seas The eternity will begin once again in peace
(Resolution, Tuomas will one day prove the ocean wrong and regain his innocence, even as a man)
In the end the story is of tuomas before he was birthed being a blamless soul and after his birth into the oceans of the world, his innocence is darkened. The ocean represents the evils of the world but also what used to be the goods of the world, more like "Tainted Innocence" and this is what I get from the term "Ocean Soul."
A soul that represents the oceans, and the in turn represents the world. At one time so clean and untainted, but now is darkened and black...stained with the wickedness of mankind. Tuomas wanted to become a man to tell his stories and his poetry but in doing so he lost the innocence. Unable to get it back to the position that it once was he has resigned himself to spend time with the sea and plans to one day return to it and hopes to regain his innocence once more before he dies so that he may return to the position he once held.
Just my opinion, probably not right...just kinda what I get after cross referencing some of his other songs that deal with similar subjects.