This song means the world to me and this is my point of view, I relate too much to the lyrics, for better or worst...Years ago, when I was about 13-15 I didn't have any friend, no one, and was what worse, I was truly in love with a girl that thought I was ugly and weird. I cryed almost every night, and this is what this song is about, is just my history years ago.
"One more night
To bear this nightmare
What more do I have to say
Crying for me was never worth a tear
My lonely soul is only filled with fear"
Tuomas feels like me, in this song, he cries to sleep every night but nothing gets better, he is still alone and sad.
I didn't have friends because people thought I was weird, I'm spanish and I live in a very little town, I was the 13 years kids with the Iron Maiden t-shirt who loved videogames, everyone here thought I was a freak, I was apart from the rest of the world, "the sea" as he says in the next verses.
"Long hours of loneliness
Between me and the sea"
As I said, I was REALLY in love with this girl, so was Tuomas too, but this girl is not a exception, she thought I was a freak too, she wouldn't have never go to street with me, I was beast and she was the beauty, she is a normal girl, she is not a goth, she is not heavy, she's not emo, but she is still perfect and she is accepted in the world, she is part of the sea, not like me, I'm not a part of the sea, and I thought every day to become one of them, a ordinary guy who plays football and listen to pop music and goes to the gym to be fit, to be one with the seas, to stop wearing black clothes, to stop being like me, to be one with the seas, to be one more wave.
"Losing emotion
Finding devotion
Should I dress in white and search the sea
As I always wished to be - one with the waves
Ocean Soul"
and the last two verses
"I only wished to become something beautiful
Through my music, through my silent devotion"
With his music, Tuomas wanted to be a beautiful person, to make fall in love that girl he loves, writing songs for her... I tried to sing the song she liked, I sing well, she liked them, but it doesn't work...
So... I think that's the whole meaning of this beautiful and sad song, the story of his life and my life at those sad times.
Oh, I almost forget, "Ocean Soul", I think that while the rest of the whole world is "the sea" his soul (and mine) are bigger than that, our souls are Oceans Souls and he dedicated the full Century Child record to everyone like him, like me, to the ones that feel like and Ocean Soul, lonely, sad but with the greatest souls.
This song means the world to me and this is my point of view, I relate too much to the lyrics, for better or worst...Years ago, when I was about 13-15 I didn't have any friend, no one, and was what worse, I was truly in love with a girl that thought I was ugly and weird. I cryed almost every night, and this is what this song is about, is just my history years ago.
"One more night To bear this nightmare What more do I have to say
Crying for me was never worth a tear My lonely soul is only filled with fear"
Tuomas feels like me, in this song, he cries to sleep every night but nothing gets better, he is still alone and sad.
I didn't have friends because people thought I was weird, I'm spanish and I live in a very little town, I was the 13 years kids with the Iron Maiden t-shirt who loved videogames, everyone here thought I was a freak, I was apart from the rest of the world, "the sea" as he says in the next verses.
"Long hours of loneliness Between me and the sea"
As I said, I was REALLY in love with this girl, so was Tuomas too, but this girl is not a exception, she thought I was a freak too, she wouldn't have never go to street with me, I was beast and she was the beauty, she is a normal girl, she is not a goth, she is not heavy, she's not emo, but she is still perfect and she is accepted in the world, she is part of the sea, not like me, I'm not a part of the sea, and I thought every day to become one of them, a ordinary guy who plays football and listen to pop music and goes to the gym to be fit, to be one with the seas, to stop wearing black clothes, to stop being like me, to be one with the seas, to be one more wave.
"Losing emotion Finding devotion Should I dress in white and search the sea As I always wished to be - one with the waves Ocean Soul"
and the last two verses
"I only wished to become something beautiful Through my music, through my silent devotion"
With his music, Tuomas wanted to be a beautiful person, to make fall in love that girl he loves, writing songs for her... I tried to sing the song she liked, I sing well, she liked them, but it doesn't work...
So... I think that's the whole meaning of this beautiful and sad song, the story of his life and my life at those sad times.
Oh, I almost forget, "Ocean Soul", I think that while the rest of the whole world is "the sea" his soul (and mine) are bigger than that, our souls are Oceans Souls and he dedicated the full Century Child record to everyone like him, like me, to the ones that feel like and Ocean Soul, lonely, sad but with the greatest souls.
The most underrated song from Nightwish.