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'Faith brought me here it's time to cut the rope and fly.' 'It's time to turn back time follow the pale moonlight.' The child looks back on their dreams past, and now how the dream is comming back to them their perfect and limitless world.

#ANESIDORA MEANING FREE#

The child remembers hijs/her first wonderful dream, where their mind had roamed free and given them their first dreams and hopes in the world. 'The age I learned to fly and took a step outside.' 'One night the clock struck twelve, the window opened wide.' The child here in question basically already reached adulthood and is being faced with one image of his/her childhood already past, and therefore has some difficulty comming to terms with accepting it again. Now we go to the first two chorus lines (the ones sung before Tarja's couplets in the song) The beginning is stated as 'Once I had a dream, and this is it.' The child is already an adult, reminiscing about his/her dream, the life they wanted. I'll explain further by describing the song in two voices. As the child grows, so does his confliction with this limitless mind. The child dreams perhaps (or truly is living) in his/her own world when the clock strikes midnight he flies to his own world, his dreamland of limitless possiblities. General CommentTo me I see it not as Pandora's box, but rather a person's own mental will and mind as a child they had everything in their heads free and loving, but the limited sight of adults locks that mind and brings out only what they think will help the child anything else they find they tell the child to 'Forget about it'. I just have a handful of tracks untranslated. I'd like to hear it in the original Suomi. Poet and the Pendulum, for instance, is not a song about Edgar Allan Poe. Where these images come from to me is not as important as what they are saying.

(Not in a Narnia way.)Īnd I don't think that Nightwish is subtly trying to sell us on Jesus through fantasy, but just a hand down of the collective past to the present. I agree with the Peter Pan image, but then again, consider the etymology of the name Peter Pan. The Greek legend of Anesidora's Urn is usually cited as the origin of Pandora's Box, but really, no one knows for sure, it could be just another permutation of an older legend.Īnyway, Pandora's box is the one picked here for the song. Where fantasy legends come from is harder to pin down even than religious ones. I can see the God=Zeus parallel, the whole origin of our modern concept of god is very twisted (Latin Deus actually is Zeus) The imagery here I can't be sure that this has that in it, except maybe the last line. Nightwish has the strange 'christianity transplant' which shows up in a lot of medieval european culture where christianity has been superimposed on the native culture by conquest, inquisition and missionaries.

The imagery in symphonic metal picked for the songs is always going to be derivative, of fantasy, and of each other, and of the native surroundings of each band. The big blue I think is generally a reference to the sea, but it could be the sky. General CommentTranslations are always a problem.

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