The Islander
For those of you who know Ryan and I you know that my husband has a long standing obsession with Nightwish. I don't mind the music (except played exceptionly late at night exceptionally loud) and even *gasp* like some of their songs. Late 2007 Nightwish released their newest album "Dark Passion Play" and released a single off of the CD "The Islander". This is their most un-nightwish song, but it really is Nightwish in all the right places. They lyrics could never be confused with another band, following in the footsteps of songs like "Over the Hills and Far away" "Stargazers" and "Dead to the world".
I'm not sure what it is about their lyrics, maybe their slightly awkward use of language combined with rich word useage, but it has something that is powerful and epic. It's hard to explain what it - maybe that their words feel so familiar, bits and pieces snatched from authors I have read. I feel like they all have literary clues in them that make me go "ooh! ooh! I know this one, wait don't tell me... Rime of the Ancient Mariner!"
The Islander
Nightwish
An old man by a seashore
At the end of day
Gazes the horizon
With seawinds in his face
Tempest-tossed island
Seasons all the same
Anchorage unpainted
And a ship without a name
Sea without a shore for the banished one unheard
He lightens the beacon, light at the end of world
Showing the way lighting hope in their hearts
The ones on their travels homeward from afar
This is for long-forgotten
Light at the end of the world
Horizon crying
The tears he left behind long ago
The albatross is flying
Making him daydream
The time before he became
One of the world's unseen
Princess in the tower
Children in the fields
Life gave him it all:
An island of the universe
Now his love's a memory
A ghost in the fog
He sets the sails one last time
Saying farewell to the world
Anchor to the water
Seabed far below
Grass still in his feet
And a smile beneath his brow
This is for long-forgotten
Light at the end of the world
Horizon crying
The tears he left behind so long ago
I'm not sure what it is about their lyrics, maybe their slightly awkward use of language combined with rich word useage, but it has something that is powerful and epic. It's hard to explain what it - maybe that their words feel so familiar, bits and pieces snatched from authors I have read. I feel like they all have literary clues in them that make me go "ooh! ooh! I know this one, wait don't tell me... Rime of the Ancient Mariner!"
The Islander
Nightwish
An old man by a seashore
At the end of day
Gazes the horizon
With seawinds in his face
Tempest-tossed island
Seasons all the same
Anchorage unpainted
And a ship without a name
Sea without a shore for the banished one unheard
He lightens the beacon, light at the end of world
Showing the way lighting hope in their hearts
The ones on their travels homeward from afar
This is for long-forgotten
Light at the end of the world
Horizon crying
The tears he left behind long ago
The albatross is flying
Making him daydream
The time before he became
One of the world's unseen
Princess in the tower
Children in the fields
Life gave him it all:
An island of the universe
Now his love's a memory
A ghost in the fog
He sets the sails one last time
Saying farewell to the world
Anchor to the water
Seabed far below
Grass still in his feet
And a smile beneath his brow
This is for long-forgotten
Light at the end of the world
Horizon crying
The tears he left behind so long ago
posted by Rebecca at 9:08 PM
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