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A lady with a violin playing to the seals
Hearken to the sound of calling
Who tied my hands to the wheel?
The zodiac turns over me
(Come to me)
Somewhere there my fate revealed
I hear but how will I see
I tied myself to the wheel
The winds talk to my sails, not me
(Come to me)
Somewhere there my fate revealed
I hear but how will I see
Hearken to the sound of calling
Who tied my hands to the wheel?
The zodiac turns over me
(Come to me)
Somewhere there my fate revealed
I hear but how will I see
I tied myself to the wheel
The winds talk to my sails, not me
(Come to me)
Somewhere there my fate revealed
I hear but how will I see
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A lady with a violin playing to the seals
-to me, the lady "playing to the seals" - a seductive woman, beautiful beyond comparison, just as a siren.
Hearken to the sound of calling
-this woman is beckoning him to come; be it a wink in a bar, a second look while walking down the sidewalk, one way or another she is practically begging him to "harken to her call."
who tied my hand to the wheel?
-she has him in her allure now, and perhaps some time has passed. he is reflecting as the beginning stages of her "siren"-like behaviour are starting to come through. "who tied my hands to the wheel" meaning permanence - he knows the best thing to do would be to turn from her and leave her, yet he can't. why? who has made this so?
the zodiac turns over me
(come to me)
-i'm not too sure about this line. "the zodiac turns over me," - perhaps he is beginning to realize his fate is beginning to turn, and is starting to see that everything this woman has promised him was merely an act to "turn on him" once she knows he can not escape. he is realizing this slowly.
somewhere there my fate revealed i hear but how will i see?
-perhaps he believes, dare i say knows, that somewhere "there," with the woman, his fate will be revealed, just as your fate is sealed once under the lure of a siren. he knows he is being used, taken advantage of, yet no matter how hard he tries and knows he must leave, he can not turn away from this woman. he knows this, but he can't accept it. she has such a hold on him that his true self is beginning to become non-existant, and he feels he lives to make her happy.
i tied myself to the wheel
-he is in a stage of acceptance. he was the one who allowed himself to fall for this seductress, and he realizes this now. he is the reason he can't leave as no matter how hard he may try, he can not escape. he has tied himself to the wheel.
the winds talk to my sails not me (come to me)
-i am not sure how to take this; perhaps the real him, the one who knows and is completely aware of what is happening to him, are his sails, and "he" is merely a shell, under the spell of this woman. she, the "wind," talks to him, but it is not to his true self, which must have been lost by now.
somewhere there my fate revealed
-same as before.
i hear but how will i see?
-same as before, but perhaps this time around, he is too fargone for there to be any hope of him breaking away from this woman.
now as i said, i understand your guys' views to be truer overall, this is merely my interpretation on a personal level. :)
Sorry about that
i tied myself to the wheel
Maybe the speaker of the song wants to go to the sirens if he's tied himself to the wheel.
Then Marco sings the rest and says stuff like "who tied my hand to the wheel?" and all while he's singing, Tarja is singing in this luring, seductive voice and saying "come to me". It's pretty cool.
brilliant song; my fave off the once album at any rate. yes there are illiad overtones.