Thursday
08Nov
The Hills Are...ALIVE!!!!
Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 07:12AM 
From Ask Figaro:
There is a line in a song that intrigues me. I have been pondering its meaning and wondered if you could help. The song is by Nightwish. The lyrics are written by Tuomas Halopainen.
Finally, the hills are without eyes
They are tired of painting
a dead man’s face red with his own blood
Dreamer Deceiver
Dear D.D.,
Apparently, Mr. Halopainen (the stress is on the “painen”) employed a kind of poetry software called LyricShop and slid the bar all the way toward Pretentious.
The song commits the bathetic fallacy, attributing inappropriate emotions to an inanimate object. Figaro’s advice to those tired hills: quit painting.
Fig.
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Reader Comments (2)
First, his name is Tuomas HOLOpainen. Second, he doesn't need to employ any LyricShop to write lyrics. Actually, these lines are pretty clear if you just try to understand them. But of course you need to know something about the reason this song has been written for: obviously it must have been too difficult to think before speaking. Try again, you'll be more lucky next time.