anonymous June 26th, 2006 07:32AM  
Ville Valo in a Kerrang magazine says that it comes from a Greek mythology that they belived that if you ripped the wings out of a butterfly then they would live forever. Would you be able to destroy something buetiful to live forever. The first verse tells of exitement "the blood on our hands is the wine" "heaven's ablaze in our eyes" "we offer as sacrifice". But the second verse shows the regrets they face but they still don't have to worry about dieing, they have become immortal. but they still want forgiveness "This endless mercy mile" "hell's freezing over in our eyes" "God's kneel before our crimes"

anonymous July 30th, 2007 06:20PM  
Jess is 100% correct. Butterfly's represent life. Ex. Larva to caterpillar, to cocoon, to Butterfly. Its representing the changes of life, and if you did actually rip the wings off a butterfly, it would be as if you are trying to evolve, and become immortal. It may not make sense to some people, but that's my interpretation.

YourFan August 2nd, 2007 03:17PM  
I totally agree with Jessiefax26

anonymous September 27th, 2007 06:06PM  
Well I'm not great at interpretations, but this one is easy for me because Valo actually told what this song means at the HIM concert in Denver. He basically said that everyone is trying to find a hidden meaning in this song but its simply about torturing something that's precious to most people.

DistantThunder October 14th, 2007 05:13PM  
The internal struggle between good versus bad. Listening to evil say it, "come on lets show them your love" and to prove your love you will take from the beauty of life and rip off the wings of a butterfly. Evil taunts for your soul. We sacrific to appease evil and have blood on our hands of our crimes. It is only the heavens above that the Gods will come forward and kneel at our crimes.

anonymous October 23rd, 2007 07:07PM  
So are you saying that pretty much the "girl" or whoever it is.... Should basically give up something to prove he or she loves that person?

KalaMagab November 29th, 2007 11:39AM  
I kinda agree with jessifax26, read it!

I think it's about some person he loves and they are friends and he's singing about the risk to ruin a friendship by starting a relationship.


I have a deeper theory but that may offend someone.. So




It might be about a guy who they are friends with but they kinda have a secret relationship and he's singing about coming out.

"Come on, and show them your love
Rip out the wings of a butterfly"

and they really would like but they don't know how people would react.


"This endless mercy mile
We're crawling side by side
With hell freezing over in our eyes
Gods kneel before our crime"

He's telling something like It will be hard and they'll judge us bu they'll show who's the boss.

anonymous May 12th, 2008 08:59AM  
Uhm... whoever thought ville was an idiot...

You're retarded.. -_

you agreed with the interpretation but you don't even understand it =/

anonymous June 11th, 2008 10:43PM  
This song is about one of the hardest parts of life, giving something you love up for something new. In this case, Ville uses the metaphor "Rip out the wings of a butterfly for your soul" to interpret the meaning that to get someones soul, you must first sacrifice something to get it, in the songs case, you rip out the wings of a butterfly to get it.

Quiranna1986 August 28th, 2008 12:42AM  
I always equated it to the Death of Christ...Gods kneel before our crime....Rip out the Wings of a Butterfly for your soul...Kill one of innocence and beauty to save yourselves....Heaven ablaze in our eyes....Thinking only of saving yourselves, you sacrifice that which is pure for your own renewal....The blood on our hands is the wine....His blood with the final spear in his side was spilt to act as the wine or sacrifice...Show your love....He was loved here on Earth yet we betrayed him and he died saving us. With hell freezing over in our eyes...we looked upon our deeds and saw our damnation....That's my spin on it at least...

leucetios August 28th, 2009 02:58PM  
I am not saying this is what the songwriter intended, only that it is AN interpretation of the lyrics. The beauty of a well written song/poem is in the multiple ways it can be interpreted.

In listening to it, it occurred to me it could be a song about an abortion:

Verse 1:
We're standing still in time
The blood on our hands is the wine
We offer as sacrifice

"Standing still in time" is a reference to that moment, the blood on their hands is obvious. This is about their decision and the action, the actual event.

Verse 2:
This endless mercy mile
We're crawling side by side
With hell freezing over in our eyes
Gods kneel before our crime

Show's the aftermath. They never thought they'd do something like this (hell freezing over) and Gods kneel before their crime shows their regret in addition to it being a bad thing they've done.

Now the chorus. Rip of the wings of a butterfly becomes a metaphor for the abortion. Ripping out the gentlest, most fragile part of a beautiful creature. And they're doing it so they can have their own life.

You can interpret the "show them your love" and "for your soul" to be that is being done either because He pressure Her (if you love me you'd do it) and because they decided that a child would disrupt their lives too much, so doing this saves them in the process.

All in all it is a pretty regretful look at the abortion, so I feel the need to point out that despite seeing this in the lyrics, I am pro-life and not just using this to be preachy.

I think it makes a decent, possible, interpretation.