As far as I understood the lyrics are based on the tuonela - a Finnish mythology and the kalevala - a famous Finnish poem about that mythology in which the bee plays an important role in bringing the main person back to life. So that’s why the lyrics seem to be a bit strange if you don’t have that information that’s it’s based an a mythology.

I think Pekka (Kainulainen) lent some ideas from Kalevala, but made it his own metal as heck praise to bees. And then Amorphis translated that to English. That info is from couple of Tomi's interviews. Amorphis should release a book of containing Pekka's original Finnish lyrics, before translations. With some insight to them.