Nightwish

Gone is the hurt, the wait Gone is the warmth of day A stray boat saved, happy memories engraved On into a velvety night Beneath a lanternlight Last night brought the heaviest of snows Melting the songs of old Tying the boat, write a new one soon Sending me to the drowning moon Far above…

Take shelter, skies are humming Harmageddon, 2nd coming War of the worlds, the end of history Take shelter, floods are rising The wrath of thunderous drumming End of days For mankind, and for your kin Fill those empty moments, fear more In this grave new world of `84 Fast death, last breath, A.i. to kill…

Leave the sleep and let the springtime talk In tongues from the time before man Listen to a daffodil tell her tale Let the guest in, walk out, be the first to greet the morn… The meadows of heaven await harvest The cliffs unjumped, cold waters untouched The elsewhere creatures yet unseen Finally your number…

Crave the machine Revere the screen Zoom in for flak and misery Bleed some pixels Shoot yourself Pose for the dead Have a near-life experience In a hot air matrix Now you’re a star Vain avatar Feeding the beast In your loud egoland You have become Tool of a tool Digital ghouls Telling you to…

Baptized with a perfect name The doubting one by heart Alone without himself War between him and the day Need someone to blame In the end, little he can do alone You believe, but what you see You receive, but what you give Caress the one, the never-fading rain in your heart The tears of…

Once upon a time a song was heard Giving birth to a child of earth and verse Together we slay another fright Every jubjub bird, spooks of the past Close your eyes and take a peek The truth is easy to see We were here Roaming on the endless prairie Writing an endless story Building…

We live in every moment but this one Why don’t we recognise the faces loving us so What’s god if not the spark that started life Smile of a stranger Sweet music, starry skies Wonder, mystery, wherever my road goes Early wake-ups in a moving home Scent of fresh-mown grass in the morning sun Open…

[1. four point six] Archaean horizon The first sunrise On a pristine gaea Opus perfectum Somewhere there, us sleeping After sleeping through a hundred million centuries We have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet Sparkling with color, bountiful with life Within decades we must close our eyes again Isn’t it a noble, an…

Before you My home was in the wind and surf The birds and rain, voices of the northern lights Then you came I joined you beyond the aeons As you blew your cave bear bone And began to hum Eradicate the torment of a heavy heart Emancipate the deaf Sing the graceful third part Then…

The deepest solace lies in understanding, This ancient unseen stream, A shudder before the beautiful Awake, oceanborn Behold this force Bring the outside in Explode the self to epiphany The very core of life The soaring high of truth and light The music of this awe Deep silence between the notes Deafens me with endless…

[Tarja] In sleep he sang to me, in dreams he came That voice which calls to me And speaks my name And do i dream again? for now i find The phantom of the opera is here Inside my mind [Marco] Sing once again with me our strange duet My power over you grows stronger…

Finally the hills are without eyes They are tired of painting a dead man’s face red With their own blood They used to love having so much to lose Blink your eyes just once and see everything in ruins Did you ever hear what i told you Did you ever read what i wrote you…

This is me for forever One of the lost ones The one without a name Without an honest heart as compass This is me for forever One without a name These lines the last endeavor To find the missing lifeline Oh, how i wish For soothing rain All i wish is to dream again My…

I wish i had an angel For one moment of love I wish i had your angel tonight Deep into a dying day I took a step outside an innocent heart Prepare to hate me, fall when i may This night will hurt you like never before Old loves, they die hard Old lies, they…