Nightwish Album

I was born amidst the purple
waterfalls.
I was weak, yet not unblessed.
Dead to the world, alive for the
journey.
One night I dreamt a white rose
withering,
a newborn drowning a lifetime
loneliness.
I dreamt all my future, relived my past,
and witnessed the beauty of the
Beast

Where have all the feelings gone?
Why has all the laughter ceased?
Why am I loved only when I'm gone?
Gone back in time to bless the child.

How can I ever feel again?
Given the chance would I return?
Why am I loved only when I'm gone?
Gone back in time to bless the child.
Think of me long enough to make a
memory.
Come bless the child one more time.

I've never felt so alone in my life.
As I drank from a cup which was
counting my time.
There's a poison drop in this cup of
man,
To drink it is to follow the left hand
path.

Why am I loved only when I'm gone?
Gone back in time to bless the child.
Think of me long enough to make a
memory.
Come bless the child one more time.

Think of me long enough to make a
memory.
Come bless the child one more time.

"Where have all the feelings gone?
Why is it the deadliest sin - to love as
I loved you?
Now unblessed, homesick in time,
soon to be freed from care, from
human pain.
My tale is the most bitter truth: Time
pays us
with but earth & dust, and a dark,
silent grave.
Remember my child:
without innocence the cross is only
iron,
hope is only an illusion,
an oceansoul's nothing but a name...
The Child bless thee and keep thee
forever"

It is the end of all hope.
To lose the child, the faith.
To end all the innocence.
To be someone like me.

This is the birth of all hope.
To have what I once had.
This life unforgiven, It will end with
birth.

No will to wake for this morn.
To see another black rose born.
Deathbed is slowly covered with
snow.

Angels, they fell first, but I'm still here
Alone as they are drawing near.
In heaven my masterpiece will finally
be sung.

It is the end of all hope.
To lose the child, the faith.
To end all the innocence.
To be someone like me.

Wounded is the deer that leaps
highest, and my wound it cuts so
deep.
Turn off the light and let me pull the
plug.

It is the end of all hope.
To lose the child, the faith.
To end all the innocence.
To be someone like me.

This is the birth of all hope.
To have what I once had.
This life unforgiven, It will end with a
birth.

Mandylion without a face, Deathwish
without a prayer.
End of hope, end of love, end of time.
The rest is silence.

It is the end of all hope.
To lose the child, the faith.
To end all the innocence.
To be someone like me.

This is the birth of all hope.
To have what I once had.

It is the end of all hope.
To lose the child, the faith.
To end all the innocence.
To be someone like me.

It is the end of all hope.
To lose the child, the faith.
End of all hope.

All the same take me away
We're dead to the world

The child gave thought to the poet's
words, gave comfort to the fallen
(Heartfelt, lovelorn)
Remaining, yet still uninvited
Those words scented my soul
(Lonely soul, Ocean soul)

It's not the monsters under your bed,
it is the Man next door
That makes you fear, makes you cry,
makes you cry for the child
All the wars are fought among those
lonely men
Unarmed, unscarred

I don't want to die a scarless man
A lonely soul (tell me now what to do)
I studied silence to learn the music
I joined the sinful to regain innocence

Heaven queen, cover me in all that
blue
Little boy such precious joy is dead to
the world
Heaven queen, carry me away from
all pain
All the same take me away, we're
dead to the world

Deep, silent and constant, yet always
changing
-my favorite view of this world
As he died, he will return to die in me
again
Weaving the cloth, giving birth to
Century child
Who gave his life not for the world
but for me
Innocence reborn once more

Heaven queen, carry me away from
all pain
All the same take me away, we're
dead to the world

Heaven queen, cover me in all that
blue
Little boy such precious joy is dead to
the world
Heaven queen, carry me away from
all pain
All the same take me away, we're
dead to the world

Ever felt away with me
Just once that all I need
Entwined in finding you one day
Ever felt away without me
My love, it lies so deep
Ever dream of me

Would you do it with me
Heal the scars and change the stars
Would you do it for me
Turn loose the heaven within

I'd take you away
Castaway on a lonely day
Bosom for a teary cheek
My song can but borrow your grace

Ever felt away...

Come out, come out wherever you
are
So lost in your sea
Give in, give in for my touch
For my taste for my lust

Ever felt away...

Your beauty cascaded on me
In this white night fantasy

Ever felt away...

I'm a priest for the poorest sacrifice
I'm but a raft in a sea of sorrow and
greed
You bathed in my wine
Drank from my cup, mocked my
rhyme
Your slit tongues licked my aching
wounds

Put a stake through my heart!
And drag me into sunlight
So awake for your greed
As you're slaying the dreamer

Swansong for the Wish of Night
God it hurts, give a name to the pain
Our primrose path to hell is growing
weed

Put a stake through my heart!
And drag me into sunlight
So awake for your greed
As you're slaying the dreamer

Blame me, it's me
Coward, a good-for-nothing
scapegoat
Dumb kid, living a dream
Romantic only on paper

Tell me why you took all that was
mine!
Stay as you lay - don't lead me
astray!
Tell me why you took all that was
mine!
Stay as you lay - don't lead me
astray!

Wake up, mow the weed
You'd be nothing without me
Take my life if you have the heart to
die

You bastards tainted my tool
Raped my words, played me a fool
Gather your precious glitter and
leave me be
The Great Ones are all dead
And I'm tired, too

I truly hate you all!

Fare thee well, little broken heart
Downcast eyes, lifetime loneliness

Whatever walks in my heart will walk
alone

Constant longing for the perfect soul
Unwashed scenery forever gone

Whatever walks in my heart will walk
alone

No love left in me
No eyes to see the heaven beside
me
My time is yet to come
So I'll be forever yours

Whatever walks in my heart will walk
alone

No love left in me
No eyes to see the heaven beside
me
My time is yet to come
So I'll be forever yours

No love left in me
No eyes to see the heaven beside
me
My time is yet to come
So I'll be forever yours

Whatever walks in my heart will walk
alone
whatever walks in my heart...

One more night
To bear this nightmare
What more do I have to say

Crying for me was never worth a
tear
My lonely soul is only filled with fear

Long hours of loneliness
Between me and the sea

Losing emotion
Finding devotion
Should I dress in white and search
the sea
As I always wished to be - one with
the waves
Ocean Soul

Walking the tideline
I hear your name
Is angels wispering
Something so beautiful it hurts

Long hours of loneliness
Between me and the sea

I only wished to become something
beautiful
Through my music, through my silent
devotion

Losing emotion
Finding devotion
Should I dress in white and search
the sea
As I always wished to be - one with
the waves
Ocean Soul

Feel For You
You were my first love
The earth moving under me
Bedroom scent, beauty ardent
Distant shiver, heaven sent

I'm the snow on your lips
The freezing taste, the silvery sip
I'm the breath on your hair
The endless nightmare, devil's lair

Only so many times
I can say I long for you
The lily among the thorns
The prey among the wolves

Someday, I will feed a snake
Drink her venom, stay awake
With time all pain will fade
Through your memory I will wade

Barely cold in her grave
Barely warm in my bed
Settling for a draw tonight
Puppet girl, your strings are mine

This one is for you for you
Only for you
Just give in to it never think again
I feel for you

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 there-
inside my mind...

Sing once again with me
our strange duet...
My power over you
grows stronger yet...

And though you turn from me,
to glance behind,
the Phantom of the Opera is there-
inside your mind...

Those who have seen your face
draw back in fear...
I am the mask you wear...

It's me they hear...

Your/my spirit and my/your voice,
in one combined:
the Phantom of the Opera is there-
inside your/my mind...

He's there, the Phantom of the
Opera...
Beware the Phantom of the Opera...

In all your fantasies,
you always knew
that man and mystery...

...were both in you...

And in this labyrinth,
where night is blind,
the Phantom of the Opera is
there/here-
inside your/my mind...

He's there the Phantom of the Opera
Sing, Sing my Angel of music, sing,
Sing For Me!

1. Long Lost Love

Trees have dropped their leaves,
Clouds their waters
All this burden is killing me

Distance is covering your way,
Tears your memory
All this beauty is killing me

Oh, do you care,
I still feel for you
So aware,
What should be lost is there

I fear I will never find anyone
I know my greatest pain is yet to
come
Will we find each other in the dark
My long lost love

2. One More Night To Live

Safely away from the world
In a dream, timeless domain
A child, dreamy eyed,
Mother's mirror, father's pride

I wish I could come back to you
Once again feel the rain
Falling inside me
Cleaning all that I've become

My home is far but the rest it lies so
close
With my long lost love under the
black rose
You told I had the eyes of a wolf
Search them and find the beauty of
the beast

All of my songs can only be
composed of the greatest of pains
Every single verse can only be born
of the greatest of wishes
I wish I had one more night to live

A saint blessed me, drank me deeply
Spitting out the misery in me
Still a sinner rapes 1000 saints
Sharing the same hell with me

Sanest choice in this insane world:
Beware the beast but enjoy the
feast he offers

Sanest choice in this insane world:
Beware the beast but enjoy the
feast he offers

3. Christabel

Oh, sweet Christabel. Share with me
your poem.
For I know now, I'm a puppet on this
silent stage show.
I'm but a poet who failed his best
play.
A Dead Boy, who failed to write an
ending
To each of his poems.

I went into the wilderness with Uncle
Walt
I discovered the wild
Learning to suck all the experience
Seeing the world through cradle's
bars

The wild blessed me with an errant
mind
Showing the way for the ultimate
lore
I went around the world, beyond the
wild
Finding my home from an ocean
shore

Wayfarer, heartlander
What if I only had
One more night to live

Home is where the way is
My road goes on forever
One more voyage to go

Wayfarer, heartlander
What if I only had
One more night to live

Dead to the world
Alive for the journey

Wayfarer, heartlander
What if I only had
One more night to live

Home is where the way is
My road goes on forever
One more voyage to go

Imagine a perfect beach
Without a mermaid
Imagine a perfect hideaway
Without a time

Ocean Soul

Imagine a perfect Eden
Without a friend without a serpent

Ocean Soul
Lonely Soul

"Feeling lonely and content at the
same time,
I believe,
is a rare kind of happiness"

Ocean Soul
Lonely Soul