Nightwish

thumb|Tuomas Holopainen, Marco Hietala, Floor Jansen, Jukka Nevalainen, Troy Donockley and Emppu Vuorinen Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland. Early on, their lyrical themes predominantly dealt with mythological and fantasy themes. Though these themes are still occasionally used, lyricist Tuomas Holopainen has used more personal lyrics on recent albums, dealing with sexuality, loneliness and childhood, as well as the split with former singer Tarja Turunen. Sourced The only true love I ever knew was behind those downcast eyes. The only comfort I ever felt was during those long hours of loneliness when I felt for you. I do believe only Innocence can save the world. From the album booklet of the 2002 album Century Child. Song lyrics thumb|I am the voice of Never-Never-LandThe innocence,the dreams of every manI am the empty crib of Peter Pan All lyrics written by Tuomas Holopainen. Angels Fall First (1997) In the sheltering shade of the forestCalling calming silenceAccompanied only by the full moonThe howling of a night wolfAnd the path under my bare feet......The Elvenpath Elvenpath The moon witch took me to a ride on a broomstickIntroduced me to her old friend Home GnomeTold me to keep the sauna warm for him Elvenpath Your trembling paw in my handDreaming of that northern landTouching me with a kiss of a beast Beauty and the Beast Love me before the last petal falls. Beauty and the Beast However cruel the mirrors of sinRemember, beauty is found within Beauty and the Beast ...Forever shall the wolf in me desire the sheep in you... Beauty and the Beast Why? Was the wine of the grailToo sour for man to drink The Carpenter I hear youThrough the symphonic voices of natureThe purity I could never doubtThey tell me to lie on the grassAnd observe my saviourThe one crucified to the chirping of birds The Carpenter Hymn of gathering stars as my guideAs I wander on this path of the night Astral Romance The nightwish I sent you centuries agoHas been heard by thoseWho dwelled in a woe Astral Romance Departed by the guillotine of deathI received a letter from the depthThe dream of my lover it carried inside Astral Romance Above the universeBeneath the Great EyeI shall desire you forevermore Astral Romance Bury my dreams dig up my sorrowsOh Lord whyThe angels fall first? Angels Fall First Not relieved by thoughts of Shangri-LaNor enlightened by the lessons of ChristI'll never understand the meaning of the rightIgnorance lead me into the light Angels Fall First Sacrifice meTutankhamenAnd let me be your queenTake meTonight and alwaysWe'll breed to fill all earth Tutankhamen Old love lies deep you saidDeeper shall be the wound between your legs Nymphomaniac Fantasia Know why the nightingale singsIs the answer to everything Know Why the Nightingale Sings Dismal are the mirrors of a wolf Lappi (Lapland) Seadrops foam all empty human skullsThose on the shores of AtlantisDarwin's resurrection is witnessedBy turtles he used to play with A Return to the Sea Oceanborn (1998) Oracle of the Delphian DomineWitness of Adam's frailtySeer of the master prophecyThe stellar world her betrothed Stargazers Enchantment has but one truth:I weep to have what I fear to lose Gethsemane I knew you never beforeI see you never moreBut the love the pain the hope O beautiful oneHave made you mine 'till all my years are done Gethsemane Without youThe poetry within me is dead Gethsemane Hail the Oceanborn! Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean Disgraced is my virginityDeath has woven my wedding dressOh Great Blue breathe the morning dewFor you are the cradle of the image of god Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean From cradle to coffinShall my wickedness be your passion Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean We shall come to set the dolphins freeWe shall wash the darkened bloodred seaOur songs will echo over the mountains and seasThe eternity will begin once again in peace Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean I want to hunt with the tameless heartI want to learn the wisdom of mountains afarWe will honor the angel in the snowWe will make the streams for our children flow Sacrament of Wilderness A sight so cursedBreasts which never nursed Passion and the Opera An Aphrodite for mortal soulsPlaying hide and seek in lecherous rolesTheir erotic hour my tearless weepTheir satisfaction my infinite sleep Passion and the Opera In my worldLove is for poetsNever the famous balcony scene Swanheart Crystal pond awaits the lornTonight another morn for the lonely one is born Swanheart You think you dwell in wisdoms seaStill sweet ignorance is the keyTo a poet's paradiseChallenge the Riddler and you will see... The Riddler For nature hates virginityI wish to be touchedNot by the hands of where's and why'sBut by the Oceans' minds The Riddler The Unicorn arrives with the westwind to dream His funeral"Thou art born for Horus dwells in Thee"Slumbering with the ebb and the flow of this foaming tomb"Thou art born for Seteh dwells in Thee" The Pharaoh Sails to Orion Open thy veins for my venomKiss the cobras with thy twisted tongueSo shalt thou join the empyrean circusWhere beggars mourn and seraphs danceIn this twilight cathedralShall I wed thee,O Bride of the Netherworld The Pharaoh Sails to Orion Join my soul the Hunter in the sky The Pharaoh Sails to Orion I wish for this night-timeto last for a lifetimeThe darkness around meShores of a solar seaOh how I wish to go down with the sunSleepingWeepingWith you Sleeping Sun Sorrow has a human heartFrom my god it will departI'd sail before a thousand moonsNever finding where to go Sleeping Sun Patriotic to the promised landof never-waking dream. Nightquest The dreams remain – they only break. Nightquest First ones to walk this path of nightLady in black lady in whiteFollowed by legions of night-time wanderersGuardians of the halls of heartWhen we from my homeland departTo challenge the gods of emptinessMay the quest begin! Nightquest Wishmaster (2000) Take heed, dear heartOnce apart, she can touch nor me nor youDressed as oneA wolf will betray a lamb She Is My Sin I am the FallenYou are what my sins encloseLust is not as creativeAs its discovery She Is My Sin God I must confess......I do envy the sinners She Is My Sin Need to understandNo need to forgiveNo truth no sense left to be followed The Kinslayer Facing this unbearable fear like meeting an old friend The Kinslayer In this world of a million religions everyone prays the same way The Kinslayer Dry the rain from my beaten faceDrink the wine the red sweet taste of mine Come Cover Me For meFor youTime devours passion`s beautyWith meWith youIn war for the love of you(Tonight any dream will do) Come Cover Me I want to find The Secret PathA bird delivered into my heart Wanderlust Drown into my eyes and see the wandererSee the mirrors of a wolf behold the pathfinder Wanderlust Now let us lieSad we lived sad we dieEven in your prideI never blamed you Two For Tragedy A dreamy-eyed child staring into nightOn a journey to storyteller`s mindWhispers a wish speaks with the stars the words are silent in him Wishmaster thumb|If you hear the call of arcane lore,Your world shall rest on Earth no more To august realms, the sorcery withinIf you hear the call of arcane lore,Your world shall rest on Earth no more Wishmaster Just a child without a fairytale am IDark but so lovelyA Little Match Girl freezing in the snow Bare Grace Misery Roaming on razor-sharp castlesRuling all but myself(Now my night is laid to sleep) Crownless thumb|The age will say "This poet lies"Heaven never touched earthly faceThe age will say "This night was ours"Blessed with the DeepThe Silent the Complete The age will say "This poet lies"Heaven never touched earthly faceThe age will say "This night was ours"Blessed with the DeepThe Silent the Complete Deep Silent Complete Sing what you can`t sayForget what you can`t play Dead Boy's Poem Wrote for the eclipse, wrote for the virginDied for the beauty the one in the gardenCreated a kingdom, reached for the wisdomFailed in becoming a god Dead Boy's Poem If you read this line, remember not the hand that wrote itRemember only the verse, songmaker`s cry, the one without tearsFor I`ve given this its strength and it has become my only strength.Comforting home, mother`s lap, chance for immortalityWhere being wanted became a thrill I never knewThe sweet piano writing down my life Dead Boy's Poem thumb|A lonely soul... An ocean soul... A lonely soul... An ocean soul... Dead Boy's Poem Wish upon a starNo matter who you areThe second star to the right FantasMic Century Child (2002) 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.I witnessed the beauty of the beast Bless the Child There's a poison drop in this cup of ManTo drink it is to follow the left hand path Bless the Child thumb|Remember, my child: Without innocence the cross is only iron,hope is only an illusion & Ocean Soul's nothing but a name... Time pays us but with earth & dust, and a dark, silent grave.Remember, my child: Without innocence the cross is only iron,hope is only an illusion & Ocean Soul's nothing but a name...The Child bless thee & keep thee forever Bless the Child It is the end of all hopeTo lose the child, the faithTo end all the innocenceTo be someone like meThis is the birth of all hopeTo have what I once hadThis life unforgivenIt will end with a birth End of All Hope Angels, they fell first but I'm still here End of All Hope Mandylion without a faceDeathwish without a prayerEnd of hopeEnd of loveEnd of timeThe rest is silence End of All Hope It's not the monsters under your bedIt is the Man next doorThat makes you fear, makes you cry,Makes you cry for the child Dead to the World I don't want to die a scarless manA lonely soul Dead to the World thumb|I studied silence to learn the musicI joined the sinful to regain innocence I studied silence to learn the musicI joined the sinful to regain innocence Dead to the World As he died, he will return to die in me againWeaving the cloth, giving birth to the Century ChildWho gave his life not for the world but for meInnocence reborn once more Dead to the World Ever felt away with meJust once that all I needEntwined in finding you one dayEver felt away without meMy love, it lies so deepEver dream of me Ever Dream Would you do it with meHeal the scars and change the stars Ever Dream Come out, come out wherever you areSo lost in your seaGive in, give in for my touchFor my taste for my lust Ever Dream Put a stake through my heart!And drag me into sunlightSo awake for your greedAs you're slaying the dreamer Slaying the Dreamer Wake up, mow the weedYou'd be nothing without meTake my life if you have the heart to die Slaying the Dreamer Whatever walks in my heart will walk alone Forever Yours Crying for me was never worth a tearMy lonely soul is only filled with fear Ocean Soul Losing emotionFinding devotionShould I dress in white and search the seaAs I always wished to be - one with the wavesOcean Soul Ocean Soul thumb|I only wished to become something beautifulThrough my music, through my silent devotion I only wished to become something beautifulThrough my music, through my silent devotion Ocean Soul thumb|All of my songs can only be composed of the greatest of painsEvery single verse can only be born of the greatest of wishes All of my songs can only be composed of the greatest of painsEvery single verse can only be born of the greatest of wishes Beauty of the Beast Sanest choice in the insane world:Beware the beast but enjoy the feast he offers Beauty of the Beast 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 endingTo each of his poems. Beauty of the Beast Feeling lonely and content at the same time,I believe,is a rare kind of happiness Lagoon Once (2004) thumb|Once I had a dreamAnd this is it Once I had a dreamAnd this is it Dark Chest of Wonders Once I knew all the talesIt's time to turn back timeFollow the pale moonlight Dark Chest of Wonders Fly to a dreamFar across the seaAll the burdens goneOpen the chest once more Dark Chest of Wonders Old loves they die hardOld lies they die harder Wish I Had an Angel Last dance, first kissYour touch my blissBeauty always comes with dark thoughts Wish I Had an Angel This is me for foreverOne of the lost onesThe one without a nameWithout an honest heart as compass Nemo Oh how I wishFor soothing rainAll I wish is to dream againMy loving heartLost in the darkFor hope I`d give my everything Nemo My flower, withered betweenThe pages 2 and 3The once and forever bloom gone with my sins Nemo The 1st rock thrown againWelcome to hell, little SaintMother Gaia in slaughterWelcome to paradise, Soldier Planet Hell You fool, you wandererYou challenged the gods and lost Planet Hell Save yourself a penny for the ferrymanSave yourself and let them sufferIn hopeIn loveThis world ain't ready for The ArkMankind works in mysterious ways Planet Hell Our souls will join again the wildOur home in peace 'n war 'n death Creek Mary's Blood I still dream every nightOf them wolves, them mustangs, those endless prairiesThe restless winds over mountaintopsThe unspoilt frontier of my kith 'n kinThe hallowed land of the Great SpiritI still believeIn every nightIn every dayI am like the caribouAnd you like the wolves that make me strongerWe never owed you anythingOur only debt is one life for our MotherIt was a good day to chant this songFor HerOur spirit was here long before youLong before usAnd long will it be after your pride brings you to your end Creek Mary's Blood All the tales are toldAll the orchids goneLost in my own worldNow I care for dead gardens Dead Gardens My song is little worth anymoreTime to lay this weary pen aside Dead Gardens Where are the wolves, the underwater moonThe elvenpath, the haven of youthLagoons of the starlit seaHave I felt enough for one man's deed?Or is it time to challenge the Ancient of DaysAnd let the virgin conceive Dead Gardens RomanticideTill love do me part Romanticide See me ruined by my own creations Romanticide Take meCure meKill meBring me homeEvery wayEvery dayJust another loop in the hangman's noose Ghost Love Score Redeem me into childhoodShow me myself without the shell Ghost Love Score My fall will be for youMy love will be in youYou were the one to cut meSo I'll bleed forever Ghost Love Score PassiontideAn angel by my sideBut no Christ to end this warTo deliver my soul from the swordHope has shown me a sceneryParadise poetryWith first snow I`ll be gone Higher Than Hope The hopes were highThe choirs were vastNow my dreams are left to live through you Higher Than Hope Your death saved me Higher Than Hope Dark Passion Play (2007) Forgive meI have but two facesOne for the worldOne for GodSave me The Poet and the Pendulum Everyone must bury their ownNo pack to bury the heart of stoneNow he's home in hell, serves him wellSlain by the bell, tolling for his farewell The Poet and the Pendulum The morning dawned, upon his altarRemains of the dark passion playPerformed by his friends without shameSpitting on his grave as they came The Poet and the Pendulum Today, in the year of our Lord 2005,Tuomas was called from the cares of the world.He stopped crying at the end of each beautiful day.The music he wrote had too long been without silence.He was found naked and dead,With a smile in his face, a pen and 1000 pages of erased text. The Poet and the Pendulum Be still, my sonYou're homeOh when did you become so cold? The Poet and the Pendulum Search for beauty, find your shoreTry to save them all, bleed no moreYou have such oceans withinIn the endI will always love you The Poet and the Pendulum Did you ever hear what I told youDid you ever read what I wrote youDid you ever listen to what we playedDid you ever let in what the world saidDid we get this far just to feel your hateDid we play to become only pawns in the game Bye Bye Beautiful ...How blind can you be, don't you see......that the gambler lost all he does not have... Bye Bye Beautiful Caress the onethe never-fading rain in your heartthe tears of snow-white sorrowCaress the onethe hiding amaranthin a land of the daybreak Amaranth Who the hell are you to tell meWhat to do, why to do, why botherLeech in a mask of virtueSuch waste, to ever think of you again Master Passion Greed Time for one more daring dream Eva Heaven today is but a wayTo a place I once called home For the Heart I Once Had Once my heart beat to the rhythm of the falling snowBlackened below, the river now flowsA stream of molten virgin snow For the Heart I Once Had I'll believe and foreseeEverything I could ever be For the Heart I Once Had The wolves, my love, will comeTaking us home where dust once was a man 7 Days to the Wolves This is my church of choiceLove's strength standeth in love's sacrifice 7 Days to the Wolves This isWhere heroesAnd cowardsPart ways 7 Days to the Wolves thumb|Take the road less traveled byLeave the city of foolsTurn every poet loose Take the road less traveled byLeave the city of foolsTurn every poet loose 7 Days to the Wolves A nightingale in a golden cageThat's me locked inside reality's mazeCome someone make my heavy heart lightCome undone bring me back to lifeIt all starts with a lullaby Escapist Imaginaerum (2011) I am the voice of Never-Never-LandThe innocence, the dreams of every manI am the empty crib of Peter Pan Storytime ImaginariumA dream emporiumCaress the talesAnd they will dream you real Storytime He will go down he will drown drown, deeper downThe river wild will take your only childHe will go down he will drown drown deeper downThe mills grind slow in a riverbed ghost townHe will go down he will drown drown, deeper downIf you want me, then do come across Ghost River </p>The bride will lure you, cook you, eat youYour dear innocence boiled to feed the evil in need of fear</p>Burning farms and squealing pigsA pool of snakes to swim with, oh sweet poison bite me bite me Scaretale Ladies and gentlemenBe heartlessly welcome!To Cirque De MorgueAnd what a show we have for you tonight! Scaretale Every little memory resting calm in meResting in a dreamSmiling back at meThe faces of the past keep calling me to come back homeTo caress the river with awe Rest Calm </p>Don`t give me loveDon`t give me faithWisdom nor prideGive innocence instead</p>Don`t give me loveI`ve had my shareBeauty nor restGive me truth instead The Crow, the Owl and the Dove What`s God if not the spark that started life Last Ride of the Day Riding the day, every day into sunsetFinding the way back home Last Ride of the Day Once upon a night we`ll wake to the carnival of lifeThe beauty of this ride ahead such an incredible highIt`s hard to light a candle, easy to curse the dark insteadThis moment the dawn of humanityThe last ride of the day Last Ride of the Day Wake up, Dead BoyEnter adventureland Last Ride of the Day The nightingale is still locked in the cage Song of Myself A song of me a song in needOf a courageous symphonyA verse of me a verse in needOf a pure-heart singing me to peace Song of Myself All that great heart lying still and slowly dyingAll that great heart lying still on an angelwing Song of Myself An obese girl enters an elevator with me.All dressed up fancy, a green butterfly on her neck.Terribly sweet perfume deafens me.She`s going to dinner alone.That makes her even more beautiful. Song of Myself How can you "just be yourself" when you don`t know who you are?Stop saying "I know how you feel"How could anyone know how another feels?Who am I to judge a priest, beggar, whore, politician, wrongdoer?I am, you are, all of them already Song of Myself Dear child, stop working, go playForget every ruleThere`s no fear in a dream Song of Myself And there forever remains that change from G to Em Song of Myself Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015) Awake, oceanbornBehold this forceBring the outside inExplode the self to epiphany Shudder Before the Beautiful The music of this aweDeep silence between the notesDeafens me with endless loveThis vagrant Island EarthA pilgrim shining brightWe are shuddering before the beautifulBefore the plentifulWe, the voyagers Shudder Before the Beautiful Your only truthTribal poetryWitchcraft filling your voidLust for fantasyMale necrocracyEvery child worthy of a better tale Weak Fantasy From words into war of the worldsThis one we forsake with scornFrom lies the strength of our loveMother's milk laced with poison for this newborn Weak Fantasy ComeTaste the wineRace the blindThey will guide you from the lightWriting noughts till the end of timeComeSurf the cloudsRace the darkIt feeds from the runs undoneMeet me where the cliff greets the sea Élan Riding hard every shooting starCome to life, open mind, have a laugh at the orthodoxCome, drink deep let the dam of mind seepTravel with great élan, dance a jig at the funeral Élan Stop! Life is now, still all for youTurn from the hate, turn from the smokeI see the parchment of your soulThe notes, the songJoin your voice Yours Is an Empty Hope Our walk has been sublimeA soaring ride and gentle leadYou have the heart of a true friendOne day we'll meet on that shore again Our Decades in the Sun Weaving my wings from many-colored yarnsFlying higher, higher, higherInto the wildWeaving my world into tapestry of lifeIts fire goldenIn my Walden My Walden Deep into the pastFollow the aeon pathGreet a blade of grassEvery endless form most beautifulAlive, aware, in aweBefore the grandeur of it allOur floating pale blue arkOf endless forms most beautiful Endless Forms Most Beautiful We are the Edema RuhWe know the songs the sirens sangSee us dream every tale trueThe verse we leave with you will take you home Edema Ruh We were hereRoaming on the endless prairieWriting an endless storyBuilding a Walden of our ownWe were hereGrieving the saddened facesConquering the darkest placesTime to rest now and to finish the showAnd become the Music, one with alpenglow Alpenglow We are oneWe are a universeForbears of what will beScions of the Devonian seaAeons passWriting the tale of us allA day-to-day new openingFor the greatest show on Earth The Greatest Show on Earth Man, he took his time in the sunHad a dream to understandA single grain of sandHe gave birth to poetryBut one day'll cease to beGreet the last light of the library The Greatest Show on Earth We were here! The Greatest Show on Earth Human. :II: Nature. (2020) MusicFanning the flames of a mysteryDeepening the listeningLosingYourself to the endless symphonyOf nowHumanSinging the tale of another manHave you ever heardMusicIt's coming, coming, coming your wayThe very first song Music NoiseFrom a sunless worldYour mirror is black, only a copy stares backAt a slave of brave new worldNoiseTo decoy the human voiceBrain insomniac, paranoiacEndless noise Noise Here I came to beYour reach into the farOn the stellar seaCut in little stars Shoemaker Laudato SiAd Astra Shoemaker Join the harvest of hundred fields, hearty and tameAll going back to one single grainOffer light to the coming day, inspire a childWater the field, surrender to the earthWater the field, surrender to the earthWater the field, surrender to the earth Harvest A moment aloneWith unbeknownReset the worldImagine homeA primal needTo touch the starsOnly way thereTo enter Pan A pale beautiful theatre stageA feast of beautiful tragedy, wonderful fantasyThe play is yours to writeYours to liveReady the night by a playwright Pan How's the heartUnderneath the silence?How's the oneDrowning in the mire?Let us sound a human paeanCome in, the fire's warmBurn the rope and dance some more How's the Heart? We have been here a whileAt the end of Pi, as along came harvest Procession We will remember all the sufferingWe wrote this in a tongue you will understandWords and melodies with a touch of coloringWe were there and will remember mankindOur kinAeons ago Procession Sing the praise of your creationBride-prices, thought crimes, blind mindsThe Word hides vivid monstersTo bed the tribal itch Tribal Someone in the tomorrowIs waiting for meSomeone to share the thief withDust with a meaningPrecious and rare Endlessness An unscarred landUnsung yarnUnborn childAwait my touch, the luck of the drawEnter nowComeHere is life Endlessness Soon, beyond the fields you've come to knowYou will join the silent flowFollow me, I am the sparkAt the end of everythingTip the reaper to ensureThe blade is sharpAs soon we'll goFollow me into the darkTo the birth of everything Endlessness Other Today I killed, he was just a boyEight before him, I knew them all 10th Man Down, from the 2001 EP Over the Hills and Far Away One by one, We will fall, down 10th Man Down Every dream's a journey away Away, from the 2001 EP Over the Hills and Far Away For this gift of dream I must pay the pricewith the loss of life's pleasures Away External links Official website Nightwish Shop Category:Finnish bands Category:Symphonic metal