Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland. The band was formed in 1996.
Come on; hop on; let’s take a ride Come and meet the travelers who came to town They have a tale from the past to tell From the great dark between the stars
We are a special speck of dust A fleeting moment on an ark A celebration, a rest haven of life
Lay on a field of green with mother Eve With father pine reaching high Look at yourself in the eyes of aye-aye Unfolding rendezvous
Deep into the past Follow the aeon path Greet a blade of grass Every endless form most beautiful Alive, aware, in awe Before the grandeur of it all Our floating pale blue ark Of endless forms most beautiful
Beyond aeons we take a ride Welcoming the shrew that survived To see the Tiktaalik Take her first walk; witness the birth of flight
Deeper down in Panthalassa A eukaryote finds her way We return to the very first one Greet the one we’ll soon become
Lay on a field of green with mother Eve With father by reaching high Look at yourself in the eyes of aye-aye Unfolding rendezvous
Deep into the past Follow the eon path Greet a blade of grass Every endless form most beautiful
Alive, aware, in awe Before the grandeur of it all Our floating pale blue ark Of endless forms most beautiful
Deep into the past Follow the eon path Greet a blade of grass Every endless form most beautiful
Alive, aware, in awe Before the grandeur of it all Our floating pale blue ark Of endless forms most beautiful
Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland. The band was formed in 1996.
“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 love This vagrant island Earth A pilgrim shining bright We are shuddering before the beautiful Before the plentiful We, the voyagers
Tales from the seas Cathedral of green
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 love This vagrant island Earth A pilgrim shining bright We are shuddering before the beautiful Before the plentiful We’re the voyagers
The unkown, The grand show, The choir of the stars Interstellar theatre play, The nebulae curtain falls Imagination, Evolution, A species from the vale Walks in wonder in search of the source of the tale
The music of this awe Deep silence between the notes Deafens me with endless love This vagrant island Earth A pilgrim shining bright We are shuddering before the beautiful Before the plentiful We, the voyagers
Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland. The band was formed in 1996.
I. 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 enlightened way of spending our brief Time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe And how we have come to wake up in it?”
II. Life
The cosmic law of gravity Pulled the newborns around a fire A careless, cold infinity In every vast direction Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone She has a tale to tell From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast Enter LUCA
The tapestry of chemistry There’s a writing in the garden Leading us to the mother of all
We are one We are the universe Forbears of what will be scions of the Devonian sea Aeons pass, writing the tale of us all A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on Earth
Ion channels Welcoming the outside world to the stuff of stars Bedding the tree of a biological holy Enter life
The tapestry of chemistry There’s a writing in the garden Leading us to the mother of all
We are one We are the universe Forbears of what will be scions of the Devonian sea Aeons pass, writing the tale of us all A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on Earth
We are here to care for the garden The wonder of, birth of, every form most beautiful Every form most beautiful
We are one We are the universe Forbears of what will be scions of the Devonian sea Aeons pass, writing the tale of us all A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on Earth
III. The Toolmaker
After a billion years The show is still here Not a single one of your fathers died young The handy travelers out of Africa Little Lucy of the Afar
Gave birth to fantasy To idolatry To self destructive weaponry
Enter the god of gaps Deep within the past Atavistic dread of the hunted
Enter Ionia The cradle of thought The architecture of understanding The human lust to feel so exceptional To rule the Earth
Hunger for shiny rocks For giant mushroom clouds The will to do just as you’d be done by Enter history The grand finale Enter ratkind
Man, he took his time in the sun Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand He gave birth to poetry But one day’ll cease to be Greet the last light of the library
Man, he took his time in the sun Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand He gave birth to poetry But one day’ll cease to be Greet the last light of the library
Man, he took his time in the sun Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand He gave birth to poetry But one day’ll cease to be Greet the last light of the library
We were here! We were here! We were here! We were here!
IV. The Understanding
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?”
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one. And that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland. The band was formed in 1996.
We see a mother with no child We meet a stranger poor, exiled How’s the heart while it still beats? Asks a no-one Another John Doe
Sorrow hides well in your shell A fellow man with hurt to spare Dear one Here I am to share the fear An act of kindness Without an amen
How’s the heart Underneath the silence? How’s the one Drowning in the mire? Let us sound a human paean Come in, the fire’s warm Burn the rope and dance some more
We met where the cliff greets the sea Shared a story, took the leap Rose up rooted, hid a note You know where You’ve been there
Now there’s one who came from me A child of light, another tale Dear one Night will come but not to stay Why? The answer’s in the
How’s the heart Underneath the silence? How’s the one Drowning in the mire? Let us sound a human paean Come in, the fire’s warm Burn the rope and dance some more
Fair winds my love Fly towards the calm Fly utterly lost Towards a beating heart
How is that heart Underneath the silence? How is the one Drowning in the mire? Let us sound a human paean Come on in, the fire’s warm Dull the blade and dance some more
