Nightwish

Bye Bye Beautiful

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
Did you ever listen to what we played
Did you ever let in what the world said
Did we get this far just to feel your hate
Did we play to become only pawns in the game
How blind can you be, don`t you see
You chose the long road but we`ll be waiting

Bye bye beautiful


Jacob`s ghost for the girl in white
Blindfold for the blind
Dead siblings walking the dying earth

Noose around a choking heart
Eternity torn apart
Slow toll now the funeral bells

"I need to die to feel alive"

Did you ever hear what I told you
Did you ever read what I wrote you
Did you ever listen to what we played
Did you ever let in what the world said
Did we get this far just to feel your hate
Did we play to become only pawns in the game
How blind can you be, don`t you see
You chose the long road but we`ll be waiting

Bye bye beautiful

It`s not the tree that forsakes the flower
But the flower that forsakes the tree
Someday I`ll learn to love these scars
Still fresh from the red-hot blade of your words

...How blind can you be, don`t you see...
...that the gambler lost all he does not have...

Did you ever hear what I told you
Did you ever read what I wrote you
Did you ever listen to what we played
Did you ever let in what the world said
Did we get this far just to feel your hate
Did we play to become only pawns in the game
How blind can you be, don`t you see
You chose the long road but we`ll be waiting

Bye bye beautiful...


Nemo


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 loving heart
Lost in the dark
For hope I´d give my everything

My flower withered between
The pages two and three
The once and forever bloom gone with my sins

Walk the dark path
Sleep with angels
Call the past for help
Touch me with your love
And reveal to me my true name

Oh how I wish
For soothing rain
All I wish is to dream again
My loving heart
Lost in the dark
For hope I´d give my everything

Oh how I wish
For soothing rain
Oh how I wish to dream again
Once and for all
And all for once
Nemo my name forevermore

Nemo sailing home
Nemo letting go

Oh how I wish
For soothing rain
All I wish is to dream again
My loving heart
Lost in the dark
For hope I´d give my everything

Oh how I wish
For soothing rain
Oh how I wish to dream again
Once and for all
And all for once
Nemo my name forevermore

My name forevermore


Over the hills and far away

They came for him one winter´s night.
Arrested, he was bound.
They said there´d been a robbery,
his pistol had been found.

They marched him to the station house,
he waited for the dawn.
And as they led him to the dock,
he knew that he´d been wronged.
"You stand accused of robbery,"
he heard the bailiff say.
He knew without an alibi,
tomorrow´s light would mourn his freedom.

Over the hills and far away,
for ten long years he´ll count the days.
Over the mountains and the seas,
a prisoner´s life for him there´ll be.

He knew that it would cost him dear,
but yet he dare not say.
Where he had been that fateful night,
a secret it must stay.
He had to fight back tears of rage.
His heart beat like a drum.
For with the wife of his best friend,
he spent his final night of freedom.

Over the hills and far away,
he swears he will return one day.
Far from the mountains and the seas,
back in her arms he swears he´ll be.
Over the hills and far away.

Over the hills and,
over the hills and,
over the hills and far away.

Each night within his prison cell,
he looks out through the bars.
He reads the letters that she wrote.
One day he´ll know the taste of freedom.

Over the hills and far away,
she prays he will return one day.
As sure as the rivers reach the seas,
back in his arms he swears she´ll be.

Over the hills and far away,
he swears he will return one day.
Far from the mountains and the seas,
back in her arms he swears he´ll be.

Over the hills and far away,
she prays he will return one day.
As sure as the rivers reach the seas,
back in his arms is where she´ll be.

Over the hills,
over the hills and far away.

Over the hills,
over the hills and far away.


Amaranth

Baptised 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 snow-white sorrow
Caress the one, the hiding amaranth
In a land of the daybreak

Apart from the wandering pack
In this brief flight of time we reach
For the ones, whoever dare

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 snow-white sorrow
Caress the one, the hiding amaranth
In a land of the daybreak

Reaching, searching for something untouched
Hearing voices of the Never-Fading calling

Caress the one, the Never-Fading
Rain in your heart - the tears of snow-white sorrow
Caress the one, the hiding amaranth
In a land of the daybreak


Sahara

A ballad of dark queen echoes through night
As he flees the curse of gods, the pharaoh`s wrath

1001 nights unseen
The philosopher and the queen

Ancient mariner in a sea of sand
The burning beauty his tomb to die for

1001 nights unseen
The philosopher and the queen
Horizon`s swarming with death
Run!

Heaven has a darkened face
Dunes are soaring, as on a chase
Caravan of the cursed
Chasing him across the waves

May he now rest under aegis of mirage
As the sands slowly turn to Elysian fields

1001 nights unseen
The philosopher and the queen


Whis I had an angel

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 die harder
I wish i had an angel
For one moment of love
I wish i had your angel
Your virgin mary undone
I`m in love with my lust
Burning angelwings to dust
I wish i had your angel tonight
I`m going down so frail 'n cruel
Drunken disguise changes all the rules
Old loves...
I wish...
Greatest thrill
Not to kill
But to have the prize of the night
Hypocrite
Wannabe friend
13th disciple who betrayed me for nothing!
Last dance, first kiss
Your touch my bliss
Beauty always comes with dark thoughts
I wish...


Wishmaster

Master!
Apprentice!
Heartborne, 7th seeker
Warrior!
Disciple!
In me the wishmaster

Master!
Apprentice!
Heartborne, 7th seeker
Warrior!
Disciple!
In me the wishmaster

Elbereth
Lorien

A dreamy-eyed child staring into night
On a journey to storyteller's mind
Whispers a wish speaks with the stars the words are silent in him
Distant sigh from a lonely heart
"i'll be with you soon, my shalafi"
Grey havens my destiny

Master!
Apprentice!
Heartborne, 7th seeker
Warrior!
Disciple!
In me the wishmaster

Silvara
Starbreeze

Sla-mori the one known only by him
To august realms, the sorcery within
If you hear the call of arcane lore,
Your world shall rest on earth no more
A maiden elf calling with her cunning song
"meet me at the inn of last home"
Heartborne will find the way!

Master!
Apprentice!
Heartborne, 7th seeker
Warrior!
Disciple!
In me the wishmaster

Master!
Apprentice!
Heartborne, 7th seeker
Warrior!
Disciple!
In me the wishmaster

Wishmaster
Crusade for your will
A child, dreamfinder
The apprentice becoming...

Master!
Apprentice!
Heartborne, 7th seeker
Warrior!
Disciple!
In me the wishmaster

Master!
Apprentice!
Heartborne, 7th seeker
Warrior!
Disciple!
In me the wishmaster

Master!
Apprentice!
Heartborne, 7th seeker
Warrior!
Disciple!
In me the wishmaster


Cadence Of Her Last Breath

Running for her life
The dark rain from her eyes still falls
breath taking butterfly shows a dark day to live

Save one breath for me
Alone and longing for
The cadence of her last breath

Why do I miss someone I never met?
With beating breath falling
Sea waves brought her to me
A butterfly ... wouding miracle of life
And all the poetry in the world
Finally makes sense to me

Save one death for me
Alone and longing for (run away! run away!)
The cadence of her last breath (run away! run away!)

But to rest
Oh, that's not life
Drink for beauty
(...)

Sometimes the dream turns into augury

Alone and longing for (run away! run away!)
The cadence of her last breath (run away! run away!)