Nightwish - Human. :II: Nature. lyrics
Tracks 01. Music
02. Noise 03. Shoemaker 04. Harvest 05. Pan 06. How's The Heart? 07. Procession 08. Tribal 09. Endlessness 10. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Vista 11. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - The Blue 12. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - The Green 13. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Moors 14. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Aurorae 15. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Quiet As The Snow 16. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Anthropocene (incl. "Hurrian Hymn To Nikkal") 17. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Ad Astra 01. Music Music & lyrics by Tuomas Holopainen
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 orchestrate an air for only you to sing Caress it deep It's always there to unlock the stars To enter Music Fanning the flames of a mystery Deepening the listening Losing Yourself to the endless symphony Of now Human Singing the tale of another man Have you ever heard Music It is coming, coming, coming your way The very first song You want to dream? Want a tale in major scale? Wish to leave the hollow, to dance with Pan? Can you hear the brave drum from the moors? Follow the beat And leave the noise behind if we be lovers Performance starts, come join the gathering And you will leave with a wildflower aftertaste Become the kind who still laughs at butterflies Give me a home inside you until the final Thank you and a good night In here, I am the silence of sound Curing the common show For the steady song There, I'll greet the greedy crowd But will never, ever sing to them Tick-tock, time stops Follow me into the fog To the hilltop Follow the call sky-clad Evoke the Hum Allure the sirens All it took was Time and silence 02. Noise Music & lyrics by Tuomas Holopainen
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 Shut up and dance! Color a yarn and the crowds will gather Noise From a sunless world Your mirror is black, only a copy stares back At a slave of brave new world Noise To decoy the human voice Brain insomniac, paranoiac Endless noise Please love me See how I bleed Please endure I have such empathy in me Hum, noise, hum Beautifully numb Tapping the quiet air To have a meaning By a carrion Sad hologram Lost in the maze The real and human feel Sunset is free From this deity The Earth has a real voice Go out and get in I will follow Color a yarn and the crowds will gather Feast your eyes on the black mirror Feed the beast, join the gathering Tell a tale Feast of fears is drawing nearer Beyond the human horizon Something terrifying sleeps 03. Shoemaker Music & lyrics by Tuomas Holopainen
Now you've been tucked in
For eternal earthrise and wonder A sailor through aeons Story unheard Howling at the Earth Yours the whole graveyard of heavens A ship that sailed home You're with us, face of the night Singing through the morn for mankind I want to sing with you You're home now, outward urge As with every dreaming creature We want to come with you Here I came to be Your reach into the far On the stellar sea Cut in little stars We all wait the due night Beauty which is worth the hurting We're coming to join you Hope revived for a lifetime To rekindle the human spark In love with the night Now you've been tucked in For eternal earthrise and wonder A sailor through aeons Story now heard Howling at the Earth Yours is the whole starmap of heavens Of myriad endings We came here to be A waypoint to the far On the stellar sea Cut into little Stars calling with the sound Of a dreamlike dulcimer We came here to stay With your guiding light “And when he shall die Take him and cut him out in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world Will be in love with the night And pay no worship to the garish sun” - W. Shakespeare / Romeo And Juliet Laudato si Ad astra 04. Harvest Music & lyrics by Tuomas Holopainen
My harvest will come
A tiny valorous straw Among the millions Facing to the sun I will pause before a man Whose path has just begun Something unsung our way comes The quarternary code Gave mankind a rose So we could see the beautiful die The strange peace of storm Hovers over crops And a child's face aglow before the scythe Join the harvest of hundred fields Hearty and tame All going back to one single grain Offer light to the coming day Inspire a child Water the field, surrender to the earth They have beauty beyond all poetry But choose a silent misery The deeper their sea, the less remains They'll find the pretty words And tame flocks to herd There's that, or a carousal of dare Join the harvest of hundred fields Hearty and tame All going back to one single grain Offer light to the coming day Inspire a child Water the field, surrender to the earth Arrive alive 05. Pan Music & lyrics by Tuomas Holopainen
Once there was a silent canvas
Sleeping stories unimagined Birth of what if's, hope and wonder Winds will be named, words will shelter Then, something wicked their way came Showed a way to the Great Escape Evoke the worlds, sparked the brain An ape in awe before a door To labyrinth To Keystone Earth To fallen stars To there and back We're the writers Of another way to be We're the writers Of whatever we cry home A moment alone With unbeknown Reset the world Imagine home A primal need To touch the stars Only way there To enter Imagine music, dance, illusion Tales of Dust, of man in the moon The Sea Lady, Snow, Glass, Apples It is stories that built cathedrals To lose yourself To find who you are Follow your tale, remember your name Enter the woods Tir na Nog And bring back the Good A pale blue theatre stage A feast of beautiful tragedy, wonderful fantasy The play is yours to write Yours to live Ready the night by a playwright 06. How's The Heart? Music & lyrics by Tuomas Holopainen
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 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 07. Procession Music & lyrics by Tuomas Holopainen
A cradle Earth, horizons unseen
New world in thirst, for the arcane We are, singers of the gone We remember, as along came life A cradle Earth, horizons unseen Birth of one, and a zillion sideshows We are, we were, and will not be We remember, as along came acorn Another birth, another moss green New world in thirst, for the unseen An empty zoo, a starlight vigil Will have a visit, as along came heartbeat Another birth, another monster Endless forms, towards the stronger Menagerie, of a new world order We held our breath, as along came suffering We remember, father Pikaia Gave the way, as along came Sapien The cradle Earth, welcoming its newborn Aeons since that very first acorn Together now, in this timeless parade The living lie, dead afraid Then they saw the moon, and found caring We remember, as along came writing Such worlds were there, zoos dead again After all, we should've never appeared Spaceship Earth, through the fields of time They understood, as along came wisdom We have been here a while At the end of Pi, as along came harvest We will remember all the suffering We wrote this in a tongue you will understand Words and melodies with a touch of coloring We were there and will remember mankind Our kin Aeons ago 08. Tribal Music & lyrics by Tuomas Holopainen
Ten thousand tales for the curious kind
Bazaar of heavens for a hive mind Abraham cut into three Man found gods and began to preach Suffering loves faythe loves suffering Smile to elders like a good doll Repent, accept, separate yourself Suck the aureate tongue Sing the praise of your creation Bride-prices, thought crimes, blind minds The Word hides vivid monsters To bed the tribal itch 09. Endlessness Music & lyrics by Tuomas Holopainen
I am the one you call The Thief
Universe, blank verse, crowded hearse I am a haven by an unseen stream I'll sing the dawn in with you Now that you have a voice Earthbride amongst the carrion kind Walk with me to your sea Someone in the tomorrow Is waiting for me Someone to share the Thief with Dust with a meaning Precious and rare I am the grass, the maggots and the dust I am the several endings The pain of the slow evil of an unsung life Decades, make them matter Myriad tales shall befall on you Before the evenballad of our stay Walk with me to your sea An unscarred land Unsung yarn Unborn child Await my touch, the luck of the draw Enter now Come Here is life Endlessness Soon, beyond the fields you've come to know You will join the silent flow Follow me, I am the spark At the end of everything Tip the Reaper to ensure The blade is sharp As soon we'll go Follow me into the dark To the birth of everything 10. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Vista Music by Tuomas Holopainen
[Geraldine James]
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more” [Instrumental] The quote is from Lord Byron’s “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” poem 11. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - The Blue Music by Tuomas Holopainen
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12. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - The Green Music by Tuomas Holopainen
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13. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Moors Music by Tuomas Holopainen
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14. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Aurorae Music by Tuomas Holopainen
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15. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Quiet As The Snow Music by Tuomas Holopainen
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16. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Anthropocene (incl. "Hurrian Hymn To Nikkal") Music by Tuomas Holopainen
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17. All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Ad Astra Music by Tuomas Holopainen
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam
That's here. That's home. That's us.” - Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994 [Instrumental Outro] |