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01. The Space Between

Music & lyrics by Johanna Kurkela, Tuomas Holopainen, Troy Donockley
In your scripted play
On the stage you call home
There's no seat set for an unknown guest

Why the mean mouth
The many mirrors
Those songs to end all hearing

Come with me
The vast unknown awaits for us to see
Something so deeply hidden
Yet open before our eyes

Catch the world in writing
Draft a note or three
Listen to a farmer sing to a field

Time for a starwalk
Time to yearn
Some twists and turns

Come with me
The vast unknown awaits for us to see
Something so deeply hidden
Yet everscriven, so
Come with me
I'll take you to the rings, I'll take you where
The sons and daughters of endlessness came to be

Come, sit with me here for a while
Amidst the dancing skies
They will tell what lies ahead:
Strange comforts, curious canvases
Front seat to history
A seat for the guest unknown

Come with me
The vast unknown awaits for us to see
Something so deeply hidden
Yet everscriven, so
Come with me
I'll take you to the rings, I'll take you where
The sons and daughters of endlessness came to be

02. I Hope Your World Is Kind

Music & lyrics by Johanna Kurkela, Tuomas Holopainen, Troy Donockley
These rooftops all silent
The lone light of Foxen
My remains wide open
Before the still waters

A moment to admire
The sleeping with no memory
We're writers, all of us
Deep in the world's listening

Every night I see
The "once upon a time" life
Greeting me
But you can't buy me back
With a memory
With your brazen summer sun

Every night I sound
My low "I hope your world is kind"
Over the scape that fills the night
Something fair sleeps in your world

The rooftops, all sleeping
Underneath them brittle
Little man-things
Unveiled clowns, false kings
Every moment the world in writing

The horizon in blazing
As another library burns down
Soon the morning comes
And into my heart's night
Infinity enters

Every night I see
The "once upon a time" life
Greeting me
But you can't buy me back
With a memory
With your brazen summer sun

Every night I sound
My low "I hope your world is kind"
Over the scape that fills the night
Something fair sleeps in your world

Auri in the night
Sighs "I hope your world is kind"
As the dawn comes and by her side
He sits down and starts to play

03. Skeleton Tree

Music & lyrics by Johanna Kurkela, Tuomas Holopainen, Troy Donockley
Canto
Osseus
Arbor
Cantor
Say the magic word

04. Desert Flower

Music & lyrics by Johanna Kurkela, Tuomas Holopainen, Troy Donockley
All I wanted was
For to see your smile break out
A mirror for the sun and the early rising moon
All I wanted was

Past the line, on the steps, follow you
Hear me slowly breathe
Cross the line, up the steps, follow you
Hear my fading voice

All I wanted was
For to wake you from our dream
The hope of kingdom come
Drifting out across this field
All I wanted was

Past the line, on the steps, follow you
Hear me slowly breathe and we’ll
Cross the line, up the steps, follow you
Hear my fading voice

Once this morning has passed
Once this morning has gone

All I wanted was
For to cross the Rubicon
Softly pull the fences down
Cross the waves, across our lives
All I wanted was, to go

Navigatio

05. Night 13

Music & lyrics by Johanna Kurkela, Tuomas Holopainen, Troy Donockley
I walk to the echo of stars
All around me, under me
A bed made of curious cloth
A pillow from a crib

The skies are dark, all of them
Still comforting, starlight pouring
All over this new home
High above

Younger than yesterday
I feel no pain, no memory lost
Alone yet with everything
What is this space?

Goodnight to an old soul
Goodbye to life once lived
This is my island now
To live it once more
Not long now

This time, this weightless fall
The calming mothers call
Back in time I'm cleansed and bare
And I see the light
Now I know

They left me with a softest bed
A whitest cloth for a waiting dead
A light to brighten
The frequent night
An apple for a thirsty bite

A clean slate, a newborn mind
Brightest blue, purple moon
Life once lived, now understood
High above
Tonight I will make the leap
Deep down to the night unknown
That's why they put me here
They, they

Goodnight to an old soul
Goodbye to life once lived
This is my island now
To live it once more
Not long now

This time, this weightless fall
The calming mothers call
Back in time I'm cleansed and bare
And I see the light
Now I know

06. See

Music & lyrics by Johanna Kurkela, Tuomas Holopainen, Troy Donockley
See far, far deeper that the mind's eye
Hear far, far deeper than the inner voice
Feel far, far deeper that the beating heart

Costume change is all we ask
But still we are the same
From the pitch black centre
From the pitch black centre
The lighthouse turns onto an ocean ablaze
What is this?
What is this?

Speak, far, far clearer than the open mouth
Breath, far, far clearer than the winter sky
Dream, far, far clearer than Orion's crown

From there we get no sympathy
But love's a wine dark sea
Rich and moving
Rich and moving
The shock of life
I saw you age but not

What is this?
Is this a kiss?

See far, far deeper that the mind's eye
Hear far, far deeper than the inner voice
Feel far, far deeper that the hand of time

07. The Name Of The Wind

Music by Johanna Kurkela, Tuomas Holopainen, Troy Donockley
[Instrumental]

08. Aphrodite Rising

Music & lyrics by Johanna Kurkela, Tuomas Holopainen, Troy Donockley
I am coming for you

I am coming for you
There's nothing you can say or do now
So don't try
It's written in this land
It's written in the stars
It's written in your heart and

I am coming for you
So don't try

Lights out
The night pours in
Catch me if you can but you never will

Look deep, earthly deep
For I drift as you sleep
So surrender all
Surrender all

Arrival

There's nothing you can say or do now
So don't try
It's written in this sand
It's written in the trees
It's written in the sea

I'm falling through the constellations

I am coming for you
So don't hide

09. Savant

Music by Johanna Kurkela, Tuomas Holopainen, Troy Donockley
Lyrics by Poem by Uuno Kailas
Olin kaikkialla vieras mies
He katsoivat minua pitkään
Joka paikasta halusin paeta pois
Mutta minne ikänä pakenin
Olin sielläkin vieras mies
Koko maailman piirissä minulle
Ei ollut rauhan sijaa
Ja minua minussa raahasi
Joku minulle vieras mies

10. Underthing Solstice

Music & lyrics by Johanna Kurkela, Tuomas Holopainen, Troy Donockley
She is here again
Midwinter solstice, labor's end
Fantastically ornate woes
Human fancy, I suppose

From rooftops I hear them sing
Through careful air
The choirs meet
I wonder and ponder
If one could meet mine

The light of dawn will not wait
Yet this night comes with
A wish inside
Never unlock the moon
The silence might escape

Their world is far, always the same
Tonight I gave Yule its true name
Began this song that might not do
What a proper song should do

As I don't do remembering
Can't give this song a ghost of past
I wonder, I ponder
Why there is weight in time

The light of dawn will not wait
Yet this night comes with
A wish inside
Never unlock the moon
The silence might escape

The light of dawn will not wait
So, dear song,
Let's rest here a while
Never unlock the moon
It will keep you safe at night

The light of dawn will not wait
Yet this night comes with
A wish inside
Never lock the easy wind
The broken need to fly

11. Them Thar Chanterelles

Music by Johanna Kurkela, Tuomas Holopainen, Troy Donockley
[Instrumental]