Oceanborn Lyrics Album by Nightwish
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Album Lyrics
1. Stargazers
A grand oasis
in the vastness of gloom.
Child of dew-spangled cobweb,
mother to the moon.
Constellations beholders
of the 3rd vagrant,
theater for the play of life.
Tragedienne of Heavens
watching the eyes of the night.
Sailing the virgin oceans,
a planetride for the mother and child.
Floating upon
the quiet hydrogen lakes.
In this ambrosial
merry-go-round they will gaze.
Ephemereal life touched
by a billion-year show,
separating the poet from the woe.
Tragedienne of Heavens
watching the eyes of the night.
Sailing the virgin oceans,
a planetride for the mother and child.
Oracle of the Delphian Domine,
witness of Adam’s frailty.
Seer of the master prophecy,
the stellar world her betrothed.
Wanderers in cosmic caravan,
universal bond, the Starborn.
A son in the search for the truth,
following the pages of Almagest.
Discovering the origin of dreams,
stargazers ride through the ancient realms.
Tragedienne of Heavens
watching the eyes of the night.
Sailing the virgin oceans,
a planetride for the mother and child.
2. Gethsemane
Toll no bell for me, father,
but let this cup of suffering pass from me.
Send me no shepherd to heal my world
but the angel, the dream foretold.
Prayed more than thrice for you
to see the wolf of loneliness in me,
not my own will but yours be done.
You wake up, where’s the tomb,
will easter come enter my room?
The Lord weeps with me but my
tears fall for you.
The Lord weeps with me
but my tears fall for you.
Another beauty loved by a beast,
another tale of infinite dreams.
Your eyes they were my paradise,
your smile made my sun rise.
Forgive me for I don’t know what
I gain alone in this garden of pain.
Enchantment has but one truth,
I weep to have what I fear to lose!
You wake up, where’s the tomb,
will easter come enter my room?
The Lord weeps with me but my
tears fall for you.
The Lord weeps with me
but my tears fall for you.
I knew you never before,
I see you never more
but the love, the pain,
the hope, O’ beautiful one.
Have made you mine
until all my years are gone.
Without you the poetry
within me is dead.
3. Devil & the Deep Dark Ocean
A snowy owl above the haunted waters,
poet of ancient Gods!
Cries to tell the neverending story,
prophecy of becoming floods!
An aura of mystery surrounds her,
the lady in brightest white.
Soon the incarnate shall be born,
the creator of the night.
Deep dark is His Majesty’s Kingdom,
a portent of tomorrow’s world.
There shall the liquid give Him power,
the red-eyed unborn Lord.
Fatal embrace of the bloodred waters,
the cradle of infinite gloom.
The spell to master this earth,
carven on an infant’s tomb.
“I will die for the love of the mermaid,
her seduction beauty and scorn.
Welcome to the end of your life,
hail the Oceanborn!”
“Disgraced is my virginity,
Death has woven my wedding dress.
Oh Great Blue, breathe the morning dew,
for you are the cradle of the image of God!”
“Brave now, long rest is sweet
with me here in the deep!”
“I prayed for pleasure,
wished for love.
Prayed for your…”
“Never pray for me!”
“Who the Hell are you for me,
but a mortal dream to see?”
“This apathetic life must drown,
forever, just for me!”
“Leave me be…”
“From cradle to coffin
shall my wickedness be your passion!”
We shall come to set the dolphins free,
we shall wash the darkened bloodred sea.
Our songs will echo over the mountains and seas,
the eternity will begin once again in peace.
4. Sacrament of Wilderness
Naked, in midwinter magic,
lies an angel in the snow.
The frozen figure
crossed by tracks of wolves.
An encounter symbolic, yet truthful,
with a hungry choir of wolves.
An agreement immemorial to be born.
Dulcet elvenharps from a dryad forest.
Accompany wall the charming tunes
of a sacrament by a campfire.
A promise between the tameless
and the one with a tool.
Tonight the journey
from a cave begins.
I want to hunt
with the tameless heart.
I want to learn
the wisdom of mountains afar.
We will honor
the angel in the snow.
We will make the streams
for our children flow.
Wrapped in furs beneath
the northern lights.
From my cave I watch
the land untamed.
And wonder if some
becoming season
will make the angel
melt in shame.
I want to hunt
with the tameless heart.
I want to learn
the wisdom of mountains afar.
I want to hunt
with the tameless heart.
I want to learn
the wisdom of mountains afar.
We will honor
the angel in the snow.
We will make the streams
for our children flow.
5. Passion and the Opera
Princess of lust,
dignity put to dust.
A virginal sight,
their apple to bite.
Drink from my thighs
the rain of lies.
A sight so cursed,
breasts which never nursed.
An Aphrodite for mortal souls,
playing hide and seek in lecherous roles.
Their erotic hour my tearless weep,
their satisfaction my infinite sleep.
Naked limbs reflecting from the moon,
I’ll be there for you soon.
First wish for this night:
Let me be your delight!
Body of a virgin
sold to the Devil’s kin.
Your God is me,
in all that you see.
An Aphrodite for mortal souls,
playing hide and seek in lecherous roles.
Their erotic hour my tearless weep,
their satisfaction my infinite sleep.
6. Swanheart
All those beautiful people,
I want to have them all.
All those porcelain models,
if only I could make them fall.
Be my heart, a well of love,
flowing free so far above.
A wintry eve, once upon a tale.
An Ugly Duckling lost in a verse
of a sparrows carol,
dreaming the stars.
Be my heart, a well of love,
flowing free so far above.
In my world love is for poets,
never the famous balcony scene.
Just a dying faith on the Heaven’s gate.
Crystal pond awaits the lorn,
tonight another morn
for the lonely one is born.
7. Moondance
instrumental
8. The Riddler
Riddler, Riddler ask me
why the birds fly free on a mackerel sky.
Ask me whither goes the winds
whence the endless tick-tick stream begins.
Make me guess if the earth is flat or round,
set a guessing if fantasies are unbound.
If tales aren’t just for children to see,
that it’s peace if sleep walks with me.
As you wish
for kingdom come,
the one to know
all the answers.
You think you dwell in wisdoms sea,
still sweet ignorance is the key
to a poet’s paradise.
Challenge the Riddler and you will see.
Riddler, Riddler ask me
why all mothers beneath the earth and sky,
hold their children’s hands for a while,
their hearts forever, yours and mine.
Make me wonder what’s the meaning of life,
what’s the use to be born and then die.
Make me guess who’s the one
behind the mask of father and son.
As you wish
for kingdom come,
the one to know
all the answers.
You think you dwell in wisdoms sea,
still sweet ignorance is the key
to a poet’s paradise.
Challenge the Riddler and you will see.
For nature hates virginity,
I wish to be touched.
Not by the hands of where’s and why’s,
but by the Oceans’ minds.
As you wish
for kingdom come,
the one to know
all the answers.
You think you dwell in wisdoms sea,
still sweet ignorance is the key
to a poet’s paradise.
As you wish
for kingdom come,
the one to know
all the answers.
You think you dwell in wisdoms sea,
still sweet ignorance is the key
to a poet’s paradise.
Challenge the Riddler and you will see.
9. The Pharaoh Sails to Orion
“Get away from me!
Take heed to thyself
and see my face no more!
For in the day Thou see my face
thou shalt die!”
– Exodus 10:28
A constellation of divine
architecture built on earth.
A holy harbour, Orion,
nautical ascension to the firmament.
Ship-shaped barrows open my heart
to the wisdom of this land.
Sailing with the Serpent Chimera
of a fiendish sandman.
The unicorn arrives with
the westwind to dream my 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.”
Reveal your face to me and guide me
through the Stygian fields.
Enthral my soul to Sepedet’s beams
to serve your will.
Sailing on the distant seas
from darkness to deliverance.
Tales like the ocean
written to the Draco’s glance.
Ruling with the scythe of death,
you tear our philosophies apart.
An ancient starwalk
to merge into the stars!
“Open thy veins for my venom,
kiss the cobras with thy twisted tongue.
So shalt thou join the empyrean circus,
where beggars mourn and seraphs dance.
In this twilight cathedral
shall I wed thee,
O’ Bride of the Netherworld!”
Sailing on the distant seas
from darkness to deliverance.
Tales like the ocean
written to the Draco’s glance.
Ruling with the scythe of death,
you tear our philosophies apart.
An ancient starwalk,
join my soul the Hunter in the sky!
10. Walking in the Air (Howard Blake cover)
We’re walking in the air,
we’re floating in the moonlit sky.
The people far below
are sleeping as we fly.
I’m holding very tight,
I’m riding in the midnight blue.
I’m finding I can fly
so high above with you.
Far across the world
the villages go by like trees.
The rivers and the hills,
the forests and the streams.
Children gaze open mouth,
taken by surprise.
Nobody down below
believes their eyes.
We’re surfing in the air,
we’re swimming in the frozen sky.
We’re drifting over icy
mountains floating by.
Suddenly swooping low
on an ocean deep,
arousing of a mighty
monster from its sleep.
We’re walking in the air,
we’re floating in the midnight sky.
And everyone who sees us,
greets us as we fly.
I’m holding very tight,
I’m riding in the midnight blue.
I’m finding I can fly
so high above with you.
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