Black Roses - Nightwish lyrics

Nightwish Lyrics

Bless the Child (back to top)

"I was born amidst the purple waterfalls.
I was weak, yet not unblessed.
Dead to the world, alive for the journey.
One night I dreamt a white rose withering,
A newborn drowning, a lifetime loneliness.
I dreamt all my future, relived my past,
And witnessed the beauty of the beast."

Where have all the feelings gone?
Why has all the laughter ceased?
Why am I loved only when I'm gone?
Gone back in time to bless the child.

How can I ever feel again?
Given the chance would I return?
Why am I loved only when I'm gone?
Gone back in time to bless the child.
Think of me long enough to make a memory
Come bless the child one more time.

I've never felt so alone in my life
As I drank from a cup which was counting my time
There's a poison drop in this cup of man,
To drink it is to follow the left hand path.

Why am I loved only when I'm gone?
Gone back in time to bless the child.
Think of me long enough to make a memory
Come bless the child one more time.

Think of me long enough to make a memory
Come bless the child one more time.

"Where have all the feelings gone?
Why is it the deadliest sin, to love as I loved you?
Now unblessed, homesick in time, soon to be freed from care, from human pain.
My tale is the most bitter truth: time pays us
With but earth and dust, and a dark, silent grave.
Remember my child:
Without innocence the cross is only iron,
Hope is only an illusion,
And oceansouls nothing but a name...
The Child bless thee and keep thee forever."

Dead Boy's Poem (back to top)

Born from silence, silence full of it
A perfect concert my best friend
So much to live for, so much to die for
If only my heart had a home.

Sing what you can't say
Forget what you can't play
Hasten to drown into beautiful eyes
Walk within my poetry, this dying music
My loveletter to nobody.

Never sigh for better world
It's already composed, played and told
Every thought the music I write
Everything a wish for the night.

Wrote for the eclipse, wrote for the virgin
Died for the beauty the one in the garden
Created a kingdom, reached for the wisdom
Failed in becoming a god.

Never sigh...

"If you read this line, remember not the hand that wrote it
Remember only the verse, songmakers cry the one without tears
For I've given this it's strength and it has become my only strength."

"Comforting home, mother's lap, chance for immortality
Where being wanted became a thrill I never knew
The sweet piano writing down my life."

"Teach me passion for I fear it's gone
Show me love, hold the lorn
So much more I wanted to give to the ones who love me
I'm sorry
Time will tell - (this bitter farewell)
I live no more to shame nor me nor you
And you ... I wish I didn't feel for you anymore."

A lonely soul - an ocean soul.

Elvenpath

In the sheltering shade of the forest
Calling calming silence
Accompanied only by the full moon
The howling of a night wolf
And the path under my bare feet...
...The Elvenpath

Hearing music from the deepest forest
Songs as a seduction of sirens
The elf-folk is calling me
Tapio, Bear-king, Ruler of the forest
Mielikki, Bluecloak, Healer of the ill and sad
Open the gate and let me follow the uncarven path

The way to the lands
Where as a hero I stand
The path where Beauty met the Beast
Elvenpath
It's the honesty of these worlds
Ruled by magic and mighty swords
That makes my soul long for the past
Elvenpath

The moonwitch took me to a ride on a broomstick
Introduced me to her old friend home gnome
Told me to keep the sauna warm for him
At the grove I met the rest - the folk of my fantasies
Bilbo, Sparhawk, goblins and pixies
Snowman, Willow, trolls and the seven dwarves
The path goes forever on

Long ago
In the early years of the Second Age
Great elven smiths forged rings of power

As I return to my room
And as sleep takes me by my hand
Madrigals from the woods
Carry me to neverland
In this spellbound night
The world's an elvish sight
In this spellbound night
The world's an elvish sight

But then
The Dark Lord learned the craft of ringmaking
And made the master ring

Ghost Love Score (back to top)

We used to swim the same moonlight waters
Oceans away from the wakeful day.

My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
If you be the one to cut me
I'll bleed forever.

(Repeat verse)

Scent of the sea before the waking of the world
Brings me to thee
Into the blue memory.

My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
If you be the one to cut me
I'll bleed forever.

(Repeat verse)

Into the blue memory.

The siren from the deep came to me
Sang my name my longing
Still I write my songs about that dream of mine
Worth everything I may ever be.

The Child will be born again
That siren carried him to me
First of them true loves
Singing on the shoulders
Of an angel without care for love and loss.

Bring me home or leave me be
My love in the dark heart of the night
I have lost the path before me
The one behind will lead me.

(Repeat verse)

Take me
Cure me
Kill me
Bring me home
Every way
Every day
Just another loop in the hangman's noose.

Take me, cure me, kill me, bring me home
Every way, every day
I keep on watching us sleep.

Relive the old sin of Adam and Eve
Of you and me
Forgive the adoring beast.

Redeem me into childhood
Show me myself without the shell
Like the advent of May
I'll be there when you say
Time to never hold our love.

My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
You were the one to cut me
So I'll bleed forever.

(Repeat to fade)

Higher Than Hope (back to top)

Time it took the most of me
And left me with no key
To unlock the chest of remedy.
Mother, the pain ain't hurting me
But the love that I feel
When you hold me near.

The hopes were high
The choirs were vast
Now my dreams are left to live through you.

Red sun rising
Drown without inhaling
Within the dark holds hard.

Passiontide
An angel by my side
But no Christ to end this war
To deliver my soul from the sword.
Hope has shown me a scenery
Paradise poetry
With first snow I'll be gone.

The hopes were high
The choirs were vast
Now my dreams are left to live through you.

Red sun rising
Drown without inhaling
Within the dark holds hard.
Red sun rising
Curtain falling
Higher than hope my cure lies.

"I just would like to think that, not why it happened to me
But why was I saved?
What else could I do now?"

Your death saved me.

"Being in the dark about something, I can't even tell you how scary it is
You don't know what's inside, you don't know what's gonna happen to you
And the best way to put somebody at ease is to inform him
Even if it's the grim truth."

Red sun rising
Drown without inhaling
Within the dark holds hard
Red sun rising
Curtain falling
Higher than hope my cure lies.

(Repeat verse x4)

Nemo (back to top)

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 (back to top)

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 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 blue 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 the tears of rage.
His heart beat like a drum
For with the wife of his best friend
He'd spent his final night of freedom.

Over the hills and far away,
he swears he will return one day.
Far from the mountains and blue 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 she swears she'll be.

Over the hills and far away,
He swears he will return one day
Over the mountains and the seas
Back in her arms is where 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)
Over the hills and far away.

(Repeat verse)

The Phantom of the Opera (back to top)

In sleep he sang to me
In dreams he came
That voice which calls to me,
And speaks my name.

And do I dream again?
For now I find
The Phantom of the Opera is there -
Inside my mind.

Sing once again with me,
Our strange duet
My power over you
Grows stronger yet.

And though you turn from me
To glance behind,
The Phantom of the Opera is there -
Inside your mind.

Those who have seen your face
Draw back in fear
I am the mask you wear

It's me they hear.

Your spirit and your voice,
In one combined:
The Phantom of the Opera is there -
Inside your mind.

He's there, the Phantom of the Opera.
Beware the Phantom of the Opera.

In all your fantasies,
You always knew
That man and mystery

Were both in you.

And in this labyrinth,
Where night is blind,
The Phantom of the Opera is here -
Inside your mind

Sing, my angel of music.

He's there, the Phantom of the Opera.