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Highest Hopes - The Best Of Nightwish
2005.12.12. 20:53
2005
Wish I Had An Angel
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
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’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...
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...
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...
The Kinslayer
For whom the gun tolls For whom the prey weeps Bow before a war Call it religion
Some wounds never heal Some tears never will Dry for the unkind Cry for mankind
Even the dead cry Their only comfort Kill your friend, I don’t care Orchid kids, blinded stare
Need to understand No need to forgive No truth no sense left to be followed
„Facing this unbearable fear like meeting an old friend” „Time to die, poor mates, You made me what I am!” „In this world of a million religions everyone prays the same way” „Your praying is in vain It’ll all be over soon” „Father help me, save me a place by your side!” „There is no god Our creed is but for ourselves”
„Not a hero unless you die Our species eat the wounded ones”
„Drunk with the blood of your victims I do feel your pity-wanting pain, Lust for fame, a deadly game”
„Run away with your impeccable kin!”
„Good wombs hath borne bad sons...”
Cursing, God, why? Falling for every lie Survivors’ guilt In us forevermore
15 candles Redeemers of this world Dwell in hypocrisy: „How were we supposed to know?”
4 pink ones 9 blue ones 2 black ones
In memory of the Redeemers 20.4.1999.
Ever Dream
Ever felt away with me Just once that all I need Entwined in finding you one day Ever felt away without me My love, it lies so deep Ever dream of me
Would you do it with me Heal the scars and change the stars Would you do it for me Turn loose the heaven within
I’d take you away Castaway on a lonely day Bosom for a teary cheek My song can but borrow your grace Come out, come out wherever you are So lost in your sea Give in, give in for my touch For my taste for my lust
Your beauty cascaded on me In this white night fantasy
„All I ever craved were the two dreams I shared with you. One I now have, will the other one ever dream remain. For yours I truly wish to be.”
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
The way to the lands...
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
Bless The child
„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. A 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 Think of me long enough to make a memory Come bless the child one more time
How can I ever feel again? Given the chance would I return?
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
„Where have all the feelings gone? Why is 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 but with earth & dust, and a dark, silent grave. Remember, my child: Without innocence the cross is only iron, Hope is only an illusion & Ocean Soul’s nothing but a name...
The Child bless thee & keep thee forever”
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 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 flower, withered between The pages 2 and 3 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...
Nemo sailing home Nemo letting go
Oh, how I wish...
Sleeping Sun
The sun is sleeping quietly Once upon a century Wistful oceans calm and red Ardent caresses laid to rest
For my dreams I hold my life For wishes I behold my night The truth at the end of time Losing faith makes a crime
I wish for this night-time to last for a lifetime The darkness around me Shores of a solar sea Oh how I wish to go down with the sun
Sleeping Weeping With you Sorrow has a human heart From my god it will depart I’d sail before a thousand moons Never finding where to go
Two hundred twenty-two days of light Will be desired by a night A moment for the poet’s play Until there’s nothing left to say
I wish for this night-time...
Dead To The World
All the same take me away We’re dead to the world
The child gave thought to the poet’s world Gave comfort to the Fallen (Heartfelt, lovelorn)
Remaining, yet still uninvited Those words scented my soul (Lonely soul, Ocean soul)
It’s not the monsters under your bed It is the Man next door That makes you fear, makes you cry, Makes you cry for the child All the wars are fought among those lonely men Unarmed, unscarred
I don’t want to die a scarless man A lonely soul (Tell me now what to do)
I studied silence to learn the music I joined the sinful to regain innocence
Heaven queen, cover me In all that blue Little boy, such precious joy Is dead to the world
Heaven queen, carry me Away from all pain All the same take me away We’re dead to the world
Dead, silent, constant Yet always changing My favorite view of this world
As he died, he will return to die in me again Weaving the cloth, giving birth to the Century Child Who gave his life not for the world but for me Innocence reborn once more.
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 till 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 Just where he’d 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 again 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 again she’ll be.
Over the hills and far away, He swears he will return one day As sure as the river reach the seas, Back in his arms is where she’ll be.
Over the hills and far away, She prays he will return one day As sure as the rivers reach the sea, Back in her arms is where he’ll be.
Over the hills, Over the hills and far away.
Over the hills, Over the hills and far away
Deep Silent Complete
In your creation heaven did decree That in your arms sweet death should dwell
Deep Silent Complete Black velvet sea The sirens are calling for me
Saved my soul thinking „This song’s a lie” Sand on the shore is so dry
Deep Silent Complete Black velvet sea Brave day sinking in endless night
The age will say „This poet lies” Heaven never touched earthly face The age will say „This night was ours” Blessed with the Deep The Silent the Complete
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...
Walking In The Air
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 can fly so high above with you
Far across the wold
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
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!...
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!...
Wishmaster
Crusade for Your will A child, dreamfinder The Apprentice becoming...
Master!...
Dead Boy’s Poem
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, songmaker’s cry, the one without tears For I’ve given this its 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...
High Hopes
Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young In a world of magnets and miracles Our troughts strayed constandly and without boundary The ringing of the division bell had begin
Along the long road and on down the causeway Do they still meet there by the cut
There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps Running before time took our dreams away Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground To a life consumed by slow decay
The grass was greener The light was brighter With friends surrounded The night of wonder Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again Dragged by the force of some inner tide
At a higher altitude with flag unfuried We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world
Eneumbered forever by desire and ambition There’s a hunger still unsatisfied Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon Though down this road we’ve been so many time
The grass was greener The light was brighter The taste was sweeter The nights of wonder With friends surrounded The dawn mist glowing The water flowing The endless river
Forever and ever
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