Yesterwynde
Nightwish
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Yesterwynde
02 : 43
2
An Ocean of Strange Islands
09 : 26
3
The Antikythera Mechanism
05 : 55
4
The Day Of…
04 : 33
5
Perfume of the Timeless
08 : 12
6
Sway
04 : 23
7
The Children of ’Ata
05 : 37
8
Something Whispered Follow Me
06 : 39
9
Spider Silk
06 : 26
10
Hiraeth
06 : 14
11
The Weave
04 : 53
12
Lanternlight
06 : 06
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Track Lyrics
An Ocean of Strange Islands Lyrics
[Verse 1]
A mariner under a sky moonlit
On an island of a crewless ship
A few decades of immortality ahead
A one-man crew for a one-way trip
Islands, islands everywhere
I keep my range with crowded sails
My waves, they kiss every shore I land
Steep cliffs will mock my waving hand
[Verse 2]
Islanders, villagers, universal mariners
Calling me, guiding me, monsters far beneath
Hurricanes on the way, lunatic weathervanes
Shipwrecked lovers on a faraway cay
Passing by butterflies, fluttering for a day
Jokers, jesters, Goddesses, hominidae
Deep delicious blue beneath
I'll steer wherever tomorrow is near
[Pre-Chorus]
Light a beacon so I can navigate
Through the tempest, through the madness
Light a homefire for the sad man with a begging hand
Light a beacon so I can navigate
Through the tempest following the quintet
Ride on the highest wave
Bring me to life
To them who dance in the daylight
[Chorus]
Sail and seek
The starbound quay
Calling you, calling me
To be a part of your story
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
Here raining ash to cover the dead
An island of the past wrecks
Of you, of the endless sundown
Hemlock meadows, deepest quicksand
Empty harbor by a wasteland
Mirrors, mirrors, everywhere
For you of mad despair
[Refrain]
Friends, who were for a time
Now grapes of sour wine
Lords of a single fly
Still, I rue no island of shared solitude
[Bridge]
You who glow in deepest woe
Let it be, retiree, the water's fine
Sail carefree
[Chorus]
Sail and seek
The starbound quay
Calling you, calling me
To be a part of your story
On these strange islands
[Instrumental Outro]
Perfume of the Timeless Lyrics
[Verse 1: Floor Jansen]
Something from the earth came
Something for the world
Mosaic of broken fragile pieces
Tesserae of the deceased
Born to a novel world
[Pre-Chorus: Floor Jansen]
Endless chain unbroken
Silent clocks rewinding
My song, it is for mankind
Embers to the stars
[Chorus: Floor Jansen]
We are their heir, dust on their palm
We are because of a million loves
We're the perfume of the timeless
Last sighs on a dеathbed
Time set for a curious ghost
[Verse 2: Floor Jansen]
Livеs lived plain and epic
Of eudaemonia
Twelve score and one chain of lives unending
Welcoming as my offspring
Walks me to the weave
[Pre-Chorus: Floor Jansen]
My song, it is for mankind
Embers to the stars
[Chorus: Floor Jansen]
We are their heir, dust on their palm
We are because of a million loves
We're the perfume of the timeless
Last sighs on a deathbed
We are their heir, dust on their palm
We are because of a million loves
We're the perfume of the timeless
Last sighs on a deathbed
Time set for a curious ghost
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus: Floor Jansen]
We are their heir, dust on their palm
We are because of a million loves
We're the perfume of the timeless
Last sighs on a deathbed
We are their heir, dust on their palm
We are because of a million loves
We're the perfume of the timeless
Last sighs on a deathbed
Time set for a curious ghost
[Outro: Troy Donockley]
We are their heir, dust on their palm
We are because of a million loves
We're the perfume of the timeless
Last sighs on a deathbed
We are their heir, dust on their palm
We are because of a million loves
We're the perfume of the timeless
Last sighs of a million loves
The Children of ’Ata Lyrics
[Intro: Choir]
Fonu oku mafu he mamahi 'oka malu efiafi
Kuo hapai koe 'e 'oseni
Foki maiki ‘api hoku ngaahi foha
[Verse 1: Floor Jansen]
Still vastness in the horizon
Fifteen long months under mocking sun
Land threw us there, away from world
Plays to us music yet unheard
We were there
We were there
[Verse 2: Floor Jansen]
Still vastness in our heartbeat
Solitude and woe tear us apart?
They say that man is the foulest beast
Roaming the hills of self-deceit
But we came back
We came back
[Chorus: Floor Jansen]
We are the ones to tell you why
The world of us, it will survive
Light a fire for the boat afar
Campsite Gaia
We all are
The children of 'Ata
[Verse 3: Floor Jansen]
This guitar we built still chimes with hope
Never gave our souls to the carrion crows
Every new day we saw the sun rise
Every new day we beat the lord of flies
We were there
We're still here
[Chorus: Floor Jansen]
We are the ones to tell you why
The world of us, it will survive
Light a fire for the boat afar
Campsite Gaia
We all are
The children of 'Ata
[Interlude: Floor Jansen, Choir]
Ko 'etu lotu ke tau mo'ui
'Oku mau keoi lepa atu pe
We are the ones to tell you why
We are the ones
Ko 'etu lotu ke tau mo'ui
'Oku mau keoi lepa atu pe
[Bridge: Floor Jansen]
We're all here
On an island of black seas
Red in tooth
Red in claw
Red in love, the passionate young
We're still here
On an island of soon free
Learning to live
Yearning to give
The stranded a ride back home
[Chorus: Floor Jansen]
We are the ones to tell you why
The world of us, it will survive
Light a fire for the boat afar
Campsite Gaia
Remember
The children of 'Ata
Something Whispered Follow Me Lyrics
[Verse 1: Floor Jansen]
Came to be of this world
I see an open door
Her waters moonlight lit
Her secret ancient lore
A cleanest slate untouched
By a single wave or breeze
Standing on a birthplace of
A glorious yesterday
[Chorus: Floor Jansen, Troy Donockley]
Then one day something whispered follow me
One life, one strike to follow something real
Once there was something hidden within me (Within me)
Stardust to dust, a tapestry in between
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 2: Floor Jansen]
Go find your mountain
Go paint a forest blue
Go build a treehouse underground
And a graveyard with a view
Never miss a perfect storm
Always follow the herd uncalled
Welcome the heaven sent
Silence of a thrilling fall
[Chorus: Floor Jansen, Troy Donockley]
Then one day something whispered follow me
One life, one strike to follow something real
Once there was something hidden within me (Within me)
Stardust to dust, a tapestry in between
[Instrumental Break]
[Outro: Floor Jansen, Floor Jansen & Troy Donockley]
Follow me
Follow me
Something in between
Something whispered
Something in between
Something whispered
Something within me
Something whispered
Something within me
Something whispered
The Weave Lyrics
[Intro]
Light
[Verse 1]
First cry, language of the unheard
Old ghosts dancing to a new birth
Knit from souls vanished long gone
Into one, a Reaper's sideshow
First step, open gates to homesteads
Last thought innocent and unscathed
Tenth spring, sirens knitting mindscapes
Passion of the young, anchors aweigh
[Chorus]
He of myriad songs
Of a lifelong call
Cries its moment to the stars
Rips a withering heart
To fall apart
The unweaving has begun
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
The unweaving has begun
To fall apart
Rips a withering heart
Cries its moment to the stars
Of a lifelong call
He of myriad songs
Thе unweaving has begun
[Verse 2]
Passion of the young, anchors awеigh
Tenth spring, sirens knitting mindscapes
Last thought innocent and unscathed
First step, open gates to homesteads
Into one, a Reaper's sideshow
Knit from souls vanished long gone
Old ghosts dancing to a new birth
First cry, language of the unheard
[Outro]
Light
Lanternlight Lyrics
[Verse 1: Floor Jansen]
Gone is the hurt, the wait
Gone is the warmth of day
A stray boat saved, happy memories engraved
On into a velvety night
Beneath a lanternlight
[Chorus: Floor Jansen]
Last night brought the heaviest of snows
Melting the songs of old
Tying the boat, write a new one soon
Sending me to the drowning moon
Far above a lanternlight
[Verse 2: Floor Jansen, Troy Donockley]
I'm in the light and flood
I'm in the four winds
I am the waves shaping pebbles flawless gems
I am the snow on your palm
[Chorus: Floor Jansen, Troy Donockley]
I am the secret stream
Moss beneath your feet
I am you who climbed off of my back
Not long ago
A sheltered song in a world now gone
Petrichor
The timeless
[Bridge: Floor Jansen]
Turn loose the swaying boat
Meltwater, sound of spring
I hear our song now, sung by the free
For a thousand more tomorrows
Of an incomplete weave
To the meadows I go
I’ll be waiting for you
Once upon a lanternlight
[Outro: Troy Donockley, Floor Jansen]
I walk now toward the trees
I am the secret stream
The night falling at my feet
Into the forest of Yesterwynde