Oceanborn
Nightwish
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Stargazers
04 : 28
2
Gethsemane
05 : 22
3
Devil & the Deep Dark Ocean
04 : 46
4
Sacrament of Wilderness
04 : 12
5
Passion and the Opera
04 : 50
6
Swanheart
04 : 44
7
Moondance
03 : 31
8
The Riddler
05 : 15
9
The Pharaoh Sails to Orion
06 : 26
10
Walking in the Air
05 : 30
11
Sleeping Sun
04 : 02
12
Nightquest
04 : 15
13
Sleeping Sun (live at Summer Breeze Open Air)
04 : 29
14
Swanheart (live at Pakkahuone)
03 : 52
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The Pharaoh Sails to Orion (live at Pakkahuone)
06 : 44
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Track Lyrics
Devil & the Deep Dark Ocean Lyrics
[Verse 1: Tapio Wilska & Tarja]
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
[Verse 2: Tapio Wilska & Tarja]
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
[Verse 3: Tapio Wilska & Tarja]
"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"
[Verse 4: Tapio Wilska & Tarja]
"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 (Ha-ha-ha-ha)
But a mortal dream to see?"
"This apathetic life must drown (Leave me be, leave me be)
Forever just for me" (Leave me, ah)
[Interlude: Tarja & Tapio Wilska]
Oh, oh
Oh, oh
"From cradle to coffin
Shall my wickedness
Be your passion"
[Outro: Tarja]
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
The Pharaoh Sails to Orion Lyrics
[Intro: Tapio Wilska]
"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!"
[Verse 1: Tapio Wilska & Tarja]
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
[Verse 2: Tapio Wilska & Tarja]
The Unicorn arrives
With the westwind to dream His funeral
Thou art born for Horus
For Horus dwells in thee"
Slumbering with the ebb and the flow
Of this foaming tomb
"Thou art born for Seteh
For Seteh dwells in thee"
[Pre-Chorus: Tarja]
Reveal your face to me
And guide me through the Stygian fields
Enthral my soul to Sepedet's beams
To serve your will
[Chorus: Tarja]
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
[Interlude: Tapio Wilska]
"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"
[Bridge: Tarja]
(Oh)
(Oh)
[Chorus: Tarja]
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
[Outro: Tarja]
Join my soul
The Hunter in the sky
Sleeping Sun Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
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
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
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