Nightwish

"Your only truth Tribal poetry Witchcraft filling your void Lust for fantasy Male necrocracy Every child worthy of a better tale"

"From words into war of the worlds This one we forsake with scorn From lies the strength of our love Mother's milk laced with poison for this newborn"

"Come Taste the wine Race the blind They will guide you from the light Writing noughts till the end of time Come Surf the clouds Race the dark It feeds from the runs undone Meet me where the cliff greets the sea"

"Riding hard every shooting star Come to life, open mind, have a laugh at the orthodox Come, drink deep let the dam of mind seep Travel with great élan, dance a jig at the funeral"

"Stop! Life is now, still all for you Turn from the hate, turn from the smoke I see the parchment of your soul The notes, the song Join your voice"

"Our walk has been sublime A soaring ride and gentle lead You have the heart of a true friend One day we'll meet on that shore again"

"Our Decades in the Sun"

"Weaving my wings from many-colored yarns Flying higher, higher, higher Into the wild Weaving my world into tapestry of life Its fire golden In my Walden"

"Deep into the past Follow the aeon path Greet a blade of grass Every endless form most beautiful Alive, aware, in awe Before the grandeur of it all Our floating pale blue ark Of endless forms most beautiful"

"We are the Edema Ruh We know the songs the sirens sang See us dream every tale true The verse we leave with you will take you home"

"We were here Roaming on the endless prairie Writing an endless story Building a Walden of our own We were here Grieving the saddened faces Conquering the darkest places Time to rest now and to finish the show And become the Music, one with alpenglow"

"We are one We are a universe Forbears of what will be Scions of the Devonian sea Aeons pass Writing the tale of us all A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on Earth"

"Man, he took his time in the sun Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand He gave birth to poetry But one day'll cease to be Greet the last light of the library"

"We were here!"

"Music Fanning the flames of a mystery Deepening the listening Losing Yourself to the endless symphony Of nowHuman Singing the tale of another man Have you ever heard Music It's coming, coming, coming your way The very first song"

"Noise From a sunless world Your mirror is black, only a copy stares back At a slave of brave new world Noise To decoy the human voice Brain insomniac, paranoiac Endless noise"

"Here I came to be Your reach into the far On the stellar sea Cut in little stars"

"Laudato Si Ad Astra"

"Join the harvest of hundred fields, hearty and tame All going back to one single grain Offer light to the coming day, inspire a child Water the field, surrender to the earth Water the field, surrender to the earth Water the field, surrender to the earth"

"A moment alone With unbeknown Reset the world Imagine home A primal need To touch the stars Only way there To enter"

"A pale beautiful theatre stage A feast of beautiful tragedy, wonderful fantasy The play is yours to write Yours to live Ready the night by a playwright"

"How's the heart Underneath the silence? How's the one Drowning in the mire? Let us sound a human paean Come in, the fire's warm Burn the rope and dance some more"

"We have been here a while At the end of Pi, as along came harvest"

"We will remember all the suffering We wrote this in a tongue you will understand Words and melodies with a touch of coloring We were there and will remember mankind Our kin Aeons ago"

"Sing the praise of your creation Bride-prices, thought crimes, blind minds The Word hides vivid monsters To bed the tribal itch"

"Someone in the tomorrow Is waiting for me Someone to share the thief with Dust with a meaning Precious and rare"

"An unscarred land Unsung yarn Unborn child Await my touch, the luck of the draw Enter now Come Here is life"

"Soon, beyond the fields you've come to know You will join the silent flow Follow me, I am the spark At the end of everythingTip the reaper to ensure The blade is sharp As soon we'll go Follow me into the dark To the birth of everything"

"Today I killed, he was just a boy Eight before him, I knew them all"

"One by one, We will fall, down"

"Every dream's a journey away"

"For this gift of dream I must pay the price with the loss of life's pleasures"