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Nightwish
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| 1 | Dark Chest Of Wonders 04:28
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| | 2 | Wish I Had An Angel 04:06
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| | 3 | Nemo 04:36
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| | 4 | Planet Hell 04:39
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| | 5 | Creek Mary's Blood 08:30
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| | 6 | The Siren 04:45
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| | 7 | Dead Gardens 04:28
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| | 8 | Romanticide 04:58
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| | 9 | Ghost Love Score 10:02
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| | 10 | Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan 03:59
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| | 11 | Higher Than Hope 05:35 |
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Tarja Turunen - vocals
Emppu Vuorinen - guitars
Tuomas Holopainen - keyboards
Marco Heitala - bass, vocals
Jukka Nevelainen - drums |
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Produced by Tuomas Holopainen & TeeCee Kinnunen
Recorded and engineered by TeeCee Kinnunen at Tempputupa studios / Finnvox studios & Mikko Karmila at Finnvox studios, November 2003 - March 2004
Additional recordings at E-Major studios by Emppu Vuorinen
Mixed by Mikko Karmila with T. Holopainen & T. Kinnunen at Finnvox studios, March 2004
Mastered by Mika Jussila at Finnvox Studios |
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| Dark chest of wonders
(Holopainen)
"Once I had a dream
And this is it"
Once there was a child's dream
One night the clock struck twelve
The window open wide
Once there was a child's heart
The age I learned to fly
And took a step outside
Once I knew all the tales
It's time to tur |
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( 1 )
Follow the pale moonlight
Once I wished for this night
Faith brought me here
It's time to cut the rope and fly
Fly to a dream
Far across the sea
All the burdens gone
Open the chest once more
Dark chest of wonders
Seen through the eyes
Of the one with pure heart
Once so long ago
The one in the big blue
Is what the world stole from me
This night will bring him back to me
Fly to a dream
Far across the sea
All the burdens gone
Open the chest once more
Dark chest of wonders
Seen through the eyes
Of the one with pure heart
Once so long ago
Wish I had an angel
(Holopainen)
I wish I had an angel
For one moment of love
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 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 angel wings to dust
I wish I had your angel tonight
I'm going down so frail and cruel
Drunken disguise changes all the rules
Old loves, they die hard
Old lies, they die harder
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 angel wings to dust
I wish I had your angel tonight
Greatest thrill, not to kill
But to have the prize of the night
Hypocrite, wannabe friend
Thirteenth disciple who betrayed me for nothing
Last dance, first kiss
Your touch, my bliss
Beauty always comes with dark thoughts
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 angel wings to dust
I wish I had your angel tonight
Nemo
(Holopainen)
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
Planet hell
(Holopainen)
Denying the lying
A million children fighting
For lives in strife
For hope beyond the horizon
A dead world, a dark path
Not even crossroads to choose from
All the blood red carpets before me
Behold this fair creation of God
My only wish to leave behind
All the days of the earth
An everyday hell
Of my kingdom come
The first rock thrown again
Welcome to hell, little saint
Mother Gaia in slaughter
Welcome to paradise, soldier
My first cry never ending
All life is to fear for life
You fool, you wanderer
You challenged the gods and lost
Save yourself a penny for the ferryman
Save yourself and let them suffer
In hope, in love
This world ain't ready for the ark
Save yourself a penny for the ferryman
Save yourself and let them suffer
In hope, in love
Mankind works in mysterious ways
Creek Mary's blood
(Holopainen)
Soon I will be here no more
You'll hear my tale through my blood
Through my people and the eagle's cry
The bear within will never lay to rest
Wandering on horizon road
Following the trail of tears
White man came, saw the blessed land
We cared, you took, you fought, we lost
Not the war but an unfair fight
Sceneries painted beautiful in blood
Wandering on horizon road
Following the trail of tears
Once we were here
Where we have lived since the world began
Since time itself gave us this land
Our souls will join again the wild
Our home in peace and war and death
Wandering on horizon eoad
Following the trail of tears
Once we were here
Where we have lived since the world began
Since time itself gave us this land
The siren
(Holopainen/Vuorinen)
A lady with a violin
Playing to the seals
Hearken to the sound of calling
Who tight my hands to the wheel?
The zodiac turns over me
Come to me
Somewhere there my fate revealed
I hear but how will I see?
I tied myself to the wheel
The winds talk to my sails, not me
Come to me
Somewhere there my fate revealed
I hear but how will I see?
Dead gardens
(Holopainen)
The story behind the painting I drew is already told
No more tearstains on the pages of my diary
Tired but unable to give up
Since I'm responsible for the lives I saved
The play is done
The curtain's down
All the tales are told
All the orchids gone
Lost in my own world
Now I care for dead gardens
My song is little worth anymore
Time to lay this weary pen aside
The play is done
The curtain's down
"Where are the wolves? The underwater moon?
The elvenpath? The haven of youth?
Lagoons of the starlit sea?
Have I felt enough for one man's deed?
Or is it time to challenge the ancient of days
And let the virgin conceive?"
All the tales are told
All the orchids gone
All the tales are told
All the orchids gone
Lost in my own world
Now I care for dead gardens
Romanticide
(Holopainen/Hietala)
God, love and rest my soul
With this sundown never ending
The feel is gone
Yet you ain't gonna see me fail
I am the decadence of your world
I am an eider covered in oil
Happy hunting
You double faced carnivore
Tell me why
No heart to cry
Hang me high
The music is dead
The amen is said
The kiss of faith is what I beg
A loving heart and soul for sale
Tell me why
No heart to cry
Hang me high
Leave me be and cease
To tell me how to feel
To grieve, to shield
Myself from evil
Leave me be
O.D. of lies is killing me
Romanticide
'Till love do me part
See me ruined by my own creations
Leave me be and cease
To tell me how to feel
To grieve, to shield
Myself from evil
Leave me be
O.D. of lies is killing me
Romanticide
'Till love do me part
Dead boy's alive but without sense
I need a near death experience
Heart once bold now turned to stone
Perfection, my messenger from hell
Wine turns to water
Campfires freeze, love letters burn
Romance is lost
Lord, let me be wrong in this pain
Temporary pain, eternal shame
To take part in this devil's chess game
Spit on me, let go, get rid of me
And try to survive your stupidity
Ghost love score
(Holopainen)
We used to swim the same moonlight waters
Oceans away from the wakeful day
My fall will be for you
My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
If you be the one to cut me, I'll bleed forever
My fall will be for you
My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
If you be the one to cut me, I'll bleed forever
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 fall will be for you
My love will be in you
If you be the one to cut me, I'll bleed forever
My fall will be for you
My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
If you be the one to cut me, I'll bleed forever
Into the blue memory
A 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
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
Take me, cure me
Kill me, bing 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 fall will be for you
My love will be in you
You were the one to cut me so I'll bleed forever
My fall will be for you
My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
You were the one to cut me so I'll bleed forever
Kuolema tekee taiteilijan
(Holopainen)
Kerran vain haaveeni nahda sain
En pienuutta alla tahtien tuntenut
Kerran sain kehtooni kalterit
Vankina sielta kirjetta kirjoitan
Luojani, luoksesi
Anna minun tulla siksi
Miksi lapseni minua luulee
Sinussa maailman kauneus
Josta kuolema teki minusta taiteilijan
Luojani, luoksesi
Anna minun tulla siksi
Miksi lapseni minua luulee
Oman taivaan tanne loin
Anna minun paasta pois
Oman taivaan tanne loin
Anna minun paasta pois
Higher than hope
(Holopainen/Hietala)
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
Passion tide, 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
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