데뷔 이후 가장 성공적인 앨범으로 기록될 역작 [Once]의 성공으로 부와 명성을 동시에 거머쥔 Nightwish가 Once 발매 이후 행해졌던 공연실황을 담은 앨범. 하지만 밴드와의 불화로 프론트 우먼인 Tarja의 공식적 마지막 음성이 실리게 되는 앨범이 되어버린 앨범이기도 하다. 헬싱키에서 11,000명의 관중을 동원한 공연이었던 만큼 열기도 이에 못지않다. .... ....
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 turn back time Follow the pale moonlight Once I wished for this night Faith brought me here It's time to cut the rope and
Fly to a dream Far across the sea All the burdens gone Open the chest once more Dark chest of wonder 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
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
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 (Dream of me)
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
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
Your beauty cascaded on me In this white night fantasy (Dream of me)
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
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 (Dream of me)
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
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?
[CHRISTINE:] In sleep he sang to me In dreams he came That voice which calls to me And speaks my name And do I dream again For now I find The Phantom of the opera is there Inside my mind
[PHANTOM:] Sing once again with me Our strange duet My power over you Grows stronger yet And though you turn from me To glance behind The Phantom of the opera is there Inside your mind
[CHRISTINE:] Those who have seen your face Draw back in fear I am the mask you wear
[PHANTOM:] It's me they hear
[TOGETHER:] Myyour spirit and yourmy voice In one combined The phantom of the opera is there Inside yourmy mind
He's there the Phantom of the opera Beware the Phantom of the opera
[PHANTOM:] In all your phantasies You always knew That man and mystery
[CHRISTINE:] Were both in you
[TOGETHER:] And in this labyrinth Where night is blind The phantom of the opera is there Inside yourmy mind
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 nights The truth at the end of time Losing faith makes a crime
I wish for this night time to last for a life-time 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 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
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....
Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young In a world of magnets and miracles Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary The ringing of the Division Bell had begun
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 nights 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 unfurled We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed-of world
Encumbered 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 times
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
"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...
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! Apprentice! Heartborne, 7th Seeker Warrior! Disciple! In me the Wishmaster
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! Apprentice! Heartborne, 7th Seeker Warrior! Disciple! In me the Wishmaster
Master! Apprentice! Heartborne, 7th Seeker Warrior! Disciple! In me the Wishmaster
Wishmaster Crusade for Your will A child, dreamfinder The Apprentice becoming...
Master! Apprentice! Heartborne, 7th Seeker Warrior! Disciple! In me the Wishmaster
Master! Apprentice! Heartborne, 7th Seeker Warrior! Disciple! In me the Wishmaster
Master! Apprentice! Heartborne, 7th Seeker Warrior! Disciple! In me the Wishmaster
I'm a priest for the poorest sacrifice I'm but a raft in a sea of sorrow and greed You bathed in my wine Drank from my cup mocked my rhyme Your slit tongues licked my aching wounds Put a stake through my heart And drag me into sunlight So awake for your greed As you're slaying the dreamer
Swansong for the Wish of Night God it hurts give a name to the pain Our primr ose path to hell is growing weed Put a stake through my heart And drag me into sunlight So a wake for your greed As you're slaying the dreamer
Blame me it's me Coward a good for nothing scapegoat Dumb kid living a dream Romantic only on paper Tell me why you took all that was mine Stay as you lay don't lead me astray Tell me why you took all that was mine Stay as you lay don't lead me astray
Wake up mow the weed You'd be nothing without me Take my life if you have the heart to die
You bastards tainted my tool Raped my words played me a fool Gather your precious glitter and leave me be The Great Ones are all dead And I'm tired too
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 Road... x2
Hanhepi iyuho mi ihanbla ohinni yelo O sunkmanitutankapi hena, sunkawakanpi watogha hena, oblaye t'ankapi oihankesni hena T'at'epi kin asni kiyasni he akatanhanpi iwankal Oblaye t'anka kin osicesni mitakuyepi on Makoce kin wakan WakanTanka kin on Miwicala ohinni - Hanhepi iyuha kici - Anpetu iyuha kici yelo Mi yececa hehaka kin yelo, na ni yececa sunkmanitutankapi kin ka mikaga wowasaka isom Uncipi tuweni nitaku keyas ta k'u Unwakupi e'cela e wiconi wanji unmakainapi ta yelo Anpetu waste e wan olowan le talowan winyan ta yelo Unwanagi pi lel e nita it'okab o'ta ye Untapi it'okab o'ta Na e kte ena on hanska ohakap ni itansni a'u nita ni ihanke yelo
Translation: "I still dream every night Of them wolves, them mustangs, those endless prairies The restless winds over mountaintops The unspoilt frontier of my kith 'n kin The hallowed land of the Great Spirit I still believe In every night In every day I am like the caribou And you like the wolves that make me stronger We never owed you anything Our only debt is one life for our Mother It was a good day to chant this song For Her
Our spirit was here long before you Long before us And long will it be after your pride brings you to your end"
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 for 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 blue seas A prisoner's life for him there'll be
He knew that it would cost him dear But yet he dare not say 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 blue seas Back in her arms he swear 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 he swears she'll be
Over the hills and far away He swears he will return one day Over the mountains and the seas Back in her arms is where he'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 his arms is where she'll be