***"BEAUTY OF THE BEAST"***

Nightwish

By Tuomas Holopainen

Long Lost Love

Trees have dropped their leaves,

Clouds their waters

All this burden is killing me
Distance is covering your way,

Tears your memory

All this beauty is killing me

Oh, do you care,

I still feel for you

So aware,

What should be lost is there

I fear I will never find anyone

I know my greatest pain is yet to come

Will we find each other in the dark

My long lost love

One More Night To Live

Safely away from the world
In a dream, timeless domain

A child, dreamy eyed,

Mother's mirror, father's pride

I wish I could come back to you

Once again feel the rain

Falling inside me

Cleaning all that I've become

My home is far but the rest it lies so close

With my long lost love under the black rose

You told I had the eyes of a wolf

Search them and find the beauty of the beast

All of my songs can only be composed of the greatest of pains

Every single verse can only be born of the greatest of wishes

I wish I had one more night to live

A saint blessed me, drank me deeply

Spitting out the misery in me

Still a sinner rapes 1000 saints

Sharing the same hell with me

Sanest choice in the insane world:

Beware the beast but enjoy the feast he offers

Christabel

"Oh, sweet Christabel.

Share with me your poem.

For I know now,

I'm a puppet on this silent stage show.

I'm but a poet who failed his best play.

A Dead Boy, who failed to write an ending

To each of his poems."

"Fable Of Dreams"

-Lunatica-

Sometimes in heaven a fable is born

Nobody knows where it comes from

It gives us strength and it tells us of love

And everyone of us is touched in their hearts

It may enrich us or pull us down so far

But life is not always black and white

Let me believe it, let my eyes see

Each day a new page is written, I know

Therefore this fable, it will never end

Because it's the fable of dreams

Hope for the hopeless and light for the blind

If we let this message reach our minds

It may enrich us or pull us down so far

And live can be more than black and white

Hold on to belief, hear the call of the fable

The fable of dreams

"Cual blanco tulipán"

"El que me hagas reír y disfrutar de tu risa
No significa que me haya enamorado
El que tu alegría sacie mi gozo
No significa que seas mi luz
El que tus lágrimas y penas me amarguen
No significa que seas mi centro
El que me desenvuelva aún ante tu envoltura
No significa que te quiera más que a nadie

El que me digas "Te quiero mucho"
No significa que me quieras a tu lado

El que me cuentes tus historias
No significa que me necesites
El que rías conmigo
No significa que te hayas enamorado de mi compañía"

Entonces, sabiento todo esto,
Cantándomelo en silencios,
Sembrando mi campo de sueños
De verdades en tus ojos...

¿Por qué en un fértil rincón
Aflora mi esperanza cual blanco tulipán?

Oh, bella y delicada flor,
Sólo haz de ser admirada,
Pues los labios de ese hombre
Se convierten en tu verdugo,
Cada vez que su luz
Es el agua de tu mundo...

"De ti, sólo tu ausencia"

Te quiero cuando estás ausente,
Cuanto tu cuerpo y alma son recuerdos lejanos

Te desprecio cuando estando aquí,
Eres ciego, sordo y mudo

Te quiero cuando estás ausente,
Porque sólo así, refugiado en mi querer y mi añorar,
Estás aquí...

"Odio"

Odio:

La indiferencia
La falsedad
La mentira sin buena razón
La egocéntrica autosuficiencia
La independencia extrema
La infidelidad
Las ganas de gritar, contenidas
La adicción de la triste memoria
La rabia reventada por la presencia de ajena alegría

El vicio a la compañía
El deseo egoísta de ser feliz
El usar a alguien como herramienta
El ser herramienta
El miedo a no ser indispensable
El solitario existir
El acostumbrado luto a un amor -o a quien se era con ese amor-
El rutinario fracaso de una ilusión
El verdugo de la inocencia y
El deber de sentirse orgulloso por portarlo a un lado cualquiera

Pero lo que no perdono,
Aquello deshonroso, aborrecible y despreciable
Lo que más odio
-Corta palabra para tan profundo sentimiento-
El tener que ser aquello que odio

..."You are all the Innocence left alive"...

"Dancer in the Dark"
For My Pain

Music: Jarmo Kylmänen, Lyrics: Juha Kylmänen

The only hope in this endless night
Is to follow you through the shadows of the deepest blue,
Away from the light
I hear your voice is calling me: "Don’t be afraid"
But there’s something deep inside of me
Forcing me to turn away

Take my hand, don’t turn away, I need you to stay

I know a place where the light and the dark can become as one

This loneliness is killing me
Is there a place we both can live?

You’re the dancer in the dark
You’re the child of the light

You’re the sinner of all time
You’re the saint with wings so white

You’re the distant shape in the night
You’re all the innocence left alive

You’re like tainted sun
You’re the star shining bright

*Everyone knows, except us...*

Beyond the bluish black lagoon,

Farther than grey and softly clouds,

Higher in cold mountains,

Where the scenary have white light,

Where the Moon is so bright,

Where the winds live for the Night...

Stars seems like distant candles,

Showing us all the choices we can take

But nothing we decide

Is a secret to the Lord of Time

Destiny awaits patiently

With the arms open so gently...

Our chapter started before we can tell,

But the story is not about ourselves...

*At the Threshold of my Innocence*

The veil of my mind and dreams,
A beautiful glass as guardian of my eyes,
Ruler of each one of my words,
Creator of my entire hope

Forgiveness I asked to you,
I don’t know when your candlelight extinguished…
In the threshold of the cadence of all wishes
The absence of my innocence fleetingly kills me

A thousand glasses
The feelings offer to me,
As seductive lovers of all my dreams

And I’ve found hope
In hidden places
On the corners of black mazes

I should know…

Here and now,
Under the Lord of Silence guard
Vanquished by an endless fear
A frozen angel whisperers, blinded by tears:

“There´ s the end
Of turning-back winds

From now on
Your path shall be plagued
With mask dancers and sorrow fog
As punishment of forgot her death

Whitnessed that grave
Is the entry to a new way:
The gate without mark on a map
The gate to the No-Return parade”

The veil of sadness and pain
Made a pact with my wounded heart
“Shield against the world, in exchange of wings to fly,
And with the right of a last lullaby”

Are twelve white tulips enough?

I’m standing here
Beyond your reach
Searching in quiet mourning
A sign of your last will

I swear to you,
Here and now,
For the tale we once lived
For the price you paid

Your sacrifice won’t be in vain…
I’ll find the longing rebirth of your scent

Farewell, my long lost child
Stay away from older phantoms
Watch the full moon above your black roses’s bed
The loneliness’s chains take me away,
And the pendulum is against myself…