Nightwish

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Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band, formed in 1996. Early on, their lyrical themes predominantly dealt with mythological and fantasy themes. Though these themes are still occasionally used, lyricist Tuomas Holopainen has used more personal lyrics on recent albums, dealing with sexuality, loneliness and childhood, as well as the split with former singer Tarja Turunen.

Contents 1 Quotations by Album 1.1 Angels Fall First (1997) 1.2 Oceanborn (1998) 1.3 Wishmaster (2000) 1.4 Over The Hills And Far Away (2001) 1.5 Century Child (2002) 1.6 Once (2004) 1.7 Dark Passion Play (2007)

[edit] Quotations by Album

[edit] Angels Fall First (1997)

• The Moonwitch took me to a ride on her broomstick, introduced me to her old friend Home Gnome, told me to keep the sauna warm for him.
  • Elvenpath

• Your trembling paw in my hand, dreaming of that northern land, touching me with the kiss of a beast.
• Forever shall the wolf in me desire the sheep in you.
• Love me before the last petal falls.
• However cruel the mirrors of sin, remember beauty is found within.
  • Beauty and the Beast

• Was the wine of the grail too sour for man to drink?
• They tell me to lie on the grass and observe my saviour - the one crucified to the chirping of birds.
  • The Carpenter

• Hymn of gathering stars as my guide as I wander on this path of the night
• The nightwish I sent you centuries ago has been heard by those who dwelled in a woe
• Departed by the guillotine of death, I received a letter from the depth. The dream of my lover it carried inside
  • Astral Romance

• Burying my dreams, dig up my sorrows.. oh lord, why the angels fall first?
• Not relieved by thoughts of Shangri-La, nor enlightened by the lessons of Christ, I'll never understand the meaning of the right. Ignorance, lead me into the light.
  • Angels Fall First

• Sacrifice me, Tutankhamen, and let me be your queen.
  • Tutankhamen

• "Old love lies deep," you said. "Deeper shall be the wound between your legs."
  • Nymphomaniac Fantasia

• Know why the nightingale sings is the answer to everything.
  • Know Why the Nightingale Sings

[edit] Oceanborn (1998)

• Without you, the poetry within me is dead.
• Enchantment has but one truth: I weep to have what I fear to lose.
  • Gethsemane

• 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.
• Disgraced is my virginity, death has woven my wedding dress.
• From cradle to coffin, shall my wickedness be your passion.
  • Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean

• A sight so cursed: breasts which never nursed.
  • Passion and the Opera

• In my world, love is for poets, never the famous balcony scene.
• Crystal pond awaits the lorn. Tonight another morn for the lonely one is born.
  • Swanheart

• Sorrow has a human heart. From my god it will depart. I'd sail before a thousand moons, never finding where to go.
• 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...
  • Sleeping Sun

[edit] Wishmaster (2000)

• I am the Fallen, you are what my sins enclose. Lust is not as creative as its discovery...
  • She Is My Sin

• Need to understand, no need to forgive, no truth, no sense left to be followed.
• In this world of a million religions everyone prays the same way.
• Facing this unbearable fear, like meeting an old friend.
  • The Kinslayer

• Drink the wine, the red sweet taste of mine.
• For me, for you, time devours passion's beauty, with me, with you, tonight, any dream will do...
  • Come Cover Me

• Drown into my eyes and see the wanderer.
  • Wanderlust

• Now let us lie, sad we lived and sad we die. Even in your pride, I never blamed you.
  • Two For Tragedy

• A dreamy-eyed child staring into night, on a journey to a storyteller's mind
  • Wishmaster

• Just a child without a fairytale am I, dark but so lovely, a little match girl freezing in the snow...
  • Bare Grace Misery

• Roaming on razor-sharp castles, ruling all but myself, now my night is laid to sleep.
  • Crownless

• The age will say "This poet lies", heaven never touched earthly face. The age will say "This night was ours", blessed with the Deep, the Silent, the Complete.
  • Deep Silent Complete

• Sing what you can't say, forget what you can't play.
• Failed in becoming a god.
• If you read this line, remember not the hand that wrote it
  Remember only the verse, songmaker's cry, the one without tears
  For I've given this its strength and it has become my only strength.
  • Dead Boy's Poem

• Wish upon a star, no matter who you are. The second star to the right...
  • FantasMic

[edit] Over The Hills And Far Away (2001)

• One by one, we will fall.
• Today I've killed, he was just a boy, eight before him, I knew them all.
  • 10th Man Down

• Every wish is just a journey away.
  • Away

[edit] Century Child (2002)

• 'Remember, my child: Without innocence the cross is only iron, hope is only an illusion & Ocean Soul's nothing but a name...'
  • Bless the Child

• It is the end of all hope to lose the child, the faith, to end all the innocence, to be someone like me.
• Angels they fall first, but I'm still here.
• This is the birth of all hope, to have what I once had, this life unforgiven. It will end with a birth.
• Mandylion without a face, deathwish without a prayer. End of hope. End of love. End of time. The rest is silence.
  • End of All Hope

• I don't want to die a scarless man, a lonely soul.
• I studied silence to learn the music, I joined the sinful to regain innocence...
• It's not the monsters under your bed, it is the man next door, that makes you fear, makes you cry, makes you cry for the child.
• As he died, he will return to die in me again.
  • Dead to the World

• 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.
• Come out, come out, wherever you are. Give in, give in for my touch. For my taste, for my lust.
  • Ever Dream

• Put a stake through my heart, and drag me into sunlight...
• Wake up, mow the weed. You'd be nothing without me! Take my life, if you have the heart to die.
  • Slaying the Dreamer

• Whatever walks in my heart will walk alone.
  • Forever Yours

• Crying for me was never worth a tear, My lonely soul is only filled with fear.
• I only wished to become something beautiful, through my music, through my silent devotion.
• Losing emotion, finding devotion. Should I dress in white and search the sea?
  • Ocean Soul

• Sane choice in the insane world: beware the beast, but enjoy the feast he offers.
• 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.
  • Beauty of the Beast

[edit] Once (2004)

• It's time to turn back time, follow the pale moonlight.
• Fly to a dream, far across the sea, all the burdens gone, open the chest once more.
  • Dark Chest of Wonders

• Old loves they die hard, old lies they die harder.
• Last dance, first kiss. Your touch, my bliss. Beauty always comes with dark thoughts.
  • Wish I Had an Angel

• My flower withered between the pages two and three.
• 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.
• This is me for forever, one of the lost ones, the one without a name, without an honest heart as compass.
  • Nemo

• Save yourself a penny for the ferryman, save yourself and let them suffer.
• Mother Gaia in slaughter. Welcome to paradise, soldier.
• You challenged the gods and lost.
  • Planet Hell

• Our souls will join again the wild - our home in peace and war and death.
• I still believe, in every night, in every day.
  • Creek Mary's Blood

• My song is little worth anymore, Time to lay this weary pen aside.
• All the tales are told, all the orchids gone, lost in my own world, now I care for dead gardens.
  • Dead Gardens

• See me ruined by my own creation.
  • Romanticide

• Take me, kill me, cure me, bring me home. Every way, every day, just another loop in the hangman's noose.
• Redeem me into childhood. Show me myself without the shell.
  • Ghost Love Score

• The hopes were high, the choirs were vast. Now my dreams are left to live through you.
• Your death saved me.
  • Higher Than Hope

[edit] Dark Passion Play (2007)

• Forgive me, I have but two faces: One for the world, one for God, save me.
• Search for beauty, find your shore.
• The morning dawned, upon his altar. Remains of the dark passion play, performed by his friends without shame, spitting on his grave as they came.
• You have such oceans within. In the end I will always love you.
  • The Poet and the Pendulum

• Did you ever hear what I told you?
  Did you ever read what I wrote you?
  Did you ever listen to what we played?
  • Bye Bye Beautiful

• Time for one more daring dream.
  • Eva

• The wolves, my love, will come.
• Take the road less traveled by, leave the city of fools. Turn every poet loose!
• This is where heroes and cowards part ways.
  • 7 Days to the Wolves

• A nightingale in a golden cage, that's me locked inside reality's maze.
  • Escapist