1. NOMAD

Long ago
A crumbling whole of me was split in two
Spat forth into darkness and light
Like the birth from the womb

I live like this in stillborn life!

I shed my skin and blood and vein
Still I couldn’t find my way home again

So climb inside and rot here for a while!

Outside I can hear this dying world screaming
Displaced from my earthly home
Like the corpse from the tomb

So climb inside and rot here for a while!

This pain I own
A gift in return for a taking
A wounding, a breaking

This is our childhood’s end
Can’t remember when it all began
I want to burn the masters and the slaves
And those who pray that I’ll repent and be like them

A gift in return for a taking
A wounding, a breaking

This is our childhood’s end
Can’t remember when it all began
I want to burn the masters and the slaves
And those who pray that I’ll repent and be like them

I’m in exile!
I’m in exile!

Eternally bleeding but not broken
The price I pay for vision, I’m not broken
After all, what can one see with blind open eyes?

I’m in exile!

Eaten the dirt from my own grave
Chosen to be a certain slave
Now in this way I die
Yet I am more alive
Yet I am more alive
I’m in exile!


2. IN THE BODILESS HEART

Inside the bodiless heart
Inside the bodiless heart
Headlights in the drowning view
Of splintered night...

Invisible moves
Soaked concrete heads
Through floating glass

Invisible moves
Soaked concrete heads
Through floating glass

Like a Gabriel outside
His heavenly curtain
Like a Gabriel outside
His heavenly curtain
He cannot see where the lights end
Where he ends
Or if they know where they end

Invisible moves
Soaked concrete heads
Through floating glass

Inside the bodiless heart
Inside the bodiless heart
Headlights in the drowning view
Of splintered night...

Like a Gabriel outside
His heavenly curtain
Like a Gabriel outside
His heavenly curtain
He cannot see where the lights end
Where he ends
Or if they know where they end


3. BROKEN GLASS

Strange vibe circles round
Tries to comfort, buzzing sounds

Form an arrow, point at us
We the target are the one

Place your bet on the best
The fastest horse you can find

Drop yourself in the grass
Breathe the air at last
Hold on tight, don’t fall down
Breathe the air through the water

Form an arrow, point at us
We the target are the center

Find the key, lock the door
Close your eyes for encore

Drop yourself in the grass
Breathe the air at last
Hold on tight, don’t you fall down
Breathe the air through the water

Find your peace, turn inside
You the target, you the center

Find the key, lock the door
Close your eyes for encore

Drop yourself in the grass
Breathe the air at last
Hold on tight, don’t you fall down
Breathe the air through the water...


4. THE ART OF A SOFT LANDING

I’m building a cage to chew things over
Far from where the rats can chew my brain

Losing the game and the deck’s uneven
The building blocks of ruin...

I’m going insane with my eyes wide open
The stage has set the tone

Chewing the pain and it won’t stop breeding
It moves from square to square...

I’ve pushed my field
Now it comes to this

I’ve touched my dreams
But still I bleed


5. SUSPENDED ANIMATION DREAMS

I’m awake
I’m awake
I’m awake
I’m awake but dreaming
Suspended animation dreams

I’m awake
I’m awake
I’m awake
I’m awake but dreaming
Suspended animation

I’m awake
I’m awake
I’m awake but dreaming
Suspended animation dreams...


6. DEATH SALUTES ATROPOS

The I left behind
The ever fading I of the moment
The I shifting and bending
Into the horizon of the unknown

The hollow presence
Of those we never became
The ones slaughtered...

The I left behind
The ever fading I of the moment...


7. LE PARADE

Nightwish
Will you allow me to find my dream?
Nightwish
Order your spirits to leave and relieve me

Laisse-moi embrasser
Celui qui vient de nous quitter
Vœu nocturne, rends-moi libre

Welcome to my world
This is my reality
A freaking realm in front of you
Step closer, come closer to me

Witness pain and suffering
For thy seekenth love in grey despair
My invitation to this play
Your self-destructive prophecy

Welcome to my world
Your psychotic fantasy
Dance, dance, dance
Dance your diabolic waltz for me

Entertain me with your suffering
Thy wicked cry for sympathy

A line in this dramatic scene
In my sickening passion play

And you my princess dear...
You’re joking!
You must be out of your mind!
Of course, you are, I’ve made you so
Oh stupid, silly me
I am the one who calls the shots
So don’t get wise with me
Don’t ever say (or even think)
That you don’t agree with me

The hideous, disgracing
Rebellious words you spoke
Freedom
Here is another one
Now bow your head to me

Sacrilege...
Sacrilege...

Disturb my heaven
Be bending my rules

Thy fools for love
Thy fools for hope

Thy fools can dream
Whatever you like

Buy not here, not now
Never, never, never!

Laisse-moi embrasser
Celui qui vient de nous quitter
Vœu nocturne, rends-moi libre

Down on the ground
My doubts they dance around
In shadows and shades
Until I’ll be found
Like the blind I stumble around
You, sinner and saint
Answer me now!

Answer...
Will she lead the dance in the carnival of souls?
Will we meet again in the carnival of souls?
The carnival of souls


8. SCENT OF LONGING

Jinhan kkochhyang-gilo nam-eun nae yeonghon
Gyeondil su eobsneun geulium
Ij-eul su eobsneun jinan nal-ui chueog
Samuchineun geulium
Ij-eul suga eobsneun kkum

Jeung-oseuleoun hyang-gi
Sum-i maghyeo jug-eul geos gat-eun ihyang-gie
Naui uisig-i jamsigdoeeo ganda

Eobs-eojin jul al-assda
Ij-eobeolin jul al-assda
Eobs-eojin jul al-assda
Ij-eobeolin jul al-assda
Hajiman imi geugeos-eun
Naui hyang-i doeeobeolyeossji

Naega hyeom-ohaneun geos-eul
Galmanghage doeneun geos-eun
Seulpeun unmyeong
Beos-eonal su eobsneun sugmyeong
Hajiman naega galmanghagie
Gajil su eobsgo
Wonhaji anh-assgie
Naleul jamsighaebeolin

Palan hyang gilgo ginhyang
Kkeut-i boiji anhneun hyang
Geom-eun hyang nae gaseum
Galg-ameogneun jan-inhan hyang

Puleunbalam naleul gamssa
Bulg-eun angae sog-eulo mud-eo
Geom-eun bi naelyeo naleul
I hyang-eseo beos-eonage hao

Imi naleul umjig-il su eobsge
Mandeul-eo beolyeossgo
Imi neukkil su eobsge doeeossda
Geu jit-eun hyang-gi sog-eulo

Jeung-oseuleoun hyang-gi
Sum-i maghyeo jug-eul geos gat-eun ihyang-gie
Naui uisig-i jamsigdoeeo ganda
Eobs-eojin jul al-assda
Ij-eobeolin jul al-assda
Hajiman imi geugeos-eun
Naui hyang-i doeeobeolyeossji

Jinhan kkochhyang-gilo nam-eun...


9. JIGSAW

Words vomited into a face
Cold leavings, there’s only bleak and lifeless duty
Moan into my ear, though I know
You would break me but I will watch you choke

I’ll tear myself into pieces
And grow out stronger and colder
I turn the tables on you
There’s no place to hide

I tear myself into pieces
There’s nothing here to hold me
I tell myself apart from you
Above and beyond

I tear myself into pieces
Know I’m beyond all despair
Don’t turn your back on me again
Transcribing my name to nothing

Hope a saviour with all fingers crossed
I slip on my gloves and carve a flawless icon

Into pieces...

I’ll tear myself into pieces
And grow out stronger and colder
I turn the tables on you
There’s no place to hide

I tear myself into pieces
Placing me where I belong

Outside all soft dreams and outside the throng

Fools
The error is all in yourselves
The ideal is pure and cruel and nauseates you

So give me the crown and the throne
I render you dead and tear all you completed

Into pieces...


10. RAPE OF ORIA

Rest your mind, Silver Maiden
Don’t fear
The things that happen to you
Now can’t be helped

Be strong and think of your love
Your strength
Beauty and purity hold the spirit
Where it can never be tarnished

Sleep, sleep
Dream, dream
Don’t fear, don’t fear
Remember love

Sleep, sleep
Dream, dream
Don’t fear, don’t fear
Remember love
Remember love...

Sleep, sleep
Dream, dream
Don’t fear
Remember love
Remember love...


11. PALE LIGHT

A pale light enters my room
A skinny wrist
A clammy hand on white sheets
Side with fear
I can’t move
I’m in agony
I’m in agony

Only my eyes lived
And showed the sadness of a loss
A small world surrounded me
There’s nothing more
Nothing more left
Nothing more left
Nothing more left

Exhausted by wandering
Through the cruel days
Awakening sadness
As I recall
As I recall

Outside, this changing time
Provokes me my big desire
I can’t hear this choking love
And I can’t hold our memories
Hold our memories
Hold our memories

Exhausted by wandering
Through the cruel days
Awakening sadness
As I recall
As I recall

The sun closes her eyes for the night
Strange shadows rise at my wall
They are trying to catch my light
And dance together into this dark night
To this dark night

Exhausted by wandering
Through the cruel days
Awakening sadness
As I recall
As I recall

Exhausted by wandering
Through the cruel days
Awakening sadness
As I recall
As I recall


12. BEAUTIFUL EMPTINESS

You’re the worst of all
With all your accusation sand compunction
I can’t suffer this duress from someone
So depraved and selfish

You embody all that I’ve been through
Without you I am sure I will be loved

My existence icon forms to your distress
Your ambition the cause of mine
A disruption, I’m nothing, even less
Misfortunes never come singly and I was there to stay

You don’t allow me a single place
Nor any love into your lives
An unperceived, annoying presence you’d rather ignore
But in my life you know you’ll leave a beautiful emptiness

Where you used to be
Impotent screams will turn into the love of silence
My liberation, then silence will be perfect and pure
It’s all in my dreams, I’ll remove you and all our mutual disgust

In my dreams
I solve the problem by removing it
My wish is to see you grovel
Like you once forced me to

There’s no other way, here’s my course of life
A path without the sickening trace of you
I need the beauty of a cleared, pure world
This eternal interruption of your rash life can save me

You don’t allow me a single place
Nor any love into your lives
An unperceived, annoying presence you’d rather ignore
But in my life you know you’ll leave a beautiful emptiness

It’s sad to feel you don’t believe in love
It’s sad that you’re so cold
And I’ll be the same if you keep on poisoning my life
Drowning in self-sacrificing visions
When you’re gone, then we will all be released

It’s sad, my life has been like hell so far
It’s sad that you’re the cause
And I’ll be cured in this beautiful, empty world
Floating, floating away with your perilous visions and hate
When you’re gone, silence will fill up the emptiness
When you’re gone we all will be released

In my dreams I shall rinse my body and soul
My wish, the accomplishment lies here before me in my hands

I will be released from your accusing eyes
And torrents of verbal abuse
You’ll know the causes are your own mistakes
While life flows out of you and exempts me forever


13. COMING HOME

You couldn’t find me anywhere out at sea
Deep under raging waves I swayed
Captured in the arms of Poseidon
I lost consciousness, once again

Their voices laugh in ridicule
Did you believe that you could survive?
You know your sun burns way too fast
And you are nothing without our wrath

All my executioners wearing masks
As I crawl in dirt to find
The answer to a question never asked
Is something true to me?

All familiar faces just like I recall
Feels so good coming home
All familiar faces just like I recall
Feels so good coming home

Reach out your hand
Wait for me there by the shore
Unlock your door
I’m coming home

I’m coming home

From the corals she emerged
And she ripped away my chains
But I never got to see her face
From the oceans come what may
She brought out the light of day
But I never got to see her face

Their voices laugh in ridicule
Did you believe that you could survive?
You know your sun burns way too fast
And you are nothing without our wrath

When the sky puked out its spears
I opened my arms
Cut in half I reached for your shadow
While picking up the pieces
I opened my eyes
And I see that you’re aiming for me

All familiar faces just like I recall
Feels so good coming home
All familiar faces just like I recall
Feels so good coming home


14. THE PHANTOM AGONY

I can’t taste you
I can’t think of you
Do we exist at all?

The future doesn’t pass and the past won’t overtake the present
All that remains is an obsolete illusion

We are afraid of all the things that could not be
A phantom agony

Do we dream at night or do we share the same old fantasy?
I am a silhouette of the person wandering in my dreams

We are afraid of all the things that could not be
A phantom agony

The age-old development of consciousness
Drives us away from the essence of life
We meditate too much so that our instincts will fade away
They fade away

What’s the point of life and what’s the meaning if we all die in the end?
Does it make sense to learn or do we forget everything?

We are afraid of all the things that could not be
A phantom agony

The age-old development of consciousness
Drives us away from the essence of life
We meditate too much so that our instincts will fade away
They fade away

Teach me how to see and free the disbelief in me
What we get is what we see, the phantom agony

A te spiritus noster
Devoratur et nostra anima capitur!

The lucidity of my mind has been revealed in new dreams
I am able to travel where my heart goes in search of self-realization

This is the way to escape from our agitation and develop ourselves
Use your illusion and enter my dream...


15. THE DELORES LESION

“There’s a bruised and broken sky
It’s pressed up against us, but odds are
There’s a heaven burning down below
The words rise from the north and float there on the wind
Like a soft and subtle whisper
Immortal like a wondrous feeling so profound...”

Leaving the cathedral
Angels open the gates
Reminders for the congregation
The judgment day

Attend the keeping of all our glory
The scars cut so deep
Peeling through our souls
We’ve lost our way home
Stripped of our dignity

Promises mean everything
In a world so cold
Never to be redeemed
Will you suffer?

Her lachrymal squander in the distance
For lusts that she waits for so scorn
An image so pale and so pure
Yet so beautiful

Her face is plastered on the walls
And it seems to be so indelible
So unfathomable that we’re both lost here

To commence the call
Endure the struggle
What a stronghold to face
A command to fall
A condemned prayer
Have you fallen from grace?

Attend the keeping of all our glory
The scars cut so deep
Peeling through our souls
We’ve lost our way home
Stripped of our dignity

Promises mean everything
In a world so cold
Never to be redeemed
Will you suffer?

Redeemer!

Her lachrymal squander in the distance
For lusts that she waits for so scorn
An image so pale and so pure
Yet so beautiful

Her face is plastered on the walls
And it seems to be so indelible
So unfathomable that we’re both lost here

Her lachrymal squander in the distance
For lusts that she waits for so scorn
An image so pale and so pure
Yet so beautiful

Her face is plastered on the walls
And it seems to be so indelible
So unfathomable that we’re both lost here