Nightwish - Once (2004) Lyrics

Band: Nightwish

Album: Once
Release Date: 7 June 2004

Genre: Symphonic, Power Metal

Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Cover Art by: Markus Mayer
Producer: Tuomas Holopainen, Tero Kinnunen

- Line Up CD: from left -
* Tuomas Holopainen: Keyboards, Piano
* Jukka Nevalainen: Drums, Percussion
* Tarja Turunen: Lead Vocals
* Marco Hietala: Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
* Emppu Vuorinen: Guitars

(Finland: Kitee, North Karelia)

01. Dark Chest Of Wonders - Lyrics:

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 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

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

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

02. Wish I Had An Angel - Lyrics:

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, wanna be friend
13th 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

I wish I had an angel
I wish I had an angel
I wish I had an angel
I wish I had an angel

03. Nemo - Lyrics:

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 for evermore

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 for evermore
Name for evermore

04. Planet Hell - Lyrics:

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
And 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

Welcome down to my planet Hell

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

05. Creek Mary's Blood - Lyrics:
[Featuring: John Two-Hawks]

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
Following the trail of tears, once we were here
Where we have lived since the world began
Since time itself gave us this land

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

06. The Siren - Lyrics:

Lady with a violin
Playing to the seals
Hearken to the sound
Of calling

Who tied 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?

07. Dead Gardens - Lyrics:
[Featuring: Jouni Hynynen]

The story behind the painting I drew is already told
No more tear stains 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 eleven path, 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

08. Romanticide - Lyrics:

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, OD of lies is killing
Me, romanticide 'til 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, OD of lies is killing
Me, romanticide 'til 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

09. Ghost Love Score - Lyrics:

We used to swim in the same moonlight waters
Oceans away from the wakeful day

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 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 the dream of mine
Worth everything I may ever be

The child will be born again
The siren carried him to me
First of them true loves
Singing on the shoulders
Of an angel without care for love 'n 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

Take me
Cure me
Kill me
Bring 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 love will be in you
You were the one to cut me
So I'll bleed forever

10. Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan - Lyrics:

Kerran vain haaveeni nhd sain
En pienuutta alla thtien tuntenut

Kerran sain kehtooni kalterit
Vankina sielt kirjett 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

11. Higher Than Hope - Lyrics:

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

Red sun rising
Curtain falling
Higher than hope my cure lies

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

I just would like to think that
Not why it happened to me
But why was I saved?
What else could I do now?

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

Red sun rising
Drown without inhaling
Within the dark holds hard

Red sun rising
Curtain falling
Higher than hope my cure lies

Mechina - Progenitor (2016) Lyrics

Band: Mechina

Album: Progenitor

Release Date: 01 January 2016

Genre: Symphonic, Industrial, Djent

Label: ℗ 2016 Mechina, Self-Released

Cover Art by: Ricky Lewis

Producer: Joe Tiberi, David Holch

- Line Up CD: from left -

* Joe Tiberi: Guitars, Programming
* David Holch: Vocals, Lyrics

(United States: Batavia, Illinois)

01. Mass Locked - Lyrics:

Proximity alert
Destination reached
Stabalizing cryobay life support systems
Cryosleep complete, stand by

''Andara, awakening from 110 years of cryosleep
In high orbit above what will be known as planet Acheron''

Opening starscape windows

02. Ashes Of Old Earth - Lyrics:

Arise, feeble relics of old earth
Those reborn upon the shoulders of gods
We are the children of Hyperion
Ashes of old earth

A century draped in black
A bloodline stained by tyrants and man
oh, how feeble and cruel
are hopes and dreams to begin again

We are the children of Hyperion
Fragments scattered beyond the sun

See this world
Free of man
How does it feel to abandon the dead?
A world left to rot
The world that we lost
Earth, betrayed by us all

We sailed upon endless waves and set our eyes upon distant horizons
The ashes of old earth
Someday, will be forgotten

Dissent, within every breath
Fear guiding every step
Her eyes behold a world never seen before
A gem found in a sea of coal

Her body, reflecting the light
Cast by the distant horizon
Remember child
As our generation dies
The essence of life
Came from the Sky

We are the children of Hyperion
Fragments scattered beyond the sun

See this world
Free of man
How does it feel to abandon the dead
A world left to rot
The world that we lost
Earth, betrayed by us all

We sailed upon endless waves and set our eyes upon distant horizons
The ashes of old earth
Someday, will be forgotten

See this world
Free of man
How does it feel to abandon the dead
A world left to rot
The world that we lost
Earth, betrayed by us all

We sailed upon endless waves and set our eyes upon distant horizons
The ashes of old earth
Someday, will be forgotten

We sailed upon endless waves and set our eyes upon distant horizons
The ashes of old earth
Someday, will be forgotten

03. Starscape - Lyrics:

Her frozen breath
Ignited by the distant sun
Omnipotent frozen embers
Suspended like the stars above
The cold steel beneath her feet
It triggers a haunting memory
The look in her child's eyes
When she said her final goodbye

When given the chance
To evolve or advance
We retreat to the past
Praying for ghosts to guide our hand
Our lives far too short
Our minds far too cold
Our past buried in stone
Our world absent of hope

Outlast the danger
To be rewarded by wonder
Collide and assemble
Bound by beauty and cruelty
Destined to lose
So much we won't see

Until the day we are planet bound
In search of solid ground
We cope with shattered memories
Enduring simulated gravity

When given the chance
To evolve or advance
We retreat to the past
Praying for ghosts to guide our hand
Our lives far too short
Our minds far too cold
Our past buried in stone
Our world absent of hope

Outlast the danger
To be rewarded by wonder
Collide and assemble
Bound by beauty and cruelty
Destined to lose
So much we won't see

04. Cryoshock - Lyrics:
[Featuring: Mel Rose]

Oh, the price that we pay
For the lives we betrayed
Only washes away
When we turn to star dust

This moment in time
My life will collide
Born from the sky
This world demands life

The life that we seek
The life that we seek
The life that we seek
The life that we seek

Floating in silence
The price we pay
Begins with boundless pain
Awaken, only to die
For a new life

I can hear them scream
I can see them bleed
I can hear them scream
I can see them bleed

The blood in my eyes
Distorting the light
Collapsing my mind
My skin, crystallized
My senses alive
The pain gets me high
Only to be wasted away
Destined to be
A lost memory

The life that we seek
The life that we seek
The life that we seek
The life that we seek 

Dancing in silence
The price we pay
Begins with boundless pain
Awaken, only to die
For a new life

I can hear them scream
I can see them bleed
I can hear them scream
I can see them bleed

We came from the stars
With hope in our eyes
Fate is a lie
My skin, crystallized
My senses alive
The pain gets me high
Only to be wasted away
Destined to be
A lost memory

I only hope to dream
Where ill never know pain

Oh, the price that we pay
For the lives we betrayed
Only washes away
When we turn to star dust

The worlds which we seek
A lost memory
My cells on retreat
They tear from each other

My bones
Paralyzed
The pain
Amplified
I didn't come to die
For a new life
Shattered memory
Of faces and names
The essence of fate
Begins to wash away

I can hear them scream
I can see them bleed
I can hear them scream
I can see them bleed

05. The Horrizon Effect - Lyrics:

Into a cosmic sea
Fragments of our essence
Scattered beyond the sun
Into a cosmic sea
A frozen symphony

At any moment this all will end
I shed my skin of human life
To touch the land
In the absence of the sky
The air collapsing my chest
Into a cosmic sea
Fragments of my essence
Slowly becoming one

I stand in the shadows of monuments
At any moment this will end
My final breath
Like embers turning to dust
My body will dissolve
Into the cosmic sea
Fragments of our essence
Scattered beyond the sun
Into a cosmic sea
A frozen symphony

How I lust to breathe again

This machine
Listen to her heartbeat
She'll sing eternally

This machine
Oh, titan can you hear me
Grant me eternal sleep

I stand in the shadows of monuments
At any moment this will end
My final breath
Like embers turning to dust
My body will dissolve
Into the cosmic sea
Fragments of our essence
Scattered beyond the sun
Into a cosmic sea
A frozen symphony
How I lust to breathe again

In total harmony
Witness this machine
Shift her wings upward

Can you hear her sing
Can you feel her breath
Defending what we call life

For the first time
I've opened up my eyes

I stand in the shadows of monuments
At any moment this will end
My final breath
Like embers turning to dust
My body will dissolve
Into the cosmic sea
Fragments of our essence
Scattered beyond the sun
Into a cosmic sea
A frozen symphony

How I lust to breathe again

"Andara succumbs to cryoshock not long after she awakens."

06. Anagenesis - Lyrics:

Exiled just above the highest clouds
Endlessly searching for any sound
As decades pass, we devour the outer rings
Our lifeline dependent on in-situ utility

Orphans bound by the frozen sea
We sail upon the shadows of this cruel dream
The world below, awaiting the human seed
In silence we sleep, oh titan hear our plea

We only dream within the absence of sleep
Regaling tales of human cruelty

The day we relink with our god machine

We shall become planet bound

In the end, I must amend
I beg of you, bury my flesh
Beneath the soil of the world below
This is not my home

We shall become planet bound

The elusive search for life
Hidden in the blackness of night

Enduring the cruelty of time

Every moment consumed by loss
This human slate grasping for faith
Hope itself destined to be lost
We kneel before those bound by frost

We only dream within the absence of sleep
Regaling tales of human cruelty

The day we relink with our god machine

We shall become planet bound

In the end, I must amend
I beg of you, bury my flesh
Beneath the soil of the world below
This is not my home

We shall become planet bound

We only dream within the absence of sleep
Regaling tales of human cruelty

The day we relink with our god machine

We shall become planet bound

In the end, I must amend
I beg of you, bury my flesh
Beneath the soil of the world below
This is not my home

We shall become planet bound

07. Planetfall - Lyrics:
[Featuring: Dean Arnold]

This mortal shell
Absorbed by the endless night
Augmented life
My senses come alive
No memory
The future unforeseen
Forever linked
To the protean machine

Unleashing a storm
Preparing the swarm
We humans set forth
Blinded by only one desire
We shall leave trails of fire

We ascend upon steel giants
In our wake
Clouds of fire

Unwilling to forfeit
The only chance
To escape the chains of orbit
They shield their eyes
Unable to recognize
Their human god
Standing upright
I hear it breath
I feel it’s heartbeat
Forever linked
In sync with the machine

Unwilling to forfeit
The only chance
To escape the chains of orbit

08. Progenitor - Lyrics:

As specters fall from on high
Trails of fire, dividing the sky
Baptized within this moment
We have waited a lifetime

We stand upon the soil
In search of our glory
Sing to the titanborn
Sleeping within orbit

Consumed by the breeze
I fall to my knees
Never again will our home be condemned
The right to amend
This world we must defend

The soil beneath my feet
Breaking away from me
Tremors of the machine
The air of this world
Is now safe to breath

We stand upon the soil
In search of our glory
Sing to the titanborn
Sleeping within orbit

Consumed by the breeze
I fall to my knees
Never again will our home be condemned
The right to amend

Consumed by the breeze
I fall to my knees
Never again will our home be condemned
The right to amend
This world we must defend