[ti:Song Of Myself]
[ar:Nightwish]
[al:Imaginaerum]
[by:]
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[00:00.00]Song of Myself - Nightwish
[00:22.59]Composed by：Tuomas Holopainen
[00:45.18]The nightingale is still locked in the cage
[00:50.71]The deep breath I took still poisons my lungs
[00:56.01]An old oak sheltering me from the blue
[01:01.62]Sun bathing on its dead frozen leaves
[01:06.92]A catnap in the ghost town of my heart
[01:12.45]She dreams of storytime and the river ghosts
[01:18.11]Of mermaids of Whitman's and the Ride
[01:23.53]Raving harlequins gigantic toys
[01:29.25]A song of me a song in need
[01:32.01]Of a courageous symphony
[01:35.37]A verse of me a verse in need
[01:38.24]Of a pure heart singing me to peace
[01:41.71]All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
[01:44.86]All that great heart lying still on an angelwing
[01:51.13]All that great heart lying still
[01:55.41]In silent suffering
[01:58.61]Smiling like a clown until the show has come to an end
[02:03.12]What is left for encore
[02:04.64]Is the same old Dead Boy's song
[02:08.22]Sang in silence
[02:09.76]All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
[02:12.88]All that great heart lying still on an angelwing
[02:26.88]A midnight flight into Covington Woods
[02:32.22]A princess and a panther by my side
[02:38.04]These are Territories I live for
[02:43.29]I'd still give my everything to love you more
[02:49.00]A song of me a song in need
[02:51.83]Of a courageous symphony
[02:55.25]A verse on me a verse in need
[02:58.01]Of a pure heart singing me to peace
[03:01.52]All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
[03:04.67]All that great heart lying still on an angelwing
[03:10.75]Now all that great heart lying still
[03:15.40]In silent suffering
[03:18.46]Smiling like a clown until the show has come to an end
[03:22.97]What is left for encore
[03:24.61]Is the same old Dead Boy's song
[03:28.06]Sang in silence
[03:29.63]All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
[03:32.73]All that great heart lying still on an angelwing
[04:03.50]A silent symphony
[04:16.22]A hollow opus #1 2 3
[04:29.64]Sometimes the sky is piano black
[04:42.12]Piano black over cleansing waters
[04:53.83]Resting pipes verse of bore
[05:06.22]Rusting keys without a door
[05:19.53]Sometimes the within is piano black
[05:31.93]Piano black over cleansing waters
[06:11.71]All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
[06:17.95]All that great heart lying still on an angelwing
[06:24.18]All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
[06:30.46]All that great heart lying still on an angelwing
[07:07.50]I see a slow simple youngster by a busy street
[07:11.35]With a begging bowl in his shaking hand
[07:14.46]Trying to smile but hurting infinitely nobody notices
[07:21.19]I do but walk by
[07:26.65]An old man gets naked and kisses a model-doll in his attic
[07:31.45]It's half-light and he's in tears
[07:34.52]When he finally comes his eyes are cascading
[07:39.87]I see a beaten dog in a pungent alley
[07:43.13]He tries to bite me
[07:45.23]All pride has left his wild drooling eyes
[07:48.98]I wish I had my leg to spare
[07:54.68]A mother visits her son smiles to him through the bars
[07:58.47]She's never loved him more
[08:02.15]An obese girl enters an elevator with me
[08:05.79]All dressed up fancy a green butterfly on her neck
[08:10.62]Terribly sweet perfume deafens me
[08:14.32]She's going to dinner alone
[08:17.84]That makes her even more beautiful
[08:21.41]I see a model's face on a brick wall
[08:24.02]A statue of porcelain perfection beside a violent city kill
[08:31.10]A city that worships flesh
[08:47.14]The first thing I ever heard was a wandering man telling his story
[08:52.68]It was you the grass under my bare feet
[08:57.42]The campfire in the dead of the night
[09:00.77]The heavenly black of sky and sea
[09:05.76]It was us
[09:07.70]Roaming the rainy roads combing the gilded beaches
[09:14.10]Waking up to a new gallery of wonders every morn
[09:18.88]Bathing in places no one's seen before
[09:24.18]Shipwrecked on some matt-painted island
[09:28.24]Clad in nothing but the surf beauty's finest robe
[09:37.29]Beyond all mortality we are swinging in the breath of nature
[09:43.63]In early air of the dawn of life
[09:47.09]A sight to silence the heavens
[09:54.07]I want to travel where life travels
[09:56.66]Following its permanent lead
[09:58.87]Where the air tastes like snow music
[10:02.22]Where grass smells like fresh-born Eden
[10:05.99]I would pass no man no stranger no tragedy or rapture
[10:10.98]I would bathe in a world of sensation
[10:14.39]Love goodness and simplicity
[10:19.95]While violated and imprisoned by technology
[10:27.01]The thought of my family's graves was the only moment
[10:30.12]I used to experience true love
[10:33.19]That love remains infinite
[10:35.27]As I'll never be the man my father is
[10:40.57]How can you just be yourself
[10:42.90]When you don't know who you are
[10:45.03]Stop saying I know how you feel
[10:47.68]How could anyone know how another feels
[10:52.23]Who am I to judge a priest beggar w***e politician wrongdoer
[11:00.14]I am you are all of them already
[11:16.62]Dear child stop working go play
[11:20.68]Forget every rule
[11:23.75]There's no fear in a dream
[11:28.24]Is there a village inside this snowflake
[11:32.92]A child asked me
[11:36.61]What's the color of our lullaby
[11:41.14]I've never been so close to truth as then
[11:46.47]I touched its silver lining
[11:54.61]Death is the winner in any war
[11:58.13]Nothing noble in dying for your religion
[12:00.78]For your country
[12:02.67]For ideology for faith
[12:06.56]For another man yes
[12:17.21]Paper is dead without words
[12:19.92]Ink idle without a poem
[12:22.92]All the world dead without stories
[12:25.87]Without love and disarming beauty
[12:32.51]Careless realism costs souls
[12:37.87]Ever seen the Lord smile
[12:40.94]All the care for the world made Beautiful a sad man
[12:45.14]Why do we still carry a device of torture around our necks
[12:49.63]Oh how rotten your pre-apocalypse is
[12:53.19]All you bible-black fools living over nightmare ground
[13:01.99]I see all those empty cradles and wonder
[13:05.89]If man will ever change
[13:08.82]I too wish to be a decent man-boy
[13:12.99]But all I am is smoke and mirrors
[13:17.18]Still given everything may I be deserving
[13:22.69]And there forever remains that change from G to Em