Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful [Full Album]

Lyrics to Endless Forms Most Beautiful [Full Album] by Nightwish

Tracklist: 01. Shudder Before The Beautiful "The deepest solace lies in understanding This ancient unseen stream A shudder before the beautiful" Awake, Oceanborn Behold this force Bring the outside in Explore the self to epiphany The very core of life The soaring high Of truth and light The music of this awe Deep silence between the notes Deafens me with endless love This vagrant island Earth A pilgrim shining bright We are shuddering Before the beautiful Before the plentiful We, the voyagers Tales from the seas Cathedral of green The very core of life The soaring high Of truth and light The music of this awe Deep silence between the notes Deafens me with endless love This vagrant island Earth A pilgrim shining bright We are shuddering Before the beautiful Before the plentiful We, the voyagers The unknown, the grand show The choir of the stars Interstellar theatre play The nebulae curtain falls Imagination, evolution A species from the vale Walks in wonder in search of The source of the tale The music of this awe Deep silence and the notes Deafen me with endless love This vagrant island Earth A pilgrim shining bright We are shuddering Before the beautiful Before the plentiful We, the voyagers The music of this awe Deep silence between the notes Deafens me with endless love This vagrant island Earth A pilgrim shining bright We are shuddering Before the beautiful Before the plentiful We, the voyagers The music of this awe Deep silence between the notes Deafens me with endless love This vagrant island Earth A pilgrim shining bright We are shuddering Before the beautiful Before the plentiful We, the voyagers Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh Oh-oh, ho-oh Ho-oh-oh-oh Ho-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh 02. Weak Fantasy These stories given to us all Are filled with sacrifice and robes of lust Dissonant choirs and downcast eyes Selfhood of a condescending ape Behold the crown of a heavenly spy Forged in blood of those who defy Kiss the ring, praise and sing He loves you dwelling in fear and sin Fear is a choice you embrace Your only truth Tribal poetry Witchcraft filling your void Lust for fantasy Male necrocracy Every child worthy of a better tale Pick your author from à la carte fantasy Filled with suffering and slavery You live only for the days to come Shoveling trash of the upper caste Smiling mouth in a rotting head Sucking dry the teat of the scared A storytelling breed we are A starving crew with show-off toys Fear is a choice you embrace Your only truth Tribal poetry Witchcraft filling your void Lust for fantasy Male necrocracy Every child worthy of a better tale From words Into war of the worlds This one We forsake with scorn From lies The strength of your love Mother's milk Laced with poison For this newborn Wake up, child I have a story to tell once upon a time Your only truth Tribal poetry Witchcraft filling your void Lust for fantasy (Fantasy) Male necrocracy Every child worthy of a better tale 03. Élan Leave the sleep and let the springtime talk In tongues from the time before man Listen to a daffodil tell her tale Let the guest in, walk out Be the first to greet the morn The meadows of heaven await harvest The cliffs unjumped, cold waters untouched The elsewhere creatures yet unseen Finally your number came up Free fall awaits the brave Come Taste the wine Race the blind They will guide you from the light Writing noughts till the end of time Come Surf the clouds Race the dark It feeds from the runs undone Meet me where the cliff greets the sea The answer to the riddle before your eyes Is in dead leaves and fleeting skies Returning swans and sedulous mice Writings on the garden's book In the minute of a lover's look Building a sandcastle close to the shore A house of cards from a worn-out deck A home from the fellowship, poise, and calm Write a lyric for the song only you can understand Come Taste the wine Race the blind They will guide you from the light Writing noughts till the end of time Come Surf the clouds Race the dark It feeds from the runs undone Meet me where the cliff greets the sea Riding hard Every shooting star Come to life, open mind Have a laugh at the orthodox Come, drink deep Let the dam of mind seep Travel with great Élan Dance a jig at the funeral Come Taste the wine Race the blind They will guide you from the light Writing noughts till the end of time Ooh-ooh, come Surf the clouds Race the dark It feeds from the runs undone Meet me where the cliff greets the sea Come 04. Yours Is An Empty Hope Tear me to bits, enjoy the scene Of screen name verbal vanity Churning the words imbued in filth Your tongue, only water under my bridge You have the world, it's all for you I wish you'd find the lost in you Grateful for the pain, it proves we're alive Can you feel it? I can't make you want the truth It's up to you Yours is an empty hope Yours is an empty hope Feed me to pigs in your fantasies Your sea roars bitter elegies Like Narcissus who bribes the pool A hollow voice, ruin with a roof Stop, life is now, still all for you Turn from the hate, turn from the smoke I see the parchment of your soul The notes, the song, join your voice I can let you have the world It's all for you Yours is an empty hope Yours is an empty hope Yours is an Empty hope Yours is a Dying I can let you have the world It's all for you Yours is an empty hope Yours is an empty hope Yours is an empty hope Yours is an empty hope 05. Our Decaces In The Sun I climbed off your back Not so long ago To a blooming meadow To a path you'd made for the lightest feet Mother I am always close to you I will be waving Every time you leave Oh, I am you The care, the love, the memories We are the story of one Father I am always close to you I will be waving Every time you leave Oh, I am you The care, the love, the memories You are forever in me This verse we wrote on a road home For you All this for you All this for you Ooh-ooh-ooh, oh-oh Our walk has been sublime A soaring ride and gentle lead You have the heart of a true friend one day we'll meet on that shore again Mother I am always close to you I will be waving Every time you leave Oh, I am you The care, the love, the memories We are the story of one Oh-whoa, father I am always close to you I will be waving Every time you leave Oh, I am you The care, the love, the memories You are forever in me Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh 06. My Walden Sain y niwl Gaunt y goydwig fwsog Gwenithfaen, cen y coed A'r lleuad Un gway f'adenydd I dapestri bywyd Light shines bright Beyond all the cities of gold on a road of birdsong And chocolate shops Of buskers, jugglers Innkeeper's welcoming call The sound of mist Smell of moss-grown woods Weaving my wings From many-colored yarns Flying higher, higher Higher into the wild Weaving my world Into tapestry of life Its fire golden In my Walden I will taste the manna In every tree Liquid honey and wine From the distant hills An early morning Greenwood concerto Greets my Walden With its eternal voice (Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh) Weaving my wings From many-colored yarns Flying higher, higher Higher into the wild Weaving my world Into tapestry of life Its fire golden In my Walden Weaving my wings From many-colored yarns Flying higher, higher (Higher into the wild) Weaving my world Into tapestry of life Its fire golden In my Walden (Oh, oh, oh) Weaving my wings From many-colored yarns Flying higher, higher, higher, higher, higher Higher, higher, higher, higher, higher I do not wish to evade the world Yet I will forever build my own Forever my home Forever my home 07. Endless Forms Most Beautiful Come on, hop on, let's take a ride Come and meet the travelers who came to town They have a tale from the past to tell From the great dark between the stars We are special speck of dust A fleeting moment on an ark A celebration A resthaven of life Lay on a field of green With Mother Eve With Father Pine reaching high Look at yourself In the eyes of aye-aye Unfolding rendezvous Deep into the past Follow the aeon path Greet a blade of grass Every endless form most beautiful Alive, aware, in awe Before the grandeur of it all Our floating pale blue ark Of endless forms most beautiful Beyond aeons we take a ride Welcoming the shrew that survived To see the Tiktaalik take her first walk Witness the birth of flight Deeper down in Panthalassa A eukaryote finds her way We return to the very first one Greet the one we'll soon become Lay on a field of green With Mother Eve With Father Pine reaching high Look at yourself In the eyes of aye-aye Unfolding rendezvous Deep into the past Follow the aeon path Greet a blade of grass Every endless form most beautiful Alive, aware, in awe Before the grandeur of it all Our floating pale blue ark Of endless forms most beautiful Deep into the past Follow the aeon path Greet a blade of grass Every endless form most beautiful Alive, aware, in awe Before the grandeur of it all Our floating pale blue ark Of endless forms most beautiful 08. Edema Ruh one by one We light the candles of this show one by one Enter the theatre of the primal birth Silently watch The planetary curtain go down Laugh and rejoice As the powerful play greets you tonight We are the Edema Ruh We know the songs the sirens sang See us dream every tale true The verse we leave with you will take you home We'll give you a key To open all of the gates We'll show you a sea Of starlight to drown all your cares Mirrorhouses The sweetest kisses and wines A Debussy dialogue Between wind and the roaring sea We are the Edema Ruh We know the songs the sirens sang See us dream every tale true The verse we leave with you will take you home Dance to the whistle To the play To the story To infinite encores Laugh at the royalty With sad crowns And repeat the chorus once more We are the Edema Ruh We know the songs the sirens sang See us dream every tale true The verse we leave with you will take you home We are the Edema Ruh We know the songs the sirens sang See us dream every tale true The verse we leave with you will take you home Home 09. Alpenglow We were here once upon a time A song was heard Giving birth to a child Of earth and verse Together we slay another fright Every Jubjub Bird, spooks of the past Close your eyes and take a peek The truth is easy to see We were here Roaming on the endless prairie Writing an endless story Building a Walden of our own We were here Grieving the saddened faces Conquering the darkest places Time to rest now And to finish the show And become the music one with alpenglow Hand in hand Guiding me into light You, the fairytale guise In blue and white Together we slay another fright Every Jubjub Bird, spooks of the past Close your eyes and take a peek The truth is easy to see (We were) We were here Roaming on the endless prairie Writing an endless story Building a Walden of our own We were here Grieving the saddened faces Conquering the darkest places Time to rest now And to finish the show And become the music one with alpenglow You are my path, my home, my star A beautiful tale within the tale And when the dust needs to move on I will tuck us in on a bed of snow Painting white, silencing the valley we built Together we'll sleep, devoured by life We were here Roaming on the endless prairie Writing an endless story Building a Walden of our own We were here Grieving the saddened faces Conquering the darkest places Time to rest now And to finish the show And become the music one with alpenglow We were here Roaming on the endless prairie Writing an endless story Building a Walden of our own We were here Grieving the saddened faces Conquering the darkest places Time to rest now And to finish the show And become the music one with alpenglow 10. The Eyes Of Sharbat Gula [Instrumental] 11. The Greatest Show on Earth CHAPTER I. FOUR POINT SIX Archaean horizon The first sunrise on a pristine Gaea Opus perfectum Somewhere there (Us sleeping) "After sleeping Through a hundred million centuries We have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet Sparkling with color Bountiful with life Within decades We must close our eyes again Isn't it a noble An enlightened way Of spending our brief time in the sun? To work at understanding The universe And how we have come to wake up in it?" CHAPTER II. LIFE The cosmic law of gravity Pulled the newborns around a fire A careless, cold infinity In every vast direction Lonely farer in the goldilocks zone She has a tale to tell From the stellar nursery Into a carbon feast Enter Luca The tapestry of chemistry There is a writing In the garden Leading us to the mother of all We are one We are a universe Forbears of what will be Scions of the Devonian sea Aeons pass Writing the tale of us all A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on Earth Ion channels welcoming The outside world to the stuff of stars Bedding the tree of a biological holy Enter life The tapestry of chemistry There is a writing In the garden Leading us to the mother of all We are one We are a universe Forbears of what will be Scions of the Devonian sea Aeons pass Writing the tale of us all A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on Earth We are here To care for the garden The wonder of birth Of every form most beautiful Every form most beautiful We are one We are a universe Forbears of what will be Scions of the Devonian sea Aeons pass Writing the tale of us all A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on Earth CHAPTER III. THE TOOLMAKER After a billion years The show is still here Not a single one of your fathers died young The handy travelers Out of Africa Little Lucy of the afar Gave birth to fantasy To idolatry To self-destructive weaponry Enter the God of Gaps Deep within the past Atavistic dread of the hunted Enter Ionia The cradle of thought The architecture of understanding The human lust to feel So exceptional To rule the Earth Hunger for shiny rocks For giant mushroom clouds The will to do just as you'd be done by Enter history The grand finale Enter ratkind Man, he took his time in the sun Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand He gave birth to poetry But one day'll cease to be Greet the last light of the library Man, he took his time in the sun Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand He gave birth to poetry But one day'll cease to be Greet the last light of the library Man, he took his time in the sun Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand He gave birth to poetry But one day'll cease to be Greet the last light of the library We were here We were here We were here We were here CHAPTER IV. THE UNDERSTANDING "We are going to die And that makes us the lucky ones Most people are never going to die Because they are never going to be born The potential people Who could have been here in my place But who will in fact never see the light of day Outnumber the sand grains of Sahara Certainly those unborn ghosts include Greater poets than Keats Scientists greater than Newton We know this Because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA So massively exceeds the set of actual people In the teeth of those stupefying odds It is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here We privileged few Who won the lottery of birth against all odds How dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state From which the vast majority have never stirred?" CHAPTER V. SEAWORN DRIFTWOOD "There is grandeur in this view of life With its several powers Having been originally breathed Into a few forms or into one And that whilst this planet has gone cycling on According to the fixed law of gravity From so simple a beginning Endless forms most beautiful And most wonderful Have been And are being Evolved"