Song Of Myself

Song Song Of Myself
Artist Nightwish
Album Imaginaerum

Lyrics

[00:26.200]
[00:45.990] The nightingale is still locked in the cage
[00:50.790] The deep breath I took still poisons my lungs
[00:56.060] An old oak sheltering me from the blue
[01:02.000] Sun bathing on its dead frozen leaves
[01:07.990] A catnap in the ghost town of my heart
[01:12.570] She dreams of storytime and the river ghosts
[01:18.210] Of mermaids' of Whitman's and the rude
[01:23.640] Raving harlequins' gigantic toys
[01:28.850]
[01:30.250] A song of mea song in need
[01:32.290] Of a courageous symphony
[01:35.650] A verse of mea verse in need
[01:38.720] Of a ppure-heart singing me to peace
[01:42.350] All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
[01:45.360] All that great heart lying still on an angelwing
[01:48.590]
[01:50.560] All that great heart lying still
[01:55.910] In silent suffering
[01:58.920] Smiling like a clown until the show has come to an end
[02:03.730] What is left for encore
[02:05.230] Is the same old dead boy's song
[02:08.640] Sung in silence
[02:10.470] All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
[02:13.380] All that great heart lying still on an angelwing
[02:16.890]
[02:27.450] A midnight flight into Covington Woods
[02:31.530] A princess and a panther by m side
[02:37.350] These are Territories I live for
[02:43.020] I'd still give mt everything to love you more
[02:48.610]
[02:49.330] A song of mea song in need
[02:52.130] Of a courageous symphony
[02:55.390] A verse of mea verse in need
[02:58.420] Of a ppure-heart singing me to peace
[03:01.560] All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
[03:05.160] All that great heart lying still on an angelwing
[03:08.360]
[03:11.100] All that great heart lying still
[03:15.720] In silent suffering
[03:18.760] Smiling like a clown until the show has come to an end
[03:23.490] What is left for encore
[03:25.100] Is the same old dead boy's song
[03:28.140] Sung in silence
[03:30.290] All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
[03:33.170] All that great heart lying still on an angelwing
[03:36.590]
[04:04.400] A silent symphony
[04:13.920] A hollow opus #1'2'3
[04:25.870]
[04:29.710] Sometimes the sky is piano black
[04:38.000] Piano black over cleansing waters
[04:50.970]
[04:53.810] Resting pipes' verse of bore
[05:02.490] Rusting keys without a door
[05:15.040]
[05:19.500] Sometimes the within is piano black
[05:27.880] Piano black over cleansing waters
[05:40.870]
[06:09.790]
[06:12.030] All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
[06:15.240] All that great heart lying still on an angelwing
[06:21.660]
[06:24.850] All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
[06:28.650] All that great heart lying still on an angelwing
[06:34.230]
[07:07.370] I see a slow' simple youngster by a busy street'
[07:11.250] with a begging bowl in his shaking hand.
[07:14.230] Trying to smile but hurting infinitely. Nobody notices.
[07:20.790] I do' but walk by.
[07:23.470]
[07:26.500] An old man gets naked and kisses a model-doll in his attic
[07:31.660] It's half-light and he's in tears.
[07:34.090] When he finally comes his eyes are cascading.
[07:38.150]
[07:40.230] I see a beaten dog in a pungent alley. He tries to bite me.
[07:44.880] All pride has left his wild injured eyes.
[07:48.630] I wish I had my leg to spare.
[07:51.720]
[07:55.160] A mother visits her son' smiles to him through the bars.
[07:58.890] She's never loved him more.
[08:01.060]
[08:02.300] An obese girl enters an elevator with me.
[08:05.460] All dressed up fancy' a green butterfly on her neck.
[08:10.620] Terribly sweeet perfume deafens me.
[08:14.140] She's going to dinner alone.
[08:17.360] That makes her even more beautiful.
[08:20.380]
[08:21.720] I see a model's face on a brick wall.
[08:24.080] A statue of porcelain perfection beside a violent city kill.
[08:28.760] A city that worships flesh.
[08:33.860]
[08:47.000] The 1st thing I ever heard was a wandering
[08:50.680] man telling his story
[08:52.930] It was you' the grass under my bare feet
[08:57.150] The campfire in the dead of night
[09:00.590] The heavenly black of sky and sea
[09:04.060]
[09:06.450] It was us
[09:07.430] Roaming the rainy roads' combing the guilded beaches
[09:13.350] Waking up to a new gallery of wonders every morn
[09:18.220] Bathing in places no-one's seen before
[09:23.600] Shipwrecked on some matt-painted island
[09:28.420] Clad in nothing but the surf - beauty's finest robe
[09:35.970]
[09:37.690] Beyond all mortality we are' swinging in the breath of nature
[09:43.700] In early air of the dawn of life
[09:46.810] A sight to silence the heavens
[09:50.120]
[09:54.400] I want to travel where life travels'
[09:56.740] following its permanent lead
[09:59.080] Where the air tastes like snow music
[10:02.180] Where grass smells like fresh-born Eden
[10:05.810] I would pass no man' no stranger' no tragedy or rapture
[10:11.220] I would bathe in a world of sensation
[10:14.320] Love' goodness and simplicity
[10:18.510] (While violated and imprisoned by technology)
[10:25.160]
[10:26.930] The thought of my family's graves was the only moment
[10:30.750] I used to experience true love
[10:33.190] That love remains infintie'
[10:35.900] as I'll never be the man my father is
[10:38.930]
[10:40.700] How can you "just be yourself"
[10:43.430] when you don't know who you are?
[10:44.950] Stop saying "I know how you feel"
[10:47.520] How could anyone know how another feels?
[10:50.420]
[10:52.670] Who am I to judge a priest' beggar'
[10:55.780] whore' politician' wrongdoer?
[10:59.610] I am' you are' all of them already
[11:04.650]
[11:16.620] Dear child' stop working' go play
[11:21.210] Forget every rule
[11:22.830] There's no fear in a dream
[11:26.740]
[11:28.660] Is there a village inside this snowflake?
[11:32.540] a child aske me
[11:35.540] What's the colour of our lullaby?
[11:40.310]
[11:41.600] I've never bbeen so close to truth as then
[11:46.580] I touched its silver lining
[11:50.570]
[11:54.350] Death is the winner in any war
[11:57.930] Nothing noble in dying for your religion
[12:01.540] For your country
[12:02.760] For ideology' for faith
[12:06.090] For another man' yes
[12:10.860]
[12:17.430] Paper is dead without words
[12:19.890] Ink idle without a poem
[12:22.700] All the world dead without stories
[12:25.740] Without love and disarming beauty
[12:30.300]
[12:32.650] Careless realism costs souls
[12:36.590]
[12:38.300] Ever seen the Lord smile?
[12:39.890] All he care for the world made Beautiful a sad man?
[12:44.440] Why do we still carry a device of torture around our necks?
[12:49.060] Oh' how rotten your pre-apocalypse is
[12:52.920] All you bible-black fools living over nightmare ground
[12:57.650]
[13:01.460] I see all those empty cradles and wonder
[13:06.200] If man will never change
[13:08.220]
[13:09.130] I' too' wish to be a decent manboy but all I am
[13:14.250] Is smoke and mirrors
[13:16.650] Still given everything' may I be deserving
[13:21.120]
[13:22.920] And there forever remains the change from G to Em
[13:30.220]
[13:32.030] Nightwish - Song Of Myself
[13:34.030]
[13:37.600]

Pinyin

[00:26.200]
[00:45.990] The nightingale is still locked in the cage
[00:50.790] The deep breath I took still poisons my lungs
[00:56.060] An old oak sheltering me from the blue
[01:02.000] Sun bathing on its dead frozen leaves
[01:07.990] A catnap in the ghost town of my heart
[01:12.570] She dreams of storytime and the river ghosts
[01:18.210] Of mermaids' of Whitman' s and the rude
[01:23.640] Raving harlequins' gigantic toys
[01:28.850]
[01:30.250] A song of mea song in need
[01:32.290] Of a courageous symphony
[01:35.650] A verse of mea verse in need
[01:38.720] Of a ppureheart singing me to peace
[01:42.350] All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
[01:45.360] All that great heart lying still on an angelwing
[01:48.590]
[01:50.560] All that great heart lying still
[01:55.910] In silent suffering
[01:58.920] Smiling like a clown until the show has come to an end
[02:03.730] What is left for encore
[02:05.230] Is the same old dead boy' s song
[02:08.640] Sung in silence
[02:10.470] All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
[02:13.380] All that great heart lying still on an angelwing
[02:16.890]
[02:27.450] A midnight flight into Covington Woods
[02:31.530] A princess and a panther by m side
[02:37.350] These are Territories I live for
[02:43.020] I' d still give mt everything to love you more
[02:48.610]
[02:49.330] A song of mea song in need
[02:52.130] Of a courageous symphony
[02:55.390] A verse of mea verse in need
[02:58.420] Of a ppureheart singing me to peace
[03:01.560] All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
[03:05.160] All that great heart lying still on an angelwing
[03:08.360]
[03:11.100] All that great heart lying still
[03:15.720] In silent suffering
[03:18.760] Smiling like a clown until the show has come to an end
[03:23.490] What is left for encore
[03:25.100] Is the same old dead boy' s song
[03:28.140] Sung in silence
[03:30.290] All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
[03:33.170] All that great heart lying still on an angelwing
[03:36.590]
[04:04.400] A silent symphony
[04:13.920] A hollow opus 1' 2' 3
[04:25.870]
[04:29.710] Sometimes the sky is piano black
[04:38.000] Piano black over cleansing waters
[04:50.970]
[04:53.810] Resting pipes' verse of bore
[05:02.490] Rusting keys without a door
[05:15.040]
[05:19.500] Sometimes the within is piano black
[05:27.880] Piano black over cleansing waters
[05:40.870]
[06:09.790]
[06:12.030] All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
[06:15.240] All that great heart lying still on an angelwing
[06:21.660]
[06:24.850] All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
[06:28.650] All that great heart lying still on an angelwing
[06:34.230]
[07:07.370] I see a slow' simple youngster by a busy street'
[07:11.250] with a begging bowl in his shaking hand.
[07:14.230] Trying to smile but hurting infinitely. Nobody notices.
[07:20.790] I do' but walk by.
[07:23.470]
[07:26.500] An old man gets naked and kisses a modeldoll in his attic
[07:31.660] It' s halflight and he' s in tears.
[07:34.090] When he finally comes his eyes are cascading.
[07:38.150]
[07:40.230] I see a beaten dog in a pungent alley. He tries to bite me.
[07:44.880] All pride has left his wild injured eyes.
[07:48.630] I wish I had my leg to spare.
[07:51.720]
[07:55.160] A mother visits her son' smiles to him through the bars.
[07:58.890] She' s never loved him more.
[08:01.060]
[08:02.300] An obese girl enters an elevator with me.
[08:05.460] All dressed up fancy' a green butterfly on her neck.
[08:10.620] Terribly sweeet perfume deafens me.
[08:14.140] She' s going to dinner alone.
[08:17.360] That makes her even more beautiful.
[08:20.380]
[08:21.720] I see a model' s face on a brick wall.
[08:24.080] A statue of porcelain perfection beside a violent city kill.
[08:28.760] A city that worships flesh.
[08:33.860]
[08:47.000] The 1st thing I ever heard was a wandering
[08:50.680] man telling his story
[08:52.930] It was you' the grass under my bare feet
[08:57.150] The campfire in the dead of night
[09:00.590] The heavenly black of sky and sea
[09:04.060]
[09:06.450] It was us
[09:07.430] Roaming the rainy roads' combing the guilded beaches
[09:13.350] Waking up to a new gallery of wonders every morn
[09:18.220] Bathing in places noone' s seen before
[09:23.600] Shipwrecked on some mattpainted island
[09:28.420] Clad in nothing but the surf beauty' s finest robe
[09:35.970]
[09:37.690] Beyond all mortality we are' swinging in the breath of nature
[09:43.700] In early air of the dawn of life
[09:46.810] A sight to silence the heavens
[09:50.120]
[09:54.400] I want to travel where life travels'
[09:56.740] following its permanent lead
[09:59.080] Where the air tastes like snow music
[10:02.180] Where grass smells like freshborn Eden
[10:05.810] I would pass no man' no stranger' no tragedy or rapture
[10:11.220] I would bathe in a world of sensation
[10:14.320] Love' goodness and simplicity
[10:18.510] While violated and imprisoned by technology
[10:25.160]
[10:26.930] The thought of my family' s graves was the only moment
[10:30.750] I used to experience true love
[10:33.190] That love remains infintie'
[10:35.900] as I' ll never be the man my father is
[10:38.930]
[10:40.700] How can you " just be yourself"
[10:43.430] when you don' t know who you are?
[10:44.950] Stop saying " I know how you feel"
[10:47.520] How could anyone know how another feels?
[10:50.420]
[10:52.670] Who am I to judge a priest' beggar'
[10:55.780] whore' politician' wrongdoer?
[10:59.610] I am' you are' all of them already
[11:04.650]
[11:16.620] Dear child' stop working' go play
[11:21.210] Forget every rule
[11:22.830] There' s no fear in a dream
[11:26.740]
[11:28.660] Is there a village inside this snowflake?
[11:32.540] a child aske me
[11:35.540] What' s the colour of our lullaby?
[11:40.310]
[11:41.600] I' ve never bbeen so close to truth as then
[11:46.580] I touched its silver lining
[11:50.570]
[11:54.350] Death is the winner in any war
[11:57.930] Nothing noble in dying for your religion
[12:01.540] For your country
[12:02.760] For ideology' for faith
[12:06.090] For another man' yes
[12:10.860]
[12:17.430] Paper is dead without words
[12:19.890] Ink idle without a poem
[12:22.700] All the world dead without stories
[12:25.740] Without love and disarming beauty
[12:30.300]
[12:32.650] Careless realism costs souls
[12:36.590]
[12:38.300] Ever seen the Lord smile?
[12:39.890] All he care for the world made Beautiful a sad man?
[12:44.440] Why do we still carry a device of torture around our necks?
[12:49.060] Oh' how rotten your preapocalypse is
[12:52.920] All you bibleblack fools living over nightmare ground
[12:57.650]
[13:01.460] I see all those empty cradles and wonder
[13:06.200] If man will never change
[13:08.220]
[13:09.130] I' too' wish to be a decent manboy but all I am
[13:14.250] Is smoke and mirrors
[13:16.650] Still given everything' may I be deserving
[13:21.120]
[13:22.920] And there forever remains the change from G to Em
[13:30.220]
[13:32.030] Nightwish Song Of Myself
[13:34.030]
[13:37.600]