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[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
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[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
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[13:32.030]Nightwish - Song Of Myself
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