The Poet And The Pendulum (Instrumental Version)

Song The Poet And The Pendulum (Instrumental Version)
Artist Nightwish
Album Dark Passion Play

Lyrics

[00:19.370] white lands of empathica
[00:28.440] the end
[00:32.890]
[00:33.490] the songwriter's dead
[00:39.900] the blade fell upon him
[00:45.210]
[00:45.810] taking him to the white lands
[00:52.310]
[00:52.820] of empathica
[00:55.670] of innocence
[01:05.430]
[01:06.530] empathica
[01:13.280] innocence
[01:27.390] home
[02:00.850] the dreamer and the wine
[02:03.350]
[02:04.210] poet without a rhyme
[02:06.810]
[02:07.560] a widowed writer torn apart by chains of hell
[02:13.370]
[02:13.910] one last perfect verse
[02:17.170] is still the same old song
[02:19.920]
[02:20.870] oh christ how i hate what i have become
[02:27.640]
[02:28.540] take me home
[02:30.940]
[02:33.090] getaway runaway flyaway
[02:35.840] lead me astray to dreamer's hideaway
[02:39.050] i cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
[02:42.510] i cannot die i a whore for the cold world
[02:45.910] forgive me
[02:47.210] i have but two faces
[02:48.920] one for the world
[02:50.570] one for god
[02:51.680] save me
[02:52.330] i cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
[02:55.330] i cannot die i a whore for the cold world
[02:59.140]
[03:13.770] my home was there 'n then
[03:16.880] those meadows of heaven
[03:20.430] adventure-filled days
[03:23.580] one with every smiling face
[03:26.630] please no more words
[03:29.390]
[03:30.340] thoughts from a severed head
[03:32.440]
[03:33.700] no more praise
[03:36.760] tell me once my heart goes right
[03:39.260]
[03:41.310] take me home
[03:43.720]
[03:45.720] getaway runaway fly away
[03:48.930] lead me astray to dreamer's hideaway
[03:51.880] i cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
[03:55.130] i cannot die i a whore for the cold world
[03:58.630] forgive me
[03:59.680] i have but two faces
[04:01.790] one for the world
[04:03.090] one for god
[04:04.440] save me
[04:05.090] i cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
[04:08.090] i cannot die i a whore for the cold world
[04:11.500]
[04:20.050] the pacific
[04:49.620] sparkle my scenery
[04:58.140] with turquoise waterfall
[05:03.050] with beauty underneath
[05:06.250] the ever free
[05:08.960]
[05:11.070] tuck me in beneath the blue
[05:19.840] beneath the pain beneath the rain
[05:26.560]
[05:28.610] goodnight kiss for a child in time
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[05:37.130] swaying blade my lullaby
[05:42.730]
[05:52.000] On the shore we sat and hoped
[05:58.970]
[05:59.970] under the same pale moon
[06:03.870] whose guiding light chose you
[06:08.280] chose you all
[06:10.230]
[06:33.180] I`m afraid I`m so afraid
[06:34.980] Being raped again and again and again
[06:37.640] I know I will die alone
[06:39.440] But loved
[06:39.890] you live long enough to hear the sound of guns
[06:43.640] long enough to find yourself screaming every night
[06:46.650] long enough to see your friends betray you
[06:49.960] for eleven years i've been strapped unto this altar
[06:53.110] now i only have 3 minutes and counting
[06:57.070] i just wish the tide would catch me first
[07:00.020] and give me a death i always longed for
[07:09.480] dark passion play
[07:10.430]
[08:20.710] 2nd robber to the right of christ
[08:21.810] cut in half - infanticide
[08:22.610] the world will rejoice today
[08:22.810] as the crows feast on the rotting poet
[08:34.580] everyone must bury their own
[08:35.830] no pack to bury the heart of stone
[08:41.730] now he's home in hell serves him well
[08:44.530] slain by the bell tolling for his farewell
[08:48.450] the morning dawned upon his altar
[08:51.350] remains of the dark passion play
[08:54.460] performed by his friends without shame
[08:57.320] spitting on his grave as they came
[09:00.220] getaway runaway fly away
[09:03.480]
[09:04.190] lead me astray to dreamer's hideaway
[09:07.440] i cannot cry `cause the shoulder cries more
[09:10.890] i cannot die i a whore for the cold world
[09:14.140] forgive me
[09:15.440] i have but two faces
[09:17.440] one for the world
[09:19.040] one for god
[09:20.390] Save me
[09:20.890] I cannot cry `cause the shoulder cries more
[09:23.550] I cannot die I a whore for the cold world
[09:26.600] a whore for the cold world
[09:30.400] a whore for the cold world
[09:35.760] Today in the year of our Lord 2005
[09:38.860] Tuomas was called from the cares of the world
[09:42.020] He stopped crying at the end of each beautiful day
[09:44.570] The music he wrote had too long been without silence
[09:48.020] He was found naked and dead
[09:50.820] With a smile in his face a pen and 1000 pages of erased text
[09:54.170] Save me
[10:01.790] MOTHER & FATHER
[10:03.340]
[10:56.850] Be still my son
[11:09.210]
[11:10.970] You`re home
[11:12.870]
[11:19.970] Oh when did you become so cold
[11:25.530]
[11:32.780] The blade will keep on descending
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[11:45.140] All you need is to feel my love
[11:52.260]
[12:00.020] Search for beauty find your shore
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[12:11.150] Try to save them all bleed no more
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[12:25.020] You have such oceans within
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[12:38.760] In the end
[12:40.860] I will always love you
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[13:00.510] The beginning