[ti:The Poet And The Pendulum] [ar:Nightwish] [al:Dark Passion Play] [00:00.01]The Poet And The Pendulum [00:03.00]Band: Nightwish [00:06.01]Album: Dark Passion Play [00:09.01] [00:24.01]”WHITE LANDS OF EMPATHICA” [00:25.51] [00:26.50]The end. [00:33.00]The songwriter`s dead. [00:39.00]The blade fell upon him [00:45.00]Taking him to the white lands [00:52.00]Of Empathica [00:59.00]Of Innocence [01:06.00]Empathica [01:12.00]Innocence [01:14.00] [01:58.00]”HOME” [01:59.30] [02:00.30]The dreamer and the wine [02:03.30]Poet without a rhyme [02:07.30]A widowed writer torn apart by chains of hell [02:13.50]One last perfect verse [02:16.00]Is still the same old song [02:20.20]Oh Christ how I hate what I have become [02:28.00]Take me home [02:32.50]Getaway, runaway, fly away [02:35.00]Lead me astray to dreamer`s hideaway [02:38.00]I cannot cry `cause the shoulder cries more [02:42.00]I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world [02:45.00]Forgive me [02:46.00]I have but two faces [02:48.00]One for the world [02:50.00]One for God [02:51.10]Save me [02:52.00]I cannot cry `cause the shoulder cries more [02:55.00]I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world [03:12.00] [03:13.00]My home was there `n then [03:16.00]Those meadows of heaven [03:20.00]Adventure-filled days [03:22.30]One with every smiling face [03:26.00]Please, no more words [03:29.00]Thoughts from a severed head [03:33.00]No more praise [03:35.00]Tell me once my heart goes right [03:40.00]Take me home [03:45.00]Getaway, runaway, fly away [03:48.00]Lead me astray to dreamer`s hideaway [03:51.00]I cannot cry `cause the shoulder cries more [03:55.00]I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world [03:58.00]Forgive me [03:59.00]I have but two faces [04:01.00]One for the world [04:03.00]One for God [04:04.00]Save me [04:04.50]I cannot cry `cause the shoulder cries more [04:08.00]I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world [04:12.00] [04:47.00]”THE PACIFIC” [04:48.00] [04:49.00]Sparkle my scenery [04:57.00]With turquoise waterfall [05:01.00]With beauty underneath [05:05.50]The Ever Free [05:10.00]Tuck me in beneath the blue [05:18.00]Beneath the pain, beneath the rain [05:27.00]Goodnight kiss for a child in time [05:36.40]Swaying blade my lullaby [05:50.00] [05:51.00]On the shore we sat and hoped [05:59.00]Under the same pale moon [06:03.00]Whose guiding light chose you [06:07.00]Chose you all [06:31.00] [06:32.00]” I`m afraid. I`m so afraid. [06:34.00]Being raped again, and again, and again [06:37.00]I know I will die alone. [06:38.20]But loved. [06:39.00] [06:40.00]You live long enough to hear the sound of guns, [06:42.00]long enough to find yourself screaming every night, [06:46.00]long enough to see your friends betray you. [06:49.00] [06:50.00]For years I`ve been strapped unto this altar. [06:52.00]Now I only have 3 minutes and counting. [06:56.00]I just wish the tide would catch me first and give me a death I always longed for ”. [06:58.00] [08:05.00]”DARK PASSION PLAY” [08:06.00] [08:07.00]2nd robber to the right of Christ [08:11.00]Cut in half - infanticide [08:14.00]The world will rejoice today [08:16.00]As the crows feast on the rotting poet [08:33.00] [08:34.00]Everyone must bury their own [08:37.00]No pack to bury the heart of stone [08:40.00]Now he`s home in hell, serves him well [08:43.00]Slain by the bell, tolling for his farewell [08:46.00] [08:47.00]The morning dawned, upon his altar [08:50.00]Remains of the dark passion play [08:53.00]Performed by his friends without shame [08:57.00]Spitting on his grave as they came [09:00.00]Getaway, runaway, fly away [09:03.00]Lead me astray to dreamer`s hideaway [09:06.00]I cannot cry `cause the shoulder cries more [09:09.00]I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world [09:14.00]Forgive me [09:15.00]I have but two faces [09:16.00]One for the world [09:18.00]One for God [09:19.00]Save me [09:20.00]I cannot cry `cause the shoulder cries more [09:23.00]I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world [09:33.00] [09:34.00]Today, in the year of our Lord 2005, [09:37.00]Tuomas was called from the cares of the world. [09:40.00]He stopped crying at the end of each beautiful day. [09:44.00]The music he wrote had too long been without silence. [09:48.00]He was found naked and dead, [09:50.00]With a smile in his face, a pen and 1000 pages of erased text.” [09:56.00]Save me [09:57.00] [11:03.00]”MOTHER & FATHER” [11:03.50] [11:04.00]Be still, my son [11:10.00]You`re home [11:19.00]Oh when did you become so cold? [11:31.00]The blade will keep on descending [11:44.00]All you need is to feel my love [11:51.00] [11:58.30]Search for beauty, find your shore [12:10.00]Try to save them all, bleed no more [12:24.00]You have such oceans within [12:37.00]In the end [12:39.00]I will always love you [12:46.00] [12:58.00]The beginning. [12:59.50]