The Poet And The Pendulum Lyrics - Nightwish
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"WHITE LANDS OF EMPATHICA"
The end.
The songwriter's dead.
The blade fell upon him.
Taking him to the white lands
Of Empathica
Of innocence
Empathica
Innocence
"HOME"
The dreamer and the wine
Poet without a rhyme
A widowed writer torn apart by chains of Hell
One last perfect verse
Is still the same old song
Oh Christ how I hate what I have become
Take me home
Getaway, runaway, fly away
Lead me astray to dreamer's hideaway
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
Forgive me
I have but two faces
One for the world
One for God
Save me
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
My home was there 'n then
Those meadows of Heaven
Adventure-filled days
One with every smiling face
Please no more words
Thoughts from a severed head
No more praise
Tell me once my heart goes right
Take me home
Getaway, runaway, fly away
Lead me astray to dreamer's hideaway
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
Forgive me
I have but two faces
One for the world
One for God
Save me
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
"THE PACIFIC"
Sparkle my scenery
With turquoise waterfall
With beauty underneath
The Ever Free
Tuck me in beneath the blue
Beneath the pain, beneath the rain
Goodnight kiss for a child in time
Swaying blade my lullaby
On the shore we sat and hoped
Under the same pale moon
Whose guiding light chose you
Chose you all
"I'm afraid. I'm so afraid.
Being raped again, and again, and again.
I know I will die alone.
But loved.
You live long enough to hear the sound of guns,
long enough to find yourself screaming every night,
long enough to see your friends betray you.
For years I've been strapped unto this altar.
Now I only have 3 minutes in counting.
I just wish the tide would catch me first and give me a death I always longed for".
"DARK PASSION PLAY"
2nd robber to the right of Christ
Cut in half - infanticide
The world will rejoice today
As the crows feast on the rotting poet
Everyone must bury their own
No pack to bury the heart of stone
Now he's home in Hell, serves him well
Slain by the bell, tolling for his farewell
The morning dawned, upon his altar
Remains of the dark passion play
Performed by friends without shame
Spitting on his grave as they came
Getaway, runaway, fly away
Lead me astray to dreamer's hideaway
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
Forgive me
I have but two faces
One for the world
One for God
Save me
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
"Today in the year of our Lord 2005,
Tuomas was called from the cates of the world.
He stopped crying at the end of each beautiful day.
The music he wrote had to long been without silence.
He was found naked and dead,
With a smile on his face, a pen and 1000 pages of erased text."
Save me
"MOTHER & FATHER"
Be still, my son
You're home
Oh, when did you become so cold?
The blade will keep on descending
All you need is to feel my love
Search for beauty, find your shore
Try to save them all, bleed no more
You have such oceans within
In the end
I will always love you
The end.
The songwriter's dead.
The blade fell upon him.
Taking him to the white lands
Of Empathica
Of innocence
Empathica
Innocence
"HOME"
The dreamer and the wine
Poet without a rhyme
A widowed writer torn apart by chains of Hell
One last perfect verse
Is still the same old song
Oh Christ how I hate what I have become
Take me home
Getaway, runaway, fly away
Lead me astray to dreamer's hideaway
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
Forgive me
I have but two faces
One for the world
One for God
Save me
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
My home was there 'n then
Those meadows of Heaven
Adventure-filled days
One with every smiling face
Please no more words
Thoughts from a severed head
No more praise
Tell me once my heart goes right
Take me home
Getaway, runaway, fly away
Lead me astray to dreamer's hideaway
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
Forgive me
I have but two faces
One for the world
One for God
Save me
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
"THE PACIFIC"
Sparkle my scenery
With turquoise waterfall
With beauty underneath
The Ever Free
Tuck me in beneath the blue
Beneath the pain, beneath the rain
Goodnight kiss for a child in time
Swaying blade my lullaby
On the shore we sat and hoped
Under the same pale moon
Whose guiding light chose you
Chose you all
"I'm afraid. I'm so afraid.
Being raped again, and again, and again.
I know I will die alone.
But loved.
You live long enough to hear the sound of guns,
long enough to find yourself screaming every night,
long enough to see your friends betray you.
For years I've been strapped unto this altar.
Now I only have 3 minutes in counting.
I just wish the tide would catch me first and give me a death I always longed for".
"DARK PASSION PLAY"
2nd robber to the right of Christ
Cut in half - infanticide
The world will rejoice today
As the crows feast on the rotting poet
Everyone must bury their own
No pack to bury the heart of stone
Now he's home in Hell, serves him well
Slain by the bell, tolling for his farewell
The morning dawned, upon his altar
Remains of the dark passion play
Performed by friends without shame
Spitting on his grave as they came
Getaway, runaway, fly away
Lead me astray to dreamer's hideaway
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
Forgive me
I have but two faces
One for the world
One for God
Save me
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
"Today in the year of our Lord 2005,
Tuomas was called from the cates of the world.
He stopped crying at the end of each beautiful day.
The music he wrote had to long been without silence.
He was found naked and dead,
With a smile on his face, a pen and 1000 pages of erased text."
Save me
"MOTHER & FATHER"
Be still, my son
You're home
Oh, when did you become so cold?
The blade will keep on descending
All you need is to feel my love
Search for beauty, find your shore
Try to save them all, bleed no more
You have such oceans within
In the end
I will always love you
Writer: HOLOPAINEN, TUOMAS LAURI JOHANNES
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Absolutely outstanding | Reviewer: John | 10/12/12
It's a shame Nightwish hasn't made it to mainstream. We haven't seen music writing like this since the era of classical music. I can't express how much brilliance goes into so much of their music
this is a breathtaking song <3 | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/4/12
I seriously can't believe there's people that has bad things to say about nightwish...if you are sitting there and just thinking that this band sucks then you are wrong..every word in their songs mean something maybe some people should listen to the lyrics more than listen to the instrumentals of their songs... (::
Lyrics :) | Reviewer: Janny | 5/31/12
My god.
The first time i was told of this song was from my brother and he said it was based on the Stefan King series The Dark Tower. :0 I cried when i heard this. I won't spoil the books but man oh man do i <3 nightwish even more.
This is a different singer? Hehe such a noob but i quite like the sound. Tarja is good but so is the new chick.
BTW the whole song is a reference haha good stuff
Beautiful | Reviewer: Sebastian | 3/17/12
In light of their newest album, "Imaginaerum", I couldn't help but listen to the piece of beauty again. Poet and the Pendulum has got to be by far my favourite piece on the "Dark Passion Play" album.
One could not simply look past this song without putting some thought into it. It's beautiful; it's poetry. Every time I listen to this song it persuades me to read some of the great Romantic classics of English Literature, "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel-Taylor Coleridge, for example; and, those with a bit of education into English Literature would absolutely understand why.
If I could get a message out to people across the world, I'd simply say move on. Nothing confuses me more than apparent fans complaining about new singers or new playing styles. Bands should not be expected to stagnate and constantly play the same style over and over. In my opinion, Tuomas has done an absolutely fantastic job at changing the musical style of Nightwish to fit well with their new, very talented vocalist, while still maintaining the important sounds that make Nightwish the fantastic symphonic metal band they are.
Now that's what I call music... | Reviewer: Ryan H. | 9/8/11
...19! jk, no seriously, this song is kick-ass! "I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more," instant favourite saying right there. I actually laughed when I heard that line. xD speaking of which, did anyone else notice how emotional this song makes you? I mean, it's not just the lyrics (which I can't completely understand half of the time anyway), but the music itself. I get chills every time I listen to it, almost teared once. I also LOVE how the intro sounds like it came straight from an action movie. :D
Gotta say this song is my favourite of all Nightwish songs, and it'd be my all-time favourite if not for one small detail I happen to disagree with: after the child says he's so afraid, I kinda wish they would've used another word instead of "raped." Tortured, beaten, harassed, or what-have-you, I just don't like the word. It's a powerful word at purpose, yes, understandable, but perhaps a bit too powerful. That's my opinion, at least.
So yeah, excellent work, Nightwish, as usual. C:
Oh, by the way. I'm starting to get a little annoyed at the fact that people think Anette's a skank, and sucks, and needs to be replaced, and is just a pawn in the band that only sings, doesn't contribute, blah blah blah. Hey, if you've nothing positive to say, stuff it. Go spam somewhere else, like an ancient forum post or something. No one wants to hear it. :U And quit saying Nightwish is dead, 'cause they're not. I'm still listening to their music, aren't I (and thousands of other people)? Hell, even Media Molecule just recently decided to include one of Nightwish's instrumental songs in their newest game LitleBIGPlanet 2. Nightwish is far from dead.
I, personally, happen to like her voice. I think she fits in perfectly with the band. C:
This sucks. | Reviewer: SL | 8/28/11
maybe the boy soprano should sing for Nightwish full time. It's different enough from Tarja's lyric soprano and yet better than Annette Olzon's raspy rock voice.
The instrumental rocks, no thanks to Annette. At least Tarja will come up with her own tune--the band give her lyrics and music while she figure out where to insert the words. This Annette can't even be bothered to do that.
Wow :') | Reviewer: James | 5/1/11
when i heard this song i cried a bit drastic i know but oh well and also when marco starts singing along at the end it makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck its beautiful but i don't know if thats only in the live version i have oh well
Amazing | Reviewer: Anonymous | 4/10/11
I loved this song to the extreme. I managed to listen to this song and nothing else for 5 days. My friends got kinda pissed at me for ignoring them for this song. I love it becuase there are so many different moods and emotions I stopped needing other songs to fill the balance I once lacked. I can now have all emotions in one song. Plus, this is Nightwish's best song ever made I still wonder why it is not a best seller. (if I am not mistaken Aramanth sold more)
*sigh* this is real beauty | Reviewer: singwhatyoucan'tsay | 3/17/11
The title says it all. This is my favorite song, because it goes through so many emotions...I don't think the opera vocals in part one are supposed to produce feelings of musical bliss, but that's what they do to me.
The bad thing with the clip from this song is it's from part I, with the opera singer--even though those vocals give me chills every time, I don't like that someone would hear it and instantly think of NW as an operatic band, which they are not.
Katie, I completely agree with you! I've stopped listening to the radio since I've discovered symphonic/Gothic metal. The stuff on the radio is just crap compared to beauty like this. I put on a metal station, and all I get is these dudes singing/screaming/whining about stuff that has no meaning to me, even if it IS a breakup song, it seems like the mainstream stuff isn't that well written...give me Nightwish, Within Temptation, Saviour Machine--give me something with INTELLIGENCE and I will be happy. Give me mainstream music and I'll feel like my head's going to explode.
Brilliant | Reviewer: A fan | 1/3/11
Love it. Tuomas is very talented to write a song as long as this, lyrics are good and so is the music.
I think for the mother & father bit, the lyrics would be even better if they were written by Tuomas's Mum as it's from his mother's point of view
More people need to wake up! | Reviewer: Katie | 12/27/10
I just want to say that I wish more people knew about Nightwish and other bands like them, because their music is real art. Unlike a lot of what's on the radio.
I am from America too =] Great country and all, but totally deaf when it comes to popular music. People are -obsessed- with mirroring each other. Everyone just wants to agree on what is ok to listen to, and anything different is stupid. It makes me wonder how people manage o get any fulfillment out of music!
I should quit now before this gets too long haha. I have a tendency to do that. ^_^
music is modern poetry and more people need to realize that! And the best of it always seems to come from Finland! (WHY does it have to e so far away? DX)
Stunning | Reviewer: Mikaela | 12/11/10
I am an American and in love with Finnish bands. The band Nightwish has some of the most beautiful lyrics I have ever heard. This song is so beautiful, yet tragically written. Tuomas,in my opinion is truly a poet, and musical genius. I cried the first time I heard TPATP and it took me a while before I could sing-a-long with it without crying. I wrote the ending of one of my books to the instrumental version of this song. Absolutely inspiring to me. If my books ever make it to big screen status, I've said that I want Tuomas to compose the soundtrack to my series.
The Poet Wishes He Had an Angel | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/4/10
This was a pretty cool song. It reflects how Tuomas felt at the time; he was distraught and miserable, but he also knew that there was a light at the end of the tunnel. However, it would have been even better if Tarja had sung it.
How can it be?? | Reviewer: Mich | 12/1/10
Hmmm...so he has a pen and 1000 pages of *erased* text?? If he has a pen, how can he erase his text? Sorry, it doesn't make any sense to me. I thought the lyrics were a mistake, so I listened to the song and they do say "pen". I would have thought a pencil could erase text....unless he has one of those eraseable pens!! I doubt it though.
Simply Awesome =) | Reviewer: Jayrde | 10/10/10
This is my favourite Nightwish song! Dark Passion Play was a most amazing album, and the first and last songs were the two best, in that order. The Poet and the Pendulum is just incredible. A true masterpiece of symphonic metal. A fitting tribute to the talents of this band.
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