Dark Passion Play
A Nightwish Songfic, set in Roman times, about a sailor who offends the Egyptian Gods and is doomed to spend eternity as guide to help souls find the gates of heaven, if other heavenly beings can't help him.
The song lyrics are:
Sahara
A ballad of dark queen echoes through night
As he flees the curse of gods, the pharaoh`s wrath.
[Chorus:]
One thousand one nights unseen,
The philosopher and the queen.
Ancient mariner in a sea of sand,
The burning beauty his tomb to die for.
[Chorus]
(Horizon`s swarming with death
Run!)
Heaven has a darkened face,
Dunes are soaring as on a chase.
Caravan of the cursed
Chasing him across the waves.
May he now rest under aegis of mirage
As the sands slowly turn to Elysian fields.
[Chorus]
(One thousand one)
[Chorus]
(One thousand one)
(One thousand one)
(One thousand one)
The Islander
An old man by a sea shore at the end of day
Gazes the horizon with sea winds in his face.
Tempest-tossed island, seasons all the same.
Anchorage unpainted and a ship without a name.
Sea without a shore for the vanished one unheard
He lightens the beacon, light at the end of world.
Showing the way, lighting hope in their hearts,
The ones and their travels homeward from afar.
[Chorus:]
This is for long-forgotten light at the end of the world.
Horizon's crying the tears he left behind long ago.
The albatross is flying, making him daydream
The time before he became - one of the world`s unseen
Princess in the tower, children in the fields -
Life gave him it all: an island of the universe.
Now his love`s a memory, a ghost in the fog.
He sets the sails one last time saying farewell to the world.
Anchor to the water, seabed far below,
Grass still in his feet and a smile beneath his brow.
[Chorus x2]
DISCLAIMER: Both songs are by Nightwish, I don't own them.
The song lyrics are:
Sahara
A ballad of dark queen echoes through night
As he flees the curse of gods, the pharaoh`s wrath.
[Chorus:]
One thousand one nights unseen,
The philosopher and the queen.
Ancient mariner in a sea of sand,
The burning beauty his tomb to die for.
[Chorus]
(Horizon`s swarming with death
Run!)
Heaven has a darkened face,
Dunes are soaring as on a chase.
Caravan of the cursed
Chasing him across the waves.
May he now rest under aegis of mirage
As the sands slowly turn to Elysian fields.
[Chorus]
(One thousand one)
[Chorus]
(One thousand one)
(One thousand one)
(One thousand one)
The Islander
An old man by a sea shore at the end of day
Gazes the horizon with sea winds in his face.
Tempest-tossed island, seasons all the same.
Anchorage unpainted and a ship without a name.
Sea without a shore for the vanished one unheard
He lightens the beacon, light at the end of world.
Showing the way, lighting hope in their hearts,
The ones and their travels homeward from afar.
[Chorus:]
This is for long-forgotten light at the end of the world.
Horizon's crying the tears he left behind long ago.
The albatross is flying, making him daydream
The time before he became - one of the world`s unseen
Princess in the tower, children in the fields -
Life gave him it all: an island of the universe.
Now his love`s a memory, a ghost in the fog.
He sets the sails one last time saying farewell to the world.
Anchor to the water, seabed far below,
Grass still in his feet and a smile beneath his brow.
[Chorus x2]
DISCLAIMER: Both songs are by Nightwish, I don't own them.