01. Stargazers
02. Gethsamane
03. Devil & The Deep Dark Ocean
04. Sacrament of Wilderness
05. Passion and the Opera
06. Swanheart
07. Moondance
08. The Riddler
09. The Pharao Sails to Orion
10. Walking in the Air

"Disgraced in my virginity
Death has woven my wedding dress
Oh, Great Blue, breathe for morning dew
For you ware the cradle for the image of God"

"Brave now, long rest is sweet
With me here in the deep"

"I prayed for pleasure, wished for love
Prayed for your..."

"Never pray for me!"

"Who the hell are you for me
But a mortal dream to see"

"This apathetic life must drown
Forver just for me"

"Leave me be
Leave me be
Leave me be.. ee eeee... e"

"From cradle to coffin
shall my wickedness be you passion"

We shall come to set the dolphins free
We shall wash the darkened bloodred sea
Our songs will echo over the mountains and seas
The eternity will begin once again in peace

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Sacrament of Wilderness (4:12)
Text & Music: Erno Kuorinen, Toumas Holopainen

Naked in midwinter magic
Lies an angel in the snow
- The froze figure crossed by tracks of wolves
An encounter, symbolic, yet truthful
With a hungry choir of woods
An agreement immemorial to be born

Dulcet elvenharps from a dryad forest
Accompany all charming tunes
of a sacrament by the campfire
A promise between the tameless
and the one with a tool
Tonight the journey from a cave begins

I want to hunt with the tameless heart
I want to learn the wisdom of mountains afar
We will honor the angel in the snow
We will make the streams for our children flow

Wrapped in furs beneath the norhtern lights
From my cave I watch the land untamed
And wonder if some becomming season
Will make the angel melt in shame

(repeat chorus)

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Passion and the Opera (4:50)
Text & Music: Toumas Holopainen

Princess of lust
Dignity put to dust
A virginal sight
Their apple to bite

Drink from my thighs
The rain of lies
A sight so cursed:
Breast which never nursed

An Aphrodite for mortal souls
Playing hide and seek in lecherous roles
Their erotic hour, my tearless weep
Their satisfaction, my infinite sleep

Naked limbs reflecting from the moon
I'll be there for you soon
First wish for this night:
Let me be your delight

Body of a virgin
Soul to the Devil's kin
Your God is me
In all that you see

An Aphrodite for mortal souls
Playing hide and seek in lecherous roles
Their erotic hour, my tearless weep
Their satisfaction, my infinite sleep

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Swanheart (4:44)
Text & Music: Toumas Holopainen

All the beautiful people
I want to have them all
All those porcelain models
If only I could make them fall

Be my heart a well of love
Flowing free so far above

A wintry eve
Once upon a tale
An Ugly DUckling
Lost in a verse
Of a sparrow's carrol
Dreaming the stars

Be my heart a well of love
Flowing free so far above

In my world
Love is for poets
Never the famous balcony scene
Just a dying faith
On the heaven's gate

Crystal pond awaits the larn
Tonight another morn for the lonely one is born

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Moondance (3:31)
Music: Toumas Holopainen

(instrumental)

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The Riddler (5:16)
Text & Music: Toumas Holopainen

Riddler, Riddler ask me why
The birds fly free on the mackarel sky
Ask me whither goes the winds
Whence the endless tick-tick streams begins

Make me guess if the Earth is flat or round
Set a quessing if fantasies are unbound
If tales aren't just for children to see
That it's peace if sleep walks with me

As you wish
For kingdom come
The one th know all the answsers
You think you dwell in wisdoms sea
Still sweet ignorance is the key
To a poet's paradise
Challange the Riddler and you will see..

Riddler, Riddler ask me why
All mothers beneath the Earth and sky
Hold their children's hand for a while
Their hearts forever... yours and mine

Make me wonder what's the meaning of life
What's the use to be born and then die
Make me guess who's the one
Behind the mask of Father and Son

(repeat chorus)

For nature hates virginity
I wish to be touched
Not by the hands of where's and why's
But by the Oceans Mind

(repeat chorus)

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The Pharao Sails to Orion (6:27)
Text & Music: Toumas Holopainen

A constellation of devine architecture built on Earth
A holy harbour - Orion
Nautical ascension to the firmament

Ship-shaped barrows open my heart to the wisdom of this land
Sailing with the Serpent Chimera of a fiendish sandman

The Unicorn arrives with the westwind to dream His funeral
"Thou art born for Horus dwells in Thee"

Slumbering with the ebb and the flow of this foaming tomb
"Thou art born for Seteh dwells in Thee"

Reveal your face to me and gide me through the Stygian fields
Ethral my soul to Sepedet's beams to serve your will

Sailing on the distant seas from darkness to deliverance
Tales like the ocean written to the Draco's glance

Ruling with the scythe of death you tear our philosophies apart
An ancient starwalk to merge into the stars

"Open thy veins for the venom
Kill the cobras with thy twisted tongue
So shalt thou join the empyrean circus
Where beggars mourn and seraphs dance
In this twilight cathedral
Shall I wed thee,
O Bride of the Netherworld"

(repeat chorus)

Join my soul the Hunter in the sky

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Walking in the Air (5:28)
(Theme from 'The Snowman')
Text & Music: Howard Blake

We're walking in the air
We're floating in the moonlit sky
The people far below are sleeping as we fly
I'm holding very tight
I'm riding in the midnight blue
I'm finding I can fly so high above with you

Far across the world
The villages go by like dreams
The rivers and the hills
The forest and the streams

Children gaze open mouth
Taken by surprise
Nobody down below believes there eyes

We're surfing in the air
We're swimming in the frozen sky
We're drifting over icy
mountains floating by

Suddenly swopping low on an ocean deep
Arousing of a mighty monster from it's sleep

We're walking in the air
We're floating in the midnight sky
And everyone who sees us greets us as we fly
I'm holding very tight
I'm riding in the midnight blue
I'm finding I can fly so high above with you

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