Nightwish - Song Of Myself
1. From a Dusty Bookshelf 2. All That Great Heart Lying Still The nightingale is still locked in the cage
The deep breath I took still poisons my lungs
An old oak sheltering me from the blue
Sun bathing on its dead frozen leaves A catnap in the ghost town of my heart
She dreams of storytime and the river ghosts
Of mermaids, of Whitman's and the ride
Raving harlequins, gigantic toys A song of me a song in need
Of a courageous symphony
A verse of me verse in need
Of a pure-heart singing me to peace All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
All that great heart lying still on an angelwing All that great heart lying still
In silent suffering
Smiling like a clown until the show has come to an end
What is left for encore
Is the same old dead boy's song
Sung in silence
All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
All that great heart lying still on an angelwing A midnight flight into Covington Woods
A princess and a panther by my side
These are Territories I live for
I'd still give it everything to love you more A song of me a song in need
Of a courageous symphony
A verse of me verse in need
Of a pure-heart singing me to peace All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
All that great heart lying still on an angelwing Now all that great heart lying still
In silent suffering
Smiling like a clown until the show has come to an end
What is left for encore
Is the same old dead boy's song
Sung in silence
All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
All that great heart lying still on an angelwing 3. Piano Black A silent symphony
A hollow opus #1,2,3 Sometimes the sky is piano black
Piano black over cleansing waters Resting pipes, verse of bore
Rusting keys without a door Sometimes the within is piano black
Piano black over cleansing waters All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
All that great heart lying still on an angelwing 4. Love I see a slow, simple youngster by a busy street,
With a begging bowl in his shaking hand.
Trying to smile but hurting infinitely. Nobody notices.
I do, but walk by. An old man gets naked and kisses a model-doll in his attic
It's half-light and he's in tears.
When he finally comes his eyes are cascading. I see a beaten dog in a pungent alley. He tries to bite me.
All pride has left his wild drooling eyes.
I wish I had my leg to spare. A mother visits her son, smiles to him through the bars.
She's never loved him more. An obese girl enters an elevator with me.
All dressed up fancy, a green butterfly on her neck.
Terribly sweet perfume deafens me.
She's going to dinner alone.Nightwish - Song Of Myself - http://motolyrics.com/nightwish/song-of-myself-lyrics-croatian-translation.html
That makes her even more beautiful. I see a model's face on a brick wall.
A statue of porcelain perfection beside a violent city kill.
A city that worships flesh. The 1st thing I ever heard was a wandering man telling his story
It was you, the grass under my bare feet
The campfire in the dead of night
The heavenly black of sky and sea It was us
Roaming the rainy roads, combing the gilded beaches
Waking up to a new gallery of wonders every morn
Bathing in places no-one's seen before
Shipwrecked on some matt-painted island
Clad in nothing but the surf - beauty's finest robe Beyond all mortality we are, swinging in the breath of nature
In early air of the dawn of life
A sight to silence the heavens I want to travel where life travels,
Following its permanent lead
Where the air tastes like snow music
Where grass smells like fresh-born Eden
I would pass no man, no stranger, no tragedy or rapture
I would bathe in a world of sensation
Love, goodness and simplicity
(While violated and imprisoned by technology) The thought of my family's graves was the only moment
I used to experience true love
That love remains infinite,
As I'll never be the man my father is How can you "just be yourself"
When you don't know who you are?
Stop saying "I know how you feel"
How could anyone know how another feels? Who am I to judge a priest, beggar,
Whore, politician, wrongdoer?
I am, you are, all of them already Dear child, stop working, go play
Forget every rule
There's no fear in a dream Is there a village inside this snowflake?
A child ask me
What's the colour of our lullaby? I've never been so close to truth as then
I touched its silver lining Death is the winner in any war
Nothing noble in dying for your religion
For your country
For ideology, for faith
For another man, yes Paper is dead without words
Ink idle without a poem
All the world dead without stories
Without love and disarming beauty Careless realism costs souls Ever seen the Lord smile?
All he care for the world made Beautiful a sad man?
Why do we still carry a device of torture around our necks?
Oh, how rotten your pre-apocalypse is
All you bible-black fools living over nightmare ground I see all those empty cradles and wonder
If man will never change I, too, wish to be a decent manboy but all I am
Is smoke and mirrors
Still given everything, may I be deserving And there forever remains the change from G to Em
Nightwish - Pjesma o meni (Croatian translation)
1. Iz prašnjave police za knjige
2. Sva velika srca mirno počivaju
Slavuj je još uvijek zaključan u kavezu
Duboko sam udahnuo otrov koji još uvijek truje moja pluća
Stari hrast me štiti od tuge
Sunce se kupa na njegovom smrznutom lišću
Drijemajući u sablasnom gradu moga srca
Ona sanja o vremenu za priču i rječnim duhovima
O sirenama, o Whitmanovim djelima i vožnji
o bezumnim harlekinima i divovskim igračkama
Pjesma o meni, pjesma kojoj treba
smjela simfonija
Stih o meni, stih kojem treba
čisto srce da me umiruje pjevanjem
Sva velika srca mirno počivaju i polako umiru
Sva velika srca mirno počivaju na krilu anđela
Sva velika srca mirno počivaju
u tihoj patnji
Smiješeći se poput klauna dok predstava ne završi
Ono što ostaje za bis
je ista stara pjesma mrtvog dječaka
pjevana u tišini
Sva velika srca mirno počivaju i polako umiru
Sva velika srca mirno počivaju na krilu anđela
Ponoćni let u šume Convingtona
Princeza i pantera su uz mene
Ovo su mjesta za koja živim
Još uvijek bih dao sve da te volim više
Pjesma o meni, pjesma kojoj treba
smjela simfonija
Stih o meni, stih kojem treba
čisto srce da me umiruje pjevanjem
Sva velika srca mirno počivaju i polako umiru
Sva velika srca mirno počivaju na krilu anđela
Sad sva velika srca mirno počivaju
u tihoj patnji
Smiješeći se poput klauna dok predstava ne završi
Ono što ostaje za bis
je ista stara pjesma mrtvog dječaka
pjevana u tišini
Sva velika srca mirno počivaju i polako umiru
Sva velika srca mirno počivaju na krilu anđela
3. Crno poput klavira
Tiha simfonija
Isprazan opus #1,2,3
Ponekad je nebo crno poput klavira
Crno poput klavira iznad pročišćavajućih voda
Umirujuće frule, dosadni stih
Zahrđali ključevi bez vratiju
Ponekad je duša crna poput klavira
Crna poput klavira iznad pročišćavajućih voda
Sva velika srca mirno počivaju i polako umiru
Sva velika srca mirno počivaju na krilu anđela
4. Ljubav
Vidim sporog, običnog mladića na užurbanoj ulici
koji drhtavim rukama prosi milostinju
pokušava se smijati ali to mu nanosi beskrajnu bol.
Nitko ne primjećuje. Ja da, ali samo prolazim pored njega
Starac se svlači i ljubi lutku na svom tavanu.
Polumrak je a on je u suzama
I kad napkon svrši, njegove suze se slivaju poput slapa
Vidim pretučenog psa u uličici koja zaudara. Pokušava me ugristi.
Sav ponos je napustio njegove divlje suzne oči.
Da barem imam jednu suvišnu nogu
Majka posjećuje svog sina, smije mu se kroz rešetke
nikad ga nije voljela više
Pretila djevojka ulazi u dizalo sa mnom.
Sva lijepo sređena, zeleni leptir na njenom vratu.
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Ide na večeru sama.
To je čini još ljepšom.
Vidim lice manekenke na zidu od cigle
Kip porculanskog savršenstva u nasilnom gradu-ubojici
Gradu koji štuje meso.
Prva stvar koju sam ikad čula je bio lutajući čovjek koji priča svoju priču
To si bio ti, trava ispod mojih bosih nogu
Logorska vatra u mrtvilu noći
Nebesko crnilo neba i mora
To smo bili mi
Lutali kišnim stazama, prolazili pozlaćenim plažama
Budeći se u novoj galeriji čuda svako jutro
Kupajući se na nikad prije viđenim mjestima
Nasukani na mat-obojanim otocima
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Iznad smo svake smrtnosti, njišući se na dahu prirode
u jutarnjem zraku zore života
Prizor koji bi ušutkao Nebo
Želim putovati kuda putuje život
pod njegovim trajnim vodstvom
Gdje zrak ima okus snježne glazbe
Gdje trava miriše kao novorođeni Eden
Ne bih susretao ni čovjeka, ni stranca, ni tragediju, ni zanos
Kupao bih se u svijetu senzacije
Ljubavi, dobrote i jednostavnosti
(Narušen i zarobljen tehnologijom)
Misao na grobove moje obitelji je bio jedini trenutak
kad sam doživljavao istinsku ljubav
Ta ljubav ostaje beskrajna
pošto nikad neću biti čovjek kakav je moj otac
Kako možeš samo ''biti svoj''
Kad ni ne znaš tko si?
Prestani govoriti ''Znam kako se osjećaš''
Kako itko može znati kako se netko osjeća?
Tko sam ja da sudim svećeniku, prosjaku
kurvi, političaru, grešniku?
Ja sam, ti si, svi oni već
Drago dijete, prestani raditi, pođi se igrati
Zaboravi na sva pravila
U snovima nema straha
Postoji li selo u pahuljici?
Dijete me pitalo
Kakve je boje naša uspavanka?
Nikad nisam bio tako blizu istini kao tada
kad sam dotaknuo njenu svjetlu stranu
Smrt je pobjednik u svakom ratu
Nema ničeg plemenitog u umiranju za svoju religiju
Za svoju zemlju
Za ideologiju, za vjeru
Za drugog čovjeka, da
Papir je mrtav bez riječi
Tinta miruje bez pjesme
Sav svijet je mrtav bez priča
Bez ljubavi i mile ljepote
Bezbrižan realizam nas stoji duša
Jesi li ikad vidio Gospodina kako se smiješi?
Zar je sva briga za svijet učinila Prekrasnog tužnim čovjekom?
Zašto i dalje nosimo sprave za mučenje oko naših vratova?
O kako je trula vaša predapokalipsa
Vi zlobne lude koje proživljavate dno noćne more
Vidim sve one prazne kolijevke i pitam se
hoće li se čovjek ikad promijeniti
Ja bih također htio biti dostojan mladić, ali sve što jesam su dim i odrazi
Sve mi je dano, zaslužujem li bar nešto
I ondje zauvijek ostaje prijelaz iz G u E mol