~Angel Of Music~

Tu ch'hai le penne, amore

2009-11-17T12:54:00.001-03:00

Tu ch'hai le penne Amore
E sai spiegarle a volo,
Deh muovi ratto un volo Fin là
dov'è'l mio core,
E se non sai la via,
Co' miei sospir t'invia

Va pur ch'il troverrai
Tra 'l velo e 'l bianco seno,
O tra 'l dolce sereno
De' luminosi rai,
O tra bei nodi d'oro
Del mio dolce tesoro.

Oh Haup voll Blut und Wunden

2009-08-19T16:44:00.002-03:00

O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden,
Voll Schmerz und voller Hohn;
O Haupt, zu Spott gebunden
Mit einer Dornenkron'!
O Haupt, sonst schön gezieret,
Mit höchster Ehr' und Zier,
Jetzt aber hoch schimpfieret:
Gegrüßet seist du mir!
Du edles Angesichte,
Vor dem sonst schrickt und scheut
Das große Weltgerichte,
Wie bist du so bespeit!
Wie bist du so erbleichet,
Wer hat dein Augenlicht,
Dem sonst kein Licht nicht gleichet,
So schändlich zugericht't?

Heart in Chains

2009-01-28T00:27:00.000-02:00

Your cold cold heart has drowned my life in pain
Your cold cold heart has tortured my mind and soul

You have never learned
To leave your prison
Your heart lies in chains
And who will break them
Your heart lies in chains

Maybe you will find a way to forgive yourself
Your cold cold heart has drowned my life in pain
Maybe one day you will find the peace for your mind
Your cold cold heart has tortured my mind and soul

It tears you all apart
Restrained emotions
You're denying all your feelings
And it will break you
You're denying all your feelings

Maybe you will find a way to forgive yourself
Your cold cold heart has drowned my life in pain
Maybe one day you will find the peace for your mind
Your cold cold heart has tortured my mind and soul

Your cold cold heart has drowned my life in pain
Your cold cold heart has tortured my mind and soul
Your cold cold heart made wounds so deep, they will never heal

Lost Soul

2009-01-27T23:14:00.001-02:00

He took my soul
(Took my soul)
In his hands
My mind got dark
(Mind got dark)
In his hands

When did I begin
To follow the shadows
They fill my dreams with pain and sadness
When did I begin
To feel the sorrows
Then I laid my soul into your hands

He said sweet words
(Said sweet words)
With his voice
He seduced me softly
(Seduced you)
With his voice

When did I begin
To follow the shadows
They fill my dreams with pain and sadness
When did I begin
To feel the sorrows
Then I laid my soul into your hands

Once times were not so dark
But then the shadows took hold
Of my soul
Since then I feel
My mind's lost in madness

Lost my soul
In the dark
Lost my mind
In the dark

Sleeping Sun

2008-10-09T15:43:00.001-03:00

The sun is sleeping quietly
Once upon a century
Wistful oceans calm and red
Ardent caresses laid to rest

For my dreams I hold my life
For wishes I behold my night
The truth at the end of time
Losing faith makes a crime

I wish for this night-time
to last for a lifetime
The darkness around me
Shores of a solar sea
Oh how I wish to go down with the sun
Sleeping
Weeping
With you

Sorrow has a human heart
From my god it will depart
I'd sail before a thousand moons
Never finding where to go

Two hundred twenty-two days of light
Will be desired by a night
A moment for the poet's play
Until there's nothing left to say

I wish for this night-time...

I wish for this night-time...

Alleine Zu Zweit

2008-08-25T17:54:00.003-03:00

Am Ende der Wahrheit
Am Ende des Lichts
Am Ende der Liebe
Am ende - da stehst du
(Im Herzen wird es leerer - ein Teil geht nun von
mir)
Nichts hat überlebt
Wir haben schweigend uns schon lange getrennt
Und mit jedem Tag wir
Wuchs die Lüge unserer Liebe
Und je weiter wir den Weg zusammen gingen
Desto weiter haben wir uns voneinander entfernt

Einsam - gemeinsam
Wir haben verlernt uns neu zu suchen
Die Gewohnheit vernebelt
Die Trägheit erstickt
Der Hochmut macht trunken
Und die Nähe treibt zur Flucht

Tanz - mein Leben - tanz
Tanz mit mir
Tanz mit mir noch einmal
In den puren Rausch der nackten Liebe

Und wenn ich sie/ihn so sehe
Wenn ich sie/ihn erlebe
Wenn ich uns betrachte
Etwas hat überlebt
Und wenn ich Kraft und Hoffnung fände
Wenn ich selbst noch den Glauben an uns hätte
Wenn ich sie/ihn erreichen könnte
Sie/ihn noch einmal für mich hätte
Wenn die Basis - unser Fundament
Wenn wir uns noch einmal neu entdecken würden
Wenn sie/er nur wollte
Ich will !

Niemand kennt den Tod

2008-08-25T11:13:00.002-03:00

Niemand kennt den Tod, niemand weiß ob er nicht vielleicht das größte Glück für den Menschen ist!

The Siren (Live)

2008-08-11T20:45:00.003-03:00

A lady with a violin playing to the seals

Hearken to the sound of calling

Who tied my hands to the wheel?

The zodiac turns over me

(Come to me)

Somewhere there my fate revealed

I hear but how will I see

I tied myself to the wheel

The winds talk to my sails, not me

(Come to me)

Somewhere there my fate revealed

I hear but how will I see

Lost Northern Star (Live)

2008-08-04T13:48:00.001-03:00

Legend says that when grief overpowers happiness
the northern star loses its light and falls down on earth
where thee become a man.
One person alone can help.

I'm the one who leaves shadows in you room at night:
I'm the reason you're listening enlightening you eyes.
When Pan meets Apollo down with the sin
they will send tears of angels though kindness won't win.

Lost northern star
Buried in sorrow,
I'll guard your mind.
Let demons howl outside.

Where the calm fields of snow become one with the sky
I am there; I am waiting as time passes by
I set up the weather to suit how you feel
Drop rain down with wishes, build grace out of steel

Lost northern star
Buried in sorrow,
I'll guard your mind.
Let demons howl outside.

My soul burns.

Sending dream flakes your way.
painting pictures to help you each day.
Yet you don't know I'm there.

Lost northern star
Buried in sorrow,
I'll guard your mind.
Let demons howl outside.

My soul burns.

Walking In The Air

2008-07-24T12:11:00.000-03:00

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 trees
The rivers and the hills
The forests and the streams

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

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

Suddenly swooping low on an ocean deep
Arousing of a mighty monster from its sleep

We're walking in the air
We're floating in the midnight sky
And everyone who sees us greets us as we fly

Minor Heaven

2008-07-22T19:03:00.001-03:00

Take my longings and believe them.
Light a candle if you know.
I breath love, don't wanna be there.
These are things I got to know:
The magic seem so far don't know who they are.

Let me go Minor Heaven, cause my blood to run.
Leave this place, unforgiven.
Heal me with you sun.
How can I come undone?
Let me know Minor Heaven.

Light a way for me to walk on
from the ashes to the sky.
Burn the thorns so I can hold on.
Trust in me I know I'm right.
I'm know I'm gone too far.
Leave them where they are.

Let me go Minor Heaven, cause my blood to run.
Leave this place, unforgiven.
Heal me with you sun.
How can I come undone?
Let me know Minor Heaven.

Even if nothing I'll become
something I've been for all too long.
Let me go Minor Heaven.

Let me go Minor Heaven, cause my blood to run.
Leave this place, unforgiven.
Heal me with you sun.
How can I come undone?
Let me know Minor Heaven.

Boy And The Ghost (Live)

2008-07-21T18:45:00.001-03:00

The streets are empty
inside it's warm.
his hands are shaking
they locked the door
a voice is calling
asking to get in

all he wanted was a toy
all he needed was a gentle heart
to lead him through the dark
when his dreams are running wild
boy and the ghost
fire's not burning
the lights went out
the lights went out

big family dinner
the untold tale
there eyes are sparkling on his frozen face
angel's calling
asking to get in

all he wanted was a toy
all he needed was a gentle heart
to lead him through the dark
when there's nowhere left to fall
boy and the ghost
his eyes are burning
the lights went out
the dreamy is on.

wake up, wake up:
there's an angel in the snow
look up, look up:
it's a frightened dead boy
with so much hate, such bad dreams.
he could have seen
the toy's the key
but no one saw
no one saw

all he wanted was a toy
all he needed was a bleeding heart
to lead him through the dark
boy and the ghost

Despero, solitas, debilis, desolo.
Despero, solitas, debilis, desolo.

when there's nowhere left to fall.
nowhere to hide
the silence is hurting
inside it's cold
sleep or die
nowhere to go
nowhere to hide
his light went out

Bite Me

2008-07-16T14:04:00.001-03:00

Bite me - kill me - take my pride - take my strenght and take my life - take it all - I don't ask why!

The Carpenter

2008-07-04T10:56:00.001-03:00

Who are you? Man condemned to shine a salvation
Throughout the centuries

Why? Was the wine of the grail
Too sour for man to drink

The carpenter
Carved his anchor
On the dying souls of mankind
On the tomb of this unknown soldier
Lay the tools of the one who for us had died
Tools of the carpenter

The one they lick
The same old sick
Dream of their precious saviour

Kiss them deep
And make them weep
Over promises of eternal peace

The carpenter...

I hear you
Through the symphonic voices of nature
The purity I could never doubt
They tell me to lie on the grass
And observe my saviour
The one crucified to the chirping of birds

The carpenter...

Heil! Heil! Der Gnade Wunder heil! (Tannhäuser)

2008-06-30T17:05:00.007-03:00

Jüngere Pilger
Heil! Heil! Der Gnade Wunder Heil!
Erlösung ward der Welt zuteil.
Es tat in nächtlich heil'ger Stund
der Herr sich durch ein Wunder kund.
Den dürren Stab in Priesters Hand
hat er geschmückt mit frischem Grün:
dem Sünder in der Hölle Brand
soll so Erlösung neu erblühn!
Ruft ihm es zu durch alle Land,
der durch dies Wunder Gnade fand!
Hoch über aller Welt ist Gott,
und sein Erbarmen ist kein Spott!

Alle
Der Gnade Heil ward dem Büsser beschieden,
nun geht er ein in der Seligen Frieden!

Pie Jesu

2008-06-30T15:14:00.002-03:00

Pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu
Qui tollis peccata mundi
Dona eis requiem, dona eis requiem

Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei

Qui tollis peccata mundi
Dona eis requiem, dona eis requiem

Dona eis requiem

Sempiternam

Dona eis requiem

Sempiternam
Requiem
Sempiternam

Angels

2008-06-27T19:36:00.001-03:00

Sparkling angel I believed
You are my savior in my time of need.
Blinded by faith I couldn't hear
All the whispers, the warnings so clear.
I see the angels,
I'll lead them to your door.
There's no escape now,
No mercy no more.
No remorse cause I still remember

The smile when you tore me apart.
You took my heart,
Deceived me right from the start.
You showed me dreams,
I wished they turn into real.
You broke a promise and made me realise.
It was all just a lie.

Sparkling angel, I couldn't see
Your dark intentions, your feelings for me.
Fallen angel, tell me why?
What is the reason, the thorn in your eye?
I see the angels,
I'll lead them to your door
There's no escape now
No mercy no more
No remorse cause I still remember

The smile when you tore me apart
You took my heart,
Deceived me right from the start.
You showed me dreams,
I wished they turn into real.
You broke the promise and made me realise.
It was all just a lie.
Could have been forever.
Now we have reached the end.

This world may have failed you,
It doesn't give you a reason why.
You could have chosen a different path in life.

The smile when you tore me apart.
You took my heart,
Deceived me right from the start.
You showed me dreams,
I wished they turn into real.
You broke the promise and made me realise.
It was all just a lie.
Could have been forever.
Now we have reached the end.

Ave Maria

2008-06-18T13:31:00.001-03:00

Ave Maria! Jungfrau mild,
Erhöre einer Jungfrau Flehen,
Aus diesem Felsen starr und wild
Soll mein Gebet zu dir hinwehen.
Wir schlafen sicher bis zum Morgen,
Ob Menschen noch so grausam sind.
O Jungfrau, sieh der Jungfrau Sorgen,
O Mutter, hör ein bittend Kind!
Ave Maria!

Ave Maria! Unbefleckt!
Wenn wir auf diesen Fels hinsinken
Zum Schlaf, und uns dein Schutz bedeckt
Wird weich der harte Fels uns dünken.
Du lächelst, Rosendüfte wehen
In dieser dumpfen Felsenkluft,
O Mutter, höre Kindes Flehen,
O Jungfrau, eine Jungfrau ruft!
Ave Maria!

Ave Maria! Reine Magd!
Der Erde und der Luft Dämonen,
Von deines Auges Huld verjagt,
Sie können hier nicht bei uns wohnen,
Wir woll'n uns still dem Schicksal beugen,
Da uns dein heil'ger Trost anweht;
Der Jungfrau wolle hold dich neigen,
Dem Kind, das für den Vater fleht.
Ave Maria!

Devil's Temptation

2008-06-12T20:16:00.003-03:00

What did you do
You're guilty
You have to die
We'll find you
Everywhere
Vengeance

Why do you torture me
My mind is in despair
Why do you punish me
For a crime I never committed

Why am I all alone
No one who hears my crying
Why do you want to kill me
For a crime l never committed

Blood, Murder, Vengeance
Now we have you
Now you have to die

Lords of the darkness
Phantoms and demons
The devil's temptation
The child will stay innocent
Struggling for life
It's the end of the dark times

Why do you call for me
I'm not the one you look for
Why do you think I'm guilty
Of this crime I never committed

Why is no one at my side
In the hour of my downfall
Why do l have to die
For a crime l never committed

Blood, Murder, Vengeance
Now we have you
Now you have to die

Lords of the darkness
Phantoms and demons
The devil's temptation
The child will stay innocent
Struggling for life
It's the end of the dark times

Nemo

2008-06-04T13:35:00.000-03:00

This is me for forever
One of the lost ones
The one without a name
Without an honest heart as compass

This is me for forever
One without a name
These lines the last endeavor
To find the missing lifeline

Oh how I wish
For soothing rain
All I wish is to dream again
My loving heart
Lost in the dark
For hope I`d give my everything
Oh how I wish
For soothing rain
Oh how I wish to dream again
Once and for all
And all for once
Nemo my name forevermore

My flower, withered between
The pages 2 and 3
The once and forever bloom gone with my sins

Walk the dark path
Sleep with angels
Call the past for help
Touch me with your love
And reveal to me my true name

Oh, how I wish...

Nemo sailing home
Nemo letting go

Oh, how i wish...

End Of All Hope

2008-05-31T23:58:00.000-03:00

It is the end of all hope
To lose the child, the faith
To end all the innocence
To be someone like me
This is the birth of all hope
To have what I once had
This life unforgiven
It will end with a birth

No will to wake for this morn
To see another black rose born
Deathbed is slowly covered with snow

Angels, they fell first but I'm still here
Alone as they are drawing near
In heaven my masterpiece will finally be sung

Wounded is the deer that leaps highest
And my wound it cuts so deep
Turn off the light and let me pull the plug

Mandylion without a face
Deathwish without a prayer
End of hope
End of love
End of time
The rest is silence

The Cross (Live in Tokyo - 2007)

2008-05-30T19:07:00.001-03:00

Nothing's ever changed, you still turn away
You've washed your hands, you've made that all too clear
You just keep on living this lie

You refuse to see, you're denying me
the cross I bear but you don't seem to care
Even Judas knew he had lied

I keep wondering why
I'm still calling your name through my tears

Why have you waited to embrace me my dear?
Cold is your silence, denying what is real
I'm still wondering why
I'm still calling your name my dear

I'm sorry if you can't stand the naked truth
All you see is how you want it to be
So you keep on living your life

Release me from this cross after all these years
Oh call my name and help me with this weight
Even though it comes far too late

I keep wondering why
I'm still calling your name through my tears

Why have you waited to embrace me my dear
Cold is your silence, denying what is real
I'm still wondering why I'm still calling your name
and I wonder, oh I wonder ...

In my heart I still hope you will open the door
You can purify it all, answer my call

Why? Why?

Why have you waited to embrace me my dear?
Cold is your silence, denying what is real
I'm still wondering why I'm still calling your name
and I wonder, oh I wonder ...

In my heart I still hope you will open the door
You can purify it all, answer my call

Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen - Die Zauberflöte

2008-05-27T11:42:00.003-03:00

Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen,

Tod und Verzweiflung flammet um mich her!

Fühlt nicht durch dich Sarastro

Todesschmerzen,

So bist du meine Tochter nimmermehr.

Verstossen sei auf ewig,

Verlassen sei auf ewig,

Zertrümmert sei'n auf ewig

Alle Bande der Natur

Wenn nicht durch dich!

Sarastro wird erblassen!

Hört, Rachegötter,

Hört der Mutter Schwur!

(Edda Moser)

Dancer In The Dark

2008-05-23T11:23:00.007-03:00

The only hope in this endless night
Is to follow you through the shadows of the deepest blue, away from the light
I hear your voice is calling me: "Don’t be afraid"
But there’s something deep inside of me
Forcing me to turn away

Take my hand, don’t turn away, I need you to stay
I know a place where the light and the dark can become as one

This loneliness is killing me
Is there a place we both can live?

You’re the dancer in the dark
You’re the child of the light

You’re the sinner of all time
You’re the saint with wings so white

You’re the distant shape in the night
You’re all the innocence left alive

You’re like tainted sun
You’re the star shining bright

Tarja Turunen en Argentina

2008-05-20T14:45:00.004-03:00

Sábado 6 de Septiembre - Estadio Pepsi Music
Campo: $100
PLatea: $130

I Walk Alone

2008-05-17T19:01:00.001-03:00

Put all your angels on the edge
Keep all the roses, I'm not dead
I left a thorn under your bed

I'm never gone

Go tell the world I'm still around
I didn't fly, I'm coming down
You are the wind, the only sound

Whisper to my heart
When hope is torn apart
And no one can save you

I walk alone
Every step I take
I walk alone

My winter storm
Holding me awake
It's never gone
When I walk alone

Go back to sleep forever more
Far from your fools and lock the door
They're all around and they'll make sure

You don't have to see
What I turned out to be
No one can help you

I walk alone
Every step I take
I walk alone

My winter storm
Holding me awake
It's never gone
When I walk alone

Waiting up in heaven
I was never far from you
Spinning down I felt your every move

I walk alone
Every step I take
I walk alone

My winter storm
Holding me awake
It's never gone
When I walk alone

Ever Dream

2008-05-08T19:54:00.002-03:00

Ever felt away with me
Just once that all I need
Entwined in finding you one day

Ever felt away without me
My love, it lies so deep
Ever dream of me

Would you do it with me
Heal the scars and change the stars
Would you do it for me
Turn loose the heaven within

I'd take you away
Castaway on a lonely day
Bosom for a teary cheek
My song can but borrow your grace

Come out, come out wherever you are
So lost in your sea
Give in, give in for my touch
For my taste for my lust

Your beauty cascaded on me
In this white night fantasy

Open Your Eyes

2008-05-04T21:35:00.001-03:00

Open your eyes now
My love
Open your eyes now
My love

In the temple of her mind
She has driven it away
This dark and mortal day
Angels calling her to stay
And thought her heart falls heavy
There is a spark of light inside
It illuminates her soul
And showers her with light

Her eyes explored me at such distance
Translucant scarlet came across
I felt a rush within her circle

Open your eyes now
My love
Open your eyes now
My love

While she stumbles through the noise
In another space and time
This translucent light
Is burning in her mind
A fortress in her thoughts
To compose herself in time
A mirror full of dreams
A mirror free of lies

The Dream

2008-05-03T21:35:00.002-03:00

Where do you sleep
What do you dream
What do you need
To be free

I see a little island
Where ebb and flow meet
We curl up by the fire
Your breath in my ear
We've found our paradise
Where fruits and flowers grow
The ocean's ground is white
Reflects the moonlight that glows

I cover you warm
Fall asleep upon my chest
I protect you from harm
And I will quench your thirst

When do we meet
Our love proceeds
When you are here
I am real too
Ah ah

You're my queen
You're my angel
You're the love I breathe to live

You're my star
You're my leading light
You're the beauty I see at night

You're my queen
You're my angel
You're the dream I breathe to live

Where do you sleep
What do you dream

Show Me The Way (Live)

2008-05-02T14:55:00.001-03:00

It was a hard way to get here
But now it seems so clear
I'll find everything inside of me

Mind body and soul
Life love and healing
Connect be connected
Nine words to change your whole life

Oh mother, keeper of eternal truth

You show me the way
You show me that everything I ever need in my whole life
Lies there inside of me

Feeling useless and ashamed
I was the one to blame
Thought there's nothing good inside of me

Mind body and soul
Life love and healing
Connect be connected
Nine words to change your whole life

Oh mother, seekers find truth in you

You show me the way,
You show me that everything lies there inside of me

You show me the way
You show me that everything I ever need in my whole life
Lies there inside of me.

Scarborough Fair (unknown writer)

2008-04-29T09:14:00.005-03:00

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme

Remember me to one who lives there
For once she was a true love of mine

Have her make me a cambric shirt
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Without no seam nor fine needle work
And then she'll be a true love of mine

Tell her to weave it in a sycamore wood lane
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
And gather it all with a basket of flowers
And then she'll be a true love of mine

Have her wash it in yonder dry well
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
where water ne'er sprung nor drop of rain fell
And then she'll be a true love of mine

Have her find me an acre of land
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Between the sea foam and over the sand
And then she'll be a true love of mine

Plow the land with the horn of a lamb
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Then sow some seeds from north of the dam
And then she'll be a true love of mine

Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
And gather it all in a bunch of heather
And then she'll be a true love of mine

If she tells me she can't, I'll reply
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Let me know that at least she will try
And then she'll be a true love of mine

Love imposes impossible tasks
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Though not more than any heart asks
And I must know she's a true love of mine

Dear, when thou has finished thy task
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Come to me, my hand for to ask
For thou then art a true love of mine

The history of Scarborough and its fair

This English folk song dates back to late medieval times, when the seaside resort of Scarborough was an important venue for tradesmen from all over England. Founded well over a thousand years ago as Skarthaborg by the norman Skartha, the Viking settlement in North Yorkshire in the north-west of England became a very important port as the dark ages drew to a close.

Scarborough Fair was not a fair as we know it today (although it attracted jesters and jugglers) but a huge forty-five day trading event, starting August fifteen, which was exceptionally long for a fair in those days. People from all over England, and even some from the continent, came to Scarborough to do their business. As eventually the harbour started to decline, so did the fair, and Scarborough is a quiet, small town now.

The history of the song

In the middle ages, people didn't usually take credit for songs or other works of art they made, so the writer of Scarborough Fair is unknown. The song was sung by bards (or shapers, as they were known in medieval England) who went from town to town, and as they heard the song and took it with them to another town, the lyrics and arrangements changed. This is why today there are many versions of Scarborough Fair, and there are dozens of ways in which the words have been written down.

Explanations of the lyrics

The narrator of the song is a man who was jilted by his lover. Although dealing with the paradoxes he sees himself posed to in a very subtle and poetic manner, this was a folk song and not written by nobles. The courtly ideal of romantic love in the middle ages, practised by knights and noblemen, was loving a lady and adoring her from a distance, in a very detached manner. There was hardly a dream and sometimes not even a wish that such love could ever be answered.

As a version of the song exists which is set in Whittington Fair and which is presumed to be equally old, it is puzzling why the lieu d'action of the song eventually became reverted to Scarborough. A possible explanation is that this is a hint from the singer to his lover, telling how she went away suddenly without warning or reason. Scarborough was known as a town where suspected thieves or other criminals were quickly dealt with and hung on a tree or à la lanterne after some form of street justice. This is why a 'Scarborough warning' still means 'without any warning' in today's English. This would also account for the absence of any suggestion of a reason for her departure, which could mean either that the singer doesn't have a clue why his lady left, or perhaps that these reasons are too difficult to explain and he gently leaves them out.

The writer goes on to assign his true love impossible tasks, to try and explain to her that love sometimes requires doing things which seem downright impossible on the face of it. The singer is asking his love to do the impossible, and then come back to him and ask for his hand. This is a highly unusual suggestion, because in those days it was a grave faux-pas to people from all walks of life for a lady to ask for a man's hand. Yet it fits in well with the rest of the lyrics, as nothing seems to be impossible in the song.

The meaning of parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme

The herbs parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, recurring in the second line of each stanza, make up for a key motive in the song. Although meaningless to most people today, these herbs spoke to the imagination of medieval people as much as red roses do to us today. Without any connotation neccesary, they symbolize virtues the singer wishes his true love and himself to have, in order to make it possible for her to come back again.

Parsley (Petroselinum crispum): Parsley is still prescribed by phytotherapists today to people who suffer from bad digestion. Eating a leaf of parsley with a meal makes the digestion of heavy vegetables such as spinach a lot easier. It was said to take away the bitterness, and medieval doctors took this in a spiritual sense as well.

Sage (Salvia officinalis): Sage has been known to symbolize strength for thousands of years.

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis): Rosemary represents faithfulness, love and remembrance. Ancient Greek lovers used to give rosemary to their ladies, and the custom of a bride wearing twigs of rosemary in her hair is still practised in England and several other European countries today. The herb also stands for sensibility and prudence. Ancient Roman doctors recommended putting a small bag of rosemary leaves under the pillow of someone who had to perform a difficult mental task, such as an exam. Rosemary is associated with feminine love, because it's very strong and tough, although it grows slowly.

Thyme (Thymus vulgaris): According to legend, the king of fairies dances in the wild thyme with all of the fairies on midsummernight; that's the best known legendary appearance of the herb. But the reason Thyme is mentioned here is that it symbolizes courage. At the time this song was written, knights used to wear images of thyme in their shields when they went to combat, which their ladies embroidered in them as a symbol of their courage.

This makes it clear what the disappointed lover means to say by mentioning these herbs. He wishes his true love mildness to soothe the bitterness which is between them, strength to stand firm in the time of their being apart from each other, faithfulness to stay with him during this period of loneliness and paradoxically courage to fulfill her impossible tasks and to come back to him by the time she can.

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Ice Queen (WT en Argentina!!!)

2008-04-17T23:12:00.003-03:00

When leaves have fallen
And skies turned into grey.
The night keeps on closing in on the day
A nightingale sings his song of farewell
You better hide for her freezing hell

On cold wings she's coming
You better keep moving
For warmth, you'll be longing
Come on just feel it
Don't you see it?
You better believe it.

When she embraces
Your heart turns to stone
She comes at night when you are all alone
And when she whispers
Your blood shall run cold
You better hide before she finds you

Whenever she is raging
She takes all life away
Haven't you seen?
Haven't you seen?
The ruins of our world

She covers the earth with a breathtaking cloak
The sun awakes and melts it away
The world now opens its eyes and sees
The dawning of a new day

Whenever she is raging
She takes all life away
Haven't you seen?
Haven't you seen?
The ruins of our world

Perfect Love

2008-04-11T12:41:00.001-03:00

Peel off my skin, make me helpless
Taste my body
Let me die in your sweet embrace

Peel off my skin, make me helpless
Taste my body
Let me die in your sweet embrace

I never thought that I could find
Someone like you and still
I feel the union of souls (The union of souls)

I never thought that I could find
A love so perfect and still
I'm here in your arms (I'm here in your arms)

Peel off my skin, make me helpless
Taste my body
Let me die in your sweet embrace

I never thought that I could find
Peace of mind and still
I'm staying with you (I'm staying with you)

I never thought that I could find
A lust so devouring and still
I'm caught in this passion (I'm caught in this passion)

I never thought that I could find
All I was searching and still
I found you (I found you)

Perfect Love, You're My Perfect Love
Perfect Love, You're My Perfect Love

She Is My Sin

2008-04-01T20:08:00.003-03:00

Take heed, dear heart
Once apart, she can touch nor me nor you
Dressed as one
A wolf will betray a lamb

Lead astray the gazers
The razors on your seducing skin
In the meadow of sinful thoughts
Every flower`s perfect

To paradise with pleasure haunted by fear

A sin for him
Desire within
A burning veil
For the bride too dear for him
A sin for him
Desire within
Fall in love with your deep dark sin

I am the Fallen
You are what my sins enclose
Lust is not as creative
As its discovery

To paradise with pleasure haunted by fear

A sin for him...

Bless me, undress me
Pick your prey in a wicked way
God I must confess...
...I do envy the sinners

Over The Hills And Far Away

2008-03-28T12:52:00.000-03:00

[a Gary Moore cover tune]

They came for him one winter's night.
Arrested, he was bound.
They said there'd been a robbery,
his pistol had been found.

They marched him to the station house,
he waited for the dawn.
And as they led him to the dock,
he knew that he'd been wronged.
"You stand accused of robbery,"
he heard the bailiff say.
He knew without an alibi,
tomorrow's light would mourn his freedom.

Over the hills and far away,
for ten long years he'll count the days.
Over the mountains and the seas,
a prisoner's life for him there'll be.

He knew that it would cost him dear,
but yet he dare not say.
Where he had been that fateful night,
a secret it must stay.
He had to fight back tears of rage.
His heart beat like a drum.
For with the wife of his best friend,
he spent his final night of freedom.

Over the hills and far away,
he swears he will return one day.
Far from the mountains and the seas,
back in her arms he swears he'll be.
Over the hills and far away.

Over the hills and,
over the hills and,
over the hills and far away.

Each night within his prison cell,
he looks out through the bars.
He reads the letters that she wrote.
One day he'll know the taste of freedom.

Over the hills and far away,
she prays he will return one day.
As sure as the rivers reach the seas,
back in his arms he swears she'll be.

Over the hills and far away,
he swears he will return one day.
Far from the mountains and the seas,
back in her arms he swears he'll be.

Over the hills and far away,
she prays he will return one day.
As sure as the rivers reach the seas,
back in his arms is where she'll be.

Over the hills,
over the hills and far away.

Over the hills,
over the hills and far away.

Dead Boy's Poem

2008-03-16T20:49:00.001-03:00

Born from silence, silence full of it
A perfect concert my best friend
So much to live for, so much to die for
If only my heart had a home

Sing what you can't say
Forget what you can't play
Hasten to drown into beautiful eyes
Walk within my poetry, this dying music
- My loveletter to nobody

Never sigh for better world
It's already composed, played and told
Every thought the music I write
Everything a wish for the night

Wrote for the eclipse, wrote for the virgin
Died for the beauty the one in the garden
Created a kingdom, reached for the wisdom
Failed in becoming a god

Never sigh...

"If you read this line, remember not the hand that wrote it
Remember only the verse, songmaker's cry the one without tears
For I've given this its strength and it has become my only strength.
Comforting home, mother's lap, chance for immortality
where being wanted became a thrill I never knew
The sweet piano writing down my life"

"Teach me passion for I fear it's gone
Show me love, hold the lorn
So much more I wanted to give to the ones who love me
I'm sorry
Time will tell (this bitter farewell)
I live no more to shame nor me nor you
And you... I wish I didn't feel for you anymore..."

A lonely soul
An ocean soul

Dead To The World

2008-03-15T20:30:00.002-02:00

All the same take me away
We're dead to the world

The child gave thought to the poet's world
Gave comfort to the Fallen
(Heartfelt, lovelorn)

Remaining, yet still uninvited
Those words scented my soul
(Lonely soul, Ocean soul)

It's not the monsters under your bed
It is the Man next door
That makes you fear, makes you cry,
Makes you cry for the child
All the wars are fought among those lonely men
Unarmed, unscarred

I don't want to die a scarless man
A lonely soul
(Tell me now what to do)

I studied silence to learn the music
I joined the sinful to regain innocence

Heaven queen, cover me
In all that blue
Little boy, such precious joy
Is dead to the world

Heaven queen, carry me
Away from all pain
All the same take me away
We're dead to the world

Dead, silent, constant
Yet always changing
- My favorite view of this world

As he died, he will return to die in me again
Weaving the cloth, giving birth to the Century Child
Who gave his life not for the world but for me
Innocence reborn once more

Der Letzte Tag

2008-03-14T18:17:00.002-02:00

Es geschah in der Zeit,
Als die Sonne die Erde zum Glühen brachte
Und die Menschen sich nach der Nacht sehnten,
Nach den Schatten
Und der Linderung ihrer Qual:

Die Luft steht stickig still
Die Erde in der Hitze bebt
Kein Windhauch lindert die Qual
Schweiss rinnt von der kalten Stirn
Fieber tobt im weissen Leib
Kein Windhauch lindert die Qual

Auf sanften Flügeln schwebt die Nacht herbei
Der letzte Tag
Schliesst dunkle Augen mit weichem Flügelschlag
Auf sanften Flügeln schwebt die Nacht herbei
Die leise Klag
Schwindet ungehört, da sie nichts vermag

Staub liegt in der heissen Luft
Das Atmen fällt ihm schwer
Kein Windhauch lindert die Qual
Flehend an seinem Bette wacht
Die Geliebte wartend auf die Nacht
Kein Windhauch lindert die Qual

Auf sanften Flügeln schwebt die Nacht herbei
Der letzte Tag
Schliesst dunkle Augen mit weichem Flügelschlag
Auf sanften Flügeln schwebt die Nacht herbei
Die leise Klag
Schwindet ungehört, da sie nichts vermag

Es geschah in der Zeit
Und endlich kam die Nacht

Eine Rose Für Den Abschied

2008-03-13T12:09:00.005-02:00

Ich versinke im Staub getrockneter Tränen
Und den Schleiern von schweren Gedanken.
Erinnerung lastet auf meiner Brust.
Seit dem Tag, als die schwarze Rose ihr letztes Blatt verlor.

Trübe Regentropfen bedecken mein Haar
Und bodenlose Höhlen öffnen sich vor mir.
Dorniger Schmerz sticht in meinem Herz,
Seit dem Tag, als die schwarze Rose ihr letztes Blatt verlor.

Eine schwarze Rose für den Abschied
Doch nun ist auch sie verdorrt.
Ich bin verloren in der Ewigkeit
Und die Hölle bricht über mich herein.

Die blutrote Sonne stürzt heulend in das Meer
Und hinterlässt eine graue Einöde.
Feuchter Dampf treibt mir den Schweiss auf die Stirn
Seit dem Tag, als die schwarze Rose ihr letztes Blatt verlor.

Gezackte Feuerblitze zereissen den Horizont
Und Donner bringt die Erde zum Zittern.
Ein grausamer Wind peitscht mir den Sand ins Gesicht
Seit dem Tag, als die schwarze Rose ihre letztes Blatt verlor.

Eine schwarze Rose für den Abschied
Doch nun ist auch sie verdorrt.
Ich bin verloren in der Ewigkeit
Und die Hölle bricht über mich herein.

Eine schwarze Rose für den Abschied
Doch nun ist auch sie verdorrt.
Ich bin verloren in der Ewigkeit
Und die Hölle bricht über mich herein.

Stand My Ground

2008-03-12T16:36:00.001-02:00

I Can See
When You Stay Low
Nothing Happens
Does It Feel Right?
Late At Night
Things I Thought I'd Put Behind Me
Haunt My Mind

I Just Know There's No Escape Now
Once It Sets It's Eyes On You
But I Wont Run
Have To Stare It In The Eyes

Stand My Ground
I Won't Give In
No More Denying
I've Gotta Face It
Won't Close My Eyes And Hide The Truth Inside
If I Don't Make It, Someone Else Will
Stand My Ground

It's All Around
Getting Stronger, Coming Closer Into My World
I Can Feel That It's Time For Me To Face It
Can I Take It?

Though This Might Just Be The Ending
Of The Life I Held So Dear
But I Won't Run
There's No Turning Back From Here

Stand My Ground
I Won't Give In
No More Denying
I've Gotta Face It
Won't Close My Eyes And Hide The Truth Inside
If I Don't Make It, Someone Else Will
Stand My Ground

All I Know For Sure Is That I'm Trying
I Will Always Stand My Ground

Stand My Ground
I Won't Give In, (I Won't Give In)
I Won't Give Up, (I Won't Give Up)
No More Denying
I've Gotta Face It
Won't Close My Eyes And Hide The Truth Inside
If I Don't Make It, Someone Else Will

Stand My Ground
I Won't Give In
No More Denying
I've Gotta Face It
Won't Close My Eyes And Hide The Truth Inside
If I Don't Make It, Someone Else Will
Stand My Ground

Beauty And The Beast

2008-03-10T16:17:00.002-02:00

Remember the first dance we shared?
Recall the night you melted my uglyness away?
The night you left with a kiss so kind
Only a scent of beauty left behind

Ah, dear friend I remember the night
The moon and the dreams we shared
Your trembling paw in my hand
Dreaming of that northern land
Touching me with a kiss of a beast

I know my dreams are made of you
Of you and only for you
Your ocean pulls me under
Your voice tears me asunder
Love me before the last petal falls

As a world without a glance
Of the ocean's fair expanse
Such the world would be
If no love did flow in thee
But as my heart is occupied
Your love to me now has to die
Forgive me, I need more than you can offer me

Didn't you read the tale
Where happily ever after was to kiss a frog?
Don't you know this tale
In which all I ever wanted
I'll never have
For who could ever learn to love a beast?

However cold the wind and rain
I'll be there to ease up your pain
However cruel the mirrors of sin
Remember, beauty is found within

...Forever shall the wolf in me desire the sheep in you...

Bless The Child

2008-03-07T21:16:00.007-02:00

"I was born amidst the purple waterfalls.
I was weak, yet not unblessed.
Dead to the world. Alive for the journey.
One night I dreamt a white rose withering,
a newborn drowning a lifetime loneliness.
I dreamt all my future. Relived my past.
A witnessed the beauty of the beast"

Where have all the feelings gone?
Why has all the laughter ceased?

Why am I loved only when I'm gone?
Gone back in time to bless the child
Think of me long enough to make a memory
Come bless the child one more time

How can I ever feel again?
Given the chance would I return?

I've never felt so alone in my life
As I drank from a cup which was counting my time
There's a poison drop in this cup of Man
To drink it is to follow the left hand path

"Where have all the feelings gone?
Why is the deadliest sin - to love as I loved you?
Now unblessed, homesick in time,
soon to be freed from care, from human pain.
My tale is the most bitter truth:
Time pays us but with earth & dust, and a dark, silent grave.
Remember, my child: Without innocence the cross is only iron,
hope is only an illusion & Ocean Soul's nothing but a name...

The Child bless thee & keep thee forever"

I Wish I Had An Angel

2008-03-04T00:56:00.009-02:00

Deep into a dying day
I took a step outside an innocent heart
Prepare to hate me fall when I may
This night will hurt you like never before

Old loves they die hard
Old lies they die harder
I wish I had an angel
For one moment of love
I wish I had your angel
Your Virgin Mary undone
I’m in love with my lust
Burning angel wings to dust
I wish I had your angel tonight

I’m going down so frail `n cruel
Drunken disguise changes all the rules

Old loves they die hard
Old lies they die harder

I wish I had an angel
For one moment of love
I wish I had your angel
Your Virgin Mary undone
I’m in love with my lust
Burning angel wings to dust
I wish I had your angel tonight

Greatest thrill
Not to kill
But to have the prize of the night
Hypocrite
Wannabe friend
13th disciple who betrayed me for nothing!

Last dance, first kiss
Your touch my bliss
Beauty always comes with dark thoughts

I wish I had an angel
For one moment of love
I wish I had your angel
Your Virgin Mary undone
I’m in love with my lust
Burning angel wings to dust
I wish I had your angel tonight

I wish I had an angel...

Sing For Me (Live at Zurich - Switzerland)

2008-03-03T16:11:00.008-02:00

It's getting hard to breathe
Darkness in my head frightens me
There's a little devil in my mouth
Writing ugly words for you to shout
The virgin soul that lived in me
Is raped by insecurity
I need you to sing

Sing for me my love
Sing the right from wrong
Here inside my mind
Truth is hard to find

It's getting too crowded here
All alone and playing with my fear
I don't want this anymore
I've tied myself down to the floor
I need you to sing

Sing for me my love
Sing the right from wrong
Here inside my mind
Truth is hard to find

SONO MIHI
Sing for me

Sing for me my love
Sing...

Sing for me my love
Sing the right from wrong
Here inside my mind
Truth is hard to find

Die Alive

2008-03-02T23:00:00.013-02:00

Open up the night.

Led by just a feeling.
All around is light.
Everything is healing.

No more fate and no more mystery.
Even as time falls away I live my days
every moment and its memory,
not only to survive to die alive.

Overwhelming love,
heaven's just a feeling.
Singing in my blood
keeping me from kneeling.

No more fate and no more mystery.
Even as time falls away I live my days
every moment and its memory,
not only to survive to die alive.

Die Alive.

No more fate and no more mystery.
Even as time falls away
I live my days every moment and its memory,
not only to survive to die alive.

All I need

2008-03-02T00:25:00.008-02:00

I’m dying to catch my breath
Oh why don’t I ever learn?
I’ve lost all my trust,
though I’ve surely tried to turn it around

Can you still see the heart of me?
All my agony fades away
when you hold me in your embrace

Don’t tear me down for all I need
Make my heart a better place
Give me something I can believe
Don’t tear me down
You’ve opened the door now, don’t let it close

I’m here on the edge again
I wish I could let it go
I know that I’m only one step away
from turning it around

Can you still see the heart of me?
All my agony fades away
when you hold me in your embrace

Don’t tear me down for all I need
Make my heart a better place
Give me something I can believe

Don’t tear it down, what’s left of me
Make my heart a better place

I tried many times but nothing was real
Make it fade away, don’t break me down
I want to believe that this is for real
Save me from my fear
Don’t tear me down

Don’t tear me down for all I need
Make my heart a better place
Don’t tear me down for all I need
Make my heart a better place

Give me something I can believe
Don’t tear it down, what’s left of me
Make my heart a better place
Make my heart a better place

Elis

2008-02-27T23:36:00.004-02:00

Elis, wenn die Amsel im schwarzen Wald ruft,
dieses ist dein Untergang.
Deine Lippen trinken die Kühle des blauen Felsenquells.

Lass, wenn deine Stirne leise blutet
Uralte Legenden
Und dunkle Deutung des Vogelflugs.

Du aber gehst mit weichen Schritten in die Nacht,
Die voll purpurner Trauben hängt
Und du regst die Arme schöner im Blau

Ein Dornenbusch tönt,
wo deine mondenen Augen sind.
O, wie lange bist, Elis, du verstorben.

Auf deine Schläfen tropft schwarzer Tau,
Das letzte Gold verfallner Sterne

Dein Leib ist eine Hyazinthe,
In die ein Mönch seine Finger taucht.
Eine schwarze Höhle ist unser Schweigen.

Daraus bisweilen
Ein sanftes Tier tritt
Und langsam die schweren Lider senkt.

Auf deine Schläfen tropft schwarzer Tau,
Das letzte Gold verfallner Sterne

Auf deine Schläfen tropft schwarzer Tau,
Das letzte Gold verfallner Sterne

2008-02-25T18:42:00.002-02:00

Birds and butterflies
Rivers and mountains she creates
But you'll never know
The next move she'll make
You can try
But it is useless to ask why
Cannot control her
She goes her own way

She rules until the end of time
She gives and she takes
She rules until the end of time
She goes her own way

With every breath
And all the choices that we make
We are only passing through on her way
I find my strength
Believing that your soul lives on
Until the end of time
I'll carry it with me

Once you will know my dear
You don't have to fear
A new beginning always starts at the end
Until the end of time
She goes her own way

Come To Me

2008-02-24T23:53:00.002-02:00

Out of the darkness you came
You looked so tired and sad
I asked where you've been
You answered your voice was quiet
Out in the cold searching for love
I said you don't have to search for love

Come to me, come to me
Rest your head on my shoulder
Come to me, come to me
Sleep in peace

You traveled through the world
Tasted its food and its love
But never got satisfied
You were always looking for more
Out in the cold searching for love
I say you don't have to search for love

Come to me, come to me
Rest your head on my shoulder
Come to me, come to me
Sleep in peace

I always loved you
Just come to me
And you'll be at home

Come to me, come to me
Rest your head on my shoulder
Come to me, come to me
Sleep in peace

The Phantom Of The Opera (by Nightwish)

2008-02-17T18:58:00.002-02:00

[CHRISTINE:]
In sleep he sang to me
In dreams he came
That voice which calls to me
And speaks my name
And do I dream again
For now I find
The Phantom of the opera is there
Inside my mind

[PHANTOM:]
Sing once again with me
Our strange duet
My power over you
Grows stronger yet
And though you turn from me
To glance behind
The Phantom of the opera is there
Inside your mind

[CHRISTINE:]
Those who have seen your face
Draw back in fear
I am the mask you wear

[PHANTOM:]
It's me they hear

[TOGETHER:]
My/your spirit and your/my voice
In one combined
The phantom of the opera is there
Inside your/my mind

He's there the Phantom of the opera
Beware the Phantom of the opera

[PHANTOM:]
In all your fantasies
You always knew
That man and mystery

[CHRISTINE:]
Were both in you

[TOGETHER:]
And in this labyrinth
Where night is blind
The phantom of the opera is there
Inside your/my mind

[PHANTOM:]
Sing my angel of music