Beginning's End

2.2.11

The Escapist

[Japanese version bonus track]

Who's there knocking at my window?

The owl and the Dead Boy

This night whispers my name

All the dying children

Virgin snow beneath my feet

Painting the world in white

I tread the way and lose myself into a tale

Come hell or high water

My search will go on

Clayborn Voyage without an end

A nightingale in a golden cage

That's me locked inside reality's maze

Come someone make my heavy heart light

Come undone, bring me back to life

It all starts with a lullaby

Journey homeward bound

A sound of a dolphin calling

Tearing off the mask of man

The tower, my sole guide

This is who I am

Escapist, paradise seeker

Farewell, now time to fly

Out of sight, out of time, away from all lies

A nightingale in a golden cage

That's me locked inside reality's maze

Come someone make my heavy heart light

Come undone, bring me back to life

It all starts with a lullaby

Meadows Of Heaven

I close my eyes, the lantern dies

The scent of awakening, wild honey and dew.

Childhood games, woods and lakes,

Streams of silver, toys of olden days.

Meadows of Heaven.

The flowers of wonder and the hidden treasures,

In the meadow of life, my acre of Heaven.

A five-year-old winter heart in a place called home

Sailing the waves of past.

Meadows of Heaven.

Rocking chair without a dreamer,

A wooden swing without laughter.

Sandbox without toy soldiers,

Yuletide without the flight.

Dreambound for life.

Flowers wither, treasures stay hidden

Until I see the first star of fall.

I fall asleep and see it all:

Mother's care and colour of the kites.

Meadows of Heaven.

[fading]

7 Day To The Wolves

The wolves, my love will come

Taking us home where dust once was a man.

Is there Life before a Death?

Do we long too much and never let in?

[Chorus:]

Howl!

Seven days to the wolves!

Where will we be when they come?

Seven days to the poison

And a place in Heaven!

Time drawing near as they come to take us.

This is my church of choice,

Love`s strength standeth in love`s sacrifice.

For the rest, I have to say to you

I will dream like the god

And suffer like all the dead children.

[Chorus]

This is where heroes and cowards part ways.

Light the fire, feast

Chase the ghost, give in.

Take the road less traveled by,

Leave the city of fools,

Turn every poet loose.

[Chorus x2]

(Heroes, cowards, no more!) [x4]

The Islander

[Composer: Marco Hietala]

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]

For The Heart I Once Had

Heaven today is but a way

To a place I once called home.

Heart of a child, one final sigh

As another love goes cold.

Once my heart beats to the rhythm of the falling snow

blackened below.

The river now flows - a stream on molten virgin snow.

[Chorus:]

For the heart I'll never have,

For the child forever gone

The music flows because it longs

For the heart I once had.

Living today without a way

To understand the weight of the world.

Faded and torn, old and forlorn

My weak and hoping heart.

For the child, for the night

For the heart I once had

I believe and foresee

Everything I could ever be.

[Chorus]

Time will not heal a dead boy's scars,

Time will kill.

[Chorus]