[ti:Song Of Myself] [ar:Nightwish] [al:Imaginaerum] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Song of Myself - Nightwish [00:22.59]Composed by:Tuomas Holopainen [00:45.18]The nightingale is still locked in the cage [00:50.71]The deep breath I took still poisons my lungs [00:56.01]An old oak sheltering me from the blue [01:01.62]Sun bathing on its dead frozen leaves [01:06.92]A catnap in the ghost town of my heart [01:12.45]She dreams of storytime and the river ghosts [01:18.11]Of mermaids of Whitman's and the Ride [01:23.53]Raving harlequins gigantic toys [01:29.25]A song of me a song in need [01:32.01]Of a courageous symphony [01:35.37]A verse of me a verse in need [01:38.24]Of a pure heart singing me to peace [01:41.71]All that great heart lying still and slowly dying [01:44.86]All that great heart lying still on an angelwing [01:51.13]All that great heart lying still [01:55.41]In silent suffering [01:58.61]Smiling like a clown until the show has come to an end [02:03.12]What is left for encore [02:04.64]Is the same old Dead Boy's song [02:08.22]Sang in silence [02:09.76]All that great heart lying still and slowly dying [02:12.88]All that great heart lying still on an angelwing [02:26.88]A midnight flight into Covington Woods [02:32.22]A princess and a panther by my side [02:38.04]These are Territories I live for [02:43.29]I'd still give my everything to love you more [02:49.00]A song of me a song in need [02:51.83]Of a courageous symphony [02:55.25]A verse on me a verse in need [02:58.01]Of a pure heart singing me to peace [03:01.52]All that great heart lying still and slowly dying [03:04.67]All that great heart lying still on an angelwing [03:10.75]Now all that great heart lying still [03:15.40]In silent suffering [03:18.46]Smiling like a clown until the show has come to an end [03:22.97]What is left for encore [03:24.61]Is the same old Dead Boy's song [03:28.06]Sang in silence [03:29.63]All that great heart lying still and slowly dying [03:32.73]All that great heart lying still on an angelwing [04:03.50]A silent symphony [04:16.22]A hollow opus #1 2 3 [04:29.64]Sometimes the sky is piano black [04:42.12]Piano black over cleansing waters [04:53.83]Resting pipes verse of bore [05:06.22]Rusting keys without a door [05:19.53]Sometimes the within is piano black [05:31.93]Piano black over cleansing waters [06:11.71]All that great heart lying still and slowly dying [06:17.95]All that great heart lying still on an angelwing [06:24.18]All that great heart lying still and slowly dying [06:30.46]All that great heart lying still on an angelwing [07:07.50]I see a slow simple youngster by a busy street [07:11.35]With a begging bowl in his shaking hand [07:14.46]Trying to smile but hurting infinitely nobody notices [07:21.19]I do but walk by [07:26.65]An old man gets naked and kisses a model-doll in his attic [07:31.45]It's half-light and he's in tears [07:34.52]When he finally comes his eyes are cascading [07:39.87]I see a beaten dog in a pungent alley [07:43.13]He tries to bite me [07:45.23]All pride has left his wild drooling eyes [07:48.98]I wish I had my leg to spare [07:54.68]A mother visits her son smiles to him through the bars [07:58.47]She's never loved him more [08:02.15]An obese girl enters an elevator with me [08:05.79]All dressed up fancy a green butterfly on her neck [08:10.62]Terribly sweet perfume deafens me [08:14.32]She's going to dinner alone [08:17.84]That makes her even more beautiful [08:21.41]I see a model's face on a brick wall [08:24.02]A statue of porcelain perfection beside a violent city kill [08:31.10]A city that worships flesh [08:47.14]The first thing I ever heard was a wandering man telling his story [08:52.68]It was you the grass under my bare feet [08:57.42]The campfire in the dead of the night [09:00.77]The heavenly black of sky and sea [09:05.76]It was us [09:07.70]Roaming the rainy roads combing the gilded beaches [09:14.10]Waking up to a new gallery of wonders every morn [09:18.88]Bathing in places no one's seen before [09:24.18]Shipwrecked on some matt-painted island [09:28.24]Clad in nothing but the surf beauty's finest robe [09:37.29]Beyond all mortality we are swinging in the breath of nature [09:43.63]In early air of the dawn of life [09:47.09]A sight to silence the heavens [09:54.07]I want to travel where life travels [09:56.66]Following its permanent lead [09:58.87]Where the air tastes like snow music [10:02.22]Where grass smells like fresh-born Eden [10:05.99]I would pass no man no stranger no tragedy or rapture [10:10.98]I would bathe in a world of sensation [10:14.39]Love goodness and simplicity [10:19.95]While violated and imprisoned by technology [10:27.01]The thought of my family's graves was the only moment [10:30.12]I used to experience true love [10:33.19]That love remains infinite [10:35.27]As I'll never be the man my father is [10:40.57]How can you just be yourself [10:42.90]When you don't know who you are [10:45.03]Stop saying I know how you feel [10:47.68]How could anyone know how another feels [10:52.23]Who am I to judge a priest beggar w***e politician wrongdoer [11:00.14]I am you are all of them already [11:16.62]Dear child stop working go play [11:20.68]Forget every rule [11:23.75]There's no fear in a dream [11:28.24]Is there a village inside this snowflake [11:32.92]A child asked me [11:36.61]What's the color of our lullaby [11:41.14]I've never been so close to truth as then [11:46.47]I touched its silver lining [11:54.61]Death is the winner in any war [11:58.13]Nothing noble in dying for your religion [12:00.78]For your country [12:02.67]For ideology for faith [12:06.56]For another man yes [12:17.21]Paper is dead without words [12:19.92]Ink idle without a poem [12:22.92]All the world dead without stories [12:25.87]Without love and disarming beauty [12:32.51]Careless realism costs souls [12:37.87]Ever seen the Lord smile [12:40.94]All the care for the world made Beautiful a sad man [12:45.14]Why do we still carry a device of torture around our necks [12:49.63]Oh how rotten your pre-apocalypse is [12:53.19]All you bible-black fools living over nightmare ground [13:01.99]I see all those empty cradles and wonder [13:05.89]If man will ever change [13:08.82]I too wish to be a decent man-boy [13:12.99]But all I am is smoke and mirrors [13:17.18]Still given everything may I be deserving [13:22.69]And there forever remains that change from G to Em