Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild

SONATA ARCTICA

WINTERHEART'S GUILD (2003)

  1. Abandoned, Pleased, Brainwashed, Exploited
  2. Gravenimage
  3. The Cage
  4. Silver Tongue
  5. The Misery
  6. Victoria's Secret
  7. Champagne Bath
  8. Broken
  9. The Ruins Of My Life
10. Draw Me

SONATA ARCTICA

WINTERHEART'S GUILD

1. ABANDONED, PLEASED, BRAINWASHED, EXPLOITED

Wake up my child, hope is here
With a vengeance, we have no time to bleed
My only world filled with fear
I never saw the sower of the seed

Where is the world we had
Who can ever save you and your little lives
A child guides a child guided child
A child is never guilty
But you should not run free

The grave is open, let us pray without remorse
Empty the cradle with fire for them once again
Why not look through your fingers, what they've done
Your own blood will clean the blood
For now the glory days are gone

Time has come for everyone
To think what we have done
Open your eyes and see, it's not a dream
You aim for a common goal, you are one with your foe
If only we could wake up soon and scream

Abandoned, pleased, brainwashed, exploited
Madness has a reason
Throw money at the problem and it will remain
Your life has no value for them
"Violate me and this never ends
My children will then hate you too"
The grave is open, let us pray without remorse
Empty the cradle with fire for them once again
Why not look through your fingers, what they've done
Your own blood will clean the blood
For now the glory days are gone

Now, when it seems that we have nothing to believe in
Maybe we should be waiting for the rock to come
For our children soon have nothing, they should learn

The grave is open, let us pray without remorse
Empty the cradle with fire for them once again
Why not look through your fingers, what they've done
Your own blood will clean the blood
For now the glory days are gone

Time has come for everyone, to think what we have done
Open your eyes and see, it's not a dream
You aim for a common goal, you are one with your foe
If only we could wake up soon and scream

It's time for everyone, to think what we have done
Open your eyes and see, it's not a dream
You aim for a common goal, you are one with your foe
If only we could wake up soon and scream.

2. GRAVENIMAGE

We met that night, when the sea ran high
And I craved for more of that near-love experience
Those who the music hath then joined together
Are now put asunder

Remember me, when I lit the fire
To keep us warm on a cold winter morning
Now I pass through the moment
Can I still recognize a beautiful melody

I play a note, but hear no sound
Have I lost my love or the wings I found
When I was young
And eager to please anyone who had time

Needed to sing, the very notes I heard
Had to stay in the shadows and seek for the loneliness
Nevertheless, the price was higher than I had realized
I was to live alone, ready to make the sacrifice
Was I in love with you

My old heart, little harder again
Once the light goes out
Everything ends, it is time
Ready to cause a scene, ready to make the sacrifice
Ready to play the note, ready to end the final show
The only thing I know

The pain is here
To stay I fear
In my eyes
I can change one note and make you cry
In this state of mind
Silence is a crime

How can life be so feigned and cold
I've answered the call of every melody, lovingly
Did I find the answers to all my questions
Or a gravenimage of me

If I found the hidden fountain
Drank the wisdom from its deep
Would I have the time to save me
Would I have them both to keep.

3. THE CAGE

A lifetime ago, with frozen eyes they closed the door
Suddenly I realized what locks are for
No trusting them anymore
Lights are out

Empty the stare, innocent and unaware
Dragged out from my home, my lair
Earmarked me, hurt me, burned me

The walls around me, eyes surround me, feed my fear again
I must be freed or I will die
Before the harvest moon, my friend
I do not have another year in me
You've gotta set me free

The dream is alive, I can run up the hills every night
Go around and see another side of the tree
Freedom has a meaning for me, howl with me

Fear in the dark
I advice you
You can not see the eyes
They grow behind you
It's my song they now sing to you
You stand no chance

They'll kill for me, steal back my freedom
Set me free, it's my minions versus thee
Fiery the vengeance, hate will drain me

The walls around me, eyes surround me, feed my fear again
I must be freed or I will die
Before the harvest moon, my friend
I do not have another year in me
You've gotta set me free

The dream is alive, I can run up the hills every night
Go around and see another side of the tree
All I want is to be untamed and free, howl and dream

The dream is alive, with the moon on the hills every night
Run around and see another side of the dream
Freedom has a meaning for me, you can't tame me

You will remember the day you crossed my path
Leave me without a guard and you feel my wrath
What you have done to me has made me bitter and cruel
I'll see that all the hate you spread
Returns to you, you, to you

The walls around me, eyes surround me, feed my fear again
I must be freed or I will die
Before the harvest moon, my friend
I do not have another year in me
You've gotta set me free

The dream is alive, I can run up the hills every night
Go around and see another side of the tree
All I want is to be untamed and free, howl and dream

The dream is alive, with the moon on the hills every night
Run around and see another side of the dream
Freedom has a meaning for me, you can't tame me

The dream is alive, I can run up the hills every night
Go around and see another side of the tree
All I want is to be untamed and free, howl and dream

The dream is alive, with the moon on the hills every night
Run around and see another side of the dream
Freedom has a meaning for me.

4. SILVER TONGUE

Mind, filled with fairytales
New ones every day, don't ask me anything now
I know what you're waiting
The curtain to fall

Names don't mean anything, hear the lady sing
All human rights are now cancelled, you need to handle
The dreams of the day

You hurt them many times, why apologize
"They were the ones who were wrong, what are they waiting?"
"Give them a vail"

"Oh, be my valentine"
Play along with an angel with silver tongue
Play with a stranger

I never saw anything so white
Call me Ishmael, if it ain't a lie
I am blinded by your revealing smile
I can only be guilty of an innocent try
You think you are right, in a way
It is something I hear every day

I cannot understand you
To me you live in a world of chaos
Life is a play you star on
To you it's all a game

Why can't I leave today and your funny ways
You are a one person riot, in the horizon
Done for the day

I outsmart you
I am wise, I defeat you any way I like
But you got me forced into a fall
I am your slave, down on the floor

I never saw anything so white
Call me Ishmael, if it ain't a lie
I am blinded by your revealing smile
I can only be guilty of an innocent try
You think you are right, in a way
It is something I hear every day

I cannot understand you
To me you live in a world of chaos
Life is a play you star on
To you it's all a game of chaos
I do feel stronger now
Why am I still here with you
You and your silver tongue
Why do I still play with you

You think you are right, in a way
It is something I hear every day

I cannot understand you
To me you live in a world of chaos
Life is a play you star on
To you it's all a game of chaos
I cannot understand you
To me you live in a world of chaos
Life is a play you star on
To you it's all a game you play with me.

5. THE MISERY

I write the lines you want me to
With the words I dare to use
Of all the ones that you have taught me
Along the years

You cast a perfect shadow on the paper
Fade away with sunlight
I fear the way you know me
Love can leave a stain

You steal my only hope
And make me stay awake another night
I wish you bear with me, stay near me
When the autumn leaves have fallen
Solitude, my pain, the last thing left of me

If you fall I'll catch, if you love I'll love
And so it goes, my dear, don't be scared
You'll be safe, this I swear
If you only love me

Seven lonely lies written on Deadwinter's Night
Open the only book with the only poem I can read
In blood I sign my name and seal the midnight with a tear
Burn the paper, every line for them I cried

If you fall I'll catch, if you love I'll love
And so it goes, my dear, don't be scared
You'll be safe, this I swear
If you only love me back

I am the Playwright and you are my Crown
Make me cry for your love
Like you've done many times
So I know I can't write these storylines without you
Lady pain, make me strong
Can't we be together without them forever

The words I write can only hurt you, sorry for the rain
Thank you, my only one, you gave me this pain
I leave you gently on the floor
Take one step towards the door
Where's the letter never written, goodnight now

If you fall I'll catch, if you love I'll love
And so it goes, my dear, don't be scared
You'll be safe, this I swear
If you only love me back

If you fall I'll catch, if you love I'll love
And so it goes, my dear, don't be scared
You'll be safe, this I swear
If you only love me back

If you fall I'll catch, if you love I'll love
And so it goes, my dear, don't be scared
You'll be safe, this I swear
If you only love me.

6. VICTORIA'S SECRET

The light escapes her room tonight
Every little moment tells her, now it's time
Opening a new scar, closing the wounds with a knife
No more crying in the lanterns light

Leave with the first light
Go when you still see the moon
Run for the sunlight
Gate is now open for you

Dancing on the path and singing how you got away
You can reach the goals
That you have set from now on, every day
There is no way you would go back now
Oh no, those days are past
Life is waiting for the one who loves to live
And it's not a secret

Shades of darkness filled her life
Every single corner you can not turn right
Night could pass for a day in her lack of faith
She let it all fade away
Once more a cry in the lanterns light

Lost in the sunlight
Leave, you will not see the moon
Walk for the first time
No one has waited for you

Dancing on the path and singing how you got away
You can reach the goals
That you have set from now on, every day
There is no way you would go back now
Oh no, those days are past
Life is waiting for the one who loves to live
And it's not a secret

Dancing on the path and singing how you got away
You can reach the goals
That you have set from now on, every day
There is no way you would go back now
Oh no, those days are past
Life's there for the ones who love to live
And take it all, for it is free

Dancing on the path and singing how you got away
You can reach the goals
That you have set from now on, every day
There is no way you would go back now
Oh no, those days are past
Life is waiting for the one who loves to live
And it's not a secret.

7. CHAMPAGNE BATH

Spare me your tiny talk, kneel down and wash my feet
Could someone, please, fly you away, out from your misery
Suck it all in, go ahead and take your daily overdose
Only do not come and demonstrate me how your mind explodes

Build yourself a Trojan horse to stand out in the mass
Tuck it here before our eyes, then see what comes to pass
Well, cut version of the turmoil
You have caused is on the news
To present a biased view, for our elevated pastime's due

The sun won't rise behind you anymore
Neglected, disconnected

You seem to need their power even more
One time more, to die for

If you take one step back
You will see what they stuck in your eye
All the rights for your life are always implied
If I care what you say there, impersonated form of life
On your Lilo, limp and only, list your wishes for the night

The sun won't rise behind you anymore
Neglected, disconnected

You seem to need their power even more
One time more, to die for

I'm covered with gauze-like steel
My mind you've rotten to the core
High apparitor, hear my appeal
This thing is not to be allowed to breed

You must be deaf, dumb and blind
I loath you and your kind

Die

You keep good company in a champagne bath
And smile with all your faces
Our day you grace by showing up in ev'ry place
Speed-dial one, call them
They come and make us see how once again
They mistreated you
This fame it sure must be a royal pain

The sun won't rise behind you anymore
Neglected, disconnected

You seem to need their power even more

I see the sun behind you yet once more.

8. BROKEN

I was raised from a broken seed
I grew up to be an unwanted weed
Ever faster the time exceeds me
Little harder again to remember you

Held a torch for you when lightning stroke me
And once again, hope I died for the last time
Only one I have a thing greater than you
Little light on the sky every night

Morning dew on the field where I met you
I was frozen a year, couldn't get through
Got a sign, not a scar, on my shoulder
I am not quite the man you take me for
Fell in love with the weakness within me
Tried to force me the Ring and own me

Guess you found what you'd think would oblige me
Little version of me to consume you
I'd give my everything to you
Follow you through the garden of oblivion
If only I could tell you everything
The little things you'll never dare to ask me

Do you really know me
I might be a God
Show me that you care and how to cry
How do you see me
As the one
Can you see my blood when I'm bleeding
How can you love this exile
And how could I desire you
When my pain is my pain and yours is too

On this dark winter's night
Darkness becomes this child
Bless this night with a tear
For I have none, I fear

Seven lives of a man passed before me
Seven graves, one for every love I've had
Only once I have broken my so called heart
Only one made me see why they cry

Will I learn how to be one of you someday
Will I still feel the eyes that behold me
Will I hear what you think, when you see me
Will it tear me apart if you feel for me

I'd give my everything to you
Follow you through the garden of oblivion
If only I could tell you everything
The little things you'll never dare to ask me

Do you really know me
I might be a God
Show me that you care and how to cry
How do you see me
As the one
Can you see my blood when I'm bleeding
How can you love this exile
And how could I desire you
When my pain is my pain and yours is too

On this dark winter's night
Darkness becomes this child
Bless this night with a tear
For I have none, I fear

Little broken, always been
A part of you belongs to me
You were never mine to love
But this all has made it easy for me

Burning feathers, not an angel
Heaven's closed, hell's sold out
So I walk on earth, behind the curtains
Hidden from everyone
Until I find a new life to ruin again

On this Deadwinter's Night
Darkness becomes this child
Bless this night with a tear
For I have none, I fear

On this Deadwinter's night
Darkness becomes this child
Bless this night with a tear
For I have none, I fear.

9. THE RUINS OF MY LIFE

The land was then young, I was fighting for it like everyone
Ready to die for the cause, for my King, for my Lord

You were my reason to live, to fight another day
You were the only for me, and you were only for me

Another year I would be gone
The war was leading us so far apart
I built a house to keep you there
Waiting for me, waiting

No one there remembers my face nor my name
In a dream, I'd stay here forever
Headstone on my grave, words carved in vain
All these wounds only heal when I'm home

The taste of their blood in my mouth and the scent of victory
Scarred my soul for life, this man was not me

Love is a game for the weak to play, they said
I loved and love made me many times stronger

Another year I would be gone
The war was leading us so far apart
I built a house to keep you there

Waiting for me, waiting

No one remembers my face nor my name
In a dream, I'd stay here forever
Headstone on my grave, words carved in vain
All these wounds only heal when I'm home

"Everything ends... everything dies...
Now I know the legends only lived in his lies"

My long and winding road
River and trees by the hills we lived on
The ruins of my life I find, a signet ring on the ashes
I know my Lord betrayed me
My reason to live was taken away
I carry my loved one to the hills we loved
For the last time

I close your eyes, kiss you goodbye
The only one who ever loved me
I'm crushed inside, darling, my life
It shall end here

Headstone on your grave, words carved in vain
Now the dankness covers me.

10. DRAW ME

Blessed with an eye to see things as they are
Will you draw me?
Up there on the wall, looking down to us all
You never saw me
I found a pen and I outlined a life
You never cried, I think I saw a tear in your eye

Your eyes tell the tale, I will not ask again
Now I see what you've lost, nothing is quite the same
By the love of my heart, cut my drawing in half
For I think I'm like you
Should you draw me

Waiting for my evenfall

Farewell, my passion, you slowly turn pale
I will long for you warmth, made me feel safe
I will not draw again, till I know it's my time
I have lived a long life, should I draw me

Morning's here, I must have failed

Come and take me.

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