WITHIN TEMPTATION LYRICS Mother Earth (2000) 1. Mother Earth 2. Ice Queen 3. Our Farewell 4. Caged 5. The Promise 6. Never-ending Story 7. Deceiver of Fools 8. Dark Wings 9. In Perfect Harmony 1. Mother Earth 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 2. Ice Queen 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 3. Our Farewell In my hands A legacy of memories I can hear you say my name I can almost see your smile Feel the warmth of your embrace But there is nothing but silence now Around the one I loved Is this our farewell? Sweet darling you worry too much, my child See the sadness in your eyes You are not alone in life Although you might think that you are Never thought This day would come so soon We had no time to say goodbye How can the world just carry on? I feel so lost when you are not by my side But there's nothing but silence now Around the one I loved Is this our farewell? So sorry your world is tumbling down I will watch you through these nights Rest your head and go to sleep Because my child, this not our farewell. This is not our farewell. 4. Caged These are the darkest clouds To have surrounded me Now I find my self alone caught in a cage There's no flower to be found in here Not withering Or pale to me Everyone with a friendly face Seems to hide some secret inside He told me he loved me While he laughed in my face He just led me astray He took my virtue I feel so cold inside Sorrow has frozen my mind My heart is covered With thoughts entangled How could it ever have felt so real? Is there a place more lonely than I feel within? Could I have seen? Could I have known? I just took it as the truth Everyone with a friendly face Seems to hide some secret inside Always there to remind me To keep me from believing That someone might be there Who'll free me and never ever leave me 5. The Promise On behalf of her love She no longer sleeps Life no longer had meaning Nothing to make her stay She sold her soul away I held you tight to me But you slipped away You promised to return to me And I believed, I believed After the night he died I wept my tears until they dried But the pain stayed the same I didn't want him to die all in vain I made a promise to revenge his soul in time I'll make them bleed at my feet Sometimes I wonder Could I have known their true intentions? As the pain stayed the same I'm going to haunt them down all the way I made a promise to revenge his soul in time One by one they were surprised 6. Never-ending Story Armies have conquered And fallen in the end Kingdoms have risen Then buried by sand The Earth is our mother She gives and she takes She puts us to sleep and In her light we'll awake We'll all be forgotten There's no endless fame But everything we do Is never in vain We're part of a story, part of a tale We're all on this journey No one is to stay Where ever it's going What is the way? Forests and deserts Rivers, blue seas Mountains and valleys Nothing here stays While we think we witness We are part of the scene This never-ending story Where will it lead to? The earth is our mother She gives and she takes But she is also a part A part of the tale We're part of a story, part of a tale We're all on this journey No one is to stay Where ever it's going What is the way? We're part of a story, part of a tale Sometimes beautiful and sometimes insane No one remembers how it began. 7. Deceiver of Fools He told the tale so many times About the dream not meant to be In a world of the free He plays with your mind As faith for the future faded fast He grows strong with their displeasure It sets him free Deceiver of hearts Deceiver of fools He rules with fear Deceiver of hearts Deceiver of fools He rules again He feeds on fear Poisons the truth To gain their faith To lead the way To a world of decay He rules your heart He will sell your soul to the grave No hesitation he'll make He belongs to the dark Please awake And see the truth He can only be If you believe what he tells you Remember who you are What you stand for And there will always be a way In my heart there is a place In my heart there is a trace Of a small fire burning A sheltering ray shines through this night Although it 's small, it's bright But darkness is lurking He will sell your soul to bitterness and cold Fear him Deceiver of hearts Deceiver of fools He rules with fear Deceiver of hearts Deceiver of fools Shall he rule again? 8. Dark Wings Why was I one of the chosen ones? Until the fight I could not see The magic and the strength of my power It was beyond my wildest dreams Dark wings they are descending See shadows gathering around One by one they are falling Every time they try to strike us down Don't you die on me You haven't made your peace Live life, breathe, breathe Don't you die on me You haven't made your peace Live life, breathe, breathe As they took your soul away The night turned into the day Blinded by your rays of life Give us the strength we needed 9. In Perfect Harmony In a world so far away At the end of a closing day A little child was born and raised Deep in the forest on a hidden place Mother never saw his face Ancient spirits of the forest Made him king of elves and trees He was the only human being Who lived in harmony In perfect harmony The woods protected, fulfillled his needs Fruit by birds, honey by bees He found shelter under trees He grew up in their company They became his family A thousand seasons They passed him by So many times, have said goodbye And when the spirits called out his name To join forever, forever to stay A forest spirit he became Thanks to sauron@lta.lviv.ua for sending these lyrics.