TWILIGHT OPHERA LYRICS Shadows Embrace The Dark (1997) 1. Crown Of Thorns 2. Blessed To Forget 3. The Moon Is Your lover... (Darkness Is Thy Kingdom part I) 4. Queen Of The Night (Darkness Is Thy Kingdom part II) 5. Shadowdancer 6. Opera 666: The Whore 7. Wasted 8. Storms Of Silence 1. Crown Of Thorns Empty walls, hollow words The unholy secrets of them I can live without this world Believe again I am so dead inside you So numb without You are my world You are the world ...and the holy flesh for me Bleeding eyes, crown of thorns I don't long for them Shining wings and reeking horns Worship again I am so lost without you So divine inside You are my faith You are the grace ...sacred water for me 2. Blessed To Forget It's underway, your history burns The only tie to tomorrow, and the present... It's always gone It's in your spine, your mouth gives birth To the innocent, stillborn, and the rape... Is such a bore Somebody is blessed to forget Someone is cursed to remember You're too unwise to suffer I am I, and you... Will drown in virtue In his eyes you're a wet-nurse Sour milk to the children, and infanticide... Is already done 3. The Moon Is Your lover... (Darkness Is Thy Kingdom part I) We stand here together on edge of eternity In night everlasting; we two, unparted The night is so cold, but it`s calling me, so desirous The Full moon Watches over me from above Emerald eyes stare out from an ivory face How could it be, that death has such beauty? Hair as black as the night always is Night falls always as she awakes "The moon is you lover, Queen of the Night" Lips as red as the blood in my veins At dawn I pray, Come night: Bring her, Queen of the Night Your kiss cuts me like a razor Hold me down and take my heart Watch as I become just like you Touch me and I`ll burn like Fire 4. Queen Of The Night (Darkness Is Thy Kingdom part II) Crowned with fire dark embrace from the shady kingdom of desire ...Come to me... Queen of the Night Silence breaks with screams of denial ...In endless faith I call you.. Arise! Your moist warm breath upon my skin Ignites a pulsing flame within Eyes can`t sescribe the burn I feel I cannot resist, thought the pain is so strong It`s like... the ending notes of one last song "Your world is false, but I am real Light pours forth on the blinded eyes You face the truth of your self-demise Shadows slowly dim the light Darkness intrudes in your silent world You are the one who travels by night More lonely you`ll be in the world you scorn You are an angel disgraced... Queen of the Night" Like the raven is black, black are the secrets in me In flames I shall eternally burn, to purify my sinful heart Darkness tightly holding me, the darkness is she... Throned as the night`s queen Release me from this pain (Queen of the Night) In darkness bring thy light (Queen of the Night) 5. Shadowdancer Have you seen the setting sun? Let darkness obscure all the light Have you felt the creeping one? The Dark Angel of the blessed night ...And the sun is shielding you no more It's time to go... To the Kingdom of twilight; of pleasure and delight It's time to go... Don't hide your fear Lay down in the circle of candles From the shadows he will come Dancing in the light of the moon So it will be... Sword carves the flesh Blood dyeing the ground red Innocent victim, of ruined mind Angel of the fallen ones... here is thy desire ...And the sun is shielding you no more It's time to go... To the Kingdom of twilight; of pleasure and delight It's time to go... 6. Opera 666: The Whore Moon, dive with me To the abyss where no-one has ever been Shield me on my journey, show me the way Through the journey, which called as a dream I opened my eyes, something had changed Like I'd be still asleep, how this dream is so real... "The last, deadly dance in the night with a moon still burning so bright" Oh. How beautiful she was... I kissed her black painted lips Her face was so cold and pale Breath like a cold breeze and eyes like bloody dawn She looked into my eyes, with eyes which glowed so red I called from the mist, to dance with forgotten souls of slumber How could she resist? Wind touched me with it's cold breath Night began to turn to dawn Spells of night fading away Everything had been like in a dream... But still I believe, from the mist she will see With eyes which glow always so red... 7. Wasted The time which we had wasted, had passed forever The love which we had tasted, is now disgraced For years we had aparted been, now it's like centuries for me Less forlorn I might be, if it has been only a dream... 8. Storms Of Silence Together we walk from night 'til dawn I'm the fire which burns In dark, dark desires I'm the pain you feel The pain what I have seen I'm the wind which blows Over the sky, in the night Together we walk, from the night 'til dawn Through the storms of silence In the dust of eternity we drown I'm the darkest one - like a raven of the night I'm the strongest one - my hands full of blood Forever I have been, and forever I shall see Centuries go by, but it's always the same... Strongest of all: Death, is my name Night veils their fears - always, I'll be there I intrude in their dreams - in dark hours of the night Line up: Tony Naykki - Guitars Timo Puranen - Keyboards Mikko Kaipainen - Guitars Sauli Karkkunen - Male Vocals Anu Kohonen - Female Vocals Timo Kollin - Drums