[ti:White Pearl, Black Oceans]
[ar:Sonata Arctica]
[al:Reckoning Night]
[00:03.31]I was born and raised by the sea, shy yet proud,
[00:13.20]Learned to stay away from the crowd
[00:17.02]In my home, my lighthouse...
[00:21.05]101 steps round and round
[00:25.11]New Years Eve, one night on the town
[00:28.94]Can change one life into eternity...
[00:36.58]
[01:10.64]All I could see, her eyes,
[01:16.28]We got caught in the moment, all of the night
[01:21.27]Taken beyond all lines,
[01:24.99]In silence leaving ’em all behind
[01:28.68]
[01:29.23]She had found the sails, for the following night
[01:32.87]The town, for her, was getting way too small
[01:36.73]She promised to be mine
[01:41.54]Forever, ...for that one night...
[01:45.54]
[01:46.83]Moments, passion, small defeats
[01:50.82]Concealed emotions, found in me
[01:54.95]"You gave life to a brand new me..."
[01:58.49]
[01:58.94]Crossing the wintry fields,
[02:01.18]The first hour of morning light
[02:06.68]Warmed by the flame inside,
[02:11.08]The lasting memory of the ending night
[02:14.97]
[02:15.83]I never had a chance to stop what hit me...
[02:19.26]What broke my bones and mauled me...
[02:22.94]After hours of deep, unwilling sleep... in a cold shelter
[02:28.28]Fell back in the dark, and the hours of the day passed...
[02:33.35]
[02:33.74]A nightmare awakes me, blinking light!
[02:37.05]There’s no guide, blind ships in the night
[02:40.62]Oh blood red moon, eat away the night
[02:45.35]
[02:47.19]Darkness covers my lonely soul,
[02:49.93]No one to feed the dying light...
[02:53.62]
[03:13.41]Good morn’, oh dreadful day,
[03:15.86]I prayed the moon had lit the sea instead of me...
[03:19.69]For the sails of night,
[03:22.76]"Please tell me everything’s alright..."
[03:25.65]
[03:26.24]My voice in the room broke the silence,
[03:28.88]Everybody killed me with their eyes...
[03:32.03]What I was to hear made the people cry,
[03:35.42]Impossible for me to keep the tears inside
[03:39.13]
[03:40.63]"All on the board White Pearl have died,
[03:43.47]Coastal reef has tolled their lives
[03:46.47]And you are the light of the night..."
[03:51.25]
[03:51.65]One thing, I remember, before I fell on the ground...
[03:56.15]Although I never saw the face,
[03:58.83]A name was inked in his arm...
[04:02.40]
[04:02.67]Love can be like poetry of demons, or maybe
[04:05.84]God loves complex irony?
[04:08.85]The family name stated I had seen before...
[04:14.00]Written on her front door...
[04:15.41]
[04:15.71]"Silence in the courthouse!"
[04:16.68]A presence in the room, we both could feel
[04:24.72]The father of her unborn child and me
[04:28.03]
[04:28.38]All on the board White Pearl have died,
[04:30.68]Coastal reef have tolled their lives
[04:33.90]While I was the guide light...
[04:36.73]Back in my tower, run, run, run
[04:39.76]Light is out, I hope to see
[04:43.33]Black oceans beneath rise and swallow me
[04:49.37]
[05:27.70]One step will take me back inside, another sees my end
[05:32.91]No one can love a man who guarded the light
[05:36.98]That died one faithful night, so many lives...
[05:41.94]Flaming eyes I must confront before I’m stated free
[05:45.47]
[05:46.21]Defining innocence is hell, after all that has past...
[05:51.95]Building new walls inside my eternal night...
[05:56.65]Although they took my heart and dried me up
[06:02.30]Sometimes I still bleed...
[06:03.99]
[06:06.90]Show me the way
[06:09.96]The light will show me a way on the grisly reefs
[06:15.56]Too many dead ends I see
[06:20.81]No soul can save me
[06:23.49]The respect I lost, the measure of a man...
[06:30.51]
[06:50.50]10000 steps down, round and round
[06:53.91]One night at the town and I’m hell bound
[06:57.63]Black oceans beneath come and swallow me
[07:01.22]All on the board White Pearl had died,
[07:03.04]Coastal reef come claim my life
[07:05.71]Black oceans beneath come and swallow me
[07:10.03]
[07:10.71]My little tower, seal my fate
[07:12.67]Help me pay back, end their hate
[07:15.68]Black oceans beneath come and swallow me
[07:18.98]One direction, down, down, down
[07:22.16]Pitch black night for my old town
[07:24.63]Black oceans beneath shall now swallow me
[07:31.85]
[08:16.42]I hereby commit thy body to the deep
[08:20.69]To be turned into corruption
[08:23.19]Looking for a resurrection of the body
[08:25.96]When the sea shall give up her dead
[08:30.01]And the life of the world to come, through our Lord
[08:34.87]Amen
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