White Pearl, Black Oceans... - Sonata Arctica.mp3

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[00:03.010]I was born and raised by the sea, shy yet proud,
[00:12.900]Learned to stay away from the crowd
[00:16.720]In my home, my lighthouse...
[00:20.750]101 steps round and round
[00:24.810]New Years Eve, one night on the town
[00:28.640]Can change one life into eternity...
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[01:10.340]All I could see, her eyes,
[01:15.980]We got caught in the moment, all of the night
[01:20.970]Taken beyond all lines,
[01:24.689]In silence leaving ’em all behind
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[01:28.930]She had found the sails, for the following night
[01:32.569]The town, for her, was getting way too small
[01:36.430]She promised to be mine
[01:41.239]Forever, ...for that one night...
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[01:46.530]Moments, passion, small defeats
[01:50.519]Concealed emotions, found in me
[01:54.650]"You gave life to a brand new me..."“
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[01:58.640]Crossing the wintry fields,
[02:00.879]The first hour of morning light
[02:06.379]Warmed by the flame inside,
[02:10.780]The lasting memory of the ending night
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[02:15.530]I never had a chance to stop what hit me...
[02:18.960]What broke my bones and mauled me...
[02:22.639]After hours of deep, unwilling sleep... in a cold shelter
[02:27.979]Fell back in the dark, and the hours of the day passed...
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[02:33.440]A nightmare awakes me, blinking light!
[02:36.750]There’s no guide, blind ships in the night
[02:40.319]Oh blood red moon, eat away the night
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[02:46.889]Darkness covers my lonely soul,
[02:49.629]No one to feed the dying light...
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[03:13.110]Good morn’, oh dreadful day,
[03:15.560]I prayed the moon had lit the sea instead of me...
[03:19.389]For the sails of night,
[03:22.460]"Please tell me everything’s alright..."“
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[03:25.939]My voice in the room broke the silence,
[03:28.580]Everybody killed me with their eyes...
[03:31.729]What I was to hear made the people cry,
[03:35.120]Impossible for me to keep the tears inside
[03:38.830]
[03:40.330]"All on the board White Pearl have died,“
[03:43.169]Coastal reef has tolled their lives
[03:46.169]And you are the light of the night..."
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[03:51.349]One thing, I remember, before I fell on the ground...
[03:55.849]Although I never saw the face,
[03:58.530]A name was inked in his arm...
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[04:02.370]Love can be like poetry of demons, or maybe
[04:05.539]God loves complex irony?
[04:08.550]The family name stated I had seen before...
[04:13.699]Written on her front door...
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[04:15.409]"Silence in the courthouse!"
[04:16.379]A presence in the room, we both could feel
[04:24.420]The father of her unborn child and me
[04:27.730]
[04:28.079]All on the board White Pearl have died,“
[04:30.379]Coastal reef have tolled their lives
[04:33.600]While I was the guide light...
[04:36.430]Back in my tower, run, run, run
[04:39.459]Light is out, I hope to see
[04:43.029]Black oceans beneath rise and swallow me
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[05:27.399]One step will take me back inside, another sees my end
[05:32.610]No one can love a man who guarded the light
[05:36.680]That died one faithful night, so many lives...
[05:41.639]Flaming eyes I must confront before I’m stated free
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[05:45.910]Defining innocence is hell, after all that has past...
[05:51.649]Building new walls inside my eternal night...
[05:56.350]Although they took my heart and dried me up
[06:02.000]Sometimes I still bleed...
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[06:06.600]Show me the way
[06:09.660]The light will show me a way on the grisly reefs
[06:15.259]Too many dead ends I see
[06:20.509]No soul can save me
[06:23.189]The respect I lost, the measure of a man...
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[06:50.199]10000 steps down, round and round
[06:53.610]One night at the town and I’m hell bound
[06:57.329]Black oceans beneath come and swallow me
[07:00.920]All on the board White Pearl had died,
[07:02.740]Coastal reef come claim my life
[07:05.410]Black oceans beneath come and swallow me
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[07:10.410]My little tower, seal my fate
[07:12.370]Help me pay back, end their hate
[07:15.379]Black oceans beneath come and swallow me
[07:18.680]One direction, down, down, down
[07:21.860]Pitch black night for my old town
[07:24.329]Black oceans beneath shall now swallow me
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[08:16.120]I hereby commit thy body to the deep
[08:20.389]To be turned into corruption
[08:22.889]Looking for a resurrection of the body
[08:25.660]When the sea shall give up her dead
[08:29.709]And the life of the world to come, through our Lord
[08:34.570]Amen