[ti:bless the child]
[ar:Nightwish]
[al:Century Child]

[00:15]bless the child
[00:20]
[00:37]"I was born amidst the purple waterfalls.
[00:40]I was weak, yet not unblessed.
[00:44]Dead to the world. Alive for the journey.
[00:50]One night I dreamt a white rose withering,
[00:57]a newborn drowning a lifetime loneliness.
[01:03]I dreamt all my future. Relived my past.
[01:07]A witnessed the beauty of the beast"
[01:30]
[01:41]Where have all the feelings gone?
[01:49]Why has all the laughter ceased?
[04:21][02:44][01:58]Why am I loved only when I'm gone?
[04:29][02:52][02:05]Gone back in time to bless the child
[02:13]
[04:53][04:37][03:00]Think of me long enough to make a memory
[05:01][04:45][03:08]Come bless the child one more time
[03:18]
[02:28]How can I ever feel again?
[02:37]Given the chance would I return?
[03:24]I've never felt so alone in my life
[03:30]As I drank from a cup which was counting my time
[03:36]There's a poison drop in this cup of Man
[03:41]To drink it is to follow the left hand path
[03:51]
[05:26]"Where have all the feelings gone?
[05:28]Why is the deadliest sin - to love as I loved you?
[05:33]Now unblessed, homesick in time,
[05:36]soon to be freed from care, from human pain.
[05:41]My tale is the most bitter truth:
[05:45]Time pays us but with earth & dust, and a dark, silent grave.
[05:53]Remember, my child: Without innocence the cross is only iron,
[06:00]hope is only an illusion & Ocean Soul's nothing but a name...
[06:08]The Child bless thee & keep thee forever"