Nightwish

"I was born amidst the purple waterfalls.
I was weak, yet not unblessed.
Dead to the world, alive for the journey.
One night I dreamt a white rose withering,
a newborn drowning a lifetime loneliness.
I dreamt all my future, relived my past,
and witnessed the beauty of the Beast"

Where have all the feelings gone?
Why has all the laughter ceased?
Why am I loved only when I'm gone?
Gone back in time to bless the child.

How can I ever feel again?
Given the chance would I return?
Why am I loved only when I'm gone?
Gone back in time to bless the child.
Think of me long enough to make a memory.
Come bless the child one more time.

I've never felt so alone in my life.
As I drank from a cup which was counting my time.
There's a poison drop in this cup of man,
To drink it is to follow the left hand path.

Why am I loved only when I'm gone?
Gone back in time to bless the child.
Think of me long enough to make a memory.
Come bless the child one more time.

Think of me long enough to make a memory.
Come bless the child one more time.

"Where have all the feelings gone?
Why is it the deadliest sin - to love as I loved you?
Now unblessed, homesick in time, soon to be freed from care,
from human pain.
My tale is the most bitter truth: Time pays us
with but earth & dust, and a dark, silent grave.
Remember my child:
without innocence the cross is only iron,
hope is only an illusion,
an oceansoul's nothing but a name...
The Child bless thee and keep thee forever"

（转）1996年七月的一个夜晚，当Tuomas与他的朋友们在树林里坐在篝火旁聚会的时候，nightwish这个想法第一次出现在他们的脑海里，他们当时就创作了三首歌曲并于当年12月录制了出来。最初乐队的成员只有三人Tuomas，Tarja和Emppu。

　　Nightwish，大陆译为夜愿，女歌手Tarja领军的美声金属乐团，近年来大红大紫，号称芬兰的瑰宝。98年的专辑Oceanborn名满天下，是新古典主义和金属气质幸福联姻的典范。

　　Tarja Turunen从小接受严格的声乐训练，勉强算美女歌手。颧骨很高，给人野心勃勃的感觉。Nightwish 的曲风凌厉，气势逼人，古典段落流光溢彩，金属节奏泼辣奔放，令人有热血沸腾之感。

　　深厚的古典基础以及优雅的女高音，辅以power/speed metal衬底，强力输送重金属与高雅古典乐的混种乐风挟带着交响乐之磅礡刚正气势，Nightwish不只掳获金属乐迷的心而已，就连没接触重金属的乐迷也拜倒在其优美声乐裙摆下，而商业战绩屡屡拿下欧陆金属大奖不提，唱片销售也是每每勇破金唱片! 屡获捷报，更带起了欧陆重金属乐女主唱的风潮！

　　Nightwish的歌的确不同凡响，特别是他们的美声女主唱Tarja Turunen。如果说歌曲中，吉他、贝斯、鼓的速度是暴风雨加冰雹，那么Tarja的歌声却犹如神圣的光芒穿透浓密的云层，使它雨停云散。

　　90年代的歌特金属走了一条从摇滚向古典靠拢的路子，而NightWish就是这样一支歌特金属乐队，乐风中融合了古典与金属乐各自的特点，加上专业出身的唯美女声主唱，向听者展示出了一幅优美的画面。

这首歌儿本来是The Snowman里面的，一部可爱的动画。作曲是Howard Blake，动画里是男孩子的童声。这里是Nightwish的版本。超赞。

We're walking in the air
We're floating in the moonlit sky
The people far below are sleeping as we fly

I'm holding very tight
I'm riding in the midnight blue
I'm finding I can fly so high above with you

Far across the wold
The villages go by like trees
the rivers and the hills
The forest and the streams

Children gaze open mouth
Taken by suprise
Nobody down below believes their eyes

We're surfing in the air
We're swimming in the frozen sky
We're drifting over icy
mountains floating by

Suddenly swooping low on an ocean deep
Arousing of a mighty monster from its sleep

We're walking in the air
We're floating in the midnight sky
And everyone who sees us greets us as we fly

荡气回肠～
在黑夜中踌躇～
只需要这一首，你便会接受交响金属了！

Sleeping Sun

The sun is sleeping quietly
Once upon a century
Wistful oceans calm and red
Ardent caresses laid to rest

For my dreams I hold my life
For wishes I behold my night
The truth at the end of time
Losing faith makes a crime

I wish for this night-time
to last for a lifetime
The darkness around me
Shores of a solar sea
Oh how I wish to go down with the sun
Sleeping
Weeping
With you

Sorrow has a human heart
From my god it will depart
I'd sail before a thousand moons
Never finding where to go

Two hundred twenty-two days of light
Will be desired by a night
A moment for the poet's play
Until there's nothing left to say

一个曾经唱过女高音的主唱，自然会将乐队带入一片独特的天地。nightwish也许这个词大家会很熟悉吧，因为儿时的我们也都在夜晚，望着那明亮的月亮偷偷的许下自己的心愿。这只乐队同样也是这样，他们也会有他们的愿望，他们在努力的阐释着他们的音乐，他们在努力的让每个人接受他们的音乐，他们在努力的告诉人们什么是音乐。

喜欢那重金属的风格，又有古典中那高音的唱法，其实两者都是一种音乐的阐释，他们也有很多的相同之处，他们同样是一种对内心世界的阐释。也许你还是无法接受这样的风格，可一定要记得这个名字nightwish，因为终有一天你会喜欢上他的。