Many rocks the rapid has A lot of billows the sea More plentiful are my cares Then cones on a spruce Beard moss on a juniper Gnarls upon a pine bark
In the morning mist by the waning moon Through the woods she set on foot With a sacred blade cut the berries down Dug up the dreaded mandrake root [
Where have you been, where have you been My son, my merry son? On the seashore, on the seashore Mother, my darling one. And what have you been doing
[Music & lyrics: Holopainen] I shall have a son, Out of Cornwall shall he come, That shall be a wild boar, Bristled with steel... He shall be a man
Truly they lie, they talk utter nonsense Who say that music reckon that the kantele Was fashioned by a god Out of a great pike's shoulders From a water
Forging the future from the timeless stone Oh let me know how far I can go Answering the questions thet no one ever asks Float through the sea of madness
A bird flew out of Lapland An eagle from the North East One wing ruffled the water And the other swept the sky It's tail skimmed the sea It flutters
This is how the lucky feel How the blessed think Like daybreak in spring The sun on a spring morning Like the flat brink of a cloud Like a dark night
Old folk remember And those today learn How before their time Life was different here: Without the sun people lived Groped about without the moon With
Last day brings the grace For bearers of forbidden name Step into five fold mace As son as father in a frame [Chorus:] Someday fire wipes the rain Fears
The Devils weds a widow Death another's leftovers Better to lie on a willows Rest on alder boughs Then upon a widow's bed On a used woman's pillow Sweeter
The calloo's spirits are low Swimming on the chill water But the orphan's are lower Walking down the village street. The sparrow's belly is chill Sitting
I went to wash at the shore I went to bathe in the sea And there I, a hen, was lost I, a bird Untimely died Let not my brother Ever in this world Water
[Music & lyrics: Holopainen] A wave the sound of Noisiu's voice His singing was ever sweet... Noisiu's grave has now been made And the accompaniment
Sorrow is my bread And tears I drink as wine Oblivion my happiness Ground under teeth of time For cold be the stone When frost ve devoured the land
[Music: Koivusaari, Lyrics: Holopainen] As I sense their steel, As I see the mighty one, As we all gather once again The gods of war summon us... Summon
: This is how the lucky feel How the blessed think Like daybreak in spring The sun on a spring morning Like the flat brink of a cloud Like a dark night
: [Music & lyrics: Holopainen] I shall have a son, Out of Cornwall shall he come, That shall be a wild boar, Bristled with steel... He shall be a man