🇫🇮 Nightwish

Oh what did stargazing entail at the time.

Stargazers

The album Oceanborn was released in 1998/366, and opened with this track lasting less than 4.5 minutes, but at hhwat.. amount of vibrancy per second. 😐 And oh, hhwat yet another backstory omitted for now.

But already just the lyrics.. Mentioning the Almagest on a not that mainstream CD anno MCMXCVIII couldn't not be a strong hint the track was gonna astonish as it done do does now..


A grand oasis in the vastness of gloom
Child of dew-spangled cobweb, Mother to the moon
Constellations beholders of the third vagrant
Theater for the play of life

 [chorus]

  Tragedienne of heavens
  Watching the eyes of the night
  Sailing the virgin oceans
  A planetride for the Mother and Child

Floating upon the quiet hydrogen lakes
In this ambrosial merry-go-round they will gaze
Ephemereal life touched by a billion-year show
Separating the poet from the woe

 [chorus]

Oracle of the Delphian Domine, witness of Adam's frailty
Seer of the master prophecy, the stellar world her betrothed
Wanderers in cosmic caravan
Universal bond, the Starborn

A son in the search for the truth
Following the pages of Almagest
Discovering the origin of dreams
Stargazers ride through the ancient realms

 [chorus]

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