Adrian

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 world The villages go by like trees The rivers and the hills The forests and the streams Children gaze open mouth Taken by surprise 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

Get away from me! Take heed to thyself and see my face no more! for in the day Thou see my face Thou shalt die! – Exodus 10:28 A constellation of divine architecture built on Earth A holy harbour – Orion Nautical ascension to the firmament Ship-shaped barrows open my heart to the wisdom of this land Sailing with the Serpent Chimera of a fiendish sandman The Unicorn arrives with the westwind to dream His funeral Thou art born for Horus dwells in Thee Slumbering with the ebb and the flow of this foaming tomb Thou art born for Seteh dwells in Thee Reveal your face to me and guide me through the Stygian fields Enthral my soul to Sepedet’s beams to serve Your will Sailing on the distant seas from darkness to deliverance Tales like the ocean written to the Draco’s glance Ruling with the scythe of death you tear our philosophies apart An ancient starwalk to merge into the stars Open thy veins for my venom Kiss the cobras with thy twisted tongue So shalt thou join the empyrean circus Where beggars mourn and seraphs dance In this twilight cathedral Shall I wed thee, O Bride of the Netherworld Sailing on the distant seas… Join my soul the Hunter in the sky

Riddler Riddler ask me why The birds fly free on a mackerel sky Ask me whither goes the wind Whence the endless tick-tick stream begins Make me guess if the earth is flat or round Set a guessing if fantasies are unbound If tales aren’t just for children to see That it’s peace if sleep walks with me As you wish For kingdom come The one to know all the answers You think you dwell in wisdoms sea Still sweet ignorance is the key To a poet’s paradise Challenge the Riddler and you will see… Riddler Riddler ask me why All mothers beneath the Earth and sky Hold their children’s hands for a while Their hearts forever – yours and mine Make me wonder what’s the meaning of life What’s the use to be born and then die Make me guess who’s the one Behind the mask of Father and Son As you wish… For nature hates virginity I wish to be touched Not by the hands of where’s and why’s But by the Oceans’ minds As you wish…

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All those beautiful people I want to have them all All those porcelain models If only I could make them fall Be my heart a well of love Flowing free so far above A wintry eve Once upon a tale An Ugly Duckling Lost in a verse Of a sparrows carol Dreaming the stars Be my heart a well of love Flowing free so far above In my world Love is for poets Never the famous balcony scene Just a dying faith On the heaven’s gate Crystal pond awaits the lorn Tonight another morn for the lonely one is born

Princess of lust Dignity put to dust A virginal sight Their apple to bite Drink from my thighs The rain of lies A sight so cursed Breasts which never nursed An Aphrodite for mortal souls Playing hide and seek in lecherous roles Their erotic hour my tearless weep Their satisfaction my infinite sleep Naked limbs reflecting from the moon I’ll be there for you soon First wish for this night: Let me be your delight Body of a virgin Soul to the Devil’s kin Your God is me In all that you see An Aphrodite for mortal souls…

Naked in midwinter magic Lies an angel in the snow The frozen figure crossed by tracks of wolves An encounter symbolic yet truthful With a hungry choir of wolves An agreement immemorial to be born Dulcet elvenharps from a dryad forest Accompany all charming tunes Of a sacrament by a campfire A promise between the tameless And the one with a tool Tonight the journey from a cave begins I want to hunt with the tameless heart I want to learn the wisdom of mountains afar We will honor the angel in the snow We will make the streams for our children flow Wrapped in furs beneath the northern lights From my cave I watch the land untamed And wonder if some becoming season Will make the angel melt in shame I want to hunt with the tameless heart…

A snowy owl above the haunted waters Poet of ancient gods Cries to tell the neverending story Prophecy of becoming floods An aura of mystery surrounds her The lady in brightest white Soon the incarnate shall be born The Creator of the Night Deep dark is His Majesty’s kingdom A portent of tomorrow’s world There shall the liquid give Him power The red-eyed unborn lord Fatal embrace of the bloodred waters The cradle of infinite gloom The spell to master this Earth Carven on an infant’s tomb I will die for the love of the mermaid Her seduction beauty and scorn Welcome to the end of your life – Hail the Oceanborn! Disgraced is my virginity Death has woven my wedding dress Oh Great Blue breathe the morning dew For you are the cradle of the image of god Brave now long rest is sweet With me here in the deep I prayed for pleasure wished for love Prayed for your – Never pray for me! Who the hell are you for me But a mortal dream to see? This apathetic life must drown Forever just for me Leave me be Leave me be Leave me be…ee…eeee From cradle to coffin Shall my wickedness be your passion We shall come to set the dolphins free We shall wash the darkened bloodred sea Our songs will echo over the mountains and seas The eternity will begin once again in peace

Toll no bell for me Father But let this cup of suffering pass from me Send me no shepherd to heal my world But the Angel – the dream foretold Prayed more than thrice for You to see The wolf of loneliness in me …not my own will but Yours be done… You wake up where’s the tomb? Will Easter come, enter my room? The Lord weeps with me But my tears fall for you Another Beauty Loved by a Beast Another tale of infinite dreams Your eyes they were my paradise Your smile made my sun rise Forgive me for I don’t know what I gain Alone in this garden of pain Enchantment has but one truth: I weep to have what I fear to lose You wake up where’s the tomb… „I knew you never before I see you never more But the love the pain the hope O beautiful one Have made you mine ’till all my years are done” Without you The poetry within me is dead

A grand oasis in the vastness of gloom Child of dew-spangled cobweb Mother to the moon Constellations beholders of the 3rd vagrant Theater for the play of life 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 Tragedienne of heavens… 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 Tragedienne of heavens…

The ticktock of time allows me to see An owl turn to an echo The butterfly to a cocoon A swan to ugly duckling A lake to an ocean The dead times awake As I’ve been called myself to yesterday The flower has fallen its petals Out of the petals a cradle I will My cradle rocks with the waves of time The time of beauty will never be the same Oh, little girl, as thou must now leave Please take me, take me with thee Now I hear my mother from the deep Sing me a lullaby of eternal sleep Wilt blow wee plant that last to recall As in silence we sing to reborn

Pakkasyossa tunturten tanssii tulet leiskuen elo ammoin mennyt on tunnen sen kutsun pohjanneitojen ylla lapin

Oh, setting Sun, Thy red rays maketh me cry. They remind me of the one Whose love awaits me in the sky. A bridal bed awaits us both After the landscape of death I cross. Before my sorrows I must die, Nightwish I send through the starlit sky. The voice of nightly winds has awakened me, Amidst all the grief they embrace me with relief. Beneath my dreams and wishes I long for thy caresses. A bridal bed awaits us both, After the landscape of death I cross. Before my sorrows I must die, Nightwish I send through the starlit sky. „Passed away in silence The flute from the realm unseen Empties its heart Making love to me With its enchanting melody. Light of Orion, Shadow of Andromeda, Call of the dancing Universe. Their love I must enter Before thou can blame my soul That is peace”

A star falls down from the darkened sky Where new worlds born and die Kingdom Animalia watches its approaching glow What it means is soon to be known Beneath the lovely birch honeymakers build their nest in peace On the savannah a lion licks a wounded gnu To honor this moment even the heavens cease Giant spiders learn how to swim With whales they form a united kin Snakes say hello to the rats on the ground In the meadows play merrily the fox and the hound Trilobite & Anymalocharis The prey and the hunter Survival of the fittest Fall of Man Seadrops foam all empty human skulls Those on the shores of Atlantis Darwin’s resurrection is witnessed By turtles he used to play with Healed and happy She oversees The Mother The tyrant’s return to the sea

A lonely bard wandering across the lands am I Singing dancing finding answers to every why The taverns are full and one crosses my path, too I just might reward myself with a beer or two This inn the place of many romantic tales On the loft women offer their sales But my eyes they catch a girl beat by everyone A slave she is but for me a rose undone Hear me sing Watch me dance Play that lute of thine And share with me this dance As she danced my eyes began to shine There she was the maiden so divine How could I approach her with my outlook so poor Her beauty being much more than I could endure So I asked if I could sing a chanson With a language of ancient and of lore Gathered the men around us me and the girl in rags Soon were the melodies heard by everyone Hear us sing Watch us dance Sing with us this tale With a clap of hands The stories long-forgotten we still know Performing our skills wherever we go I end my story as I receive a kiss From my girl the dearest Beatrice Hear us sing Watch us dance Sing with us the tales Which the music will keep alive

1. Erämaajärvi Kautta erämaajärven matkaa kulkuri yksinäinen Näkee lammella joutsenparven vapauttaan itkevän Kaipuu menneisyyteen kiirii ilmassa huutoina kotkien Ikijärveltä turvatulta käy matka vuorten taa 2. Witchdrums (Instrumental) 3. This Moment Is Eternity Day possesses no key here Where moon sheds the cold twilight This moment is eternity Land of beauty Cold and cruel Fjeld chants echoing Reflecting the melancholy Trust the wind Trust the fire Call for the hermit The hermit of the night Land of raven Land of bear Land of eagle And wolverine Dismal are the mirrors of a wolf 4. Etiäinen (Instrumental)

What does the free fall feel like? Asks the boy with a spark in his eye Know why the nightingale sings Is the answer to everything Taking a step to the world unbound Spinning my fantasies all around Freed from the gravital leash I swear the heaven’s in my reach Dancing with the spirit of the air In this ocean so so open and fair Making love to the gods above On my maiden voyage so bold Landing safely to the blue lagoon Don’t know if this is the earth or the moon Joy of living is no more a mask The Eden I found will forever last Migrating with the geese My soul has finally found peace Doesn’t matter that man has no wings As long as I hear the nightingale sing…

The scent of a woman was not mine… Welcome home darling Did you miss me? Wish to dwell in dear love? Touch my milklike skin Feel the ocean Lick my deepest Hear the starry choir Rip off this lace That keeps me imprisoned But beware of the enchantment For my eroticism is oblivion Old love lies deep you said Deeper shall be the wound between your legs

As the sun sets beyond the pyramid To greet me with its rays I place my hand on my forehead To see your chariots’ flames Watch me kneel before you Hear the cats meowing in the temple They yearn for the milk you cascaded As I yearn your promised treasure Treasure of Tutankhamen I am the one it is Take me with you Through the stargate To the valley of the kings Sacrifice me Tutankhamen And let me be your queen Take me Tonight and always We’ll breed to fill all earth Three millenniums it took me to guard your rest Your slumber in mighty Phoenix’s nest But tonight the darkness in the tomb has perished For Carter has come to free my beloved Treasure of… Sacrifice me…

An angelface smiles to me Under a headline of tragedy That smile used to give me warmth Farewell – no words to say Beside the cross on your grave And those forever burning candles Needed elsewhere To remind us of the shortness of your time Tears laid for them Tears of love tears of fear Bury my dreams dig up my sorrows Oh Lord why The angels fall first? Not relieved by thoughts of Shangri-La Nor enlightened by the lessons of Christ I’ll never understand the meaning of the right Ignorance lead me into the light Needed elsewhere… Sing me a song Of your beauty Of your kingdom Let the melodies of your harps Caress those whom we still need Yesterday we shook hands My friend Today a moonbeam lightens my path My guardian

A nocturnal concerto Candlelight whispers me where to go Hymn of gathering stars as my guide As I wander on this path of the night Embroidery of the stars Undress my feelings for this earth Send me your salva to heal my scars And let this nakedness be my birth Macrocosm poured its powers on me And the hopes of this world I now must leave The nightwish I sent you centuries ago Has been heard by those Who dwelled in a woe The distance of our bridal bed Await for me to be dead Dust of the galaxies take my hand Lead me to my beloved’s land Departed by the guillotine of death I received a letter from the depth The dream of my lover it carried inside Caressed by the sharpest knife I asked you to be my wife Rays of the setting sun Were my tears wept upon promises undone Come to me Make me believe to you and your love again Above the universe Beneath the Great Eye I shall desire you forevermore

Who are you? Man condemned to shine a salvation Throughout the centuries Why? Was the wine of the grail Too sour for man to drink The carpenter Carved his anchor On the dying souls of mankind On the tomb of this unknown soldier Lay the tools of the one who for us had died Tools of the carpenter The one they lick The same old sick Dream of their precious saviour Kiss them deep And make them weep Over promises of eternal peace The carpenter Carved his anchor On the dying souls of mankind On the tomb of this unknown soldier Lay the tools of the one who for us had died Tools of the carpenter I hear you Through the symphonic voices of nature The purity I could never doubt They tell me to lie on the grass And observe my saviour The one crucified to the chirping of birds The carpenter…

Remember the first dance we shared? Recall the night you melted my ugliness away? The night you left with a kiss so kind Only a scent of beauty left behind Ah dear friend I remember the night The moon and the dreams we shared Your trembling paw in my hand Dreaming of that northern land Touching me with a kiss of a beast I know my dreams are made of you Of you and only for you Your ocean pulls me under Your voice tears me asunder Love me before the last petal falls As a world without a glance Of the ocean’s fair expanse Such the world would be If no love did flow in thee But as my heart is occupied Your love for me now has to die Forgive me I need more than you can offer me Didn’t you read the tale Where happily ever after was to kiss a frog? Don’t you know this tale In which all I ever wanted I’ll never have For who could ever learn to love a beast? However cold the wind and rain I’ll be there to ease your pain However cruel the mirrors of sin Remember beauty is found within …Forever shall the wolf in me desire the sheep in you…

In the sheltering shade of the forest Calling calming silence Accompanied only by the full moon The howling of a night wolf And the path under my bare feet… …The Elvenpath Hearing music from the deepest forest Songs as a seduction of sirens The elf-folk is calling me Tapio, Bear-king, Ruler of the forest Mielikki, Bluecloak, Healer of the ill and sad Open the gate and let me follow the uncarven path The way to the lands Where as a hero I stand The path where Beauty met the Beast Elvenpath It’s the honesty of these worlds Ruled by magic and mighty swords That makes my soul long for the past Elvenpath The moonwitch took me to a ride on a broomstick Introduced me to her old friend home gnome Told me to keep the sauna warm for him At the grove I met the rest – the folk of my fantasies Bilbo, Sparhawk, goblins and pixies Snowman, Willow, trolls and the seven dwarves The path goes forever on The way to the lands… As I return to my room And as sleep takes me by my hand Madrigals from the woods Carry me to neverland In this spellbound night The world’s an elvish sight In this spellbound night The world’s an elvish sight