Ashram- I've lost myself

What is that something in their music...? So soft, fragile, pure poetry...




Dreaming of my pain / way

I'm like a rose on a thorn bush
And I stay in the shade
The desert can kill me


And I forget your name
As I've lost myself
... I feel the hole inside my soul...

Ashram- Forever at your mercy

Still deeply inside Ashram's music...





Your smile's a butterfly

Your eyes a 2 flames fire
You skirt around my nights like a summer moon
Lighting up my place but still not mine to hold


Here I am and here I'll stay
Here I am
Forever at your mercy


Your skin's a forbidden dream
Your taste a cool grapevine
All you give is grace and beauty in trembling shades
Please just realize you've got me hypnotized

Here I am and here I'll stay
Here I am
Forever at your mercy

Apocalyptica feat. Ville Vallo and Lauri Ylonen- Bittersweet

(Ville Valo)

I’m giving up the ghost of love
In the shadows cast on devotion


(Lauri Ylönen)
She is the one that I adore
Queen of my silent suffocation


(Together)
Break this bittersweet spell on me
Lost in the arms of destiny
(Ville Valo)
Bittersweet


(Lauri Ylönen)
I won’t give up
I’m possessed by her

(Ville Valo)
I'm bearing her cross
She's turned into my curse


(Together)
Break this bittersweet spell on me
Lost in the arms of destiny


(Lauri Ylönen)


Bittersweet
I want you


(Ville Valo)
Oh I wanted you
(Lauri Ylönen)
And I need you


(Ville Valo)
How I needed you
(Together)


Break this bittersweet spell on me
Lost in the arms of destiny
Break this bittersweet spell on me
Lost in the arms of destiny


Bittersweet...

Ashram- Lady

Such a beautiful, fragile, ethereal song... Pure beauty. So simple. Feeling like strolling very softly, very lightly in order not to destroy the smallest blade of grass...



You rise...



Flowers blooming in my memories,
Lady is charming me
As a night at sea...
It seems to fly,
Forever we'll dance in the white light...
Be my love,
And together we'll fall in the night...


Velvet kisses in my memories,
Lady is whispering
As a fragile dream...

It seems to die,
Forever we'll dance in the white light...
Be my love,
And together we'll fall in the night...


You rise...

Autumn Tears- They watch with closed eyes

I have just begun a new musical journey by discovering Autumn Tears' music... It's a fascinating combination of gothic,dark wave, neoclassical genres together with poetry, dark atmosphere, dark lyrics, beautiful soprano voice.
I've found an admirable video, which additonaly deepens the whole composition.



Timeless… ageless… ethereal beauty

Bestow thy dark enchantment
Blissful death
So begins the autumn dance

I awaken thee
With my kiss
Shall they forever
Be one with me
Dream of me, my children


As I embrace thy sorrow
And take unto myself
Thy kiss
I awaken thee


Would they hold me as I wept?
Would they dry my endless tears?
Would they kiss me as I died?
Would they love me as I am?

Deine Lakaien- Love me to the end

Everything written in the previous Deine Lakaien posts counts here too, but in this particular song I'd prefer to stop listening in the midddle... The second part is a misunderstanding for me..as if Veljanov was trying something experimenal with his voice, escaping from the dark tone, but it didn't work..So, I stop listening at point 2:22...



Waiting for the dawn

Waiting for the night
Waiting for the dawn
Waiting for the night
The day's too long
The day's too bright
The day's too long
The day's too bright

Love me,
love me to the end


This man pursues you
A dagger in his hands
This man pursues you
A dagger in his hands
Yet he will never
Get into our land
Yet he will never
Get into our land

Love me,
love me to the end


Fall down by my side
Down in my arms
Fall down by my side
Down in my arms
This night forever
No morning will come
This night forever
No morning will come

Love me,
Love me to the end
Love me,
Love me to the end
Love me, love me....

Deine Lakaien- Lonely

Another Deine Lakaien song. Theatrical, dramatical, dark, strong. Alexander Veljanov.



Lonely, where should I be if this is not my land

slowly, life is running through my fingers like sand
call me, and I'll be wherever you are
lonely, and the day hides a falling star


And I tried so hard, yes I tried to get out
but the fear kept on strangling my will
And I tried so hard, yes I tried to get out


but the chains they were harder than steel
Lonely, when the bird calls the break of dawn
Lonely, when nightfall takes lovers in it's arms


Lonely, when meadows outside grow green
falling, and the waters take what has been
flowing, show me a place where I can fall asleep
lonely, and the oceans are vast and deep

Epica- Cry for the moon

The growling part isn't my favourite one, I must say ;-), but the overall song has something inside. So far it's the only Epica song that I listen to from time to time.



Follow your common sense

You cannot hide yourself
behind a fairytale forever and ever

Only by revealing the whole truth can we disclose
The soul of this bulwark forever and ever
Forever and ever


Indoctrinated minds so very often
Contain sick thoughts
And commit most of the evil they preach against


Don’t try to convince me with messages from God
You accuse us of sins committed by yourselves
It’s easy to condemn without looking in the mirror
Behind the scenes opens reality


Eternal silence cries out for justice
Forgiveness is not for sale
Nor is the will to forget


Virginity has been stolen at very young ages
And the extinguisher loses it’s immunity
Morbid abuse of power in the garden of eden
Where the apple gets a youthful face


You can’t go on hiding yourself
Behind old fashioned fairytales
And keep washing your hands in innocence

Deine Lakaien- Return

A German-Macedonian duet, whose singer, Alexander Veljanov, has an extraordinary low voice, that gives shivers through my spine. One of the 80's dark wave groups.  



Wave's in low tide,

Sounds of the night
and my memories echo: "back again!"


Stranger that I am
In my own land
where no one will remember my name.

When you hear me calling will you be there
When you see me falling will you be there


Time was the force,
Brought me back on course


In the darkness distant fires on a strand
Time is my disguise,
Against hostile seeking eyes
and the waves wipe out my footprints in the sand.


when you hear me calling will you be there
When you see me falling will you be there


Now my time has come
Return into the sun
cause I've always been searching for you

If I win if I lose
no charge no excuse
all my wandering make sure my aims are true


when you hear me calling will you be there
When you see me falling will you be there

Nightwish- The Poet and the Pendulum

Tuomas Holopainen's masterpiece. Title reference to Edgar Allan Poe. Long, in many parts, dramatical, theatrical. Story about his life, that's how he described it. Lyrics can be read upside down, which shows a slightly different meaning, still logical though. 

PART 1:



PART 2:



The end



The songwriter’s dead
The blade fell upon him
Taking him to the white lands
Of Empathica,
Of Innocence
Empathica
Innocence


The dreamer and the wine
Poet without a rhyme
A widowed writer, torn apart by chains of Hell


One last perfect verse
Is still the same old song
Oh Christ, how I hate what I have become

Take me home


Getaway, runaway, fly away
Lead me astray, to dreamer’s hideaway
I cannot cry ’cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
Forgive me,
I have but two faces
One for the world,
One for God
Save me
I cannot cry ’cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world


My home was there and then
Those meadows of heaven
Adventure-filled days
One with every smiling face

Please, no more words
Thoughts from a severed head
No more praise
Tell me once my heart goes right


Take me home


Getaway, runaway, fly away
Lead me astray, to dreamer’s hideaway
I cannot cry ’cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, the whore for the cold world
Forgive me, I have but two faces
One for the world,
One for God
Save me
I cannot cry ’cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
Whore for the cold world
Whore for the cold world




Sparkle my scenery
With turquoise waterfall
With beauty underneath
The Ever Free


Tuck me in beneath the blue
Beneath the pain, beneath the rain
Goodnight kiss for a child in time
Swaying blade my lullaby


On the shore we sat and hoped
Under the same pale moon
Whose guiding light chose you
Chose you all


"I’m afraid. I'm so afraid.
Being raped again and again and again.
I know I will die alone.
But loved.
"You live long enough to hear the sound of guns
Long enough to find yourself screaming every night
long enough to see your friends betray you.


"For years have I been strapped unto this altar


Now I only have three minutes and counting
I just wish the tide would catch me first
And give me a death
I always longed for"


Second robber to the right of Christ
Cut in half - infanticide
The world will rejoice today
As the crows feast on the rotting poet


Everyone must bury their own
No pack to bury the heart of stone
Now he's home in Hell, serves him well
Slain by the bell, tolling for his farewell


The morning dawned upon this altar
Remains of the dark passion play
Performed by his friends without shame
Spitting on his grave as they came


Getaway, runaway, fly away
Lead me astray, to dreamer’s hideaway
I cannot cry ’cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, the whore for the cold world
Forgive me, I have but two faces
One for the world,
One for God save me
I cannot cry ’cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
Whore for the cold world
Whore for the cold world


"Today, in the year of our Lord 2005,
Tuomas was called from the cares of the world
He stopped crying at the end of each beautiful day
The music he wrote had too long been without silence
He was found naked and dead
With a smile in his face, a pen and 1000 pages of erased text"


Save me!


Be still, my son
You're home
Oh when did you become so cold?
The blade will keep on descending
All you need is to feel my love


Search for beauty, find your shore
Try to save them all, bleed no more
You have such ocean's within
In the end
I will always love you
The beginning

Meat Loaf- I'd do anything for love (but I won't do that)

One of the songs that cannot be forgotten. An an unusual video (1993), very dramatic, sensual, movie-like. Strong, powefull, emotional music and vocals. A little masterpiece. Beauty and the Beast.




And I would do anything for love, I'd run right into hell and back

I would do anything for love, I'll never lie to you and that's a fact
But I'll never forget the way you feel right now, oh no, no way
And I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, I won't do that
Anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, oh I won't do that


Some days it don't come easy, and some days it don't come hard
Some days it don't come at all, and these are the days that never end
Some nights you're breathing fire, and some nights you're carved in ice
Some nights you're like nothing I've ever seen before or will again


Maybe I'm crazy, but it's crazy and it's true
I know you can save me, no one else can save me now but you


As long as the planets are turning, as long as the stars are burning
As long as your dreams are coming true, you better believe it
That I would do anything for love, and I'll be there til the final act
I would do anything for love, and I'll take a vow and seal a pact


But I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight
And I would do anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
Oh I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no I won't do that
I would do anything for love, anything you've been dreaming of
But I just won't do that


Some days I pray for silence, and somedays I pray for soul
Some days I just pray to the God of Sex and Drums and Rock 'N Roll
Some nights I lose the feeling, and some nights I lose control
Some nights I just lose it all when I watch you dance and the thunder rolls


Maybe I'm lonely and that's all I'm qualified to be
There's just one and only, the one and only promise I can keep

As long as the wheels are turning, as long as the fires are burning
As long as your prayers are coming true, you better believe it


That I would do anything for love, and you know it's true and that's a fact
I would do anything for love, and there'll never be no turning back


But I'll never do it better than I do it with you, so long, so long
And I would do anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no no no I won't do that
I would do anything for love, anything you've been dreaming of
But I just won't do that
(repeats 7x)


But I'll never stop dreaming of you every night of my life, no way
And I would do anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no I won't do that


[Girl:] Will you raise me up, will you help me down?
Will you get me right out of this Godforsaken town?
Will you make it all a little less cold?
[Boy:] I can do that! I can do that!


[Girl:] Will you hold me sacred? Will you hold me tight?
Can you colorize my life, I'm so sick of black and white?
Can you make it all a little less old?
[Boy:] I can do that! Oh oh, now I can do that!


[Girl:] Will you make me some magic, with your own two hands?
Can you build an emerald city with these grains of sand?
Can you give me something I can take home?


[Boy:] I can do that! Oh oh now, I can do that!


[Girl:] Will you cater to every fantasy I got?
Will ya hose me down with holy water, if I get too hot?
Will you take me places I've never known?
[Boy:] I can do that! Oh oh now, I can do that!


[Girl:] After a while you'll forget everything
It was a brief interlude and a midsummer night's fling
And you'll see that it's time to move on
[Boy:] I won't do that! No I won't do that!


[Girl:] I know the territory, I've been around
It'll all turn to dust and we'll all fall down
And sooner or later, you'll be screwing around
[Boy:] I won't do that! No I won't do that!


Anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no I won't do that

Nightwish- Ocean Soul

One more night

To bear this nightmare
What more do I have to say


Crying for me was never worth a tear
My lonely soul is only filled with fear
Long hours of loneliness
Between me and the sea


Losing emotion
Finding devotion
Should I dress in white and search the sea
As I always wished to be - one with the waves
Ocean Soul


Walking the tideline
I hear your name
Is angels whispering
Something so beautiful it hurts

Long hours of loneliness
Between me and the sea
I only wished to become something beautiful
Through my music, through my silent devotion


Losing emotion
Finding devotion
Should I dress in white and search the sea
As I always wished to be - one with the waves
Ocean Soul

Loreena McKennitt- The Old Ways

A video from the Alhambra series of concerts. Ethereal, soft, beautiful Loreena's voice, an enchanting melody, magical atmosphere... Nostalgy.




The sea is calling me home, home to you.

The pounding sea is calling me home, home to you.

On a dark new year's night
on the west coast of Clare
I heard your voice singing.
Your eyes danced the song,
your hands played the tune.
T'was a vision before me.


We left the music behind and the dance carried on
as we stole away to the seashore
and smelt the brine, felt the wind in our hair
and with sadness you paused.


Suddenly, I knew that you'd have to go.
Your world was not mine, your eyes told me so.
Yet it was there I felt the crossroads of time
and I wondered why.


As we cast our gaze on the tumbling sea,
a vision came o'er me,
of thundering hooves and beating wings
in the clouds above.


As you turned to go, I heard you call my name.
You were like a bird in a cage, spreading its
wings to fly.
'The old ways are lost', you sang as you flew
and I wondered why.


The thundering waves are calling me home, home to you.
The pounding sea is calling me home, home to you.


The pounding waves are calling me home, home to you.
The pounding sea is calling me home, home to you.


The pounding waves are calling me home, home to you.
The pounding sea is calling me home, home to you.

Clannad- I will find You ("The Last of the Mohicans")

So full of poetry, so full of meaning, so many worlds within...and so little lyrics.
So wide and yet so minimalistic.
So rich and yet so pure.

And the film- with the passion hero Daniel Day Lewis- speechless.

Michal Lorenc- Taniec Eleny (Elena's dance)

This is one of the music pieces that makes me want to dance on a summer meadow, barefood, in a long, wide, gypsy dress, with my hair wildly flowing around, all is moving around, faster and faster... Wonderful !

Nightwish- While your lips are still red

One of my favourites that I'm listening to nowadays- on and on.
I love Marco Hietala's voice- his ability to sing ballads but also harsh, dark notes.
I fell in love with this song.



Sweet little words made for silence not talk

Young heart for love not heartache
Dark hair for catching the wind
Not to veil the sight of a cold world


Kiss while your lips are still red
While he's still silent
Rest while bosom is still untouched, unveiled
Hold another hand while the hand's still without a tool
Drown into eyes while they're still blind
Love while the night still hides the withering dawn

First day of love never comes back
A passionate hour's never a wasted one
The violin, the poet's hand
Every thawing heart plays your theme with care


Kiss while your lips are still red
While he's still silent
Rest while bosom is still untouched, unveiled
Hold another hand while the hand's still without a tool
Drown into eyes while they're still blind
Love while the night still hides the withering dawn


Kiss while your lips are still red
While he's still silent
Rest while bosom is still untouched, unveiled
Hold another hand while the hand's still without a tool
Drown into eyes while they're still blind


Love while the night still hides the withering dawn
Love while the night still hides the withering dawn

Nightwish- Bless the child

Going back to my roots of being here. Epic Nightwish. Epic Tarja. Epis Tuomas. Epic the-two-of-them. Epic music. Epic lyrics. I'm melting and becoming one with all of it. With every single note. With every single letter. With every single tree and every single lake that surrounded The Poet in every single second he was writing another epic opus.
 Not writing more or my words turn out from being full of epic to pathetic...



"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 (repeat)


"Where have all the feelings gone?
Why is 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 but with earth and dust, and a dark, silent grave.
Remember, my child: Without innocence the cross is only iron,
Hope is only an illusion and Ocean Soul's nothing but a name...




The Child bless thee and keep thee forever"

A-ha - Summer moved on

I've seen a really good cover of this song on YT yesterday. Then I realised that I haven't put this song here yet, although it's one of my favourites. I adore Morten's vocal. He has a great voice, a unique one. I especially like this live version ("Summer moved on" starts around 3:10). A man can sing like a Man.
:

The cover I talked about is to find here: Dave Forward. Hope to hear more of him, great voice, there is a potential in it I think (look how he mastered "Morten's longest note)!.

Beyond the invisible...Enigma

After a break. What's beyond the invisible?  Are You there ?




I look into the mirror

See myself, I'm over me
I need space for my desires
Have to dive into my fantasies
I know as soon as I'll arrive
Everything is possible
Cause no one has to hide
Beyond the invisible

Sajaja bramani totari ta, raitata raitata, radu ridu raitata, rota

The brave and wise men came together on horse
Close your eyes
Just feel and realize
It is real and not a dream
I'm in you and you're in me
It is time
To break the chains of life
If you follow you will see
What's beyond reality
Jerusalem is desolate:
the house of your holiness and glory

Secret Garden - Moving

The long Winter is finally coming to its end. It took her a while ! And here is a song that makes me think abut the upcoming Spring ! Let's "MOVE" towards the sun, the green scenery, the dancing, the singing birds, the breathing and reviving ground ! It's coooming !

Eimear Quinn- The Voice

Here is Eimear Quinn's interpretation of "The voice". I remember falling in love with this celtic-like song when I first heard it on Eurovision Song Contest in 1996. There is a kind of magic in it. Enchanting, soft, ethereal and though so powerfull. Enjoy !


I hear your voice on the wind

And I hear you call out my name
"Listen, my child," you say to me
"I am the voice of your history
Be not afraid, come follow me
Answer my call, and I'll set you free"
I am the voice in the wind and the pouring rain
I am the voice of your hunger and pain
I am the voice that always is calling you
I am the voice, I will remain
I am the voice in the fields when the summer's gone
The dance of the leaves when the autumn winds blow
Ne'er do I sleep thoughout all the cold winter long
I am the force that in springtime will grow
I am the voice of the past that will always be
Filled with my sorrow and blood in my fields
I am the voice of the future, bring me your peace
Bring me your peace, and my wounds, they will heal
I am the voice in the wind and the pouring rain
I am the voice of your hunger and pain
I am the voice that always is calling you
I am the voice
I am the voice of the past that will always be
I am the voice of your hunger and pain
I am the voice of the future
I am the voice, I am the voice
I am the voice, I am the voice


And here for comparison- the same song but presented by Celtic Woman:



I must say I slightly prefer the first one by Eimear.

Within Temptation-Mother Earth

Time for some more fresh energy this evening since lately there have been only ballads.
Within Temptation and their "Mother Earth". It's my favourite song of that band,
I just love it. Powerful music, strong but also soft voice of Sharon, wonderful videoclip (woods, lakes, colours), Sharon's incredible dresses. And the lyrics with their meaning as well of course.

Marcel and Nikodem Legun- Lacrimosa (Preisner)

These two polish siblings are already known here and there. This is their "Lacrimosa" by Zbigniew Preisner. I find their interpretation interesting, it gives shivers through my spine. Outstanding. Wondering how their voices will develop- they're 16 years old.

Secret Garden- Nocturne

Another favourite of mine. Can words explain why ?
Imagination works, doesn't it ? Softness, lyrical, tenderness, ethereal beauty.
Well, enjoy then !

Now let the day

Just slip away
So the dark night
May watch over you

Nocturne


Though darkness lay
It will give way
When the dark night
Delivers the day

Loreena McKennitt- Mummer's Dance

Loreena McKennitt is an unusual, ethereal and divine musician. The uncomporable. Her music creates visions in my mind like dancing on a meadow or in a forest during spring or a summer night, hair flowing all around, a kind of serenity and happiness. Wide, long, gypsy-like skirt...
Here is "Mummer's dance":


When in the springtime of the year
When the trees are crowned with leaves
When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew
Are dressed in ribbons fair

When owls call the breathless moon
In the blue veil of the night
The shadows of the trees appear
Amidst the lantern light

We've been rambling all the night
And some time of this day
Now returning back again
we bring a garland gay

Who will go down to those shady groves
And summon the shadows there
And tie a ribbon on those sheltering arms
In the springtime of the year

The songs of birds seem to fill the wood
That when the fiddler plays
All their voices can be heard
Long past their woodland days

We've been rambling all the night
And some time of this day
Now returning back again
we bring a garland gay

And so they linked their hands and danced
Round in circles and in rows
And so the journey of the night descends
When all the shades are gone

"A garland gay we bring you here
And at your door we stand
It is a sprout well budded out
The work of Our Lord's hand"

We've been rambling all the night
And some time of this day
Now returning back again
we bring a garland gay

Michal Worek-piano guy

A very talented young man. I discovered his piano versions on YouTube (where else could I?). I love this one- I'm singing to it imagining....
Escapism, I know :-).

November rain in February

I love this song by Axl Rose. His voice and stage performance- it's just him. He doesn't seem like a typical piano-guy, does he ? ;). He performs it in a marvellous way. It's such an epic song and I couldn't imagine not putting it here. It's one of my all-time favourites, I listen to it very often, singing along with Axl.

I dreamed a dream

I must encourage everyone to deeply look inside their hearts, souls, emotions and to LOOK for THEMSELVES, look for their REAL IDENTITY. Find what You want to do the most, what gives You wings and what makes You fly.
Me, I always wanted to sing. It's been like that from my early childhood. But... I never found the courage to do some concrete steps in order to make my dream come true. I was too shy, oversensitive, unprepared... There were a few outcomings, some contests, one group where I sang..but it all didn't last.
I am turning 30 this year. And I know that this is it... I can still sing while driving, while being in forests, in mountains...of course I can. And yep, I even have a karaoke microphone at home ! ;-). But "after the show" silence remains and my dead soul which lived as long as the music played and I sang...


BUT... they say hope dies last...Remember this lady ? :




I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high and life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving

Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they turn your hope apart
As they turn your dreams to shame

And still I dream he’d come to me
That we would live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather

I had a dream my life would be
So different from the hell I’m living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed

Winter dreaming

I jump into my car, drive with high speed, winter surrounding all around and the MUSIC that copes with it all perfectly. I sing, I yell, I shake my head, I LIIIIVE!

Epic music

First... Let's start with some music.
So, what is epic music for me ?
It'll be my personal review... Here are some of them...
"Oh Fortuna" by Carl Orff- here translated and conducted by Andre Rieu. Makes me shiver when it comes to the culminating point.



Well ?


And now... My favourites...Epic music. Their music enchanted me,it's within me all the time, flowing in my head wherever I am... My dream.