Higher Than Hope

Album: Once (2004)
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  • Time it took the most of me
    And left me with no key
    To unlock the chest of remedy
    Mother, the pain ain't hurting me
    But the love that I feel
    When you hold me near

    The hopes were high
    The choirs were vast
    Now my dreams are left to live through you

    Red Sun rising
    Drown without inhaling
    Within, the dark holds hard
    Red Sun rising
    Curtain falling
    Higher than hope my cure lies

    Passiontide
    An angel by my side
    But no Christ to end this war
    To deliver my soul from the sword
    Hope has shown me a scenery
    Paradise poetry
    With first snow I'll be gone

    The hopes were high...

    Red Sun rising...

    Your death saved me

    Red Sun rising... Writer/s: Marco Hietala, Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

  • Marc from UkCould imagine Tarja & Geoff Tate doing this one together!
  • Michelle from South Yorkshire, United Kingdomi played it at my mothers funeral 18yrs ago & i sing it to myself when i'm really need my mam around me

    shelly from leicester
  • Sibella from Pretoria, South AfricaMAN! This song is so melancholising, it's painfully addictive. Beautiful, though. Heavy depressing songs are usually the best ones.
  • Sibella from Pretoria, --Good for your daughter!
  • Joe from Cochin, India.............
    "Passiontide
    An angel by my side
    But no Christ to end this war
    To deliver my soul from the sword
    Hope has shown me a scenery
    Paradise poetry
    With first snow I`ll be gone".....

    Like most of the other great songs from Nightwish, this too is pure meaningful poetry.
    That is why I keep listening to their older albums over and over again.
    But, only Tarja could have sung it the way it is.
    My 10 year old daughter too likes to listen to Nightwish instead of rap.
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