Procession lyrics

Nightwish

9 translations

Language:

English

Album:

Human. :||: Nature. (2020)

Procession

A cradle Earth, horizons unseen

New world in thirst, for the arcane

We are, singers of the gone

We remember, as along came life

A cradle Earth, horizons unseen

Birth of one, and a zillion sideshows

We are, we were, and will not be

We remember, as along came acorn

Another birth, another moss green

New world in thirst, for the unseen

An empty zoo, a starlight vigil

Will have a visit, as along came heartbeat

Another birth, another monster

Endless forms, towards the stronger

Menagerie, of a new world order

We held our breath, as along came suffering

We remember, father Pikaia

Gave the way, as along came Sapien

The cradle Earth, welcoming its newborn

Aeons since that very first acorn

Together now, in this timeless parade

The living lie, dead afraid

Then they saw the moon, and found caring

We remember, as along came writing

Such worlds were there, zoos dead again

After all, we should've never appeared

Spaceship Earth, through the fields of time

They understood, as along came wisdom

We have been here a while

At the end of Pi, as along came harvest

We will remember all the suffering

We wrote this in a tongue you will understand

Words and melodies with a touch of coloring

We were there and will remember mankind

Our kin

Aeons ago

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submitted on 10 Apr 2020 - 10:33

Ethnicparty

Subtitles created on 12 Feb 2025 - 18:08

Contributors:

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Annotations

acorn: Apart from the ordinary meaning of the word there's a possible reference to Αcorn worms or Enteropneusta: worm-like creatures which are sometimes considered as a link between classical invertebrates and vertebrates. They are rarely seen by humans because they live in U-shaped burrows on the sea-bed.

For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_worm

Pikaia: Pikaia gracilens, an extinct, primitive chordate animal known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. Once thought to be closely related to the ancestor of all vertebrates, it has for that reason received particular attention among the multitude of animal fossils found in the famous Burgess Shale in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada. The presence of a creature as complex as Pikaia some 530 million years ago reinforces the controversial view that the diversification of life must have extended back well before Cambrian times.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikaia

Writer(s): Tuomas Holopainen
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