Tuonela lyrics by Amorphis

1. The Way

Forging the future from the timeless stone Oh let me know how far I can go Answering the questions that no one ever asks Float through the sea of madness And face the everlasting task So lonely to wander So sad to be alone In the mist of the unknown Trying to fool myself with dreams that never come true So hard to stand my ground Never again will I fail [Chorus:] Will you tell me not to wait Tell me to live for today As the flowers wither I will forget my pain Since the stars have shone The devil has shown me the way [Chorus]

2. Morning Star

You live only for yourself Or send your soul to the heavenīs grace Been weak as the autumn leaves Or strong as the growing seed Swallowed into the black Search for entrance [Chorus:] Watch to the eyes of morning star Beckon for the savior But itīs much too far Reach for the infinity The only thing that remains is decay

3. Nightfall

As a rot to rape the spring sown seed A plague sprang forth of his tracks Churns ran red when cows milked blood And famine cracked poor backs Who would hear a lament sad Under the bright blue sky Thatīs sung in hovels dark and low With eyes too weak to cry [Chorus:] But horror be the nightfallīs gloom For the man upon the road When moon doth laugh at worthless lives Twice hard for all promise showed Empty stare upon his face Nine fathoms deep He set upon the road again On ground that bears no seed

4. Tuonela

Sorrow is my bread And tears I drink as wine Oblivion my happiness Ground under teeth of time For cold be the stone When frost devoured the land Consolation is no gift Of winterīs icy hand [Chorus:] Upon a crust of snow Iīll lay my broken frame What steel and iron wonīt take Iīll give in winterīs name No good a sullen soul no use a simple knave No groom for brides of plaited hair This man old and lame If only I could breathe To see the sun of May but still longer are the nights than days As I wither away Came the man of crown With sound of war drumsī beat Said no sword armīs strong enough Without my two good feet [Chorus] But not overlooked am I In eyes of the maid Iīll wed Iīll reap the crops of Tuonela My brideīs wealth in death

5. Greed

Not thirsty am I for the blood Of redeemer of thy creed My hunger canīt be satisfied With flesh of thy nazarene No gilded streets of heavenīs grace Entice me in thy speech No holy mother doth condone All your pillage, war and greed But know thee that all oceans worth Of waters turned holy Wonīt change the course of river That runs inside of me My blood flows ever skyward And pools where thy black is white For wouldst thou not carve at my soul With sword of thy supreme truth Strike me down on my bended knees For thy baptism so soothe My blood flows ever skywawrd And pools where thy black is white Alone am I to raise my head In the starless forest night

6. Divinity

Last day brings the grace For bearers of forbidden name Step into five fold mace As son as father in a frame [Chorus:] Someday fire wipes the rain Fears are frozen tears Whisper things that no one hears Cry now, cry now for me again Tomorrowīs pride and pain Why you kneel before my name Crushing my belief And make shape to my relief For who you set your prayers I canīt hear them anyway [Chorus]

7. Shining

My soul is bleeding I feel so small Afraid that this will never end I canīt understand the pain in my bones I sleep through another trance Climb over the rainbow From here you can see so much I need someone to take me down But who can you trust [Chorus:] Got so many things to say But itīs something I donīt wanna be Gotta get away īcause itīs time to shine Like a fallen angel I run I wonīt ever see the sun See the circle is now complete Yet the harvest remains undone Where hemlock grows and vermin crowl All dreams descend with fear Crushed by the darkness that wells inside That beast I hold so dear

8. Withered

Withered be the flower Long past its prime and bloom Forgotten on the stony bed This silent hillside tomb For coppered be the grip Of this wooded land A crude cold gauntlet Hides the boney hand Tears once warmed the ground Torn out of eyes that could cry no more Compassion for the wind to take O doth pity the bastard poor A life of misery and hate Upon a chance a twist of fate The poison from the goblet ran Down the throat of her drunken man

9. Rusty Moon

Bathed in the rust of moon Is the death bedīs lullaby Sung so softly with the stars Reflected in her eyes [Chorus:] Itīs the blaze that beckons men Into the woods, of beaten path Is the sight of the fire that No maidenīs eyes should have Iron does as ironīs told And drinks of lifeīs red gold But shame wonīt leave with dying breath The life that wants itīs own death And the forest hums its silent hymn Heard by those of solitude As mist it wells Up the brookīs dark banks Bewitched by these fir woods [Chorus]

10. Summerīs End

In the morning mist by the waning moon through the woods she set on foot With a sacred blade cut the berries down Dug up the dreaded mandrake root [Chorus:] Tread my path to summerīs end This bequest I leave you she says You will see what could be evergreen Turn to copper and fade to gray By the standing stones Atropine eyes smiled at me Sitting in a sluggish vertigo Sands of time form another dream No love without sacrifice No life springs without decay The final kiss is a wormy one In soilīs cold caress to rest weīll lay [Chorus]

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Amorphis

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Amorphis Lyrics

Albums

• The Karelian Isthmus (1993)
• Tales from the Thousand Lakes (1994)
• Elegy (1996)
• Tuonela (1999)
• Am Universun (2001)
• Far From The Sun (2003)
• Eclipse (2006)
• Silent Waters (2007)
• Skyforger (2009)

Single / EP / MCD

• Amorphis (Single) (1992)
• Privilege of Evil (EP) (1993)
• Black Winter Day (EP) (1995)
• Divinity (Single) (1999)
• Day of Your Beliefs (Single) (2003)
• Evil Inside (Single) (2003)
• Silent Waters (Single) (2007)

Split

• Black Winter Day - Fear (Split with Gorefest) (1995)

Demo / Promo

• Disment of Soul (Demo) (1991)