White Pearl, Black Oceans - Sonata Arctica

I was born and raised by the sea

Shy yet proud

Learned to stay away from the crowd

In my home my lighthouse

101 steps round and round

New Years Eve one night on the town

Can change one life into eternity

All I could see her eyes

We got caught in the moment

All of the night

Taken beyond all lines

In silence leaving em all behind

She had found the sails

For the following night

The town for her

Was getting way too small

She promised to be mine

Forever for that one night

Moments passion small defeats

Concealed emotions found in me

You gave life to a brand new me

Crossing the wintry fields

The first hour of morning light

Warmed by the flame inside

The lasting memory of the ending night

I never had a chance to stop what hit me

What broke my bones and mauled me

After hours of deep unwilling sleep

In a cold shelter

Fell back in the dark

And the hours of the day passed

A nightmare awakes me blinking light

There's no guide blind ships in the night

Oh blood red moon eat away the night

Darkness covers my lonely soul

No one to feed the dying light

Good morn' oh dreadful day

I prayed the moon had lit the sea instead of me

For the sails of night

Please tell me everything's alright

My voice in the room broke the silence

Everybody killed me with their eyes

What I was to hear made the people cry

Impossible for me to keep the tears inside

All on the board White Pearl have died

Coastal reef has tolled their lives

And you are the light of the night

One thing I remember

Before I fell on the ground

Although I never saw the face

A name was inked in his arm

Love can be like poetry of demons or maybe

God loves complex irony

The family name stated I had seen before

Written on her front door

Silence in the courthouse

A presence in the room

We both could feel

The father of her unborn child and me

All on the board White Pearl have died

Coastal reef have tolled their lives

While I was the guide light

Back in my tower run run run

Light is out I hope to see

Black oceans beneath rise and swallow me

One step will take me back inside

Another sees my end

No one can love a man who guarded the light

That died one faithful night so many lives

Flaming eyes I must confront

Before I'm stated free

Defining innocence is hell

After all that has past

Building new walls inside my eternal night

Although they took my heart and dried me up

Sometimes I still bleed

Show me the way

The light will show me a way on the grisly reefs

Too many dead ends I see

No soul can save me

The respect I lost the measure of a man

10000 steps down round and round

One night at the town and I'm hell bound

Black oceans beneath come and swallow me

All on the board White Pearl had died

Coastal reef come claim my life

Black oceans beneath come and swallow me

My little tower seal my fate

Help me pay back end their hate

Black oceans beneath come and swallow me

One direction down down down

Pitch black night for my old town

Black oceans beneath shall now swallow me

I hereby commit thy body to the deep

To be turned into corruption

Looking for a resurrection of the body

When the sea shall give up her dead

And the life of the world to come through our Lord

Amen