Nightwish The Greatest Show on Earth

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[Orchestral Intro – 03:19]

[Verse 1]
Ooooh, ooooh
Ooooh, ooooh
Archaean horizon
The first sunrise
On a pristine Gaea
Opus perfectum
Somewhere there, us sleeping

[Break]
Aaaaah, aaaaah

[Spoken – Professor Richard Dawkins]
„After sleeping through a hundred million centuries
We have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet
Sparkling with color, bountiful with life
Within decades we must close our eyes again
Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief
Time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe
And how we have come to wake up in it?” (Aaaah)

[Part II. Life – 05:47-10:08]

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 2]
The cosmic law of gravity
Pulled the newborns around a fire
A careless, cold infinity
In every vast direction
Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone
She has a tale to tell
From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast
Enter LUCA

[Pre-Chorus 1]
The tapestry of chemistry
There’s a writing in the garden
Leading us to the Mother of all

[Chorus 1]
We are one
We are a universe
Forbears of what will be scions of the Devonian sea
Aeons pass, writing the tale of us all
A day-to-day new opening
For the greatest show on Earth

[Verse 3]
Ion channels
Welcoming the outside world to the stuff of stars
Bedding the tree of a biological holy
Enter life
[Pre-Chorus 1]
The tapestry of chemistry
There’s a writing in the garden
Leading us to the mother of all

[Chorus 1]
We are one
We are a universe
Forbears of what will be scions of the Devonian sea
Aeons pass, writing the tale of us all
A day-to-day new opening
For the greatest show on Earth

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge 1]
We are here to care for the garden
The wonder of, birth of, every form most beautiful
Every form most beautiful

[Chorus 1]
We are one
We are a universe
Forbears of what will be scions of the Devonian sea
Aeons pass, writing the tale of us all
A day-to-day new opening
For the greatest show on Earth
[Part III. The Toolmaker – 10:08-16:29]

[Instrumental Break]
[Animals Sound]
[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 4 – Marco Hietala & Floor Jansen]
After a billion years
The show is still here
Not a single one of your fathers died young
The handy travelers out of Africa
Little Lucy of the Afar
Gave birth to fantasy
To idolatry
To self destructive weaponry
Enter the god of gaps
Deep within the past
Atavistic dread of the hunted

[Verse 5 – Floor & Marco]
Enter Ionia
The cradle of thought
The architecture of understanding
The human lust to feel so exceptional
To rule the Earth
Hunger for shiny rocks
For giant mushroom clouds
The will to do just as you’d be done by
Enter history
The grand finale
Enter ratkind

[Chorus 2]
Man, he took his time in the sun
Had a dream to understand
A single grain of sand
He gave birth to poetry
But one day’ll cease to be
Greet the last light of the library

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus 2]
Man, he took his time in the sun
Had a dream to understand
A single grain of sand
He gave birth to poetry
But one day’ll cease to be
Greet the last light of the library
Man, he took his time in the sun
Had a dream to understand
A single grain of sand
He gave birth to poetry
But one day’ll cease to be
Greet the last light of the library

[Refrain]
We were here!
We were here!
We were here!
We were here!

[Part IV. The Understanding – 16:29-21:55]

[Wind Sound]
[Instrumental Break]