The Greatest Show on Earth (Remastered) - Nightwish (夜愿)

Written by：Tuomas Holopainen/Marco Hietala

Archaean horizon

The first sunrise

On a pristine gaea

Opus perfectum

Somewhere there us sleeping

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 and 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

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

The tapestry of chemistry

There's a writing in the garden

Leading us to the mother of all

We are one

We are a universe

Forebears 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

Ion channels welcoming the outside world

To the stuff of stars

Bedding the tree of a biological holy

Enter life

The tapestry of chemistry

There's a writing in the garden

Leading us to the mother of all

We are one

We are a universe

Forebears 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

We are here to care for the garden

The wonder of birth

Of every form most beautiful

We are one

We are a universe

Forebears 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

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

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

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

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

We were here

We were here

We were here

We were here

We are going to die and that makes us

The lucky ones most people are never

Going to die because they are never

Going to be born the potential people

Who could have been here in my place

But who will in fact never see

The light of day outnumber the sand

Grains of sahara certainly those

Unborn ghosts include greater poets

Than Keats scientists greater than Newton

We know this because the set of possible

People allowed by our DNA so massively

Exceeds the set of actual people

In the teeth of those stupefying

Odds it is you and I in our ordinariness

That are here we privileged few

Who won the lottery of birth against all odds

How dare we whine at our

Inevitable return to that prior

State from which the vast majority have never stirred

There is grandeur in this view of life

With its several powers

Having been originally breathed

Into a few forms or into one

And that whilst this planet

Has gone cycling on according

To the fixed law of gravity

From so simple a beginning

Endless forms most beautiful

And most wonderful have been

And are being evolved