Nightwish - The Greatest Show on Earth (Remastered)

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[00:00.00]The Greatest Show on Earth (Remastered) - Nightwish (夜愿)
[01:51.82]Written by：Tuomas Holopainen/Marco Hietala
[03:43.64]Archaean horizon
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[03:54.48]The first sunrise
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[04:05.83]On a pristine gaea
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[04:17.59]Opus perfectum
[04:23.14]Somewhere there us sleeping
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[05:21.70]After sleeping through a hundred
[05:23.37]Million centuries we have
[05:25.59]Finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet
[05:28.13]
[05:28.75]Sparkling with color bountiful with life
[05:31.23]
[05:32.80]Within decades we must close our eyes again
[05:35.02]
[05:36.28]Isn't it a noble and enlightened
[05:37.96]Way of spending our brief time
[05:39.74]In the sun to work at understanding
[05:43.19]The universe and how we have come to wake up in it
[05:46.34]
[06:29.61]The cosmic law of gravity
[06:32.14]Pulled the newborns around a fire
[06:34.94]
[06:36.59]A careless cold infinity in every vast direction
[06:41.22]
[06:43.85]Lonely farer in the goldilocks zone
[06:46.45]
[06:46.99]She has a tale to tell
[06:49.03]
[06:50.71]From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast
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[06:56.10]Enter luca
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[06:57.91]The tapestry of chemistry
[07:04.19]There's a writing in the garden
[07:10.18]Leading us to the mother of all
[07:15.49]We are one
[07:18.66]We are a universe
[07:21.95]
[07:22.56]Forebears of what will be
[07:25.42]Scions of the devonian sea
[07:28.98]
[07:29.69]Aeons pass
[07:32.78]Writing the tale of us all
[07:36.47]A day to day new opening
[07:39.77]For the greatest show on earth
[07:43.77]Ion channels welcoming the outside world
[07:47.51]To the stuff of stars
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[07:50.83]Bedding the tree of a biological holy
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[07:54.75]Enter life
[07:57.34]
[07:57.89]The tapestry of chemistry
[08:04.24]There's a writing in the garden
[08:10.04]Leading us to the mother of all
[08:14.61]
[08:15.40]We are one
[08:18.62]We are a universe
[08:22.26]Forebears of what will be
[08:25.54]Scions of the devonian sea
[08:28.96]
[08:29.66]Aeons pass
[08:32.74]Writing the tale of us all
[08:36.45]A day to day new opening
[08:39.75]For the greatest show on earth
[08:43.54]
[09:12.01]We are here to care for the garden
[09:18.85]The wonder of birth
[09:21.41]Of every form most beautiful
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[09:40.53]We are one
[09:42.74]
[09:43.28]We are a universe
[09:46.58]
[09:47.08]Forebears of what will be
[09:50.19]Scions of the devonian sea
[09:53.52]
[09:54.50]Aeons pass writing the tale of us all
[10:01.19]A day to day new opening
[10:04.43]For the greatest show on earth
[10:08.54]
[12:19.55]After a billion years
[12:20.66]The show is still here
[12:22.39]Not a single one of your fathers died young
[12:25.50]The handy travelers
[12:27.07]Out of Africa
[12:28.69]Little Lucy of the afar
[12:30.31]Gave birth to fantasy
[12:33.36]To idolatry
[12:34.99]To self destructive weaponry
[12:37.64]
[12:38.15]Enter the god of gaps
[12:39.66]Deep within the past
[12:41.18]Atavistic dread of the hunted
[12:43.99]
[12:56.94]Enter ionia the cradle of thought
[12:59.83]The architecture of understanding
[13:03.05]The human lust to feel so exceptional
[13:06.29]To rule the earth
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[13:09.30]Hunger for shiny rocks
[13:10.77]For giant mushroom clouds
[13:12.31]The will to do just as you'd be done by
[13:15.66]Enter history the grand finale
[13:18.66]Enter ratkind
[13:20.51]
[13:21.64]Man he took his time in the sun
[13:25.64]Had a dream to understand
[13:28.83]A single grain of sand
[13:32.87]
[13:34.17]He gave birth to poetry
[13:38.09]But one day'll cease to be
[13:41.41]Greet the last light of the library
[13:46.39]
[14:48.88]Man he took his time in the sun
[14:52.92]Had a dream to understand
[14:56.15]A single grain of sand
[14:59.77]
[15:01.21]He gave birth to poetry
[15:05.36]But one day'll cease to be
[15:08.62]Greet the last light of the library
[15:13.97]Man he took his time in the sun
[15:17.78]Had a dream to understand
[15:21.10]A single grain of sand
[15:25.52]
[15:26.31]He gave birth to poetry
[15:30.46]But one day'll cease to be
[15:33.58]Greet the last light of the library
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[15:43.37]We were here
[15:49.31]
[15:55.97]We were here
[16:00.66]
[16:08.38]We were here
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[16:20.78]We were here
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[18:10.28]We are going to die and that makes us
[18:13.86]The lucky ones most people are never
[18:18.37]Going to die because they are never
[18:20.09]Going to be born the potential people
[18:23.48]
[18:24.17]Who could have been here in my place
[18:25.90]
[18:26.77]But who will in fact never see
[18:28.10]The light of day outnumber the sand
[18:30.83]Grains of sahara certainly those
[18:35.28]Unborn ghosts include greater poets
[18:37.01]Than Keats scientists greater than Newton
[18:40.27]
[18:42.17]We know this because the set of possible
[18:44.85]People allowed by our DNA so massively
[18:48.51]Exceeds the set of actual people
[18:50.81]
[18:52.83]In the teeth of those stupefying
[18:54.67]Odds it is you and I in our ordinariness
[18:58.28]That are here we privileged few
[19:02.93]
[19:03.44]Who won the lottery of birth against all odds
[19:06.56]
[19:07.26]How dare we whine at our
[19:08.82]Inevitable return to that prior
[19:11.04]State from which the vast majority have never stirred
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[21:32.74]There is grandeur in this view of life
[21:35.26]With its several powers
[21:36.63]Having been originally breathed
[21:38.11]Into a few forms or into one
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[21:40.97]And that whilst this planet
[21:42.41]Has gone cycling on according
[21:44.43]To the fixed law of gravity
[21:46.04]
[21:46.99]From so simple a beginning
[21:48.73]Endless forms most beautiful
[21:50.54]And most wonderful have been
[21:53.41]And are being evolved