The Greatest Show on Earth (orchestral) Lyrics & Tabs by Nightwish
The Greatest Show on Earth (orchestral)
guitar chords lyrics
I. Four Point Six
Orcheon (Orcheon)
Horizon
A verse of songs (Of songs)
Sunrise
Song my heart still
Sacrifice me always
All my dying of myself
Somewhere now
Must sleep
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
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
II. Life
The cosmic love of gratitude
Hold the newborns around a fire
A callous cold infinity
In every vast direction
Lonely fairer in the Goldilocks zone
She has a tale to tell
From the stellar nursery into a garden feast (Into a garden feast)
Enter Luka (Luka)
The tapestry of chemistry
There is a writing in the garden
Leading us to another world war (Leading us to another world war)
We are one
We are the universe
Forebears of what will be science of the Devonian sea
Pay your for you're the tide of us all (The tide of us all)
The day to day new opening (The day to day new opening)
For the greatest show on Earth
I am shadows
Welcoming the outside world to the stuff of stars (The outside world to the stuff of stars)
Bearing the tree of a biological holy
Enter life
The tapestry of chemistry
There is a writing in the garden
Leading us to another world war (Leading us to another world war)
We are one
We are the universe
Forebears of what will be science of the Devonian sea
Pay your... for you're the tide of us all (The tide of us all)
The day to day new opening (The day to day new opening)
For the greatest show on Earth
We are here to care for the dawn of
The wonder of, birth of, every form most beautiful
Every form most beautiful
We are one
We are the universe
Forebears in what will be science of the Devonian sea
Pay your... for you're the tide of us all (The tide of us all)
The day to day new opening (The day to day new opening)
For the greatest show on Earth
III. The Toolmaker
A pair of billion years (Billion years)
The show is still here
Never seen one of your farmers dying honors die young
The happy travelers out of Africa
Little Lucy will be late for
Give birth to fantasy
To another dream (Another dream)
To self destructive of earth (Self destructive of earth)
Enter the greatest show on Earth (Enter the greatest show on Earth)
Deep within the past
Ever wasting trail of the hunted (Ever wasting trail of the hunted)
Enter Ionia
The cradle of rock
The architectural wonders standing
The human loss to feel so exceptional
To rule the Earth
For shiny rocks (For shiny rocks)
For giant mushroom clouds
The will to do what should be done, but
Enter history
The grand finale
Enter the greatest show on Earth (Enter the greatest show on Earth)
Man, he took his time in the sun
Had a dream to understand
The single grain of sand
He gave birth to poetry
What one day will cease to be
Greet the last night of the memory
Man, he took his time in the sun
Had a dream to understand
The single grain of sand
He gave birth to poetry
What one day will cease to be
Greet the last night of the memory
Man, he took his time in the sun
Had a dream to understand
The single grain of sand
He gave birth to poetry
What one day will cease to be
Greet the last night of the memory
We were here
We were here
We were here
We were here
IV. The Understanding
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 out number
The sand grains of Arabia
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 Dena so massively exceeds the set of actual people
In the teeth of these storyteller odds it is you and I
In our ordinariness, that are here
We privileged few, who won't 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
V. Sea-Worn Driftwood
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