→ Mother Earth [53:49] Symphonic metal, Celtic metal released on 24 December 2000 | → Angels Fall First [51:29] Power metal, symphonic metal, folk metal released on 1 November 1997 | → Fallen [48:45] Nu metal, alternative metal, gothic metal released on March 4, 2003 |
Release Date: 1 November 1997
Length: 5:55
Songwriter(s): Nightwish
Producer(s): Tuomas Holopainen, Nightwish
Angels Fall First
Who are you? Man condemned to shine a salvation Throughout the centuries Why? Was the wine of the grail Too sour for man to drink The carpenter Carved his anchor On the dying souls of mankind On the tomb of this unknown soldier Lay the tools of the one who for us had died Tools of the carpenter The one they lick The same old sick Dream of their precious saviour Kiss them deep And make them weep Over promises of eternal peace The carpenter… I hear you Through the symphonic voices of nature The purity I could never doubt They tell me to lie on the grass And observe my saviour The one crucified to the chirping of birds The carpenter…