bless the child

• nightwish'in century child albümünün ilk $arkısı.
  
  "i was born amidst the purple waterfalls.
  i was weak, yet not unblessed.
  dead to the world. alive for the journey.
  one night i dreamt a white rose withering,
  a newborn drowning a lifetime loneliness.
  i dreamt all my future. relived my past.
  a witnessed the beauty of the beast"
  
  where have all the feelings gone?
  why has all the laughter ceased?
  
  why am i loved only when i'm gone?
  gone back in time to bless the child
  think of me long enough to make a memory
  come bless the child one more time
  
  how can i ever feel again?
  given the chance would i return?
  
  i've never felt so alone in my life
  as i drank from a cup which was counting my time
  there's a poison drop in this cup of man
  to drink it is to follow the left hand path
  
  "where have all the feelings gone?
  why is the deadliest sin - to love as i loved you?
  now unblessed, homesick in time,
  soon to be freed from care, from human pain.
  my tale is the most bitter truth:
  time pays us but with earth & dust, and a dark, silent grave.
  remember, my child: without innocence the cross is only iron,
  hope is only an illusion & ocean soul's nothing but a name...
  
  the child bless thee & keep thee forever"