The Pharaoh Sails to Orion

[featherxquill]

I now have a certificate which has admitted me to the degree of Bachelor of Media. It rained all day, and the ceremony was mostly surreal, but in a good way. Many thanks to you all for your congratulations ♥.

But for something completely different, my favourite song of the moment. One of the things I miss (and got to enjoy yesterday on the getting-into-peak-hour drive over to campus in the rain) about driving to uni every day is the chance to listen to my car CD from beginning to end.

My current car CD is Nightwish's 'Oceanborn', which was, I think, their second album. And the 'showcase' of the album is most definitely 'The Pharaoh Sails to Orion', which is in my top three favourite Nightwish songs, I think (Ghost Love Score will always have first place). It has the most amazing lyrics and music and just gah, I want to share it with you.




"Get away from me!
Take heed to thyself and see my face no more!
for in the day Thou see my face
Thou shalt die!"
- Exodus 10:28

A constellation of divine architecture built on Earth
A holy harbour - Orion
Nautical ascension to the firmament

Ship-shaped barrows open my heart to the wisdom of this land
Sailing with the Serpent Chimera of a fiendish sandman

The Unicorn arrives with the westwind to dream His funeral
"Thou art born for Horus dwells in Thee"

Slumbering with the ebb and the flow of this foaming tomb
"Thou art born for Seteh dwells in Thee"

Reveal your face to me and guide me though the Stygian fields
Enthral my soul to Sepedet's beams to serve Your will

Sailing on the distant seas from darkness to deliverance
Tales like the ocean written to the Draco's glance

Ruling with the scythe of death you tear out philosophies apart
An ancient starwalk to merge into the stars

"Open thy veins for my venom
Kiss the cobras with thy twisted tongue
So shalt thou join the empyrean circus
Where beggars mourn and seraphs dance
In this twilight cathedral
Shall I wed thee,
O Bride of the Netherworld"

Sailing on the distant seas from darkness to deliverance
Tales like the ocean written to the Draco's glance

Ruling with the scythe of death you tear out philosophies apart
An ancient starwalk...

Join my soul the Hunter in the sky

"DiaCon Alley" (Watch on YouTube)

I love the way the crowd goes crazy during the instrumental - it's a different song, 'Moondance', that he plays in there.

Ah, Old School Nightwish owns me. Seeing those concert clips makes me so incredibly sad that the band doesn't exist like that now. I've tried to like the new lead singer, really I have, but they just don't sound like the same band any. In cutting loose Tarja, they've lost what made them unique. I think Toumas sums up my feelings best, actually, in the line from Gethsemane he wrote for Tarja to sing: without you the poetry within me is dead.

Comments

[incapability87.livejournal.com]

Many congrats on the degree.

I'm still aetates away from anything even remotely looking like graduation.

And yay for Old School NW! They rawk, and they will see the error of their ways.

... I weep to have what I fear to lose ...