Nightwish
"Procession" lyrics

Procession

A cradle Earth
Horizons unseen
New world in thirst
For the arcane

We are
Singers of the gone
We remember
As along came life

A cradle Earth
Horizons unseen
Birth of one
And a zillion sideshows

We are
We were
And will not be
We remember
As along came acorn

Another birth
Another moss green
New world in thirst
For the unseen

An empty zoo
A starlight vigil
Will have a visit
As along came heartbeat

Another birth
Another monster
Endless forms
Towards the stronger

Menagerie
Of a new world order
We held our breath
As along came suffering

We remember
Father Pikaia
Gave the way
As along came Sapien

The cradle Earth
Welcoming its newborn
Aeons since
That very first acorn

Together now
In this timeless parade
The living lie
Dead afraid

Then they saw the moon
And found caring
We remember
As along came writing

Such worlds were there
Soos dead again
After all we
Should've never appeared

Spaceship Earth
Through the fields of time
They understood
As along came wisdom

We have been here
A while
At the end of Pi
As along came harvest

We will remember
All the suffering
We wrote this in a tongue
You will understand

Words and melodies
With a touch of coloring
We were there
And will remember mankind
Our kin
Aeons ago

Authors: Tuomas Holopainen