Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Official music video for "Sleeping Sun" (2005 version), taken from the 2005 single of Sleeping Sun by Nightwish.

On this performance:
Tuomas Holopainen - Keyboards
Tarja Turunen - Vocals
@MARKOHIETALAOFFICIAL - Bass
Jukka Nevalainen - Drums
Emppu Vuorinen - Guitars

@nightwish is:
Tuomas Holopainen - Keyboards
@FloorJansenOfficial - Vocals
Marko Hietala - Bass
Emppu Vuorinen - Guitars
Kai Hahto - Drums
Troy Donockley - Uilleann pipes, flutes, additional vocals

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LYRICS SLEEPING SUN:
The sun is sleeping quietly
Once upon a century
Wistful oceans calm and red
Ardent caresses laid to rest

For my dreams I hold my life
For wishes I behold my night
The truth at the end of time
Losing faith makes a crime

I wish for this night-time
to last for a lifetime
The darkness around me
Shores of a solar sea
Oh how I wish to go down with the sun
Sleeping
Weeping
With you

Sorrow has a human heart
From my god it will depart
I'd sail before a thousand moons
Never finding where to go

Two hundred twenty-two days of light
Will be desired by a night
A moment for the poet's play
Until there's nothing left to say

I wish for this night-time
to last for a lifetime
The darkness around me
Shores of a solar sea
Oh how I wish to go down with the sun
Sleeping
Weeping
With you

I wish for this night-time
to last for a lifetime
The darkness around me
Shores of a solar sea
Oh how I wish to go down with the sun
Sleeping
Weeping
With you