Uploaded March 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The official music video to "Sleeping Sun", taken from the 1999 single "Ballads Of The Eclipse",

The song has since been added to the album "Oceanborn", which you can buy at Nightwish-Shop: http://smarturl.it/l93lmv


Director: Sami Käyhkö
DOP: Risto Laasonen
Producer: Paula Eronen

Shot on location at Ivalo and Lake Inari, July 1999

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Lyrics:
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