Whoever Brings the Night

Seductive Shadows: Unveiling Nightwish's Dark Symphony
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Lyrics

We seduce the dark with pain and rapture

We engage with the darkness through both pain and ecstasy.

Like two ships that pass in the night

Our lives are like fleeting ships passing in the night.

You and I, a whore and a bashful sailor

A metaphorical portrayal of a complex relationship between a prostitute (whore) and a shy sailor.

Welcome to a sunrise of a dirty mind

Welcome to the beginning of a day tainted by impure thoughts.


All your love is a lie

All declarations of love are deceptive.

You one-night butterfly

Addressing someone as a transient lover, like a butterfly that only lasts for a night.

Hurt me, be the one

Encouraging pain, inviting the partner to be the one inflicting it.

Whoever brings the night

The central theme: Invoking the one who brings the night, suggesting a darker and intense experience.


The dark, created to hide the innocent white, the lust of night

The darkness is designed to conceal innocence, representing the sensual desires of the night.

Eyes so bright, seductive lies

Describing captivating eyes and the allure of seductive lies.

Crimson masquerade where I merely played my part

A reference to a masquerade where the speaker played a role, implying a game of desire.

Poison dart of desire

Describing desire as a poisonous dart, emphasizing its potentially destructive nature.


All your love is a lie

Reiteration that professed love is not genuine.

You one-night butterfly

Addressing the fleeting nature of a one-night stand using the metaphor of a butterfly.

Hurt me, be the one

Encouraging the partner to be the source of pain.

Whoever brings the night

Repeating the invocation of the one who brings the night, emphasizing its significance.


Choose a bride tonight

Suggesting a choice for a partner on this night, possibly in a ritualistic context.

A fantasy for a zombie

Describing a fantastical scenario involving a bride and a zombie.

Hurt me, I love to suffer

Expressing a masochistic inclination, finding pleasure in suffering.

Your harems are dreams for free

Suggesting that the speaker's harems or fantasies are easily accessible.


Enter

An invitation or command to enter a specific realm or experience.

Suck form us and live for ever

An invitation to draw sustenance from the speaker and achieve immortality.

Rotten beauty

Describing a decaying beauty that will linger in the memory for a long time.

Will haunt you for a lifetime

Emphasizing the enduring impact of the speaker's captivating beauty.


Come with me on underwater

Proposing to go underwater together, suggesting a metaphorical drowning to end disdain.

And drown to despise me no more

Invoking a sense of rejection and the desire for the disdain to cease.

Unholy, unworthy

Describing the speaker as unholy and unworthy, challenging conventional notions of purity.

My night is a dream for free

Asserting that the speaker's night, representing desire, is accessible without cost.


All your love is a lie

Reiterating the theme that professed love is deceptive.

You one-night butterfly

Addressing the transient nature of a one-night stand using the metaphor of a butterfly.

Hurt me, be the one

Encouraging the partner to be the source of pain.

Whoever brings the night

Repeating the invocation of the one who brings the night, emphasizing its significance.

All your love is a lie

Reiterating that professed love is not genuine.

You one-night butterfly

Addressing the fleeting nature of a one-night stand using the metaphor of a butterfly.

Hurt me, be the one

Encouraging the partner to be the source of pain.


Whoever brings the night

Reiterating the central theme of invoking the one who brings the night.

Whoever brings the night

Concluding with a repetition of the importance of the figure who brings the night.

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