[00:00.128]The Greatest Show On Earth -Nightwish
[00:01.103]Written by ：Tuomas Holopainen/Marco Hietala
[03:43.647]Archaean horizon
[03:54.483]The first sunrise
[04:05.837]On a pristine gaea
[04:17.594]Opus perfectum
[04:23.145]Somewhere there us sleeping
[05:21.701]After sleeping through a hundred
[05:23.370]Million centuries we have
[05:25.591]Finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet
[05:28.754]Sparkling with color bountiful with life
[05:32.801]Within decades we must close our eyes again
[05:36.283]Isn't it a noble and enlightened
[05:37.966]Way of spending our brief time
[05:39.743]In the sun to work at understanding
[05:43.194]The universe and how we have come to wake up in it
[06:29.617]The cosmic law of gravity
[06:32.143]Pulled the newborns around a fire
[06:36.596]A careless cold infinity in every vast direction
[06:43.857]Lonely farer in the goldilocks zone
[06:46.992]She has a tale to tell
[06:50.718]From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast
[06:56.104]Enter luca
[06:57.910]The tapestry of chemistry
[07:04.199]There's a writing in the garden
[07:10.180]Leading us to the mother of all
[07:15.495]We are one
[07:18.660]We are a universe
[07:22.562]Forebears of what will be
[07:25.421]Scions of the devonian sea
[07:29.692]Aeons pass
[07:32.782]Writing the tale of us all
[07:36.476]A day to day new opening
[07:39.771]For the greatest show on earth
[07:43.772]Ion channels welcoming the outside world
[07:47.513]To the stuff of stars
[07:50.832]Bedding the tree of a biological holy
[07:54.752]Enter life
[07:57.891]The tapestry of chemistry
[08:04.246]There's a writing in the garden
[08:10.42]Leading us to the mother of all
[08:15.407]We are one
[08:18.629]We are a universe
[08:22.269]Forebears of what will be
[08:25.541]Scions of the devonian sea
[08:29.668]Aeons pass
[08:32.744]Writing the tale of us all
[08:36.454]A day to day new opening
[08:39.750]For the greatest show on earth
[09:12.19]We are here to care for the garden
[09:18.856]The wonder of birth
[09:21.417]Of every form most beautiful
[09:40.536]We are one
[09:43.284]We are a universe
[09:47.82]Forebears of what will be
[09:50.193]Scions of the devonian sea
[09:54.503]Aeons pass writing the tale of us all
[10:01.196]A day to day new opening
[10:04.437]For the greatest show on earth
[12:19.557]After a billion years
[12:20.661]The show is still here
[12:22.392]Not a single one of your fathers died young
[12:25.500]The handy travelers
[12:27.78]Out of Africa
[12:28.698]Little Lucy of the afar
[12:30.316]Gave birth to fantasy
[12:33.362]To idolatry
[12:34.993]To self destructive weaponry
[12:38.153]Enter the god of gaps
[12:39.665]Deep within the past
[12:41.187]Atavistic dread of the hunted
[12:56.949]Enter ionia the cradle of thought
[12:59.835]The architecture of understanding
[13:03.54]The human lust to feel so exceptional
[13:06.290]To rule the earth
[13:09.302]Hunger for shiny rocks
[13:10.773]For giant mushroom clouds
[13:12.314]The will to do just as you'd be done by
[13:15.668]Enter history the grand finale
[13:18.663]Enter ratkind
[13:21.649]Man he took his time in the sun
[13:25.643]Had a dream to understand
[13:28.830]A single grain of sand
[13:34.173]He gave birth to poetry
[13:38.99]But one day'll cease to be
[13:41.419]Greet the last light of the library
[14:48.884]Man he took his time in the sun
[14:52.921]Had a dream to understand
[14:56.151]A single grain of sand
[15:01.215]He gave birth to poetry
[15:05.369]But one day'll cease to be
[15:08.625]Greet the last light of the library
[15:13.972]Man he took his time in the sun
[15:17.786]Had a dream to understand
[15:21.105]A single grain of sand
[15:26.316]He gave birth to poetry
[15:30.469]But one day'll cease to be
[15:33.588]Greet the last light of the library
[15:43.379]We were here
[15:55.974]We were here
[16:08.389]We were here
[16:20.783]We were here
[18:10.287]We are going to die and that makes us
[18:13.864]The lucky ones most people are never
[18:18.375]Going to die because they are never
[18:20.97]Going to be born the potential people
[18:24.178]Who could have been here in my place
[18:26.776]But who will in fact never see
[18:28.102]The light of day outnumber the sand
[18:30.834]Grains of sahara certainly those
[18:35.281]Unborn ghosts include greater poets
[18:37.19]Than Keats scientists greater than Newton
[18:42.172]We know this because the set of possible
[18:44.855]People allowed by our DNA so massively
[18:48.519]Exceeds the set of actual people
[18:52.833]In the teeth of those stupefying
[18:54.673]Odds it is you and I in our ordinariness
[18:58.281]That are here we privileged few
[19:03.447]Who won the lottery of birth against all odds
[19:07.261]How dare we whine at our
[19:08.824]Inevitable return to that prior
[19:11.46]State from which the vast majority have never stirred
[21:32.743]There is grandeur in this view of life
[21:35.268]With its several powers
[21:36.633]Having been originally breathed
[21:38.110]Into a few forms or into one
[21:40.973]And that whilst this planet
[21:42.410]Has gone cycling on according
[21:44.436]To the fixed law of gravity
[21:46.996]From so simple a beginning
[21:48.735]Endless forms most beautiful
[21:50.547]And most wonderful have been
[21:53.411]And are being evolved