["","","Where have all the feelings gone?","Think of me long enough to make a memory","","A newborn drowning, a lifetime loneliness","My tale is the most bitter truth","To drink it is to follow the left hand path","How can I ever feel again?","Hope is only an illusion, and Ocean Soul's nothing but a name","There's a poison drop in this cup of man","","","","Why am I loved only when I'm gone?","As I drank from a cup which was counting my time","The Child bless thee and keep thee forever","Think of me long enough to make a memory","Why has all the laughter ceased?","","I was weak, yet not unblessed","Given the chance would I return?","Gone back in time to bless the child","Soon to be freed from care, from human pain","Now unblessed, homesick in time","Why am I loved only when I'm gone?","Think of me long enough to make a memory","Time pays us but with earth and dust and a dark, silent grave","Dead to the world, alive for the journey","Remember my child, without innocence the cross is only iron","","Where have all the feelings gone?","Come bless the child one more time","","Come bless the child one more time","Why is it the deadliest sin to love as I loved you?","Come bless the child one more time","One night I dreamt a white rose withering","I've never felt so alone in my life","Why am I loved only when I'm gone?","And witnessed the beauty of the beast","Gone back in time to bless the child","I dreamt all of my future, relived my past","Gone back in time to bless the child","I was born amidst the purple waterfalls"]
Performed by: Nightwish Written by: Marko Tapani Hietala; Tuomas Lauri Holopainen; Tero Kalle Saka Kinnunen; Veijo Tapio Laine; Jukka Antero Nevalainen; Riku-Jussi Niemi; Erno Matti Juha Vuorinen
Credits: Hietala, Marko Tapani (Songwriter); Holopainen, Tuomas Lauri (Songwriter); Kinnunen, Tero Kalle Saka (Songwriter); Laine, Veijo Tapio (Songwriter); Nevalainen, Jukka Antero (Songwriter); Niemi, Riku-Jussi (Songwriter); Vuorinen, Erno Matti Juha (Songwriter); RANKA KUSTANNUS OY (Publisher)
Bless the Child is the ninth single by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released as the second single from their album Century Child. It is one of two songs which were filmed from the Century Child album, with other one being "End of All Hope".
There is two versions of the single which has a slightly different tracklist than the Finnish one.[1] The normal release includes the title track and the two songs, "Lagoon" and "The Wayfarer", which have not been released in Germany before.[1] There is too a limited DVDplus of the single which includes three DVD-videotracks in addition to the audio content. The videos are "Over The Hills And Far Away" "Bless The Child" and a 30-minute interview.[1]
In addition to it being a single, part of the edited version was used in a Chinese broadcast on CCTV-4.
The video for this song tells a sad love story in reverse, it's a mix between the scenes and the band playing in a disused warehouse.[2] The band was a bit disappointed with the video, because they found it to be a bit too complex.[2]
