Nightwish - Sleeping Sun (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

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

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

[EthanHarket]

This is not just a song, it's a portal that takes our back in time to teenage years.

[LegoAnimations]

In my opinion, one of the most iconic Nightwish song.
Never gets old, always goosebumps.

[Wolfhammered]

One of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard.

[AmicusAdastra]

This song: **play**
Every ships in 20 miles radius: **sinks dramatically**

[whiskeyvixen]

I loved this era of Nightwish.
No disrespect to the bands new direction. This is the Nightwish I grew up with, and will forever hold a special place in my heart.

[sabina]

This comment is for my amazing dad, with whom I never had a chance to say goodbye❤️ My father loved metal and this band was one of his favorites. When I hear this song, I want to cry because the last thing we could do for him was to pick his favorite songs, including this one, and let them play at his funeral. The cancer he had once defeated has returned, and unfortunatelly he lost his fight. He died when I was child but I will love him forever and he will never be forgotten.

[TurrisBabylonius]

This song was written for the August 11 solar eclipse in 1999. I still remember the strange darkness and chill setting in the middle of a sunny day. And six days later, right on Tarja's birthday, we had the biggest earthquake in our history (until then, unfortunately we had a bigger one last month) and our lives have never been the same again. This song means so much to me.

[smeten]

I cry when I listen to this song. Best Era of Nightwish.

[arseniolupin]

one of the best things about 44 years old, is the fact that i lived my teenage years in the 90's that is priceless and Iam grateful !!!

[Ozymandias-]

A message to the future generations. Don't let this song die.

[michaelwilleford]

Who else is listening to this powerful and awe inspiring song in Summer 2022? I am and still tears of sheer raw emotions continue to fall like magick even now! Tarja is Queen!!

[UwUmka_]

WE GETTING OUT OF SINKING SHIP WITH THIS ONE🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣🗣

[druidofthefang]

Finnish woman with the voice of an angel singing over the Finnish forests. The most beautiful thing I have seen in a long time, this is perfection

[ladislavstefek]

I heard this song for the first time in 2005. It completely fascinated me and it still fascinates me today. Tarja and Nightwish became my band of choice. I still listen to Tarja and Nigthwish today. I'm just very sorry I didn't have time to visit their concert with Tarja and Marko Hietala. I am 73 years old and in December I was at the Nigtwish concert in Prague. At least I got my wish that way.

[EliteTitancameraman]

We gonna Sink dramatically with this one🥶🗣️🔥‼️🔥‼️‼️‼️🔥🔥

[andreysoldatenko]

Есть любители этого творчества в 2024?) Эх воспоминания былого, приятно окунуться в прошлое с такой музыкой

[vonhohenheim]

Ah man I can't listen to this after all these years I feel like my heart will be crushed by the sheer immense of nostalgia

[EthanHarket]

We don't search for old songs, We search for old memories.

[raeganlawrence]

this song is so good even in 2020 💖
(I've come to realize it really doesn't matter the year. 2030, 2040, 4000, This song will always be powerful)

[SHIP_PLANE_GUY]

listening at the song in land:😀😀😎😎😎😎👍👍 listening at the song in the ship in the middle of the ocean:💀💀😭😭