Taken off the album "Clear Cold Beyond" (March 8th, 2024)
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Music & Lyrics: Tony Kakko
Mikko Karmila at Finnvox Studios
Mastered by Svante Forsbäck at Chartmakers West

SONATA ARCTICA is:
Tony Kakko - Vocals & Keyboard
Elias Viljanen - Guitar
Pasi Kauppinen - Bass
Tommy Portimo - Drums
Henrik Klingenberg - Keyboard

Lyrics:
Far in the skies
Where the stars attach to the strings
You have seen angels fall, when a monster clips their wings

Darkness tonight
Someone whispers in the void
The loveliest things in your ear
You’ve been warned, you must avoid

When you hear the bells, heed the call
Tread without a fear, my friend
On your shoulder we behold
A monster only you can’t see

Anymore
Can we keep the rain abay
Once, you were sliding away
All the way down, without a rail, you

Tried a new way
Driving everyone away
Your eyes cannot lie like your face
There is no glory in disgrace, but

Friends are near
We are here
We still carry all those
Things you believed in, asshole

We have bent the rules
We have lied
Loved and known you’ll rise again
Friends will do all this for you

Child is aborn
Oh so feeble in this place
You are the guide they adore
Hopelessly lost within a maze, but

Friends are near…
We have bent the rules…

We will bend the rules
We will fight
Help you, we will win tonight
Spread your wings and you will rise

Sure, your mind weighs like a boulder
There’s a monster on your shoulder
Words and phrases, meanings, faces
Virtues, vices,
Your luck’s based on balanced dices

We are you, you are us
Always, you’re one of us
Respect, asshole
You don’t know just how much we sometimes have sacrificed to be there for you

Your keys and the keyholes once will be found
Dreams and reality, aligned
You’ve grown and found things you thought were left behind
Smile and you will see this world smile back at you

We’ve bent rules for you
We have lied
Loved and known you’ll rise again
Friends will do it all for you

We will bend the rules
We will fight
Help you, we will win tonight
Spread your wings and you will rise

We will bend the rules
We will fight
Love and know you’ll rise again
Friends will do all this for you

We will bend the rules…

#sonataarctica #powermetal #clearcoldbeyond #atomicfirerecords

Taken off the album "Clear Cold Beyond" (March 8th, 2024)

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Music & Lyrics: Tony Kakko
Mikko Karmila at Finnvox Studios
Mastered by Svante Forsbäck at Chartmakers West

Video credit:
Director, script & edit: Miikka Lommi https://www.miikkalommi.com
Producer: Katja Jokinen
DoP: Tuomas Järvelä
Gaffer&Programming: Timo Haapasaari
Laser installations&technician: Laserillumination Henry Geitel
Dancer / Choreographer: Sofia Ruija
MUAH: Juho Heliö
Styling: Nikke Hellström
Set design: Ville Vauras
Post production & grading: Post Control Helsinki Sarrah Wilkman
Production assistant: AK Jämsä
1stAC: Elina Eränen
Bestboy: Vladimir Krestjanoff
Thank you Valofirma, Kamerafirma, Fortress Soundworks and Grillifilms

SONATA ARCTICA is:
Tony Kakko - Vocals & Keyboard
Elias Viljanen - Guitar
Pasi Kauppinen - Bass
Tommy Portimo - Drums
Henrik Klingenberg - Keyboard

Lyrics:
So, you told everyone
You're falling in love
With this wonderful guy
The kind you all have to see

Touching your soul
Reaching to your heart
Knowing your needs
Making you beautiful

Walks on the beach
Calling you
Mon chéri

Dancing tonight
Holding you close
Scanning your pains
Naming them, learning them

Feeding the love
Sent from above
You think when I claim
You are my everything

Little too much, little too soon, you think Sometimes Soon you will learn that my love is

A riddle, I´m a mourning dove
Turning brittle, you shall become
What I need you to feed me, love

Intimidated, weep
Love me, feed me pain so deep
While I still need to hear you
Call me your love

Stand in the rain, alone in the dark
Wait for a train you know will never come

Hip-hip hooray, you can´t wish me away
Now that I have the key
And know when you´re home alone

I have never let you know me,
My love,
Changing the locks, changing your name, I´m a

Riddle, I´m a mourning dove…

Love, always, lonely,
Feed me love, feed me pain,
Weakness you have shown me
Fills my dark, bruise-black heart
Always, only mine, you are
Perfect life
Perfect, I

HA!

You will learn how deep a bruise can be
You will learn my name, unriddle me
Once upon, guess I was made this way
Beauty, trusting love, my fuel, my prey

Tell me you're merely token,
My love
Tell me you're forever broken

Riddle, I´m a mourning dove
Turning brittle, you shall become
What I need you to feed me, love

Intimidated, weep
Love me, feed me pain so deep
Cause I still need to hear…
Still need your pain, keep feeding me, love

#sonataarctica #clearcoldbeyond #metal #finland #darkempath #melodicmetal #powermetal

Taken off the album "Clear Cold Beyond" (March 8th, 2024)
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Front-man Tony Kakko adds, "This is a song about persons who think that it's possible and okay to charm and have any and all people for themselves - use and lose - and who don't care about the amount of pain and broken hearts left behind. And now you're the target, but you know better and make sure that this will not happen until 'California falls into the sea,' what I've come to understand is impossible and will never happen, at least in the sense of science fiction. Simply put: The track deals with self-protection. If you're strong enough, you can of course give such persons a serving of their own poison what can be satisfying."

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Music & Lyrics: Tony Kakko
Mikko Karmila at Finnvox Studios
Mastered by Svante Forsbäck at Chartmakers West

Video credit: Jarkko Piipari @mediapiipari
Additional footage by Tony Kakko and Timo Kauppinen @timokauppinenmusic

SONATA ARCTICA is:
Tony Kakko - Vocals & Keyboard
Elias Viljanen - Guitar
Pasi Kauppinen - Bass
Tommy Portimo - Drums
Henrik Klingenberg - Keyboard

Lyrics:
So, you think you now have found yourself a game
With smiles and lies you climb the walls
To every heart, far apart
The seer’s thousand faces share a name
A thousand tales, unfolding now within a day, everywhere

Scars keep score
The broken pieces, gold on the floor
For you, love’s a game, a chore
Counting the rounds like a revolving door I’m yours on the day when

California falls into the sea
The birds know the way and fly away, if one day
California falls into the sea
You’ll never find the way, the key
To lock me down, I’m free

Now, as you have failed to hear me out, again
Made deaf by your own open mouth…
I think it’s only fair I live my life
Enjoy the day, go find my beach
And have my moments in the sun

Scars keep score
The broken pieces, gold on the floor
For you, love’s a game, a chore
Counting the rounds like a revolving door I’m yours on the day when

California falls into the sea
California falls into the sea
California falls into the sea
California falls into the sea
The day you find a way to lock me down

California falls into the sea
California falls into the sea
You wait for
California to fall into the sea
I cannot find a tongue you speak
I’ve tried them all, can you leave me be?

Preeeeego!

When California falls into the sea
When California falls in to the sea
It’s safe to say
We’ll never see the day

#sonataarctica #clearcoldbeyond #metal #finland #california #melodicmetal #powermetal