Nightwish - Sleeping Sun (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

The official music video to "Sleeping Sun", taken from the 1999 single "Ballads Of The Eclipse", The song has since been added to the album "Oceanborn", which you can buy at Nightwish-Shop: http://smarturl.it/l93lmv Director: Sami Käyhkö DOP: Risto Laasonen Producer: Paula Eronen Shot on location at Ivalo and Lake Inari, July 1999 Follow @nightwish: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nightwish/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nightwish/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/NightwishBand Mailing list - https://nightwi.sh/newsletter Shop - http://shop.nightwish.com Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/2NPduAUeLVsfIauhRwuft1 Apple Music - https://geo.music.apple.com/us/artist/nightwish/2898807?mt=1&app=music 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

Added 5 Apr 2026