"I'm from where the magic is
I'll give you what I cannot take away with me
And the sunlit day and moon
I wanna have a silent kiss, I wanna make you mine,
I'm thinking how... can't leave me now
Stay with me somehow

You come from where the fire is
You give me what you couldn't burn the last time
One sunless day and moon
I wanna be so close to you, see whatever scars
You carry within your broken heart
Mine's your missing part

Come with me, where the magic is
There's more than light we could share
We could join the sun and moon if you want to

Be my lifeline for this lifetime, suffer in pleasure forever and ever
I'd like to see how the walls around your heart will fall apart...
Stop resisting, let the light in, suffer in pleasure forever and ever
...for this one lifetime

Let me take you where the magic is, back in time,
Remember the light, of the cold December moon

I wanna have a silent kiss, I wanna make you mine,
I'm thinking you can't leave me now
Stay with me somehow
Stay with me somehow
Come with me where the magic is, there is more than light we can share
We could own the sun and moon

I am feeling your face in the dark
I'm hearing you breathe in the dark
I am tasting your lips in the dark
I'm holding you close in the dark

I'll take you where the magic is
I'll give you everything I only can offer
You can have my broken midnight moon
If you give me your broken heart
And I will give you something real and golden.
We can make this life the finest art...

I come from where the magic is
I'd give you what I could take away with me
And a sunlit day and moon
I wanna have a silent kiss I wanna make you mine,
I'm thinking you can't leave me now
Stay with me somehow

I am feeling your face in the dark
I'm hearing you breathe in the dark
I am tasting your lips in the dark
I'm holding you close in the dark"

Sing along! :

Tony Kakko and Orchestra Version Image is based on

Original Album Version


Thank you, Sonata Arctica. This is the final pencil draft for a commission for  wielder- which means once she looks it over and says it's golden, it will be transfered to bristol board to be inked and then colored. This is seriously, MY SIXTH version of this drawing. With the first 5, I just couldn't get the feeling I wanted which meant nothing was getting translated into the postures of the characters.

I listen to music a lot to inspire my pieces, and was listening to Sonata Arctica's "Days of Grays" album, which is, IMHO, one of the most amazing and complicated albums in the progressive metal genre ( and it's got more songs about wolves than any of their other albums )

On the Finnish edition of the album, there is a bonus track called "In the Dark". And if you bought the limited edition 2CD pack, you got a bonus CD which is all of Tony's amazing work with full choir and symphonic orchestrations. This drawing was done listening to the version of "In the Dark" on said bonus disc. That version is just so stirring and mysterious and the orchestra.......oh my God...

My interpetation of that song is about two people from two completely different worlds doing the unthinkable: falling in love. It's about having your heart and eyes set on someone that you once thought was unreachable, but then discover that the entire time, they were looking in your direction.

That has always been my interpetation of these two characters of  wielder's. Of course, I could be dead wrong and just waxing lyrical. Hopefully I'm not doing them a disservice ^^

Anyway, the finished version with all have a simple backdrop of the woods at night, to further complete the mood.