End Of All Hope – English Lyrics

• By: Nightwish
• Album: Century Child

Lyrics & Translation

Learning a language through music is a powerful tool, and Nightwish's "End of All Hope" offers a rich and dramatic landscape for English learners. The song's potent vocabulary and metaphorical lyrics provide a unique opportunity to explore themes of hope, despair, and innocence. Its theatrical and operatic style makes the language both memorable and emotionally resonant, allowing you to connect with the raw power of the words in a way that traditional study cannot offer.

[English]

It is the end of all hope

To lose the child, the faith

To end all the innocence

To be someone like me

This is the birth of all hope

To have what I once had

This life unforgiven

It will end with birth

No will to wake for this morn

To see another black rose born

Deathbed is slowly covered with snow

Angels, they fell first but I'm still here

Alone as they are drawing near

In heaven my masterpiece will finally be sung

It is the end of all hope

To lose the child, the faith

To end all the innocence

To be someone like me

Wounded is the deer that leaps highest

And my wound it cuts so deep

Turn off the light and let me pull the plug

It is the end of all hope

To lose the child, the faith

To end all the innocence

To be someone like me

This is the birth of all hope

To have what I once had

This life unforgiven

It will end with birth

Mandylion without a face

Deathwish without a prayer

End of hope

End of love

End of time The rest is silence

Mandylion without a face

Deathwish without a prayer

End of hope

End of love

End of time The rest is silence

It is the end of all hope

To lose the child, the faith

To end all the innocence

To be someone like me

This is the birth of all hope

To have what I once had

It is the end of all hope

To lose the child, the faith

To end all the innocence

To be someone like me

It is the end of all hope

To lose the child, the faith

End of all hope

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
hope /hoʊp/ A1	noun - a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen
lose /luːz/ A1	verb - to no longer have something
faith /feɪθ/ A2	noun - strong belief or trust in someone or something
innocence /ˈɪnəsəns/ B1	noun - lack of guilt, sin, or deceit
unforgiven /ˌʌnfərˈɡɪvən/ B2	adjective - not forgiven
wounded /ˈwuːndɪd/ A2	adjective - injured physically or emotionally
leaps /liːps/ A2	verb - to jump or spring a long way
deep /diːp/ A1	adjective - extending far down from the top or surface
birth /bɜːrθ/ A1	noun - the emergence of a baby from the womb
mandylion /ˈmændɪliən/ C1	noun - a relic or image of Christ’s face
deathwish /ˈdɛθwɪʃ/ B2	noun - a strong desire for death or self-destruction
silence /ˈsaɪləns/ A1	noun - complete absence of sound
heaven /ˈhɛvən/ A2	noun - the place thought to be where God lives and where good people go after death
masterpiece /ˈmɑːstərpiːs/ B1	noun - a work of outstanding creativity, skill, or workmanship
deer /dɪr/ A1	noun - a large animal with four legs, antlers, and a tail
plug /plʌɡ/ A2	verb - to insert a plug into a socket

Key Grammar Structures

• It is the end of all hope

  ➔ Present simple with 'be' for emphasis

  ➔ The use of 'is' (a form of 'be') here emphasizes the finality of the statement.

• To lose the child, the faith

  ➔ Infinitive of purpose

  ➔ The infinitive 'to lose' indicates the purpose or result of the action.

• This life unforgiven

  ➔ Past participle as adjective

  ➔ 'Unforgiven' is a past participle used as an adjective to describe 'life'.

• No will to wake for this morn

  ➔ Negative construction with 'no'

  ➔ The use of 'no' before 'will' creates a strong negative statement.

• Angels, they fell first but I'm still here

  ➔ Contrastive conjunction 'but'

  ➔ The conjunction 'but' contrasts the falling of angels with the speaker's survival.

• Wounded is the deer that leaps highest

  ➔ Emphatic inversion

  ➔ The inversion of the subject and verb ('Wounded is...') emphasizes the state of being wounded.

• Mandylion without a face

  ➔ Prepositional phrase as adjective

  ➔ 'Without a face' is a prepositional phrase acting as an adjective to describe 'Mandylion'.

• The rest is silence

  ➔ Present simple with 'be' for timeless truth

  ➔ The use of 'is' here conveys a timeless truth or final statement.