Storytime is the first single off of Nightwish's seventh studio album, Imaginaerum. It was released on November 9, 2011 after being premiered two days early on Finnish radio station Radio Rock.

LyricsEdit

`Twas the night before

When all through the world

No words, no dreams, then one day

A writer by a fire

Imagined all Gaia

Took a journey into a child-man`s heart

A painter on the shore

Imagined all the world

Within a snowflake on his palm

Unframed by poetry

A canvas of awe

Planet Earth falling back into the stars

I am the voice of Never-Never-Land

The innocence, the dreams of every man

I am the empty crib of Peter Pan

A silent kite against the blue, blue sky

Every chimney, every moonlit sight

I am the story that will read you real

Every memory that you hold dear

I am the journey

I am the destination

I am the home

The tale that reads you

{C A way to taste the night

The elusive high

Follow the madness

Alice, you know once did

Imaginarium

A dream emporium

Caress the tales

And they will dream you real

A storyteller`s game

Lips that intoxicate

The core of all life is a limitless chest of tales

I am the voice of Never-Never-Land

The innocence, the dreams of every man

I am the empty crib of Peter Pan

{C A silent kite against the blue, blue sky

Every chimney, every moonlit sight

I am the story that will read you real

Every memory that you hold dear

{C I am the voice of Never-Never-Land

The innocence, the dreams of every man

Searching heavens for another Earth

(repeat ch.)