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Sleeping Sun by Nightwish

The sun is sleeping quietly
Once upon a century
Wistful (1)____________ calm and red
Ardent (2)________________ 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 (3)__________ a crime
I wish for this night-time
To last for a lifetime
The darkness (4)____________ 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 (5)________ 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 (6)________ for a lifetime
The darkness around me
Shores of a (7)__________ 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 (8)________________ (9)____________ me
Shores of a solar sea
(Oh) how I wish to go down with the sun
Sleeping
Weeping
With you

Answers:
(1) oceans(2) caresses(3) makes(4) around(5) sail(6) last(7) solar(8) darkness(9) around