I have to corect you my man, Floor is not a goddess, she is an Amazon, I mean she is taller than all of her band, she has a great muscular structure (she needs to work on those), and she she dresses like??? Diana prince anyone? TY, TY, ty... So, Floor is an amazon, pure and simple, and we all love to have her.
It will be in a musical appreciation class and he will be mentioned with Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Rimsky-Korskov, Liszt and the other classical composers. Twentieth Century composers like Copland, Gershwin, Prokofiev and Stravinsky. He will be the first of the Twenty-First century, and most likely the first metal composer in their ranks.
I was there in 15 and I cried the last twenty minutes and this... this miracle still can make me cry, in awe, and gives me a kind of sorrowful bliss, no other band’s music can give. I loved Floor in all her bands, but she found her home in Nightwish, and I loved Nightwish, since the beginnings, and they changed my life forever. Each time I see this - I regain a tiny piece of hope in humanity.
@@marianohaentjens8588 I can safely assure you that there were many - many tears of joy and many are and going to be shed for a long time and I tell it with pride 🤘🏻❤️
There are so many “hidden gems” that Tuomas included in the lyrics & the music. 14:25 The musical tributes start with some African tribal drumming, then through the Gregorian chant in Dies Irae (Mozart), Bach’s Minuet in G Major followed by his famous Fugue in D Minor, followed by American banjo music, Metallica’s Enter Sandman riff
The first notes of that bagpipe instantly got me visions of the witcher 3 game. It was truly a crazy experience, so vivid it came instantly. This whole song is so epic.
This piece of art should be taught in musical masterclasses, in composition, story telling, dynamics, performance and delivery, not to mention an unparalleled sense of unity delivered to each and every single listener by just three words: WE WERE HERE
Needles to say the performance was pristine in every detail imaginable. Fucking great band with a fucking great singer. What I want to mention is the outro part. They stand in a row, in front of thousands of people, the most bombastic, majestic and epic music and choir ever playing, like they destroyed sourons ring. Standing there, a minute after having performed the most fucking epic thing ever, with this ocean of people celebrating you. How awesome must that feel? Unimaginable.
Every school should play this song to 8-10 year olds and explain what it is about. And how we are a special planet. Thuomas brilliant writing of a complex and long story. Just EPIC on every level. Masterpiece.
@@nbgirl483 Marco only worked as "original composer " on a couple songs, 99% of the time Tuomas arrives with a finished demo (keyboard centered), lyrics and general scores, then the whole band starts to rehearsal and transform the song, but with Tuomas on the lead most of the time, which doesn't mean that songs won't get completely reshaped (they said Nemo started as a much more acoustic idea). Let's not forget that Tuomas also works in the studio with the orchestras that'll replace and/or enhance the keyboards after they are through with the first band version of every song... Marco is awesome and has been an fundamental piece of the band since he joined for the fourth album, but he hasn't been credit for composing any songs, with exceptions like Romantiside . Most album booklets say "all music and lyrics written by Tuomas Holopainen and arranged by Nightwish"... hell, Tuomas even tells Floor, Marco (and Troy) how they they should emotionally sing his lyrics... Again, not that the rest of the band won't contribute or adopt the song as their own.
@A Curious Traveller Check out a lot of the other comments. I think *everyone* had the same reaction - overwhelming emotion!!!!! To me, it's a defiant cry from life and humanity to the eternal, uncaring void "WE WERE HERE!!!!" Nothing else could be more powerful.
I'm gonna get a tattoo on my forearm saying "I am here." It'll always be a reminder of this magnificence and a positive affirmation that as low as I might feel one day or the next, I'm still here thats good.
the moment Floor says with emotion and broken voice "WE WERE HERE! kiitos" is the best part for me. She is just of out energy, full of emotions, just like she run an amazing race enjoying every single step of it. Just amazing, it's wonderful how she, and they, were exited after this show in a very big stadium in front of all those people: they were like us, living this amazing moment. Just love them
@@Xfade81 interview while ago, I saw that too. She has a special bond with her mom, even wrote a song for her, the song's name is Strong. You can see it below. czcams.com/video/A9cOGsksk6Y/video.html czcams.com/video/ZFtdKje-2Tk/video.html enjoy
Beethoven and Goethe walked on some estate. Master of the estate met them and he said "good morning". Goethe said it too but Beethowen was silent. Master asked him, why he didnt greet him. And Beethoven said - "you, my master, you are a dear sir and everybody knows you. But when you die, no one will remember you. But people ll speak about me for next several centuries". Tuomas can say the same words! This is absolutely masterpiece. Incredible instrumentation, musically at a very high level (almost unprecedented last 100 yrs) but with huge energy and a lot of emotions. Thanks Tuomas, you are the great!
i have had the joy of seeing them more than a half dozen times in small venues here in the states. They are magnificent in concert and deliver a spirited and inspiring performance every time. Floor is spectacular, as are the rest of the band. In my 45 years of going to rock concerts, they are the best I have ever seen, and I have seen some good ones. Long live Nightwish, the greatest show on Earth!
Gotten to a habit of listening this song before bed after every week of work. Somehow, after all the adrenalin this piece pumps out, somehow I can sleep sound after. The greatest show on earth.
That's why i hate the Finns :-) You stole our queen. But this Dutchman is very proud that NW saved Floor and that the best band of the world gives such great performances. FLOORGASM all over the place.
I am telling you, Tuomas Holopainen is a true artist and he has a great group of people that do a great job at reflecting that art. I love all of Nightwish's songs and shows.
Tarja is a professional musician, pumping out songs as machine-like perfect to a note as human can possibly perform them. Floor lives and breathes music with every molecule of her being... and still manages to hit every note as perfect as a goddess can possibly hit them. :)
The word is incomparable. But you're wrong. Turunen is capable of 'passion' at the highest level. Listen to what she is doing now. She was working in very limiting circumstances with Nightwish. They did her a favour by sacking her.
How can anyone dislike this unbelievable work of genius. It's the pinnacle of music as far as I'm concerned. Never mind The Greatest Show on Earth, this is The Greatest Band on Earth, period. Can't wait for new album, but seriously, how on earth are they going to top the last one? I'm sure it will be brilliant. I'm going to see them for the third time in December 2020 at Wembley. Can't wait!
I count myself among the privileged to have seen them live 3x often traveling long distances to see them here in states. They always put on a great show. I think that history will be kind to Tuomas for his great compositions and poetry.
They literally have one of the best drummers in the world it hurts my heart that hes not in Wintersun but I understand. I mean its Nightwish right. If you guys haven't heard of WINTERSUN your in for a treat.
Lyrics for new people getting introduced to this magic Archaean horizon The first sunrise On a pristine gaea Opus perfectum Somewhere there, us sleeping After sleeping through a hundred million centuries We have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life Within decades we must close our eyes again Isn't it a noble and enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun To work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? The cosmic law of gravity Pulled the newborns around a fire A careless cold infinity in every vast direction Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone She has a tale to tell From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast Enter LUCA The tapestry of chemistry There's a writing in the garden Leading us to the mother of all We are one We are a universe Forebears of what will be Scions of the Devonian sea Aeons pass Writing the tale of us all A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on Earth Ion channels welcoming the outside world To the stuff of stars Bedding the tree of a biological holy Enter life The tapestry of chemistry There's a writing in the garden Leading us to the mother of all We are one We are a universe Forebears of what will be Scions of the Devonian sea Aeons pass Writing the tale of us all A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on Earth We are here to care for the garden The wonder of birth Of every form most beautiful Every form most beautiful We are one We are a universe Forebears of what will be Scions of the Devonian sea Aeons pass writing the tale of us all A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on Earth After a billion years The show is still here Not a single one of your fathers died young The handy travelers out of Africa Little Lucy of the Afar Gave birth to fantasy To idolatry To self-destructive weaponry Enter the God of gaps Deep within the past Atavistic dread of the hunted Enter Ionia, the cradle of thought The architecture of understanding The human lust to feel so exceptional To rule the Earth Hunger for shiny rocks For giant mushroom clouds The will to do just as you'd be done by Enter history, the grand finale Enter ratkind Man, he took his time in the sun Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand He gave birth to poetry But one day'll cease to be Greet the last light of the library Man, he took his time in the sun Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand He gave birth to poetry But one day'll cease to be Greet the last light of the library Man, he took his time in the sun Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand He gave birth to poetry But one day'll cease to be Greet the last light of the library We were here! We were here! We were here! We were here! "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born The potential people who could have been here in my place But who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA So massively exceeds the set of actual people In the teeth of those stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds How dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state From which the vast majority have never stirred?" There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers Having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one And that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been And are being, evolved
I always get chills when the intro starts. This is my favourite song from Nightwish, and this has to be one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
Yes he is. Nethertheless I prefer Jukka, who hits his drums stronger, he sounds even bigger and really awesome. Yet, I don't know if he's good enough for this song....
@@cosmemendez6608 He has been named a permanent member of the band. No longer just filling in Jukka has officially retired from the band and will be focusing on working for the band outside of playing music.
I have watched this video over and over and over again. Those sisters (i presume they are) in the thumbnail...the pure joy on the faces is absolute brilliant! Makes me smile every single time.
watching this i am so calm and so full of emotions at once. It's like extasy. Having this experience just watching, someday when i will finally see them live i am going to probably die because my heart will stop
Hundreds times I am listening or watching this song, from at first I listened it in EFMB album I bought, to today I watch this video... *And in every of them, every one of them, I got a goosebumps...*
watery eyes, shaking your head in disbelief, goosebumps and dropping your jaw, is just some of the symptoms when you have been Nightwished and Floored.
I found this song again last year while recovering from an open hart surgery and cannot listen to it without a tear in the eye and a lump in the throat.....It is the meaning of life in a 20+ minute nutshell, sung by an unearthly good voice. Happy to be one of lucky ones!
I am so thankfull for this Song. 4 hours ago, i lost my 3 year young son. 4 days ago He was a happy Kid. I am so in Love with my little Boy. I can not believe, that i Had to say good Bye forever. I am still in this Hospital. I am so afraid to come Home. Without my Boy. Maybe Dawkins will Help me. Its so much pain in my Heart.
The narrator's voice should have said 'and so, with this performance, life has lost all meaning. No more will our need for fulfillment through artistry be possible. For with this very performance, Nightwish achieved the pinnacle of greatness. We might as well all go home. Live out the rest of our sorry lives in depression. Where do we go from here. For, evolution of the human mind is now over.'
Coincido Jeyson . . . es una maquina de componer bellezas que nos estremecen . . . Magnificamente ejecutada por la mejor Banda de todos los tiempos . . . y yo ya vi unas cuantas . . . tengo 63 añitos !
16:13
- Floor: "Will you sing with us!"
- Also Floor: *sings in a range no mortal can sing in*
Part of why I love Floor so much is because she sings in the same range I do. I can't sing low (never had voice lessons) and I love to sing along.
Mosh Demash
Huhu. I am 😊
I have to corect you my man, Floor is not a goddess, she is an Amazon, I mean she is taller than all of her band, she has a great muscular structure (she needs to work on those), and she she dresses like??? Diana prince anyone? TY, TY, ty... So, Floor is an amazon, pure and simple, and we all love to have her.
Floor is our Valkyrie goddess
Tuomas - just look at him. Just. Look. At. Him! This man lives and feels every note of what he composes. The passion!
popcorn time
Thank you so much Rebecca for exposing me to Nightwish. I discovered them by watching your channel. Now I can't get enough of Floor.
One day, kids will learn about Tuomas Holopainen in school
If they are lucky enough.
With a response similar to how they reacted to Beasty Boys in the Star Trek movie: "Is this classical music? - Yes I believe it is" 🙂
they already are!!! czcams.com/video/8_Q_VVyD36o/video.html
One can only hope...
It will be in a musical appreciation class and he will be mentioned with Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Rimsky-Korskov, Liszt and the other classical composers. Twentieth Century composers like Copland, Gershwin, Prokofiev and Stravinsky. He will be the first of the Twenty-First century, and most likely the first metal composer in their ranks.
I was there in 15 and I cried the last twenty minutes and this... this miracle still can make me cry, in awe, and gives me a kind of sorrowful bliss, no other band’s music can give.
I loved Floor in all her bands, but she found her home in Nightwish, and I loved Nightwish, since the beginnings, and they changed my life forever. Each time I see this - I regain a tiny piece of hope in humanity.
I always thought I was the only one with tears in my eyes during this masterpiece
@@marianohaentjens8588 I can safely assure you that there were many - many tears of joy and many are and going to be shed for a long time and I tell it with pride 🤘🏻❤️
There are so many “hidden gems” that Tuomas included in the lyrics & the music.
14:25 The musical tributes start with some African tribal drumming, then through the Gregorian chant in Dies Irae (Mozart), Bach’s Minuet in G Major followed by his famous Fugue in D Minor, followed by American banjo music, Metallica’s Enter Sandman riff
This isn’t a song, this is an experience! Amazing
epic！
Truly is.
Totally. Kidna reminds me of a Pink Floyd experience
The first notes of that bagpipe instantly got me visions of the witcher 3 game. It was truly a crazy experience, so vivid it came instantly. This whole song is so epic.
performance most accurate to title :D
This piece of art should be taught in musical masterclasses, in composition, story telling, dynamics, performance and delivery, not to mention an unparalleled sense of unity delivered to each and every single listener by just three words: WE WERE HERE
Sahab Mas “We are Nightwish. And this is our Masterclass”
Needles to say the performance was pristine in every detail imaginable.
Fucking great band with a fucking great singer.
What I want to mention is the outro part.
They stand in a row, in front of thousands of people, the most bombastic, majestic and epic music and choir ever playing, like they destroyed sourons ring. Standing there, a minute after having performed the most fucking epic thing ever, with this ocean of people celebrating you.
How awesome must that feel?
Unimaginable.
😁🇫🇮🤘❤️🎸🎶👍💥
Every school should play this song to 8-10 year olds and explain what it is about. And how we are a special planet. Thuomas brilliant writing of a complex and long story. Just EPIC on every level. Masterpiece.
spot on !
Tuomas - the greatest composer of the 21st century
Marco is a big part of his successful composing...Tuomas is great but he wouldn't be as great without Marco.
@@nbgirl483 Marco only worked as "original composer " on a couple songs, 99% of the time Tuomas arrives with a finished demo (keyboard centered), lyrics and general scores, then the whole band starts to rehearsal and transform the song, but with Tuomas on the lead most of the time, which doesn't mean that songs won't get completely reshaped (they said Nemo started as a much more acoustic idea). Let's not forget that Tuomas also works in the studio with the orchestras that'll replace and/or enhance the keyboards after they are through with the first band version of every song... Marco is awesome and has been an fundamental piece of the band since he joined for the fourth album, but he hasn't been credit for composing any songs, with exceptions like Romantiside . Most album booklets say "all music and lyrics written by Tuomas Holopainen and arranged by Nightwish"... hell, Tuomas even tells Floor, Marco (and Troy) how they they should emotionally sing his lyrics... Again, not that the rest of the band won't contribute or adopt the song as their own.
Hands down 👏👏
indeed.. the guy is a genius
Absolutly agree . . Steve !!!
This masterpiece should have just been named "The Greatest Song on Earth" instead.
I can listen to this a million times and it would not be enough.
Yes...as many times as there are sand grains in Sahara.
One more of my neighbor's favourite NightWish song whether he likes it or not
Quite possibly the most superb song in modern music history.
I can't be the only one who feels this overwhelming emotion during "We were here" am I? T^T Fuck I love this band.
@A Curious Traveller Check out a lot of the other comments. I think *everyone* had the same reaction - overwhelming emotion!!!!! To me, it's a defiant cry from life and humanity to the eternal, uncaring void "WE WERE HERE!!!!" Nothing else could be more powerful.
I'm gonna get a tattoo on my forearm saying "I am here." It'll always be a reminder of this magnificence and a positive affirmation that as low as I might feel one day or the next, I'm still here thats good.
the moment Floor says with emotion and broken voice "WE WERE HERE! kiitos" is the best part for me. She is just of out energy, full of emotions, just like she run an amazing race enjoying every single step of it. Just amazing, it's wonderful how she, and they, were exited after this show in a very big stadium in front of all those people: they were like us, living this amazing moment.
Just love them
Her emotion was very strong both for the great performance but also because her the parents were in the crowd.
@@antoniofiorillo1632 source ?
@@Xfade81 czcams.com/video/B3NIfu0qvtg/video.html
X Fade dutch tv. There is a special over floor that shows that her parents vissited one show.
@@Xfade81 interview while ago, I saw that too. She has a special bond with her mom, even wrote a song for her, the song's name is Strong. You can see it below.
czcams.com/video/A9cOGsksk6Y/video.html
czcams.com/video/ZFtdKje-2Tk/video.html
enjoy
Nightwish make me feel... alive. Yes, alive. They give me all the feelings, something that no other artist/band can do... I am so thankful for them.
The more I listen to it...the more amazing it becomes. Floor is a vocal GODDESS. Tuomas is an insane composer.
Beethoven and Goethe walked on some estate. Master of the estate met them and he said "good morning". Goethe said it too but Beethowen was silent. Master asked him, why he didnt greet him. And Beethoven said - "you, my master, you are a dear sir and everybody knows you. But when you die, no one will remember you. But people ll speak about me for next several centuries". Tuomas can say the same words! This is absolutely masterpiece. Incredible instrumentation, musically at a very high level (almost unprecedented last 100 yrs) but with huge energy and a lot of emotions. Thanks Tuomas, you are the great!
This is not simple a song, this is fine art, poetry in motion. Thank you night wish!
i have had the joy of seeing them more than a half dozen times in small venues here in the states. They are magnificent in concert and deliver a spirited and inspiring performance every time. Floor is spectacular, as are the rest of the band. In my 45 years of going to rock concerts, they are the best I have ever seen, and I have seen some good ones. Long live Nightwish, the greatest show on Earth!
Fucking astounding.
Never really been a massive fan of Nightwish with either vocalist - but THIS? This is a masterpiece.
I am into extreme metal. Oceanborn was very good and then i miss them until now. I have several goosebumps. Incredible song
Through all the hardships, I was still lucky to live at an era where such music could be listened to....
This still makes me fucking cry tears of joy. Wow.. What an absolute piece of art. This video should be put in a time capsule and preserved forever.
this single video should be shown again and again on IMAX screens everywhere
Incredible.The magic of these words" We were here"!! Sing with us...as loud as you can!!! UNITED!! OH, i simply love it.!!
This is not just a song, this is a work of art. This song gave me chills.
+Jocelyn Davila I'd go so far as to say a magnum opus.
It always brings tears to my eyes, but heck, so many Nightwish songs just pull on my heart strings.
Total masterpiece 💜💜💜
Jocelyn Davila a true masterpiece!!!🤘🤘🤘
Me too. It could have something to do with me being outside at subzero temperature with only T-shirt on.
Gotten to a habit of listening this song before bed after every week of work. Somehow, after all the adrenalin this piece pumps out, somehow I can sleep sound after. The greatest show on earth.
This is an epic opus on such a scale few will understand how majestic it really is.
This is one of the reasons why I'm proud to be a Finn
So you should be! You guys have the BEST music in my opinion💕
@Phelan Troy is a Brit, the new guy who plays all of the folk instruments, he's the fella on the right
Jeon Jimin This old Dutch fart has also a reason to be proud of.
United we are strong!
Should be your only reason.
That's why i hate the Finns :-) You stole our queen. But this Dutchman is very proud that NW saved Floor and that the best band of the world gives such great performances. FLOORGASM all over the place.
I am telling you, Tuomas Holopainen is a true artist and he has a great group of people that do a great job at reflecting that art. I love all of Nightwish's songs and shows.
My God this is fucking amazing!!!!! Long live to Nightwish
The tears in Floor's eyes at the end speaks more than a thousand words..Tarja was a great singer, but the passion of Floor is uncomparable
we were here…kiitos…
Tarja is a professional musician, pumping out songs as machine-like perfect to a note as human can possibly perform them. Floor lives and breathes music with every molecule of her being... and still manages to hit every note as perfect as a goddess can possibly hit them. :)
both are very incredible, they sounds so good, I love them
The word is incomparable. But you're wrong. Turunen is capable of 'passion' at the highest level. Listen to what she is doing now. She was working in very limiting circumstances with Nightwish. They did her a favour by sacking her.
Mikosch2 well said and this makes the difference.
How can anyone dislike this unbelievable work of genius. It's the pinnacle of music as far as I'm concerned. Never mind The Greatest Show on Earth, this is The Greatest Band on Earth, period. Can't wait for new album, but seriously, how on earth are they going to top the last one? I'm sure it will be brilliant. I'm going to see them for the third time in December 2020 at Wembley. Can't wait!
seems like Troy isnt getting enough shout outs. This ones for you Troy. You give this track an ethereal mysterious quality and its sweet as anything
Bravo!!!!
He is great!!!!!
Of course Troy earns a big thumb up...they all do.
Well said! He deserves credit too.
The first times Troy joined the band I didn't enjoy it that much, but now I love him! I love the celtic mood he gives to the band
Her voice is realy a vehicle of spirit, that bring you into every sense of meaning
She is Goddes
Floor Jansen is a Goddess walking on earth amongst us mortals and no one can tell me otherwise.
Floor’s voice is everything - warm, powerful, clear, gentle, commanding, strong, full of emotion, yet always tone and pitch perfect...
I count myself among the privileged to have seen them live 3x often traveling long distances to see them here in states. They always put on a great show. I think that history will be kind to Tuomas for his great compositions and poetry.
A Queen , Siren , no words to say. She's so amazing
What about Dutch Gentle Bewitching Giant.
Awesome band as always. Floor's vocal range is incredible. Love it!!
metoo metoo
Here that crowd pop after the last we were here? That's amazing. That is when you know as an artist you put on a show.
They literally have one of the best drummers in the world it hurts my heart that hes not in Wintersun but I understand. I mean its Nightwish right. If you guys haven't heard of WINTERSUN your in for a treat.
marco is such an amazing singer...he didnt get enough credit...
This gives a new meaning to "an epic song":)
Not just a song more of an experience!!!
@@peterstclair2610 Exactly. It's not a song. It's a composition and a performance.
THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD I have seen Nightwish live 3 times and what more I see the more I miss this band
Love you guys. Going miss Marco. Hope he returns after his break.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Lyrics for new people getting introduced to this magic
Archaean horizon
The first sunrise
On a pristine gaea
Opus perfectum
Somewhere there, us sleeping
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries
We have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life
Within decades we must close our eyes again
Isn't it a noble and enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun
To work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it?
The cosmic law of gravity
Pulled the newborns around a fire
A careless cold infinity in every vast direction
Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone
She has a tale to tell
From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast
Enter LUCA
The tapestry of chemistry
There's a writing in the garden
Leading us to the mother of all
We are one
We are a universe
Forebears of what will be
Scions of the Devonian sea
Aeons pass
Writing the tale of us all
A day-to-day new opening
For the greatest show on Earth
Ion channels welcoming the outside world
To the stuff of stars
Bedding the tree of a biological holy
Enter life
The tapestry of chemistry
There's a writing in the garden
Leading us to the mother of all
We are one
We are a universe
Forebears of what will be
Scions of the Devonian sea
Aeons pass
Writing the tale of us all
A day-to-day new opening
For the greatest show on Earth
We are here to care for the garden
The wonder of birth
Of every form most beautiful
Every form most beautiful
We are one
We are a universe
Forebears of what will be
Scions of the Devonian sea
Aeons pass writing the tale of us all
A day-to-day new opening
For the greatest show on Earth
After a billion years The show is still here
Not a single one of your fathers died young
The handy travelers out of Africa
Little Lucy of the Afar
Gave birth to fantasy
To idolatry
To self-destructive weaponry
Enter the God of gaps
Deep within the past
Atavistic dread of the hunted
Enter Ionia, the cradle of thought
The architecture of understanding
The human lust to feel so exceptional
To rule the Earth
Hunger for shiny rocks
For giant mushroom clouds
The will to do just as you'd be done by
Enter history, the grand finale
Enter ratkind
Man, he took his time in the sun
Had a dream to understand
A single grain of sand
He gave birth to poetry
But one day'll cease to be
Greet the last light of the library
Man, he took his time in the sun
Had a dream to understand
A single grain of sand
He gave birth to poetry
But one day'll cease to be
Greet the last light of the library
Man, he took his time in the sun
Had a dream to understand
A single grain of sand
He gave birth to poetry
But one day'll cease to be
Greet the last light of the library
We were here!
We were here!
We were here!
We were here!
"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones
Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born
The potential people who could have been here in my place
But who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara
Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton
We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA
So massively exceeds the set of actual people
In the teeth of those stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here
We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds
How dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state
From which the vast majority have never stirred?"
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers
Having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one
And that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity
From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been
And are being, evolved
Thanks for uploading!
That last spoken chunk sounds like Alan Watts to me.
@@RogerLuedecke it is professor Richard Dawkins narrating an excerpt from Charles Darwin’s On the Origins of Species book
I always get chills when the intro starts. This is my favourite song from Nightwish, and this has to be one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
Dude, i hate that there aren't more people appreciating this great work of art, including richard was a fantastic move.
american cultur cola! nokia forewer life
Omg..those drums
Yeah!!
My favourite band for the last 13 years and counting. Never disappointed, only got better.
The drummer is a beast.
Alex Dunbar Winter Suns drummer filling in for time being
Yes he is. Nethertheless I prefer Jukka, who hits his drums stronger, he sounds even bigger and really awesome. Yet, I don't know if he's good enough for this song....
@@homere-d-allaure I think they are different drummers. But a like both a lot. They are two of the best drummers of all times.
@@cosmemendez6608 He has been named a permanent member of the band. No longer just filling in Jukka has officially retired from the band and will be focusing on working for the band outside of playing music.
buffmaloney so sad for Jukka. I wish him best health.
I've been here... and i demand a SUPER like button for these amazing humans.
Agree Andre !!!
Einfach nur Gänsehaut - just only Goose Bumps!!!
Nightwish forever!
in Spanish : grandioso y eterno !!! que superbanda . . . no hay otra parecida en el Sistema solar !!!
Truly shows how amazing God is.
This is one of the greatest songs ever written.
WOW! just WOW!
I LOVE NIGHTWISH. SO FCKIN MUCH.
There's no words for this, other than WOW.
what a beautiful song... and i love floor's voice when she's on the stage.. well done nightwish
Y saw nightwish in Paris juste after the Bataclan. When Floor said "we were here" many many of then had tears in there eyes.
One of the most epically composed journeys of all time!
This song is beyond epic. Tuomas, I owe you big time for this.
That ovation gave me goose bumps. What show, that was nothing but the best
I’ll never get tired of this masterpiece
The music from this band is far more than l can put it to words magnificent
How could i have missed this band for so many years??? (arthur Willems)
I heared this song live in Mexico City. Nightwish in live performance is awesome!!!!
I have watched this video over and over and over again. Those sisters (i presume they are) in the thumbnail...the pure joy on the faces is absolute brilliant! Makes me smile every single time.
watching this i am so calm and so full of emotions at once. It's like extasy. Having this experience just watching, someday when i will finally see them live i am going to probably die because my heart will stop
Zo'n Reding them next monday
I’m seeing them for the first time on the 11th. Christmas comes early this year 😆
@@maxmattt How was the concert and at what Venue???
Definition of "Epic". Period.
Freddy mercury would have loved this song.
@@ari4681 "gay addiction". Is that an addiction towards being gay or an addiction which is very lame. We may never know. Lol
@@ari4681 Oh fuck off, you homophobic piece of human trash.
@@jayankaghosh whatever ur comment... stfu!!!!
Multiple Floorgasms and totally NOT ashamed of it!
Hundreds times I am listening or watching this song, from at first I listened it in EFMB album I bought, to today I watch this video... *And in every of them, every one of them, I got a goosebumps...*
This is masterpiece. All of it, lyrics, music, singing. Thank you for this Nightwish :) Floor sounds so much better live!!!
I think the same, Daniela !
I agree 100%!!! 💜💜💜💛💛💛
watery eyes, shaking your head in disbelief, goosebumps and dropping your jaw, is just some of the symptoms when you have been Nightwished and Floored.
I found this song again last year while recovering from an open hart surgery and cannot listen to it without a tear in the eye and a lump in the throat.....It is the meaning of life in a 20+ minute nutshell, sung by an unearthly good voice. Happy to be one of lucky ones!
wow... i just enjoyed this song so many times in the studio version, but this... omg!!!
this should be 10 millions views
I think it belongs to everyone and shoud be viewed by all... even those few rare who do not like this music. Is it some 7 MRD humans on earth ?
@Brick Case me too bro :)
I'm working on it!
@Brick Case Me too!!!
I am so thankfull for this Song.
4 hours ago, i lost my 3 year young son. 4 days ago He was a happy Kid. I am so in Love with my little Boy. I can not believe, that i Had to say good Bye forever. I am still in this Hospital. I am so afraid to come Home. Without my Boy. Maybe Dawkins will Help me. Its so much pain in my Heart.
Wow, Wow with some more Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow! hooked
Best show i have ever seen! Respect ❤️
The narrator's voice should have said 'and so, with this performance, life has lost all meaning. No more will our need for fulfillment through artistry be possible. For with this very performance, Nightwish achieved the pinnacle of greatness. We might as well all go home. Live out the rest of our sorry lives in depression. Where do we go from here. For, evolution of the human mind is now over.'
Dammit Richard. Go and re write the book!!
She´s absolutely amazing
Ich hoffen das Frau Floor Jansen noch lange bei der Band bleibt,die Frau ist einfach Klasse.
This is such an amazing song! It is a beautufull peace of art. And beautifull lyrics that give me Chills every time y listen to it.
00:33 - Chpt. I.: Four Point Six
06:20 - Chpt. II.: Life (Epilepsy warning! XD)
12:02 - Chpt. III.: The Toolmaker
17:21 - Chpt: IV.: The Understanding (outro)
20:00 - Chpt. V.: Sea-Worn Driftwood (outro)
Thank you for the epilepsy warning! Appreciated
Hahahaha damn i have to agree with the epilepsy part.
I was there. Epilepsy warning wasn't that bad live.
Lo más hermoso que he visto en los últimos tiempo.
Coincido Jeyson . . . es una maquina de componer bellezas que nos estremecen . . . Magnificamente ejecutada por la mejor Banda de todos los tiempos . . . y yo ya vi unas cuantas . . . tengo 63 añitos !
Simply the definition of "Epic". Show this to someone who has never seen Nightwish and they will be a fan.
my personal anthem.and i usually dont like live performances..but this is something else,much more than music performance.this is art.
Volgend jaar anno 2020 dit optreden bij de Wereldhavendagen te Rotterdam zou geweldig zijn!!! Vuurwerk, Erasmusbrug en Nightwish.......
But was this really the greatest show i have ever seen on earth?
Honestly… YES!
Difficult to top this...and a person to see (some other NW gigs are close equal). The universe has seen it though.
To be there and experience this would be the greatest show on earth love you Floor your vocals are amazing🌷🌹♥️
I played the video for the 500.000th time today. why the fuck no one else seems to play
it....
Enter... life. Absolute goosebumps.
She's a gift from the gods
Very much so.
Every time I hear that thunder explosion i cry, it's sooooo goooood