NIGHTWISH LIVE @ Tampere The Greatest Show On Earth REACTION!
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Here im watching this performance about 769th time. Never gets old.
Best science class ever 😊
I love it!!
I have been a nightwish fan for close to 20 years now, ever since my early teens. Their music has been an inspiration and a lifeline to me through tough times and now seeing you react to them is giving me all the feels I remember getting back in the day, it’s amazing. Thank you for your wonderful work!
She is like a siren, when she starts singing you have to listen, no matter what.
Now it's time to increase the level of Nightwish Experience: "Shoemaker". The real story of the only man buried on the moon: Eugene Shoemaker, founder of the AstroGeology science. With a failed dream to be astronaut (health incompatible), he began to study meteorites, contributing with important knowledge about composition of the universe. Dead in an car accident, the world of science thanked him for his contributions, fulfilling a dream that he had, extracted from a Shakespeare book, cutted in little stars and carried his ashes to the moon, where now he is buried in a crater named like him... Now, he sails on the stellar sea watching us from above... Laudato Si, Ad Astra (Praise be to you, to The Stars).
This song is the story of mankind. It makes me cry thinking of our lost potential. Stay strong brother.
damn deep!! so true !!
We have lost much.... but we have also accomplished much. Your focus defines you happiness. (not saying we don't need to work on a lot of shit!!!!)
It is more than just mankind, or even just life - it is the story of our planet!
But it is really life that Dr Dawkins and Tuomas describe as The Greatest Show On Earth, and the Hadeon Eon is merely the foreword, although in this show particularly impressive with its pyrotechnic description of the asteroid collision which gave us our moon (tides are important for life) followed after a pause by the late Hadeon bombardment, which brought masses of minerals to earth, and some have theorised even the original amino acids that created life itself. But it is not until the Archean Eon - seen from afar in Floor's first vocal - that we can place the spark that made it, the life form that survived, and the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) of all life on earth.
To cover it all in a single song is beyond ambitious, it is stupifying, and I doubt if any composer other than Tuomas could have done it, even skimming through as fast as he does, in such a short piece. But he did, and Nightwish produced it and I believe even after having Human :||: Nature and listening to every track repeatedly, it will still be this piece with is Tuomas Holopainen's Opus Magna.
Oh, don't think of lost potential, think of possibilities. Let it inspire you.
@@phillee2814 Well said brother! Thanks for the info. That Tuomas is a beast. Maestro without a doubt!
It’s strange is’nt it. When someone praise them i feel like a proud mama 💕
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I loved this song from the first listen, but after subsequent listens, I think it is one of the greatest, most epic songs ever. There is a lot of things to catch. The evolution of Man and the planet we live on. And, a reminder that WE WERE HERE!!
the WE WERE HERE hits the hardest, I almost wanna react a 2nd time... you are so right! there is SO MUCH TO SEE! thanks for watching with me!!
I have never seen a more honest and emotional reaction to this song before. The look on your you face was pure bliss, even before Floor appeared...
I get you! This performance brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it! One thing that always get to me is their genuine fondness for each other, it touches me! I think it speaks volumes about their character as humans as well as extraordinary musicians! Thank you for all of your honest reactions to this band that I love!
thank you for watching with me! ❤️❤️
Whenever you feel down, remember this:
"In the teeth of these 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. " -- Dr. Richard Dawkins
Yes!!!!
So powerful, I tear up every time I see that quote
@@deathpunchx3626 Me too! It truly moves me. I feel, at once, both insignificantly small, and unbelievably important. It's an humbling experience, for sure.
Fair, but I prefer the oldie:
"Remember there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, but there's bugger all down here on earth." -The Galaxy Song, Monty Python: The Meaning of Life
@@inquisitorMence Excellent quote! 😂😂
"We were here!" is so incredibly powerful. It's so hard, for me, to stand strong and declare, "I am here!" instead of simply hanging in the background unnoticed. I've spent a large part of my life as a spectator. This song has encouraged me in the past few years to find myself and stand up.
That line will always bring tears to my eyes.
it is a life changing moment!! I'm so proud of you for letting this song inspire you to speak up thats so cool!!
Wow, thats so cool!!!! Music can be so powerful! Proud of you!
You rock Sarah!! We won't go down without a fight!
I agree. But, just because you are in the background, does not mean that you do not count. We are all here...
@@MegaPiksu exactly my thoughts.
Kisses from Dallas for truly letting your emotions show for the band I love, the band from my homeland, Finland. I love your Nightwish reactions and subscribed. You're so genuine. Thank you.
thanks for subbing! welcome!!
Nightwish really knows how to put on a show! This was a kind of homecoming show towards the end of their tour. I love your passion my friend. Beautiful and heartfelt! One song, all about 4.6 billion years of the evolution of our solar system, the Earth and all life on the planet. Life and evolution is "The Greatest Show on Earth"! The final chorus reminds us all the nothing is forever. Even Us. 😊🎶🎶🎶💖✌🙏
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
Spoken Words
"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
Rarely have I seen someone who - ... *lives* music the way you do, you beautiful person. This song was instrumental in breaking me out of a decade long depression, in early 2020. I don't want to know how 2020 would've landed had I still been depressed.
awe thank you for watching with me!! sending you love!
@@nigelbattle Listening Nightwish may be dangerous to one's health. At least I (a 65 years old guy) get tears and my breath/heart almost stops every time I listen Nightwish.
Like life itself there are no 'right' versions, there are just different ones. As your shirt states you are Gay AF... I'm Straight AF... neither is right, just different. Mind you I find it incredibly refreshing to have a gay reaction to Metal, its simply something that I have not experienced so you are adding to my personal life experience as you add to your own. This can only be a good thing and it is what comes from differences I think.
this was so beautiful to read!!! ty for watching with me!
@@nigelbattle Now think on this - you said how proud of them you are - but can you even begin to imagine how much pride must have been swelling in the hearts of Floor's parents, attending their very first Nightwish Concert!
There are clips from a Dutch TV show following Floor and them, as they attend it and afterwards.
Floor was so concerned and nervous about cracking at such a moment that she made sure she avoided even looking towards where they were seated for the whole show of which this was just the last song (with a bit of the end of the previous one tacked on, just to confuse you). Attendance was 22,000, so not their biggest, but their home crowd, and Finland is not a densely populated country, so for there, it is HUGE.
And the Nightwish army is very inclusive to all - It doesn't matter what gender, sexuality, ethnicity, culture, native language, skin colour or anything else, all are welcome. I believe we have had Nightwish played on the ISS and almost certainly Antarctica, but they aren't yet in the tour schedule!
Well, that you know of. I mean... all the other Nightwish reactors before they start they don't tell us their sexuality. Y'all assume everyone's sexuality and think everyone is straight but... nah it's not like that. As far as we know many of them can be gay, bi pan or wathever so I really don't think this is the first time you've seen someone lgbtq reacting to NW.
@@ale_98_ True, but I typically find, most people don't assume anything, or go looking for anything specific, least, it's not my concern when I load a video. For people that do mention it, just keep in mind the comments are probably only 1 or 2% of the actual fanbase cause our society has terrified people of speaking their hearts. I wholeheartedly commend people that feel music like this, cause we need our heart back.
@@ale_98_ true
Finally! I'm proud of you. I'm a geologist and I really apreciate that song because it gives you a huge message about taking care of this beautiful planet. I love your new look. It's pretty cool. 🙈
Your reaction was so honest and beautiful! Keep being yourself...it is refreshing to see and I get to re-experience discovering the beauty and wonder of Nightwish through you! 😜
Thank you so much!!
🤗Look at all those people 🤗 best part of 25,000 + 1, me. This was my first time hearing and seeing Nightwish. This musical masterpiece came at the end of a nearly 2 hour set and the most amazing musical roller coaster ride I have ever been on. At the end when the whole crowd sang “we were here” I was an emotional wreck, the roar from the crowd when the song ended was deafening and when they walked down the runway to applaud the crowd i was crying like a baby. This band of musicians are truly MAGNIFICENT 🎶🤗🤯🤘 All I need now is for COVID to fuck off so I can see them again in May at Wembley. Keep going with the reactions bro, their back catalogue of music is jaw dropping 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
One of the greatest songs ever composed. Fact.
All that needs to be said is "We Were Here". Great reaction Nigel. Stay safe mate. 🤘✌
I cry almost every time also. You are in the nightwish army now. Welcome
Me: 17:55 here we are - leading into one of the best affirmations of us - then - WE WERE HERE.
Well, we were all here today with you listening to one of the best songwriters and performers on the planet.
Thank you for sharing your reaction with us - and yes - beautiful.
Only Tuomas and Marco can put together this kind of a monument. The deep message touches us all.
This is not just a song but a Masterpiece
Thank you for your heartfelt reaction. Peace.
*Me, starting to watch your video* You're gonna cryyyy with this one 💗 I know I did the first time, and still do, at the very end, so powerful, beautiful, meaningful, stunning, everything, the fireworks just add even more beauty, perfect for their 20th anniversary, if I remember correctly
WE WERE HERE!!!
I loved it!! ty for being here with me!
There is NEVER a wrong version. Just different versions.
We were here. Yes we were. And we have no right to complain.
It is one song or "piece" actually, consisting of five different parts ;-) The band likes to do that with their showstoppers. Your final comments are beautiful and made me smile. We love you
love you back!!! thank you for watching the outro!
Look at it as a classic peace in 5 acts.
Great reaction to the greatest band and storytellers on the planet.
Best live band in the world. Period. Best composer, best singer, Tuomas, Floor, Marko, Empu, Kai, Troy, Thank you, and thank you for this very nice reaction vid.
Couldn't agree more! ty for watching!
18:40 yup, that’s the part where I always start crying..... 😁👍🏻. One song in five acts.
Also, Floor’s parents are in attendance this night. Knowing that Tuomas wrote that magnificent masterpiece with their daughters angelic vocal gift foremost in his mind.
💙💙💙All Hail Floor !! 💙💙💙
Infantryman-Nightwish Army. US Regiment. Kentucky Battalion
Thank you marco for those years in nightwish 🥰🥺
The news that sweet Marko is leaving Nightwish has broken my heart yet made these videos even more precious.
4:43 Tuomas - commanding the "Big Bang"!... 6:17 Floor - the voice of the cosmos! So subtle you don't know it's there until it's there!.. 8:45 sure is a wake-up, innit? (insert English accent joke here! - Troy?) 14:03 Floor - voice of Gaia!... 17:41 Floor sang "enter...", Marko sang "enter...." but Emppu doesn't sing so he plays "Enter Sandman" riff!.... This song belongs on the golden record on the next deep-space probes like Voyager I and II ! Very Norse that last, defiant, WE WERE HERE! Potentially futile but F@CK IT! LEAVE A MARK!
Yup, Troy gets me everytime.
loves himmm
WE. WERE. HERE.
Hey boo loved your reaction so much!!! Darn you Nigel! You always make me cry even though I've heard these songs probably a million times lol. You're such an awesome person 😉. You remind me of my bestie so much! (I miss him😔).. But keep up the great reactions and stay safe! 🤗💗
Thank you so much!!
You always give a wonderful, genuine reaction. As to music, you will not run out of music to discover, to add more joy to your life.
I love to watch you cry and react!
ty for watching with me!
An absolute Masterpiece.
This, I was truly looking forward to! My favorite song period. Thank You for your Beautiful reaction!
My pleasure!!
Thank You for a seemingly genuine reaction to this masterpiece :-) There are so many Nightwish masterpieces to enjoy. Songs like this and The Poet and the Pendulum almost makes me tear up every time :-)
Thank you for watching!
Tuomas hit my heart to, every time🤘😘
You see this group, these special people of this band connecting with their audience. They make you think, feel and contemplate. This sick world. But they make me believe it is possible every time. Thank you for your response. 🌹
An amazing reaction as always!! I think your feelings match my own everytime. Stay safe please. You're much loved. Hugs!!
that genuine emotional response is the one I guess everyone of us have every time we watch this video
Finally...now EVER dream and Song of Myself at Wacken.
I love the end where they walk out like the metal Avengers 😄 Emppu's face at the end just before they bow, he looks SO proud and it makes me tear up. You can feel the love and the warmth in the band, I love it. Also the song itself is just a mastepiece. Full body chills!!
It's always nice to see music touch people's hearts ... I couldn't imagine a life without music myself and that's what someone who is 47 years old and whose favorite band is AC / DC says ... and it there are also songs where I have tears in my eyes ... isn't music wonderful ?!
Greetings from Germany :-)
Same reaction I had the first time...one of the most amazing compositions and performances ever.
thanks so much for watching with me :)
I love your reactions, you don't just listen to the music, you're feeling it all the way into your soul. I suggest Stargazers from Tampere next, Floor goes all operatic there. Keep on reacting, we need openminded humans like you
I really appreciate you!!
Great reaction as usual. You are part of the Nightwish army. Never stop being yourself. Peace ✌🏻
I love how the music draws you in. You don't just listen to it. You don't just enjoy it. You LIVE it. It becomes a part of you at that moment! Beautiful. It's people like you that Toumas writes for. You live the shock/surprise,. You live the beauty. You live the sorrow...the wonder...the awe...the joy. It's written all over your face and in your eyes! You are a reactor who actually...you know...reacts! Keep the tissues handy and keep on reacting Sunshine!
A song that always makes me cry is called Heaven, but Tengri czcams.com/video/H2mvc0miJ-w/video.html . The passion he puts into this song is unbelievable! It is sung in Chinese (I think) and it's at the singing contest Dimash was in on a different year, so it has cuts to people talking and reacting. I don't know if it's one you would want for your channel because of this. If not, give it a go on your own time. He is singing about his home.
(Just a side-note, Tengri and Dimash sing a beautiful song together called Swan Goose czcams.com/video/8LEXQctl0Q0/video.html . You may enjoy this one as well since I know you love Dimash's singing.)
Thank you for sharing your reaction. You truly let the music get to your heart and move you; NW never fails to get us very emotional and you're so brave for showing your vulnerable side in your vids.
I know you might receive a lot of negative comments because internet but remember there are millions supporting you and loving you; so keep doing what you love!
Definitely the greatest show on earth, this song is everything.
Would be interesting if u react to some song from their new album. I suggest u to react to “how’s the heart” the studio version and acoustic version too, maybe on a double react. ❤️
Love you man. Watching Floor and Nightwish together with you, makes me feel my emotions double. Double as deep. Because your enormous sensitive and spontaneous purity, the way you dive into it, almost as an innocent, unharmed, super curious child, discovering the world for the first time, and how you let yourself boundlessly carry away in the music, the vocals, the show, the atmosphere and the whole performance, i discover things in myself i've never felt before. That's quite an accomplishment. Big compliment. I love your channel. You are one of the best out there. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for this beautifull reaction .
Thanks for watching!
Another heartfelt reaction straight from the soul, thank you for that. This song usually has me tearing up also.
This is precisely the reason I love your reactions so much, because you are brave enough to just be yourself and bare it all for us to see! Thank you for being you, Nigel! ❤
Thanks for being real. Glad Nightwish shakes you up as they have on me since I caught on to them on their second album.
ty for watching with me!!
What a way to start saturday morning, this song and mug of black hot coffee! Darling thank you very much for your awesome reaction. This song is great masterpiece. As a mother of gay son I send you much love and warm huggies from Tampere. Stay safe everybody!
Yeah man, one song! Thanks for sharing the experience.
ty for watching!!
Good reacción my friend these is Nightwish always when a listen these song it made me cry too ...these a power message for all humanity.
thank you for watching with me :)
Thank you for another genuine reaction to one of Nightwish's most beautiful songs.
I love to watch your reactions! Keep up the good work!
O BTW, it is one song, from beginning to end.
Thank you so much!!
Me, looking at you starting to listen to this masterpiece.
You, Wow.
Me, This is going to be great............
We were here . Lovely Reaction.
You ain't crazy, we get you. YOU WERE HERE!
(And we were all here with you!)
Great ❤Show❤ Great❤ Song ❤Thank You 🍀🌼🍀🌼
What a stunning location eh? I listen to this to bring be back from poet & the pendulum
Also I mean how can you not love them? They credit EVERYONE. Like no matter how small a role they played. It's beautiful.
We were here!
Be yourself Brother. You are beautiful and awesome just as you are.
Thank you, I will!
This song is so special! When I first heard it....I had to look up the lyrics to find out what the song is all about! Now...after listening to it dozens of times, I know what the song is about!
I think the world would be a much better place for all of us understood how lucky we are to be that select egg that got fertilized, and we were born into this world!
I wish everyone could listen to and understand through this song, that everyone is important...and we need to embrace everyone that is born into our world.
Thanks for another great reaction..even though you posted this video almost a year ago!
The song is about the universe, earth, and how we are here.
I love it!!
Thank you, thank you! It is one song with several parts/movements- one symphony, IMHO. It is one of the best songs ever written in history. A song with this subject matter - the origin and evolution of life on earth and our future, with readings from Richard Dawkins himself - has no equal in history.
Glad you like it!
changed my life for sure
Your next Nightwish song could be "7 Days to the Wolves" or "Shudder Before the Beautiful" live at Wembley
I AM HERE........to smash the LIKE button. Keep on Nightwishing on.
🤘😜🤘
You're the best!
Just one long amazing song done in true Nightwish fashion.
Hi nigel, thank you, your reaction to this beautiful song and this beautiful group of people was or is like watching in the mirror, i think for a lot of nightwish fans. The emotions bouncing of the screen, crying, laughing, crying and laughing again!!!!!! Thanks again😊
If you think i´m gonna spend 28 minutes watching this, you are right, i will, It´s always a pleasure to see such a lucky person reacting to this song for the first time, amazing
Btw i think Floor´s parents were in the crowd
Her parents were there: czcams.com/video/B3NIfu0qvtg/video.html
Love your reactions bro, and this was no exception. Your Nightwish journey is amazing to watch and I can see how much joy it brings you, and in turn brings me joy reminiscing of when I first started my Nightwish journey, it's a beautiful thing to watch and share with you 😊
Love love love your reaction!! Beautiful smile! Love from Sweden
Thank you so much!!
This is a PROPER reaction to seeing this! Very well done sir!
Thank you very much for your soulful reactions to this music, especially to Nightwish, you react just like me with tears from time to time, we are brothers in our hearts, I send you a few big hugs from Germany, stay healthy and keep going, best regards. ... Lutz
The most emotional reaction for this Song i seen...and i look many reaction videos of Nightwish songs..at least over 100 "Ghost Love Score" and about 50+ "Greatest Show on Earth" Reaction around the Globe...And you are really Emotional...As i say i saw this Videos a Lot of times but when ever i saw it, everytime a Tear find its way.
I really enjoyed this reaction...as always!
Yay, thank you!
@@nigelbattle Did you hear that Marko announced today that he is retiring from Nightwish and public life? :(
Literally: The Greatest Show with The Greatest Band on Earth 🤘👍
Btw. Tuomas told in one of his interviews that always when they come to that part "we were here", he closes his eyes and enjoys the ride
Thank you so much for sharing these videos and being yourself. Your videos really brighten up my days these days and I love how you get emotional and what you say. Thank you and keep going! 🙂
Tampere is a great version! I also love Wembley because of the guest appearance of Richard Dawkins at the end.
Jeez Nigel, always nice to see how you get emotionally attached to the music.
Being who you are and showing without shame is so important.
Ad after having a crush on Floor it became loving her.
All of them are worth loving, for it's a exceptional band with exceptional musicians.
I love this performance. It's my favorite.
I came for the tears and was not disappointed!
I think i get what you´re saying, music can be so much more than just entertainment or something you put on when you do the dishes. It moves the heart and soul, it makes your life richer and fuller, and last but not least it´s the best therapy in the world. Once in a while you stumble over a band, a singer or a genre you never listened to before and you wonder how you could live without it for x number of years, that´s how i felt when i discovered Nightwish nine months ago. Now you are having that same experience, wonderful thing isn´t it? Some reaction channels seem kinda fake or like they just do it for the wiews but not this one, you´re obviously super passionate about it and i like that.
This was beautiful....thank you❤️
Music is something that connects us to all humans .. Since the beginning of time it has existed, first as mere noises and later as complex melodies ... When listening to Nightwish I always draw the same conclusion, one may like a style or another of music but we always have to be impartial and admit when one listens to art in its purest form and that is Nightwish .. More than a symphonic metal band, a way of understanding music and melodic evolution. Congratulations for those emotions when listening to them .. Good luck. !!!
thank you for watching with me!!
Absolutely wonderful reaction to an epic composition. Just the look of pure joy and awe on your face is everything. I cried right along with you. Be yourself my man. We love watching you react. You are one of the very few reactors on YT that gives true feeling reactions. Be safe, be well. BTW - if you haven't already, try Sleeping Sun from this same show. Floor's style and grace are overwhelming.
A masterpiece in every way. Thank you! Umm am I weird for thinking my favorite part besides the 'we were here' was when Floor, Marko and Troy did the animalistic growls during the chase through the forest? Anyway I was born this way and just getting in touch with my primal side... Ciao!
Great reaction Nigel and you apriciate the Nightwish music as it it is and that's so beautiful. You react what everybody shoud do. Thoumas is just a great artist and the band together are making it so beautiful that's why i love Nightwish.
They accept everybody no matter you are gay, straight or enything else.
Love your reaction, just beautiful
ty for watching!! ❤️❤️
If I recall right, it was buiding a thunder shower right when this was on air. Those clouds over the stadium are real, not a trick. It was really dark. This is my hometown
Just for now, it is my duty to introduce you to some info about the lyrics.
Lyrics are in " "
[Part 1: Four point Six]
"Archaean horizon, The first sunrise"
Earth's history is divided into four principal Eons: the Hadean, the Archean, Proterozoic, and the Phanerozoic. The Hadean is the Eon during which the Earth and Moon formed; in the Archaean, primordial life appeared. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Earth
"On a pristine gaea"
Gaia is the primordial Greek goddess of the Earth. More recently, the Gaia hypothesis is a recognition of the living and nonliving Earth systems which form an interdependent whole. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia
"Opus perfectum, Somewhere there, us sleeping" Pristine perfection (of silence, of a blank page, of the very point from which the big bang itself sprung) implies a rich creative potential. Here Earth is painted in the same powerful way. Diversity awaits; unborn beings are sleeping the same sleep to which they will return at death. This interpretation is thematically linked with the album's opening track, "Shudder before the Beautiful," which includes the lyrics, "The music of this awe, Deep silence between the notes, Deafens me with endless love." Or as the furious hobbit screamed at the novice trumpeter, "An artist respects the silence, it serves as the foundation of creativity."
[Part 2: Life]
"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"
Gravity pulls the Earth around the energizing Sun in an otherwise inhospitable universe. Earth is the only planet in our solar system's circumstellar habitable zone, orbiting at the "just right, not too hot, not too cold" distance from the Sun. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar_habitable_zone
"She has a tale to tell, From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast, Enter LUCA"
In astronomy, stellar nurseries are the birthplaces of stars: they nurse stars en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_formation#Stellar_nurseries
. Poetically, our solar system is another "stellar nursery," in which a star is the nurse, caring for and warming a planet of 'newborns,' early carbon-based life. "Feast" evokes the incorporation of plentiful chemical building blocks into rudimentary life forms. "LUCA" stands for "Last universal common ancestor," the one single organism from which all other presently existing life on Earth descended. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_ancestor
"The tapestry of chemistry is a writing in the garden, Leading us to the mother of all"
The periodic table of elements does look like a sort of patchwork tapestry, but this can go further. The historical function of tapestries was as "nomadic murals," pictographical histories which moving people could pack up and revisit wherever they went. The "writing in the garden," in nature, is not only the stone murals left by dead animals in the form of fossils, but is also this chemical writing that encodes the relatively nomadic DNA molecule with the instructions for life. The scientific investigation of this information leads us back to LUCA, and further. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapestry#Function
"We are one, We are a universe,"
This is the natural conclusion to draw from the fact that life shares common origin, that all life is built with the same blocks, and that all life on Earth is interdependent (gaia hypothesis). The multiplicity of beings on Earth are one, just as the cells in a body are one.
"Forebears of what will be Scions of the Devonian sea."
The Devonian geologic time period marked the first significant, rapid diversification of life (and the more well-known Cambrian explosion is another of these 'adaptive radiation' events). It was during the Devonian that the 'higher plants' appeared and blanketed the continents with forests. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devonian
. The word "scion" refers to a shoot of a plant cut for grafting, and is also used to denote a descendent of a notable family. Both meanings apply.
"Aeons pass, Writing the tale of us all. A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on Earth"
Evolutionary adaptation is written in the DNA and as fossils in the rocks, and is ongoing. Species die, diversifiy and delineate. Every day is different, every day something changes.
"Ion channels welcoming the outside world To the stuff of stars"
Ion channels are found in the membranes of all cells, controlling the flow of energy through the cells. The stuff of stars is all the physical matter we're made of. So it's the ion channels, guiding enery, which allow living bodies to interact with the rest of the world by exchanging energy with it. "Stuff of stars" is surely a Sagan reference: "The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff." For fun: czcams.com/video/XGK84Poeynk/video.html
"Bedding the tree of a biological holy, Enter life"
The bed of a tree is the nutrient-rich soil from which it grows, a soil made of dead things. The "tree of a biological holy" is probably the tree of life en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life_(biology)
. This line refers to the "holy" legendary tree of everlasting life but also means the conceptual, branching family tree of all life, whose bed consists of all deceased beings (in a more literal sense), or all extinct ancestral species (in a more abstract sense). This is thematically linked with the song "Alpenglow."
"We are here to care for the garden, The wonder of birth Of every form most beautiful"
"We" could be human beings tasked with acting as nature's stewards, garden of eden style, but that's not chronological -- human beings haven't quite appeared in the song yet. "We" could instead be all of life itself, in a gaia-philosophy sense, which posits that life creates environments ever more hospitable to more life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_philosophy
Or maybe it's a combination of these two thoughts: life eventually creates an environment suitable for the development of consiously acting, thinking human stewards.
[Part 3: The Toolmaker]
"After a billion years, The show is still here. Not a single one of your fathers died young."
Every single one of a given person's ancestors, male and female, lived past puberty at least. But "fathers" evokes "forefathers," which has a nicer storytelling ring to it than "parents."
"The handy travelers Out of Africa Little Lucy of the Afar"
Handymen are good with tools; travelers posessing hands rather than forefeet walk upright. Hominids originated in Africa and spread to the rest of the world from there. Lucy is a particular specimen of the Australopithecus, one of many "missing links" between modern humans and nonhuman ancestors.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)
"Gave birth to fantasy, To idolatry, To self-destructive weaponry. Enter the God of gaps Deep within the past. Atavistic dread of the hunted!"
The brain grows, consciousness and creativity along with it. Atavism is the tendency to revert to ancestral type, an evolutionary throwback. Fight-or-flight instincts that helped human ancestors survive have now been creatively projected onto the world to both explain it (origins, meaning, suffering) and gain security in it (bargaining through sacrifice). These are the roots of theism.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atavism
"Enter Ionia, the cradle of thought, The architecture of understanding. The human lust to feel so exceptional, To rule the Earth"
Nomadic people develop agriculture and settle down into civilizations. The word "architecture" is at once both literal and figurative. The efficiency of civilization graces people with free time to do more than just feed themselves. They develop rich cultural traditions, arts and philosophies, much of which are deeply influenced by how different humans now are from all the rest of life.
"Hunger for shiny rocks, For giant mushroom clouds, The will to do as you'd be done by."
Shiny rocks are wealth: gold, precious stones, jewels, and later uranium which leads to the nuclear arms race. The golden rule -- "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" -- is a coin with a dark side: "an eye for an eye," revenge. This ensures the "MAD"ness of mutually assured destruction. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
"Enter history, the grand finale. Enter ratkind."
"Ratkind" comes from Richard Dawkins' book "The Ancestor's Tale." Dawkins imagines a post-apocalyptic world in which rodents feast on the remnants of humanity (and humanity's garbage). The rat population explodes, and then as they exhaust these resources they turn on one another for food. As a consequence of natural selection, the rats diverge into new carnivorous and herbivorous species, and perhaps, eventually, a specices of rodent whose intelligence rivals that of humans. This is "ratkind." iberianature.com/wildworld/tag/ratkind/
"Man, he took his time in the sun, Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand."
From William Blake: "To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour." ...And the story of the planet in 24 minutes. Not bad.
"He gave birth to poetry, But one day'll cease to be. Greet the last light of the library"
A bittersweet redundancy: poetry with library, the last light with ceasing to be. Reminiscent of Elan: "Be the first to greet the morn [...] Travel with great élan, dance a jig at the funeral."
"We were here!"
Who else is going to vote for this song's inclusion on the next Voyager golden record, if there'll ever be one?
I want to beam this song into space forever.