Nightwish - The Greatest Show on Earth [Lyrics]
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- čas přidán 13. 03. 2016
- Nightwish - The Greatest Show on Earth - Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015)
Members:
Vocals: Floor Jansen
Bass, Acoustic Guitars & Vocals: Marco Hietala
Guitar: Emppu Vuorinen
Keyboards & Piano: Tuomas Holopainen
Uilleann Pipes, Low Whistles, Bodhran & Bouzouki: Troy Donockley
Drums: Kai Hahto
Spoken Parts: Professor Richard Dawkins
Lyrics: Tuomas Holopainen
Music: Marco Hietala/Tuomas Holopainen
Lyrics on Screen
"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an 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?" (Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow)
"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 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?" (Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow)
"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." (Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species)
"At the back of our brains, there is a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this submerged sunrise of wonder." (G.K. Chesterton) - Hudba
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Nightwish is not a band it's a experience everyone needs.
Paleontology Nerd + Metalhead + This Song = Happy.
"We were here!" has never felt so relevant this year.
Shut up kids! Sit down and listen to the greatest song on earth
This is a masterpiece that should join all the other pieces of music that will live forever. No doubt about it!!. Anybody feel the same way??
YES! Everyone should hear it.
I feel like that to man
I feel the same, a true masterpiece! Very strong and emotional!
Pull up a chair, put in some headphones and take a 24 minute journey through life, earth and evolution. With narration by Dawkins. Fucking epic.
No headphones my man. I put it through 2 Marshalls so my neighbours can enjoy this epic too!
For sure an epic song!!!
I'm melting into tears just when I realise every single musical note corresponds to a representative unique moment in the History of Earth, from the very beginning of Hadean up to today.
Ich glaube dein Kommentar gefällt mir 😊 auch wenn ich nicht jedes einzelne Wort verstehe 😄
@@lowenherz1205 Same to you.
'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?' Damn this quote really hits hard!
And yet it puts a guilt on us. And makes one go fatalistically to the 'good night' - death - without a fight: return to the prior state. Are we just biomass?
I feel even the animals know better - they fight with all their being not to go mildly to the good night. Day-to-day is a new opening for every form most beautiful.
After all, this is just The Greatest Show on Earth - this a prelude. Just a curtain ajar to what's gonna come. Don't give up now, on the chalk lines to infinity. The Everlasting story of life goes on. Day-to-day new openings.
The Everfather who gave us the mother of everything living, put us as guardians of this garden. Well, we became the hunter of theose we were supposed to safeguard - fox to guard a henhouse. Maybe we got scared there will be not enough for us, so we ecame greedy - though even now, this lanet could produce enough fir us all - if we weren't so scared greedy. And we see the other folks as a challenge, when we should see them as a chance. We are gifts for each other, if we but realize.
But - the infinity still calls us back to life: all the warmth is there, in the midst of the hostile vast cold. After all, He gave us all these lifeforms in all their bright colours, in all its beauty of movement and amazement. The meaning is not just to shine brightly a moment, and go out in a flash, but a perpetual motion. And it's closer to our emotion than or merits.
We're offered the chance to BE living, not try to MAKE living - and destroy life in doing those hasty moves of panic. 'Gotta make name for myself during my lifetime'. We're not supposed be shooting stars, bright terrors, but suns, pulsing life with ptience, in awe and appreciation of every from most beautiful.
I'm sure you guest the Infinity Father I'm speaking of, the one whose name even the stones are shouting or the particles within an atom with the stars. And he gave us opening to the greatest show of life, the opening is called of course Jesus - salvation is what that name means.
He's not a bureaucrat in his decorated cold stone building, nor a guy dangling his fet over a cloud edge. Those are images people made. That's why there's a warnng: Don't make an image of God. They all fall short. Besides: we do realize that a picture drawn from our own fantasy is not the same, as if the person you're drawing comes to model in the same room :)
No - Jesus took a form on this Earth, not the most beautiful, so we wouldn't look at his surface only. But he came to carry us to the greatest show of life, the eternity story, to the stars and beyond - every day is a new opening, even after no days exist anymore, for eternity doesn't need time. The important is just to live, don't give in to death, don't wish to vanish - or you'll get. Don't freeze into fatalism.
But alone we can't beat death. Just in the end, death is also temporary, not an obstacle for an eternal being. It's not the end - it's a checkpoint: Do you have the ticket to the everlasting story, endless journey - the Greatest Show of Life, the Infinity of Every Form Most Beautiful? Yeah, the Door, the Ticket to that journey is Jesus.
@MinutemanSam ... but don't always feel guilty - of the things they're guilty of.
We are so confused, we don't know the line between good and bad. Though some say they/we do. But then there are the good meaning fools - who prove we don't know the difference.
And you're right in I wasn't only speaking of what the lyrics speak of. But quite often the song tells about how the world was created, surprising maybe for some people. Many call God with the name Evolution. And like all images of God we make ourselves, we add our own views.
Like we probably have already built images of each other, just by these comments, as unconscious as they may be.
@@timomastosalo I agree with you in some parts but it's too late tonight for me to develop. Bravo for the time you have taken for the long and interesting post aNd thanks to the other guy who went to
the talk.
@@timomastosalo I feel as though Jesus is a figure just like the man hanging his feet from the clouds. the man may have been a real person and may have not been, that is inconsequential what does matter though is the message spread with his name. When someone says "god is dead and we killed him" I know it sounds negative and edgy and like it serves no purpose other than to flail wildly with negativity and hopelessness. I believe what is meant by that is that the message that was supposed to be sent was corrupted by the greed of humans. This too can be said about the message that Jesus was meant to send. I guess my main point is to not close your mind to only the teachings and word that the figure of Jesus portrays. Their is untold amounts of wisdom in the words of Buddha, Mohammed, and other figures not even of a religious sort. You could glean greater wisdom from a random citizen or even your own thoughts. It is easier to cling to a figure though, and I understand that to put a face to things. To not feel so alone I can tell you are a thinking person probably a cut above the majority, which is why it pains me to see your thinking process limited only to that of Jesus. I'm not saying that Jesus didn't send good messages, and I doubt that your thoughts are limited to that. this is kind of all over the place, but you post made me think and want to say something so I appreciate to see that. You have given me a little more faith in humanity.
@@dangcus1 Jesus is not a theory anymore, or someone's idealism, once you make a contact with him. Through pray he sometime speaks to us. And Bible can confirm him. I've read what other religions or philosphies write. But they really don't give me much anymore, since I found out Jesus really exists.
And it's not a competition, who's smartest - God's not an elitist. It's not just the intelligent ones who can learn the truth. It's those who want goodmess, truth, justice. Adn, who are ready to admit their own guilt.
Jesus gave the message so simple, that even a child can undestand, or uneducated people. It's about how much God cares about us.
It's not that I limit my thinking in Jesus. I don't limit my thinking in what the human mind is capable of.
There's a load of pride in how we people exalt our own thinking capacity. Like what does it say about us we named our species Homo Sapiens. Are we so smart? Compared to what? To me it seems not, when opening the TV news, to see how smart things we achieve daily.
WE WERE HERE!!!
Tears!!!!! 😭
Cirque du Soleil should make a Nightwish show. Or at least something with this song.
0:01 Four Point Six
5:47 Life
11:55 The Toolmaker
16:53 The Understanding
In the beginning they made songs, now they make stories.
They have always been making stories
@@RedeemerNDestroyer you stole my answer
This is the oldest story there is
@@RedeemerNDestroyer indeed they have, song seeded the stories for auditory folks while visual folkd preferred stage music story lines and dramatic plays about Gods or legendary myths.
As a metalhead and a biologist, nothing makes me headbang harder than the segment starting at 5:47.
#truth
Who would have thought Richard Dawkins would get to do a collab with Nightwish. I'm mindblown.
And yet he hated the very religion that gave us the Big Bang Theory. A Catholic priest named Georges LeMaître came up with the theory while studying the universe.
@@Powerranger-le4up Correction. Science gave us the Big Bang Theory. Not religion. Yes, a Catholic priest came up with the theory. But he didn't do it through theology. He did it through the scientific method. Learn the difference.
This song needs to be required listening in all schools! I can't get over how much I have learned in 24 minutes!
the most unique music and song...just love it
woww Tuomas Holopeinen is best Composer..love u all
I love reading comments because honestly it's SO RARE to get anyone outside of the music, history, and linguistic diehards to listen; I mean REALLY, TRULY LISTEN to a song that is 24 mns long regardless of the fact that is a masterpiece of lyrics and musicianship. All hail the deep& old souls on this blue marble.
songs like this make even lyrists like me feel the song even in the parts that dont have actual words. the music tempo and almost vocal quality is awe inspiring
and we were here...my hands are shaking.
Did y'all notice the "evolution of music" starting at 14:17 going from classic to country to house? Who came up with that & can I please hug them?
Tuomas Holopainen, but maybe also Marko Hietala, idk
@@eliorahg Ah, they're both awesome, I'll hug both of them
The great Tuomas Holopainen and yes you can, he loves interacting with fans lol
I heard Bach & Metallica.
One year late, but I'd say that it starts even before, around 13:53 with tribal music.
I am grateful for the lyrics to be posted for this masterpiece. Thank you
A true masterpiece among their very best. The culmination of years of Nightwish. Just 17 more days and I get to see/hear them LIVE, at last!
Ovrkyl Enjoy it my friend. Just saw them with my 62 year old dad last night. Loved hearing Floors take on Oceanborn and Angel's Fall First material. And no spoilers, but Greatest Show is definitely in there.
Last night? St. Louis? I was there too! In the front row, up against the stage, just to the right of Floor's mic, looking up at that symphonic metal goddess and singing right along with her. WE WERE HERE!!! :-D
Ovrkyl Nice, I was third row, pretty much right in front of Emmpu's stage monitor. Loved him and Troy goading each other during solos. Then Emmpu and Marco played rock/paper/scissors during one of pauses on Greatesrlt Show. And I still can't figure out how Tuomas didn't make his head detach from this neck windmilling and pounding out the intro to Slaying the Dreamer.
I remember rock-paper-scissors and their shit-eating grins at the crowd!The band seemed genuinely surprised at the crowd's reaction to their performance. We were following the cues, singing right along with the songs, and screaming our heads off, and the looks on their faces were like "We actually have some real fans here!" That just seemed to jazz them up and the show just kept getting better and better, we were feeding off each other, the fans and the band. Plus they were getting more and more personal with the fans as the night went on. At one point, to my right (and probably right in front of you), Emppu leaned forward toward the guy right in front with his fist, so the guy went to fist bump him. Emppu shook his head, took the guy's hand, turned it over, and placed his pick in the guy's hand...then they locked horns. They guy looked like he damn-near orgasmed.Like I was talking with others last night, Nightwish might not be well known in the US (thanks to no radio airplay and so on) compared to being HUGE overseas, and they can't fill stadiums over here like they can Wembley or Ratina, so that venue last night was small and still not sold out...but there was no doubt that EVERYONE that WAS there was a fan and made themselves known to the band.This Decades tour is THE total fan experience (especially if you got VIP Meet & Greet, which I did) for any Nightwish fan. If you ever are going to see them live, THIS is the tour to see. They didn't need the pyro and big flashy effects and sets like at Wacken or Wembley, but they brought it last night regardless simply by being the masters of their art, making anything sound awesome. Case-in-point: Elvenjig.
This is my second favourite, after ghost love score...
thank you for posting this, this is by far there best song of this album sends chills down my spine
Of course it is the best song. NW albums always are a journey towards the great finale. :)
Glorious.
this is perfection
This does not feel like 24 minutes
Perfect Music...👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you for put time in doing a lyrics video to this song! :)
Love this song ❤️
unique song and music..
just love it...
I love it when songs say the same thing over and over with no change
Gorgeous!!
missed that one at ( this version) pinkpop, sure undersytand one to just to short for this masterpiece so they MUST come back as headliner and play this piece of magic
Love dis.
6:29 9:39 12:19 14:47
"we were here" and then the sound of explosion. i hope it will be the one taking us to far away space, 🚀 to many new worlds. not the one to destroy us.
At some point Floor Jansen sings-talks at a quite low pitch ("The cosmic law of gravity ..." at 6:28). It does not feel like death growls (fry register), any idea what technique she uses?
I'm pretty sure it's just a rasp or some effect they added.
The Floor only technics😊
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Happy Darwin day!
Phantom stranger brought me here
WE WERE HERE
dr fate and dr druid like the video
so boring but so cool
Who's Lucca?
LUCA - Last Universal Common Ancestor.
@@DadiocolemanOfficial THANK YOU, why is it even before "Enter Life" then?
I THInk it's light with her photons. Names as Lucca, Lucy...Come from the latin word LUX who has a declension to LUCIS, meaning light.
@@ImCalebRosengard Because biologically speaking it was not concious life yet...but it is considered the beginning of all complex lifeforms on this planet
@@ImCalebRosengard LUCA is technically life, but the very start of life - some kind of extremely primitive life form.
tarjas voice at the begining
raiden vs shiva amv here
test girls
what no god?
Sorry man, God was made by man, born of his desire to feel special in his ignorance of nature.
God isn’t real. No evidence, unlike the beauty of nature and the evolution of life shown in this masterpiece. Man is insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but we’re hellbent on making ourselves remembered, not through some invisible god, but through our amazing achievements and creations.
@IntoThaDark Light prove it
@@Shads62 you prove he isn't.
@@haresplitter you have the burden of proof.