Emotional Reaction to Sabaton - En Livstid I Krig (With Subtitles) 

There are 2 kinds of People out there: 1. The ones that cry when listening to this song especially in connection with that video 2. The ones without a pulse.

Joakim conducting a choir of thousands... Timeless song.

As a Swede I try to sing along to this one but the tears always makes it impossible. So impressed of the audience handling it. A lovely reaction. As some others has said listen to No Bullets fly but also Christmas Truce and 1916 a Motörhead cover. All of these are emotional songs and videos.

The combination of the melody, the lyrics and the crowd singing lends itself to be a song that elicits an emotional response.

5:16 It's the Sabaton effect. I'm Swedish but when I listen to Resist and bite I feel pride for the Dutch, Valley of death pride for the Bulgarians, Lady of the dark, pride for the Serbs and so on.

I'm swedish and part of the military. I went to this concert, and it was truly amazing to sing out the love for our country with thousands of people.

I remember seeing this live. Literally the feeling in the crowd was the best I have ever felt. Everyone just sang along like their life depended on it.

A heartrendingly emotional song that tells both the patriotism and sacrifice of a common soldier in the Thirty Years War. Warriors went to fight for country, religion, and king, willing to die for their beliefs, but found that often their sacrifice was unappreciated and began to question if they will be remembered. Yet still they marched into battle and an unknown future.

Danish here. This makes me tear up everytime i hear it. an amazing song and a powerful message. i know the lyrics by heart and sing along everytime i get the chance. Heja Sverige! :)

The lyrics are very emotional in this version. It describes the 30 years war in Europe (1618-1648) from a young Swedish boys perspective, sent out to a war far from home in a small village to a country he dont even know where it is. One can say that this conflict actually was the first world war, because so many nations was involved.

Great reaction. As a Swede Sabaton gets you in the heart. This song is universal with everything that is going on in the world. Love your emotion Take care and love from Sweden

I am from Sweden, and this song is really awesome. Keep up the good work :)

Love your reaction here Millie, this deep ballad is about the lyrics…the message of the horrors of war not the music. Heavy song in the message. The patriotism from the audience is so moving. As a father, I think if my beloved 19 yr old son and all the fathers in this horrific 30 year long war, being out there in battle and my terror in seeing him die before my eyes. All those fathers, and their sons who were born and grew up in war, and the mothers/wives who lost all the men in her family. One does not have to be Swedish to feel the pain here, just being human is all it takes. Wars worldwide and that will never end. Plato stated it correctly that sadly on the dead will see the end of war. Love Sabaton for what they do….some of the most meaningful music in this world. Love u Millie ❤

It was amazing being there. We sang with every fiber of our body! A core memory for life.

As a Swede, i see your reaction. So puré and genuine. You feel patriotism, you feel pride, the same way we feel when we hear them sing this song for us. Great reaction! You’re great.

Sabatons ability to make you feel is incredible.

This song is so powerful and beautiful, one of my favorite Sabaton songs. Now they've made the best Christmas song ever called "Christmas Truce", you really ought to check that out. It's about the spontaneous truce that happend in 1914 during WWI where the troops on both sides decided to, for one day, stop fighting and celebrate Christmas together. It's also a very powerful song.

Lifetime in war, is about when Sweden was involved in the 30 years' war. Which took place between 1618 - 1648, where many men went to war and never returned home. But this song can also tell about all the men who went to war but never returned home, alive. As a female acquaintance of mine, her son left Sweden to help Ukraine in the war against Russia, one day during his time off while he was sleeping in an apartment, a Russian robot crashed into the house and killed him. So he did not return home alive.

"Gick ut i strid för Sverige!" Snart får vi göra det igen.. Men den här gången är fienden bland oss. 🇸🇪🇸🇪👊

My Grandfather fought in WW2 and survived. Two of his brothers did and weren't so lucky.

This one really hits deep every time i listen to it! As a swede but also as someone who works in uniform. I think everyone of us is effected by war, wars that was, wars that are and those wars who might be.. it hits as its got that perspective of the soldier, instead of the general war description as most songs has.. 🇸🇪

that have to be the ultimate goal for a music group / band, having the crowd sing your song for you

What a wonderful reaction💗💗!!

Next Sabaton song you should listen to is Christmas truce. About WW1 when the soldiers laid down their weapons and celebrated christmas together. And if you didn´t know it by now the drummer in Sabaton is the husband to Floor Jansen, singer. In Nightwish Listen to Christmas Truce, it´s after all soon chrismas 🎅

This song is about the Thirty Years War that was fought between 1618 and 1648. The Kingdom of Sweden was a major power in Europe at the time and this war was the bloodiest one until that time. The Swedish lyrics reflects the suffering of the individual soldier and the fact that one went to war, had a newborn child in the beginning but the war was so long that it happened that the child all grown up and had to fight in the same war where his father fought or still fighting.

I love your reaction to this song! As someone who has fought in a war far away from home, this song hits hard! (I do speak Swedish)

In the early 17th century large parts of Sweden were almost emptied for able bodied men for the 30 year war in Germany, protestants against catholics. Many succumbed of deceases long before they saw any battle. Few ever came home. Not even the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf, who died at the foggy battlefield of Lützen 1632. Back when the king lead his army at the front.

as a swede i cry everytime i watch this just its the truth

This is a very emotional song. But Sabaton has, through the years, found that special cadance for their music to awake emotions in people. Like this song, or the Winter Truce and so many others. They make your heart sing and grieve at the same time.It's so much fun that I've been following their career so long, I just remember a cousin profering a CD in my hands and saying that "my boyfriend has a band, and I know that this is the music you like." It was a defining moment.

Im from Sweden and this song hits so hard every time always burst out in tears when I listen to it

The lyrics fits anyone with a sense of duty to his/her country. I've served as a peacekeeper in the balkans in the 90's and now in the home guard. This song gives me goose bumps and tear filled eyes.

I would and could easily say this song is for everyone and every country.. its the same.. thats why the same feelings 🌹

The song is mainly about the 30 years war but works on most wars I think that isn't about defending your home. The 30 years war was brutal. There are stories about a man who left their village and family and went to war while their son was but a baby and didn't meet their son until they met on the battlefield when the son was 15-16 and only after the battle understood who they were.

this song is just so applicable to everything that's happening in the world right now, the first time I heard this song I cried like a baby for an hour just watching other people react to it

You felt what you felt because you are just empathetic person and could feel of possible pain of people fighting a war. Sabaton can wake emotions in audience. I was so lucky they came for a concert to my hometown and performance was superb.

One of the best live performances I've seen, but also one of the best reaction videos as well. I love when people get as emotional about art as I do. Well done!

My brother is neighbor with one of the guitar guys in Sabaton. They have shared a beer together. My brother sent me a photo of all the prizes on his walls. I saw him the last time I visited my brother. last

look Sabaton cover of 1916 and even Tommy Johansson lead guitarrist you tube ... i promise you wont get disapointed at all

Thank you Millie.

Love your reaction. Thank you.

Literal translation of the song: I look around and see my home fading away My time there now feels too short Only youth, barely a man when duty called me If I get to see my home again, I do not know Among kinsmen from my village, I went out to battle And the world burned For war, it can Destroy a man I give my life for my homeland But who misses me? So see me as that A husband, a friend Father and son who will never come home But who mourns me? Went out to fight for Sweden, baptized in blood Out there, death awaits, not heroism In the field where kinsmen fall, no song is heard Challenging our fates, once again Far from home (baptized and die in battle) And the world burned For war, it can Destroy a man I give my life for my homeland But who misses me? So see me as that A husband, a friend Father and son who will never come home But who mourns me? And when my time has run out Who cares then? They soldier on Does a soldier get a worthy end? To fall asleep Disappear And never wake For war, it can Destroy a man I give my life for my homeland But who misses me? So see me as that A husband, a friend Father and son who will never come home But who mourns me? For war, it can Destroy a man I give my life for my homeland But who misses me? So see me as that A husband, a friend Father and son who will never come home But who mourns me?

Beautiful reaction ❤❤❤❤

As a Swede, I was at this consert

I was there! It was beautiful!

I really like the effect with Pers galloping bass in the end.

Beautiful reaction :) This song is so powerful because of what we all know is going on right now ... even pretty close to some of us ... and of course the message in the lyrics. As a Dane, I was a soldier during the Cold War, and we knew that if the Warsaw Pact wanted to clear their passage through Øresund, we would be nothing more than a speedbump, that would give NATO maybe a day or two to react. But we were willing to make that sacrifice! Now being the father of a son who is a soldier, and one of the first to be sent out to a conflict zone anywhere in this world, I am SO proud of him, but also very worried. So yes, this song hits very hard.

Seeing this live, in a much smaller venue was amazing, singing this with the crowd was amazing. As a Swede this song is very emotional.

This song always hits home for me being Finnish (as the song sings about the thirty year war). Being Finnish, I have gone trough the army, as we still have conscription service here. But somehow this song reminds me that if push comes to shove, I will not be able to serve in the army because of medical reasons, namely type 1 diabetes. This hits home as many will have to sacrifice their lives for me, and I cannot do anything about it. Most likely I would continue my work as a paramedic, either for the army or the civilians, but still it feels like I am letting people down for not being able to defend my country.

Great reaction. Thank you.

I believe En livstid i krig "A life time in war" Is in reference to the 30 year war (1618-1648) Sweden took part in. But the song dosen't really bound to any specific borders. But rather that war sucks really, really hard, and especially so for the soliders. As they often are forgotten soon after. Just look at the veterans of today. How many of them who are homeless, jobbless, unwanted, struggeling bothe whit phycical wounds and mental health issiues and often are shunned. Most soliders go to war for their homelands. to do their patriotic duty. And when they fall in battle, they rarely get any memorials or any thing. It's often only their closest family members who mourn their loss. And in the past when bringing the dead back home wasen't an option. They often where left on the battlefield. Some times they where tossed in massgraves, or piled up in to a huge pile and then set on fire and mass cremated. Thusly the line in the song "But who mourns me?" A solider who goes to war in a different land, might never get to return home, dead or alive. So they don't get to know if their families will even get the chanse to mourn them. This song hits different when you start to think about all of that.

Your emotions are authentic and I love that :) well and I love Sabaton. Saw them live 4 or 5 times. They are such an event!

LOVED your reaktion❤❤❤❤ I became teary-eyed as well...🌸

Love to see your reaction to my countrys band Sabaton, i was there live and seeing this over and over again makes my cry. Think of all men and women who have sacrificed there lives and freedom and not to be controled this song is multinational and all can relate and understand everywhere all races all sexes "We are all one" Much love Millie from Sweden 🥰😪🙈🙉🙊❤

I don't blame you for crying, you're not alone! This song especially hits hard.. and doesn't have to be Swedish either. The story of this song is universal, can swap out Sweden with any other country. It's the entire album, the Swedish version just feels a lot more personal.. as in from the point of view of a soldier (aka a young kid really), and how he sees the war. Now, if you'll excuse me.. I need to go find a napkin or something to dry these tears, heh.

I feel if you know Swedish the lyrics get's even better, feel the translation misses out on a few small things. Great song, lyric, performance and crowd. Also pls watch No bullets fly.

War and the thought of losing your loved ones will get to us all. I teared up to a few Sabaton songs myself.

It's fitting that the song that makes most Swedes feel patriotic is not one about glorious heroism and victory in war but about the immense suffering and pain it causes. I would be furious if I had to go to war and people back home celebrated my death as if I was some sort of martyr, as if I died a heroic death for my country when the truth is that I suffered and sacrificed everything I was for them. A soldier is not some literary hero, they are our husbands, our sons, our fathers, and our friends, and when they die in war they do not die as heroes, they die as men. People must never forget that. In death a soldier gains nothing for themselves, but sacrifices everything for their country. Their lives, their futures, their hopes and dreams, their joy, their love, all of it gone in the blink of an eye. To treat that as anything but an unfathomable tragedy is to disgrace their memory. For people to connect so deeply with this song is in a way proof of their recognition of that reality, and if it's for a country like that then perhaps such a sacrifice has merit.

I can't stop listening to this song

Esa canción me toca el corazón, me hace recordar los más de 5 mil años de historia de mi país y las guerras que pasamos, tantos murieron que sus huesos aún se encuentran en los desiertos y enterrados en tumbas anónimas, reinos , confederaciones e imperios desaparecidos. Está canción te hace ver la otra cara de la guerra.

Sabaton can make you feel patriotism for a country that isn't your own, and sorrow for those who fell in battle centuries ago. They are master bards.

love u millie, u are great. :) loved ur reaction on En livstid I krig.

There's an English version of this song as well. It doesn't focus on the individual, like in the Swedish version, but on a grander scale.

Great reaction, and the connection tou describe is real. Now, as a swede, i have goosebumps all over my body this entire song. It's incredible

Nice reaction, yeah the only thing you got "wrong" was the I in the title. I was at this show sitting somewhere in the middle of the platform to the left from this view of the stage. Just before this clip started Joakim said no one carries around a lighter anymore, but you all have phones right? So turn on your lights for this one. Then in the beginning of the video, he said totally wonderful, my friends, let's sing together en livstid i krig They had sold out the arena so we were 10 766 metalheads in the arena that night (going by statistics from online and the newspaper after the show) Needless to say, it was one hell of a show that night.

I, too, love *Sabaton!* And I will tell you about their lead guitarist, *Tommy Johansson.* This guy (if you have not heard him before) is a Magical singer, too. But that's not all. He puts out songs he's covered every Friday on his own channel *["Tommy Johansson,"* if doing a search.] Tommy is not an ordinary guitarist, but he's unique: Singing, producing [far better than anyone I've seen (I'm a musician)], and playing all the instruments you'll hear! The thing he does is that he takes an existing song, making it a 'new' one (takes it to a new level). _Be warned:_ He has a big heart, and better, Tommy has this immense crazy humor! All in _one video_ - I'm sure you'll love him and what he does ❤️ Try: SHE'S GONE - (STEELHEART) Tommy Johansson *Loved your reaction much!*

With love from Sweden 🎉❤

this would be relatable to soldiers throughout history, regardless of countyy, religion... just like their 1916 cover, Christmas truce lyrics...

The "But who'll mourn for me" really is true, especially today and especially in the western hemisphere. Men who fight and fought for their country are treated with disrespect and if they die, they'll die alone and forgotten after a generation. Especially when times get better afterwards. Individual lifes are worth nothing compared to the overall cause they were thrown away for. As a man the only reason I would pick up a firearm is if my family or my village, so the people who've known me since I've been little, are getting attacked. Nothing else could ever get me to fight another person. Especially not the country I live in.

I'm french, Half of the time I listen to Shiroyama I end up in tears. I do believe songs about war resonnate with ours pasts lifes. They are traumatic event.

Around 85-95 percent of the Swedish soldiers going out in the 30-year war never came back. Most of them perished from diseases. They were usually poor farmer's boys. They were usually put on garrison duty in German cities. They couldn't handle diseases in Central European cities.

I saw them live in Atlanta in a much smaller indoor arena. Best concert I have ever seen bar none. I hope they tour the US in 2024 and do at least outdoor arena.

спасибо за реакцию. с меня лайк (thanks for the reaction. I like it.)

Thank you for this reaction from Denmark!

The beutiful with this song is that you dont need to be swedish for the feelings and connection in it. But sure then they play here, home i sweden and this song in Swedish the power is something else, this song makes the whole audience to join in. but iam sure, that if you give the english version a try you will still feel it so deep 🥰🙌🏼🙌🏼

Great reaction to an amazing song from Sabaton! Another one to check out is Christmas Truce :)

I, a 40 yo American Man, weep for those who never returned no matter where they are from , I know what its like thinking you'll never make it home alive.

i was there!!!! this was the most epic thing i have ever benn apart of!!!

Sabaton is good in bringing the emotion of war and it's terrors, no matter what side you or your roots are

You got in the right mood eventually ;) it is easy to relate to the lyrics even if you are not swedish - recommending a couple of beers and bluesy fealing when listening to this .. and maybe a couple of tissues :)

There is 2 kinds of Sabaton songs. 1) Songs that fulfill you for purpose 2) Songs that speak of purpose and devalue it.. and you feel.. this, winter break song or no enemy fly.. and you cry because sabaton makes you understand... They are a work of beaty for both as song makers and as people who tell a story of importance.. sometimes its personal, sometimes its nationalistic.. fukken lov em

If you haven't already check out the live performance in poland Woodstock uprising, 40:1, ghost division,... To be honest the whole show will get you.

As an Icelander I was SO not emotionally prepared at all to not need the subtitles at all, this song hit me so hard in the feels

I'm not Swedish, so for a long time I only listened to their English version, but that one is just not nearly as powerful as this version. So when I started learning Swedish and I finally was able to understand this song, it hit me incredibly hard. I don't think there's any other band that gets me so emotional, but Sabaton somehow manages it with multiple of their songs (Christmas Truce being another one).

I can understand who mourns me if I'm a lone man and go to war and die, it's actually sad

love your reaction!

Welcome to your SABATON journey, definitely one of the best rock bands of all time. If you want to do more reactions to songs by Sabaton, I recommend 1916, Christmas Truce, Bismark and Soldiers of Heaven. Have fun touring the Sabaton History Lesson

Fun fact: it's about the 30 year war and one of the few times that Denmark and Sweden were allies

If I remember correctly, this song is about the experience from a common man during the 30 year war, that's where the "a life time of war" comes from, Sweden was at war from 30 years (1618-1648) and growing up during that time would be a very. well, violent

You should react to the English version as well. It is also very good and a different spin on it. It is about the 30 year's war. A lifetime of war it is the same song but from a completely different perspective.

It's enough to make a grown man cry

I saw them for the first time in Stockholm and this song is problably one of my favorite sabaton songs

War is such a scary thing!! Mothers cry, family cry..visiting a grave.. Commenting so you maybe listen to this again Peace and love, stay safe

The madness of war.

ITT: woman experiences the feeling known as "empathy" for the first time.

I listen to this song a lot at work while welding and it just makes me feel very patriotic and proud which is not as common over here anymore unfortunately, gives me mad goosebumps every time as well. :D

That's Sabaton. Making you feel sentimental for countries that are not your own.

I love Sabaton and cry too to this i am Swedish and love my history and will die for my country any time if the war came

As a Swede, I couldn't be prouder of Sabaton 😍😍😍😍

music is a universal language

Sabaton has almost all of their Swedish songs made in English as well so it is super easy to find and understand their song and yes they do variate abit with each language ofc :)