I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW GOOD THEY ARE!!! Official REACTION to: "Dead Boy's Poem" by Nightwish 

This song IS Nightwish. Floor didn't feel super good before this concert. If we get 60-80 % of Floor, it is still more than anyone can hope for

Definitely sick!! Fantastic reaction!! The Nightwish rabbit hole has you trapped!!

Tuomas is a musical genius!!!! How he writes the lyrics and then composed the music that reaches down into your soul, and you feel what Tuomas wants you to feel! Never in my 66 years has a band touched me as much as Nightwish!

Here are the lyrics spoken by the boy: “I live no more to shame, nor me, nor you I'm sorry” "If you read this line, remember not the hand that wrote it Remember only the verse, songmaker's cry the one without tears For I've given this its strength and it has become my only strength. Comforting home, mother's lap, chance for immortality Where being wanted became a thrill I never knew The sweet piano writing down my life" "Teach me passion for I fear it's gone Show me love, hold the lorn So much more I wanted to give to the ones who love me I'm sorry Time will tell (this bitter farewell) I live no more to shame nor me nor you And you... I wish I didn't feel for you anymore..." "So much more I wanted to give to the ones who love me Time will tell"

One of the very few songs where Emppu does not smile. Beautiful and haunting!

You absolutely GET this band .....incredible reaction

When Floor goes into her emotional mode you can sleep in the finnish winter outside in the woods and still be warmed by her voice and feel comfortable. Much Love from Germany to you and your passionate reactions!

Nightwish is Finland's national treasure.

This song made Emppu cry ❤

This is a very emotional and personal song for Tuomas. The small child's voice represents Tuomas' inner child speaking. When asked what this song was about "Tuomas has said about this song, that it's about if he were to die tomorrow, what would he want to say to everyone that he loves, and that love him..." Notice the small boy on the screen reaching out to the flying swans on the screen. He is reaching out to implore them to take him with to the other side. In archaeological excavations done in Karelia, a child was found and its body was laying upon a wing of a swan. In Finnish mythology and folklore, the swan was the divine messenger between the living and the dead. When a swan dropped its head below the surface, people of old times believed that it was communicating to the spirit world. Killing swans was a terrible crime because it was as bad as murdering a human. Punishments for killing swans were severe, the usual penalty was death. Swan song often symbolizes an artist´s last performance but for a long time all across the world all the way to the 17th century it was believed that swans only sang when they died. A beautiful song filled with sadness from an unfulfilled destiny. Here are the spoken words from Dead Boy's Poem. "If you read this line Remember not the hand that wrote it Remember only the verse Songmaker's cry, the one without tears For I've given this its strength And it has become my only strength Comforting home, mother's lap, chance for immortality Where being wanted became a thrill I never knew The sweet piano writing down my life" "Teach me passion, for I fear it's gone Show me love, hold the lorn So much more I wanted to give to the ones who love me I'm sorry Time will tell, this bitter farewell I live no more to shame, nor me, nor you And you I wish I didn't feel for you anymore" A lonely soul An ocean soul

I`ve been listening to Nightwish for 15 plus years. I watch at least one of their concert`s every Saturday night and the music never get`s old. I absolutely love watching people discovering them for the first time and becoming member`s of the Nightwish Army.

If you want to really hear how high she can go watch Beste Zangers 2019 and specifically Vilja Lied. There's a high note, F5 I think, that's really stunning. Her whole appearance on that show is incredible.

It doesn't matter how many times I hear this one, the Goddess always tears me up....love NW and Floor

Loved your reaction! One of my top 5 Nightwish songs. One of the more personal songs for Tuomas and the fans. An old song written by Tuomas when he was young. Inspired by the question what would you say if you knew you were going to die tomorrow. Tuomas has said this song was a way of thanking all those who deserve his thanks and a piss off to all those who deserve it as well. Tuomas often uses the dead boy as a symbol of the loss of childhood innocence and imagination that we experience as we grow into adulthood. When you hear dead boy or poet in his lyrics he is usually referring to himself. He also has a strong connection to the ocean and sees it as a place of peace and tranquility. A refugee from the modern world. So in this song Tuomas is saying that he no longer lives for himself or his friends but only for the music. He puts all his feelings into the music and his music is what gives his life meaning. He tries to make his life better but can never get back to the innocence of his youth. He wants to be loved but can't connect with people. He asks that they remember his music, not him, after he is gone. Thus a lonely soul, an ocean soul. Note that on the video wall behind the band the boy is holding up his arms to several swans. In Finnish mythology swans are the creatures that guide your soul to the afterlife. Not knowing the backstory before reacting to a Nightwish song is fine except for the big one, Poet and the Pendulum. IMHO the best Nightwish song ever and incredibly personal for Tuomas. He basically lays bare his soul in the midst of his deep depression after the fans turned on him after the band fired Tarja. The song is amazing even if you don't know the backstory but if you do the song hits so much harder emotionally. I have seen a number of reactors go in blind and IMO they rarely get that emotionally reaction that so many of us feel and what makes the song so incredible. I also get a very similar emotional reaction to Dead Boy's Poem, in part because Tuomas is sharing his soul with us and Floor is the perfect vessel for making us feel those emotions.

One of Tuomas’s most personal songs, written in the Tarja era. If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, what would you have to say today? That inspired Tuomas to answer in his innocent, misunderstood boyhood persona. Love this song and performance. Maybe my favorite Emppu solo. Feels to short. Keep exploring Nightwish. I want my tears back fro this show is great too, very different from this, but also related to Tuomas as an innocent boy, longing for the innocence and emotion he once had.

Top reaction to my go to favourite Nightwish song when I feel obliged to try and name just one. Thank you. In my opinion you deserve a lot more than 10k subscribers.

The guitar Marko is playing as a double neck bass/ 6-string guitar. It is affectionately called “The Beast.” Tuomas is the Dead Boy and the swans are from Finnish Folklore. They carry your soul to Heaven.🤘🎸

This is one of Tuomas' most personal songs, it's more or less his own eulogy. You will see that he sometimes refer to himself in his compositions as the "dead boy" or the "poet" or the "ocean soul".

Good is an understatement.

She didn't get possessed by an angel. Floor IS an angel. A Valkyrie Queen of an angel. What absolutely must understand is that everyone on stage is here to serve the music, the poetry and the ideas within it. Nothing more, nothing less.

In many layers you are so fun to watch you reaction👊🙏

the more you pause, the more we enjoy your reaction..and the music too..hahaha..greets from the NW Army in the Netherlands.

First one here😂😂😂 Love your reactions I used to hang with Troy back in the 80s when he came to our town Llandudno in north wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 many times with his Celtic rock band YOU SLOSH The album a glorious racket can still be found on u tube 👍

You are an amazing reaktor..thank You❤

Yeessss !! Thank you for this reaction ! That guitar solo is perfect for this song and also when Floor is slowly raising her arms and then the drop my oh my chills lol 🤘🏼💥🤘🏼

I believe that you have become a proud full member of the Nightwish Army 😂 Your reactions are superb and honest - and your knowledge and background gives them really weight and depth, because you instantly recognize what is going on, and you experience the stories 100% - as you are supposed to. Great reaction 👍🤘

Thank you. I always enjoy your reactions ❤

One of my favorites! It hits my gut every time!

Subscribed for more Nightwish reactions, really a great work 🤘😎🤘

Thank you - a great reaction which elevates a great song to next level!

Guitar, Emppu Vuorinen. Judoka mannen…Black belt

Always enjoy your reactions! Likable, nay lovable, personality is the main key to winning loyal subscribers. And you've got that department in the bag! 😉

👍Great comments Amie,it's clear,at least for me,that Floor and Nightwish are a match that had to be.This sensitive song with a powerfull end,shows the composing skills of Tuomas,the musicianship of the guys and ofcourse,Floor's capabilities to not only be a voice but also the embodyment of the lyrics and feelings what this song is all about.🤘

one of my Favorites, I expect you to pause as as much as you want -- reaction !

I heard you, Amie! I checked the list in a panic - the interesting thing is that the link is functional from me. But it is possible to be blocked regionally, I being in Romania / Eastern Europe, and you in the US. So here's another link, from the priceless collection of Nightwish Arena ( @NightwishArena ), I hope you won't have any problems with it: 🎼 NIGHTWISH 🎶 I Want My Tears Back 🎶 Live in Buenos Aires 2018 🔥 4K REMASTERED🔥 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vzNMP7mTSuo.html Thank you for sharing with us the emotional beauty of Nightwish's music!

My favorite song 🤘❤️

Hi Amie. Listen, don't react any other way, I love your style. You have sharp eyes and even better hearing. you have noticed a lot of details that I completely miss. you have a lovely booming laugh and when I hear it, I know you like what you hear. everyone has their own way of listening. I think the hardest thing is to watch those reactionaries whose expression doesn't even waver when listening to a song. how then do you know what's going on in his head. just continue in your chosen way, I'll follow😉

What can we say what a awesome preformance by the dutch windmill momma floor pastor Amie. She doesn't have any bad preformances to begin with that's how good she really is. And everyone please like subcribe spank that notification bell donate to help pastor Amie reach her goal of 10,000 very soon. Wintersun Alex in Texas ❄️👋🍹

🤗🍒🤘🏻😘 Great great job Ami 😘

Your reactions are great...keep on doing it your way...Cheers from a finn in Sweden.❤

The stage setting (Crewish). Marko double necked bass and guitar. The Pastor Paws, we don't mind, there is so much take in (we have probably heard it hundreds of times already). Floor using so many different voices. You matched your top with Emppus guitar! He came in at exactly the point you predicted, playing just what is needed. Ramp it up, Marko jamming with Troy. Floor singing low, then gradually going up, so smoothly, warm tone. "A lonely soul, an Ocean Soul!" Up to 20% of the population are "Highly sensitive", mostly artists, musicians, writers, etc. Tuomas and Floor definitely are, from the way the others react and produce such amazing unified sound, I guess they are too. It might have been difficult for Tuomas as a child, feeling things differently from others, being misunderstood, even though happy in the family with loving parents. He has said it is up to us to interpret how we want, and get a relevance to us.

Enjoyed enjoying this w you. Thx. NWA Philly

I thought i heard everything of Floor what an amazing vocalist, then i saw her live in front of me on the stage here in the Netherlands with her solo tour.......that was another level.....damn she can sing she is live even better then you hear it on youtube she really blew my mind up every single time she opened her mouth and she is such a down to earth person so typically Dutch and she has humor too what an artist she is, great reaction btw and greetings from the Netherlands

When you hear the words Boy; Poet; Ocean Soul, you can be sure the song is very personal to Tuomas.

Welcome to the musical rollercoaster

Hey Amie, your reaction and comments..... was SICK.....Lol

thanks

Great reaction..😊🇸🇪🤟

sweet piano writing down my life.

Marco is playing “the Beast” Warwick infinity bass with a Framus guitar 🎸

Hi funny lady! I always looooove your GREAT reactions and the GREAT smile you have!!😍👍👍keep rocking🤘😜🤘 i'll be back with the next one, greetings from the Netherlands👋👋👋👋

The Dead Boy is Tuomas. How Nightwish made him even as he made Nightwish."The mother of all Nightwish songs"!

Floor is FLOOR 😊

Tuomas Holopainen ( keys) songwriter,composer. Nightwish band from Finland.

Here's a link to "I Want My Tears Back" live in Buenos Aries 2018 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TBOdgxjb0kM.html&pp=ygUmaSB3YW50IG15IHRlYXJzIGJhY2sgYnVlbm9zIGFpcmVzIDIwMTg%3D

Love Dead Boy's poem for many of the reasons you describe. In some documentary or book about the band there is a story about how Tuomas wrote the poem, and had a friend who knew a teen/boy who came into a studio with Tuomas and read the poem with a few final edits so it could be recorded with a boy's voice.

Hello Amie. The Decades Tour 2018 was all about the"very" old songs. I saw this concert myself in Antwerp Belgium 2018 and she killed the whole concert. Yes it was different than Tarja, but this is Floor and she always makes the songs her own and she had in my concert the same badass outfit. Lucky me😁❤🤘

I've seen this video so many times and it always makes my eyes teary... why????? it's my favourite no doubt, though they have so many masterpieces, this one for me is the one.. keep rocking and stay safe,,,,

You know what? this reaction is sick😊

Poem in the middle of the song: "If you read this line, remember not the hand that wrote it Remember only the verse, songmaker's cry the one without tears For I've given this its strength and it has become my only strength. Comforting home, mother's lap, chance for immortality Where being wanted became a thrill I never knew The sweet piano writing down my life" "Teach me passion for I fear it's gone Show me love, hold the lorn So much more I wanted to give to the ones who love me I'm sorry Time will tell (this bitter farewell) I live no more to shame nor me nor you And you... I wish I didn't feel for you anymore..."

Hey Amie, Lady I love you, almost as much as Nightwish and Floor Jansen, Thank You for a wonderful review again, and please keep them coming♥

"Dead Boy" is Tuomas's way of referring to his lost childhood innocence and joy. Dead boy is refereed to in many songs. Emppu is practically in tears by the end of the his solo.

Well. I love your reactions, so many you. This will be one of my funeral song. I'm not sure how kids will react to my will but I'm not there to argue at that point. 😂

Heres a link to the 2018 Buenos Aires performance of I Want My Tears Back - enjoy 🤘

Another great reaction, Thank you 😊🤟

"If you read this line, remember not the hand that wrote it“ is a Shakespeare line from his Sonnet 71: "No longer mourn for me when I am dead” It looks like Tuomas was inspired by this sonnet for the idea of Dead Boys Poem"

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Just subscribed. There is at least one song that needs preparation to get it right. Looking forward to that.

It is a first time when Empu is not smiling..

Other Irish singers Enya and Maire Brennan from Clannad and Scottish singers Eddi Reader and Karen Matheson from Capercaillie that have this sound

👍👍😎😎🤘🤘

Check out a more basic little reacted sone, but one of my favorites, “Deep Silent Complete”. Live

My joint no 4 favourite. (I Want My Tears Back is best from Buenos Aires. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TBOdgxjb0kM.htmlsi=p7xROAg8KVoQV4u0 Marco is playing "The Beast", a Warwick Bass on top and Framus guitar underneath. Designed for Marco because he is a Warwick exclusive artist and Framus is part of the same group of companies. He plays The Beast frequently - he played lead before he switched to bass and is an excellent player. When Tuomas refers to Dead Boy's (as he frequently does) or Poet, he is referring to himself. This song was essentially the epitaph he would have left at the time it was written and was his most personal song until The Poet and the Pendulum. Notes from Tuomas: "Dead Boy's Poem' featured a child's voice. "I had an idea of a song with a young boy boy reciting reciting a poem", Tuomas says. "The trouble was that no Finnish so I had to find a 12-year-old could pronounce English so that it sounded right, so I had to find a native speaker to do it. My mother's Sister, actress Miitta Sorvali, knew [the English-Finnish director and writer] Neil Hardwick well, and my mum remembered that Neil had a son called Sam. I called him and asked him to do the poem, and Sam agreed right away. It was just funny that when I talked to this 15-year-old boy he seemed like such a citizen of the worldand was actually familiar with our band too. Sam said he'd be free to record the poem anytime; I'd just have to give him a call. He even knew where Finnvox was and promised to meet us there. The professionalism of young Sam Hardwick made a deep impression on Tuomas. "When he arrived at the studio, had to ask him to wait for ten minutes or so and he just pulled a book from his pocket and sat down to read". Tuomas says, " I gave him the poem, and he read it through a few times. We did some editing and Sam just sat down on the studio floor and read his book, after which I asked him to read the poem a couple of more times." By the way Seltic is a football club. The word you want has a hard C - Keltic. Outfit custom designed by Royal Black Couture in Austria, who promised never to make another. The only performance I know amongst the 30 concerts I have on video, in which Emppu doesn't smile. The palm muting (fingers in this case) is to stop other strings resonating - he has no tone controls on this guitar,byou will have noticed, and palm-muting is just one of his tonal controls. Floors lowest register is my absolute favourite part of her range, even though she says it is her least comfortable. That gorgeous velvet tone is stunning.

If someone doesn't like pauses, there is a VERY simple solution for them...go watch the original video...this ain't rocket science, folks.

Only Nightwish-song you should do background search before watching it is Poet and The Pendulum. There are deeper meanings for whole Nightwishes existence etc in that song. Highly recommend to do that before listening and watching it 🙏🏻👍

Your pauses don't bother me I love your reaction to songs and how you take them in!!

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1 minute she's possessed by an angel the next minute she's possessed by a demon and she kills it both styles

lol, the time traveller

Your smile is like Lady Floor infectious love and peace from Ireland 🇨🇮☘️🇨🇮🤟🤟🤟🤟

And there’s Floors duet with Henk Poort performing Phantom of the Opera. Hitting those hi notes while power belting-ohhh dang !!!!😮 absolutely epic

Your comparison with other artists is crazy ,there now comparing !!!!!

You should listen to Nightwish best songs like Planet Hell, Shoemaker, Sacrament of wilderness, Come cover me, Elan, Nemo, Master Passion Greed, Ghost river etc. Like your reactions btw.

Those Goddess arms are 10 feet fingertip to fingertip

For more Floor watch her performance at “Beste Zangers 2019” especially “Shallow” for Emma Heesters. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M68pe4a_9zk.htmlsi=umPnbjArlX9wr2NR

Good one. Dam it I was just writing Cranberries.

This song makes me cry every time so maybe it's time for something a bit more joyful. Nightwish - I Want My Tears Back (Floor Jansen) [Decades - Live In Buenos Aires 2019] ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TBOdgxjb0kM.html I don't know what happened to Gabriel's link to the song, but this one is working 😊

Here's a working link to "I want my tears back" from Buenos Aires 2018: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TBOdgxjb0kM.html

Well. Emppu is the king. If you wish the solo try covers of high hopes or megadeath.

I love your reactions where you really go in blind. However, there is ONE exception when it comes to Nightwish. Before you listen to "The Poet And The Pendulum" Live at Wembley 2015, most of us really think you need to read up about the background for that song. The song is great without knowing about it, but it's gonna make you cry knowing the background.

Great reaction, not sure if you are like me and wish i knew about Nightwish 15 - 20 years ago

Irish band you ment is The Cranberrys...😊

This a perfect example of a song that is taken to another level by Floor. Try this link to I Want My Tears to Back. Plus you hear Troy on different instruments to the bouzouki in this one. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TBOdgxjb0kM.htmlsi=i3UJE70ge2BanVOI

More from Finland. BATTLE BEAST NOORA LOUHIMO. Wings of Light official video. NOORA great voice.

good job, Amie! More pauses please!

so sorry

She was sick during this tour/show

well portlander. lived in the PNW for 30 years. married in Roseburg. went to college at umpqua and ashland sosc. hate the way portland has ruined the beautiful state and culture. SHAME

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You are beautiful..😊😊❤