I CRIED! Veterans React 2 Nightwish "The Poet And The Pendulum" (Live Wembley Arena 2015)  

"Be still, my son you're home. Oh when did you become so cold?". This is the spot, when I always 😭.

This is Tuomas metaphorical suicide so he didn't have to do it for real. From his depression. After the backlash from firing his childhood friend. The "open letter" to Tarja. Everyone turned on him. Fans, friends, media, even the Prime Minister of Finland commented on it. Even to this day. He tells soundman to turn vocals off in his earpiece. At the end you see Marco and Emmpu checking on Tuomas. If you notice. From the talking part "have three minutes to live" it's exactly three minutes(running time) till the pendulum(throat) slash. The last part "mother an father" are actually what Tuomas parents said to him at the time. About the whole situation. Which helped him get through it.

It’s not about actual physical rape. It’s about mental anguish.

I heared this song dozens of times, but every time, i teared up..

To understand the story you need to know the backstory. Nightwish was started by Tuomas, Emppu, and Tarja, their first singer. In 2005, after the recording of the "End of an era" dvd Tarja was fired thru a letter given to her by Tuomas, but it was a band decision. The letter was also posted on the bands homepage at the same time. Marko had told Tuomas "It's me or her". This song is about the aftermath thru Tuomas eyes. A piece in five parts. 1. White lands of Empathica.: Boy soprano. "The end, the songwriter's dead, the blade fell upon him" It's the end of an era, Tuomas feels dead inside, he was the one that handed Tarja the letter. 2. Home: "A poet without a rime, a widowed writer torn apart by the chains of hell" Tuomas got writers block, he's lost his musical "wife", his muse, and was fighting depression and doubt. 3 The Pacific: "On the shore, se sat and hoped under the same pale moon who's guiding light chose you, chose you all" If I remember it right Tuomas, Emppu, and Tarja was having a barbecue at night when they decided to start a band together. The operatic part Floor sings was originally sung by the same boy soprano who sings the intro. When Floor joined she told Tuomas that she could sing that. He decided to keep the intro but let Floor sing that part. 4. Dark passion play: This is about the reactions from fans and media where everyone blamed Tuomas even tho it was a band decision. 5. Mother and Father: Tuomas took refuge at his parents house for a while, these are some of the things they told him during that time.

My absolute favorite song. No matter how many times I hear this song I cry my eyes out. Floor really tells Tuomas’ story in way no one else could

Nightwish is a spiritual journey. Tears are natural. I’m a 48 year old truck driver and I cried too.

As veterans you have probably gone through a lot of shit, so its totally ok to shed some tears, hearing this awsome music. We all do, the whole Nightwish Army.

This is an absolute masterpiece. Tuomas musical suicide.

'The End' is where Tuomas was experiencing the misery and anger as the band crashed and 'The Beginning' was the rebirth of the band and him rolling back to his family and closest friends instead of ending it. I think i could sit and watch you guys discussing the weather report for the day, well done on the reaction.

Another great reaction! This one always gets to me knowing what brought it on. Tuomas baring his soul and Floor bringing all the emotion is simply beautiful

Opening Section : Lead boy soprano: Guy Elliott; later on spoken part about Tuomas erased text: is 2nd boy soprano: Tom Williams, both courtesy of the Reigate St Mary's Choir School

A knowledge of Edgar Alan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" helps. Yeh, I cry too. I'm 74. . . . . . .

There’s a lyric version of this same performance which makes it easier to understand without having to check online for the lyrics.

Yasss, was waiting for this one. Liked before watching!

Actually a great reaction from you. Tuomas is a mastermind of a composer with poetic skills, far beyond us mortals. Here he discribes the emotions after they fired Tarja - the emotions he felt by himself, but also the emotions and blame that were brought to him by the fans and a lot of other people, including the prime minister of Finland! Marco are doing it excellent in his screaming part, delivering their message and feelings. Floor on the other hand are the storyteller and in charge of transferring the overall emotions and thoughts from Tuomas's family and friends, to the audience - and she is doing that like only Floor have the ability to do - mind blowing. (Tuomas had the technicians kill Floor's voice in his ear plugs at the end, to keep his concentration) This is emotions delivered in music and lyrics. These 6 bandmembers are probably the only ones who can create and perform a masterpiece like this.

Beautiful song, so strong and emotional, bring tears to my eyes every time! 😥👍🤘🤘

🤘🤘❤🤘🤘😁✌🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Fantastic!!!! I'm glad you are doing number 3 of the Trinity!!!! A Masterpiece and emotional rollercoaster!!!! 😉

This is about the feeling that Tuomas had after he and the band fired the first singer Tarja. It has nothing to do with Floor.

This song is a Masterpiece and the most personal song for Tuomas about his pain in letting Tarja go from the band. The part "I cannot cry, cause the shoulder cries more" One interpretation has been that Tuomas couldn't go to Tarja and cry on her shoulder, because Tarja was also in pain and was crying more. So he had to be stronger. I have listened to this song many times and every single time get tears in my eyes. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts of this most incredible song 🙏

First guys thank you for your service. I hope you both are doing well physically, and emotionally, and that you have a good support system, even if that is just each other. I have found it better to have a few friends that can really understand me better than have many who do not. Loved your reaction, and @Damon Bryan nailed the back round, and meaning of the song dead on.

Left side reaction "Great song, I think I know what they are saying"........Right side reaction "Great song. Dude, you need to read these lyrics...it made me cry". Good job "Karen", you gave an awesome reaction. BTW, it always makes me cry and I am a 68 year old fossil.

Shiit man...pressed the like even before watching. I know this is going to be a good watch 👍

Watching you reactions men, I can only give you a high five. After all the losses and fears you must have been gone thru during your active times the only good thing is, that you have been able to save your tears. It is not possible to get thru this story without getting wet eyes at least if you understand some stuff about life. So please keep up - there is always love, just find the shore!

Guys there is a video with lyrics, which makes it easy to understand the song.

Tuomas (the keyboarder and songwriter) was in depression after the split from their first singer Tarja. He was in the position to either commit suicide in real real life or to write a song about it and die within that song. Luckily he choose the latter option. He is the poet, "killed" by the pendulum. And afterwards there is darkness, silence and just a fading heartbeat. It gives me a shiver every time. As this song is so emotional for him all the others have an eye on him. He even had his the vocals turned off in his in ears. Here is the open letter Tuomas / the band wrote towards Tarja: nightwish.fandom.com/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Tarja_Turunen And here is her response: nightwish.fandom.com/wiki/Open_Letter_from_Tarja_Turunen From what I have heard, her husband/manager was (from the bands point of view) the core of the problem. There is one song addressing him: "Master Passion Greed" They never played it live and will never do so. It is maybe their heaviest song, but for sure the most angry one. You should definitely listen to it. One detail showing the ingenuity of Tuoams: Exactly three minutes after the words "Now I have only three minutes and counting" he is "killed" by the pendulum. And then everything becomes dark and there is just this fading heartbeat of the dying poet. Greetz from a German-Dutch concert photographer

Waiting to see your reaction to this. Let's go! I'm back after seeing your reaction. You did great. Good you had the lyrics. Think about if this song had been your 1st reaction to Nightwish. I don't think you would have appreciated it the way you did now. This is not the easiest song to listen to and to understand much of the story if you are new to Nightwish.

At 65 years old, I just lost my Mom. This song destroys me. So much emotion. And so beautiful.

Great reaction guys!

I cried with you... Everytime i listen to this masterpiece. Thank you for another great Nightwish reaction vid! Love you guys,stay safe ✌

Two words Masterpiece Thankyou.

I'm not crying!!! I was cutting onions!!

Hi v3t i really love your banter and reactions P.S. your backdrop of the lighting bolts really added to the deep dark song and video 🤘🤘🤘🤘

thanks guys for another great reaction.

Right there with ya Vet...loved this~!

Lol get off my air drums , omg you two ahahaha and then drum battle half way through 🤣 awesome guys 🤘🏼💥🤘🏼

Awesome job guys

This song gets anyody who understands the lyrics my man. It’s a combination of that and Floors voice. Every damn time.

And now it's time for The Greatest Show On Earth live in Tampere. I'm waiting for you to react to it ;)

cool reaction, greetings from the Nightwish Army from Germany :-)

Floor...is The GODDESS.💫😍

My man Vet comin in clutch with the lyrics

Nothing wrong with tearing up. I cry so hard during this song. I know men are made fun of for crying but, most women find it sweet. Especially given the topic of suicide. Tuomas has the have them turn his in-ear monitors off. If you watch very closely you will see him tear up. They have resolved their issue with each other. There are a few videos of them with both Floor and Tarja.

You did not disappoint. If it didn’t move you I’d have been concerned. Oh, and love Wicks’ shirt 👍

Thank you for giving this song the respect you did. It is really important to the fans due to the very real possibility of losing Tuomas in his depression after the huge turmoil when Tarja was fired. It is his virtual suicide so he did not have to in rl. Thank goodness he got the emotions out & graced us with allthe wonderful music he has since 2005. Thanks again.

Great reaction ans I could see the last part hits Vet very hard. Just a tip, a lot of songs you can put subs on.

Most people do tear when they listen to this song and actually understand it properly and deeply....it is difficult in the first time to get this song specially if one does not know the backstory behind this and reason for this song to exist.

I think this is not a "song" it's something bigger...Heard this xxx times and same chilling/choking feeling every time. Thanks for your reaction.

Floor's voice crosses the soul! Caress the, heart. Nightwish as an antidepressant, Really exciting! Nice reaction.

Always an ace reaction, but dude on the right is definitely building a cabin in the woods 😬

Greetings from Finland & thanks for this temporary fix to my addiction to reactions to Nightwish with Floor on stage. P.S. Did you know that there's a demo version of this song with all, and I mean all, the vocals sung by Marko? Here's the link should you and/or anybody else want to check it: Nightwish - The Poet and the Pendulum - demo version (Marco) + lyrics ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2oECYCV5-5w.html

I love the sweatshirt! Please tell me where you got it!

Love the fokking communication between the two of you. Fok yeh.♥

Your eyes are sweating bro, no tears!

great reaction this awesome song. that last part mother and father can but some war movie easy,so deep and i can imagine people who are soldiers in foreign country. ok thanx and have great day there.

u guyss fucking funny.."heyyy.. dont touch my air drum".. im dying laughing

That's a soprano chorus boy doing the opening and narrated sections. Nice work with the stepbrothers reference.

Karen is my dude he's doing what i do everytime i listen to this song hhhhhh

There’s also 5 acts to the song and the lyric version labels the act changes.

🤩👍💥💯🎶 "The end...... The beginning" And Helluwa Lot in between!! 🤘😎 🇫🇮 💙

Thank you for reacting to this song..... They told you the story in the comments below... remember the opening lyrics of Ghost Love Score? "We used to swim the same moonlit waters......."... from the album released 2004 - Tarja's last album.

Hey guys. This song is how I feel, mentally and emotionally, when the demons in my head try and get me to take my own life. But you know why I fight? Because of music. Because of songs like Jee Veerey, by an Indian Folk Metal band named Bloodywood -- which, if you already haven't, please react to it. They are some of the greatest people in the world. And over a year ago, their song Jee Veerey *literally* saved my life. Even now, it's hard to listen to this song, when you walk alone, and deal with erratic bouts of depression. But I keep fighting, because I dont know any other way to keep living. #MusicSavesLives #MusicIsMyWeapon #OneFriendCanSaveALife

You mist " 3 min"to Blade SWICHH *Seppuku* by Tuomas (key and composer genius) and at the end Emppu and Marko went to Tuomas to support him like reeal friends do And Floors eyes (When sitting) Look att Tuomas "sorry but you want me to sing like this!" Stay safe guys.

The Valkyrie Goddess of Metal dressed in her battle armour.. lol. Visually, the most striking song in their repertoire.

A fantastic reaction to an incredible song. On a lot of the Nightwish songs there are subtitles so it's worth checking before you start the reaction, the subtitles are unobtrusive enough and don't interfere with the enjoyment of the performance. The reference to empathica in the first part is to Stephen Kings Dark Tower series.

concert at Tampere, "the greatest show on earth" might be one to go for

Oh, yes... 🖤 Take care!

Tyrion Lannister reacting to Nightwish it's absolutely EPIC!!😂!!!

Gets me every time this one

Perhaps i should have posted this earlier: The Poet and the Pendulum here are some scources. First of all the Open Letter to Tarja.Tarja's open letter (why tarja was kicked from nightwish) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rbkpMgqq8pU.html Interview Nightwish - Tuomas Holopainen (part 1) at around 1:50min Tuomas explained a bit to that: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pPDNEIt4d7U.html Nightwish interview - Tuomas Holopainen (part 1) at 10:00min ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v65-ErfUyVM.html Here he stated: Cathartic is a good way of putting it. The ultimate example being is The Poet and the Pendulum a song where i literally kill myself in the song so that i wouldnt have to do it in real life. At the Ende where all 3 (+1 the drummer he can not leave his place, here it is Kai but originally it was Jukka) stand together is for showing Tuomas that they are all with him, they all have signed that letter.

Defund The Media!! I'm with him on that. Great Reaction. This song is emotional af...

Is your mike right next to the space bar? Holy crap man.

This masterpiece 's history is guite heavy one. Tarja leaving the band and how Tuomas felt about it...

It did get you lol. I saw you jump.

Check out Master Passion Greed and yet Bye Bye Beautiful. These songs are continuing that story. If Poet is about feelings of Thomas in general, then Master Passion Greed are Tuomas's words to Marcelo, husband of Tarja, who in fact stealed her from the band, and Bye Bye Beautiful - are his farewell words to her.

You also can have a look at ayreon. With Marco Hietala, Hansi Kursch en Floor Jansen.

from the same concert (london wembley arena 2015) I suggest you react to the song "shudder before the beautiful", one of the most powerful performances ever, then it will be time to react to the third best performance of the band "the greatest show on earth" from 2015 concert in tampere - finland

Hallo Guys,please react this Masterpiece again. For a few hours Nightwish relesaed it again,(13y Dark Passion Play)with Lyrics ( you find it @Nightwish, @Marko Hietela,@Floor Jansen) in Twitter, or later in YT hihi🤗

I feel like Floor revived this song, the album version with Anette feels almost robotic, I mean she has a beautiful voice, but didn't really do it for this one, while Floor gave it every emotion Tuomas must have felt when he wrote it, also Marko, she brings the pain out, he is pure anger, both are perfect, also love how he and Emppu take turns to check on Tuomas, I used to cry every single time I heard it, goosebumps everywhere, especially in The Pacific and Mother & Father, those two parts still get me so emotional. The part where it says "I'm afraid, so afraid..." Gives me so much anxiety, even today :( then Tuomas' gesture of cutting his own throat, gives me an awful feeling of desperation. At the very end, Floor sounds like a mourning siren for the loss of a loved one, in this case, our poet

Welcome to the magic of nightwish dude #indonesian#nightwisharmy

im not crying , you're crying

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the UNDARTAKER on the drums!!

This Song is about Tuomas the Keyboarder of them. With Subtitles it would be better cause you can hear and read the whole Story!!

Try Dead Boys Poem live at Buenos Aires a mellower song Floor really shines

There is a video of this song, same show, where someone put the lyrics on the screen. They are unobtrusive and do not get in the way of anything. It's a great one to learn the song with. Here is the link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iEzZRMthhXU.html It is absolutely not shameful to cry during or after a Nightwish song, especially this one. This song is deeply meaningful. Also, it is simply beautiful from a musical standpoint. Astoundingly complex piece.

At the line, 'I only have 3 minutes and counting' until Tuomas slices across his neck is exactly 3 minutes.

Thank you. PLEASE next Nightwish Slaying The Dremer End Of An Era. Tarja Turunen & Marko Hietala. Kiitos.

Guys.... Respect 👋👋👋👋, reaction, coments... 👍🤘🤘🤘🤘

Nightwish 💙🇫🇮

Where is third dude?)

Stop stuffing about and get some “ slaying the dreamer” on

From the comments you made it sound like you did not do any research on the background of this song. Normally that is not a problem but in this case you miss a lot of the content of this song. Basically the song is about the firing of their very first vocalist Tarja Turunen that has been a part of the band from the start. Tuomas and Tarja have been close friends from childhood onward and he was also the person who asked her to join. So firing her from the band was a hard thing for him to do. Because he knew he was also loosing a dear friend. But ever since she met, her now husband and manager, convinced her that she was the star of the band and would be better of solo, the atmosphere in the band deteriorated. Although it was decided that she would record one more album with the band before going solo things got so bad by the end of their last tour with her they decided to make a clean break after their last concert of the tour (The end of era was the last show released as dvd). I think you can kind of see the tension in the band if you take a closer look at it. They fired her directly after the show was done by handing her a letter. To be clear to the fans on why they thought this was necessary they published the letter on line at the same time (not the best way to handle this). Although they had expected some critique they were totally surprised by the enormous backlash they received from the press and fans. The biggest brunt of the backlash was directed at Tuomas directly who was thrown in to a depression because of this. He also did no longer see a future for the band he had worked so hard for. He considered suicide but knew this would hurt his close family and friends so he decided to commit suicide artistically by this song. At one point he even moved back in to the house of his parents (mother and father) who put him back together again and this gave him the strength to make a new start.

"Linkin park "does hit hard with "castle of glass", especially when you are a vet.

Nightwish army 🤘🇫🇮 Her outfit looks hot, ya and u should ask her hubby (is 9"7' Sabaton drummer) what's under it and get ready for ER😆 - Stay safe and Take care...

you have the loudest mouseclick in history of reaction videos 🤣

This song is about when they released Tarja. And it is the suicide of Thoumas. His parents convinced him to do it in a song instead of real life. Read the story about this song.

You know that those pendulums are actually shape blade right ready to lop off Toumase's head. What is on the T-Shirt DEFUND what?

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20:47 :D :D :D

Here ya go. Try this deciphering of the lyrics... THE CLIFF NOTES VERSION OF POET & THE PENDULUM My Analysis of the Lyrics [Legal Disclaimer: This is, in no way, purporting to be a biography of the band; has, in no way, ever been stated explicitly in public by the band; has, in no way, been verified or authorized by the band. It is merely my personal, rational analysis based on stitiching together publicly available information to try to better understand the mind and heart of the composer when he wrote this---a very fascinating quest in this case!] As an overview, I assume you immediately recognize the allusion to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit & The Pendulum" wherein the victim is strapped unto a stone altar and must lay watching the ever-so-slowly descending pendulum blade, forcing him to contemplate for hours the agonizing death to come when the blade eventually starts cutting him in half. With Poe in mind as the overall metaphor, notice that the song begins with the whispered, "The end" and ends with the whispered, "The beginning." Tuomas told us in lyrics of a previous song written years before this that he felt like he "needed to die in order to feel alive." The metaphorical suicide in this song carried out that plan. The suicide (both literal and career suicide) is introduced at the beginning as "the end." After that is over, the rebirth of his spirit, his romance, his creativity, and his career is given us at the end as "the beginning." A pretty clever poetic device in my humble opinion! "Movement I: White Lands of Empathica" This part is like an "Executive Summary" or the "Frontmatter" of the book he is about to present us. The ghostly, ethereal intro is provided by, I'm told, a choir boy from the Metro Voices of London contract choir company. It gives us a succinct summary of the whole song: "The songwriter's dead. The blade fell upon him; Taking him to the white lands; Of Empathica; Of Innocence." The White Lands of Empathica is a mythical land in the Dark Tower fantasy movie, and I conclude he is using it as somewhat analogous to an afterlife destination in "End World." "Movement II: Home" This part lays out his living hell in the normal "home" world before his abrupt transition to End World when the descending pendulum blade strikes him. "The dreamer and the wine; Poet without a rhyme. A widowed writer torn apart by chains of hell." Tuomas is clearly both the poet and the dreamer. He is a fan of wine. Whenever you see Empuu slugging a Corona on stage, Tuomas is sipping from a bottle of wine behind his keyboards. He is without a rhyme because poetry comes from the heart, and his heart is currently dead. He views himself as being "widowed" in that his angel has had her "angel wings burnt to dust" by dismissal from the band. The chains of hell tearing him apart were the opposing requirements of his heart and head: the desire to keep her in the band and continue wallowing in his pain versus the harsh business decision required to end the problem and give both careers a new start, both Tarja's and Nightwish's. "One last perfect verse; Is still the same old song. Oh Christ how I hate what I have become!" Tuomas is telling us here that the chain of hell pulling him to maintain the status quo has driven him to keep trying to write "that one perfect verse" that will get through to her and "fix" the situation, making the problem go away even though his head tells him this is hopeless and futile. He has told us this same thing in lyrics from previous songs written years ago also such as in "Nemo" ("This line the last endeavor to find the missing life line!") and "Dead Boy's Poem" ("Walk within my poetry. This dying music: my loveletter to nobody.") The continued futile attempts seem, to him, as "still the same old song" in that he keeps trying to say the same thing expecting a different result. He hates that circumstances have driven him to become this person. "Take me home. Get away, run away, fly away! Lead me astray to dreamer's hideaway! I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more; I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world!" Tuomas often refers to himself as the dreamer, the introvert, the escapist. This chorus is revealing his inner escapist telling him to run from the problem that he might hideaway from it rather than face it. He has no shoulder left to cry on. He is finding no more joy in pursuing his passion of writing and performing music for "the cold world" who cares nothing for his sorrows and pain. They only want him for his music. This makes him tantamount to a whore, selling his mind and body to that cold world without joy in return. "Forgive me: I have but two faces. One for the world; One for God; Save me!" He asks for forgiveness for this. His whore face he presents to the cold world. He tells us about this face again on the next album in "Song of Myself" ("All that great heart lying still; In silent suffering; Smiling like a clown until the show has come to an end. What's left for encore; Is the same old Dead Boy's song; Sung in silence") When the "show has come to an end" he has his other face only for God. Note that he is not religious in real life, and that is well known, but the metaphor which the rest of the world understands is appropriate and meaningful nonetheless. "My home was there and then; Those meadows of heaven. Adventure-filled days; One with every smiling face." He is imagining here his anticipation of the death to come at the hand of the pendulum blade. One second he is home in the normal world. The next second he is in the meadows of heaven; apparently Empathica. "Please, no more words; Thoughts from a severed head. No more praise! Tell me once my heart goes right!" He wants no more words of advice or encouragement from others. His thoughts are as those from a severed head: useless to effect response of the body. His head has been severed from his heart by the "chains of hell" in verse one... or has it been severed by Poe's blade? Or is it both? Or are they both really the same thing? Tuomas is a master of double meaning, and he uses that poetic device often throughout much of Nightwish's lyrics. He wants no more praise for his musical talent from the cold world. He just wants, for once, to be reassured that his heart has made the right decision. Continued below as Reply #1--->