Dear WolfKain, thank you for this kind reaction. It is a beautiful song that deserves a lot more attention. I love the way you started to smile when you heard the live version. As always live ads so much more to any song, at least when Nightwish is involved. The whole band is capable of somehow reach into our hearts when they perform live. I also thank you for acknowledging the beautiful rendition Samatha Steenwijk did in Beste Zangers. Best wishes to you and your beautiful wife. Greetings from the Netherlands
Oh boy, this song... Every time I listened to it, I would burst into tears non-stop. I dedicated it solely to my mother, my absolute hero, then it became even more special after news of Floor's cancer scare came out. When she tells the audience in this video to shine a light on a loved one, and they immediately shine their flashlights on her, it gives me chills, even today. That ocean of light, completely dedicated to our beloved queen in the midst of her recovery. Her emotional performance adds even more heartfelt importance to the little speech she gave before performing the song, and the soft way Troy played the guitar? Oof... Goosebumps, Wolf... Just goosebumps...
I have never been close to my parents. I really don`t know how it feels. But couple years ago, I was in my little rubber boat on lake, sun was setting... I listened this song and I got this feeling that even my parents did not make it right to their children, it is okay. Beautiful song.
@@reeilona Unfortunately we can't choose our parents. My childhood was relatively happy and safe. But still l revealed in my father's funeral speech, that when young l sometimes wondered, whether he's really my father. So different we were. Of course l then continued, and now as a middleaged man there's no doubt about it. Aging makes us often more similar to our parents. So they are in us anyway, whether we like or not. That's why this song is so special and beautiful.
Sterkte met je verlies, Irene. Voor mij is het komende nacht een jaar geleden dat ik mijn moeder verloor en ik ben ook enig kind. Voor mij was dit lied ook emotioneel, zeker ook omdat ik de Nederlandstalige versie ervan, gezongen voor Floor door Samantha Steenwijk, in mijn hoofd heb waardoor het mij nog meer raakt. 💜
Maybe too view in your private time: Floor also sang this song in het solo performance in Amsterdam. These is a very good video of it on het personal RU-vid Channel. In fact, the entire show is there. With professional video and audio. Unearthly beautiful
Beautiful song, and it works very well as an acoustic version. This replaced the acoustic version of "How's the Heart" in the setlist (for a time), I believe. In that one, the rest of the band also comes in later in the song, rather subtly. Apparently, this one was a tough one to get through in the studio, because the lyrics were hitting everyone pretty hard in the band. They had been away from family for a long time, and it was a pretty emotional time. So, lots of tears were shed.
I understand that at the first attempt in the studio Floor missed the cue and silence ensued from the vocal booth. On investigating Floor was a sobbing wreck on the floor in the corner.
Beautiful song prefer the live always with nightwish I remember see a interview about this song everyone had there input on this song it had made them all cry
Hello again, WolfKain. This was a wonderful reaction to our beautiful Floor performing this song. I prefer the live version, even though it was a cellphone recording. It is just so much more personal and engaging. Loved it and thank you for continuing to react to Nightwish live performances with Floor.
What is really special about Floor is how unbelievably good she sounds even in a handheld phone recording! If you compare this recording to phone recordings of other great singers Floor really stands out for the very dependable quality of her voice in such a badly controlled environment. I really know of very few singers who can do that.
The difference is the live version is almost all acoustic. Just Floor and Troy on Acoustic guitar. Toward the end Toumas And Kai Come in very gently to not spoil the stripped down performance. Always love you and HalfLifeSistah reactions. Thanks! P.S. Check out the AFAS LIVE from Amsterdam version. Stunning also.
I used to skip this song on the album, honestly. But when hearing it on that tour in December, I had tears in my eyes. Maybe because, finally, after 5 years since the last concert in Prague (several postponements due to Covid), it was just so amazing to see Floor and the whole band live.
Yes, this version is really a good recording for an audience mobile shot. After it appeared I recommended it on another channel and it came across well. My understanding, which may be wrong, is that it's not specifically about Floor, but Marco and Tuomas' too.
Hey Wolfkan. It is the song you listened. And NW performing this on is a big hug to the original singer and composer. There's a lot of good stuff coming from th Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and so on Keep it up my friend. 🤟
Nice back on the Nightwish train. One of their great songs And already discover Floor Jansen, growling like....⚡⚡🔥??? This is an old one back in the days, with Revamp, there are live videos, so you can search ore pick one. This is a studio version of the song : Misery's no crime. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rB2zPTu6Sj4.html A live version : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SNPesLFTnUg.html I'm already excited to see you're reaction! Enjoy the FL🌀🌀RICANE!!!
I was there at the concert! It was pure magic! Fun fact: I was upgradet to superior seats for me an my kids (first time they saw nightwish live) and it happened that Teemu (I don’t know if I can still say from Wintersun… if you know what I mean 😕) sat just a few seats next to me with his own family 😅.
Yes, it was the song Samantha performed and translated into Dutch. Funny how you grasped the meaning, because it was sung in a language you aren't fluent in. Wolfkain, as and old person, you now experience yesterday's music today...
This is a beautiful song, but a bit bittersweet for me to listen to, because my relationships with my parents are quite complex. They divorced when I was seven and my father wasn't ever really acting like a father. He was kinda absent even though I visited him regularly for a few years. He is still a part of my and my children's lives, but in a very passive way. My mother provided me everything essential and taught me how to be independent which I'm very greatful of, but I was really lacking a certain kind of empathy and compassion. Somenone who would have support me to be me and chase my dreams. I learned how to please everyone else, but not to know who I am and what I really want in life. And I get it mustn't have been easy being a single mother, but I still feel sad sometimes thinking of how things could have been if I had two supporting parents. And that's why this song is a difficult for me to process.
We often don't realize the impact our parents have on us till much later in life. Good and bad it shapes who we are. My biological father rejected me at a young age, and later I learned that caused a detachment style behavior that affects my relationship with my wife and daughter. It's a constant struggle to better myself and let those feeling in. When my Mom passed away 28 years ago, he came back into my life, but I didn't start calling him Dad again until about 3 years ago. It's can be a slow process, but we have to try and heal our wounds because we only have one go around, and there are no do-overs ❤
@@WolfKain Yes, it's true that those childhood things truly hit you later in life. For years I thought that my childhood was "normal" and I was just too weak to handle certain kind of things. Only after I became mother myself things started to reveal. I started to understand (after therapy) that I wasn't weak, but in fact strong to have carrying on so long. It was a huge relief to finally let myself rest mentally. Now I have been rebuilding myself for a few years and my main goals are being true to myself and raise my children with all the love, caring and support that I can possibly give. I hope they can listen to these kind of songs some day and relate to them. Let's hang in there. ❤️
Excelente reacción ❤reacciona también a Tarja Turunen como solista en el concierto de woodstock con la música Víctima del ritual y tambien Diva😉 saludos desde Paraguay 🇵🇾
@@WolfKain ok, something f*cky is definitely going on because i know I pressed send on the reply I made to this and it was there when i refreshed to page but now it's gone.
This is definitely weird and has happened before to another person. I added you to "always approve" just in case, but I don't think that fixes it. It's something to do with RU-vid but I don't know what. Send it to me on Patreon if you can so I can see what it was.
I will say hi to @floorjansen .... I'm going to a meet and greet with her today (16 april) at The Hague in The Netherlands! 🙏👍 #floorjansen @paard_denhaag #paard_denhaag
