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Offline ShinyChen

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Re: New Nightwish Album Upcoming...
« Reply #15 on: December 15, 2007, 07:22:37 am »
Oh, to my sadness... the lead singer is changed, can't even get to like the singer now...

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Re: New Nightwish Album Upcoming...
« Reply #16 on: December 22, 2007, 01:17:30 am »

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Re: New Nightwish Album Upcoming...
« Reply #17 on: December 22, 2007, 06:33:38 pm »
I managed to see both versions of the band live. (w/ Tarja a few years ago, and w/ Anette a few months ago)

Have to say, the more recent show was even better than the first!

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Re: New Nightwish Album Upcoming...
« Reply #18 on: December 23, 2007, 08:29:47 pm »
I've never really followed Nightwish.  Interesting sort of coming into it now after not having seen anything for a long time.  The linked video was pretty decent, even if the chick seemed a little... hmm.  Not sure.  Her attitude didn't quite seem to fit the content, I guess.  She sounded good, though.  I went and checked out some older stuff, and man, how different.  I can really see why a lot of fans are pissed and don't like the new girl.  Doesn't get much different from: this one.  It's a lot harder to take the new girl seriously in comparison, though it's just because the other girl seems so much more... operatic?  That isn't the word I'm looking for, but it'll do.  Dramatic seems almost right, but that isn't quite the word either.

Still don't know that it fits my personal niche, but I need to listen to some more.  I'm more on the death metal side of things being a metal guitarist myself (though honestly I listen to a lot of stuff, and the stuff I'm listening to of Nightwish on YouTube now sounds much better to me than it did the last time I heard something).

EDIT - All right, I think this song might have made me a convert...
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Re: New Nightwish Album Upcoming...
« Reply #19 on: December 23, 2007, 09:52:29 pm »
Basically I see the same meaning in this song as Aquaria, which is interesting.

(only people who have beaten the game will have a chance of understanding the similarities)

The Poet and the Pendulum

I. "WHITE LANDS OF EMPATHICA"


The end.

The songwriter's dead.
The blade fell upon him
Taking him to the white lands
Of Empathica
Of Innocence
Empathica
Innocence


II. "HOME"

The dreamer and the wine
Poet without a rhyme
A widowed writer torn apart by chains of hell

One last perfect verse
Is still the same old song
Oh Christ how I hate what I have become

Take me home

Getaway, runaway, 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
Forgive me
I have but two faces
One for the world
One for God
Save me
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world


My home was there 'n then
Those meadows of heaven
Adventure-filled days
One with every smiling face

Please, no more words
Thoughts from a severed head
No more praise
Tell me once my heart goes right

Take me home

Getaway, runaway, 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
Forgive me
I have but two faces
One for the world
One for God
Save me
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world


III. "THE PACIFIC"

Sparkle my scenery
With turquoise waterfall
With beauty underneath
The Ever Free

Tuck me in beneath the blue
Beneath the pain, beneath the rain
Goodnight kiss for a child in time
Swaying blade my lullaby

On the shore we sat and hoped
Under the same pale moon
Whose guiding light chose you
Chose you all


" I'm afraid. I'm so afraid.
Being raped again, and again, and again
I know I will die alone.
But loved.

You live long enough to hear the sound of guns,
long enough to find yourself screaming every night,
long enough to see your friends betray you.

For years I've been strapped unto this altar.
Now I only have 3 minutes and counting.
I just wish the tide would catch me first and give me a death I always longed for ".


IV. "DARK PASSION PLAY"

2nd robber to the right of Christ
Cut in half - infanticide
The world will rejoice today
As the crows feast on the rotting poet

Everyone must bury their own
No pack to bury the heart of stone
Now he's home in hell, serves him well
Slain by the bell, tolling for his farewell

The morning dawned, upon his altar
Remains of the dark passion play
Performed by his friends without shame
Spitting on his grave as they came

Getaway, runaway, 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
Forgive me
I have but two faces
One for the world
One for God
Save me
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world


Today, in the year of our Lord 2005,
Tuomas was called from the cares of the world.
He stopped crying at the end of each beautiful day.
The music he wrote had too long been without silence.


He was found naked and dead,
With a smile in his face, a pen and 1000 pages of erased text."

Save me


V. "MOTHER & FATHER"

Be still, my son
You're home
Oh when did you become so cold?
The blade will keep on descending
All you need is to feel my love

Search for beauty, find your shore
Try to save them all, bleed no more
You have such oceans within
In the end
I will always love you

The beginning.
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Re: New Nightwish Album Upcoming...
« Reply #20 on: December 23, 2007, 09:55:55 pm »
Another one that I feel fits the game well:

Ocean Soul

One more night
To bear this nightmare
What more do I have to say

Crying for me was never worth a tear
My lonely soul is only filled with fear

Long hours of loneliness
Between me and the sea

Losing emotion
Finding devotion
Should I dress in white and search the sea
As I always wished to be - one with the waves
Ocean Soul

Walking the tideline
I hear your name
Is angels wispering
Something so beautiful it hurts

I only wished to become something beautiful
Through my music, through my silent devotion