0.39 Intro
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1.36 chorus (repeat at 2.12)
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3.41 solo
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8.22 chorus (repeat until the end)
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*evan* Average |
#1 by *evan* at Feb 18, 1978 at 1:48 PM EST |
| This song is epic, especially nearing the end when it comes back round to the chorus again and repeats to fade. Certainly my favourite on the ONCE album. | |
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Kenny Lead Player |
#2 by Kenny Berg at Jan 23, 1979 at 1:32 AM EST |
| great song, probabily the best on once, and it is also great coz it is over 10 minds but still u cant get bored of it coz it is full of unexpected turns i mean in the music...love it | |
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Mike Wanna Be |
#3 by Mike Jeffries at Oct 19, 1981 at 11:53 AM EST |
| I think it's about a person that's willing to sacrifice everything he/she has for another person, just to find out that the other person had betrayed him/her I also love the instrumental version... | |
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Erin Rhythm Player |
#4 by Erin at Aug 5, 1983 at 9:26 PM EST |
| This song is great live!!! Crowd went mad n kinda filled most ppl with emotion awww! | |
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Eric Wanna Be |
#5 by Eric Canfield at May 24, 1986 at 11:06 AM EST |
| this song has to be one of the most beautiful epic songs nightwish have wrote. i think its about a woman who was once inlove but her love left her and now she cant move on "i have lost the path before me the one behind will lead me" | |
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steven Lead Player |
#6 by steven ratliff at Feb 10, 1994 at 12:56 AM EST |
| I must agree with Charli_jenk. When I was at the concert and they started the song I was curious wether they would pull of such a great and epic song live, but they did. I stood there just feeling ultimately happy, and it was such a great experience... | |
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ALEX Lead Player |
#7 by ALEX FOWLER at Jan 9, 2004 at 9:19 PM EST |
| This is one of my most favorite songs of all time. :) The chorus is just amazing. I especially love it when it changes at the end, and then just fades out. Magical. The introduction also just blows me away every time. Wonderful. | |
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Fat Man Goz Lead Player |
#8 by Fat Man Goz at Sep 27, 2007 at 11:13 PM EST |
| Such an amazing song. | |
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brad Average |
#9 by brad at Sep 28, 2007 at 10:25 AM EST |
| hhmm....beautiful... | |
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metalis4ever Average |
#10 by metalis4ever at Sep 28, 2007 at 9:16 PM EST |
| This song brings me close to tears everytime I hear it. It means a lot to me. The sense of loss that one cannot recover from... another song in a totally different style that reminds me of the feeling I get listening to this is "Outlaw Torn" by Metallica, but this is more epic than even the S&M version of Metallica's song. I find myself whispering the chorus to myself when no-one's around. It's sad, terribly forlorn but beautiful nevertheless. I'd rate it as one of my favourite songs in an instant. | |
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ben Lead Player |
#11 by ben Tee at Sep 29, 2007 at 4:14 AM EST |
| This song is deffnately about being betrayed, the person falls in love with someone and gets betrayed. its a very sad song, but very powerful and exciting. Its a epic song, and my favorite ever. tuomas has some powerful lyrics, this by far, this song just blew me out of the water. I wll never get to see this song live, and I want to, just to see nightwish once and just this song wow what i would give for that..if yah ever wanna talk about the song msg me on something or about finland a beautiful land msg me on im or pm. great song. | |
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calvin Wanna Be |
#12 by calvin maynard at Oct 4, 2007 at 10:21 PM EST |
| I get the impression that it's about a love that used to be close but then kinda drifted apart and all their plans just faded... And the love she has for him will allow her to give herself up to him and give her life for his love... And the dreams bring her to him through the "blue memories" reffering to when they swam together... uh... Oceans is a very common theme in Nightwish songs lol then a whole bunch of love me cuz i love you.. and then a refference to The Child... and then yeh. ~Vampy lol | |
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kenzie Professional Badass |
#13 by kenzie at Oct 8, 2007 at 4:30 AM EST |
| I didn't like the singer's voice the first time I heard it, but this song has definatly grown on me since then. I'm going to have to check out some more stuff by Nightwish. | |
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isaac Average |
#14 by isaac fritsch at Oct 10, 2007 at 7:41 PM EST |
| oh and this song would win a award, its so beautiful, so good, so professional, so simply the masterpiece song =) | |
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eric Rhythm Player |
#15 by eric christian at Oct 14, 2007 at 1:25 AM EST |
| ridiculously incredible. the only thing that will ever touch this is maybe rhapsody's latest work and swano's CRIMSON. | |
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Lucas Average |
#16 by Lucas Lawrey at Oct 15, 2007 at 5:50 AM EST |
| Easily the most epic song ever. Why wasn't this song in lotr somewheres? | |
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Tavo Wanna Be |
#17 by Tavo at Oct 16, 2007 at 9:28 AM EST |
| This song just blew me away. The chorus is strong and with the sadness along. It surprised me to find a tear roll down my cheek. A real epic song... | |