Wolf Rock Reaction of Lanternlight - Nightwish

WOW - love this song.
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[@WardDorrity]

Floor's lower register just slays. It's an emotional depth charge to the heart.

[@zbygniewprlwytzkofsky6614]

Floor stated recently that nowadays the lower registers are more easy for her to access, it is feeling better to go there than earlier in her career.

[@christinaalgate4899]

I agree. Love her lower register

[@Dipper737]

I noticed her tears as well when I saw it the first time. It definitely is, knowing her empathic being. Touching. Great song and video.

[@Piia2023]

She said she cried when she heard this song for the first time

[@zbygniewprlwytzkofsky6614]

"Is she Crying?" Valkyrie queens do not cry, they make you do it.

[@schout33]

Floor was certainly very emotional during recording. She is a high sensitive person, so she feels everything she sings very deeply.

[@claudiadorner9804]

Plus she just gave birth to Lucy 😊

[@gabriel.bardac]

I'm glad to see you again

[@pdutchie4924]

Not able to listen to this with dry eyes, it goes straight to your soul. It’s so fragile and strong at the same time. What a gorgeous piece of music composed by Tuomas and so emotionally sung by Floor. Good to see you back!

[@Rackelhane]

Great reaction to this wonderful song. Thank you.

[@eveningglow2608]

Great to see you with a new Nightwish reaction! This is such a beautiful song, I listen to it on repeat.

[@ssshadowwolf6762]

FINALLY! Olly is back !❤️

[@wolfrock2270]

What up. Did you like this song?

[@ssshadowwolf6762]

@@wolfrock2270 I did ! Very much! And btw -why don’t you age ???

[@wolfrock2270]

@@ssshadowwolf6762 lol I'm still oldish

[@freyallarganswald4746]

I think you have nailed the meaning of this beautiful song. In interviews tuomas did say it he had written this with his dad ( who passed in 2021) in mind 😢.

[@lillianekockritz2796]

Tuomas Holopainen wrote it as a reflection upon his father’s passing in 2021. He reflects on how we have been blessed to have had lantern lights who have guided our lives and how we in turn should serve the same role for others. It is about our love for each other. The Welsh and Northern English word "wynde" means a narrow lane or alley between homes. Basically we walk that narrow alley between our ancestors and our descendants lighting the way between generations until we become the ancestors when we walk into the yesterwynde. Gone is the hurt, the wait, gone is the warmth of day. A stray boat saved, happy memories engraved, on into a velvety night, beneath a lanternlight. Last night brought the heaviest of snows melting the songs of old, tying the boat, write a new one soon, sending me to the drowning moon, far above a lanternlight. I'm in the light and flood, I'm in the four winds, I am the waves shaping pebbles flawless gems, I am the snow on your palm. I am the secret stream, moss beneath your feet, I am you who climbed off of my back not long ago, a sheltered song in a world now gone, petrichor, the timeless. Turn loose the swaying boat, meltwater, sound of spring. I hear our song now, sung by the free, for a thousand more tomorrows of an incomplete weave. To the meadows I go, I’ll be waiting for you once upon a lanternlight. I walk now toward the trees, I am the secret stream, the night falling at my feet into the forest of Yesterwynde.

[@Frightspear]

Nightwish is their own genre and no other band comes close to the level they are at. Never, in the history of music entertainment, have a set of skills and talent collided in such powerful manner. Tuomas is a true genius as a composer and with lyrics.

[@renejensen7799]

I feel like this song is a ode to everyone who lost theier parrents!! Floor sings the sentence, i was the one who climbed of your back not long ago, same words used in the song Our decades in the sun, and that song is surely a ode to our parrents, that basicly why i say its about lost parrents, who became stardust.. Could be a song written by tuomas to hes father, who recently died.. I love this song, this and a Ocean of strange islands is my 2 favorites from new album.

[@124Spider5]

WOLF? I miss your reactions Dude!!! You're one of the best Nightwish fans on KZbin Reaction World...Indeed. You're right. Floor talked about this in some interviews. Tuomas wrote this song for his father and Floor said she had a hard time holding back the tears while singing it.

[@wolfrock2270]

@@124Spider5 omg do you have any ideal as to which interview i would love to post it. Thank you 😊.

[@wolfrock2270]

@@124Spider5thank you I miss doing reaction views.

[@TheRomy22ify]

Thank you so much for reacting this! Don't know about Tuomas father - that's very sad!!! It is a beautiful song and I cried with floor😢

[@Mars-is4un]

🤗🍒🤘🏻 Great Job as always and welcome back Wolf, amazing song huh 🎶🎼

[@alanbaggs3730]

Hi. Greetings from the UK. You are not the first to comment about "was that a tear In Floor's eye".. I thought I had imagined it the first time I watched the video but as she had already reduced me to tears with that fabulous voice I was not sure. However I posted a reaction on Floor's website and the question came back from another member asking if I had noticed the tear at 4.20 approximately so you are not alone in asking the question. I am still not sure of the answer- either a tear or a trick or the light. - we will probably never know. Thanks for the reaction to a beautiful song. Your conclusions very much go along with my thought process that all our ancestors keep living through us as we will go on through the next generations. For me there was a cause for hope in this song which lifted it from sad to soothing and comforting.

[@Syp74]

Happy to see u again Olly, hopefully you do the album to. And yourealmost spot on about Tuomas his father and this song.

[@Thorgrim247]

Welcome back Olly! It has been a minute. Beautifully done. Hauntingly beautiful and nostalgically reflective.

[@RolfMeyer-cl7ou]

The perfect ending of the Trioligy

[@jompuusi]

Greetings from Finland 😍

[@susanjw7763]

Well hello Olly - long time no see This song had me bawling within 45 seconds.....and it happened again.

[@AlvenmodFoto]

When I wrote down my reflections of the album this is what I ended up with for Lanternlight: Concludes the album with a reflective and serene exploration of transition, renewal, and connection to nature, emphasizing the importance of memories and the promise of new beginnings. The song touches on themes of loss and mortality, possibly reflecting on the death of a loved one, such as a parent or another significant figure. The imagery of a lantern light guiding through the night and the serene acceptance of moving towards the "forest of Yesterwynde" suggest a narrative of saying goodbye and the hope of reunion. Losing my own father at the height of the pandemic made this song cut me in the deeps and is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard, A bittersweet lamentation with stylistic similarities to the title track, featuring serene and reflective elements that give the album a sense of conceptual and tonal unity. A younger sibling to Our Decades in the Sun and a perfect finale of this album and the trilogy. 10/10

[@dextermorgan4286]

Olly, glad to see you, man. Epic reaction.

[@skeezesmith7954]

I feel that this song is from the perspective of his father. The images in the background signify a bygone era showing people who are no longer with us. Anyway, thats what I got out of this, another wonderful song from the mind of Tuomas. 😄🤘

[@NickBR57]

I have played the album 3 times in each version and this is my favourite song. It may well displace one of my top 6 NW songs - time will tell. To the commenter who didnt lije the video - go watch David K's analysis of rhe video, it may change your mind I encourage anyone to listen to the instrumental and the orchestral vetsions of the album. This song is just as moving in both versions if you are attuned to music. In fact all the songs reveal greater connections with older NW than you might at first hear from the full version. A similar sentiment is found in the previous track but one, Hiraeth. For info, Tuomas says the standout track is The Children of 'Ata. He also thinks the album is best heard from start to finish in irder. I think I agree as it has what in classical music we might refer to as a cyclic architecture. One reviewer said: "Lanternlight" plays the role of concluding tear-jerker, but with a sincerity and finesse that gently reinforce the humanistic thrust of this whole record. Tuomas also says: "The whole theme of the album is time, history, humanism, mortality. And it has a really optimistic vibe going through it all." - I think that time and history element comes out strongly in this song. Your interpretation of that is, I think, spot on. About Floor's voice: Personally I have always thought (unlike many) that Floor's lowest register, though she says it is most difficult for her, really shines as my favourite part of her range. It is like velvet. But when she first changes to the high register, after all that low register, it really hits and is a "tingle factor" moment for me. Troy is a perfect complement in this song, both in harmony and in his lead vocal at the end . Just a gorgeous, beautiful, heartrending song.

[@jaanalaaksolahti1427]

Album starts with movie projector and ends with movie projector.

[@TheZachh]

The song was written for Tuomas' father who passed away, Petri Holopainen

[@tomdog78]

Long time no see. Good to see you again.

[@Mike_Judas_Priest_Kalsek]

Hi Olly! I'm liking the new Nightwish so far, but I think I'll need to hear the whole album in one continuous listening session, with headphones. Cheers!

[@christinaalgate4899]

Hi Olly. Liked Floor's hand movements. Lucy will be 1 in a month.

[@RonniePeterson]

Great to see you. I think Tuomas has a major problem now. How on earth can he top that masterpiece?

[@sheilascoyne861]

Beautiful ❤ thank you 😊

[@traceyraffle6675]

Great that you're back :)

[@Hykje]

The album begins with the start of the projector and ends with the projector shutting down -the movie is over.

[@malcolmboswell9717]

Good to see you back! Missed you bud!

[@ferretmom66]

Yes, Tuomas wrote this for his father.

[@marcelofarah8657]

Has he said it in an interview or is it an assumption?

[@NickBR57]

​@@marcelofarah8657I haven't seen it, or at least I don't recall it. But Tuomas does take time to write an album and his father died in February 2021.

[@ferretmom66]

​@@marcelofarah8657 I read it in a recent magazine interview with Tuomas, he talks about how losing someone dear to him inspired the song. He felt it was appropriate to end the album with this one.

[@marcelofarah8657]

@@ferretmom66 If you remember the magazine, I would like to know which it is, I'd like to read it. I think the song is not so specific because it goes with the theme of the album, it might be coincidental that his father died when he was writing the song. If his father was ill in that moment Tuomas might have felt inspired by that but that does not mean he wrote it "specifically" for his father.

[@Piia2023]

​@@marcelofarah8657Floor said in an interview when Tuomas played the songs to them he told the stories to every song. She said Tuomas said this song is for his father

[@pierremichaud6085]

This song reminds me of her song "The fight goes on: Warchild."

[@gabriel.bardac]

Maybe the tempo is similar, and the piano accompaniment. Maybe Floor's voice is in a similar register at the beginning. But the melodic line is clearly different. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5LUd6mapLF2f8U

[@pekkakarppinen1608]

No, you are crying. 😂🤘

[@wolfrock2270]

@@pekkakarppinen1608 yep