I love it when Floor sings in "duet" with Floor. Such a work of art comes out when you have a musical genius and a goddess in the band. For me, this is my absolute favorite song by Nightwish, together with Sleeping Sun. Btw; it was Floor's choice to release this song as a single.
This is so exquisitely, heartbreakingly beautiful. No one else but Floor can sing this. It's an emotional depth charge to the heart. Note the very end, with the gentle departure of Tuomas' fingers from the keyboard. That's a tale in itself.
I thought I had a good top 10 song of the year yet.. than, this song came out 👌 One of the beautiful piano i've heard in a long time 🖐️ beautiful song 🤟
The way my soul reacted, Tears. I am just a sucker for beauty, and this is one of the most beautiful compositions I have ever heard in my 71 years in this body. Thank you Floor for the gift that is you 💖❤🔥💖❤🔥💝
Floor's voice heals everything. she is really a bright warm light in this world. i will go now and cry a little more after i heard lanterlight one more time. one of the best songs i ever heard😢😭
Great to see you sparkling VC! This song brings tears to my eyes every time... For me, this is the continuation of Perfume of the Timeless... Whereas, the former is about our ancestral past and it's legacy...This lullaby is OUR final destination...our transition to our original state..always and forever present in the Universe...we are the lantern light ignited by the myriad lanterns before us. Floor at her sublime gorgeousness and then Troy comes in....❤❤❤❤❤. It's the final goodbye....but we're always present albeit in another form. Take care VC.......❤❤
This hits you right in the middle of your heart, doesn't it? Such a tendre, delicate, melancholic, beautiful song. The combination with the orchestra, the duet with Troy, that gorgeous ending. It immediately guides you to memories of the loved ones that passed away. I want this song being played at my own funeral. I think that says it all.
Good evening dear Lady, Yes the Queen Floor Jansen, has us all in the palm of her and hand yet again, and with superb Piano Playing of Tuomas, Song righter, Band leader of Nightwish, who must rate as one of the best music composers of the 21st century, and of course, You dear Lady and your wonderful Review of this master piece of Music, from this phenomenal New Nightwish Album. Thank You
So beautiful, sad, but comforting at the same time. I wouldn't mind if this was played at my funeral. If they're not crying for me they'll be crying for this 😊
It's the first time I hear this interpretation, and it makes a lot of sense, because it's a common theme with the one from "Perfume Of The Timeless" (much more obvious there). Very possibly the main theme of the "Yesterwynde" album. Thanks! I'm still at the emotional impact of Floor's voice, I haven't processed everything yet...
Your interpretation fits with mine. Tuomas wrote this after his father passed in 2021. It feels sad in the beginning, the loss, but the message is hopefull. The lanternlights that guide us, those previous ghosts (like our parents) that guide us to where we are now. This song is beautiful,and Floor's voice captures me every time I hear it.
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.
I heard this song a few times now and always make me tear up. I think it's perfect song to end the album and the triology of the last three albums. Love all Nightwish era's but this last three albums connected with me so much, the songs about humanity and the world we live in made me connect with my emotions and change my view of life and the world. Just my two cents, sorry if my english isn't perfect. Greetings from Portugal
Yes, that is very much the story. Reflection on the past and the people we have lost along the way. Yesterwynde is a created word to describe the contemplation of our place with the concept of time. To wind back the clock and reflect on our brief time in this mortal existence.
I without shame declare I love Floor as the most beautiful human being beyond my family. Her empathy and quiet potency to deliver emotion every time is just wonderful. What a Goddess.
This sounds like her solo album, I think Tuomas likes the variety of her singing. Floor said that she chokes up too easily with this song, the band rewinds, during the sessions, to let her recover. The old movies, memories. Then Troy drifts in with his soft voice, he made up the word, so his pronunciation, is our guide :)
Is there any other singers who are not only vocalises a song but feels the core emotions as well as Floor? There are character actors and she is a character singer
Well, her older daughter Freya asked her to stop singing 😅 Floor said during one of her solo shows that she hopes for a second chance with the younger kid 😂
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.
The projector sound is also the beginning of Yesterwinde. So the album starts with that and this is the last song so ending with that like the album is finished
I like Floor's lower register. This is the 3rd time listening. FYI Did you notice the H on her finger. Hannes had a F in the same place. LOVE FLOOR'S VOICE
As always, Nightwish's talent is not up for discussion. This song sung by Floor takes you from the heart to the soul. It leaves room to feel comfortable and safe. Danke 😢 It shows that you can only judge what you have experienced in retrospect. But to enjoy it, you should do it by candlelight and in peace happen.Happy Sunday
Just a beautiful ballad. Parts of the song , particularly the first verse , sounded to me like it would fit in with songs from Floor's solo album, but it is still Nightwish. 4th single from the album, 12th and last track on the album. 3rd single was "An Ocean of Strange Islands" , the longest song on the album at over 9 minutes.
Thanks for sharing your reaction to a song that for me empowers us to recognize our connection to nature and one another, ultimately signifying that even in times of uncertainty, there is beauty and hope to be found under the glow of the lanternlight.
Hi VC, nice to see you back. This is hauntingly beautiful. The composition is beautiful and delicate, and then you add Floor doing Floor things - her voice in her first register is so warm and comforting. Just gorgeous. 🙂🤘
Lovely reaction. A fitting last song on the album and also a fitting end to the trilogy of Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Human Nature and Yesterwynde. It feels to me like someone saying goodbye to family and friends as their life comes to the end. Loads of beautiful imagery in the lyrics of seeing the end, of reminding those we love that we will always be present, of lamenting the unfinished things we leave behind (as is always the case), and then walking "to the trees". Since Tuomas is famous for writing lyrics for multiple interpretations I could also see this song where the narrator is death personified, much like the way the lyrics in Music were. A third way I see it is that the lyrics aren't necessarily about a person but are instead a metaphor for humanity and our walk through the eons of our existence which would fit well with the themes of the album trilogy. For me the line "I am you who climbed off your back" gives me Decades in the Sun vibes and of course "To the meadows I go" is tapping into the same symbolism and meaning as Meadows of Heaven. Heartachingly beautiful song and a perfect bookend to the album and trilogy.
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.
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 mat 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. VC, for info, Tiomas 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 revieer 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 rlement comes out strongly in this song. Your interpretation of that is, I think, spot on. About Floor's voice: Oersonally 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,bit 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. Thank you.
Welcome back. Hope the back is behaving itself. Love that when Floor made her solo album she deliberately avoided metal so as not to compete with Nightwish. Tuomas obviously thought that that was a good idea.
Troy notwithstanding, this really is a very nice song (best of the album) because you can actually hear Floor loud and CLEAR for a change. Still far removed from the splendor of a delicate After Forever ballad though. A must-see & hear classic. So here goes: "After Forever - Eccentric Live at Pinkpop Festival (2004)" - ua-cam.com/video/ISU5TqGAfuw/v-deo.html Includes introduction in Dutch by Floor saying that Joost (van den Broek; yup the Ayreon guy) and her are about to do something completely different, i.e. a ballad from their latest album.
Sorry about that. Was gonna just scrap the reaction when I heard it, because I never re-film a reaction. I forgave myself for the echoes since they were only in the opening, due to this being a new drop by this incredible band.
An ode to those we loved who held a lantern for us so that we could better see our own path. And, though they are gone, the lantern still burns.
I love it when Floor sings in "duet" with Floor.
Such a work of art comes out when you have a musical genius and a goddess in the band.
For me, this is my absolute favorite song by Nightwish, together with Sleeping Sun.
Btw; it was Floor's choice to release this song as a single.
This is so exquisitely, heartbreakingly beautiful. No one else but Floor can sing this. It's an emotional depth charge to the heart. Note the very end, with the gentle departure of Tuomas' fingers from the keyboard. That's a tale in itself.
Floor is the most perfect creation on Earth
Yes, because she's not OF this Earth...
Actually she's Valkyrie Queen and perfect creation of all seven realms!
Nightwish evolve, but they are still Nightwish. Expect the unexpected.
I thought I had a good top 10 song of the year yet.. than, this song came out 👌 One of the beautiful piano i've heard in a long time 🖐️ beautiful song 🤟
The way my soul reacted, Tears. I am just a sucker for beauty, and this is one of the most beautiful compositions I have ever heard in my 71 years in this body. Thank you Floor for the gift that is you 💖❤🔥💖❤🔥💝
After now at least 50 times watching I finally decided: This is my song of the year!
Floor's voice heals everything. she is really a bright warm light in this world. i will go now and cry a little more after i heard lanterlight one more time. one of the best songs i ever heard😢😭
Great to see you sparkling VC!
This song brings tears to my eyes every time...
For me, this is the continuation of Perfume of the Timeless...
Whereas, the former is about our ancestral past and it's legacy...This lullaby is OUR final destination...our transition to our original state..always and forever present in the Universe...we are the lantern light ignited by the myriad lanterns before us.
Floor at her sublime gorgeousness and then Troy comes in....❤❤❤❤❤.
It's the final goodbye....but we're always present albeit in another form.
Take care VC.......❤❤
This hits you right in the middle of your heart, doesn't it? Such a tendre, delicate, melancholic, beautiful song. The combination with the orchestra, the duet with Troy, that gorgeous ending. It immediately guides you to memories of the loved ones that passed away. I want this song being played at my own funeral. I think that says it all.
Good evening dear Lady, Yes the Queen Floor Jansen, has us all in the palm of her and hand yet again, and with superb Piano Playing of Tuomas, Song righter, Band leader of Nightwish, who must rate as one of the best music composers of the 21st century, and of course, You dear Lady and your wonderful Review of this master piece of Music, from this phenomenal New Nightwish Album. Thank You
FLOOR Is A Great Gift From GOD For The Humankind.
What a BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.
WITH A BEAUTIFUL SOUL AND HEART
You have said it, fellow member of the Nightwish Army.
So beautiful, sad, but comforting at the same time. I wouldn't mind if this was played at my funeral. If they're not crying for me they'll be crying for this 😊
It's the first time I hear this interpretation, and it makes a lot of sense, because it's a common theme with the one from "Perfume Of The Timeless" (much more obvious there). Very possibly the main theme of the "Yesterwynde" album. Thanks! I'm still at the emotional impact of Floor's voice, I haven't processed everything yet...
The breadth and depth of their talent and style never fail to amaze. After nearly 30 years as a band, and still no two songs are alike.
BEAUTIFUL SONG BEAUTIFULLY SUNG BY OUR QUEEN .
Tuomas lost his father in 2021.
This is the first song he wrote for the new album.
When music is able to take your soul into a warm hug, to comfort and heal... ❤️🩹
Your interpretation fits with mine. Tuomas wrote this after his father passed in 2021. It feels sad in the beginning, the loss, but the message is hopefull. The lanternlights that guide us, those previous ghosts (like our parents) that guide us to where we are now.
This song is beautiful,and Floor's voice captures me every time I hear it.
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.
Floor can sing anything. If it's metal, opera or ballads like this. She is not just singing, she's telling a story.
My goosebumps have goosebumps 🤘
Great reaction.......
SHE takes you on a wave....and you are floating with........if you want or not !!!!!
It's glorious.
I heard this song a few times now and always make me tear up. I think it's perfect song to end the album and the triology of the last three albums.
Love all Nightwish era's but this last three albums connected with me so much, the songs about humanity and the world we live in made me connect with my emotions and change my view of life and the world.
Just my two cents, sorry if my english isn't perfect. Greetings from Portugal
Yes, that is very much the story. Reflection on the past and the people we have lost along the way. Yesterwynde is a created word to describe the contemplation of our place with the concept of time. To wind back the clock and reflect on our brief time in this mortal existence.
I without shame declare I love Floor as the most beautiful human being beyond my family. Her empathy and quiet potency to deliver emotion every time is just wonderful. What a Goddess.
Music and singing that reaches your soul.
This sounds like her solo album, I think Tuomas likes the variety of her singing.
Floor said that she chokes up too easily with this song, the band rewinds, during the sessions, to let her recover.
The old movies, memories.
Then Troy drifts in with his soft voice, he made up the word, so his pronunciation, is our guide :)
Sooooo BEAUTIFUL...❤❤
Is there any other singers who are not only vocalises a song but feels the core emotions as well as Floor? There are character actors and she is a character singer
can you imagine the lullaby's that she sings to her girls?
Well, her older daughter Freya asked her to stop singing 😅 Floor said during one of her solo shows that she hopes for a second chance with the younger kid 😂
Oh, you don't have to imagine it. ua-cam.com/video/7IkxDLrbMEY/v-deo.html
And the whole album, triology ends with the word Yesterwynde, Tuomas just leaves you speechless with his mind and soul for music and lyrics. ❤
This is everything
What a very beautiful song 💖
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.
I felt my late mother poking me in the ribs as I listened... 🫠
The projector sound is also the beginning of Yesterwinde. So the album starts with that and this is the last song so ending with that like the album is finished
Beautiful song and wonderfully sung by Floor and Troy.
It looks like a personal number from Tuomas.
And another nice reaction from you🙏
Thank you very much!
I like Floor's lower register. This is the 3rd time listening. FYI Did you notice the H on her finger. Hannes had a F in the same place. LOVE FLOOR'S VOICE
That is just beautiful, and parts of it sounds like floor`s song "the fight goes on for warchild".
Tears at first listen....😶😶😭
👍👍👍👍
As always, Nightwish's talent is not up for discussion. This song sung by Floor takes you from the heart to the soul. It leaves room to feel comfortable and safe. Danke 😢 It shows that you can only judge what you have experienced in retrospect. But to enjoy it, you should do it by candlelight and in peace happen.Happy Sunday
Just a beautiful ballad. Parts of the song , particularly the first verse , sounded to me like it would fit in with songs from Floor's solo album, but it is still Nightwish. 4th single from the album, 12th and last track on the album. 3rd single was "An Ocean of Strange Islands" , the longest song on the album at over 9 minutes.
🤗🍒🤘🏻😘 Great great job again as always and what an amazing song huh 🎶🎼
You're the best!
Thanks for sharing your reaction to a song that for me empowers us to recognize our connection to nature and one another, ultimately signifying that even in times of uncertainty, there is beauty and hope to be found under the glow of the lanternlight.
Well said!
I hope you brought tissues!🎸🤘Floor is a goddess!🎸🤘
Emotions emotions.. ❤
Hi VC, nice to see you back. This is hauntingly beautiful. The composition is beautiful and delicate, and then you add Floor doing Floor things - her voice in her first register is so warm and comforting. Just gorgeous. 🙂🤘
Thank you so much 😀
Lovely reaction. A fitting last song on the album and also a fitting end to the trilogy of Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Human Nature and Yesterwynde. It feels to me like someone saying goodbye to family and friends as their life comes to the end. Loads of beautiful imagery in the lyrics of seeing the end, of reminding those we love that we will always be present, of lamenting the unfinished things we leave behind (as is always the case), and then walking "to the trees". Since Tuomas is famous for writing lyrics for multiple interpretations I could also see this song where the narrator is death personified, much like the way the lyrics in Music were. A third way I see it is that the lyrics aren't necessarily about a person but are instead a metaphor for humanity and our walk through the eons of our existence which would fit well with the themes of the album trilogy. For me the line "I am you who climbed off your back" gives me Decades in the Sun vibes and of course "To the meadows I go" is tapping into the same symbolism and meaning as Meadows of Heaven. Heartachingly beautiful song and a perfect bookend to the album and trilogy.
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.
Thanks ❤❤❤
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 mat 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.
VC, for info, Tiomas 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 revieer 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 rlement comes out strongly in this song. Your interpretation of that is, I think, spot on.
About Floor's voice: Oersonally 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,bit 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.
Thank you.
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I really like the new Album, but this song killed me ❤. For me it is like „Our Decades in the Sun“ from the opposite view …
Me too❤
I immediately felt like this song is the sequel to Decades
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More humming Floor? Please listen to her cover of Shallow on Beste Zangers.
Welcome back. Hope the back is behaving itself. Love that when Floor made her solo album she deliberately avoided metal so as not to compete with Nightwish. Tuomas obviously thought that that was a good idea.
By the way, this song is dedicated to Tuomas's deceased father
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This warmth and depth is a beautiful approach to the song. She sounds more like her sister as her voice matures. (Not a bad thing, mind you.)
Troy notwithstanding, this really is a very nice song (best of the album) because you can actually hear Floor loud and CLEAR for a change. Still far removed from the splendor of a delicate After Forever ballad though. A must-see & hear classic. So here goes: "After Forever - Eccentric Live at Pinkpop Festival (2004)" - ua-cam.com/video/ISU5TqGAfuw/v-deo.html
Includes introduction in Dutch by Floor saying that Joost (van den Broek; yup the Ayreon guy) and her are about to do something completely different, i.e. a ballad from their latest album.
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Added!
You had some vocal echoes???? Liked the snow in the video. Wishing for some here. Other than that, I didn't care much for the video but great vocals.
Sorry about that. Was gonna just scrap the reaction when I heard it, because I never re-film a reaction. I forgave myself for the echoes since they were only in the opening, due to this being a new drop by this incredible band.
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