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.

[pdutchie]

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!

[Dipper]

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.

[skeezesmith]

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. 😄🤘

[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.

[Rackelhane]

Great reaction to this wonderful song. Thank you.

[Syp]

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

[jaanalaaksolahti]

Album starts with movie projector and ends with movie projector.

[renejensen]

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.

[christinaalgate]

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

[schout]

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

[lillianekockritz]

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.

[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!

[Spider]

WOLF? I miss your reactions Dude!!! You're one of the best Nightwish fans on Youtube 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.

[Hykje]

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

[susanjw]

Well hello Olly - long time no see

This song had me bawling within 45 it happened again.

[Thorgrim]

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

[eddiecreutzburg]

Yep, Floorgasm in the form of tears 😢 .
Only the Goddess 😇❤ is capable of sending the Onion Ninjas 🥷 my way. 😊.
Great reaction Wolf 🐺

[NickBR]

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.

[AmandaBurrows-uprx]

Absolutely the most beautiful song I've ever heard. Xxx