The Poet and the Pendulum

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• HE

  @heyQurtiz · 9 months ago

  Hits like a ton of bricks when you haven't heard it in a long time...

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• NI

  @nightwiz2814 · 6 years ago

  Tuomas once mentioned that Dark Passion Play didn't save his life but helped him a lot for his mental health. Thirteen years later Poet and the Pendulum still helps people survive - and probably will forever. THANK YOU! TUOMAS! What a gift to the world you are (and all members of Nightwish)!

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• JO

  @johntye3798 · 1 year ago

  This album is a masterpiece and Annette is awesome.

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• US

  @uskkotter7585 · 2 years ago

  I love Tarja, Anette and Floor. I wish the fanbase could respect all three ladies for their unique contribution to Nw.

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• BA

  @barryjohnson5288 · 1 year ago

  Annette is so underrated.

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• SI

  @sigridsauer8708 · 3 years ago

  Amazing masterpiece of music. A mixture between a song and symphony with so many faceted. Deeply touching, dynamic and dramatic. My adoration to all the artists of and behind the band

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• RU

  @ruebeb9418 · 6 hours ago

  This might be their best album ❤

• KI

  @kieranhatley222 · 1 year ago

  Annette's best performance. So underrated

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• ST

  @stasa-X · 2 years ago

  Annete's vocals shines in DPP, she has so bright and colourful voice well spoken English and with Tuomas's dark period of his life he wrote with anger and pain so beautiful masterpieces that this album is unique and best selling still today,hands off from Annette Olzon, she is a very good singer, she can sing everything!!!

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• GU

  @gustavogutierrez5482 · 4 months ago

  Mexican here. The first album I got from Nightwish. My favorite. It’s been a while now. Super production!

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• KR

  @kryvian · 1 year ago

  Lyrics<br>&quot;Niaga dna niaga<br>I wonk I lliw eid enola<br>Ees ot hguone gnol<br>Gnol hguone ot raeh eht sdnuos fo snug<br>Gnitnuoc dna setunim eerht evah ylno I won<br>Rof degnol syawla I htaed a em evig&quot;<br><br>The end<br>The songwriter&apos;s dead<br>The blade fell upon him<br>Taking him to the white lands<br>Of empathica<br>Of innocence<br>Empathica<br>Innocence<br><br>The dreamer and the wine<br>Poet without a rhyme<br>A widowed writer torn apart by chains of Hell<br>One last perfect verse<br>Is still the same old song<br>Oh Christ, how I hate what I have become<br>Take me home<br><br>Get away, run away, fly away<br>Lead me astray to dreamer&apos;s hideaway<br>I cannot cry cause the shoulder cries more<br>I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world<br>Forgive me<br>I have but two faces<br>One for the world<br>One for God<br>Save me<br>I cannot cry cause the shoulder cries more<br>I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world<br><br>My home was there and then, those meadows of heaven<br>Adventure-filled days<br>One with every smiling face<br>Please, no more words<br>Thoughts from a severed head<br>No more praise<br>Tell me once my heart goes right<br>Take me home<br><br>Get away, run away, fly away<br>Lead me astray to dreamer&apos;s hideaway<br>I cannot cry cause the shoulder cries more<br>I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world<br>Forgive me<br>I have but two faces<br>One for the world<br>And one for God<br>Save me<br>I cannot cry cause the shoulder cries more<br>I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world, a whore for the cold world, a whore for the cold world<br><br>Sparkle my scenery<br>With Turquoise waterfall<br>With beauty underneath<br>The ever free<br>Tuck me in beneath the blue<br>Beneath the Pain<br>Beneath the rain<br>Goodnight kiss for a child in time<br>Swaying blade my lullaby<br><br>On the shore we sat and hoped<br>Under the same pale moon<br>Whose guiding light chose you<br>Chose you all<br><br>&quot;I&apos;m afraid, I&apos;m so afraid<br>Being raped, again and again, and again<br>I know I will die alone<br>But loved<br>You live long enough to hear the sounds of guns<br>Long enough to find yourself screaming every night<br>Live long enough to see your friends betray you<br>For years I&apos;ve been strapped unto this altar<br>Now I only have three minutes and counting<br>I just wish the tide would catch me first and give me<br>A death I always longed for.&quot;<br><br>2nd robber to the right of Christ<br>Cut in half - infanticide<br>The world will rejoice today<br>As the crows feast on the rotting poet<br><br>Everyone must bury their own<br>No pack to bury the heart of stone<br>Now he&apos;s home in hell, serves him well<br>Slain by the bell, tolling for his farewell<br><br>Next morning dawned upon his altar<br>Remains of the dark passion play<br>Performed by his friends without shame<br>Spitting on his grave as they came<br><br>Get away, run away, fly away<br>Lead me astray to dreamer&apos;s hideaway<br>I cannot cry cause the shoulder cries more<br>I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world<br>Forgive me<br>I have but two faces<br>One for the world<br>And one for God<br>Save me<br>I cannot cry cause the shoulder cries more<br>I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world, a whore for the cold world, whore for the cold world<br><br>&quot;Today, in the year of our Lord, 2005<br>Tuomas was called from the cares of the world<br>He stopped crying at the end of each beautiful day<br>The music he wrote had too long been without silence<br>He was found naked and dead<br>With a smile in his face, a pen and 1000 pages of erased text.&quot;<br><br>Save me<br><br>Be still, my son<br>You&apos;re home<br>Oh when did you become so cold?<br>The blade will keep on descending<br>All you need is to feel my love<br>Search for beauty, find your shore<br>Try to save them all, bleed no more<br>You have such oceans within<br>In the end, I will always love you<br><br>The beginning

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• AL

  @alanho4471 · 1 year ago

  One of Annette’s best vocal performances. Incredible

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