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‘The Poet and the Pendulum’ is the opening track of the album Dark Passion Play. The song is about Nightwish’s main composer Tuomas Holopainen’s life. It lasts almost 14 minutes, and is the longest song the band have made (Holopainen blogged in 2010 that a track from upcoming album Imaginaerum would surpass it in length, but in the end Song of Myself turned out about 20 seconds shorter). The music is highly inspired by soundtracks and film scores.

The title is a word play on the title of Edgar Allen Poe’s 1842 short story The Pit and the Pendulum.

The song is divided into five parts: “White Lands of Empathica”, “Home”, “The Pacific”, “Dark Passion Play” and “Mother & Father”.
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  • trentfong

    Perhaps they should do just one show with live orchestra as Dimmu Borgir did last year, that would be great.

    19 days ago

  • BeIieve

    Cause it would be really expensive to tour with...

    23 days ago

  • St1cki3

    They SHOULD bring a live orchestra to their shows! I don't see why they don't do it...

    last month

  • YuriSenpai

    Epic such a masterpiece

    last month

  • Matthew69

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssOLRrcfhos&list=FLMPBdrRWw8Z8mwzp-9lGnwA&feature=plcp

    last month

  • LobelieOfBodom

    Definitely the best Nightwish song ever. [4] alongside with Ghost Love Score <3 [2]

    March 2012

  • surix

    They "have" a whole orchestra and choir for the record of the album. In the shows these instruments are not played live, just a record is played.

    March 2012

  • PersephoneWatch

    Do they have a whole orchestra or something? I thought they just had violin.

    March 2012

  • jinjuneu

    So EPIC!!!

    March 2012

  • joowww

    Definitely the best Nightwish song ever. [3] alongside with Ghost Love Score <3

    February 2012

  • MrWaagh

    Amazing all the way through!

    February 2012

  • kjen716

    Absolutely love this song.

    February 2012

  • romankrieg

    ABSOLUTELY MASTERPIECE !

    February 2012

  • Dima-95

    very long-_-

    February 2012

  • autumnxleaves

    @Amber-Dawnn I would say that here "rape" is a metaphor. And it is indeed a confession, just like the rest of his songs.

    February 2012

  • merdzina005

    I love this song.. <3

    January 2012

  • criminal_manboy

    ♥

    January 2012

  • SilverBarron

    Let's hope it's just lyrics and not a confession!

    January 2012

  • Amber-Dawnn

    WAIT a min! "The song is about Nightwish’s main composer Tuomas Holopainen’s life." and the one thing that sticks with me from that song is "is being raped again and again." Somethings wrong here......I hope.

    January 2012

  • SilverBarron

    "One of the weakest songs on DPP" What, it's easily one of the best!

    January 2012
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