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About This Track
‘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”.
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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autumnxleaves wrote:
@Amber-Dawnn I would say that here "rape" is a metaphor. And it is indeed a confession, just like the rest of his songs.
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merdzina005 wrote:
I love this song.. <3
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criminal_manboy wrote:
♥
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SilverBarron wrote:
Let's hope it's just lyrics and not a confession!
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Amber-Dawnn wrote:
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.
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SilverBarron wrote:
"One of the weakest songs on DPP" What, it's easily one of the best!
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frostywafflez wrote:
Amazing intro
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Caiqbs wrote:
Best Nightwish's song EVER!! *---*
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cazartist1zarti wrote:
You know this song just helps me dream after all I am Poet lol
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xdaan wrote:
search for beauty.
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Oscar_Morten wrote:
weakest, really?
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Oscar_Morten wrote:
EPIC! My most favourite song of all times <3 [2]
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Oscar_Morten wrote:
Definitely the best Nightwish song ever. [2]
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LobelieOfBodom wrote:
Definitely the best Nightwish song ever.
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flori_hedig wrote:
masterpiece
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sancezz wrote:
vv totally agree. Nothing on Imaginaerum even comes CLOSE to this.
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J-e-r-p-p-A wrote:
As epic as Imaginaerum is, this remains their best song yet. It's just unreal...
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ToHellWithPop wrote:
EPIC! My most favourite song of all times <3
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_deeperthewound wrote:
Definitely my favourite Nightwish track. I listened to this album on repeat whilst reading George R.R. Martin's 'A Clash of Kings', so this song will always remind me of Dragonstone. So perfect. <3
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Superlead777 wrote:
Hope the new album is as badass as this is
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