#LYRICS NIGHTWISH EVER DREAM MOVIE#
Their 2004 album, Once, which sold more than 1 million copies, led to Nightwish video clips being shown on MTV in the United States and inclusion of their music in US movie soundtracks. Īlthough Nightwish has been prominent in their home country since the release of their first single, “ The Carpenter” (1997) and debut album Angels Fall First, they did not achieve worldwide fame until the release of the albums Oceanborn, Wishmaster and Century Child, which were released in 1998, 20 respectively. The band has sold more than 4 million CDs, DVDs and online material internationally. (Some fans claim this is why Tuomas got emotional and buried his face in his hands at the beginning of the song, though that may have been staged.Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic power metal band, formed in 1996 in Kitee, Finland. This is a recording of Nightwish performing “Ever Dream” at their End of an Era concert it was their last time performing the song with Tarja. As Tuomas once put it, “The fire was burning between her voice and my songs”, and so it was to me, this is the source of Nightwish’s magic. I suppose we fans will never know whether there is truth behind this theory, but one thing is for certain: whatever happened in their private lives, Tuomas and Tarja had great chemistry on stage, and in their music in general.
The notion that the song is addressed to Tarja also fits well with the line “My song can but borrow your grace” (remember, this is to be read in Tuomas’ voice), and – some fans will argue – with many other lyrics in other Nighwish songs. This song would have been written around the time Tarja got married, hence the second dream will “ever dream remain”. This theory certainly fits well with the dedication to this song: the first dream can be interpreted as making music with Tarja, while the second, being involved with her romantically. There’s a theory in the Nightwish fandom that Tuomas Holopainien, the band’s composer and lyricist, who is said to write all the lyrics in his own voice, was in love with Tarja that he didn’t have the courage to tell her how he felt directly, but instead tried to tell her through his lyrics but that this love was never requited (Tarja eventually married another guy). One I now have, while the other one ever dream remain
The song’s title comes from a dedication that appears at the end of the song in the album’s lyrics book it’s never performed:Īll I ever craved were the two dreams I shared with you The Tarja-era songs have such raw emotional power none more so than the heart-wrenching love songs, like today’s selection: “Ever Dream” from the album Century Child. Nightwish are currently on their third singer I’ll make no secret of the fact that the one I’m by far the most partial to is the first, Tarja Turunen, who sang on the first five of their (as of this writing eight) albums. Let’s now begin our exploration of the wonder that is their original work.
#LYRICS NIGHTWISH EVER DREAM SERIES#
We’ve had a taste of Nightwish in this series when I featured their cover of “The Phantom of the Opera”.