In May 2007, Nightwish announced Anette Olzon as Turunen's replacement. That September, the band released their sixth album, Dark Passion Play, which has sold almost 2 million copies. The album's lead single, "Amaranth", became one of Nightwish's most successful in Europe. The supporting tour, one of the band's largest, started on October 6, 2007, and ended on September 19, 2009. The band released an EP/live album, Made in Hong Kong (And in Various Other Places), in March 2009 as a CD/DVD, and their seventh studio album, Imaginaerum, was released globally on various days in late 2011/early 2012.
On October 1, 2012, Nightwish announced that they had parted ways with Olzon and would be finishing the tour with at that time ReVamp vocalist (ex-After Forever) Floor Jansen. In October 2013, Nightwish made Jansen and longtime session uilleann pipes player Troy Donockley permanent members of the band, and they were featured in the acclaimed album Endless Forms Most Beautiful, released on March 27, 2015. From 2014 to 2019, Nevalainen, while still a member of the band, was inactive due to severe insomnia issues; in July 2019, he announced that he would not be returning to the band, with Kai Hahto, who had acted as his replacement since 2014 (including by performing all drums on Endless Forms Most Beautiful), being promoted as the official drummer, and is featured as such at the ninth album, Human. :II: Nature., which was released internationally on April 10, 2020. After twenty years of performing with the band, it was announced that bassist Marko Hietala had parted ways with the band in January 2021. Jukka Koskinen was announced as Hietala's replacement to play bass during the tour. In August 2022, he was announced as a permanent member of the band.
Nightwish is the third-best-selling band and musical entity in Finland with certified sales of nearly 900,000 certified copies. The group is also the most successful Finnish band worldwide, selling more than 10 million records and receiving more than 60 gold and platinum awards, having released six Number 1 albums and thirteen Number 1 singles. On October 26, 2018, Nightwish was inducted into the Finnish Music Hall of Fame, becoming the honorary gallery's 11th member.
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Studio albums
Angels Fall First (1997)
Oceanborn (1998)
Wishmaster (2000)
Century Child (2002)
Once (2004)
Dark Passion Play (2007)
Imaginaerum (2011)
Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015)
Human. :II: Nature. (2020)
Feel For You
Nightwish Lyrics
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The earth moving under me
Bedroom scent, beauty ardent
Distant shiver, heaven sent
I'm the snow on your lips
The freezing taste, the silvery sip
I'm the breath on your hair
The endless nightmare, devil's lair
Only so many times
I can say I long for you
The lily among the thorns
The prey among the wolves
Someday, I will feed a snake
Drink her venom, stay awake
With time all pain will fade
Through your memory I will wade
Barely cold in her grave
Barely warm in my bed
Settling for a draw tonight
Puppet girl, your strings are mine
This one is for you for you
Only for you
Just give in to it never think again
I feel for you
The lyrics of Nightwish's "Feel For You" are about a person's intense feelings for their first love who has left them. The person is experiencing a wide range of emotions such as love, hurt, and despair. They speak about the earth moving under them when they were with their lover as if their entire world revolved around them. The bedroom scent and beauty of the lover was overpowering for the person. They felt a distant shiver which they perceive as a heavenly signal. But now that the lover is gone, the person compares themselves to snow on their lover's lips, cold and distant. They are the one who reminds their lover of the pain of separation, like breathing on their hair.
The person is aware that they can't keep expressing their longings for their lover because they are the prey among the wolves, and they will be consumed by the pain of longing. The person is ready to move on with their life, and in some way, they will confront the pain caused by their lover with shocking results. The person knows that through the memory of their first love, they will learn to live with the pain eventually. The last lines of the song mention a girl, a puppet, whose strings are controlled by the person singing. This girl is a metaphor for the person who controlled their own life to some extent.
Line by Line Meaning
You were my first love
You were the first person I ever loved
The earth moving under me
Being with you made me feel like everything was in motion
Bedroom scent, beauty ardent
Your aroma in the bedroom was intense and beautiful
Distant shiver, heaven sent
The shiver I felt when I thought about you was so intense, it was almost like it was sent from above
I'm the snow on your lips
I am the cold feeling you feel on your lips
The freezing taste, the silvery sip
The taste of me is cold and has a silvery quality to it
I'm the breath on your hair
I am the breath that brushes through your hair
The endless nightmare, devil's lair
Thinking of me is like being trapped in a never-ending nightmare in the depths of hell
Only so many times
I can't keep saying I miss you forever
I can say I long for you
I want to be with you again
The lily among the thorns
You are so precious and rare, like a lily among sharp thorns
The prey among the wolves
You are vulnerable and defenseless, like prey among wolves
Someday, I will feed a snake
One day, I will take revenge on someone who has wronged me
Drink her venom, stay awake
I will take in their hatred and stay vigilant
With time all pain will fade
Over time, the pain of losing you will lessen
Through your memory I will wade
I will keep the memory of you close to my heart
Barely cold in her grave
Someone I cared about recently passed away
Barely warm in my bed
I am alone in bed
Settling for a draw tonight
I will make peace with being alone tonight
Puppet girl, your strings are mine
You are under my control like a puppet on strings
This one is for you for you
This song is dedicated to you and no one else
Only for you
This is all about you and our relationship
Just give in to it never think again
Just let yourself feel the love without any reservations
I feel for you
I have strong feelings of affection and love for you
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: E. VUORINEN, J. NEVALAINEN, M. HIETALA, R. NIEMI, T. HOLOPAINEN, T. KINNUNEN, V. LAINE
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