Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen (born December 25, 1976, in Kitee, Finland… Read Full Bio ↴Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen (born December 25, 1976, in Kitee, Finland) is a Finnish composer, musician and music producer. Despite being centered in heavy metal music, he has also studied genres such as jazz and classical.

Holopainen is mostly famous for being the keyboardist, band leader, founder and main songwriter of symphonic metal band Nightwish. He has also played in the bands Nattvindens Gråt and Darkwoods My Betrothed. His current side projects are the gothic-doom metal band For My Pain... and the band of Timo Rautiainen.

Holopainen has written several songs that have been included into movie soundtracks; Nightwish songs like Nemo and Wish I Had an Angel, as well as his own song While Your Lips Are Still Red, that was written for the Finnish film "Lieksa!" in 2007.

Tuomas' official website: www.tuomas-holopainen.com

Glasgow 1877
Tuomas Holopainen Lyrics

"I remember it as if it was yesterday
My papa took me to see the
Ancestral home of our clan
The desolate castle on Dismal Downs
Abandoned since the 17th century
Now inhabited by no-one but golden
Eagles in it's turrets and

Ptarmigan & grouse in the heather
O' the clan cemetery

In this sight of former glory
Of ochre grass and bracken sadness and hope
This is where I begin my story
Rannoch moor, 1877
The eve of my 10th birthday"

Tha 'n sgeul ag aiseig bu bràth
Toirt taic bho tiotain a tha gar
Deanamh mar a tha sinn howls on the moors
Dreams of sailing all seas call of the hills
And a fiddle of farewell

Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

Written by: TUOMAS HOLOPAINEN

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