This video contains both the official version and the acoustic version! Make sure you stick around!

Floor's voice is like an arrow that seems to find the soft spot of joy and sorrow. Music is emotion, this song is proof.

Everyone...burn the rope, dull the blade. This is about saying no to suicide. Fight depression! I do everyday. Dance a little longer. Someone may want to dance with you. Thank you Tuomas. The acoustic session was GLORIOUS!

when you listen to every one of their "sad" songs it feels like they are written personally for you. Everyone who listen to them always finds something about himself in there

What you said about Nightwish is so true. They get you in the feels good, bad, and the ugly. Between Tuomas composing and writing, Floor with her vocals, and the musicians they know how to bring out the emotions out in us! I know how you feel. I lost my Father a little over a week ago. He was 89. He had a full life. But to me right now it does not make it any easier. Take care. And stay safe..........

Nightwish are more than a band to me - they're my extended family. ♥️

I feel you , I had a heroin problem for 5 long years , but I beat the demon and now I'm clean for 3,5 years , never going back , enjoining life , RIP for your brother so sorry

Thank you so much for doing this for me Shaun and for mentioning Darren, he is always in our hearts.

Floor literally sings in emotions - it is insane her ability to reach into us. Never had another artist do that. Very cathartic, but also very intense at times. Hang in there buddy.

bless you thats what nightwish does to people

Sorry for your lose man.

The lyric's is about showing compassions to fellow human beeings and daring to ask how they are feeling even if you dont really know them

Thank you for this beautiful reaction. ❣️

Losing someone close to you hits hard. Some scientists have even claimed that such losses shorten ones life-expectancy. It was truly great that you did both versions in one go. This is such a great song about human empathy, but it also tells the story of Floor joining Nightwish after her burn-out/depression, how she met Hannes van Dahl, married him & had her Freja daughter with him.

Tomorrow will be a year since I lost my brother at the age of 36.. This song and this whole album had me in tears. it's just so beautiful. I feel you man and I am sorry for your loss, it truly is like a piece of my heart has been taken and will never be fulfilled again.

This is the first time I watch your reaction channel. I got here because I'm a big Nightwish fan. Im so sorry for your loss. I will follow your channel, you seem to be a great guy! Keep going man! Burn the rope and dance some more ❤️

I just want to give you a big hug.

The song was written to motivate people to ask each other how they're really doing. There's usually a lot 'underneath the silence' that people don't mention when asked. Answering 'fine' is easier than poring your heart out. So make the question a real question, not just like a greet. It means more than you know.

How's the heart my friend Thanks for share this with us ❤️

Just... HUG

This Nightwish song seems to bring back all the emotionally bad times in my life and again bring them into focus. Things I tried to let go are again front and center. I don't think I want to listen to this one again.

Couldn't agree more...Nightwish is the band I went the furthest with!

#Respet man... subbed!

Yea Nightwish does that to people, i catch myself often in tears when listening to them while driving my car, it's weird but it happens. take care and stay safe

You will heal from the heavy shit you are in now!! It will never go away, but in time you will find a perfect spot to put it in! Nightwish has also been there for me the few last months, when I was going under blackened times......thank you for showing us our true emotions and please don't let the trolls hit you...they are not worthy of you!!!

I'm very sorry for your brother. Nightwish's music makes feel so many fifferent ways, that no other band has had such an effect on me with their music.

I lost my fiance almost 10 years ago now....it's still a struggle but I promised her I would carry on, I always keep my promises to her and I know some day we'll be reunited.

Both versions are excellent, but the acoustic version is more emotional...probably because it's so stripped down and relies almost completely on Floor's vocals, which are just a wonder to behold. Love this song. Here's a song that's not so emotional (but still good!) so you can just rock out: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gbhniJhpmqrRYKs.html Cheers!

Hi, dont stop listening to them because they make you feel ! Thats not the way ! ask yourself what do i feel. And why . And why is that so hard. And then go on. With pain but go on. I am with you !!!!

I can't say which is better, I like both as much. Thank your sharing this to all of us. You are the MAN.👍

Thank you for your reaction. My heartfelt condolences to you and your family. Sending love from Missouri. Peace.

This song is amazing. Absolutely easily to my top 5 of Nightwish songs, and there are many amazing songs. This just hits somewhere deep. Tuomas is really amazing with lyrics and melodies etc. So many emotions and depth in the songs. And the rest of the band really help to make those emotions so real. Just beautiful. ❤️ Sorry for your loss. Music has been my therapy for long time and Tuomas and Nightwish have been with me throughout so much pain. And they still help ❤️

Wow. your reaction touched my heart and i am crying. My Mom died last year 27 November and i can feel with you. Thank you for this reaction.

Great reaction and very sorry for your loss. Much love to you brother🖤

Sry for your loss, keep on fighting and keep on reacting

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Beautiful

Me: I don't cry when listening to music... Floor: Hold my beer...

Sorry about your loss bro I've got sisters with drug addiction it's a tough place to be in watching the one's you love deteriorate before your eyes and you kinda feel helpless but I'm glad you've found Nightwish they really do touch the soul.

Loving that Bass groove in the verses. Just awesome.

Yes. The album version is good, but this acoustic version is phenomenal. I shed some tears every time see it. The message is so beautiful: kindness, caring and love. The "rope" there means hanging rope (suicide?). Burn it and join the dance of life with us. Tuomas wrote the second verse ("we met where the cliff greats the sea and so on...") about Floor. Thank you and take care!

I'm so sorry to hear about your loss.Drugs sadly tear families apart on a regular basis.That is why we need to get the drugs stopped before any more die needless deaths.Well, let's get the Covid 19 behind us first.Reacting to Nightwish may be a bad idea, since Floor is SO good at transferring feelings through music.

Just to clarify as this is not a word people tend to know without looking it up: PAEAN (also sometimes pean) A surging joyously exultant song or hymn (as of praise, tribute, thanksgiving, triumph).

Sorry for your loss. All the strength to you!

Sometimes you push away the things you remember and hurt the most , al the pain you are going through . But sometimes you have to let in those hurtful memories in memorie of those you love the most

So sorry to hear about the loss of your brother. Addiction is a horrible place to be and can tear a family apart. Sometimes it is as if you have lost a loved one while they still live. Truly one of humanities most accursed conditions. If there is anywhere you can find some peace and respite is this world, it is within the beautiful and uplifting compositions of Tuomas and the wondrous voice of the one and only Dutch queen of symphonic metal, Floor Jansen. Your pain and anguish cannot hide from her gentle tugs on your heartstrings and her whispering to your soul. It can be very cathartic to unloose your burdens. I am a man as well, and I understand what that means. However, when I am all alone with only the sound of Floor's beautiful and emotional voice, I feel the emotion welling up and must heed that primal cry from within. It will never heal the wounds, but it does relieve the building pressure. From Tuomas and Floor, heed their call and "Burn the rope and dance some more"! Peace my brother. You have so much more life to live and love to give. This chorus is for you and your mother. How`s the heart Underneath the silence? How`s the one Drowning in the mire? Let us sound a human paean Come in, the fire`s warm Burn the rope and dance some more

Really enjoy your channel and your reactions....especially love your simple humanity. Keep doing what you're doing! (also, I appreciate the nerve to pin an obvious and desperate troll attempt and to handle it as gracefully as you did)

Thank you!!

The acoustic version hits hard.

🤘🤘❤️🤘🤘 I love this song, but sometimes it gets me in sad feels. But also in the happy feels as well. And man, I'm terribly sorry for the loss of your brother. I have my closest one in lock up and will likely never see him again, or not for a very long time. We're in different states, and I am still working through anger with him before I reach out and write him. But I will, because we're close. That bond is irreplaceable!!! Anyhow stay safe and well!!! 😉

Music, like all other art, means what it means to you. You made a beautiful video man and a beautiful reaction.

Man, I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. And thanks for bringing that number up. It's important to let people know that proffessional help is available. Depression could lead to painful diseases. Music, drawing and art, in general, is what helps me get through the day. And Nightwish always delivers. You might know this already but Tuomas Holopainen, main composer and keyboard player, went into a huge deppression after they fired Tarja Turunen (amongst other things) and wrote "The Poet and the Pendelum" to prevent suicide. Anyways, thank you again for this. Loved your reaction, man. Stay safe! Sorry for my english, not my native language.

Music. Maybe mankinds greatest invention. Through creative impulses and use of humanskill evoking emotion through the means of creating sound. Combined with poetry maybe our strongest creative achievement. Even more powerful when we simply ask to our fellowmen: how are you doing? And not as a greeting but as a genuine token of interest in the wellbeing of our neighbours.

Lots of hugs! This is really important...your message. God

I feel your pain, I lost a brother when I was 20. You never get over it. Stay strong. Beautiful song if I do say so myself.

A great soul has departed, but the memories shall never fade. Your loss is huge, and i can only share your pain. May the soul that has gone, rest in peace. .. Keep the faith and the courage to stand strong and let time heal you. My thoughts and prayers are with you in this difficult time. I am so sorry for your loss.

Thank you for posting this and being so honest about what you feel. Can 't hug you online , but hold on. Nightwish is my favorite band because it's full of emotional artists and you get comfort, joy or energy from them. Love from the Netherlands.

I'm jealous of little Freya she gets to have her mother sing her to sleep every night. As soon as the acoustic version starts I start tearing up

I don't comment on youtube often, but i want to applaud you for being so open and brave about sharing about your brother. That took courage. Thanks for this video man, and great reactions. Keep it up man!

Sorry for your families loss friend.

A beautiful reaction my friend, sorry for your loss, and im sure many of us have dealt with such trauma in our lives and this song speaks to us all in that pain. Thank you for sharing yours and the emotion this song evoked was very real and evident. All the best to you my friend and stay strong.

Thank u for the reaction, proud of you :)

Your a wonderful human being, don't let the sub-humans get to you, sincerely Bob....

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Great reaction ❤stay safe

Tanken care 🌸

Hey man! Sorry for your loss. I want to thank you for this video. It takes bravery to show so much vulnerability on video, but it is a beautiful song with an equally beautiful message and it was a nice touch to share the number to the hotline. Keep it up! E-hugs from Sweden!

Imagine this song live... f...ING Corona virus. I should have been enjoying Nightwish live last may 7th in Buenos Aires... but no, here I am, waiting like a stupid until next January the 23rd.

Quite deep and open reacton with comments. NW can bring emotions out and one can feel something because the songs are so excellent in every way.

Your good brother they have the ability to get emotions rolling on a lot of us. Floor's voice is amazing, and the band's ability to bring it is as much. Marco is amazing as well.

Thank you for this.

Very sorry to hear for your loss😥🙏

you need to see the acoustical version with troy and floor

Thank you for this video! I didn’t know this song yet. And I’m sorry for your loss...it’s so hard, creating a new normal, without that important person you loved.

Thank you for your reaction and for your testimony and I'm very sorry for your loss. This song hits me in the feels every time as well. I have battled depression for many years myself and lost my fiancee very suddenly a few years back (brain aneurysm) so I'm right there with you.

I love what you're doing. Keep doing it. Keep breathing. :)

Great reaction dude

Keep at it

Please never apologize for getting "sappy".

Appreciate the thought to add a help-line etc.

Try to listen Within Temptation - Our Farewell. Really emotional song... Another theme, but so close to this one... It makes me cry every listening.

I usually do not comment much on videos, but I would like to write a few words to you. 1. Ignore comments like the one you pinned to the top. Just ignore these comments!!! The reason for me saying that is, either this creep is right and you are an excellent actor. In this case go to Holywood and become f****** rich; or this comment is just not worth even being here. I would guess the later. Just un-pin it. 2. You said, you might not listen to them anymore... because they make you feel too much? I have no concept of what it might feel like to watch your brother die of drugs or even to watch your brother die. The worst for me was my grandmother and that is just "normal". There is no such thing as "feeling too much"! If you do not want to react to songs, that are to emotional for you, that is just fine. None of your subscribers would mind that at all, unless they are... Just fill in the blank. But continue listening to that kind of music. The pain you might feel or that you are feeling is the most important part of the healing-process. And the healing-process is just that, a process. It might never end or complete. That is OK as well. But do not shut yourself off from it. Pain is part of healing and you should embrace it, no matter how hard it is. When the mosquito bite itches, it is healing. This is the same principal just a lot more painful. This song was suggested by your mom. Your mother is most likely the one person on this planet, that knows you better than you know yourself. Think about that. I would guess your mom wants to help you with your pain. Let her do so. There is also no person on this planet that might be better suited for this than your mother. I would like to say, that I enjoyed your reaction, but that would be a lie. Like I said before, unless you are an Oscar winning actor and I am the idiot that fell for it, I saw your pain while reacting to this song. So maybe I did enjoy your reaction in a sick way, but I would rather say your reaction touched me. Most reactions to Nightwish I do enjoy, but a reaction which touches me is still better. I wish you all the best and hope both you and your mother find a "good" way to cope with your loss. And I do know, there is no "good" way. Nevertheless, all the best. Dirk PS Did I mention, you should un-pin that comment from Mr. or Mrs. F***face? Reading this s*** as the first comment to you video just sucks!!!

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I am sorry to hear off your loss😥🙏