As a biologist this song absolutely sleighs me, and it always brings me to tears. The damage we are doing to the earth and the species we are wiping out is unforgivable, and this song shows this in spades

„I brought this. So i am well prepared“ Floor: „Lemme give it a try“ 😉 Seriously this one i listened to hundred times and it breaks me into tears every single time. I needed to stop listening in the public because i was expecting to get strange reactions of like „Are you ok mate?“ „Ya man, i ain‘t crying. Its just floorgasm.“ And seriously the song itself is one thing. But the lyrics create so many emotions that are just impossible to stand for me. Now i can literally say „yes i have LISTENED music“. Masterpiece.

Released just as the lockdowns started, this was easily the most emotive song...and totally right for the moment. Simple, progressive, poignant, and profound. If you have a heart... you will cry.

'we wrote this in a tongue you will understand' … the most powerful words on the whole album …

This song hit me as hard as it did for you. Now, after listening it countless times, I am still in tears during it. Most beautiful lyrics I have ever heard. And top of all that, Floor's angelic voice, transmitting those soul chattering feelings.

These lines chills me everytime i heard it! "We will remember all the suffering" "We wrote this in a tongue you will understand"

I am a 63 yo man and i hope that this song wake up all people in the world and if any buddy don`t understand what this song mean, he has a real problem.

From beginning, my favorite song from this album, and cannot never listen it without tears. That´s Nightwish, wake up emotions, always. Thank you, really nice reaction video!!! Enjoyed.

This song is just so damn sad... I tend to think it's about Earth's cycles, where there were life forms before us, with us, and there will be after us... but at the same time, I always thought to myself, that we have the potential to be Earth's caretakers, but instead we somehow chose to be jerks... oh well... hey, great reaction, you never disappoint me, you 'feel' their songs, and they sure threw a lot of themselves in that album. Thanks you Kelly :)

This is my favorite on the album. I was bawling my eyes out right after the first listen from cd. The lyrics and Floors absolutely heavenly voice made such on impact on me. And with seeing the lyric vid I just fell more in love with this song. I sure hope that one line from this song comes true: As along came wisdom! And I hope it to all mankind and we can start being the caretakers of the earth and not the ones to destroy it ❤️

Wow... beautiful Song and beautiful reaction... Kelly I follow you with a great admiration🤍

I've listened to this song before... over and over in the last month, but somehow just now, watching it with you, it hit me in a different way. The amazing thing about Human :||: Nature is that it gets better and more profound the more you listen to it - on the first listen, I didn't even like this song! Now I'm sitting here crying like a baby. It's as if we're hearing this through time from the remnants of life far in the future, recording the history of earth like one long procession, the good and bad, each new form leading to the next. "After all, we should have never appeared" - I think this means the absurdly small chance that the first life ever even happened. And all of this has an end - "We are, we were and will not be." I guess it puts into perspective our place in a long unbroken line stretching into the past and future, the story of life on earth.

Tuomas has a way of reaching into your chest and touching your heart, but when he teamed with an empathic vocalist who knows no boundaries to her vocal capability, along with four other virtuoso musicians ... he does more than touch your heart. Brilliant beyond reason in composition of the music, he is equally brilliant in lyrical construction. When we watch Nightwish, we watch a force of nature. We attend a class, as we learn to feel, learn to understand important issues and facts. Tuomas is a teacher, and we should get college credit for hearing his lessons. My friends, we are watching and listening to GIANTS!

I believe that the "we", the narrator of the song are the strata, the geological layers which keep the annals of the history of the Earth, because there are pictures of them in the beginning and the end of the video. The book cover is the Dutch edition of _"On the Origin of Species"._

My favorite song on the album. The melody is hauntingly beautiful and Floors voice floating through the song in a most amazing way. This song is the one that is coming over and over in my head, and I have to come back and listen to it. Tuomas ballads are the most beautiful songs he seems to write. It's like the Earth is telling the history of mankind here after we destroyed everything.

I absolutely love how Nightwish touches your soul as it does mine. It is nice to know there is another soul like but not exactly like mine. Keep up the awesome work. Ty so much.

Hi Kelly, a wonderful Reaction Video from you again! And a pretty nice Goodnight Song for me. It's very late in Germany , and i can here my Bed calling! Stay save Kelly!

Waited for this one - the song gave me Greatest Show On Earth vibes the more I watched the lyric video. The sapien line is just so powerful, a poem reinforced by music ^^ The message is probably the biggest contrast to the last album.

Thats it Nightwish Army all over the World, let us all fight for our Earth.

Thank you very much for this, Kelly! After I'd heard the album for the first time I started to listen to the lyric videos on repeat. When I got to this song I kept on listening and watching the video with tears in my eyes. It was a truly meaningful experience-one of the most meaningful musical experiences of art in my whole life. This album was confusing but still interesting at first for me. The second time it already started to feel like one of the best albums I've ever heard. After listening the songs many times I knew this album will definitely be one of those all-time classic albums in the future.

This song almost makes you feel shame for our humanity? However we are also part of the cycle. The difference is we have reason on our side and we still make so many mistakes along the way. Fauna and Flora are simply programmed to exist by the natural law or "Survival of the fittest". Loved your analysis and insights KD. This is a very unusual song without a chorus. Therefore I think the focus should be on the WE & THEY. We, are the singers of the gone. They are us, humanity. Below are the lines from this song which carry the message in my opinion. We are, singers of the gone - (We must be a future super evolved life form with a type of Akashic memory) We remember, as along came life - (primordial plant life) We are, we were, and will not be - (Even this evolved life form looking back at the history of Earth will end) We remember, as along came acorn - (the very first tree) An empty zoo, a starlight vigil - (Empty zoo represents Earth without any animals - only the flora and the stars) Will have a visit, as along came heartbeat - (the very first animal) Menagerie, of a new world order - (Earth brings forth animals a plenty) We held our breath, as along came suffering - ( this leads to the circle of life feeding on itself -Predator & prey) We remember, father Pikaia - (the first vertebrate) Gave the way, as along came Sapien - (Early Humans) Then they saw the moon, and found caring - (now They (us) found mystery & Romance) We remember, as along came writing -(Back to We - as they (us)discovered the power of words remembered) Spaceship Earth, through the fields of time -(Earth traveling thru space & time (Earth's journey) They understood, as along came wisdom - (They again (us) thru wisdom understood our world was out of balance) We have been here a while - ( We again, but this time it is all life including the singers of the gone) At the end of Pi, as along came harvest -(Pi has no end, Pi only ends with Earth's ending, which is the ultimate harvest) We were there and will remember mankind Our kin Aeons ago

Beautiful reaction Kelly, I cried just the same dont worry, great lyrical view too, keep up the amazing work

Kelly I am proud to experience this musical masterpiece with you thank you for sharing your love and insight with us and thanks for showing me I'm not the only one who reaches for the tissue box when I listen to this masterpiece of an album

Floor is singing this one, absolute beautiful.. i knew before the album was realesed the this one, and how is the heart was song Tuomas liked himself.. well he likes all of cause, as he never would make a song he disliked and release..

The pleasure of this record is not just because it is thought provoking and a treat for the ears it also carries a strong message about how sloppy we as a species have maintained our home but as current events show we have no guarantees on continuing to be the caretakers of this world. For really the first time in recorded history we as a species have a common enemy, how will we come together to advance or end up like the dinosaurs? Time will tell.

wonderful song, true and genuine reaction, thank you. we feel it too, you are not alone.

Life starts as single cells, when they become multicellular and cells start to specialise in the body, the heart had to be formed as the first organ to support that larger body. 'Along came heartbeat' therefore IMHO refers to the origin of complex multicellular life, In medicine/embryology a 'monster' refers to a malformed baby. Some monsters survive because they have actually some advantage. Hence the reference to birth and also selection by 'endless forms'. Tuomas knew we did not need more words than those, because we would all be filling in the 'most beautiful' by ourselves. Most probably some of the key mutations that makes us human were first in an ape that would be considered a monster by its species. The step from Pikaia to Sapiens is a big leap. Many things happened in between. But adding those details would make it a very very long song, and we already had our 20 minutes evolution song.

This was probably the most touching and profound reaction video I've ever seen! As if the song itself wouldn't turn me into a mess already every time I listen to it…

"After all, We should've never appeared". That simple words are so heavy!!

Thanks again, Kelly for this touching video. In the introductory video, Tuomas was right ... Floor's most touching performance, at least on this album. Second, these language images used in the song are toning. Lastly, I think that you and Tuomas Holopainen sometimes need to get to the same table in front of blank paper and a pen.

Wonderful reaction, yet again. Thank you Kelly.

Always love your honest reactions and your lyrical breakdown. Thankyou

A wonderful song, and you definitely feel the music, Kelly. Me too. I see so many people speak of we humans as (not being good stewards), and some are not, but many are. I've personally planted at least half a million trees, which took 5 years of difficult work, as it was almost all in steep and rugged country, and though in my mid 60s, I'm spending non-fire-season months removing hazard trees from around high-voltage power lines to help prevent fires, and fire-season months going into the forest fires to mostly fall burning trees, up to 90 hours a week, and both jobs stem directly from my love of nature and of life, be that life trees and tiny flowers, creatures of the woods or human life. As technology advances and we do more with less, and live more elegantly, air and water improves, as it has in my home, the west coast of the US, for half a century. There is much to do to refine the art of living lightly upon the earth but 'we' aren't 'destroying the planet'. Healthy perspective is good. Fatalistic, anti-human zealotry, not so much. Thank-you, everyone.

it's funny how a song that doesn't even has a chours, like procession, can be this beautifl

Thank you all your reaction i love, but this reaction let me crie and i am a 63y old man but i am an Nightwish Fan from their first time,

FLOOR IS A *QuintEssentia* !! of Metal !! Stay safe.

Thank you for sharing your journey with us!

Another great Nightwish song. I didn't find it to be one of the catchier songs musically, but it's pretty deep lyrically so I guess that makes up for it. I've never been a lyrics guy...I just enjoy songs for the music and singing usually. Thanks again for the lyrical review as I normally wouldn't bother haha! Cheers!

And the mention of Harvest is probably a direct reference to the meaning of that word in the song Harvest on this same album, so, in turn, the end of life for human kind. Fruition and harvest from our point of view is a good thing because we harvest the fields for the grain, but that same harvest is also the death for all those plants, and in most cases, no next generation from that pool of life.

Great reaction, great knowledge as always. Such raw emotions, you can tell you're such a kind soul ... Thank you

Sending you virtual hugs. :) This one is very conceptually heavy.

Dear Kelly, I have been following your immersive posts, reviews and performances, and sure never regretted having subscribed. I love that you take up the challenge to delve into lyrics that others kind of just gloss over or (at best) use their intuition to try and decipher. :) Of course you don't know me so it is strange to give recommendations here, but you might enjoy being a part of the channel of certain Friar Guylain Prince, a Canadian Franciscan, who has an interesting story and a broad knowledge of texts (not only religious!), and just started a channel where he goes into the music AND lyrics of deserving bands on the rock / metal side of things. No, he is not preaching, at least not what is usually associated with that kind of thing; and yes, he is very open-minded and enlightened. And, as a poet, you would find a lot for yourself in sharing the insights with the man. For a final point, he is nuts about NIGHTWISH and currently going, at his pace, through the whole of the new album.... I find myself kind of awkward at this sort of matchmaking, but I truly feel your channel, in spirit and intent, is kin to Guylain Prince's. Anyone who cares should also take note; I hope the good Friar will hang on to produce a really immersive and popular outlet for thought, as he deserves. :)))

Oh Kelly! Nice to see you. Great introduction, dig into the lyrics 🤘🏻👏🏻🙌🏻 somebody said this song is far beyond music, I agree ☝️

I cried too !

❤️

I love the whole album, but I have to say this is my absolute favorite, but it makes me cry everytime I hear it! My one main question about this song is "Who's perspective is it from?" At first I thought maybe some kind of Gods? Then maybe Mother Nature? My son thought maybe Adam & Eve......I just want to know that so bad! I have three tattoos - all music notes. If I was still as young and getting tattoos done, I would have a few lines from this song put on me. It's so amazing, yet so sad & so true :o(

when music touches your feeling you can thank the composers ❤️

That was wonderful Kelly.............

Kelly, you rock 🤘🤘🤘

You are a beautiful kind soul.

non ci sono parole per dire quanto è meraviglioso questo pezzo, veramente da lacrime , musica e parole io ADORO i Nightwish

I feel this song is sung from the perspective of all the competing species compared to humans. A tale of those that lost their battle against evolution. As I sit here, on my porch, listening to Nightwish while my dear old canine companion sits by me, watching beautiful spring sunset, I cannot help but to feel utter love and care for all species. For all of us. We are heading to the right direction. Through any and all growing pains, we are.

I thnk this is my favourite of this album ❤️

Great reaction for a great song I love your sensibility for the lyrics and the music You're a beautiful person Kelly..... Stay safe Hi from France

I love the way you feel the songs, greetings!,,

It caught my attention, I don't know if it was a coincidence or intentional, the increase in the rhythm of the song could be assimilated to the increase in the rhythm of our lives.

This song remains us some day the mankind as specie will disappear forever... "Zoos dead again"... Massive Extinction, that's about the next massive extinction. "After all We should've never appeared"... That sentence is heavy!! It's not my favourite song from "Human :||: Nature" but I like it more everyday. And yes... It's to cry for.

I just love your reactions and Tuomas is not easy to "read " but U are helping me and others to understand his poetry !! I still remember your first NW reaction last year ! U had screen on your left side . and U became NM and Floor FAN in your first 4 sec !!! btw. me too, same time as you !.. Take care an be safe !.. Sorry my poor English but i'm "selfmade" and it's my 3'the "lingo" My 1 is Finnish 2 Swedish (inkludes some Norwegian and Danish) Finnish is what i learn in school .rest is "self made ".

Welcome to Nightwish Kelly. Beautiful reaction. In my opinion, this song exemplifies all one should know about Nightwish...

Animals are ANGELS!! We humans just rented this planet; they BELONG HERE. Please, love them, always!!

We have so much to learn but most are satisfied with accepting delusion as fact and disregard truth and reality, and choose to believe what popular media and perceived peers tell them to believe and follow others orders without even being aware of it. Find the truth's for yourself and disregard what your fed. Never listen to those who think they know it all and possess the answers. Only you can possess the answers you seek. Be open and connect with the universe, not mankind. What you seek cannot be obtained from man. What man has to give is meaningless and leads you in the wrong direction. Seek out what is hidden within your own heart and soul and once you've found it never mention what it is to another. Keep it for yourself. There's a reason for sadness, pain and sorrow that is more important than all the gold, wealth, love and/or prestige you can gain from the physical universe. Peace.

Nature photography is one of my favorite hobbies and nature in general. All too often on my nature walks, I see how carelessly man destroys old forests and other important habitats. It angers and scares me.

Love the first 2 albums with Floor, looking forward for the third 🤘😊

Kelly! I loved your reaction 💕 I cry all the time when I listen to it ☹️

Thanks Kelly for reacting to my favorite song on the new Nightwish album. Here's a great start for anyone willing to "dwell in the lyrics", especially the greyed parts of the lyrics with explanations suggested by people genius.com/Nightwish-procession-lyrics P.S. For me the "we" in the lyrics refers to the collective body of knowledge/evidence (e.g. fossils, research papers, theories, history books, etc.) that mankind has collected & will continue to collect about the planet Earth & how life emerged and developed on it.

Endless forms, towards the stronger - about evolution, survival of the fittest.

"Then they saw the moon and found caring"

Thank you.

Thank you 🙏

Scientists say that the earth has had at least five major extinction events. I think that when they say " We held our breath, as along came suffering" may be in reference to a catastrophic event like an asteroid impact or major volcanic eruptions. Animals holding their breath because the air became toxic and super heated. That was my take on it anyway. I don't how many times I've watched this video now but, there's so much in it to wrap your mind around that it's impossible to get it the first few times. Something really cool. Go to the part where it says "Along came writing" Look at the sign in the lower right hand corner. You'll see writing in..I believe it's in Dutch. Translated it says "Origin of Species"....Charles Darwin! Profound indeed.

Hi Kelly,i ❤ your reactions! 😉😊

This song must be the last message of Mankind to the next generation of earth

Kelly, it's astonishing that Procession is the song least viewed. Is it the message or the fear we are facing? Do we shut our eyes for what is coming? Or do we accept the unavoidable end of mankind? In my opinion we all know the warning of Procession is real. And as long we are walking the current path with closed eyes the extinction is running towards us. All of us will not experience that but I am afraid that my grandchildren will. Off course I am the pessimist (I hope so) and big leaders are wright. So let's go on with are live. Somebody will survive.

nice reaction, if you have time react to: Nightwish - Crownless, one of the few songs with Tarja i like , but this one rocks^^

It is interesting you continue to say creation, Kelly. That is where in my view the starting point is, creation, meaning Someone thought this out and made it. And we humans, who should indeed be caretakers, made a mess of it from the start. But i know this is not what Tuomas means.... :-).

A truly beautiful woman giving a perfect articulation of a beautiful story.

Its just sad that we became the biggest enemies towards earth.

I wish, that Floor not e ver do the acoustic version of this song. I can't stand that😭.

💌 Ah...Kelly sweet💗 love and support from Italy 🇮🇹 " Nightwishsoulsister " stay safe 🌈🎵

I'm baffled why people/reactors assume this song is about "bad things humans do". In th song and in the video "the sapien" emerges AFTER "the suffering" started.

4:40 extinction on planet Earth is aNORMAL

We are singers of the gone...:-(

Please react to the official video of the band of Symphonic Metal Xandria - Nightfall. ❤

You are so lovely, ❤

I always enjoy your reactions Kelly! In particular your analysis of Tuomas' poetry is great, understanding Tuomas lyrics can sometimes be challenging. Having said that, you may also enjoy this channel by a Franciscan from Canada, Guylain Prince: kzfaq.info/love/Ppsg67ca8f3b6q18d8ac-g . His reactions are in French, but there are English subtitles. And most of all he's a huge Nightwish fan!

I was doing ok until the endangered species came on. I hate what people have done regarding wildlife.

Hiya Kelly u probably haven't heard the news regarding Marko but he has just left the band ..night wish just announced very sad news 😥

There is only 1 enemy, homosapien.............

this is the 1 i didnt care for.. i love Floor's vocals.. but this one wasnt for me.. but i love your reaction so its a thumbs up

This was a beautiful planet until the humans came along. We are the last great extinction event. Meteors need not apply.