SABATON - Versailles (Official Lyric Video)

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The official lyric video for Versailles by Sabaton, from the album The War To End All Wars.
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========= Versailles LYRICS ==========
The war had been raging and ravaging for 4 years,
leaving millions of casualties from all sides
In the trenches of the frontlines people have asked the question,
what is the price of peace?
how many more must die?
Exactly five years after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand,
Germany is forced to sign an unconditional surrender
For the signing of this historical document
the French city of Versailles is chosen
Signed a treaty to change the world
Tensions fall and a peace is unfurled
Nothing like what had come before
It’s the deal, it’s the treaty that will end the war!
A fragile but hopeful peace falls upon the European continent
America returns to their shores, Russia tend to their own matters
and the British empire disbands their colonial forces
Parades are being held in victorious countries
The war that would end all wars is over
But not everyone agrees
In the underground. something is growing in the dark
Because for some the war never ended
War will never entirely die
it will evolve, it will change
and War will return, sooner than we think
From a shot that would change the world
Tensions rise and a war is unfurled
Nothing like what had come before
It’s the war that will end all war!
Will this war really end all wars?
Can a war really end all war?
Will this war bring another war?
It’s the war that will end all wars!
========= Historic Fact ==========
The Treaty of Versailles was one of five treaties signed by the Central Powers that ended WWI. It was formalised on June 28, 1919, and featured the 'War Guilt clause', which required Germany to give back territory, pay reparations and disarm.
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@Sabaton 2 жыл бұрын

The Treaty of Versailles was one of five treaties signed by the Central Powers that ended WWI. It was formalised on June 28, 1919, and featured the 'War Guilt clause', which required Germany to give back territory, pay reparations and disarm. Read more about the Treaty of Versailles 👉 www.sabaton.net/historical-facts/treaty-of-versailles-signed/ ➞ SUBSCRIBE for more Sabaton: sabat.one/KZfaq ➞ MERCHANDISE Official Store: sabat.one/ytdshop

@PiscatorLager 2 жыл бұрын

"War will return, sooner than we think." Dammit, Sabaton, you're scary.

@VinceYT2408 2 жыл бұрын

I would correct the starting text with armistice because Germany didn't surrendered at the end of World War One. Only after WW2. Edit : ok...that's in the lyrics...too bad XD

@zerixor8134 2 жыл бұрын

69 likes, nice.

@vickymirepennell6169 2 жыл бұрын

You know sabaton I love your music so thank you guys for inspiring me to use your music to help understand history easier and you guys are the best so have a blessed day stay gold

@shortypb 2 жыл бұрын

damn scary but so true. You guys are amazing finding always the right text to write the right song at the right time.

@HeroofBergen 2 жыл бұрын

"War will return, sooner than we think." This might be the new most haunting line in Sabaton history.

@imaspoon3714 2 жыл бұрын

this line made me think of the russian attack on the ukraine. it was also sooner than most had expected, while probably everyone hoped there wouldn't even be a war

@alek8672 2 жыл бұрын

Sabaton are Prophets. But in Russia we all be surprised that descision of our government. War starts then diplomacy not work, very sad

@thepdfdify 2 жыл бұрын

Don't think it's at all meant to be this way, but I'd love to see that setting up their next album is a WW2 album. Though I actually hope it's something else (Personally, I'm hoping Napoleonic Wars). Amazing album though.

@xenotriver 2 жыл бұрын

@@alek8672 it really saddens me that we could possibly be very alike, but when the time comes we both could face each other in a mindless and senseless conflict...

@alek8672 2 жыл бұрын

@@xenotriver Hope we meet. And not for conflict, just for a couple of beers 🍻 Life is crazy, who knows what will be next

@Pte.Fletcher 2 жыл бұрын

I love that this song is basically Sarajevo, just with the lyrics changed slightly (except at the end), it shows that while there has been a change to the times, it really isn't as different as it may seem, with a new war only on the horizon,

@lukeyyy8030 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I love the parallels being both opening and closing tracks of the album

@Noctaru 2 жыл бұрын

i listened to Sarajevo and then came back here, thinking : wait sounds like the same , damn nice job they did

@Pte.Fletcher 2 жыл бұрын

@@Noctaru I listened to the whole album in order, skipping ones I already knew, like Soldier of heaven, christmas truce ect. (It's midnight for me, so I needed to be faster (so much for that, I'm still here)) and I didn't notice it at first until the chorus part kicked in

@Noctaru 2 жыл бұрын

@@Pte.Fletcher 1am here im kinda tired so thought it was my fatigue doing shenanigans !

@freeviolet7199 2 жыл бұрын

its in a different key, its in a much brighter key, which means that it is still the same world as before the war, but with a new hope, a hope for forever peace.

@brian0057 2 жыл бұрын

"This is not a peace. It's an armistice for twenty years." - French General Ferdinand Foch in 1919 concerning the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

@USSEnterprise6126 2 жыл бұрын

Is that foreshadowing or am I an idiot

@factorius2789 2 жыл бұрын

Damn, the guy was a hell of a visionary xD

@ShockwaveTheLogical 2 жыл бұрын

TIMETRAVELLER He really did hit the nail on the head.

@CJ_Welch 2 жыл бұрын

He was right sadly

@RebelWvlf 2 жыл бұрын

dude really was a wizard.

@kingdraconias 2 жыл бұрын

The perfect companion song to Sarajevo. Well done Sabaton. Joakim being the lone voice desperately crying out "It's the War that will end all wars" with the chorus chiming in "Can a War really end all war?" even louder, is haunting and I love it.

@Kartoffelkamm 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Kinda makes Joakim sound like the bad guy in this narrative, which is a shame, but his voice is just perfect. Like, he tries to convince everyone that war is over and they can relax, so that he can take them by surprise later, but nobody believes him.

@AlexGNR 2 жыл бұрын

@@Kartoffelkamm well I really like the fact that he sounds like the bad guy with his dark deep voice. Only more suiting isnt it! We know he truly is the good guy :)

@theprussian7483 2 жыл бұрын

@@Kartoffelkamm Honestly, it feels to me almost like he’s desperate to believe that it really will end all war

@Kartoffelkamm 2 жыл бұрын

@@AlexGNR Yep.

@Kartoffelkamm 2 жыл бұрын

@@theprussian7483 Could also be.

@varnasblade 2 жыл бұрын

Chronologically the next song is "Rise of Evil", the slower and darker tune of the end of the song is haunting

@zombieplayr 2 жыл бұрын

Isn't March to War about the start of WW1?

@varnasblade 2 жыл бұрын

@@zombieplayr you're right I forgot they explained that in the history vid

@NyxyShark 2 жыл бұрын

dude that would be a cool project (if it hasn't been done yet), to make a timeline of sabaton songs and where they take place in history.

@varnasblade 2 жыл бұрын

@@NyxyShark I've seen a few I'm not sure how up to date they are and I tried something similar which is definitely not updated but people have done it

@bigcountry8652 2 жыл бұрын

Yup.

@Tadicuslegion78 2 жыл бұрын

Them: You can't write a song about a peace treaty. Sabaton: Challenge accepted

@alexanderthegreat6682 2 жыл бұрын

They've done it many times now

@darthplagueis13 2 жыл бұрын

Well, if there's a peace treaty that is perfect for having a Sabaton song written about it, it's Versailles. After all, it was a contributing factor to the next big war.

@TheOfficialLilMeatball 2 жыл бұрын

@@darthplagueis13 lol Versailles is the town it was signed in

@darthplagueis13 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheOfficialLilMeatball Well, duh. Doesn't mean the name can't be used to also refer to a specific historical treaty that was signed there.

@whishiwhooshi5783 2 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderthegreat6682 What other Sabaton song is about a peace treaty?

@bubla2659 2 жыл бұрын

“War will return, sooner than we think” that line we are really feeling right now huh?

@yosoydave8521 2 жыл бұрын

hopefully it won't grow to a larger scale, but who knows, most of the ones on power aren't reliable

@jacobite2353 2 жыл бұрын

Marshal Foch of France predicted WW2

@justinhelbig309 2 жыл бұрын

yeah i was thinking exactly the same

@etherealhawk 2 жыл бұрын

@@jacobite2353 yet France caused the conditions in Germany that led to WW2 because they refused to be reasonable on the treaty

@mooneychan 2 жыл бұрын

If you mean what's happening in Ukraine, the war was there for the last 8 years. Most people just ignored it.

@Euanverse 2 жыл бұрын

The final minute of this song is really haunting to me, instead of a final celebratory note, it just slowly fades away, showing that things are unfinished, asking endless questions that will all be answered in 20 years time. Incredible.

@BahamutXER Жыл бұрын

It gets better: The Synth-heavy whine droning just under the main rhythm? It's the EXACT SAME one as from the next song chronologically in their list. The Rise of Evil

@kiplingwasafurry1108 Жыл бұрын

@@BahamutXER I did not notice that, I'll have to relisten to it

@vincentwahl391 7 ай бұрын

@@BahamutXER I hear it. "But not everyone agrees. In the underground something is growing in the dark. Because for some, the war never ended.."

@benos1236 6 ай бұрын

@@BahamutXER also at the end the same kind of affect happens Where in the end of the rise of evil it goes from a beat to soldiers martchng signalling that war is coming And in this song the heavy metal over takes at the end and the lyrics go down in quality from the happiness and joy at the start to sour and harsh at the end

@fiery_gamerz Ай бұрын

@@BahamutXER Wait really!

@cytorakdemon 2 жыл бұрын

Soldier from 1918: "Will this war really end all wars?" Time traveler: "Can a war really end all war?" Soldier: "Will this war bring another war?" Time traveler, not wanting to alter the timeline: "It's the war that will end all war."

@hamne333 2 жыл бұрын

I really love this take on the lyrics!

@rivahoukes1554 2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes a lie is done to keep someone content

@jai-kk5uu Жыл бұрын

Specticism, logic, pessimism, propaganda

@NapoleonVIII Жыл бұрын

I would have travelled to 1917 and stopped Arthur Zimmermann.

@wiej007 Жыл бұрын

Reminds me the scene from Doctor Who Doctor: You are oficer from World War 1 Soldier: World War 1? Doctor: Judging by the uniform? Yes Soldier: Yes but... What do you mean, One? Doctor: Oh sorry... spoilers.

@Alue14 Жыл бұрын

You know what I love? The ending bit, it sounds like marching! It's as if they all know that war is coming back, so, they already begin marching towards it!

@Sabaton Жыл бұрын

That's a nice one!

@the_tittongo Жыл бұрын

Marching... It reminds me a bit of Rise Of Evil...

@misschauffarde5112 5 ай бұрын

@@the_tittongo i wonder if putting the song back to back would make a continuous line

@cbt_man Ай бұрын

@@the_tittongo which is the next sabaton song chronologically

@Hockey-gn2tj Ай бұрын

Even at the start sounds like a drummer is leading the cadence

@OneTrueVikingbard 2 жыл бұрын

That synthesizer sting at the end draws us back to “Rise of Evil” from Attero Dominatus. Very ominous.

@sse_weston4138 Жыл бұрын

Was having a nice trove in the comments for this sentiment, I feel the exact same way

@mastermindgaming5803 2 жыл бұрын

Well, normally I would see it as lazy to reuse basically the entire first song as a band's last song in the album, but I think here it actually works perfectly as both a reminder and a way to show that this new peace really just brings around another war. Excellent songs guys. I can't wait for the history videos when you guys get around to them.

@TheCanonApologist 2 жыл бұрын

I fully agree.

@soluskosmes5236 2 жыл бұрын

I think its meant to be like there

@kenkai6819 2 жыл бұрын

100% agree fr tho. I also like that Sarajevo has kind of a darker and lower tune compared to Versailles even though they're pretty much the same song.

@donborvio 2 жыл бұрын

Well, half of it, it starts off with the major/happy notes of a resolution of the war...then goes back into the dark "is this REALLY over" (reprise of Sarajevo).

@Hilversumborn 2 жыл бұрын

Bookends

@AjarTadpole7202 2 жыл бұрын

8 songs all released at once, damn. Well that makes this 1/8, so I know what I'll be doing for a while.

@kwayke9 2 жыл бұрын

We're getting a feast today!

@Schneter 2 жыл бұрын

This is a so called album release

@TerminatorZXY 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's what happens when an album is released.

@maguspie9543 2 жыл бұрын

did you really listen to this song first? bruh moment

@Knackersjewels 2 жыл бұрын

This is 11/11. Jeez...

@movinduperera1255 2 жыл бұрын

As a shot is fired changing the world As a new doctrine in combat's explored As the Dreadnoughts clash at last As an immortal soldier finds his home As soldiers of heaven guard their post forever As the Hellfighters earn their name As for king and country a river is flooded As the lady of the dark fights until the end As the Bulgarians hold the line And as we celebrate our Christmas in the front far from home we ask over selves the question Can a war really end all war? Will war return sooner than we think?

@mitchellneu 2 жыл бұрын

Well done my friend

@kampfgeist7703 2 жыл бұрын

I love this

@albertgroenwold5849 2 жыл бұрын

Damn this is powerful

@DoraFauszt 2 жыл бұрын

Dang, really well put together!

@caesarczech7920 2 жыл бұрын

Id swap it around a bit As a shot is fired changing the world As the Bulgarians hold the line As for king and country a river is flooded As the Dreadnoughts clash at last As the lady of the dark fights until the end As a new doctrine in combat's explored As the Hellfighters earn their name As an immortal soldier finds his home As soldiers of heaven guard their post forever And as today we're all brothers, tonight we're all friends we ask over selves the question Can a war really end all war? Will war return sooner than we think?

@liberator3490 2 жыл бұрын

"War will return.. SOONER THAN WE THINK" HOLY COW THAT SENT ME GOOSEBUMPS!

@Archris17 Жыл бұрын

Peace is only ever a prelude to the next war. War will ALWAYS return, always sooner than anyone expects, always in a new way and often in a place no-one expects. We need to shake ourselves out of this post-WW2, post-Cold-War complacency and realize the world has never, ever been kind to nations who rested upon their laurels.

@PhoenixRiseinFlame 2 жыл бұрын

I live the contrast of uplifting optimism at the beginning of the song. It’s essentially a modified Sarajevo. However, the later portion of the song shifts and slightly opens the door to a creeping sense of doubt about the lasting effects of the Treaty of Versailles. Even the image of the bloody olive branch seems to evoke the idea of a tainted peace. A peace that will eventually lead to greater conflict.

@Oskiinus 2 жыл бұрын

if I was Sabaton, I'd also begin working on another proper WW2 album, with this being the very foreshadowing of it. Incredible stuff!

@PhoenixRiseinFlame 2 жыл бұрын

@@Oskiinusyeah man it would be a sort of part 3 to their world wars project. It would fit in well with the time set by this song.

@furiosa1203 2 жыл бұрын

@@Oskiinus I think it would be a great way to end the world war stuff, then they can move onto other stuff, you know.

@lewycraft 2 жыл бұрын

As to be fair, i would like Sabaton to do specificly a song about September Campaign, i know we have 40:1, but it's only about one battle. The agression that started the greatest conflict in human history should have it's own song just like Sarajevo.

@Oskiinus 2 жыл бұрын

@@lewycraft to keep the vibe of the album and the Sarajevo-Versailles frame style, I think that a more apprioprate event to cover would be the attack of Schleswig-Holstein

@TheAlison1456 10 ай бұрын

"Can a war really end all war?" I love this part. And how it just repeats and fades...

@Command908 2 жыл бұрын

Actually, I don't think this was a bad way to approach this. When I saw Versailles on the track list I wondered how this was going to be done. Making it a tie in from Saravejo suits it perfectly at least for me.

@richardgonzalez6409 2 жыл бұрын

As per tradition sabaton has this 1 song in each album that will bring a tear into your eyes and gut punch you in the feelings. This is just as beautiful as the end of the war to end all wars in the last album.

@neoxperson7858 2 жыл бұрын

Did you listen to a different song or something? How do you compare THIS with The End of the War to End All Wars?

@jaffarebellion292 2 жыл бұрын

This is good, but Christmas Truce was way higher on the feels-o-meter.

@Nexandr 2 жыл бұрын

Carolus Rex is filled with songs that will make you cry though.

@lunaleechan 2 жыл бұрын

One? Please yes this made me cry but it was nothing compared to Christmas Truce. I think you mean they always have multiple song that make you cry/ really uncomfortable

@fighterace316 2 жыл бұрын

It’s like In Flanders Field on the Great War album

@mouse6170 2 жыл бұрын

“This is not peace; it is an armistice for 20 years.” Marshal Foch at the signing of the treaty of Versailles.

@LordVader1094 2 жыл бұрын

He wanted the complete annihilation of Germany

@alvatoredimarco 2 жыл бұрын

@@LordVader1094 Yeah, that would have gone well. Oh wait, no. It wouldn't have.

@ommnis598 2 жыл бұрын

@@LordVader1094 based

@jesuszockt3531 2 жыл бұрын

@@LordVader1094 He knew what that treaty meant, but he draw the wrong conclussion.

@bigvibes8922 2 жыл бұрын

A very beautiful song to end the two albums of the great war

@ugandaswrath567 2 жыл бұрын

I like how this song and Sarajevo work together so well. War is raged but peace is introduced later, but soon enough war returns and peace is a distant dream again, you can see that in that the start of the song is all happy cause peace has begun, but towards the end war returns, and the chorus from Sarajevo comes back. I'm poor at explaining but I love these songs.

@ericmartinez2863 2 жыл бұрын

Don’t worry I kind understand you say as both song fit will on story of ww1 the Great War how war raged in Europe for 5 year and peace come and all the soldiers like a dream come true as people think the war is over but only reality treaty will last few decades until next war will happen next 20 year as some don’t accept the treaty and will cause next world war.

@MayBeSomething 2 жыл бұрын

I didn't actually listen to the album in the "proper" order, I listened to it in a random order on youtube. I just finished Sarajevo, then started this one. Yeah, they do work extremely well together.

@SashaX19 2 жыл бұрын

I keep hearing "It's the war that will end no war" instead of "end all war" as in war wont be ended by a war

@vercing1324 2 жыл бұрын

Well, you are better thab me thats for sure haha

@nathanmassie4923 2 жыл бұрын

In a concept album solely based on World War 1 Versailles being a reprise of Sarajevo is a beautiful masterpiece and the perfect curtain call to the album.

@howardbaxter2514 2 жыл бұрын

And a perfect curtain call to WW1 altogether.

@ahouais5620 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a bit disappointed that no song talks about france or russia or romania I mean these 3 countries had such a high number of casualties (both france and russia had more casualties during ww1 than the entire serbian population)

@howardbaxter2514 2 жыл бұрын

@@ahouais5620 I mean, they covered a wide variety of countries and topics in this album. They covered Belgium, Serbia (twice), a crazy Belgian-Irish guy, Germany, Bulgaria, Italy/Austria-Hungary, and the US/France (Harlem Hellfighters). Ever song felt important and/or lesser known in history.

@ahouais5620 2 жыл бұрын

@@howardbaxter2514 how is France covered in hellfighters?

@howardbaxter2514 2 жыл бұрын

@@ahouais5620 Due to segregation within the US Army, the Hellfighters fought alongside the French and in French units. They even traded out their weapons and equipment for French weapons and equipment.

@chlorophytum5314 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like this song shows the reception to the treaty of Versailles, at first everyone feels its solved everything, showed by the upbeat tone at the beginning, but near the end, they realize it only brought upon it's new set of issues, showed by the ending which mimicked Sarajevo's beat

@etherealhawk 2 жыл бұрын

It's a shame because France caused the conditions in Germany that led to WW2 because of the harshness of the treaty, which the British wanted to to be more lenient on, because it led to hyperinflation and the collapse of the interwar government

@dustindubbo2892 2 жыл бұрын

@@etherealhawk I’m pretty sure it was the Americans who wanted to be more lenient with maybe the British being slightly better then the French; but both nations wanted that reparation money and since Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire both dissolved after Ww1 Germany was left with the bill plus tip.

@alyssadraculesti 2 жыл бұрын

Versailles, the treaty that set in motion WWII the moment it was signed.

@jonathanassirelli7241 2 жыл бұрын

Because of the English and the Americans. If the Allies had listen to France, Germany would have been definitely crushed without any possibilities to rise again, but England and America (especially England) did not want France to become too powerful in Europe. Conserving a rival with Germany was the better option for them to avoid a too powerful France.

@CINCZach 2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanassirelli7241 Honestly, I don’t get why the British and Americans wouldn’t oppose this. If France got it’s way, the Brits would’ve has another rival in Europe, and the Americans were just accepting anything for their stupid League of Nations. So I see the Americans not giving a heck about what happens halfway around the world.

@1997HondaCivic 2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanassirelli7241 yeah completely decimate a population that only did what the other side did for generations but because it was through a treaty and not a war it's cool and not utterly despicable

@ericmartinez2863 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think will change for next ww2 even if some could do opposite or not it will change for outcome of next ww2 you remember the Great Depression and the unfair treaty is start for next ww2 if the treaty was not hard for Germany as German economy was in ruin as money was unworthy. If treaty of Versailles was not harsh or Germany economic or Great Depression hit will not be ww2 we know it as different ww2 so no matter what it be a ww2 happen soon or later.

@ericmartinez2863 2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanassirelli7241 also really it was English and the American fault it was all the Allie’s fault . If the allies have not harsh treaty to Germany it will not become it have ww2 and you say be more harsh it will not change nothing it make Germany same as be ww2 plus it not Germany. Japan was backstabbing by allies as promises something and feel betray and same was Italy so it have not changed nothing.

@MilsurpMikeChannel 2 жыл бұрын

A missed opportunity here was to transition to the beat of "The Rise of Evil" toward the end of the song.

@spiralarchitect9305 2 жыл бұрын

Would have been perfect.

@lunaleechan 2 жыл бұрын

After researching the treaty of Versailles, I am really amazed that it took 21 years for the war to begin again. I thought that the two wars were really close from one another but now I see that that it took that long has to be a minor miracle

@etherealhawk 2 жыл бұрын

@selinane2Seli-zw3pz 2 жыл бұрын

Actually the Versailles treaty was too lenient. Germany imposed Frankfurt treaty on France in 1871 and France paid all. Saying that Versailles caused WWII is a nazi revisionist statement.

@saechabashira8380 Жыл бұрын

@@etherealhawk Dude, stop pasting that everywhere. You hate France, we get it. Versailles is literally less harsh than the treaty of 1870.

@anna-flora999 Жыл бұрын

@@saechabashira8380 it being less harsh than previous treaties and it being harsh enough to be a big factor in Hitlers rise to power aren't mutually exclusive

@mariomario-dy1kc 7 ай бұрын

@@anna-flora999except you're missing the point. A harsher treaty would've stopped it, but the British wanted Germany to get back, so its old rival France had a counterweight on the continent.

@chrisigoeb 2 жыл бұрын

In hindsight the treaty of Versailles was another catastrophe

@etherealhawk 2 жыл бұрын

@lhermteg2607 2 жыл бұрын

@@etherealhawk the conditions were less harsh than during the franco prussian war. You can't ask a nation which was humiliated by the other be kind with at the end of a war. Moreover even with condition less difficult the WW2 could appear too. I explain. That's not the versaille's treaty but the defeat of Germany without any fight on his ground and the terrible economics conditions. Maybe the versaille's treaty had boost that process but that's not the principal cause of WW2. I add if all french condition were applied the WW2 couldn't existed. Because France wanted destroy germany as a territorial entity. it was a very young nation at this period less than 50 years.

@alexandermelwitz1950 2 жыл бұрын

@@lhermteg2607 so you think its okay to dismantle a nation after a war so it cannot wage war again? Maybe france should have been dismantled after the napoleonic wars then? Or does your rethoric just apply to "young" nations?

@12tanuha21 2 жыл бұрын

@@lhermteg2607 WW2 would have still happened. Or do you think the UDSSR would have not taken the chance to invade a very weakened germany to have access to the North Sea and middle Europe under their control?

@selinane2Seli-zw3pz 2 жыл бұрын

Nope, the Versailles treaty was too lenient. Germany imposed Frankfurt treaty on France in 1871 and France paid all. Saying that Versailles caused WWII is a nazi revisionist statement.

@amandapalmer465 2 жыл бұрын

I love how Sabaton shows the terrible sides of war and how ugly it is with Attack of the Dead man yet show different side like Christmas Truce and Versailles...... Amazing album yet again

@shortstuff780 2 жыл бұрын

The opening song and the closing songs are very haunting. Is there an war to end all war. Damn this album is amazing

@lordofdarkness4204 2 жыл бұрын

I think your only looking at the first half of Versailles, because the part that comes after the guitar solo is a lot darker and grimmer. It's a grave final verse

@NathanTAK 2 жыл бұрын

I mean, I'm pretty sure the terrible sides of war are all of them.

@lfgubrs 2 жыл бұрын

Ironically The Treaty of Versailles that was meant to end the world war was the cause of what later would become an even greater war

@NathanTAK 2 жыл бұрын

@@lfgubrs Wow, what a stunning and original observation

@wetwillyis_1881 2 жыл бұрын

This song is so beautiful, I love the subtlety of it being played in a more minor key, with more shrilling voices, foreshadowing what is to come.

@mr.jancok4413 2 жыл бұрын

a few cool thing that I notice from listening to this song 1. it went from happy song to dark and full of worries, just like how the treaty goes 2. all Sabaton song have an ending but this song does not, it's keeps on going only to fade out, it's represent the endless question about the result of war and the fact war never disappear only waiting for a chance to rise once again

@lotuwei Жыл бұрын

2. not all have an ending, actually (Night Witches and Karolinens Bön don't have it as well)

@user-br2jr3uu2y 16 күн бұрын

So as pricey of a mile

@spyro563 2 жыл бұрын

If you combined the last few notes with 'The Rise of Evil' it would have made the song so much more haunting.

@davidthor4405 2 жыл бұрын

This. This is the truth

@cac_deadlyrang 2 жыл бұрын

or “The End of the War to End all Wars”

@mister_jayHD 2 жыл бұрын

@@cac_deadlyrang I think if you hear "The End of the War to End all Wars", then "Versailles" and then "Rise of Evil" it is a very good transition from the end of WW1 to the beginning of the end for the 30's and 40's.

@kousand9917 2 жыл бұрын

if they did that, I would just be completely shocked. That would have been perfect.

@DeutschlandMapping 2 жыл бұрын

Where are the notes? I cannot find them.

@warsowgamer4fun 2 жыл бұрын

I love that the end of the song sound so ominous while being cheerful at first, makes sense considering the versaille treaty was so brutal and unjust. The winners celebrated while the loosers were left not just defeated but completely crushed without a hope in sight. Perfect soil for festering hate, and a Man that might abuse it for his own twisted and sickness vision of the world.

@jamesharding3459 2 жыл бұрын

Unjust? If anything, Versailles was far too kind to Germans! If they’d been put in their place a bit more firmly, they could never have started the Second World War!

@Supernova-bq8wf 2 жыл бұрын

As General Foch said, "It's not a peace, it's a 20-year armistice" and he was totally right. He found that the treaty was not firm enough with the Germans and that he would return to war 20 years after the treaty.

@warsowgamer4fun 2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesharding3459 I realy realy hope, that is supposed to be troll. If not you didnt pay ANY attention in history class. I seriously doubt it would have prevented WW2. Would have probably made it worse if anything. Germany would have needed longer to recover but the Hate and desire to Hurt the Victorious Nations would have been even greater.

@421less1 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah they were way too soft on them but it was the only way it was going to end. No matter how beat the germans were, they would have just kept digging trenches and bogging down the allies for years. The germans refusing to learn the lesson, blaming the jews, buying into the idea they deserved to conquer a big part of europe because germans somehow are entitled to lord over people is entirely on them. Which is why the allies had to throughly destroy them in ww2. The western powers were absolutely evil in their own right but germany aggresively started both world wars and pretending otherwise is entirely revisionist.

@jfangm 2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesharding3459 Sounds like someone failed to pay attention in history class.

@ann-kathring3096 2 жыл бұрын

That gave me chills. It's been a while since listening to a new album gave me that amount of chills, goosbumbs, tears and reason to headbang at the same time. It definitely became a masterpiece. I've been listening several times all the way through and I still can't decide, which is my favorite song. Keep on like that. Greetings from Germany.

@Sabaton 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your words. Greetings from Sweden!

@DoughbleKill 2 жыл бұрын

Geht mir ganz genau so. Wirklich wieder ein unglaublich gutes Album! Da kann und möchte man sich gar nicht entscheiden. :D

@IamMeHere2See 2 жыл бұрын

At first I was thinking that this song was too optimistic, that the treaty was the ushering in of a golden age that we know didn't happen. So when the tone & lyrics changed in the second half, I knew Sabaton had hit just the right note.

@charleskimball7058 2 жыл бұрын

During the Versailles Conference, Italy was given less land than it felt it had earned and Japan was ignored altogether. Twenty years later, France surrendered to Germany in the same rail car in which Germany had surrendered to the Allied Powers.

@etherealhawk 2 жыл бұрын

@aabattery06 2 жыл бұрын

@@etherealhawk The germans would not take ANY peace deal that involved them losing because they didn't think they lost. So if anything versailles wasnt harsh enough.

@selonianth 2 жыл бұрын

@@aabattery06 ... What? Like... actually what? A Peace Treaty which placed such heavy reparations on Germany for reasons almost purely of revenge and not even because France and Britain actually needed the money, which caused Germany's economy to utterly fall to pieces despite mountains of foreign financial aid, which was one of the direct causes of the Great Depression itself, and also led to a German people so angry and desperate for hope that they listened to a madman... wasn't harsh enough?

@jesuszockt3531 2 жыл бұрын

@@aabattery06 This was a revenge thing from France for the lost Franko-Prussian war which by the way was started by France and they hated that this won war was the starting point for united Germany. Versailles wasn't harsh enough is the most bullshit statement I ever heard about WW1, giving Germany the sole responsibility for the outbreak of war was absolute nonsense, war was to come one way or another all countries were equally responsible for it. The reparations they wanted were the reason for the collapse of the German economy, without that Hitler would have never happened.

@aabattery06 2 жыл бұрын

@@jesuszockt3531 You have to remember though that the Germans were both proud and militaristic so did not think they lost. No matter what peace was signed, as long as the Germans had to admit defeat they would not accept a peace as legitimate or "fair". As a result a "Hitler" figure would've emerged and second world war would've been started. BTW the reparations asked of France after the Franco-Prussian war was 26 billion USD (adjusted for inflation) to be repaid after 5 years. The Germans were asked to repay 260 billion USD (adjusted for inflation) whenever they could, im fairly sure they were repaid only recently, almost 100 years later. Which means the reparations asked was NOT outrageous especially since they destroyed Belgium and the French countryside. That is why I think the peace of Versailles was not harsh enough. It allowed the Germans to rebuild their army and start another world war. There should've been a peace similar to the peace at the end of ww2.

@ImperiumPopulorum 2 жыл бұрын

This was such a clever idea 👏👏

@that.one.wedgehead 4 ай бұрын

indeed

@karim.ettahiri2605 2 жыл бұрын

I love how the song started hopeful and turned doubtful at the end from "it will!" to "will it?"

@FriendlySniperYT 2 жыл бұрын

The war ended on my birthday. As a history nerd, that shit is cool for me. Lest we forget.

@DemoDaBoi 2 жыл бұрын

human rights act in my bday

@andrewludwig9251 2 жыл бұрын

The 11th Month, of the 11th day of the 11th hour of the 11th second, 1918

@MayBeSomething 2 жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday! (Pretend that I wrote this on November 11th)

@CINCZach 2 жыл бұрын

Well if it means something, my B-day is a day after Nov. 11th.

@ImperiuStar. 2 жыл бұрын

and the War beinging in the month of the mine, in august.

@luffegasen7711 2 жыл бұрын

"This is not peace! This is a 20 year ceasefire!" French General Ferndinand Foch on the Versailles Treaty ... At least he didn't live long enough to know how right he was ...

@etherealhawk 2 жыл бұрын

@luffegasen7711 2 жыл бұрын

Both France and Britain wanted revenge on the "EVUL" Germans ... Though all parties was to blame for the escalation that lead to WWI ...

@Victor-056 2 жыл бұрын

@@luffegasen7711 Not only that, France blames Germany for "Using Gas Weapons", ignoring the fact that the French Developed Mustard Gas and deployed Gas Weaponry and Flamethrowers at Verdun... But hey, Apparently, It's _Not_ okay when the otherside retaliates.

@luffegasen7711 2 жыл бұрын

The NERVE they had! ^^

@selinane2Seli-zw3pz 2 жыл бұрын

@@etherealhawk Nope, the Versailles treaty was too lenient. Germany imposed Frankfurt treaty on France in 1871 and France paid all. Saying that Versailles caused WWII is a nazi revisionist statement.

@ThisIsABadIdeaSrsly 2 жыл бұрын

The frail optimism in the first part is completely shattered as the second part, a callback to Sarajevo, begins. Knowing what comes next, I can't help but feel hopelessness, a dreadful sensation growing from behind my back. No war can end all war.

@NoobNoOne1 2 жыл бұрын

"Can a war really end a war", that's a line. Amazing stuff

@u.nforcesalx9892 2 жыл бұрын

I love the symbolisation of the bloody pigeon, knowing that the Versailles effect was what turned the weinmar Republic to a horror beyond humanity

@Todbrecher 2 жыл бұрын

This just hit's differently right now. Unknowingly, Sabaton put up a call for peace exactly when it is needed.

@gamingforever9121 Жыл бұрын

Their will be no peace with Russia until they have been beaten militarily if we as Americans had done so immediately after World War Two perhaps we would not be where we are now but instead we allowed communism too survive and the authoritarian streak that brings.

@kellenbrinton5637 2 жыл бұрын

I love how the line " its the war that will end all wars" is only song by half the band, it give a feeling of doubt

@gabrielpowell9449 Жыл бұрын

May the soldiers who fought in the Great War rest in peace now and forever

@Gizz101 Жыл бұрын

The great war never ended new powers will likely bring the war back

@jonathanandersen5274 Жыл бұрын

Versailles going straight into Rise of Evil

@Hussar117 2 жыл бұрын

I love how both this song and Sarajevo correlate with each other, like a beginning and a conclusion to the album, I love this detail, and I love how it was performed! Sabaton, doing wonders, as always!

@255omega9 2 жыл бұрын

"And war will return, sooner then we think" Has not failed to give me chills in the 40+ times ive listen to the song

@elizabethluman9784 2 жыл бұрын

Sarajevo and Versailles were an awesome way to "bookend" the album!! Well done Sabaton!!! 🤘💙🇸🇪💛🤘

@nils.4184 Жыл бұрын

Eleven months and I still get goosebumps

@AlexisVolk97 2 жыл бұрын

The bleeding olive branch is a really strong image, heralding the violence that the revanchist peace would bring. I almost feel like the dove turns somewhat raptorlike or maybe corvidlike, but it's probably just a tired mind playing tricks on me.

@morgredtheblack 2 жыл бұрын

I'd say you're onto something. I was also feeling weird about the pigeon, but for me it was the black of its eyes. So unnerving. MORE FORESHADOWING!!! HOW MANY LAYERS OF FORESHADOWING!??!?!?

@TheCanonApologist 2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate how this went for cheery joy to this dreadful cheer full of doubt and questioning.

@codenamexeno6595 Жыл бұрын

I like to imagine that Sarajevo is representing the start of WW1, the album itself representing the events that took place therein, and Versailes is the end. The callback to sarajevo representing the start of WW2

@jasatotakouzeno4674 2 жыл бұрын

I thought that Sarajevo’s backing track used as the reprise for Versailles was brilliant, but using Sarejevo’s key and lyrics to reprise it IN the repise really puts this at the top

@ouzounicus6126 2 жыл бұрын

Versailles and Sarajevo is like a story separated with Sarajevo giving a more upsetting setting with Versailles filled with excitement by the treaty

@jacobdalland1390 2 жыл бұрын

I listened to the full album for the first time just now. It's really cool to see Sarajevo and this song being like a complementary introduction and conclusion to the album!

@Sabaton 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for appreciating it Jacob

@SirHellNaja 2 жыл бұрын

I like how Sarajevo's theme is dark and heavy, while Versailles is joyful and uplifting....... For a moment, until the latter part which foreshadows what's crawling out of darkness

@drabantcorper4727 2 жыл бұрын

War never dies its sooner than you think true invasion happend litteraly 48 hour after this song

@jonsmitt9769 2 жыл бұрын

I like how the song starts triumphant then becomes a hollow echo as if we’re moving away from a room with the celebration and seeing the bigger picture outside and the wars to come. A mental image of politicians who haven’t seen the horrors of war making toasts and cheers contrasting with the grim soldiers replenishing their gear. The very end reminds me of Rise of Evil as fresh forces are on the march

@daca8395 Жыл бұрын

"NO NO NO! This is not how you end the war! This is a truce for 20 years"

@SpoonerMan03 2 жыл бұрын

"Will this war be the end of all wars, Can a war really end all wars, Will this war bring another war" This haunts me everyday

@thegamerator10 2 жыл бұрын

*the Treaty is signed and the war ends* A rejected Austrian art student: "Prepare for unforeseen consequences."

@HereticalKitsune 2 жыл бұрын

Now that is a very uplifting song, fitting for the feeling of the time!

@incurableromantic4006 11 ай бұрын

Only Sabaton could take a diplomatic conference and turn it into a massive power-metal anthem. Dear god I love this band.

@Sabaton 11 ай бұрын

That's the power of music 😎 Thanks for being there!

@edwardkenway148 2 жыл бұрын

The way the song descends into uncertainty at the end is terrifying

@elite9553 2 жыл бұрын

They way it starts using the chorus from Sarajevo towards the end is really satisfying if you play Sarajevo and this song back to back

@rhysa.2801 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine the fathers from the first world war seeing their sons go to war for 4 years now seeing their grandsons sent of to fight a war that the treaty guaranteed would never happen pains me to think

@chrisb9143 2 жыл бұрын

I think this will be the last war in Europe. Russia is done for, the only thing left to do is to kick out the Americans as soon as the Russian surrender

@augustusrehmke201 Жыл бұрын

The change between the triumphant instrumental proclamation where each line has a satisfying "conclusion" in the first half to the monotonal military march that just leads into the next line instead of ending is such a fantastic bit of musical story telling, you guys are fantastic at what you choose to do.

@Sabaton Жыл бұрын

We appreciate your comment very much, thank you

@evolvethrealojog8491 2 жыл бұрын

I have to say. Listening to every song in order. This is one hell of a way to start and end an album. Same thing that started would end in something beautiful but chaotic. They did this so well in this album and their song The End of War to end all Wars

@MeestahreL Жыл бұрын

Just like war, the song wasn't ended. That's quite symbolic.

@drashkana4864 10 ай бұрын

I love the composition of this song because it quickly turns from a hopeful tune of happiness celebrating the end of the greatest armed conflict known to date, to a doubtful "Will this war really end all wars?" accompanied by a static esque distortion of the audio. It's so haunting and creepy listening to this after a hundred years, because you can almost taste how that happiness the people felt wasn't gonna last even 20 years with the coming of an ever worse war that would leave its mark on humanity forever.

@neil4692 2 жыл бұрын

'And war will return' Yeah hearing that with what's currently happening in the world right now just hits home

@milosvasiljevic7995 Жыл бұрын

Whole world: " The all wars has ended once for all! " 25 year old german soldier with moustahces: " ..or is it? "

@user-pr9nf5zj2c Жыл бұрын

From 1918: - Hey guys, does were wars after Great War? - Great War? Are you about the First World War? - What mean the FIRST?!

@milosvasiljevic7995 Жыл бұрын

@@user-pr9nf5zj2c it was planned trilogy from the start

@darthwolf9682 2 жыл бұрын

Красивая песня. Как всегда респект!!!

@user-ck6qd8pz6o 2 жыл бұрын

Они ещё и сделали её второй частью песни Сараево))) Надеюсь и у нас скоро наступит свой Версаль)))

@artemiostheelder 2 жыл бұрын

@@user-ck6qd8pz6o новое перемирие на 20 лет? Нет уж, спасибо.

@liljessi 2 жыл бұрын

I love the style that Sabaton did with this song and Sarajevo (I also love how they added Sarajevo's chorus into this song). My fav song off the album, was not expecting the explosive ending. Fantastic outro to a fantastic album!

@astramilitarum876 2 жыл бұрын

Sooner then we think..........

@omalleycaboose5937 2 жыл бұрын

If only the treaty had been as beautiful as this song, maybe ww2 wouldn't have come

@erzhaider 2 жыл бұрын

@@Slaeowulf It's not stupid, it's correct.

@etherealhawk 2 жыл бұрын

OP is right. France caused the conditions in Germany that led to WW2 because of the harshness of the treaty, which the British wanted to to be more lenient on, because it led to hyperinflation and the collapse of the interwar government

@matheomatouan5171 2 жыл бұрын

@@etherealhawk it's because France suffered way more than Britain of the war, and because France had more rivalty with germany, after the 1870 war... But not all french agreed with that treaty: for exemple, in 1920, Foch said "it's not a peace treaty, it's a armistice of 20 years... And finally it's easy to say today that it was a bad treaty, but we're not in the head a the people at this time... past is past... what is important is to not repeat the mistake of past...

@Victor-056 2 жыл бұрын

@@matheomatouan5171 Foch was the one who wanted a _Harsher_ Treaty.

@matheomatouan5171 2 жыл бұрын

@@Victor-056 yeah as a lot of french... Because France suffered so much from the war, because France wanted to destroy totally germany

@Floziii 2 жыл бұрын

Sarajevo at the beginning and Versailles at the end of the album... what a great idea!

@Supernova-bq8wf 2 жыл бұрын

As General Foch said, "It's not a peace, it's a 20-year armistice" and he was totally right.

@navyens19 2 жыл бұрын

To quote a famous Prussian: War is merely the continuation of policy by other means.

@flavivsaetivs5738 2 жыл бұрын

"This is not a peace, it's a 20 years truce" Marshall Foch, upon seeing Germany not being disbanded

@CherokeeFlutist59 Жыл бұрын

I kinda envision at the solo that a surviving soldier is in his forties with a family and sons, turning on his radio as he watches them outside the window. Suddenly, he'd hear the Franklin D Roosevelt on the radio, his eyes widening in horror upon hearing the declaration of war on the Axis, the thought of his son's fighting in a new World War bringing back the terrifying memories of his time on the battlefield...

@royalbluegaming7763 Жыл бұрын

I love how at the outro "It's the War that will End All Wars" is quieter than the other voices claiming it won't.

@THESIXTHEGG Жыл бұрын

We need a version of this song that transitions to Rise Of Evil at the end. That would be epic.

@lordmilchreis1885 2 жыл бұрын

A shame that this treaty brought upon us an even worse war.

@etherealhawk 2 жыл бұрын

@CanadioIsCool Жыл бұрын

I hope that when a ww1 movie comes out, this is the song that plays at the end.

@IdentiteettiWarkaus Жыл бұрын

"Will this war bring another war?" THAT hits hard

@avocadokid2090 2 жыл бұрын

"In the underground, something is growing in the dark." One of the most menacing lines i've ever heard. I hope that could be a small little teaser for a WW2-based album.

@Tigerlily335 2 жыл бұрын

Just finished listening to the whole album and while the entire thing is a masterpiece, this last song had me sitting in my room afterwards just staring at a wall in silence for like 15 minutes trying not to cry. I can't even really put my emotions into words but it hit me hard. Truly amazing work.

@commanderneyo 2 жыл бұрын

Something I appreciate about the first half of the song is the hope that came with the treaty. At a time like ours, it's important to have that hope, even though this led to an even larger war. The hope of peace is something I hope to hear more of from you guys

@skyrat1991 Жыл бұрын

"Will this War bring another war"?... That is such a haunting line

@ledester_right 2 жыл бұрын

It's a very unique thing that first "Sarajevo" almost the same as "Versailles" but in the first one, where war just started, where music and lines sounded harder and in the second one, where everything ended and lines are sound lighter and more peacefully. The first one is named in honour of the city where's all started and the second one that named in honour of the city where's all ended. It's genuinely, Sabaton!

@Martin-pk4mi Жыл бұрын

And here we are 103 years later, did this war ended all wars?

@stefanmuller3116 Жыл бұрын

@XxX_afterHours_XxX 2 жыл бұрын

man, i just adore how the song towards the end is STEEPED in cynicism. it truly gives the vibe that every party around the globe is sharpening their axes, eyes locked on one another to see who will do what next... i'm pretty sure we know that answer.

@robitpower 2 жыл бұрын

I can honestly just see that last chorus, the entire shift in attitude to the song, being used in some sort of play where the one idealist is stuck saying "it's the war that will end all war," while the rest of the cast and crew ask if it really is the end of all war

@tlotro625 8 сағат бұрын

This song shook me to my core. Having listened to "Sarajevo", the lyrics feel so surreal, mismatched, wrong even. And then it hits you, louder, more powerful, haunting. Even tho by the time you know what is about to happen, you are ready for it, you expect it. And that's intentional. An absolute unit of a song. Comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.