This is one of my favourite songs from After Forever. It's incredible how Floor sounds live! I never had the chance to see them live, and now I will never have it. I almost cried while watching this video.... Miss you guys....
Creo que la voz de Floor es la más potente de las que he escuchado hasta ahora en el panorama metalero. ¡Qué energía desprende esta mujer! Es arrolladora. Y los grunts de Sander están muy logrados, además de que está buenísimo... XP
[Mother] Here I am, the future is mine [Father] And mine as well, we'll stand at the top of a prosperous society [Mother] Our dreams can become reality [Both] I am in charge of life's great circle I control my path of wealth [Parents] Ambitions high, burning The flames burn deep down in our souls To be known for efficiency and passion Seperate goals but fire shared [Father] We both need our professions Do what you want but I'll never give up mine [Mother] Oh I can think, I can work, I don't need your support Our love is pale, but it's not in my way to share our lives, our fire [Father] I shall become a man of distinction We can share our lives, our fire [Parents] Ambitions high, burning The flames burn deep down in our souls To be known for efficiency and passion Ambitions, dreams, they're burning The flames burn deeper towards our goals, our needs Suddenly, we have been careless A new life, a new dimension It disturbs our solid future. It puts out the fire we both need It's a choice between the passion, or the love that can be saved now See the child here as a saviour. Choose for love and let this life begin [Father] We have been careless but you have provoked it Your weak search for more love between us, a blind emotion Should I believe that this new life can save us, a saviour, a prodigy, so choose for love and let this life begin [Spoken interlude:] [Father] Look, we have to consider this carefully, right? We never really thought about having a baby. [Mother] I know we never thought about it before, but I think we have to find a way to keep this baby. There's more to life than just having a succesful career! [Father] No! That career is what we've worked for! I haven't got the time to raise a brat! [Mother] But... this baby could bring us together again. And we'll still have time left to do the things we've always wanted. [Father] You think so? I we wanna keep it, would you be able to take care of it and keep your job? [Mother] Well, I think we'll both need to compromise. But if we work together... I mean, we're still young, we can manage it! [Father] Don't pressure me! [Contemplative] See a birth, a saviour, a curse See these lives, they see this as a choice between their life together, between love and fire [Father] With this child we must make choices, it can save us if we want We have a life together, no choice between love and fire [Mother] Feel it, this life in me, moving With this child we must make choices, it can save us if we want Oh, I fear it, the path we take Is this a choice anyway, between love and fire? [Parents] Ambitions high, burning The flames burn deep down in our souls To be known for efficiency and passion Ambitions, dreams, they're burning The flames burn deeper towards our goals, our needs
simplemente me encanta como canta y aun mas en vivo es genial le da ese toque unico I simply love and sings as live is even more amazing given that only touch
@Monolithan666 It's pinkpop, it's a festival of more bands. After Forever just happens to play, and they play so well! I really regret they broke up as well, it's a loss for the musical industry...
toda la razon, tiene agudos increibles y sus graves dignos de el metal clasico, que mal que ya hayan terminado la historia de after forever, espero al menos floor continue cantando, que es increible
XD It's OK, sorry for responding so late, I've been getting rather behind in searching for video comments. Soprano, m. soprano, and contralto describe where your registers and passagios (transitions for registers) are. There are subtypes in these categories. Tarja's voice transitions from B4 to A4 on the song Lagoon: she's a mezzo. Floor's voice is STRONG. However, she's a mezzo (break from Eb5 to F5 in Wings of Illusion). Simone's a mezzo: She's not a soprano, doesn't have the right breaks.
First, there's that resource called water that all singers (should) use whenever possible. I actually think I could sing high for that long with water. I don't know what to sing for two full hours though. Third, most no one would be CRAZY enough to sing for 2 hours straight WITHOUT taking a break in the middle. I've had Honors Choir, but I was an alto (I'm a mezzo). I can't tell you about singing high for long, though I'll sing for abt. 7 straight hours next year for a choir trip.
we don't know if floor can sing opera for real,we never listened anything really operatic coming from floor to judge well it doesn't matter, the most important thing is,floor is the best female metal vocalist right now for me
I doubt it. It's a bit different and besides, I don't think she was as off on the CD as on the second half of the second minute (1:30-2:00). Also, Bas was... interesting to hear.
High is subjective; most people in the US sing much lower than Floor. It's true that Floor doesn't sing VERY high (as in above C6) for very long (one D6 in Emphasis and a few C#6's in different songs), but I've heard that she's a mezzo... so she's singing at about her break area? Either way, @IIVORIAN, I managed singing well for 8 hours at Honors Choir. X_X It's terrible standing in high heels for that long.
ok, never enough es un tema muy comercial, pero no puedo dejar de creer que el álbum, the divine conspiracy es el mejor de todos los editados por epica, incluso supera a the phantom agony
Simone tambien compone, no se de tarja porque artistacamente no la sigo, pero compararlas es una tonteria. No es que la voz de floor sea 'mejor', a mi tambien me parece mas fuerte, con mas rango, color, textura, bla bla.. pero me gusta mas la de simone por su tipo de voz que es completamente dstinto. No se puede comparar a dos artistas que son diferentes porque es comparar guitarra con bajo, por ende, comparar simone con tarja, floor, sharon, etc, no tiene sentido.. al menos para mi =)
Sorry, I'm not patient enough to search for Epica music videos: it's rather late where I am, and I like Floor better: more expressive, original in my opinion.
if floor decides to claim she's the best singer ever, her fans will believe...floor can be the best singer in metal but it doesn't make her the best singer in the world, only fans are ignorant enough to ignore the existance of an entire planet
@UuRrIiAaSs Of course ! Anyway , Simone doesn't have perfect voice but, but it match well with epica's music. Floor have much more technical than Simone ! And today, Simone is less and less great in live :( So much more wrong notes, she writes songs lines she cannot reproduce in gig... It's ashame. Anyway, Epica and After Forever/ReVamp cannot be compared ! It's too different ! (sorry for my english, I'm french ^^)
floor studied opera just for one year according to herself, in one year a person can't do the stuff you said, go study opera to see, floor studied musical theater for 4 years according to herself and when you study it the kind of technique you use is completely different from opera....you don't nothing about floor or about opera, I've read too many interviews with floor and never said being an opera singer
She is the best, oh!!! How much I wish after forever still exist
Who keeps listening to AF in 2020???
One of my favorite songs from After Forever and Floor Jansen.
This is one of my favourite songs from After Forever. It's incredible how Floor sounds live!
I never had the chance to see them live, and now I will never have it. I almost cried while watching this video....
Miss you guys....
Floor so energetic and the glorious voice; why not have AF reunion tour
My friend, Harry Stout just turned me on to this band today.
I feel like I just won the lottery!
What a band... trhee powerful voices and Flor Jansen...
Metal queen for ever... she rules!!!
Creo que la voz de Floor es la más potente de las que he escuchado hasta ahora en el panorama metalero. ¡Qué energía desprende esta mujer! Es arrolladora. Y los grunts de Sander están muy logrados, además de que está buenísimo... XP
After Forever, what happened? You were one of the leading bands of your kind. You were so amazing! I just wish you could come back one more time...
I love Invisible Circles so much just because it feels that all the songs flow together, kinda like a story of the Mother, Father and Child
Well, it IS a complete story. It's a conceptual album :)
i saw them, After Forever, on their 1st UK gig. met the band at signing. awesome \m/
Woow, I'm impressed!!, she is a really great singer. Love her style and power
Amooo profundamente está banda !!
incredible!!
The best band.... The best singer!!
[Mother] Here I am, the future is mine
[Father] And mine as well,
we'll stand at the top of a prosperous society
[Mother] Our dreams can become reality
[Both] I am in charge of life's great circle
I control my path of wealth
[Parents] Ambitions high, burning
The flames burn deep down in our souls
To be known for efficiency and passion
Seperate goals but fire shared
[Father] We both need our professions
Do what you want but I'll never give up mine
[Mother] Oh I can think,
I can work, I don't need your support
Our love is pale, but it's not in my way
to share our lives, our fire
[Father] I shall become a man of distinction
We can share our lives, our fire
[Parents] Ambitions high, burning
The flames burn deep down in our souls
To be known for efficiency and passion
Ambitions, dreams, they're burning
The flames burn deeper towards our goals, our needs
Suddenly, we have been careless
A new life, a new dimension
It disturbs our solid future. It puts out the fire we both need
It's a choice between the passion, or the love that can be saved now
See the child here as a saviour. Choose for love and let this life begin
[Father] We have been careless but you have provoked it
Your weak search for more love between us, a blind emotion
Should I believe that this new life can save us,
a saviour, a prodigy, so choose for love and let this life begin
[Spoken interlude:]
[Father] Look, we have to consider this carefully, right?
We never really thought about having a baby.
[Mother] I know we never thought about it before, but I think we have to find a way to keep this baby.
There's more to life than just having a succesful career!
[Father] No! That career is what we've worked for! I haven't got the time to raise a brat!
[Mother] But... this baby could bring us together again. And we'll still have time left to do the things we've always wanted.
[Father] You think so? I we wanna keep it, would you be able to take care of it and keep your job?
[Mother] Well, I think we'll both need to compromise. But if we work together...
I mean, we're still young, we can manage it!
[Father] Don't pressure me!
[Contemplative] See a birth, a saviour, a curse
See these lives, they see this as a choice between their life together, between love and fire
[Father] With this child we must make choices, it can save us if we want
We have a life together, no choice between love and fire
[Mother] Feel it, this life in me, moving
With this child we must make choices, it can save us if we want
Oh, I fear it, the path we take
Is this a choice anyway, between love and fire?
[Parents] Ambitions high, burning
The flames burn deep down in our souls
To be known for efficiency and passion
Ambitions, dreams, they're burning
The flames burn deeper towards our goals, our needs
simplemente me encanta como canta y aun mas en vivo es genial le da ese toque unico
I simply love and sings as live is even more amazing given that only touch
No se xq no puedo dejar de escuchar esta excelente canción 😎🤘
Perfect!
É muito muito difícil mesmo atingir tal harmonia em novos trabalhos. Felizmente pudemos disfrutar de músicas incríveis nessa época.
I just love the Floor-Baas-Sander Trio
Old Nightwish and After Forever are the best bands!
she is the best!!!!!!
I love this song.
That's right!! Im really excited to see them here in Argentina in december :D
geweldig nummer!! =]
Fodaaaaaaaa! Uhul!
@Monolithan666
It's pinkpop, it's a festival of more bands. After Forever just happens to play, and they play so well! I really regret they broke up as well, it's a loss for the musical industry...
amo a esa mujer ^^
Yeah!
toda la razon, tiene agudos increibles y sus graves dignos de el metal clasico, que mal que ya hayan terminado la historia de after forever, espero al menos floor continue cantando, que es increible
XD It's OK, sorry for responding so late, I've been getting rather behind in searching for video comments.
Soprano, m. soprano, and contralto describe where your registers and passagios (transitions for registers) are. There are subtypes in these categories. Tarja's voice transitions from B4 to A4 on the song Lagoon: she's a mezzo. Floor's voice is STRONG. However, she's a mezzo (break from Eb5 to F5 in Wings of Illusion). Simone's a mezzo: She's not a soprano, doesn't have the right breaks.
jeje, AF es mi grupo favorito aunque se haya desintegrado, sigue siendo bueno, y esta cancion ya la saque en bajo XD
i think invisible circles is their best album with decipher..great band..
agree
siiiipp
Epica tiene una excelente composición, pero la fuerza y versatilidad de floor no la tiene simone.
First, there's that resource called water that all singers (should) use whenever possible. I actually think I could sing high for that long with water. I don't know what to sing for two full hours though. Third, most no one would be CRAZY enough to sing for 2 hours straight WITHOUT taking a break in the middle. I've had Honors Choir, but I was an alto (I'm a mezzo). I can't tell you about singing high for long, though I'll sing for abt. 7 straight hours next year for a choir trip.
we don't know if floor can sing opera for real,we never listened anything really operatic coming from floor to judge
well it doesn't matter, the most important thing is,floor is the best female metal vocalist right now for me
@UuRrIiAaSs Exactly!!!
Now we're two..
U_U
cuando????
cuando va a sacar su tan esperado album???????????
I doubt it. It's a bit different and besides, I don't think she was as off on the CD as on the second half of the second minute (1:30-2:00). Also, Bas was... interesting to hear.
High is subjective; most people in the US sing much lower than Floor. It's true that Floor doesn't sing VERY high (as in above C6) for very long (one D6 in Emphasis and a few C#6's in different songs), but I've heard that she's a mezzo... so she's singing at about her break area?
Either way, @IIVORIAN, I managed singing well for 8 hours at Honors Choir. X_X It's terrible standing in high heels for that long.
Don't think you do any of these bands just by trying to compare them. They are VERY different in both style and audience ;)
ok, never enough es un tema muy comercial, pero no puedo dejar de creer que el álbum, the divine conspiracy es el mejor de todos los editados por epica, incluso supera a the phantom agony
demás que Floor continuará, no creo que suceda lo mismo que con Vibeke Stene una vez que se fue de Tristania, eso sería un lástima.
@orjane YEs
LOL!
I love this band(L)
@UuRrIiAaSs i agree that they are different bands but they share the same founder but if you ask me how is the best Floor is the best
Akane Liv
So now with the last news you must be so fucking excited! :D
Now in Nightwish, wow!!!! this woman is the real successor of Tarja, not Anette
Simone tambien compone, no se de tarja porque artistacamente no la sigo, pero compararlas es una tonteria. No es que la voz de floor sea 'mejor', a mi tambien me parece mas fuerte, con mas rango, color, textura, bla bla.. pero me gusta mas la de simone por su tipo de voz que es completamente dstinto.
No se puede comparar a dos artistas que son diferentes porque es comparar guitarra con bajo, por ende, comparar simone con tarja, floor, sharon, etc, no tiene sentido.. al menos para mi =)
Sorry, I'm not patient enough to search for Epica music videos: it's rather late where I am, and I like Floor better: more expressive, original in my opinion.
Have you senn this /watch?v=uzW1jDAt69Q ? She's propably taller than you...
@Pitchredbrigade:
häääää...what? *lol*
@MrJulios007 Nooooooo! Floor is fire, is hot !!!
after forever amazin band...and after is better than epica...my opinon
@UuRrIiAaSs I think that you are latino or you speak other languague 'cause you have many mistakes...
good band grunts ehh.... still epic
if floor decides to claim she's the best singer ever, her fans will believe...floor can be the best singer in metal but it doesn't make her the best singer in the world, only fans are ignorant enough to ignore the existance of an entire planet
Also Sander didn't need to play shirtless.
@UuRrIiAaSs Of course ! Anyway , Simone doesn't have perfect voice but, but it match well with epica's music. Floor have much more technical than Simone ! And today, Simone is less and less great in live :( So much more wrong notes, she writes songs lines she cannot reproduce in gig... It's ashame. Anyway, Epica and After Forever/ReVamp cannot be compared ! It's too different ! (sorry for my english, I'm french ^^)
Hell! my love is divided ... Floor, Simone, Tarja ... I WANT ALL GODDESSES, delicious !
@Pitchredbrigade fool!!!
7 funkeiros não curtiram..... acharam a voz de MC Melody melhor...........
floor studied opera just for one year according to herself, in one year a person can't do the stuff you said, go study opera to see, floor studied musical theater for 4 years according to herself and when you study it the kind of technique you use is completely different from opera....you don't nothing about floor or about opera, I've read too many interviews with floor and never said being an opera singer
She's hot, yes?
Yeah....
You had to ask this question? She’s hot and awesome!
AF is way better that epica....floor sings better than simone...etc.... i prefer AF than epica...
and that is my opinion
Tarja rules!!! lol