Ghost Love Score
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| Song by Nightwish | |||||
| Album | Once | ||||
| Published | 2004 | ||||
| Released | 2004 | ||||
| Recorded | 2003 - 2004 | ||||
| Genre | Symphonic metal, Epic metal | ||||
| Length | 10:02 | ||||
| Label | Spinefarm, Nuclear Blast | ||||
| Writer | Tuomas Holopainen | ||||
| Composer | Tuomas Holopainen | ||||
| Producer | Tuomas Holopainen, Tero Kinnunen | ||||
| Once track listing | |||||
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"Ghost Love Score" is a song lasting 10 minutes and 2 seconds, from the Finnish symphonic power metal quintet Nightwish. The song can be found on their 2004 album Once, and was composed by the band's keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen and arranged by Pip Williams.
The song is the longest one-parted song in Nightwish's history and third longest of all of their songs, after "The Poet and the Pendulum" and "Beauty of the Beast", it is also regarded as one of the most epic pieces of their oeuvre. In the song, a choir sings:
- My fall will be for you
- My love will be in you
- If you be the one to cut me
- I will bleed forever
- (the last two lines later on change into:
- You were the one to cut me
- So I'll bleed forever)
Besides the choir, Tarja Turunen's vocals feature in this song. She sings about a love that ceases to exist (the "ghost love"). The love between two people, one of whom has betrayed the other and throughout the song regrets it and tries to recall what they once had.
The chorus (shown above) is essentially saying that the betrayer still loves the person in question, and that if they were to cut them, they would bleed forever (symbolizing a bleeding heart), hence love them forever more.
[edit] Trivia
- Ghost Love Score is used as the theme music for the ITV television show Lost Treasures.
- An instrumental version of the song was added to the single Wish I Had an Angel, which lasts 44 seconds longer than the album version and does not fade out in the end.
- In 2006, Nightwish released their live 2 CD doublepack, End of an Era. Track 4 on disc 2 is a live version of Ghost Love Score, which clocks in at 10 minutes and 28 seconds.
- Never released as a single
- The track received some attention on the site YTMND.com with a portion of the song used for what is known as the "Epic Theme"
- It is regarded by many to be one of the finest Nightwish songs written, as it showcases many of the different aspects of their music.
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