The comment of Tuomas (Nightwish) on the song 'The Kinslayer':
THE KINSLAYER
- On April 20th, 1999 two teenagers, Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold went to Columbine High School, in Colorado with handmade bombs and shotguns, with intention to kill as many of their schoolmates as possible. As they entered the school, they started shooting and throwing bombs everywhere, killing 9 boys, 4 girls and finally themselves. This was carefully planned for over a year, and these guys were determined to kill also themselves afterwards. They had no real motiv. They made a videotape in the morning just before the massacre where they said: " We are going to kill you all. You have been giving us sh!t for years. We want to say our sorry for our parents; There`s nothing you could have done. This is something we must do. We`re sorry, we didn`t like life very much..."
The event is something I will never understand. If something as horrible as this can happen in this world, there`s no sense, no truth to cling to anymore. I find there`s a great deal of symbolism hidden in this happening.
The dialogue in the middle of the song quotes the actual phrases between the killers and their schoolmates during the shooting. (According to those who survived)
The lyrics can be found here.
Suddenly I saw what was meant with this song and saw the unsurpassed skill with which this song was created.
Away (Nightwish)
THE KINSLAYER
- On April 20th, 1999 two teenagers, Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold went to Columbine High School, in Colorado with handmade bombs and shotguns, with intention to kill as many of their schoolmates as possible. As they entered the school, they started shooting and throwing bombs everywhere, killing 9 boys, 4 girls and finally themselves. This was carefully planned for over a year, and these guys were determined to kill also themselves afterwards. They had no real motiv. They made a videotape in the morning just before the massacre where they said: " We are going to kill you all. You have been giving us sh!t for years. We want to say our sorry for our parents; There`s nothing you could have done. This is something we must do. We`re sorry, we didn`t like life very much..."
The event is something I will never understand. If something as horrible as this can happen in this world, there`s no sense, no truth to cling to anymore. I find there`s a great deal of symbolism hidden in this happening.
The dialogue in the middle of the song quotes the actual phrases between the killers and their schoolmates during the shooting. (According to those who survived)
The lyrics can be found here.
Suddenly I saw what was meant with this song and saw the unsurpassed skill with which this song was created.
Away (Nightwish)
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