"The Poet and the Pendulum" - Subliminal/Secret Message (Backwards)

[ahp7]

The same lyrics in the second half of the song... hm.

[ewan121]

Have u not listened to the song? She says that loudly, not backwards half way through the song. It's not some hidden message, it's just the sound producer adding an Easter egg as a joke

[Nightowljrm]

@ewan121 : I've obviously listened to the song. Lol

[kobra1324]

*talks to the whisper* Suicidal much?

[shinjutsuki]

That is...extremely creepy. It really does sound like she's saying that...*shudders*

[baddiablorox]

Not exactly subliminal messaging,as it is played forwards in the song,although I always wondered what that whispering was!I thought it was just used for more effect

[Nightowljrm]

@baddiablorox : Agreed. I just said "subliminal" for more effect.

[standtall104]

that is creepy

[Mippitty]

... loss of innocence. But of course everyone will have their own interpretation :)

[Mippitty]

This is one of my favorite songs because there is so much more to it than you first hear :)

I'm not sure it's even about suicide...in my opinion it's about feeling inadequate (1,000 pages of erased text) life's insecurities interwoven with a passion for something. You never know when it (the incomprehensible miracle of life) will all be taken. (He stopped crying at the end of each beautiful day) First you lose hold of innocence and later of life. Many of Tuomas's songs have themes of loss of i

[MysteriousMe44]

Wow. Really cool... I know that the lyrics are in the song regurally, too, but that's wierd o_O *thumbs up*

[RedSatin12]

Oh wow....I know that part is played in the song, but its weird how the whispering played backwards is that too......

[Ilionej]

Oh jes. I thought, it would spread after I told VanillaPink13. Though she asked to keep it as hidden as possible...

[Xxstarbucksluverx]

ok hats wired

[athinapainter]

the istro's wispers are again somewhere in the song ... but i wonder what tuomas had in his mind when he was writing the lyrics...

[AnimeSprite5]

That isn't a subliminal message.  Those lyrics are in the song as well.

[mannyane]

but this are from the beggining of the song

if lyou look cat what it says , those parts are not full

[FoxRowan]

What font did you use? :3

[Nightowljrm]

DreamScar

[EscapingAmaranth]

That isn't a subliminal message...that part is played out normally in the song after the first 4 minutes or so. Tuomas may have put that in there backwards as well, but it is in the original song.

[Nightowljrm]

This is true. However, it wouldn't be as interesting if the title was "TPATP, some part played backwards secretly" =P

[SEEoEMOoCRY]

oh creepy i have always wondered what the wisper was.

[LadyRevan7]

O.o holy shit that's creepy..but really cool. thanks for posting the lyrics to the backwards whisper! i could tell something was being said, but i couldn't understand a word of it without the subtitles!

thanks for posting!

[SlainByThePendulum]

A curious fact about this masterpiece is that when the boy says "now I only have 3 minutes and counting" there are exactly 3 minutes left before the pendulum falls and kills Tuomas "...Save me!...whhhoooooash....!"

[failbot2008]

They play it forward about 7 or 8 minutes into the song before the gunshot and Marco's solo. :| Pay attention people. It's not subliminal, it's just backwards.

[kdog177]

and to amplify that fact even more at the begining it said "the end" and at the end it said "the begining"

[aerenofgondor]

My dear, I wouldn't count that as "secret," exactly, seeing as it's already in the song, but thanks for doing this. That whisper part was driving me nuts. Now I know what's being said

[Nightowljrm]

Yes, I would agree in saying that it isn't a "secret", but calling it a "secret" makes it more interesting. =)

[myphoenixisstillhere]

yeah, that's true :D

(oh, could you delete my other comment.. it seems I commented twice.)

[dancingwitchmom]

Yes That truth. I was also asking what they said in that part. hehe. Nice

[aerenofgondor]

My dear, I wouldn't count that as "secret," exactly, seeing as it's already in the song, but thanks for doing this. That whisper part was driving me nuts. Now I know what's being said

[RavenousRuss]

Thats crazy, I mean I know that part is in the song, but to do it backwards in the beggining...is there anything this band doesnt think of lol!!!! It totally adds to the epicness!!

[LadyLuria]

i couldn't make out any of that. exept, "Give me a death i always longed for" i heard, "give death as longed for"

[ticaylonen]

that part is in the song, in the midle of the song ¬¬, i always knew it.. i thought that if gonna be some strainge..

[esteljf]

hm... it's my drawing on the background ;)

[darkparadise24]

Bah

[damigwarg]

if you want subliminals in this song, just listen to the demo version u.u it's creepy and sexually evil (??)

[Nightowljrm]

Yeah, I have the demo version.

[dnanything]

where??

[damigwarg]

The demo version is found in "Amaranth" single.

And it said:

"Would you like to rape my rotting carcass?

Dissect my heart

And dislocate my wrist?

It wouldn't make you come, would it?"

the part was deleted 'cause NBE considerated very hard (? to sing for a child (the little soprano boy xD)

[FeelNFine]

It's just the lyrics to the rest of the song, like a pendulum, it's going backwards, then forwards

[GothicDaniela]

Wtf?! sorry but... has tuomas wanted to commit suicide or what? I really don´t understand what I (probably) should :D

[Nightowljrm]

He may've been suicidal, the lyrics imply it, but I doubt he's ever come out in an interview and said that.

[GothicDaniela]

LOL :D just imagine that: "hello, today I´m gonna talk about my suicidal tendences. So, I wanted to kill myself when I was 13 for the first time..." xD

[Nightowljrm]

LOL!! And he's sitting in that same position he usually does and he goes through his story casually. =3

[GothicDaniela]

xD LMAO.... that would be funny as hell :D

[Nightowljrm]

^^ I love it.

[Nightowljrm]

Lol, sorry. =)

[xGiovy94x]

oh well i didnt really understand it............NIGHTWISH FTW

[azndude456]

Oh my gawsh thats so weird/creepy/awesome...

[link90902000]

So basically they just reversed what the narrator says after Anette's third long solo?

[Nightowljrm]

Yeah, basically. I think I told you that on RS.

[1119king]

... O_O