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  • I hate the juxtaposition with war here. Tolkien nor Enya really wanted this. A song like this does not judge or choose sides - it is for all.

  • the song is so beautiful

  • no quicker way to turn gold into shit than to superimpose images of american soldiers onto it.

  • So, Larry.. the elves are to blame for 9-11.. douchebag

  • JOIN blackwater after this song.

  • @damiann77 Hey don't hate on america. If we weren't here your life would probably suck. So please think before you post such an idiotic/rude comment. America has a profound affect on the lives of everyone around the world.

  • To be a bit more clear about music and war themes, pictures of soldiers in battle as a background would be completely in order with Band of Brothers, because music played agaist this backdrop was written for this purpose. This was not glorifying acts of war it was glorifying the inherit good in doing things for each other, and helping each other under trying circumstances.

  • I hope Enya gave permission for these shots to be broadcast over her beautiful music. I am an ex military person, but dislike intensely the use of war like photography or video if it is not inherit or the actual theme of the music. When used this way it IS glorifying the acts of war, and nothing Enya sings is thematic to war acts at all.

  • Very good song but whats this? WAR PROPAGANDA!!!!

  • loove enya

  • It is amazing how the speakers CANT take her beautiful High Notes

  • @MoschopsLives707 I understand this was a year ago when you posted this comment, but it doesn't change the fact that you are an ignorant prick, oh and apparently you have a hard-on for American women, so contradiction?

  • Her voice is the only voice that sooths my soul! When u close ur eyes she takes u on your each own individual journey and brings u back again when it finishes Now thats what a singer should be able to do Amazing

  • I AM A VIRGIN FOR EITHNE

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  • As an American Enya fan I have to say the war images absolutely do not fit the song at all, they should have just used something peaceful to go along with the music or kept the camera on her and the other musicians. Unfortunately people think to show you are a patriot you have to show pictures of how much u support wars all the time for some reason.

  • joerover22 you are so right could not have said it better myself thanks

  • instead of showing war pictures, why not show nature pictures, the true beauty of the world. not this man made bullcrap. damn media and mainstream shit. when the worlds at end, everyone will realize how dumb and immature they've really acted, we will be listening to this song, looking to the clouds for help, not down the barrel of a gun. Will be too late.

  • Enya can do no wrong in my mind. I regret the war images. Seeing her speak is a rare treat, though.  So, I just focus on her and ignore the rest. If anyone has a better idea, let me know. :)

  • @GeneralXander

    Very well live? Just me who thinks she is lip singing

  • WHY DID THEY HAVE TO RUIN IT WITH THE FRAKKING WAR IMAGES?

    They did not go well with the song at ALL.

  • WHY DID THEY HAVE TO RUIN IT WITH THE FRAKKING WAR IMAGES?

  • there is no war the only people who makes war is goverment...

  • @damiann77 I agree.. however I still like the song

  • I think she isn't that well live. The original song is much better. But it is still a beautiful song!

  • my God, this lady can sing, great voice, so amazing. Sarah McL. is good too

  • Her voice must be one of the wonders on our wonderful planet! Love this song!

  • enya can sing live very well, so for all those people saying that she only mimes like nearly all other singers should get their eyes tested.

  • q gran cancion !!!!

  • maybe its not US being stupid americans..maybe we just relate to things obviously very different and maybe its bc wherever you come from you havent had those same hardships. the song is about persevering through very tough timesand being that you apparently dont relate to what americans went through you cant relate to "tough times"..but please dont call us stupid for you not being able to emotionally relate to anything. and be thankful you havent gone through those times.

  • Definitely LIVE!!! For all of those who believe that Eithnee is always lipsynching. Thta´s so ridiculous. Look, hear and remark it. Enya is able to perform so good that it sounds like her studio performance. She is a class of her own! Timeless ethereal beauty in voice and appearance.

  • she's beautfiul

  • Pretty vacant comments coming up here, people. This clip was some four or five months after 9/11, not nine years. Larry King's promotion here helped your beloved Enya win a 2002 Grammy award which she gladly claimed, and all you monkeys can think to do is throw tantrums over the backdrop because of your weird geographical inferiority complexes. Back to grade school with the lot of you dim children...

  • @bravoalphahk im sure she would of done fine without larry

  • @Ra3D Well, you're probably right. She's singularly talented. But if her music speaks as powerfully to U.S. patriots as to global pacifists, I say let them be fans together.

  • The song *is* about one whom is on a long road riddled with difficulty and danger. Would one prefer pictures of roses and mountain tops for a song that does not represent such?

    I find the song to be a beautiful tribute to those that have, and still do suffer themselves on the front lines across the earth for the good of the many. The song further brings to life what can only be imagined as their hopes and dreams to come back home some day.

    We stand on ground paid in blood for, we often forget.

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  • This piece of art should not be turned into patriotism in favor of a nation. This song touches the inner strive that every human on this planet carries deep inside of their hearts. This goes beyond borders and belongs to humanity, friend or foe.

  • Very nice!!!

  • uk army, uss army???

    stupid want war?

    why they have to smear with shit this beautiful song

  • @VlamisRU

    I think she's much more shy than a normal human, but this can be positive. She has an innocent personality and she's much more natural and sincere than average people.

  • One of our most spirtual singers of our times...Love the Irish

  • SHE. IS. FUCKING. AMAZING.

  • i respectfully disagree lazyatthedisco--the images of the soldiers keeping watch ifn the war are haunting and beautiful--they're lonely and brave and doing a job most of us wouldn't want to do. the words of the song are really poingnant when applied to these brave men and women

  • @treebee2

    I respectfully disagree with you respectfully disagreeing...they are a bunch of idiots doing the bidding of oil hungry bigwigs and such.Nobody would do their job because even if they get blown to shit it has nothing to do with fighting for a noble cause whatsoever.

    And the song has nothing to do with 9/11,(note here...it was your guys).Everything soothing at that time had to be to honour 9/11 and america's fight.This is bullshit an y'all know it.

  • @treebee2

    Of course Enya and all kinds of people even anti-american attitude ones had a barrel on their heads at that time.Eddie Vedder?He and his kind was out there forced to look patriotic?And I was chewed out by cops for wearing a rage against he machine T-shirt?I'll tell you what kind of soundtrack this whole frikkin' travesty deserves...the mc Donalds theme played by my ass in D minus!

  • Wonderful voice and song, but I dont care for the images. The song was made for LOTR, not for 9/11

  • @lazyatthedisco YOU SIR SPEAK THE TRUTH XD <3

  • I think this is the one time Enya has ever sung something live! I wish she would tour

  • She is so beautiful, I adore, ENYA yu're angelic

  • When Larry said 'brilliant Irish singer', Enya looked so amazingly flattered. She's so cute and great.

  • LOTR has nothing to do with 9/11, the song is not working with the pictures.

  • thats true, but you have to remember the zeitgeist (spirit of the age). This wasn't too long after 9/11, and the US was full of a patriotism of the likes it hadnt seen since the Second World War. But I will agree that the pictures dont flow well with the song....I dont know if its just having the pictures themselves or the timing of when theyre put in

  • I understand your point, and I understand why people tried to link LOTR with 9/11; it has a lot to do with the way Tolkien wrote and the themes of the books. The themes are "applicable" to the reader's life instead of "allegorical" to a particular idea set by the author. (From the foreword of The Fellowship of the Ring; written by Tolkien himself (I just paraphrased it). Still... I don't know is just not working in the video... it looks too... political.

  • she is an angel 4 sure !!!

  • the best Poland love ENYA:)

  • What's up with the war pictures... Like, ok, but... No.

  • epic win when enya avoids the damn unknown interviewer's question about 9/11

    and she focuses her answer on the real topic of the song

    enya is so amazing

  • They try to twist the song into supporting all the madness that followed 9/11 and she evades it, without bashing it. Class act, through and through.

  • @blackmago idno if my thumbs up went through so ill just comment to make sure : )

    so so amazing

  • @blackmago i would not call Larry King an unknown interviewer, he is only the most famous crazy old man with a talk show that ask questions that don't make any sense whatsoever lol

  • @blackmago in what world is Larry King unknown ?

  • @taylorhey43 in many..., there is always unknown peoples like you , mate.( just put ur names on google...and tell me , what pops up? Nothingg!

  • the voice of an angel

  • Someday....I'll write and sing ...just like her...well, not like her but do what she does to her songs! SHE'S BRILLIANT!

  • i wish you pursuit your dream and it come true!!

    Cheerz and best wishes from Argentina!

  • Thank you! Bless you. I can sing well if want proof! And I hope your dreams will come true, too!

  • Agreed the quality isnt the best -

    But Imo her performance here smashes what she did during the academy awards..

    It' seems very close to exactly what the publicly released version sounds like.

  • that could be because this performance didnt had public?

  • Anything is possible. Myself I've never viewed her much as a 'stage' singer, she just put's too much effort and life into her songs for it to be about anything other than the song.. (eg - no showiness)

    Either way, this is my personal favorite of her singing live of all the videos I've seen so far, very cool stuff. She is too good.

  • Enya's doing a pretty good job... Too bad the quality of the sound and video is a bit poor... Seems like a VHS recording...

  • just close ur eyes while listening and imagine heaven XD or anything gr8 !!!!! lol

  • You are right!

  • Btw... I cannot BELIEVE Enya did this on Larry King live! And good grief.. what I would have given to be in Larry's shoes at the time, and to know after words I was there to have witnessed such..

  • The author of this video 'modification' portratyed an image in a few brief moments of soldiers in their duties, giving the feeling that they do suffer their lives for what they beleive. What difference does it make if it's Americans, French, Japanese, Germans, or any other national? Who is so righteous to judge a soldiers reason for putting themselves on the line each day for what they beleive is right? Considering most of us do not even know what it's like to do such in the first place.

  • ...What's with all of the imagery. Where is Frodo, Sam, Gandolf, The King? :[

  • WOW I love Enya, but i cant belive what i read here. Wath the hell have this beautiful song with American Politics. The stupide guy said the war in Iraq is for liberty (i cant belive this). Does the bombing of Serbia is for the liberty also.

    Salut from Serbia. Long live the Enya and peace.

  • WOW just incredible,absolutely one of the most beautiful songs I've ever had the pleasure of listening to.Fits the movies mood perfectly to say the least.

  • Well seriously... adding war images to an American program on a completely unrelated song is unusual to see in any other country..

    America needs to make everything about them.. it;s not envy or hatred.. it's the fact that American's believe everything has to involve them.

  • very touching...

    thank you.

  • LOL.......You are so full of hate, it's hard to make any sense of your ravings. If you think it's an easy call to condemn a war against muslim fascism, try living over there in the Sudan or Iraq, or Pakistan for a little while. You won't be so full of your arrogant self when some bearded Nazi is whippin' your ass with a stick and wrapping you up in a burka, so he can pass you around to his friends later.

  • Your are just another sock puppet of the left wing suicide squad, trying to make freedom and liberty something to be ashamed of. You are the one who should be ashamed, for not caring about freedom.

  • Amazing voice and beautiful song. Really suit the movie!

  • The war pictures etc.. are only because she is in America. Americans are up themselves and think everything is about them.

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  • Updown, we Americans are used to hatred and envy, get a life

  • As well you should be, for it has been WELL Earned.

  • agreed.

    this epic song and the war iraq are not related in anyway.

    but like always, cnn uses great artists for propaganda

  • enya is the best¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

  • It's amazing that she just came there and sang alive without using the playback... awsome :)

  • OMG she is so good OMFG!!!!:_P

    ;D;D;D;D

  • yeahh!!! you have the reason!!!... poor enya!!!...saludos!!!

  • I like it is not disputed, it regrets ...

  • she's really great!!!

  • it's very, very beautyful :-)

  • naspaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • dar ce ai cautat pe pagina asta?

  • This song has nothing to do with those images...what a rhetorical and unfair union...

  • Notice how when Larry King states "it fits the time since 9/11" how Enya deflects the association and brings it back to the original intent of the song, that is, a song written for LOTR. And notice how when he refers to her music as New Age, how her gaze flits away from his eyes to his mouth to indicate that she disagrees with the way he pigeonholes her music.

  • i am so in love with her!

  • the princess of celtic melody did it again.hahaha i love enya

  • The song may fit for the times after 9/11.......but that is not why she wrote it. It was for LOTR, and was written LONG before 9/11. And as bad as 9/11 was, and it was, things like that happen around the world all the time. Americans were rightfully upset by 9/11, but Enya is not an American. She had every right to be upset over what Larry King and CNN did without her consent.

  • From what I read after all of this, Enya was pleased that people turned to her music after 9/11 for comfort, but she did not want her music to be just about that. After all, her song "Only Time" pretty much became the theme song for us Americans coping with 9/11, and many thought she wrote it for that reason, but actually, it came out over a year prior to 9/11. CNN was truly irresponsible to put that pictures up, and Enya was NOT aware that they were going to do that. That is just wrong.

  • less likely to be sindarin

    yes its quenya

    and its actually: Mornie utúlië; mornie alantië

  • she is an angel or close to be

  • what language is "Mornie utúlien"?

  • Tolkien's Elvish I believe.

  • It is elven language ..it means darkness has come..

  • Elvin i think

  • Amazing...

  • is she human or a hoyl angel sent from god

  • I love her, too :)

  • I LOVE U ENYA

  • this is the best female singer that I'd ever heart.....better than others......

  • I adore HER!

  • WOW

  • She's soo good!

  • Without the awful pictures of the soldiers that could be a GREAT presentation, its a shame that the patriotism ruin it, any way, enya is GREAT...

  • Yeah, it's supposed to be about the Lord of the Rings and war.

  • whats her full name? I just know her first name Enya

  • celtic: Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin

    english: Enya Brennan

  • i think that is the voice of God

  • No, just Enya :D lol

  • i love her

  • Pictures of soldiers defending YOUR FREEDOM? You arrogant moron. Would it be more "appropriate" to draft your lazy ass and send you to do the job?

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  • Perhaps you should suit up and go fight in this illegal, unjust War that you seem to worship so much. You fucking HALF WIT, I have FRIENDS who are over there, and have friends who have DIED. Even the Soldiers THEMSELVES know that this isn't about freedom or democracy, and never was.

    Take your Armchair Warrior mentality, and your mindless nationalism somewhere else.

    The Forefathers wouldn't piss on you if you were on FIRE.

  • What an amazing woman she is. I am so impressed with her talent.

  • Really Amazing

  • 100 % LIVE which is very rare for Enya! Perfect!! Love her...

  • What image?

  • Enya does not have a big voice: she wrote this song, and has the range to carry it.

    This is absolutely LIVE.

  • she is my all time favorite singer! she sings like an angel!

  • This is the Real Live version, and it sound great!!!

  • I fully agree with you, it is my favorite.

  • I LOVE ENYA my dream is to meet her in person!

  • What is the fan who does not dream this.

  • love this song

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