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Sleepwalker (Nightwish song)
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Wikipedia article
"'Sleepwalker'" is a song by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, made and performed during the national Eurovision Song Contest tryouts in 2000. Although they placed first in the Finnish televote, the jury overruled them, selecting Nina strm instead.
The song was released as the band's third promotional single, containing the original Eurovision version and an alternative radio edit which was slightly different, both in the use of instruments and Tarja Turunen's vocals being softer and not so very operatic. "Sleepwalker" went on to appear on reissues of the 2000 album 'Wishmaster' and on the 19972001 4-CD Box Set. The radio edit (subtitled "heavy version" on future releases) can be found on the original Japanese edition of 'Wishmaster', the "Deep Silent Complete" single, the 'Wishmastour 2000' compilation, and the Spinefarm special edition of the "Bless the Child" single.
A line from the song ("end of innocence, unending masquerade") was later reused as the title of Nightwish's 2003 DVD 'End of Innocence'.
The line "Silently the senses, abandon all defences" is most likely straight from the song "Music of the Night" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'The Phantom of the Opera'. The main theme of the musical was later covered by the band on their 2002 album 'Century Child'.
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Category:Nightwish songs
Category:Songs written by Tuomas Holopainen
Category:2000 songs
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