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Share a song you recently realized you can't get enough of... no matter how many times you listen to it.

This is a tough one for me because I fall in love with good music very easily. Since I already posted Bye Bye Beautiful by Nightwish the other day I guess I will have to think of something else.. This is Silent Waters by Amorphis. Such a great song. It is very sad and gut wrenching though. The premise of the song is him singing about his son drowning to death. It is very sad and you can even see him start to cry in the video. This is just such a great band. Just about everything they do is amazing to me. And their singer Tomi Joutsen is hot to boot. They are a band out of Finland, btw.

"A day's light told me of my son's fate
The sun showed the way, grim and severe
Pulled under the raging waters, my child
Sank in the drowning currents, my son
My strength is not enough, my powers failed me
I need the heavens help, I ask for thunder's force
I plead for you oh lightning, forge an iron tool
A magic rake for dragging, a river for my son, my son

God of fire bring your light
Forger of sun help me now
Guardian of the shore will sleep in your warmth
Lull the folk of cold water
Banish the serpents of the dark
To the river let me go and fetch my son away

A rake made of iron from the Gods of skies
The spirit of bright days sent me the sun
Cold troops of Tuoni can not stand in my way
Untouched I shall walk by the river of the night
My child
My son"

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"Both Eclipse and Silent Waters are modern versions of our Finnish traditions and beliefs. The basic theme of this album is that it’s the old Finnish belief that tells the story of a man who travels to the land of dead people. People used to believe that you had to travel across the river into this land of the dead people. This is a basic belief and Silent Waters is a sort of telling about this, which is not a very happy theme (laughs), but it was interesting what we really wanted to throw on this album"