Nightwish - The Greatest Show on Earth - Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015)

Members:
Vocals: Floor Jansen
Bass, Acoustic Guitars & Vocals: Marco Hietala
Guitar: Emppu Vuorinen
Keyboards & Piano: Tuomas Holopainen
Uilleann Pipes, Low Whistles, Bodhran & Bouzouki: Troy Donockley
Drums: Kai Hahto
Spoken Parts: Professor Richard Dawkins

Lyrics: Tuomas Holopainen
Music: Marco Hietala/Tuomas Holopainen

Lyrics on Screen

"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it?" (Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow)

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?" (Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow)

"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." (Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species)

"At the back of our brains, there is a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this submerged sunrise of wonder." (G.K. Chesterton)

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