The greatness from this song comes from the fact that it can be applied to any war in history, not just the 30 year war. It can be applied to any individual that has ever had to leave their home for a war they didn't start. We often get caught up in the statistics and forget the individuals.
Not only those who needs to leave their own homes. But all humans who have been through something like this. WE ALL should try to treat each others with the same respect as we want ourselves. But It may be hard.
@@pangling2217 you don't understand war, it hits different, perhaps you don't trully know what war is? _You've been born in this world, your in a happy family, you love each other, you play with your father, you both have a great time, and then you stare at the lowering sun, time passes quickly, you have a job, your living a peaceful life, you and your father always talk together, thinking of all the memories, and then war starts, you and your father will get drafted to war, when the news have reached your family, your parents shed in tears, and when you learn about it, you stop what you were doing, your mind leaves your body, and your just thinking "is this really happening? My peaceful life, my family, all at risk of ceasing to exist." Before you and and your father leave home, you two stare at your mother, your mother that you have never seen be this sad, and then leave, knowing theres a chance you can never feel the comfort of a peaceful life ever again, knowing this could be the end, as you travel, you tear up, about the memories you've had, you've been emotional remembering them, but it hits harder knowing that maybe you won't have more, your father cheers you up, making jokes and talking about the funny memories, it lightens your mood, time passes, you've been sent to the battle fields for the first time after training, you look at your father hoping you both survive, time passes once more and you now know what war is, it isn't a source of glory, glory only comes to those who faught bravely for their home and family, as the general makes the call, the battle has begun, machine guns and artillery have started doing their purpose, hundreds, maybe even thousands, have fallen, you look at their bodies and think, "they had memories too..." you charge fiercely for your comrades deaths and for your home and loved ones, you see your father get shot, you run to him, you fall beside him, you remember everything you did with your father, he looks at you and says "I'm glad you were my son" and his eyes close, you don't hear him breathing anymore, you shed tears, you stand up and fight, but like everyone else, your story ends, you fall down, your entire life flashes within your eyes, and you fall asleep, never to wake again, the battle wasn't a major one, hence why barely anyone remembers, you have been forgotten, everything that happend to you, gone._
The swedish version hits you so hard, right in the feels. The english version is more look from the sideline, the swedish is from inside the war. Thanks Dave. Great reaction
@@danielnystrom7310 Personally I wouldn't say the swedish version hits more, just differently. Personally I like the english version a little better. The swedish version is from the view of a single person and while that does make it more relatable it kinda sells short just how pointless and crazy this while war was. The english version is less "relatable" but it does a better job at portraying just how insane this really was. A lifetime of war doesn't really come across in a song about one person going to war and then maybe returning or maybe not. It makes you feel for that one person but the english version portrays the feeling of "a lifetime of war" better when it's about all the people who died and fought and just how many of these people there were, "has man gone insane" really hits me so much more when they say "Three decades of war". I'm 30 now, and there really is no question that I can ask except "Has man gone insane" when I think about how if I had been born on day 1 of that war, the war would have ended only now. 30 years is just such an incredibly long time, and I don't think the swedish version really portrays that quite as well as the english version.
The song is incredible, and hits so hard.. even hits harder when you understand the words. I'm Danish and our language is somewhat similar to Swedish, so we understand each other fairly good. Hearing him sing in his native language really adds to the impact. You can hear the pride and soul in his voice.. so powerful!
In most European countries there were rich landowners who reigned over the peasants. But Sweden always consisted of free farmers. If there was a war, every village equipped one man who was willing to follow the king and fight. They equipped him with armory, weapons and sometimes even a horse. While he was away the village supported his family.
This song just simply bridges countries, languages and cultures because the feeling and passion from it stems from something that is the same for everyone. The horror of war but also they sing it as to remember that every soldier is just a man, a person, someone that someone is waiting for to come home and survive the war!
"A song doesn't have to be heavy to be heavy." You've made a lot of Sabaton fans happy to be sad with this one Dave. Thanks for going with captions on and telling the backstory. A Lifetime of War, the English version, tells about the war from the broader perspective. Please do a Sabaton History reaction. Alvin York (82nd All the Way) or Simo Häyhä (White Death) are great, borderline unbelievable stories.
Gee...I thought you had done this a long way ago. I was there on the left on this concert, and I can tell you that the emotions and pride among the crowd was way high, a lot of us cried. I also has seen a number of different vets reacting to this and it doesn't matter where you are from, every soldier relates to this.
A long waited reaction is here, thank you so much Dave! It's crazy to think that you would've been born in war and die in the same war. Side by side with fathers and sons. It truly was a lifetime of war. You should definitely check out the english version of this song, it is more from a perspective of overall population, civilians and the madness of it all. This one was more from a perspective of individual soldier.
Was at a Sabaton concert just the other day. It was a much smaller venue but they played this song and when everyone sang this together it sent actual shivers down my spine.
This is their song that always gets to my heart. And yes, I have also been thinking the thought what is they call you child some day. My son is 17 now but will always be my baby ❤
I was at this show (siting somewhere in the middle of the platform to the left from this view of the stage) Just before this clip started Joakim asked everyone to hold up their cellphones, since no one carries around a lighter anymore. Needless to say, this was one hell of a show. Sadly, this was just before covid broke out (had for once planed 5 shows and 1 festival that year and this was the only one i got to attend)
Massive respect for your messages on swedish culture and history and the singer being proud of his own history, you earned a sub from a Swedish guy right there, stay strong my man!
I'm from Sweden, and let me tell you: nothing brings out my inner patriot like Sabaton, ABBA, and Skarsgårds 😊😊😊 so proud of what our tiny country can offer the rest of the world 🥰🥰🥰
Easily a top shelf pick from the Sabaton catalog, its up there among the best songs they ever made, i prefer the swedish version over the english, it got more feeling to it, and this live performance is amazing with the crowd singing right:)
Many of Sabaton's songs get me attacked by onion-cutting ninjas ... This is one of them ... As well as The Finale Solution ... To Hell and Back ... Soldier of Three Armies ... White Death ... And on and on! 🤘🥲
En livstid i krig = A lifetime in war. The song is available in both Swedish and English. The Swedish version is called En livstid i krig and the English vesion is called A lifetime of war. The song is from the album Carolus Rex from 2012. The album came in two versions a version with english lyrics and another version with Swedish lyrics the songs were the same but the lyrics were in different language.
It's interesting that they have this same music in English, but while the Swedish version talk about a soldier that spent his whole life moving from place to place in a foreign land fighting, not knowing when to return home and what would they find. The song in english is from the other perspective, someone living in the areas where the war was, seeing it changing hands, armies passing etc. It is very interesting how both versions are complementary to each other.
Glad you like my fellow Swedes, Sabaton. I was scrolling through all their songs you´ve reacted to and I noticed you haven´t reacted to any of their top 3 songs yet. 1 Karolinens Bön (Swedish version with subs), 2 Rise Of Evil 3 Lejonet Frän Norden (Swedish version with subs)
Yes Lejonet från Norden in Swedish is one of the best. Beacuse I am from Sweden I tend like the ons in Swedish better beacuse they sound more deep but realy I Think the lyrics are not same in the English version. The deep mening not entirely same.
You're my favorite reaction channel for several reasons, one of them being your interest in the story behind songs such as this one. I absolutely love your Sabaton reactions, which is how I found you, but I also like watching other videos you've uploaded just to hear your commentary. Your voice is also very soothing and unique. Hope to see more from you for years to come
Great reaction!🤘 I would call this song our 3:rd national anthem. 🇸🇪 It's interesting that the lyrics of the English version (as well as the Swedish) can be applied to the crazy stuff going on in the world right now.
So I can actually remember when the album this song is from came out back in 2012, I got the album immediately (the swedish version of the album as I'm swedish) and it became one of my go to albums from them for a long time, I loved all of the songs but I never really paid any attention to this song, or at least not a lot it was a good song but nothing special I felt at the time. But then when this live music video came out something broke in me, I can barely listen to this without tearing up for some reason and I don't know if it's just because of the video itself or a combination of the video,song and just how the world has kinda changed since I first heard it almost 10 years ago.
Dave, wow! You,ve made my day just at the begining of the song waving your phone with the light like people at the concert!!! :-) Thank you!!! It put a smile on my face 🙂 With this war just at our neighbours', I don't feel happy lately...
I've got ticket for their show in Stockholm part of the european tour currently postponed. I really hope they play this song then. I've been enjoying the new album, only one song I don't care much for but the rest is fire.
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Thanks from Sweden! You are one of the most likable guys I've ever come across. Great vid!
Norwegian is very similar and I've been learning that for 4 months I can read the swedish lyrics and understand about 40% of them but I want to get to the point where I can understand 100% in swedish and Norwegian
Dave! Sabaton announced that they are coming back to North America in September and October of this year with Epica in tow. Go check out if they are gonna be near you and get yourself tickets! I know it's like six months away, but better to plan ahead. Go get yourself tickets, my man!
As a sabaton fan the sabaton history channel is amazing to help get the context of or about the songs they made. I would recommend picking a song or historical topic that you like and going from there
In a way, this is the story of every individual soldier in every war. Instead of being a father or son, they are a casualty to never return home. Metaphorically it also fit with all soldiers who return but scared either with PTSD or with limbs torn apart. In the end it is not their war, but that point comes across in the English version.
Thank you Dave for this wonderful reaction to a wonderful song. As you say, you are a father and therefore I recommend a German song (with English subtitles) by Reinhard Mey & Freunde. The title is Nein, meine Söhne geb´ ich nicht (No, I will not give my sons).
I am REALLY excited for you to check out Sabaton History as a reaction video... I dont care which one you pick and I dont have a reccomendation since I saw em all last year, but pick the one youre most interested in :)
I love your reactions l, you research the background of the songs. Do you add history and context to it. 👍 You also feel and understand the meaning of the music. Rock on brother 🤘
Deff do the History video's and don't worry about the time they are well worth watching and then you will really appreciate the songs lyrics even more when you know the history better
The chorus in the English version, according to Sabaton, is “Has man gone insane? A few will remain Who’ll find a way To live one more day Through decades of war? It spreads like disease There’s no sign of peace Religion and greed Cause millions to bleed Three decades of war”
I tell myself that after this song, God appeared and told the crowd, "Congratulations, Sabaton has won music. Everyone can go home now." A lesser-known fact, since you brought up logistics and sanitation: when "Baron" von Steuben joined the Revolutionary Army during the American Revolution, he had to teach them a lot about logistics, including sanitation. Sure, he taught close-order drill and tactics too, but Washington's army desperately needed things even more basic than that.
This is hitting straight through my heart, when thinking on what's going on in Ukraine. Zelensky calls for all father's and son's to help defend, there land 💔 Thinking on the pictures, of men leaving there wife's and children not knowing if they ever see them again 😢
There is an English version called "a Lifetime of War" it has the same music as this, but the lyrics are different than the captions shown on this video
I like the studio version better than the live since it has that fade out at the end and to me that fade out really let's you sit there and think about the song as these men fell for their country but the war, and war in general, still drags on.
Counting only the killed and wounded (most would die in captivity) swedes during the last battle versus Russia. (Battle of Poltava) you could fill up that very stadium that they're playing at. And each one of them had a family, a best friend, a childhood crush, dreams and fear.
Some of the kids that were conscripted, were as young as 13. Usually poor orphans. So who would mourn for them? Who would miss them? No one, because they were bred as cannon fodder. Many were born in the field, born and died in battle. So literally a life time of war (also expected lifespan at that point in time was about 25 years). All for religion. Protestant vs catholic. No side willing to back down.
on top of that, as someone else mentioned: a man could have a child, be sent to war, and then die in it then years later, this child would grow up during the same war, be conscripted, and then die as well a literal lifetime of war for the latter
If the war is fought on your land the soldiers tend to get younger. WW II the youngest (6) and the oldest (86) soldiers were both Russian. The war dropped in on the 6 year old when the Germans annihilated his village and only he escaped into the woods. For 30 years the war raged over Europe from Spain to Sweden and the rich and powerful have a vision of it but the soldier just fights and survives or dies.
Really you need to study that war more closely. Religion was used by the powerful elites to recruit. The alliance of Catholic France with the Protestant German princes kind of puts that to question. And the Catholic Spain fighting Catholic France who fought with the northern Protestant Germans because they hated the Hapsburgs on principle. Greed and power had more to do with it than religion.
@@nancyjanzen5676 If you want to hold a lecture about the war, with all the nuances, in a RUclips comment - go ahead. I'll stick to the abridged version. I know things are much more complicated than that, things always are.
From a veteran's perspective the reason we fight is not "What about me?" We are fighting to protect our families and country. There is some concern about our own survival, but primarily because it means, if we fall we will not be able to continue the good fight.
For me being a Swede, so close to current events with the very real possibility of being forced away and just the thought of maybe never seeing my son again is what gets me...
The deep quire, both Joakim and the dark haired guitar player Chris have deep voices. Pls, react to the other guitar player Tommy Johansson, he has another band, Majestica, and is the lead singer there. Above the sky is a good choice
The Thirty Years war was mostly begun by German princes wanting freedom from the Hapsburgs in control of the Holy Roman Empire. Supposedly it was about Protestant versus Catholic but religion went out the window with the first battle. Greed and power became the reasons to continue among the leaders.
Hey i liked your video. You know the first bit of the video when you waved your phone and smiled. For rockers that intro is "power" and not "we are the world moment". But anyway i liked the video / David
Sweden joined a war against Napoleon, where Russia was with many Swedish soldiers had lost against Russia the year before, and they would be allied with Russia, it was a hard blow for these veterans.
You should definitely check out the sabaton History Channel on RUclips! They have a historian friend of theirs that breaks down every song and the history behind it!! Super cool!
It's worse than that. They don't call it the 30 Year War for nothing. Imagine if war broke out and you got drafted, fought and died, and your wife had to raise your kids by herself, only for them to get drafted when they came of age and die in the same war that claimed their father. A husband and friend, father and son, that never came home. Those could all refer to one person, but it also works if they're all different people in the same person's life, someone who lost their husband, their father, their sons, and their friends, all claimed by a Lifetime of War.
Intersting about you telling that part about war and the fear of your kids getting drafted. In Sweden during wartime everyone ( man, women, youngsters) between age 16-70 gets drafted. I guess US doesn't have that kind of drafting system.
A lives tidd in krigg 😂. I love hearing people trying to pronounce our language. It’s danish i think, but it is also how you write it in Norwegian, of which I speak
The greatness from this song comes from the fact that it can be applied to any war in history, not just the 30 year war. It can be applied to any individual that has ever had to leave their home for a war they didn't start. We often get caught up in the statistics and forget the individuals.
Hence why war gets glorified
Not only those who needs to leave their own homes. But all humans who have been through something like this.
WE ALL should try to treat each others with the same respect as we want ourselves.
But It may be hard.
@@pangling2217 but a hunger for power blinds them of what’s truly important, still couldn’t agree more though
@@pangling2217 you don't understand war, it hits different, perhaps you don't trully know what war is?
_You've been born in this world, your in a happy family, you love each other, you play with your father, you both have a great time, and then you stare at the lowering sun, time passes quickly, you have a job, your living a peaceful life, you and your father always talk together, thinking of all the memories, and then war starts, you and your father will get drafted to war, when the news have reached your family, your parents shed in tears, and when you learn about it, you stop what you were doing, your mind leaves your body, and your just thinking "is this really happening? My peaceful life, my family, all at risk of ceasing to exist." Before you and and your father leave home, you two stare at your mother, your mother that you have never seen be this sad, and then leave, knowing theres a chance you can never feel the comfort of a peaceful life ever again, knowing this could be the end, as you travel, you tear up, about the memories you've had, you've been emotional remembering them, but it hits harder knowing that maybe you won't have more, your father cheers you up, making jokes and talking about the funny memories, it lightens your mood, time passes, you've been sent to the battle fields for the first time after training, you look at your father hoping you both survive, time passes once more and you now know what war is, it isn't a source of glory, glory only comes to those who faught bravely for their home and family, as the general makes the call, the battle has begun, machine guns and artillery have started doing their purpose, hundreds, maybe even thousands, have fallen, you look at their bodies and think, "they had memories too..." you charge fiercely for your comrades deaths and for your home and loved ones, you see your father get shot, you run to him, you fall beside him, you remember everything you did with your father, he looks at you and says "I'm glad you were my son" and his eyes close, you don't hear him breathing anymore, you shed tears, you stand up and fight, but like everyone else, your story ends, you fall down, your entire life flashes within your eyes, and you fall asleep, never to wake again, the battle wasn't a major one, hence why barely anyone remembers, you have been forgotten, everything that happend to you, gone._
My story takes place in the 80-90th century, where if you die, theres a high chance of you not being remembered, not even in records, just gone.
“So see me as,
a husband, a friend,
A father a son who will never come home,
But who will miss me?”
Best lyrics.
The swedish version hits you so hard, right in the feels. The english version is more look from the sideline, the swedish is from inside the war. Thanks Dave. Great reaction
That's because England didn't join in. This was a continental war only.
@@nancyjanzen5676 ahhh so thats why when they sing it in swedish it feels more... Got it.
I like that a lot of the English and Swedish versions are different like that, it makes them both worth experiences.
@@danielnystrom7310 Personally I wouldn't say the swedish version hits more, just differently. Personally I like the english version a little better. The swedish version is from the view of a single person and while that does make it more relatable it kinda sells short just how pointless and crazy this while war was. The english version is less "relatable" but it does a better job at portraying just how insane this really was. A lifetime of war doesn't really come across in a song about one person going to war and then maybe returning or maybe not. It makes you feel for that one person but the english version portrays the feeling of "a lifetime of war" better when it's about all the people who died and fought and just how many of these people there were, "has man gone insane" really hits me so much more when they say "Three decades of war". I'm 30 now, and there really is no question that I can ask except "Has man gone insane" when I think about how if I had been born on day 1 of that war, the war would have ended only now. 30 years is just such an incredibly long time, and I don't think the swedish version really portrays that quite as well as the english version.
The song is incredible, and hits so hard.. even hits harder when you understand the words. I'm Danish and our language is somewhat similar to Swedish, so we understand each other fairly good. Hearing him sing in his native language really adds to the impact. You can hear the pride and soul in his voice.. so powerful!
This
As a fellow Dane, this, absolutely. It's such raw emotion
Håller med dig till 100%. Känslan i rösten gör en patriot av även den som inte alls tror att den är! Innehåll och betydelse får rakt in i hjärtat!
Unbelievable to be born at the beginning of the war and then become a soldier and die at the end of the same war. Thruly A Lifetime Of War
The crowd is so insane! This song, in swedish, performed in sweden. Thats everything you need for such an interaction
In most European countries there were rich landowners who reigned over the peasants. But Sweden always consisted of free farmers. If there was a war, every village equipped one man who was willing to follow the king and fight. They equipped him with armory, weapons and sometimes even a horse. While he was away the village supported his family.
This song just simply bridges countries, languages and cultures because the feeling and passion from it stems from something that is the same for everyone. The horror of war but also they sing it as to remember that every soldier is just a man, a person, someone that someone is waiting for to come home and survive the war!
"A song doesn't have to be heavy to be heavy."
You've made a lot of Sabaton fans happy to be sad with this one Dave. Thanks for going with captions on and telling the backstory.
A Lifetime of War, the English version, tells about the war from the broader perspective.
Please do a Sabaton History reaction. Alvin York (82nd All the Way) or Simo Häyhä (White Death) are great, borderline unbelievable stories.
One phrase sum up.
Right in the feels.
This is essentially Sabaton's One
I'm definitely using that analogy in the future
Gee...I thought you had done this a long way ago. I was there on the left on this concert, and I can tell you that the emotions and pride among the crowd was way high, a lot of us cried.
I also has seen a number of different vets reacting to this and it doesn't matter where you are from, every soldier relates to this.
Holy shit, I haven't heard this song before watching this. I... there are no words for how epic the melody is. :O
The ending he sings the high harmony and the whole crowd still has the melody, it's truly an unbelievable moment.
The whole crowd carried that entire opening the band didnt even need to play that was incredible
It's the first time I hear this song, and the crowd singing adds a lot to it.
A long waited reaction is here, thank you so much Dave! It's crazy to think that you would've been born in war and die in the same war. Side by side with fathers and sons. It truly was a lifetime of war. You should definitely check out the english version of this song, it is more from a perspective of overall population, civilians and the madness of it all. This one was more from a perspective of individual soldier.
Was at a Sabaton concert just the other day. It was a much smaller venue but they played this song and when everyone sang this together it sent actual shivers down my spine.
This is their song that always gets to my heart. And yes, I have also been thinking the thought what is they call you child some day. My son is 17 now but will always be my baby ❤
Swede here. I'm touched by your reaction.
Around 8:43 you gave me chills with those comments and thoughts...Thank you!
Great reaction
I was at this show (siting somewhere in the middle of the platform to the left from this view of the stage) Just before this clip started Joakim asked everyone to hold up their cellphones, since no one carries around a lighter anymore. Needless to say, this was one hell of a show. Sadly, this was just before covid broke out (had for once planed 5 shows and 1 festival that year and this was the only one i got to attend)
Massive respect for your messages on swedish culture and history and the singer being proud of his own history, you earned a sub from a Swedish guy right there, stay strong my man!
I'm from Sweden, and let me tell you: nothing brings out my inner patriot like Sabaton, ABBA, and Skarsgårds 😊😊😊 so proud of what our tiny country can offer the rest of the world 🥰🥰🥰
Kalles Kaviar FTW. ;)
@@Straneusyuck, glöm det 😂😂😂 fiskägg, blä. Men IKEA 👍👍
Easily a top shelf pick from the Sabaton catalog, its up there among the best songs they ever made, i prefer the swedish version over the english, it got more feeling to it, and this live performance is amazing with the crowd singing right:)
Many of Sabaton's songs get me attacked by onion-cutting ninjas ... This is one of them ... As well as The Finale Solution ... To Hell and Back ... Soldier of Three Armies ... White Death ... And on and on! 🤘🥲
They sing about the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) .. Where Sweden became a great power 💙💛
En livstid i krig = A lifetime in war.
The song is available in both Swedish and English. The Swedish version is called En livstid i krig and the English vesion is called A lifetime of war.
The song is from the album Carolus Rex from 2012. The album came in two versions a version with english lyrics and another version with Swedish lyrics the songs were the same but the lyrics were in different language.
Your analysis of the song gave it even more depth and meaning. Thank you.
This was the go to video to start with sabaton along with Bismarck and, recently, Christmas truce. Really good.
this is my # one favorite song from sabaton, when ever i listen to it im proud to be swedish🤘
the song touches me much more in Swedish than when I hear the English version
i love how they always manage to convey the feelings of the songs through their music
I'm half Swedish and this makes me wish I could've been there among the crowds belting out the lyrics with everyone else 🇸🇪
You were! In spirit! As we were there for the ones suffering when it happened, as we are now living on for what they prevailed.
/a swede
I loveThis song
oh and also i am a swede to
@@carolusrex7627 Lange liv Sverge 🇸🇪
@@oliversherman2414 ja
It's interesting that they have this same music in English, but while the Swedish version talk about a soldier that spent his whole life moving from place to place in a foreign land fighting, not knowing when to return home and what would they find.
The song in english is from the other perspective, someone living in the areas where the war was, seeing it changing hands, armies passing etc.
It is very interesting how both versions are complementary to each other.
Glad you like my fellow Swedes, Sabaton. I was scrolling through all their songs you´ve reacted to and I noticed you haven´t reacted to any of their top 3 songs yet.
1 Karolinens Bön (Swedish version with subs), 2 Rise Of Evil 3 Lejonet Frän Norden (Swedish version with subs)
Yes Lejonet från Norden in Swedish is one of the best. Beacuse I am from Sweden I tend like the ons in Swedish better beacuse they sound more deep but realy I Think the lyrics are not same in the English version. The deep mening not entirely same.
You're my favorite reaction channel for several reasons, one of them being your interest in the story behind songs such as this one. I absolutely love your Sabaton reactions, which is how I found you, but I also like watching other videos you've uploaded just to hear your commentary. Your voice is also very soothing and unique. Hope to see more from you for years to come
Great reaction!🤘 I would call this song our 3:rd national anthem. 🇸🇪 It's interesting that the lyrics of the English version (as well as the Swedish) can be applied to the crazy stuff going on in the world right now.
So I can actually remember when the album this song is from came out back in 2012, I got the album immediately (the swedish version of the album as I'm swedish) and it became one of my go to albums from them for a long time, I loved all of the songs but I never really paid any attention to this song, or at least not a lot it was a good song but nothing special I felt at the time. But then when this live music video came out something broke in me, I can barely listen to this without tearing up for some reason and I don't know if it's just because of the video itself or a combination of the video,song and just how the world has kinda changed since I first heard it almost 10 years ago.
Dave, wow! You,ve made my day just at the begining of the song waving your phone with the light like people at the concert!!! :-) Thank you!!! It put a smile on my face 🙂 With this war just at our neighbours', I don't feel happy lately...
Love the reaction! Greetings from Finland, Sweden's meatshield :)
Keep up the good work! We got your back :)
Hakka pälle
A song about my ancestors who willingly fought along with our most heroic king, Gustav II Adolf, also known as The lion of the North.
The English version is different and shows another perspective on war. Both the Swedish and the English version are very good but different.
I've got ticket for their show in Stockholm part of the european tour currently postponed. I really hope they play this song then. I've been enjoying the new album, only one song I don't care much for but the rest is fire.
Thanks from Sweden! You are one of the most likable guys I've ever come across. Great vid!
Thank you, and thank you again! Love you, Dave!
Norwegian is very similar and I've been learning that for 4 months I can read the swedish lyrics and understand about 40% of them but I want to get to the point where I can understand 100% in swedish and Norwegian
Dave! Sabaton announced that they are coming back to North America in September and October of this year with Epica in tow. Go check out if they are gonna be near you and get yourself tickets! I know it's like six months away, but better to plan ahead. Go get yourself tickets, my man!
As a sabaton fan the sabaton history channel is amazing to help get the context of or about the songs they made. I would recommend picking a song or historical topic that you like and going from there
I'm lucky! Going next friday to their concert in Helaingborg Sweden. Thanks for a great reaction. ☮
In a way, this is the story of every individual soldier in every war. Instead of being a father or son, they are a casualty to never return home. Metaphorically it also fit with all soldiers who return but scared either with PTSD or with limbs torn apart.
In the end it is not their war, but that point comes across in the English version.
Thank you Dave for this wonderful reaction to a wonderful song. As you say, you are a father and therefore I recommend a German song (with English subtitles) by Reinhard Mey & Freunde. The title is Nein, meine Söhne geb´ ich nicht (No, I will not give my sons).
I am REALLY excited for you to check out Sabaton History as a reaction video... I dont care which one you pick and I dont have a reccomendation since I saw em all last year, but pick the one youre most interested in :)
I love your reactions l, you research the background of the songs. Do you add history and context to it. 👍 You also feel and understand the meaning of the music. Rock on brother 🤘
I hope it was worth the wait. I remembered that I said wait to do this song because I see it as one of their best songs.
Deff do the History video's and don't worry about the time they are well worth watching and then you will really appreciate the songs lyrics even more when you know the history better
The chorus in the English version, according to Sabaton, is
“Has man gone insane?
A few will remain
Who’ll find a way
To live one more day
Through decades of war?
It spreads like disease
There’s no sign of peace
Religion and greed
Cause millions to bleed
Three decades of war”
7:40 we're all crying
I tell myself that after this song, God appeared and told the crowd, "Congratulations, Sabaton has won music. Everyone can go home now."
A lesser-known fact, since you brought up logistics and sanitation: when "Baron" von Steuben joined the Revolutionary Army during the American Revolution, he had to teach them a lot about logistics, including sanitation. Sure, he taught close-order drill and tactics too, but Washington's army desperately needed things even more basic than that.
This is hitting straight through my heart, when thinking on what's going on in Ukraine. Zelensky calls for all father's and son's to help defend, there land 💔
Thinking on the pictures, of men leaving there wife's and children not knowing if they ever see them again 😢
They have an English version of that song called “A Lifetime of War” in case you’re curious about the translation
Although the point of view is less personal
The Swedish version is from the first person. The English version is about the overall
It's not a translation though. The lyrics are entirely different.
Love from Sweden🇸🇪
There is an English version called "a Lifetime of War" it has the same music as this, but the lyrics are different than the captions shown on this video
This live took stand in Gothenburg,Sweden (next biggest city in the country, in the Hockey arena called Scandinavium
great reaction, love you man.
I like the studio version better than the live since it has that fade out at the end and to me that fade out really let's you sit there and think about the song as these men fell for their country but the war, and war in general, still drags on.
Emotional. Great reaction vid.
Counting only the killed and wounded (most would die in captivity) swedes during the last battle versus Russia. (Battle of Poltava) you could fill up that very stadium that they're playing at. And each one of them had a family, a best friend, a childhood crush, dreams and fear.
Some of the kids that were conscripted, were as young as 13. Usually poor orphans. So who would mourn for them? Who would miss them? No one, because they were bred as cannon fodder. Many were born in the field, born and died in battle. So literally a life time of war (also expected lifespan at that point in time was about 25 years). All for religion. Protestant vs catholic. No side willing to back down.
on top of that, as someone else mentioned:
a man could have a child, be sent to war, and then die in it
then years later, this child would grow up during the same war, be conscripted, and then die as well
a literal lifetime of war for the latter
If the war is fought on your land the soldiers tend to get younger. WW II the youngest (6) and the oldest (86) soldiers were both Russian. The war dropped in on the 6 year old when the Germans annihilated his village and only he escaped into the woods. For 30 years the war raged over Europe from Spain to Sweden and the rich and powerful have a vision of it but the soldier just fights and survives or dies.
Really you need to study that war more closely. Religion was used by the powerful elites to recruit. The alliance of Catholic France with the Protestant German princes kind of puts that to question. And the Catholic Spain fighting Catholic France who fought with the northern Protestant Germans because they hated the Hapsburgs on principle. Greed and power had more to do with it than religion.
@@nancyjanzen5676 If you want to hold a lecture about the war, with all the nuances, in a RUclips comment - go ahead. I'll stick to the abridged version.
I know things are much more complicated than that, things always are.
From a veteran's perspective the reason we fight is not "What about me?" We are fighting to protect our families and country. There is some concern about our own survival, but primarily because it means, if we fall we will not be able to continue the good fight.
For me being a Swede, so close to current events with the very real possibility of being forced away and just the thought of maybe never seeing my son again is what gets me...
Loved your content for a while, was hoping you'd react to this one day and happy to see it even if I'm a bit late
There is also an english version if you want to check it out
The english version of this is basically all of europe, while the swedish version is on the point of view of a common soldier if I remember...
Im from sweden, but now I think of my mates from Ukranie! God Bless them! Just now we have 13 american war ships in our harbour.
praise the soldiers and Happy Memorial Day
cant belive you hadnt made a video on this one before. But finally 👍
The deep quire, both Joakim and the dark haired guitar player Chris have deep voices. Pls, react to the other guitar player Tommy Johansson, he has another band, Majestica, and is the lead singer there. Above the sky is a good choice
The Thirty Years war was mostly begun by German princes wanting freedom from the Hapsburgs in control of the Holy Roman Empire. Supposedly it was about Protestant versus Catholic but religion went out the window with the first battle. Greed and power became the reasons to continue among the leaders.
“Religion went out the window with the first battle” Eyyyyy I see whatcha did there. Quite a literal statement.
Oh that’s Beautiful
Hey i liked your video. You know the first bit of the video when you waved your phone and smiled. For rockers that intro is "power" and not "we are the world moment". But anyway i liked the video / David
This is sort of close to ultimate patriotic song imo.
Sweden joined a war against Napoleon, where Russia was with many Swedish soldiers had lost against Russia the year before, and they would be allied with Russia, it was a hard blow for these veterans.
They are touring in the US Soon if not already.
Great video
Sabaton christmas truce 👌👌👌
You should definitely check out the sabaton History Channel on RUclips! They have a historian friend of theirs that breaks down every song and the history behind it!! Super cool!
The Swdeish king died in the front of the battle. you will love Carolus Rex
I got down a heavy demon couple days ago...i m hunting next one now....arch angel mikial
Man were drafted at 14 years of age actually...
I give my life for my homeland but who is missing me?
I don't know where you are.. But they're heading out on US tour soon ❤
It's worse than that. They don't call it the 30 Year War for nothing. Imagine if war broke out and you got drafted, fought and died, and your wife had to raise your kids by herself, only for them to get drafted when they came of age and die in the same war that claimed their father. A husband and friend, father and son, that never came home. Those could all refer to one person, but it also works if they're all different people in the same person's life, someone who lost their husband, their father, their sons, and their friends, all claimed by a Lifetime of War.
Btw Sabaton is coming to US next fall
Sabaton 🤘🤘🤘🤘
7:13 No, it was the band
Intersting about you telling that part about war and the fear of your kids getting drafted. In Sweden during wartime everyone ( man, women, youngsters) between age 16-70 gets drafted. I guess US doesn't have that kind of drafting system.
Its odd to hear a swedish version of this with diffrent lyrics, the english one if called lifetime of war and thats a must react.
A lives tidd in krigg 😂. I love hearing people trying to pronounce our language. It’s danish i think, but it is also how you write it in Norwegian, of which I speak
Heya, Dave, if you see this, Have a wonderful new year
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Don't know where you're from... But Sabaton & Epica are touring USA together this year!