There are 2 kinds of People out there: 1. The ones that cry when listening to this song especially in connection with that video 2. The ones without a pulse.
As a Swede I try to sing along to this one but the tears always makes it impossible. So impressed of the audience handling it. A lovely reaction. As some others has said listen to No Bullets fly but also Christmas Truce and 1916 a Motörhead cover. All of these are emotional songs and videos.
Trust me, i was there right in the back, section C, Me and the entire line to both sides cried damn hard while singing as loudly as we could. After Open Air, this concert was my favorite one with the guys from Sabaton.
I know a Song that was so hard it destroys everyone in under 1 Minute >> Within Temptation - Lost. I can't listen it to the the End i must cry before 😭😭
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@@kaiwackermann6728 I cry to their song Our Farwell
5:16 It's the Sabaton effect. I'm Swedish but when I listen to Resist and bite I feel pride for the Dutch, Valley of death pride for the Bulgarians, Lady of the dark, pride for the Serbs and so on.
I remember seeing this live. Literally the feeling in the crowd was the best I have ever felt. Everyone just sang along like their life depended on it.
The lyrics are very emotional in this version. It describes the 30 years war in Europe (1618-1648) from a young Swedish boys perspective, sent out to a war far from home in a small village to a country he dont even know where it is. One can say that this conflict actually was the first world war, because so many nations was involved.
Hit the feels . And I am not from Sweden, I am from Denmark and we been to wars with Sweden more than you can count on one hand. but this song is more about that War Sucks.
Love your reaction here Millie, this deep ballad is about the lyrics…the message of the horrors of war not the music. Heavy song in the message. The patriotism from the audience is so moving. As a father, I think if my beloved 19 yr old son and all the fathers in this horrific 30 year long war, being out there in battle and my terror in seeing him die before my eyes. All those fathers, and their sons who were born and grew up in war, and the mothers/wives who lost all the men in her family. One does not have to be Swedish to feel the pain here, just being human is all it takes. Wars worldwide and that will never end. Plato stated it correctly that sadly on the dead will see the end of war. Love Sabaton for what they do….some of the most meaningful music in this world. Love u Millie ❤
As an avid fan of Sabaton since 2008 when I first saw them live ata tiny little rock bar in my hometown, this song hits home so hard even though I am not from Sweden but rather FInland. I've seen them live a total of 9 times and at 7 of those shows they performed this song(the first two times were before they realesed it) in Swedish. The atmosphere in the crowd is like nothing I've ever experienced before, literaly every single person in the entire crowd sings along word-for-word through the entire song. Everytime I hear the song it takes me right back to anyone of those shows where they performed it, and it's like I am literaly right there again!
I mean as u used to be Sweden and your history is our history and finns fought in every single Swedish war this song is as much about your ancestors as mine.
@@graffzon You do have a good point there absolutely, but I don't feel a very strong connection to those ancestors, so I still think the main reason it hits so hard for me is just because Sabaton did such a fantastic job writing it that it makes you almost feel like you are the guy from who's perspective the story is being told
A heartrendingly emotional song that tells both the patriotism and sacrifice of a common soldier in the Thirty Years War. Warriors went to fight for country, religion, and king, willing to die for their beliefs, but found that often their sacrifice was unappreciated and began to question if they will be remembered. Yet still they marched into battle and an unknown future.
@@BobSchofield-el4hj The difference is that you most likely were drafted and the soldiers fighting for Sweden were volunteers. BTW, I am also considered Vietnam era even though I served in the US after most of the fighting was over. I was in the last draft with lottery number 36. USAF, '73-'77.
I don't usually get too emotional with music, but this part 7:33 ... goosebumps everytime man, I can't help it. It's hard to describe this feeling of beauty and belonging despite singing about a terrible thing like dying in a war to be forgotten. I'm not Swede but I can tell everybody in that band and crowd is feeling those lyrics, maybe that's part of the magic too. If youtube disappeared and I could only save a single video, it would probably be that one.
Wonderful reaction. I was up there to the left at this concert and it was amazing. I always fail to hold back the tears to this song, and especially so when I saw how much it affected you. Love from Sweden 😊❤
As a Swede, i see your reaction. So puré and genuine. You feel patriotism, you feel pride, the same way we feel when we hear them sing this song for us. Great reaction! You’re great.
Thats what and how we swedes are! This song describes us the vikings I mean (THE REAL VIKINGS IN BLOD) Anscesers like me! Most of swedes are NO*T from in DNA from the real but i AM! TY
Great reaction. As a Swede Sabaton gets you in the heart. This song is universal with everything that is going on in the world. Love your emotion Take care and love from Sweden
As a Norwegian it’s a sad thing to see what our brothers and sisters in Sweden has to endure today, with all the immigrants ruining Sweden with their crimes and gang wars that are going on now.
Im swedish and I've loved this song for years, and now our goverment has annouced, that we have to prepare for war... so this song hits differently all of a sudden since im one of those who will have to defend it. You're doing an amazing work Millie, hearing someone being emotional to someone elses language and history always feel special. Keep it up and I hope you never have to live through it.
Danish here. This makes me tear up everytime i hear it. an amazing song and a powerful message. i know the lyrics by heart and sing along everytime i get the chance. Heja Sverige! :)
This song is so powerful and beautiful, one of my favorite Sabaton songs. Now they've made the best Christmas song ever called "Christmas Truce", you really ought to check that out. It's about the spontaneous truce that happend in 1914 during WWI where the troops on both sides decided to, for one day, stop fighting and celebrate Christmas together. It's also a very powerful song.
Cliffs of Gallipoli and The Final Solution also hit like a truck. Especially because you know everything they sing about really happened, all the pain and suffering and sacrifice is real.
SABATON - No Bullets Fly (Animated Story Video) is also a emotional video they have made and the story in it . Also would suggest watching Sabaton history for backstory to lots of songs they made
Englishman living in Sweden for the past 15 years. This song tears me up every damn time I hear it and makes me proud to live here. Sabaton are bloody amazing and I have been privileged to see them only once. One of my top ten songs of all time.
One of the best live performances I've seen, but also one of the best reaction videos as well. I love when people get as emotional about art as I do. Well done!
Lifetime in war, is about when Sweden was involved in the 30 years' war. Which took place between 1618 - 1648, where many men went to war and never returned home. But this song can also tell about all the men who went to war but never returned home, alive. As a female acquaintance of mine, her son left Sweden to help Ukraine in the war against Russia, one day during his time off while he was sleeping in an apartment, a Russian robot crashed into the house and killed him. So he did not return home alive.
You might know it already but if you do not look up their battle strategy those people must have had an iron will in believing they would go to heaven or be crazy people to do what they did.
@@havtor007 Your statement only speaks of your ignorance of historical wars, as well as those who today go to war and defend another country. So shut up when you know nothing and know nothing about either history or war at all. If you take the historical aspect of this song Livstid i Krig, you never questioned the king's order, but you did what he said, whoever questioned the king was killed. (You can hear it in Leter Carol Rex, the 15-year-old King). If you look at modern times, there are those who don't just watch when Russia makes an illegal war of aggression against Ukraine. Then there are those who go and fight in another country to defend those who themselves cannot. So it is with me to protect innocent people and kill the bad ones.
I see it more like we really been in a lifetime of wars, it almost destroyed us, it feels like a time machine taking us back to our endless wars and those times we lived in poverty, lost our men because of wars. So many widows , so much pain. The pain still much lives on, we can feel it with Ukraine. War was always somewhere else. This war brought up so many emotions that I really do not think we as a nation has fully healed from the wars with Russia specifically.
@@shar3066 You can like the song that way but the song is about from the point of view of the military and that's what they sing. Because fighting for 30 years feels like a lifetime of war. Then the song fits in partly as I wrote, but all those who were in Dessert Storm and Afghanistan and fought understand the song extra well.
Dear Millie, if you have not yet reacted to Sabatons "Christmas Truce" you definitely should. A story about the spontanious truce around christmas during the first world war. Also an emotional song about an actual event.
This is a very emotional song. But Sabaton has, through the years, found that special cadance for their music to awake emotions in people. Like this song, or the Winter Truce and so many others. They make your heart sing and grieve at the same time.It's so much fun that I've been following their career so long, I just remember a cousin profering a CD in my hands and saying that "my boyfriend has a band, and I know that this is the music you like." It was a defining moment.
Next Sabaton song you should listen to is Christmas truce. About WW1 when the soldiers laid down their weapons and celebrated christmas together. And if you didn´t know it by now the drummer in Sabaton is the husband to Floor Jansen, singer. In Nightwish Listen to Christmas Truce, it´s after all soon chrismas 🎅
this song is just so applicable to everything that's happening in the world right now, the first time I heard this song I cried like a baby for an hour just watching other people react to it
You felt what you felt because you are just empathetic person and could feel of possible pain of people fighting a war. Sabaton can wake emotions in audience. I was so lucky they came for a concert to my hometown and performance was superb.
As you said"it makes me feel like them" i exactly knew what you Mein. Im from germany and i ferl like this on every Song of them. Their Musik is so captivating
Love this song! Also a Swede but Sabaton makes so powerfull songs! If you havent already, please react to Disturbed "Sound of silence" Its so powerfull :D
The lyrics fits anyone with a sense of duty to his/her country. I've served as a peacekeeper in the balkans in the 90's and now in the home guard. This song gives me goose bumps and tear filled eyes.
I can really feel this, not just because I can feel all the young and old men being put in a war by people who dont even know who they are, but this could be a reality for millions like me, and has been for hundreds of millions like me
The song is mainly about the 30 years war but works on most wars I think that isn't about defending your home. The 30 years war was brutal. There are stories about a man who left their village and family and went to war while their son was but a baby and didn't meet their son until they met on the battlefield when the son was 15-16 and only after the battle understood who they were.
Sweet emotional reaction. If you want to cry more, react to No bullets fly, animated version with Sabaton. I´ll cry every time and i watch it at least ten times. Sun on you, Peter!
This one really hits deep every time i listen to it! As a swede but also as someone who works in uniform. I think everyone of us is effected by war, wars that was, wars that are and those wars who might be.. it hits as its got that perspective of the soldier, instead of the general war description as most songs has.. 🇸🇪
I saw them live in Atlanta in a much smaller indoor arena. Best concert I have ever seen bar none. I hope they tour the US in 2024 and do at least outdoor arena.
Beautiful reaction :) This song is so powerful because of what we all know is going on right now ... even pretty close to some of us ... and of course the message in the lyrics. As a Dane, I was a soldier during the Cold War, and we knew that if the Warsaw Pact wanted to clear their passage through Øresund, we would be nothing more than a speedbump, that would give NATO maybe a day or two to react. But we were willing to make that sacrifice! Now being the father of a son who is a soldier, and one of the first to be sent out to a conflict zone anywhere in this world, I am SO proud of him, but also very worried. So yes, this song hits very hard.
En Livstid I Krig is one of my favourite Sabaton songs especially in there native language Swedish. Sabaton is the greatest band on the planet who are just incredible by keeping history alive and finding new heroes or historical events to make songs about and keeping the memories of those heroes and events alive. I have been a Sabaton fan for many years now but I have always been interested in military history as I have had relatives who served in the UK Armed Forces during WW2 and Ancestors who were in historical battles servings in there King's Army as a Knight or Calvary man. BRITISH SABATON FAN 💂♂️💂♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴💙💛🇺🇦🇺🇦🇸🇪🇸🇪
This song is something we all can relate to. It's about a Swedish soldier but it's also about every soldier who had to leave for a foreign land and never returned. No matter where he came from. Swede in Germany, Russian in Poland, Pole in Russia, German in France, French in Spain, Brit in Flanders etc. Their stories are fundamentally different but at the same time so similar. The same horror, the same suffering, the same sacrifice... without asking "why?". Just doing their duty.
Probably the best live performance from Sabaton, absolutely love it. If you haven't reacted to it yet I can really recommend The Price of a Mile, Soldier of Heaven and Christmas Truce. Another really cool band is Beast in Black, would be cool if you could react to any of their songs
I once heard someone reacting to 1916 (or christmas truce) by sabaton and he resume joakim way of singing with "He's not a song bird, is a song howitzer". And I think this is the best way to describ it, no need for complex vocalize or fioriture, just raw and powerfull emotion and respect thrown directly at the public.
I don't blame you for crying, you're not alone! This song especially hits hard.. and doesn't have to be Swedish either. The story of this song is universal, can swap out Sweden with any other country. It's the entire album, the Swedish version just feels a lot more personal.. as in from the point of view of a soldier (aka a young kid really), and how he sees the war. Now, if you'll excuse me.. I need to go find a napkin or something to dry these tears, heh.
I believe En livstid i krig "A life time in war" Is in reference to the 30 year war (1618-1648) Sweden took part in. But the song dosen't really bound to any specific borders. But rather that war sucks really, really hard, and especially so for the soliders. As they often are forgotten soon after. Just look at the veterans of today. How many of them who are homeless, jobbless, unwanted, struggeling bothe whit phycical wounds and mental health issiues and often are shunned. Most soliders go to war for their homelands. to do their patriotic duty. And when they fall in battle, they rarely get any memorials or any thing. It's often only their closest family members who mourn their loss. And in the past when bringing the dead back home wasen't an option. They often where left on the battlefield. Some times they where tossed in massgraves, or piled up in to a huge pile and then set on fire and mass cremated. Thusly the line in the song "But who mourns me?" A solider who goes to war in a different land, might never get to return home, dead or alive. So they don't get to know if their families will even get the chanse to mourn them. This song hits different when you start to think about all of that.
In the early 17th century large parts of Sweden were almost emptied for able bodied men for the 30 year war in Germany, protestants against catholics. Many succumbed of deceases long before they saw any battle. Few ever came home. Not even the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf, who died at the foggy battlefield of Lützen 1632. Back when the king lead his army at the front.
I'm swedish and part of the military. I went to this concert, and it was truly amazing to sing out the love for our country with thousands of people.
Tack för din tjänst broder
tack för din tjänst. Vi alla uppskattar dig
Takk for din tjeneste❤
Hilsen en nordmann!
Tackar för tjänsten
Tack för att du är beredd att med ditt liv slåss för den rätt vi tar så för givet och för vår älskade flagga, nation och folk. Tack!
There are 2 kinds of People out there:
1. The ones that cry when listening to this song especially in connection with that video
2. The ones without a pulse.
@@fransnilsson7333 Get well soon.
@@fransnilsson7333 shut up
im totaly in center so that means im the 3rd type ;)
@@fransnilsson7333 gtfo with your political bs.
@@fransnilsson7333 ? Brainwashed Russians
The combination of the melody, the lyrics and the crowd singing lends itself to be a song that elicits an emotional response.
Reads like a wiki entry, but yea.
As a Swede I try to sing along to this one but the tears always makes it impossible. So impressed of the audience handling it. A lovely reaction. As some others has said listen to No Bullets fly but also Christmas Truce and 1916 a Motörhead cover. All of these are emotional songs and videos.
Trust me, i was there right in the back, section C, Me and the entire line to both sides cried damn hard while singing as loudly as we could. After Open Air, this concert was my favorite one with the guys from Sabaton.
I know a Song that was so hard it destroys everyone in under 1 Minute >> Within Temptation - Lost. I can't listen it to the the End i must cry before 😭😭
@@kaiwackermann6728 I cry to their song Our Farwell
I was there, 10 meters from the stage. It was insane.
Me to cry every time. Swedish me too
Joakim conducting a choir of thousands...
Timeless song.
10 766 if you want the number of us. :P
5:16
It's the Sabaton effect.
I'm Swedish but when I listen to Resist and bite I feel pride for the Dutch, Valley of death pride for the Bulgarians, Lady of the dark, pride for the Serbs and so on.
The Sabaton effect is strong.
Resist and bite is a about a Belgian unit not Dutch
I love resist and bite! Boar against the Eagle
But who cries for the germans... they are always the bad
Resist and Bite is about the Belgian Chasseurs Ardennais.
I remember seeing this live. Literally the feeling in the crowd was the best I have ever felt. Everyone just sang along like their life depended on it.
I was there by you side, lovley memory we got filmed!
The lyrics are very emotional in this version. It describes the 30 years war in Europe (1618-1648) from a young Swedish boys perspective, sent out to a war far from home in a small village to a country he dont even know where it is. One can say that this conflict actually was the first world war, because so many nations was involved.
Hit the feels . And I am not from Sweden, I am from Denmark and we been to wars with Sweden more than you can count on one hand. but this song is more about that War Sucks.
I'm from Germany and I feel the exact same way
Indogerman tribes fight always against others like kelt ones...
We actually hold the record for the most wars between two countries. :)
@@bombmkyep correct
A swedish author and historian has found 36 danish-swedish wars.
So we would need 8 hands to count them my neighbour haha!
Love your reaction here Millie, this deep ballad is about the lyrics…the message of the horrors of war not the music. Heavy song in the message. The patriotism from the audience is so moving. As a father, I think if my beloved 19 yr old son and all the fathers in this horrific 30 year long war, being out there in battle and my terror in seeing him die before my eyes. All those fathers, and their sons who were born and grew up in war, and the mothers/wives who lost all the men in her family. One does not have to be Swedish to feel the pain here, just being human is all it takes. Wars worldwide and that will never end. Plato stated it correctly that sadly on the dead will see the end of war. Love Sabaton for what they do….some of the most meaningful music in this world. Love u Millie ❤
As an avid fan of Sabaton since 2008 when I first saw them live ata tiny little rock bar in my hometown, this song hits home so hard even though I am not from Sweden but rather FInland. I've seen them live a total of 9 times and at 7 of those shows they performed this song(the first two times were before they realesed it) in Swedish.
The atmosphere in the crowd is like nothing I've ever experienced before, literaly every single person in the entire crowd sings along word-for-word through the entire song. Everytime I hear the song it takes me right back to anyone of those shows where they performed it, and it's like I am literaly right there again!
I mean as u used to be Sweden and your history is our history and finns fought in every single Swedish war this song is as much about your ancestors as mine.
@@graffzon You do have a good point there absolutely, but I don't feel a very strong connection to those ancestors, so I still think the main reason it hits so hard for me is just because Sabaton did such a fantastic job writing it that it makes you almost feel like you are the guy from who's perspective the story is being told
A heartrendingly emotional song that tells both the patriotism and sacrifice of a common soldier in the Thirty Years War. Warriors went to fight for country, religion, and king, willing to die for their beliefs, but found that often their sacrifice was unappreciated and began to question if they will be remembered. Yet still they marched into battle and an unknown future.
18 yrs old went to Vietnam..I thought it was expected...grew up quick
@@BobSchofield-el4hj The difference is that you most likely were drafted and the soldiers fighting for Sweden were volunteers.
BTW, I am also considered Vietnam era even though I served in the US after most of the fighting was over. I was in the last draft with lottery number 36. USAF, '73-'77.
You have the right emotion for this song. Im swedish and i always cry to this powerful lyrics.They are so true and sad.
I am from Sweden, and this song is really awesome. Keep up the good work :)
I don't usually get too emotional with music, but this part 7:33 ... goosebumps everytime man, I can't help it. It's hard to describe this feeling of beauty and belonging despite singing about a terrible thing like dying in a war to be forgotten. I'm not Swede but I can tell everybody in that band and crowd is feeling those lyrics, maybe that's part of the magic too.
If youtube disappeared and I could only save a single video, it would probably be that one.
Wonderful reaction. I was up there to the left at this concert and it was amazing.
I always fail to hold back the tears to this song, and especially so when I saw how much it affected you.
Love from Sweden 😊❤
As a Swede, i see your reaction. So puré and genuine. You feel patriotism, you feel pride, the same way we feel when we hear them sing this song for us. Great reaction! You’re great.
Thats what and how we swedes are! This song describes us the vikings I mean (THE REAL VIKINGS IN BLOD) Anscesers like me! Most of swedes are NO*T from in DNA from the real but i AM!
TY
if thats how sweds would feel , sweden didnt look like it looks today..sad.
Great reaction. As a Swede Sabaton gets you in the heart. This song is universal with everything that is going on in the world. Love your emotion Take care and love from Sweden
As a Norwegian it’s a sad thing to see what our brothers and sisters in Sweden has to endure today, with all the immigrants ruining Sweden with their crimes and gang wars that are going on now.
It was amazing being there. We sang with every fiber of our body! A core memory for life.
I was also there 😊
First time I came across your channel, first time I saw you. Such a sweet, genuine reaction.
Im swedish and I've loved this song for years, and now our goverment has annouced, that we have to prepare for war... so this song hits differently all of a sudden since im one of those who will have to defend it. You're doing an amazing work Millie, hearing someone being emotional to someone elses language and history always feel special. Keep it up and I hope you never have to live through it.
Sabatons ability to make you feel is incredible.
Danish here. This makes me tear up everytime i hear it. an amazing song and a powerful message. i know the lyrics by heart and sing along everytime i get the chance. Heja Sverige! :)
I am from the other side of Øresund and part of the Home guard, I have this one in a playlist call in case of a call to arms.
This song is so powerful and beautiful, one of my favorite Sabaton songs. Now they've made the best Christmas song ever called "Christmas Truce", you really ought to check that out. It's about the spontaneous truce that happend in 1914 during WWI where the troops on both sides decided to, for one day, stop fighting and celebrate Christmas together. It's also a very powerful song.
Christmas Truce hit me hard, same as 1916. They made me both tear up
@@cloneyourself8410 Yeah, No Bullets Fly is also one of those that really hits you hard.
Cliffs of Gallipoli and The Final Solution also hit like a truck. Especially because you know everything they sing about really happened, all the pain and suffering and sacrifice is real.
SABATON - No Bullets Fly (Animated Story Video) is also a emotional video they have made and the story in it . Also would suggest watching Sabaton history for backstory to lots of songs they made
And bring tissues; same for their music video of "1916".
My god you are beautiful, than you for reacting to this!
Englishman living in Sweden for the past 15 years. This song tears me up every damn time I hear it and makes me proud to live here. Sabaton are bloody amazing and I have been privileged to see them only once. One of my top ten songs of all time.
You can only cry to this song.. It's so great..
One of the best live performances I've seen, but also one of the best reaction videos as well. I love when people get as emotional about art as I do.
Well done!
Sabaton should be part of every history lesson in school.
What a wonderful reaction💗💗!!
I appreciate the honesty.. Great reaction. Hi from OZ. Well done.😉 🤘🤘🤘
that have to be the ultimate goal for a music group / band, having the crowd sing your song for you
Great reaction. I've seen a lot reactions on this song, but yours are the top one. Thank you from a Sabaton fan. / Micke P
My wife's family are Ukrainian and these words really hit home.
My wife's are Russians, I confirm this too
I'm a Swede that leaned Ukraine to surprise my new Ukraine friends, I always think of Ukraine when I hear this
I can understand that.. 😢
got 3 friends in merc stuff in ukrainia
I am swede and when I hear this song, Ukraine is in my thoughts...
Lifetime in war, is about when Sweden was involved in the 30 years' war. Which took place between 1618 - 1648, where many men went to war and never returned home. But this song can also tell about all the men who went to war but never returned home, alive. As a female acquaintance of mine, her son left Sweden to help Ukraine in the war against Russia, one day during his time off while he was sleeping in an apartment, a Russian robot crashed into the house and killed him. So he did not return home alive.
You might know it already but if you do not look up their battle strategy those people must have had an iron will in believing they would go to heaven or be crazy people to do what they did.
@@havtor007 Your statement only speaks of your ignorance of historical wars, as well as those who today go to war and defend another country. So shut up when you know nothing and know nothing about either history or war at all. If you take the historical aspect of this song Livstid i Krig, you never questioned the king's order, but you did what he said, whoever questioned the king was killed. (You can hear it in Leter Carol Rex, the 15-year-old King). If you look at modern times, there are those who don't just watch when Russia makes an illegal war of aggression against Ukraine. Then there are those who go and fight in another country to defend those who themselves cannot. So it is with me to protect innocent people and kill the bad ones.
I see it more like we really been in a lifetime of wars, it almost destroyed us, it feels like a time machine taking us back to our endless wars and those times we lived in poverty, lost our men because of wars. So many widows , so much pain. The pain still much lives on, we can feel it with Ukraine. War was always somewhere else. This war brought up so many emotions that I really do not think we as a nation has fully healed from the wars with Russia specifically.
@@shar3066 You can like the song that way but the song is about from the point of view of the military and that's what they sing. Because fighting for 30 years feels like a lifetime of war. Then the song fits in partly as I wrote, but all those who were in Dessert Storm and Afghanistan and fought understand the song extra well.
Loved your reaction! So pure to see you cry...wonderful!
this and chrismas truce made me cry... so emotional songs and so well performed!
love your reaction.. properly with the subtitles. .you are amazing
This is a truly beautiful reaction!
Your emotions are authentic and I love that :) well and I love Sabaton. Saw them live 4 or 5 times. They are such an event!
Im from Sweden and this song hits so hard every time always burst out in tears when I listen to it
Dear Millie, if you have not yet reacted to Sabatons "Christmas Truce" you definitely should. A story about the spontanious truce around christmas during the first world war. Also an emotional song about an actual event.
I remember this, i was on that concert it was amazing!
This is a very emotional song. But Sabaton has, through the years, found that special cadance for their music to awake emotions in people. Like this song, or the Winter Truce and so many others. They make your heart sing and grieve at the same time.It's so much fun that I've been following their career so long, I just remember a cousin profering a CD in my hands and saying that "my boyfriend has a band, and I know that this is the music you like." It was a defining moment.
I've seen Sabaton live 2 times and this song always makes me cry live
This 1 is a belter..."A lifetime of war"... makes me weep every time I here it...😢
Next Sabaton song you should listen to is Christmas truce. About WW1 when the soldiers laid down their weapons and celebrated christmas together. And if you didn´t know it by now the drummer in Sabaton is the husband to Floor Jansen, singer. In Nightwish Listen to Christmas Truce, it´s after all soon chrismas 🎅
I was there. This song is so beautyful. Heard this song on Sabaton cruise few days ago
Love from finland. Stay strong ❤
this song is just so applicable to everything that's happening in the world right now, the first time I heard this song I cried like a baby for an hour just watching other people react to it
My Grandfather fought in WW2 and survived. Two of his brothers did and weren't so lucky.
You felt what you felt because you are just empathetic person and could feel of possible pain of people fighting a war. Sabaton can wake emotions in audience. I was so lucky they came for a concert to my hometown and performance was superb.
I would and could easily say this song is for everyone and every country.. its the same.. thats why the same feelings 🌹
Those boys are real powerful and i love what they chose to do and i love that they got the recognition they deserved
Beautiful reaction ❤❤❤❤
I have seen them Live here in my hometown Gothenburg and this song are really heart touching. Unfortunate I missed this concert.
as a swede i cry everytime i watch this just its the truth
I love your reaction to this song! As someone who has fought in a war far away from home, this song hits hard! (I do speak Swedish)
In war all give some, some give all. Bless you Millie.
As you said"it makes me feel like them" i exactly knew what you Mein. Im from germany and i ferl like this on every Song of them. Their Musik is so captivating
Love this song! Also a Swede but Sabaton makes so powerfull songs!
If you havent already, please react to Disturbed "Sound of silence" Its so powerfull :D
The lyrics fits anyone with a sense of duty to his/her country.
I've served as a peacekeeper in the balkans in the 90's and now in the home guard.
This song gives me goose bumps and tear filled eyes.
Love your reaction. Thank you.
Im Belgian and this song wants me too pick up arms and fight for sweden
As a Dane... This is freaking awesome.
Heja Sverige
Thank you Millie.
LOVED your reaktion❤❤❤❤
I became teary-eyed as well...🌸
I can really feel this, not just because I can feel all the young and old men being put in a war by people who dont even know who they are, but this could be a reality for millions like me, and has been for hundreds of millions like me
The song is mainly about the 30 years war but works on most wars I think that isn't about defending your home.
The 30 years war was brutal. There are stories about a man who left their village and family and went to war while their son was but a baby and didn't meet their son until they met on the battlefield when the son was 15-16 and only after the battle understood who they were.
I was there! It was beautiful!
Sabaton are masters. They can get you feel sadness or patriotism for a country that you have no connection to 😅❤
@the-union-jackass8119This song don't have anything to do with Germany?
@@SvensktTroll You are narrowminded to take his comment and percieve it as he was specificly talking about this song.
Great reaction, and the connection tou describe is real. Now, as a swede, i have goosebumps all over my body this entire song. It's incredible
Sweet emotional reaction. If you want to cry more, react to No bullets fly, animated version with Sabaton. I´ll cry every time and i watch it at least ten times. Sun on you, Peter!
This one really hits deep every time i listen to it! As a swede but also as someone who works in uniform. I think everyone of us is effected by war, wars that was, wars that are and those wars who might be.. it hits as its got that perspective of the soldier, instead of the general war description as most songs has.. 🇸🇪
It hits hard.
I really like the effect with Pers galloping bass in the end.
Seeing this live, in a much smaller venue was amazing, singing this with the crowd was amazing. As a Swede this song is very emotional.
as a Dane i get it, it makes my emotional, gives me goosbumps, i love it
As a scanian (skåning) I also get it, danes and swedes has fought many wars on the ground where i live.....but we evolved and now we are friends
I saw them live in Atlanta in a much smaller indoor arena. Best concert I have ever seen bar none. I hope they tour the US in 2024 and do at least outdoor arena.
Great reaction. Thank you.
Beautiful reaction :)
This song is so powerful because of what we all know is going on right now ... even pretty close to some of us ... and of course the message in the lyrics.
As a Dane, I was a soldier during the Cold War, and we knew that if the Warsaw Pact wanted to clear their passage through Øresund, we would be nothing more than a speedbump, that would give NATO maybe a day or two to react. But we were willing to make that sacrifice!
Now being the father of a son who is a soldier, and one of the first to be sent out to a conflict zone anywhere in this world, I am SO proud of him, but also very worried.
So yes, this song hits very hard.
En Livstid I Krig is one of my favourite Sabaton songs especially in there native language Swedish. Sabaton is the greatest band on the planet who are just incredible by keeping history alive and finding new heroes or historical events to make songs about and keeping the memories of those heroes and events alive. I have been a Sabaton fan for many years now but I have always been interested in military history as I have had relatives who served in the UK Armed Forces during WW2 and Ancestors who were in historical battles servings in there King's Army as a Knight or Calvary man. BRITISH SABATON FAN 💂♂️💂♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴💙💛🇺🇦🇺🇦🇸🇪🇸🇪
Beautiful
This song is something we all can relate to. It's about a Swedish soldier but it's also about every soldier who had to leave for a foreign land and never returned. No matter where he came from. Swede in Germany, Russian in Poland, Pole in Russia, German in France, French in Spain, Brit in Flanders etc. Their stories are fundamentally different but at the same time so similar. The same horror, the same suffering, the same sacrifice... without asking "why?". Just doing their duty.
War and the thought of losing your loved ones will get to us all. I teared up to a few Sabaton songs myself.
Thank you for this reaction from Denmark!
Thanks Sabaton! Thank you for ensuring that those who fall in battle are not forgotten!
Great reaction to an amazing song from Sabaton! Another one to check out is Christmas Truce :)
As a Swede, I couldn't be prouder of Sabaton 😍😍😍😍
I was there and it really was amazing!
Probably the best live performance from Sabaton, absolutely love it.
If you haven't reacted to it yet I can really recommend The Price of a Mile, Soldier of Heaven and Christmas Truce.
Another really cool band is Beast in Black, would be cool if you could react to any of their songs
I once heard someone reacting to 1916 (or christmas truce) by sabaton and he resume joakim way of singing with "He's not a song bird, is a song howitzer". And I think this is the best way to describ it, no need for complex vocalize or fioriture, just raw and powerfull emotion and respect thrown directly at the public.
I don't blame you for crying, you're not alone! This song especially hits hard.. and doesn't have to be Swedish either. The story of this song is universal, can swap out Sweden with any other country. It's the entire album, the Swedish version just feels a lot more personal.. as in from the point of view of a soldier (aka a young kid really), and how he sees the war.
Now, if you'll excuse me.. I need to go find a napkin or something to dry these tears, heh.
With love from Sweden 🎉❤
I believe En livstid i krig "A life time in war" Is in reference to the 30 year war (1618-1648) Sweden took part in.
But the song dosen't really bound to any specific borders. But rather that war sucks really, really hard, and especially so for the soliders. As they often are forgotten soon after. Just look at the veterans of today. How many of them who are homeless, jobbless, unwanted, struggeling bothe whit phycical wounds and mental health issiues and often are shunned.
Most soliders go to war for their homelands. to do their patriotic duty. And when they fall in battle, they rarely get any memorials or any thing. It's often only their closest family members who mourn their loss. And in the past when bringing the dead back home wasen't an option. They often where left on the battlefield. Some times they where tossed in massgraves, or piled up in to a huge pile and then set on fire and mass cremated. Thusly the line in the song "But who mourns me?" A solider who goes to war in a different land, might never get to return home, dead or alive. So they don't get to know if their families will even get the chanse to mourn them.
This song hits different when you start to think about all of that.
In the early 17th century large parts of Sweden were almost emptied for able bodied men for the 30 year war in Germany, protestants against catholics. Many succumbed of deceases long before they saw any battle. Few ever came home. Not even the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf, who died at the foggy battlefield of Lützen 1632. Back when the king lead his army at the front.
i was there!!!! this was the most epic thing i have ever benn apart of!!!
One Of The Best Sabaton song ever its one off mine Favo Bad