anonymous November 27th, 2005 11:15AM  
This song is about the Columbine High School killings. The spoken parts of Tarja and Marco denote the supposed dialogue of one of the killers and a victim.

anonymous January 19th, 2006 12:24PM  
Thanks. But it's not Marco speaking, it's Ike Vil. Marco hadn't joined at that point.

anonymous March 1st, 2007 08:44PM  
I think it has more to do with people called the Redeemers killing people for supposedly religious prospects on 20 April 1999. Or at least that's what I got from it.

anonymous December 1st, 2007 07:05PM  
It's about the Kinslayer War in Dragonlance.

anonymous February 28th, 2008 04:18PM  
I just thing it refers to general situations such as the need of war and the need to make others suffer.Good people are being manipulated by aggressive and corrupted people. We are slaughtering each other. That's pretty much the essence of song. THE DEATH AND PITTYNESS. It is awesome...

anonymous August 5th, 2008 12:55AM  
Actually it is about the Columbine Massacre as it says after the lyrics (at least I Highest Hopes best of Nightwish) 4 pink ones, 9 blue ones, 2 pink ones In memory to the redeemers 20.4.1999 and the Columbine massacre was at that date.

anonymous May 28th, 2009 11:47AM  
This may be a bit of a vague one but does anyone think it may be related to Michael Moorcock's Elric series? Kinslayer was among the many titles associated with the Melnibonean emperor throughout the Young Kingdoms. Other similarities I noted were the fact that the quote "- Good wombs hath borne bad sons..." could be an allusion to both the fact that he represents a voice of dissent in the 10,000 year history of the empire and also that his birth killed his mother, who was the only woman his father ever loved. The rest could also allude to the general amorality of Moorcock's universe and the myriad terrible things which may happen to the dead, particularly at the hand of Elric himself.