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A Song doesn't need to be heavy. To be heavy.

The part where the crowd sings melody and he sings harmony is ridiculously amazing.

"So see me as such, a husband, a friend, father and Son who never returns home" that lyric literally hit me like a truck

As a finnish man, this Swedish version is twice more powerful than the English version.

after the show when i got home, drunk metalheads sang it on the train, and so did i. Amazing show.

Joakim. I am a Polish soldier. A veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. This song broke my heart. She is so real! Thank you!

The 2 versions of this song truly express the Sabaton's principle of oppose war, honor soliders - the English version sings about the 30 years war in a very negative light, while the Swedish version immortalizes an unknown soldier and his forgotten peers. "Has man gone insane" is the most powerful line in the English lyric, while "Men vem sörjer mig?" ("But who'll mourn for me") is easily what makes most people tear up in the Swedish version.

This is one of the most powerful and emotionnal live performances i have ever seen from a metal or rock band. Only sabaton can perform this. France loves you

I don't speak a word of Swedish but this version sounds way better imo. And sadder, for some reason.

If someone asks me why I decided to learn Swedish from all the languages... I will just show them this.

Jag är tyska, men den här sången… jag kan sjunga hela texten utantill. Jag hittade ni när jag sökte svensk musik för min svenskkurs och jag blev helt begeistrad

I was there. A German trying to sing in swedish. What a day it was

For our none Swedish speaking friends :) "I look around and see my home disappear My time at home now feels far too short Only youth, hardly a man when duty called me If I get to see my home again, I do not know Among relatives from my village, I went out to battle And the world burned For the war it can Destroy a man I give my life for my homeland But who misses me? So see me as it A husband, a friend Father and son never coming home But who mourns me? Went out in battle for Sweden, was baptized in blood Out there, death awaits, not heroism In fields where relatives fall, no song is heard Challenging our destinies, once again Far from home Be baptized and die in battle And the world burned For the war it can Destroy a man I give my life for my homeland But who misses me? So see me as it A husband, a friend Father and son never coming home But who mourns me? "Guitar solo" And when my time has run out Who cares then? They are struggling Does a soldier get a dignified end? Get to sleep Disappear And never wake up For the war it can Destroy a man I give my life for my homeland But who misses me? So see me as it A husband, a friend Father and son never coming home But who mourns me?"

I love how the opening verse is sung by the crowd alone

Finland and Sweden brothers for ever 🇫🇮🇸🇪💪💪

I wish that one day I will be in the middle of all these swedish guys, hearing them singing in a language I absolutely don't understand, but crying because of all the emotions this song gives me. Thank you so much Sabaton.

Let's all learn Swedish so this can be sung at every Sabaton concert!

You can see how amazed and touched they are by the crowd singing along and that is so pure and wholesome omg

I don’t speak Swedish, I’m Canadian, but this song is incredibly moving and powerful. I love it

An anthem for every soldier who fell defending their homeland. Thank you, Sabaton. This resonates deeply in my soul.

That moment when you're in the middle of the crown surrounded by Swedish but you don't understand a word so you just enjoy this moment of pure joy! Tack så mickett svenska! You rock!

I can't even begin to imagine how awesome it must be to be a rock star and see that amount of lighters/phones in the air... Epic and beautiful. Sabaton, don't ever quit. If you do, you'll answer to me.

This song is going to increase in popularity in the next days/weeks.

Fan, det här är nog den mest patriotiska svenska låten efter HELA nationalsången! GÅSHUD!!

My students are going to have Sabaton as a core part of their curriculum, whether they like it or not lol

As a Finn this always makes me think of the Swedish volunteers who came to defend our country from the Soviets. Very emotional and sad song.

Alright... Danish man here.. Sabaton is my fav. band.. Sabaton is the freaking Goat, and this song EVEN THO IT IS IN SWEDISH.. I love it.. Master piece. Many hugs from Denmark.

Fra Norge til våre brødre i øst. Vi elsker dere all i hop!

This song made me fall in love with Swedish language. Greetings from Poland.

Guys, if I die, and if there are any songs playing for me at the funeral, this will be it, because I would wake up.

I'm a native English speaker (from England). Listened to this for the first time months ago and it hit so much harder than the English version, so much so that I decided to start learning the language. I'm so glad I did, because this song rings forever true about the reality of war.

To my nordic brethren from a Scot, you are as much a part of us as the english, it may not make great tv or music but I know I myself and many others will always be there for my nordic brothers

I know this song is about a soldier’s experience in the thirty years war but it could honestly fit with any soldier, in any war from ancient times to modern day. That’s what makes the song so powerful in my opinion

A chorus this large sounds so amazing.

"One death is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic" -Jospeh Stalin. That quote is probably one of the strongest ive ever heard and embodies the senseless death in wars for both soldiers and civilians. Its sad how those who've died for their country are boiled down to faceless number along with millions of others

Real music and raw emotion is clearly understood, no matter the language. The feeling is so strong, regardless of where you call home. Respects and thanks to Sweden and Sabaton, from your 🇨🇦 friends and brothers. ✌️

being a veteran of the 1981 Kosovo war and the 1990 Bosnian war, I found something in this song I Can not describe. All I feel is the honoring the fallen. Hail Sabaton. Man of honor, that is who they are. My respects and all the love.

I don't speak the language, and to be honest before I found this band, I never cared. I also didn't care much about history. This was the very first song I ever heard by this band, the Swedish version. I was already in a particularly rough patch in my life, and then I found this randomly. I broke down. I could not understand a word of it, but it crushed me that night. I've always believed music affects so many people because it's pure energy and that night, it could not have been more true for me. I searched everything I could about this song and band that brought me quite literally to my knees that night. I found so many more songs, about history, things I never knew. It was the beginning of my absolute love for them. My fathers side of the family was in the military, and I never really cared in the past. This band changed that. I can't explain it really, and to the average netzien, it likely sounds like the ramblings of a madman. I accept that. I wanted to say that Sabaton, you changed quite a bit for me that night and those going forward. Thank you. I hope one day I will find the courage and the means to see you in concert for myself. Best wishes to you and yours.

As a Hungarian, you are my brothers. Polak, Węgier, dwa bratanki, i do szabli, i do szklanki!

Sabaton , a request from non swedish speaking person .pls make swedish version of all ur songs . This language just adds extra flavour.

They say they glorify war, they say they are Rasist, but they really just write about human history. This song is a good example. Their singing about family members who doesn’t comeback after wars. And how war can destroy a human. For me this doesn’t sound like glorify war. It sounds like true music 🎵🤘❤️

I WAS THERE! It was an experience I will never forget.

The feeling Sabaton must get onstage facing that 🤯

I was there on the 14th to see it live. My first concert and I just have to say, this song hits you right in the heart when you see it live. It would be worth going just for this song alone. The emotions you feel listening to this is genuinely not rivaled by anything.

I am a soldier for my country. After looking up the lyrics i was in tears. If I ever fall in combat i want this to played at my funeral. Also hand out the lyrics for the people there so they understand why i did this. Sabaton after seeing you live as well i was amazed. Thank you for the music and never give up.

This might be my favorite live performance video ever. This could be somebody’s national anthem.

This isn't just powerful... its an unstoppable fucking force. This is the most united crowd I've ever seen.

Don't know about you, but this song hits even deeper during the conflict in Ukraine. Almost all the lyrics can be aplied to anybody draged to that horror. Sabaton, this song is trully a masterpiece and we should send its message to the world.

The craziest thing when I was there was that at first I thought they turned the lights on, then I realized that no...it was all the cellphones that lit up the whole arena, crazy! ;-) Was an awesome experience, and honestly, an honor to be there live and sing along with everyone else! o7

Imagine the validation of writing a song and having a stadium full of people know it word for word and sing it loud and proud.

This is beautiful. I'm from Russia and I never thought that I could get such a big interest for other country's history and language. Just, damn! Melody, theme, language, meaning, all of this came into a masterpiece of a song! This concert footage is just wow! Made me tear up a bit at the beginning, all these lights in perspective, such an awesome crowd of people, singing the lyrics on their own, the recent events that made me fear for my young life... By law, people my age have to serve one year in the army. And this song perfectly represents what I feel. This war is terrifiying. But even before I've read the translation of lyrics, the sheer atmosphere of this song made it my favorite! Absolutely awesome.

Den här låten är utmärkt! Jag kommer från Brasilien och jag kan talar svenska därför jag bodde i Halmstad och Örebro. Det är smärtsamt och väldig ledsen att sjunga det, men ändå vackert med publiken! Den här publiken är helt otrolig och anmärkningsvärd! Svenska är så vackert att höra! Tack så mycket Sabaton!

War is hell. And even if you survive it, you live it forever.

I'm just hoping they upload all these live songs to Spotify

When the crowd sing like this, you know you've made it

These people have managed to make me feel patriotic for a country I have never been to in a language I do not understand a word of. Absolute LEGENDS

Just hearing everyone saying - JAG GET MIT LIV FÖR MITT FOSTERLAND, Really hits the spot

As a man who served in the army, been training for killing a man in the battlefields, this Swedish version lyric hits me even harder.

Årets folkbildare SABATON 👍

Spectacular song absolutely beautiful greetings from Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪

this has to be the most heartfelt Sabaton performance ever

That has got to be the most sensational and humbling moment to be felt, to see and hear all of those people singing your song, the energy must have been amazing there

Sabaton does not glorifying the war...they just love the soldiers,not those who commit atrocities,but those who think about home and loved ones,those who died holding a photo of a kid,wife, family,girl, in their hands,those who gave everything and got nothing in return,not even a descend burial...You got to love these guys...

I don't speak Swedish and I went to see the translation of this song. It made me tear up. What a beautiful song. Then I arrived on this video... guys I can't stop sobbing... this so powerful. It makes me think of 2 of my friends who were soldiers in the French Army and died in mission for our Country. Thank you for those beautiful emotions Sabaton. You are the best guys.

I swear, every time En Livstid i Krig, Konungens Likfärd, or Ruina Imperii begin to play, I have to fight back tears and everyone around me is super confused.

Not even Swedish, but damn you can just feel this even more in the Swedish version

Ryser varje gång jag hör den här.❤️🇸🇪

The reason the Swedish empire was so successful is because, as mentioned in the lyrics of the song, the soldiers knew and fought for eachother. Not for the king, even though he was a formidable man. These were men from villages who fought among other men who probably went to the same church as they did every Sunday. Sweden only had 1 million inhabitants at this time.. the power of friendship. "Among kinsmen from my village i left for battle" this song is so damn powerful and historically accurate.

Thats the best song i have ever heard

For any potential history buffs out there (Who might be interested in Swedish history) to have some context to all of this. During the time period this album is taking place, the common people were incredibly poor. I'd guess that an aprox 90-95% of the SWE-population were farmers, farmhands or indentured servers of various forms, people outside of the wealthy elite had very little power and democracy was hardly conceptionalized at all as the monarchy and church held most of the power. People were overburden with taxation as many of the Swedish kings waged wars which forced many young men who had only just started having some leverage in their own homesteads and farms out to die in wars they had very little to say about at all, many of them hardly ever even reached the battlefields at all since a lot of the war camps they were assigned to were raging with various diseases. So I find a very deep poetic meaning in this entire album when I have the history to compare it to, Sabaton indeed sparks the interest to dig deeper into history with such a way of making history live through their music. Tack för allt er fenomenala arbete med musiken, vi ses i Februari i Huskvarna.

As a Swede it feels like my country, slowly slowly disappearing.

The spiritual atmosphere this gave off. You can imagine every light is a soldier who passed during war throughout history.

This. This is the essence of what Sabaton do. They honor the fallen by not only singing of them, but teaching people what they went through... Then teaching them to sing along in the heavy metal choir that honors the countless fallen! No other band will ever come close to this for me, I think. Sabaton are the embodiment of all that music can and should be: hopeful and hyped, sorrowful and respectful. A thousand thank-yous to Sabaton!

This makes me wanna do it Forget it I’m doing it “HOLD THE LINE”

My dad has spoken swedish to me my entire life, even though we live in Finland. Always, no matter the ocasion he speaks swedish to me and as such I associate the swedish language with him and to hear a song sung of soldiers being sent into a meat grinder never to see their families again.... It hits a completely other way especially with the current political situation and him still being the age where he would be called to service for his homeland

Here is a letter from Wilhelm von Schwerin who was a 15 year old Swedish soldier who fought in the finnish war in 1808 "Kronoby Headquarters 17 September 1808" "My beloved parents!" "i have not since Grisslehamn found any place I could write from, for the post office always follows the headquarters, which is far apart from the army. Since we went and drifted on the lake until the end of August, we finally got to land in Kristinestad. The disembarkation went in one day, and at night we marched a mile to Lappfjärd. We lay and slept as best we could, when the alarm went off and I had to leave my comfortable bed. The deal lasted 5 to 6 hours, but no battery was allowed. The Russians were defeated, and we pursued them all the way to Ömossa, 20 km from Lappfjärd. There was a halt, and Lieutenant Colonel Drufva was detached with 500 men and 2 cannons under my command to remain here with orders to fight to the last man. Here was a pitiful location! The people saw themselves 20 miles apart from the army, stationed against the main force of the Russians. My people were sad, they saw the uplanders being released every evening, but for nine days they had to lie incessantly on the field guard and, together with me, were soaked with heavy rain for many nights and days. Nothing but my tender care for them could keep them from complaining, I always and gladly use my excess money of my allowance for their benefit. 9th in the morning we were violently attacked. I would now for the first time go into the fire myself, I would bring my people there for the first time, and I would with 2 cannons defend the place against the enemy's infinite number of howitzers and cannons. The first was not difficult; I immediately took my cold and remained cold. The second was worse. My people were in the fire for the first time, they looked for the bullets and ran behind just at the most crucial moment. I could not run after, but did myself 5 man service at the cannon. When the business had slowed down somewhat, I went almost exhausted after them, imagining their cowardice, then they all sprang forward like lit candles each in their places. Here people fell like grass. Now it was time. The Cossacks charged at my exposed cannons 3 times, threw their darts, but I met them with canisters, and they withdrew. In this way, we continued the business under a constant fire for 5 hours and retreated 1 1/2 miles, where content was made. Here came Drufvan with the whole corps of officers, embraced me, thanked me for saving them. The people cheered and wished me a lasting welfare. Soon we had a battle, the longest and bloodiest here in this war. This stood at Oravais and lasted from kl. 6 in the morning until kl. 11 in the evening. I entertained the enemies alone until dinner by firing my cannons, when at this time I was wounded. They were just about to drag away when one of my men told me that I was run over: I scratched myself, sat on a cannon horse, for my own was shot, let the people cheer, put me first in the lead, shouted comrades, follow me: I commanded march, march and struck through the enemy, who greeted me with a bayonet. I got 3 bullets in my coat, and many of my people were stabbed. Generals Adlercreutz and Vegesack thanked me most sincerely. In the morning I would go out and reconnoiter, when I got a bullet through the hat, from which I fell over. I discovered the devil behind a rock, took the rifle of a soldier and shot him. In the evening towards dusk I got a new injury, they dragged me to the nearest village, where I lay until the enemy's bullets came in through the windows. I would have stayed, if not for a noble officer I had not yet gotten to know threw me on his back and we happily got away. Our loss is probably 2,000 men and 30 to 40 officers. General Aminoff, the generous man, picked me up, and now I'm pretty well." "Goodbye, beloved and worshiped parents and siblings! Live always well, wish you always affectionate son, brother and friend." "Wilhelm" it ended with "The general is in such a hurry that I have no time to enumerate the number of lost officers of the Upland and Westmanland regiments." Wilhelm passed away 27 september 1808 at an age of just 15, 10 days after this letter was written

Länge leva Sverige! Hälsning från Finland!

Best way to learn Swedish

I have never heard or seen such an awesome performance of a song from fans. They all sound like one! No many choirs can sing like that

Jag är född i Polen men jag dör för Sverige vilken dag som helst!

Last time I came this early, my girlfriend broke up with me. Now Im crying, but not for her Long live Sabaton ❤

Instant goosebumps. . . . . After hearing this i can say you dont need to understand words to get message delivered. Excellent masterpiece not only from Sabaton, but for every single one from audience. Greetings from Finland.

I’m a 27 year old Scottish woman who is sat in tears listening to this. I’d love to hear this specific version live one day.

Fun fact, my motherside ancestor Erkki Sallinen was a guerrilla leader in Hattarnas ryska krig (1742). He did lot of damage with his troop in Karelia. Thanks Sabaton from this song and greetings from Finland our swedish brothers :)

It's been a year. I still can't stop listening to this on repeat. I don't even speak Swedish

Do you guys play at weddings? Edit: Tommy's quitar solo at 3:39 is just beautiful.

4:40 I'm crying so much 🥲

I hope to travel to Sweden one day to hear them play this. Brings a tear to my eye

I look around and see my home disappear My time at home now feels far too short Only youth, hardly a man when duty called me If I get to see my home again, I do not know Among relatives from my village, I went out to battle And the world burned For the war it can Destroy a man I give my life for my homeland But who misses me? So see me as it A husband, a friend Father and son never coming home But who mourns me? Went out in battle for Sweden, was baptized in blood Out there, death awaits, not heroism In fields where relatives fall, no song is heard Challenging our destinies, once again Far from home Be baptized and die in battle And the world burned For the war it can Destroy a man I give my life for my homeland But who misses me? So see me as it A husband, a friend Father and son never coming home But who mourns me? And when my time has run out Who cares then? They are struggling Does a soldier get a dignified end? Get to sleep Disappear And never wake up For the war it can Destroy a man I give my life for my homeland But who misses me? So see me as it A husband, a friend Father and son never coming home But who mourns me?

4:40 is legitimately one of the most awesome things I've ever heard.

One of the most powerful songs I've ever heard in my life🇸🇪🇫🇮

I did a presentation at my school for our history class last Friday, I spoke about the swedish great power era (I'm swedish) using the carolus rex album and went through each song on the album and explaining what they are about. I wanted to show the class one example song that they could listen to and I chose to show this video between 01:00 and 02:18 so thank you Sabaton!

Svenskar are you awesome! Greetings from Poland! 🇵🇱🇸🇪

5:32 biggest goosebumps. My proudest moment of my life was to return back to civilian life after service to have a coffee with my father who also served a generation ago.

I am 62 years old and just discovered this band! So proud of this band!

Damn you, sabaton! For bringing tears to the eyes of a grown man who doesn't speak a word in swedish!

What a beautiful song Greetings from the USA

I don't speak a single word of Swedish but this is so good... It reminds me of The Price of a Mile (one of my favorite) in terms of speed and feeling, I love it.

I'm from Mexico. Listening to metal suddenly this song came out. I had never heard of Sabaton. The music captivated me, but when I turned on the English subtitles I was deeply moved. What a song, epic !!! Now I’m a Sabaton fan