Description

Bye Bye Beautiful was released as the fourth single from Nightwish’s Dark Passion Play album. The single includes an DJ Orkidea Remix Version of the song as well as a demo version of “The Poet And The Pendulum” and Dark Passion Play’s Japanese bonus track “Escapist”. In the first part of the Dark Passion Play World Tour, “Bye Bye Beautiful” was the standard opening track, which was played after an intro of “Resurrection” from the soundtrack of The Passion Of The Christ. In 2009 it was replaced by “7 Days To The Wolves” and Tuomas Holopainen stated that the band is never going to play “Bye Bye Beautiful” live again. “Bye Bye Beautiful” is written by Tuomas Holopainen about the band’s former vocalist, Tarja Turunen, who was dismissed from the band with an open letter in 2005, and his feelings before and after the time she changed her attitude towards the band and its music. This was at first rumoured among fans and later revealed by Holopainen in an interview. The chorus also contains the lyrics “Did you ever read what I wrote you?/ Did you ever listen to what we played?” in which the first part is a reference to the lyrics written by Holopainen, and the second part is about her lack of dedication to the music

Track listing:
1. Bye Bye Beautiful
2. The Poet And The Pendulum-demo
3. Escapist
4. Bye Bye Beautiful-DJ Orkidea remix