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Epica - Making Of ′Cry For The Moon

Follow your common sense
You cannot hide yourself
behind a fairytale forever and ever
Only by revealing the whole truth can we disclose
The soul of this bulwark forever and ever
Forever and ever

Indoctrinated minds so very often
Contain sick thoughts
And commit most of the evil they preach against

Dont try to convince me with messages from God
You accuse us of sins committed by yourselves
Its easy to condemn without looking in the mirror
Behind the scenes opens reality

Eternal silence cries out for justice
Forgiveness is not for sale
Nor is the will to forget

Virginity has been stolen at very young ages
Morbid abuse of power in the garden of eden
Where the apple gets a youthful face

You cant go on hiding yourself
Behind old fashioned fairytales
And keep washing your hands in innocence

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:48

Epica - The Divine Conspiracy

Quaestio nostra est aeterna
Ultima requies fons vitae
Sed eam ut novam ducemus

We will never know all possibilities to predict what is to come
And so we have illusions to think freely

Once we had been
Rich from within
Did not try to reach
What we couldn’t achieve
Because once we had been
Able to win
From the need to succeed

We need to be innocent to live the life we′ve lived for so long
We need to be blind enough to live the life we live right now

Who possesses your time also possesses your mind

Once we had been
Rich from within
Did not try to reach
What we couldn’t achieve
Because once we had been
Able to win
From the need to succeed

We need to be innocent to live the life we′ve lived for so long
We need to be deaf enough to live the life we live right now

Reach out, touch infinity
Life is just a memory
Time is not the entity
Like it used to be

The Divine Conspiracy
Opens up the reality
Time is not the entity
Like it claims to be

Once we had been
Rich from within
Did not try to reach
What we couldn’t achieve
Because once we had been
Able to win
From the need to succeed

We need to be innocent to live the life we′ve lived for so long
We need to be insensitive to live the life and so ignore it all

Who possesses your time also possesses your mind

Who possesses your time
-Mislead us all, we are not in control
Also possesses your mind
-There is no trace that will lead to this place

Reach out, touch infinity
Life is just a memory
Time is not the entity
Like it used to be

The Divine Conspiracy
Opens up the reality
Time is not the entity
Like it claims to be

Desperately we all
Clutch at the last straw
We stumble and fall
Countdown to die
To heal it all

We will never reach
Our capacities, no more
We cannot expand
Our boundaries

Once we had been
Rich from within
Did not try to reach
What we couldn’t achieve
Because once we had been
Able to win
From the need to succeed

We need to be innocent to live the life we′ve lived for so long
We need to be insensitive to breathe so we can take it all for granted

Reach out, touch infinity
Life is just a memory
Time is not the entity
Like it used to be

The Divine Conspiracy
Opens up the reality
Time is not the entity
Like it claims to be

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:48

Epica - Living A Lie

Don′t believe what you see
Believe in me
In my reality
I am a man of God

God, can′t you hear that I’m begging you?

Don′t believe what you hear
Believe in me
And I will reappear
Salvation here at last

At last someone to answers all my prayers

Hope is a desert running dry
Deep inside
You refuse to face the facts
But pray for life
Find salvations in distress
We will wait
For the day you’ll break out and
Re-awake

Lies

Don′t believe what you see
Believe in me
And my reality
Eternity indeed

Indeed i’ts the end all and be all there’s

Hope is a desert running dry
Deep inside
You refuse to face the facts
But pray for life
Find salvations in distress
We will wait
For the day you’ll break out and
Re-awake

Lies

Domine lesu, demitte nobis debita nostra,
salva nos ab igne inferiori,
perduc in caelum omnes animas
praesertim eas, quae misericordiae tuae
maxime indigent.

In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.
Amen

Living a lie

Human power
Will devour
Our senses
Bring us to forget
Human sources will not save
The power of faith
Heals us all

Hope is a desert running dry
Deep inside
You refuse to face the facts
But pray for life
Find salvations in distress
We will wait
For the day you’ll break out and
Re-awake
And we wait for the day
To discover there’s no way
I can′t wait at this rate
It’s too little and too late
To live this lie

Living a lie

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:47

Epica - Quietus

The culprit, you act before thinking
Caught in your ignorant sin
And lying to your own reflection,
you thought you could hide

Deprived of my own innocence, denied

The infinity of recurring torment, your comeuppance

See, hear the torture inside
Devouring what was left of my pride
You thought it′s not going to happen to you,
thought you could hide

The infinity of recurring torment, your comeuppance
Dwelling in a mind, mixed up and
Your regret has spread over the sea

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:47

Epica - Trois Vierges

Memory, fading out
Its presence still lingers in my mind
Listen to your inner voice
There′s no escape, there′s no other choice

A foolish fate that came about
Death could not leave without
Don′t try to scour your inane soul
It would be labour lost

Deep inside hides a lie
Where can we try to seek
A way so this will die

Innocence died when they took his mind
And they tried to leave him behind
Not even a cascade of tears will save you
And keep you away from harm

Concinnity of destiny
Is not what you wished it to be

Blinded by love
Between lust and hate
You scarred your fate
There′s no time to waste

Ride for your own ruin
Odium became your opium

Please don′t let me bleed for all eternity

Please leave me be in my own mise

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:47

Epica - White Waters

I see a silhouette, liquid that moves
Skin like a pearl in the sea
I cannot resist this, her voice in the wind
But is it my eyes are deceived?
Is it you I see?

Lie down in my arms
Trust what you see
Smooth your brow, you will be with me
To find your relief

Gazing at whitecaps, coming so close
Everything′s suddenly clear
Numb with the aching, and still I am waiting
The water is pulling me near
Would you welcome me?

Lie down in my arms
Try not to breathe
Quiet love, you are now with me
You need no words to speak

For my mistakes, I am to blame
Never believed that it was all meant to fall
I′d give my life, to have you near once again
Take me away, would you forgive me?

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:47

Epica - Illusive Consensus

So sweet caress, never long to last!
You entered my soul and gave hope to my life.

So sweet caress, never hope to last!
You left me behind all alone and aghast
Captured inside such an austere Elysium

Imperfect feelings, futile grief
Love a device against all solitude
As it all went on, the love became
A field in a dream that once had been real

So sweet caress, never long to last!
Destroy this illusion we need a change of fate!
Your frantic thoughts are only a condemned cry

Imperfect feelings, futile grief
Love a device against all solitude
As it all went on, the love became
A field in a dream that once had been real

deinde veritas se praecipitavit

I secretly longed for something
which had never existed

First I thought it was a dream
but then it smashed into reality
Beautiful on the outside, decayed deeply within

I secretly longed for something
which had never existed

Devoted to a body without a soul

Numquam non tibi diffidam

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:46

Epica - Facade Of Reality

Sanguis meus tibi non iam perbibendus sit

Macula aeterintatis
Numquam detergenda
Quisnam surget et deteget
Imaginem veritates?

People created religious inventions
To give their lives a glimmer of hope
And to ease their fear of dying
And people created religious intentions
Only to feel superior and to have a license to kill

Our desire to die is stronger
Than all your desire for life
There is no getting away from it now
Only true faith survives

People created religious inventions
To give their lives a glimmer of hope
And to ease their fear of dying
And people created religious ascensions
To subject the others and to enslave, just to further enrich themselves

It doesn′t matter where we die
It doesn′t matter that you cry
We′ll take you with us

A disgrace on the beyond

O servator, sempiterne
Te grati coluimus, Odor atrox quo nons superfundis intolerabilis est

Deceive yourself by yielding
to soft words that cause no pain
Enrich yourself with different views
Learned without disdain

A disgrace on the beyond
That can never be undone
Who shall rise and unveil
The Facade of Reality?

Is there still room for new dents in old wrecks?
A disgrace on the beyond that can never be undone
Deceive yourself by yielding to soft words
Enrich yourself by making up your own mind

Sanguis meus tibi non iam perbibendus sit

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:46

Epica - Sensorium

Chance doesn’t exist
But the path of life is not totally so predestined
Time and chronology show us how all should be
In the ways of existence
To find out why we are here

Being consciousness is a torment
The more we learn is the less we get

No one surveys the whole, focus on things so small
But life’s objective is to make it meaningful
Only searching for this
That which doesn’t exist
Although our ability to relativize remains unclear

Being consciousness is a torment
The more we learn is the less we get
Every answer contains a new quest
A quest to non existence, a journey with no end

I’m not afraid to die
Im afraid to be alive without being aware of it

I’m so afraid to, I couldn’t stand to
Waste all my energy on things
That do not matter anymore

Our future has already been written by us alone
But we don’t grasp the meaning
Of our programmed course of life
We only fear what comes
And smell death every day

Our future has already been wasted by us alone
And we just let it happen and do not worry at all

Our future has already been written by us alone
But we don’t grasp the meaning
Of our programmed course of life
We only fear what comes
And smell death every day
Search for the answers that lie beyond

Being consciousness is a torment
The more we learn is the less we get
Every answer contains a new quest
A quest to non existence, a journey with no end

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:46

Epica - Force Of The Shore

Appearance is deceptive
So perfect in disguise
There′s more than what you see

A semblance is protective
A blinder for the eyes
A place to hide and flee

Flee and you′ll never see
What you′re going to be
If you throw away the key

The truth from the past you can′t make it last

Flee and walk away
From what you are this day
If you are afraid to stay

Beyond the shore the sea is filled up
with sentiment and strength
Here lie the thoughts imprisoned
A field of forces and laments

How can we hide here
We need to change our ways
How can we tell lies here
We turn our eyes away

From the truth
From the past
You cannot
Make it last

If you do not cease to run away from truth
You will never see the shadow
of your dying youth

A fa?ade is what we all possess
But on the inside it stays a mess

Superficial changes won′t recall the past
Don′t deny the clock is ticking
and it′s racing fast

Fading tokens of our latter days
Make us think we need to change our ways

Deep, the feelings hide
They′re wasted from within
And my shell will never break

Appearance is deceptive
So perfect in disguise
A place to flee and hide and run away
Lift the shadow

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:45

Epica - The Fallacy

I can′t stand the way you′ve forsaken me
I see through the wicked games you′ve played with me
Do you feel the suspicion stirring up?
Can′t you see that they long to give you up?

Can′t you come lie with me?
Forget about your fallacy.
Seduce me with your fantasies
Of passion and obscurity

I see that you can′t get away with this
You can′t wave aside your lies with one more kiss
Do you feel the suspicion stirring up?
Can′t you see that they long to give you up?

Can′t you come lie with me?
Forget about your fallacy.
Seduce me with your fantasies
Of passion and obscurity

I foresee that you′ll be with me
Play with me as I do...
I do with you

I can′t stand the way you have forsaken me
I see through the reason of this fallacy

Can′t you come lie with me?
Forget about your fallacy.
Seduce me with your fantasies
Of passion and obscurity
Why can′t you come lie with me?
Forget about your fallacy.
Seduce me in your wildest dreams
Of passion and conspiracy

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:45

Epica - Consign to Oblivion

How can we let this happen and
Just keep our eyes closed ′till the end

The only thing that counts is the prosperity of today
Most important to us is that our bills get paid

Our good intentions have always been delayed

How can we let this happen and
Just keep our eyes closed ′till the end
When we will stand in front of heaven′s gate
It will be too late!

Try to unlearn all that you′ve learnt,
try to listen to your heart
No, we can′t understand the universe
by just using our mind
We are so afraid of all the things unknown

A must we appease is the lust to get laid
Nothing really matters, just devouring our prey

Our good intentions have always been delayed so
Our generous acts have always come too late

We are so afraid of all the things unknown
We just flee into a dream that never comes true

Low to the ground we feel safe
Low to the ground we feel brave

Oblivisci tempta quod didicisti

Open your eyes; we′re not in paradise
How can′t you see, this stress is killing me
Fulfil your dreams; life is not what is seems
We have captured time
so time made us all hostages without mercy

Seemingly generous fooling ourselves,

Selfishly venomous time tells

Too much thinking goes at the cost of all our intuition
Our thoughts create reality
But we neglect to be!
So we′re already slaves of our artificial world
We shouldn′t try to control life
but listen to the laws of nature

We all think we′re generous
But we only fool ourselves
The only thing that matters is
Our way and our vision

Selfishly we′re venomous
But you know the time tells us
There is more to life than our
Higher positions, race for perfection
Better, faster
We must return to the laws of the nature
Free ourselves from madness

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:45

Epica - Seif Al Din

The origin of a dogma
Placed in a new millennium
Vilified demons have been embraced
And given a warm welcome

The Seif al Din
Hasn′t got the ghost of a chance to rust
Because it has always been kept in shape
In serving th one Almighty

The rudiments have always been misinterpreted during history,
despite the good intentions of many disciples who′s faithful believe was strong and unswayed.
Most leaders interpret the old words to their
advantage in the attempt of gaining leadership and power
over those unfortunate enough to fall under their maliciousness and manipulative ways.
This misuse of trust will forever stain the pages of history,
echoing the exploitation and the frailty of decent
men carried away by nurtured rancour...

Perpetual distrust fed by a belief
In the malevolence of the others

When the beautiful unreality holds out its hand
It′s better not to lose yourself in blind faith

La Illah Illallah, Mohammed rasul Allah

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:30

Epica - Dance Of Fate

When Darkness will reign and blind us all
Allegiance will blind us if we do not fall

We cannot tell when morning comes
Is there a choice to live another day?
It′s hard to find a new direction in your fragile life

The precious time of your existence is now to come
Don′t throw your life away by cheating time
Sugared Placebos only fool your mind

Now I want the water to wash away all my sins
The wind to blow away my thoughts without meaning
The fire to burn away my thickened skin

Novas portas pandimus

What is the space, the type of dance?
I cannot tell which steps I have to take
I′d like to leave, just run away
My feet are tangled up

So hard to face the pace of the clock
What do you think; will it ever stop?
So, will I fall and not get up?
I take it all in stride

Everything has a reason for its happening
Can′t you tell it′s your own spell and
Everyone has to dance his dance like anyone
Can′t break free of destiny

We should open new doors
And close the ones that we′ve left behind

Novas portas pandimus, et post nos occludimus
Novas portas pandimus et post nos occludimus

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:30

Epica - Replica

There is no love!
No love!

I am a duplication
Innocently
I was conceived
So violently
There was no love
There was no love for me
There was only hatred

I am rape
I am hate
I am rape
I am hate

Every day I feel anonymous hate

I am rape
I am hate
I am rape
I am hate

I am so filled with pain
A bruised and darknened soul
Spare me from the
Life that′s full of misery

I don′t want to live that
Way!
I don′t want to live that
Way!

There is no love!

Every day I feel anonymous hate
Forever in the shadow of disgrace

I am rape
I am hate
I am rape
I am hate

I am so filled with pain
A bruised and darknened soul
Spare me from the
Life that′s full of misery

I am so filled with pain
A bruised and darknened soul
Spare me from the
Life that′s full of misery

I don′t want to live that
Way!
[X3]

I am so filled with pain
A bruised and darknened soul
Spare me from the
Life that′s full of misery

Spare me from the
Life that′s full of pain
Spare me from the
Life that′s full of pain

I don′t want to live that
Way!
[X6]

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:29

Epica - Solitary Ground

Living at different places
Evading into various spaces
My compass has broken
I′m losing the way
An ongoing madness has led me astray

My past breathes down my neck
And it seems now that all I can do is
Go back to beginnings when all lay ahead
A fading illusion now plagues me instead

In me there′s still a place that fulfils me
A sanctity here that I call home, I run to
When winter descends
If I try, can I find solid ground

I follow elusive paths
Oh, it seems they′ve been written in stone
And the door to a new life is closing so fast
Burning the bridges will not bring me back

I know that in me there′s still a place that fulfils me
A sanctity here that I call home, I run to
When winter descends
If I try, can I find solid ground
Or am I just wasting time?

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:29

Epica - Death Of A Dream

I followed your rules
A willing fool
Branded by shame

My soul suffers from your hostile ways
I bear so many scars, hit me hard
Time to change we have to rearrange
For this has gone too far, way too far

Creating new laws and living by unwritten rules
Restricting us

My soul suffers from your hostile ways
I can’t let go

Creating new spins on ancient creed to fit your views
Denying us

You created this world
Where honesty is not allowed
You created this world
Where ignorance is being taught

You created this world
Where I am all, you′ll never be
You’ve been drilling these
Such falsely-based philosophies
…in me

The curtain has fallen
There′s no one behind
Corrected one mistake
But I am still around

Our fight is over
My scars will leave a stain
You thought that it was all easy
But I will still remain

You created yourself
Based on nothing else but lies
You created yourself
Where all your aspiration died

You created yourself
Where I am all, you′ll never be
You’re deceiving me
Now I am forcing you to see
… this

The curtain has fallen
There′s no one behind
Corrected one mistake
But I am still around

Our fight is over
My scars will leave a stain
You thought that it was all easy
But I will still remain

Take my hand, I′m sinking, I′m reaching out for you

Can′t you see what you′ve done to all of us?
Torturing me has no use here anymore

I followed your rules
A willing fool
Branded by shame

My soul suffers from your hostile ways
I bear so many scars, hit me hard
Time to change we have to rearrange
For this has gone too far, way too far

Creating new laws and living by unwritten rules
Restricting us

My soul suffers from your hostile ways
I can’t let go

Creating new spins on ancient creed to fit your views
Denying us

The curtain has fallen
There′s no one behind
Corrected one mistake
But I am still around

Our fight is over
My scars will leave a stain
You thought that it was all easy
But I will still remain

Your time is over
I′m taking what’s mine
You thought that you could keep me
Under your thumb and mind

Take my hand, I′m sinking, I′m reaching out for you
In my dying dream

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:29

Epica - Menace of Vanity

Comprehensive expressions of your social weakness
Vented on your countless made up enemies

I cannot know how you feel
When you don’t say anything

We don′t care what you say
We′ll never join the games you play
We won′t bleed for all your sins
We never followed your way now so
We don′t care anymore
How you’ll perform your last encore

Your misplaced sense of superiority
The result of your unbearable form of Vanity

I cannot know what you see
When you don′t show anything;

We don′t care what you say
We′ll never join the games you play
We won′t bleed for all your sins
We never followed your way now so
We don′t care anymore
How you’ll perform your last encore

I cannot know how you feel
When you don’t say anything
I cannot know what you see
When you don′t show anything

We don′t care what you say
We′ll never join the games you play
We won′t bleed for all your sins
We never followed your way now so
We don′t care anymore
How you’ll perform your last encore


Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:28

Epica - Chasing The Dragon

Free my mind
Heal my scars
Erase the past
Dark days to forget
And memories to last
In my heart

Free me now

Make me forget
And forgive
There′s no use
To go on and live
Show me a way
To the sun

Heal my scars

Nothing will be forever gone
Memories will stay and find their way
What goes around will come around
Don’t deny your fears
So let them go and fade into light
Give up the fight here

Let my eyes take in
The beauty that′s here
That’s left on this earth
My ears long to hear
A melody

Give me sight

Nothing will be forever gone
Memories will stay and find their way
What goes around will come around
Don’t deny your fears
So let them go and fade into light
Give up the fight here

Poison is slowly seeping through my veins
Stealing the only dignity in me

I pick them up and let them fall
To cause your pain and hit them all
[grunts]

One more life to live is what I want

I’ll take the joy away from them
See to it, they will all be damned

One more chance to heal what I have harmed

The dragon is wreak havoc in my brain
Plays my emotion, a never ending game

Nothing will be forever gone
Memories will stay and find their way
What goes around will come around
Don’t deny your fears
So let them go and fade into light
Give up the fight here

One more life to live for me

I want the night just to colour the day
The morning to chase all my nightmares away
Don’t you deny that we′re all human beings
We all have our flaws that can make ourself obscene

Obscene…

Give me what I want
Give me what I need right now
That’s what I want
That’s what I need, get it!

Dolendo novit mortalis vitam

Tell me what I want
Tell me what I need right now
That’s what I want
That’s all I need, cure me

Dolendo discit mori mortalis
Losers

Nothing will be forever gone
Memories will stay and find their way
What goes around will come around
Don’t deny your fears
So let them go and fade into light
Give up the fight here

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:28

Epica - Crystal Mountain

(Death cover)
Built from blind faith
Passed down from self-induced fantasy
Turn a page to justify
Conjuring power - it opens wide
On seventh day,
Is that how it′s done?
Twisting your eyes to perceive
all that you want
To assume from ignorance
Inflicting wounds with your
cross-turned dagger

Inside crystal mountain
Evil takes its form
Inside crystal mountain
Commandments are reborn

All the traps are set to confine
All who get in the way of the divine
In sight and in mind of the hypocrite

Shatter the myth
Don′t cut yourself
On your words against dreams made of steel
Stronger any faith
That inflicts pain and fear,
is that how it′s done?
Twisting your eyes to perceive
All that you want
To assume from ignorance
Inflicting wounds with your cross-turned dagger

Inside crystal mountain
Evil takes its form
Inside crystal mountain
Commandments are reborn

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:28

Epica - Martyr Of The Free Word

Speaking interpretation
A conversation can take a sudden turn
And reaching the point of violence
Because your silence left you without a hand to hold

Your past will lead you on to make...

Making a final judgement
Based on your bias will never bring you forward
Terror should never guide you
For even the fearful can take a beating in the end

Suspicion gets you nowhere

Those who denounce a way of life
Will stand alone
Left to atone their social blunders
If you gun down the messenger
You guarantee that he will be made
Into a saint
A martyr of the free word

I will say
I will say what I think
I will do
I will do what I say
When liberty seems out of reach
We′ll fight for our freedom of speech

Requiem aeternam dona eis,
Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis

Missing a simple context
A mental weakness can throw you out of balance
Listen, respect each other
Then you′ll discover
It wasn′t [...]
It′s not too late for mercy

Those who denounce a way of life
Will stand alone
Left to atone their social blunders
If you gun down the messenger
You guarantee that he will be made
Into a saint
A martyr of the free word

I will say
I will say what I think
I will do
I will do what I say
When liberty seems out of reach
We′ll fight for our freedom of speech

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:27

Epica - Safeguard To Paradise

Memories that fade away
Have not left their mark
But you live on, every single day
In many different ways

It′s the truth between his cunning lips
That hands him his suspicious alibis
Persuading with your force will never be the way
To our destiny

Suddenly we′ve lost the force
To close our cursed doors
No one seems to realise
That wolves are in disguise

It′s the truth between his cunning lips
That hands him his suspicious alibis
Persuading with your force will never be the way
To our destiny

Your engine was so strong
But the road was just too long
Hope is not the end
So never lose the faith

As long as we can say
They can never take away
Our freedom, the most precious thing we′ve ever had
The reward from the blood, we′ve ever shed

His quest for higher truth, life of eternal youth has just begun,
in spite of being on the run
Many virgins wait for him to come
Persuading with your force will never be the way
To our destiny
Our destiny

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:27

Epica - Run For A Fall

Do not use the past as an alibi
For all of your deficiencies always standing by
Face your negligence, do not fool yourself
Shortcomings will soon appear
For weakness shows itself

Blind from your success and all of the excess
Deaf from the praise you had

Don’t cry out of self pity in forcing your way through
For I will not be vulnerable to slander made by you

Blind from your success and all of the excess
Deaf from the praise you had

In a misty veil, misplaced
Where castles in the air will be no longer seen
As something out of reach
In time the dream will be erased
So many things will never be the way they seemed
And pride will have it’s fall at last
Her eyes fell while the shame was written on her face
When she realised that her failures
could never be undone again

You did not notice the manipulated hand
That overshadowed your thoughts all those years
That made you insecure
You did not notice the ancient shifting sand
That pulls you down into an everlasting sham
You will never be able to fight
Never be able to hide
Run for a fall, you’d better run

Blind from your success and all of the excess
Deaf from the praise you had

In a misty veil, misplaced
Where castles in the air will be no longer seen
As something out of reach
In time the dream will be erased
So many things will never be the way they seemed
And pride will have it’s fall at last

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:26

Epica - Unleashed

Keep hiding
All colors fading
Desiring
They′re coming for me

Back in the day I can recall that,
My thoughts were unclouded and saint
There was no black state in the walls of my memory
Now there′s a haze pushing me side a ways,

And leaving me nothing to gain
Taking me back, lurking me cold in disparity

There was I meant to be
I feel I′m lost in a dream
Long for the day I can be myself

When I′m free
When my sun has set
Release my soul forever
I have no regret to be free
I′ll exists again
No more lost endeavor
Nothing to contain
When I′m free

Call and decline so it defines me
It′s falling away far behind
Nothing to keep me with the time
The human eye

Where am I meant to be?
I feel I′m lost in a dream
Again and again only to be myself

Time is a concept and always the first thing to fade
Hiding in a weakness something we can never retain
Years of crawl –– decay and despair
Are we a wrong perception something we can never regainepair

No one to blame, facing me random
Nothing will ever explain, so it reclines

Where was I meant to be
I feel I′m lost in a dream
Long for the day I can be myself

When will I be unleashed
It′s not the way it should be
Again and again only to be myself

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:26

Epica - Fools Of Damnation

Go for it
Bow to the supremacy
Go for it at last

You do believe, so I can say
That you are owned by me

Go for it
Bow to the supremacy
Go for it at last

You do believe, so let us pray
For all those fools that be

Fool
Dance with me again
I am your destiny
Mark my words, don′t you ever disagree

Fool
Kneel for me again
I am your agony
Walk my way, I will never set you free

Kneel for me unknowing fool
Bow to the supremacy
Kneel for me unworthy pig
Die for the divinity

Go for it
Bow to the supremacy
Go for it at last

You do believe, so you display
All that we want to see

Fool
Dance with me again
I am your destiny
Mark my words, don′t you ever disagree

Fool
Kneel for me again
I am your agony
Walk my way, I will never set you free

Go for it
Just do it
Walk my way just to serve me

Go for it
Just do it
Kneel for me and obey me

A humble genuflection for the onrushing ascendancy
Not able to turn back anymore

Bow to me
Bow to the supremacy

Kneel for me
Die for the divinity

Bow to me
Go for it
Just do it
Die for the divinity

Believing is the cure
Religion is like opium
You’d better feed them all
Before they start eating you

Et fictum fit factum

Ne timeas obscurum
Id autem cognoscas

Ne timeas obscurum
Primum id cognosce
Deinde iudica
Post iudicandum demum age

[x2]
Fool
Dance with me again
I am your destiny
Mark my words, don′t you ever disagree

Fool
Kneel for me again
I am your agony
Walk my way, I will never set you free

[x4]
Go for it
Just do it

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:25

Epica - Beyond Belief

Wisdom, knowledge, science

Develops, always, better, faster
This is the final end

A voice in the wilderness
Fights a futile war
Because the strong are deaf
More so then before

Massive disregard
Shows what to expect
Scars on top of scars
Racing toward a future we don′t have

Fear is taking over me, there is nothing I can see

The Future is as certain
As life will come to an end
When time feels like a burden
We struggle with our certain death

Wisdom, knowledge, science

Develops, always, better, faster

We have to guide ourselves
For we cannot stand
One more false pretence getting out of hand

Now fear is the driving force
Taking over us Aad finding out this source
May turn out to be too much to bear

Fear is taking over me, there is nothing I can see
How could this have come to be

The Future is as certain
As life will come to an end
When time feels like a burden
We struggle with our certain death

Wisdom, knowledge, science

Develops, always, better, faster
Defeats us

Science, knowledge, wisdom
Destroys us, always, ever, faster
This is the final end

Thirteen moons
The path to walk
Thirteen moons
The path to talk
Restore all that belongs to us

Thirteen moons
The way to speak
Thirteen moons
Is what we seek
Restore all that was left behind

The Future is as certain
As life will come to an end
When time feels like a burden
We struggle with our certain death

[solo]

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:25

Epica - Blank Infinity

Trying to keep myself afloat upon this stream
But a thought is pulling me down
Pulling me all the way down

We are wandering towards a blank infinity
And extinguishing will now be the only way
to diminish your sins
This vortex can′t be filled up again
A hole in space and time

Do you cry to the heaven′s high
when you′re confined in here?
Do you not ever wonder
why these leaden tears will never dry?
They′ll leave behind so many shadows in my mind

High in the sky, all of the clouds are passing by
Wait for this storm, wait for the rain,
and wait for the tears to fall down on me

Do you cry to the heaven′s high
when you′re confined in here?
Do you not ever wonder
why these leaden tears will never dry?
They′ll leave behind so many shadows
Living in me, living in all the memories in my life

Do you wonder why
These tears never dry
Time forced into life
Living in my mind

Can we ever find a way in t his labyrinth without end?

Labyrinth has no end

Which turn should I take?
Left or right?
Should I stay?
Should I be the one?

Lost inside blank infinity

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:25

Epica - The Phantom Agony

[I. Impasse of Thoughts]

I can’t see you, I can’t hear you
Do you still exist?

I can’t feel you, I can’t touch you,
Do you exist?

The Phantom Agony

I can’t taste you, I can’t think of you,
Do we exist at all?

[II. Between hope and despair]

The future doesn’t pass
And the past won’t overtake the present
All that remains is an obsolete illusion

We are afraid of all the things that could not be
A phantom agony

Do we dream at night
Or do we share the same old fantasy?
I am a silhouette of the persen wandering in my dreams

Tears of unprecedented beauty
Reveal the truth of existence
We’re all sadists

The age-old development of consciousness
Drives us away from the essence of life
We meditate too much,
so that our instincts will fade away
They fade away

What’s the point of life
And what’s the meaning if we all die in the end?
Does it make sense to learn or do we forget everything?

Tears of unprecedented beauty
Reveal the truth of existence
We’re all pessimists

Teach me how to see and free the disbelief in me
What we get is what we see, the Phantom Agony

[III. Nevermore]

The lucidity of my mind has been revealde in new dreams
I am able to travel where my heart goes
In search of self-realisation

This is the way to escape from our agitation
And develop ourselves
Use your illusion and enter my dream...

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:24

Epica - Tides Of Time

You were always there to hold my hand
When times were hard to understand
But now the tides of time have turned
They keep changing

Seasons range, but you remain the same
A steady heart, a sun to reign
You′ll be the light that′s shining bright
High above me

Autumn cold, losing heart

We′re leaves meant to fall
There′s a meaning to all
That fades

Freezing winds were stained by warming words
That touch your healing to the heart
That treasure every lesson learned
′til they immerse

Fight her face
Wash his pain

We will answer the call
There′s a meaning to all

Sing forth Malachi
To sow along earth dreams
Filling needs that can be as perfect alone

Frail is our beauty in the end
But all we count is sentiment
A memory stays to guide the way and whisper
Don′t lose sight, don′t deny

We′re leaves meant to fall
There′s a meaning to all

Sing forth Malachi
To sow along earth dreams
Filling needs that can be as perfect alone
A symphony resulting in our minds
Guides us through what we knew
Uncovered in life

Sometimes I feel like I don′t have the words
Sometimes I feel like I′m not being her
And then I fear I′m feeling nothing more

Sometimes I feel I don′t want to change
And think we all have to rearrange
And now I feel there′s no more losing me

Sing forth Malachi
To sow along earth dreams
Filling needs that can be as perfect alone
A symphony resulting in our minds
Guides through – Cause you hear me
As you do – As you lead me
Making sure once we all uncover it all

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:24

Epica - Semblance Of Liberty

Born to fight, and we′re born to flee
Doomed to live on ecstasy
Born to lie, and we′re born to cheat
Look in the mirror, who do you see?

Born to flee, and we′re born to fight
Without your mask, you′re terrified
Don′t hide your personality
That′s who you are, your identity

If the virtues of tomorrow
Cause the greed of today
We won′t have a future
Nor liberty

Born to breathe, and we′re born to pursue
That′s all we are supposed to do
The semblance of our liberty
Is nothing more than slavery

Born to flee, and we′re born to fight
Is it failure that′s our delight?
Born to cheat, and we′re born to lie
Look at yourself, have you lost your mind?

If the virtues of tomorrow
Cause the greed of today
We won′t have a future
And no more liberty

If the virtues of tomorrow
Set the need on the way
We won′t have a future nor liberty

Private vice leads to public virtue

Raised to think that we are free
Living in our caves
Being slaves

We lost control of our lives
At the mercy of the waves
Massive waves

Blind to see what′s going on
Conditioned as we are
And we are

We lost control of our greed
But now we face it all
Face our fall

Keeping all that we′ve created
And consuming all that′s possible
Reaching deep into temptation
Nothing can stop us

Guarantee our hard-earned profits
Multiplied ten-fold if possible
Reaching out for new redemption
Nothing avails our needs

My opponent won′t rule out raising taxes.
But I will, and The Congress will push me to raise taxes and I′ll say no.
And they′ll push, and I′ll say no, and they′ll push again, and I′ll say to them:
Read my lips
[George H. W. Bush]

If the virtues of tomorrow
Set the need on the way
We never had a future anyway
We had no future ′till today

Time and tide
Will not wait for anyone

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:23

Epica - Deconstruct

If we could see ourselves, the mirror would reflect insanity
Instead we camouflage the flaws that lie within
Condone the suffering we witness as we mingle casually
We need to right ourselves, or else we will derail

Aiming too high
You are bound to fail
Patience is a vital virtue
That you′ll never have

Don′t force me to believe
We′re caught up in the greed
′cause I just care for me
To break it, we′ll need everyone
Think it through: unite is the only way

A raging tragedy ignored will have its justice, finally
Distress and poverty is everyone′s disease
We′ll come to realise for all we′ve done
there is a price to pay
Yet hope is never lost, there always is a way

Trumping the game
Is no easy way
Enterprise and discipline
Will pay off in the end

If we ever could look into fate′s mirror
We would never have ended up here
We′re distracted by every sin committed
It should always be ever so clear

If we ever look
We would never be here

Don′t force me to believe
I′m never needing anyone
I only care for me
I′m thinking through
And mine′s the only way

We are caught up
In our failure
Now our union
Is our savior
It′s the only way

If we ever
We would never
If we′re clever
We′re together

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:23

Epica - Higher High

Fireflies are flying higher
They draw their wings up in the sky
Something I cannot read now
For my vision is blurred

We are all ruled by our fears below
Higher high
We are stuck and can′t get out again
There′s more than we deny
And there′s more than meets the eye

Fortune, fairytales; we′ve all been told
Our pattern, never built, never begins (?)
I can tell you there can′t always be
A happy end to every tale

We are all ruled by our fears below
Higher high
We are stuck and can′t get out again
And there′s more than meets the eye

We are all breathing the same air
That we share
We all just have to live
We are all equal
No matter black or white

We are all ruled by our fears below
Higher high
We are stuck and can′t get out again
There′s more than we deny
And there′s more than meets the eye

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:23

Epica - Linger

Feel so warm when you are near
You are all I want to feel
Tell me now: is this for real?
Its hard to breathe...

Were all lost in travel time
Cannot find my peace of mind
When the sun will rise again
Well fly away

Take the stairs to the stars
Wander long
Travel far
Someday

A summer breeze makes
All of our winters freeze
Autumn leaves
Theres no chance for springs romance
We linger on but leave the past behind us
Old lovers live it on new

Windows open up to life
Put your worries all aside
Sacred silence closes doors
For open eyes

Take the stairs to the stars
Wander long
Travel far
Someday
Away

A summer breeze makes
All of our winters freeze
Autumn leaves
Theres no chance for springs romance
We linger on but leave the past behind us
Old lovers live it on new
But chances are so few
And choices are so true

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:22

Epica - Never Enough

Can′t you hear me screaming, once again?
Voices you can′t hear
Because you are consumed and incontent
With everlasting greed

Don′t you see me on my hands and knees?
Begging and bleeding
You′re smiling as you bite the hand that feeds
But will you never see?

Always wanting what your eyes can′t see
needing what your arms can’t reach
Thinking you are in need
Always hearing what your ears can′t hear
feeling what your hands can′t touch
Thinking you’re incomplete

(Enough)
It was,
Never enough that I gave to you
All of the horror that you′ve put me through
(Never enough)
How can I make up my mind this time?
This is where I will draw the line

Sacrificed my life to be with you
Why did you leave me?
There′s nothing more from me you can consume
Cause you are incomplete

Always wanting what your eyes can′t see
needing what your arms can’t reach
Thinking you are in need
Always hearing what your ears can′t hear
feeling what your hands can′t touch
Thinking you’re incomplete

(Enough)
It was,
Never enough that I gave to you
All of the horror that you′ve put me through
(Never enough)
How can I make up my mind this time?
This is where I will draw the line

Everlasting need
Would you please?
Answer me and
Make me complete

Everlasting greed
Would you please?
Set me free
Fulfill all my needs and make complete

(Enough)
It was,
Never enough that I gave to you
All of the horror that you′ve put me through
(Never enough)
How can I make up my mind this time?
This is where I will draw the line

Never again will I be with you
No promise eternal carrying us through
I finally made up my mind this time
This is the end, I′ve drawn the line
Never enough to devour your greed

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:22

Epica - Burn To A Cinder

Deep in the night, boundless violence will seethe with the danger
Our laws collide not allowing another contender
When the wine drinks itself, you will burn to a cinder
We′re fighting time awaiting the answers

I′ll never let them stake you down
Take you down
I′ll fight to find a way

Is there a way to turn the mind of a barbaric stranger?
Eternal days awaiting for you to awake, my avenger
A cruel fate now condemns us to burn to a cinder
Are we too late, running on empty?

I′ll never let them stake you down
Take you down
I′ll fight to find a way out there
It must be hard
I′ll never let them break you now
Forsake you now
Keep holding on and

Give me answers to my prayers
We′ll never hide, we′ll face the glare
You′re the light I see to, raise the flame and blaze the fire
Give me answer to my prayers
We′ll carry all the weights to bear
Give me sight to see
I know a way is there to keep the flame

Why can′t I bleed with you?
Forever I will be thrown to the wolves
They′ll feed on all our dreams

I′ll never let them stake you down
Take you down
I′ll fight to find a way out there
It must be hard
I′ll never let them break you now
Forsake you now
Keep holding on and

Give me answers to my prayers
We′ll never hide, we′ll face the glare
You′re the light I see to, raise the flame and blaze the fire
Give me answer to my prayers
We′ll carry all the weights to bear
Give me sight to see
I know a way is there to keep the flame

Why can′t I bleed with you?
Forever I will be thrown to the wolves
They′ll feed on all our dreams.

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:21

Epica - Sancta Terra

A place which I have searched a thousand times
To finally free myself
Forever wasn′t ever long enough
I will refrain

I feel a passion washing over me
To shed the skin I′m in
This evolution will empower me
Now truth begins

And you will not find me
I am safe in here
I′m where I want to be

It′s a place where a wish will be granted
Come, you′ll see I′m right
It′s a force that will live on within you
Dark as day is light
It′s a place where your dreams will be slanted
And will always be
It′s a force that was sent out to win you
Just you wait and see

Take one step closer to the borderline
Where night and day unite
This mortal coil I′ve gone and left behind
On holy soil

And you will not find me
I am safe in here
I′m where I want to be

It′s a place where a wish will be granted
Come, you′ll see I′m right
It′s a force that will live on within you
Dark as day is light
It′s a place where your dreams will be slanted
And will always be
It′s a force that was sent out to win you
Just you wait and see

You will not find me
I am safe in here
I am where I want to be
So leave me now in peace

And you will not find me
I am safe in here
I′m where I want to be

It′s a place where a wish will be granted
Come, you′ll see I′m right
It′s a force that will live on within you
Dark as day is light
It′s a place where your dreams will be slanted
And will always be
It′s a force that was sent out to win you
Just you wait and see

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:21

Epica - Feint

The very brightest candle of all has been extinguished
Smothered by those who could not bear to face reality

Every beat of your heart tore the lies all apart
Made foundations quiver
Every wave in the lake caused the porcelain to break
And I shiver...

The leftover tallow just doesn’t contain
All the right answers
Under a sea of dust lies a vast wealth of wisdom

An untouched snow turns red
Innocence dies...

This black page in history is not colourfast,
will stain the next
All that remains is just a feint of what was meant to be
This black page in history is not colourfast,
will stain the next
And nothing seems in life,
in dreams like what was meant to be


Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:21

Epica - Our Destiny

So many days we′ve spent together
Trying to get ahead with our dreams
Now we have come to the goal forgotten
Hurting within left us torn

The road is open
We find out way through ties where broken
So the means to the end
Was the peace that was meant
To be ours since it all began

We fight to win

I won′t give up, we′ll fight to win
To move along from where we′d been
I′ll sing this song for you again
I′m looking up around the bend
We′re so much stronger than before
Our fraying edges on the mend

Life as we know would be so different
Had our paths continued the same
Seizing the day with all that′s offered
The good and the bad,
The clear and the haze

To move along from where we′d been
I′ll sing this song for you again
I′m looking up around the bend
We′re so much stronger than before
Our fraying edges on the mend

Don′t let go

So hard to face what we′ve done wrong
We shared a life that can′t be
We cannot hide from destiny
So hard to face what had gone wrong
We′ve got to make this work
And give it our all

Give our all and won′t let go
Waiting so long for an answer
We′ve been waiting oh, so very long and
Now we′re ready to accept our fate

Our melodies will be remembered
forever and ever
Our memories will fade away
when the leaves have reached the soil

I won′t give up this fight
The sacrifices made
We gave our all
And won′t let it go to die in vain

I′ll sing this song again
We′re stronger than before
We have the chance of lifetime
We′ll never close this door

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:20

Epica - Memory

Midnight, not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost her memory?
She is smiling alone
In the lamplight
The withered leaves collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan

Memory, all alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
Life was beautiful then
I remember
The time I knew what happiness is
Let the memory live again

Every street lamp
Seems to beat
A fatalistic warning
Someone mutters
And a street lamp gutters
And soon it will be morning

I must think of a new life
And I mustn′t give in
When the dawn comes
Tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin

Burnt out ends of smokey days
The stale cold smell of morning
The street lamp dies
Another night is over
Another day is dawning

Touch me, it′s so easy to leave me
All alone with my memory
Of my days in the sun
If you touch me
You′ll understand what happiness is
Look a new day has begun...

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:20

Epica - The Obsessive Devotion

Don’t you ever blind me
Don’t be a foolish thief
-Am I?
Don’t you ever bring yourself to grief

Don’t you ever blind me
Don’t ever trick my mind
-Did

I?
Don’t you think that you can lie to me
-Did I lie?

Fortuna exprimitur artibus falsis
Et mendacem memorem esse oportet

If he is your moon, I will be your earth
To which you can return, safely or injured.

I feel only misery for myself when I
Look through the eyes of someone else

Don’t you choke and bind me
Don’t be a bleeding heart
-Am I?
Fold then walk away or play your cards
-Let us play!

Fortuna exprimitur artibus falsis
Et mendacem memorem esse oportet

If he is your moon, I will be your earth
To which you can return, safely or injured.

I feel only misery for myself when I
Look through the eyes of someone else
I can′t even recognize the path which has to be
Taken to enter infinity.

-Don′t you dare me
I dare you
-You don′t care about me
I care about you
-Don’t you touch me
-Liar

Fortuna exprimitur artibus falsis
Et mendacem memorem esse oportet

Adoratio permanebit
Quotiens me eges, adero

I prefer to be unhappy with you,
rather than being depressed without you.
I belong to someone, I′m dedicated to
Nothing lasts forever but you, you do…

I prefer to be a lair just like you
To fulfill my deepest desires
I belong to someone, I′m dedicated to
But all that I desire is you

One thoughtless moment passes in slow motion
As I lie down, I realise that…
All I wish is to get rid of this Obsessive Devotion

Venia ad vitam aeternam
Non mibi, non tibi, sed nobis

Hit me as you can
Beat me as you wish
Liar

Fortuna mutual coniuncti
Per tota saecula futura

I have raised myself for you
But now I regret

Venia ad vitam aeternam

This is the end

Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:19

Epica - Cry for the Moon

Follow your common sense
You cannot hide yourself
behind a fairytale forever and ever
Only by revealing the whole truth can we disclose
The soul of this bulwark forever and ever
Forever and ever

Indoctrinated minds so very often
Contain sick thoughts
And commit most of the evil they preach against

Don’t try to convince me with messages from God
You accuse us of sins committed by yourselves
It’s easy to condemn without looking in the mirror
Behind the scenes opens reality

Eternal silence cries out for justice
Forgiveness is not for sale
Nor is the will to forget

Virginity has been stolen at very young ages
And the extinguisher loses it’s immunity
Morbid abuse of power in the garden of eden
Where the apple gets a youthful face

You can’t go on hiding yourself
Behind old fashioned fairytales
And keep washing your hands in innocence


Дата написания: 26 Февраля 2024 09:32:19