Epica (NL) : A Dream to Play in Paris

Symphonic Metal / Netherlands
(2004 - Perfect Symmetry Records)
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1. ADYTA - SENSORIUM

O nate vulnerate
Cito veni ad me

Te amplectar et vulnera tua lingam
Utinam te haberem, mi amor caelestis

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 conscious 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

[Chorus]
Being conscious 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
I'm afraid to be alive without being aware of it

I'm so afraid to - I couldn't stand to
Waste all my energy in things
That do not matter anymore

[Bridge]
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

[Bridge]

Search for the answers that lie beyond

[Chorus]


2. KEYBOARD SOLO - FOLLOW IN THE CRY

Behind your façade hides an indomitable
Lust for power and tyranny
Taking advantage of your pendencies
Fear is the doom - Doom of us all
Instead of exterminating the weed
We allow it to overgrow our function

All means are justified for the "djihad fi sabil Allah"

[Chorus]
I embrace you - Accept my soul
I shall make my life subordinate to you
Live like your rules and laws prescribe
And follow you wherever I go

Follow in the cry

(x2)
Hang this heretic who's indulged in unchaste thoughts
Silence him such as the laws of the vellums prescribe

Pusillanimous massacres the order of the day
On behalf of power-hungry fundamentalists

All means are justified for the "djihad fi sabil Allah"

[Chorus] (x2)

Follow in the cry


3. ILLUSIVE CONSENSUS

So sweet caress - Never long to last
You entered my soul and gave hope to my life
So sweet caress - Never long to last
You left me behind all alone and aghast
Captured inside such an austere Elysium

[Chorus]
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

[Chorus]

Primo somniare videbamur
Deinde veritas se praecipitavit

[Bridge]
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

[Bridge]

Devoted to a body without a soul

Numquam non tibi diffidam


4. FEINT (ACOUSTIC VERSION)

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

[Chorus]
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

As untouched snow turns red
Innocence dies

[Chorus]

This black page in history is not colourfast
Will stain the next
All what 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

[Chorus]

I shiver


5. 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
Deprived of my own innocence - Denied

[Chorus]
The infinity of recurring torment
Your comeuppance
Dwelling in a mind - Mixed up and
Your regret has spread over the sea

Deprived of my own innocence - Denied

[Chorus]


6. SEIF AL DIN

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


7. FACADE OF REALITY

Sanguis meus tibi non iam perbibendus sit

Macula aeternitatis
Numquam detergenda
Quisnam surget et deteget
Imaginem veritatis?

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

[Chorus 1]
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

[Chorus 1] (x2)

This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today

It doesn't matter where we die
It doesn't matter that you cry
We will take you with us

It doesn't matter where we die
It doesn't matter that you cry

Those people who lost their lives on the 11th of September
And those that mourn them
Now is the time for the strength to build that community
Let that be their memorial

A disgrace on the beyond

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

[Chorus 2]
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 Façade of Reality?

[Chorus 2]

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


8. THE PHANTOM AGONY

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?

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

[Chorus]
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 person wandering in my dreams

[Chorus]

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

[Bridge]
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?

[Chorus]

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

[Bridge]

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

A te spiritus noster devoratur et nostra anima capitur

The lucidity of my mind has been revealed 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


9. SOLITARY GROUND (ACOUSTIC VERSION)

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

[Chorus]
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

[Chorus] (x2)

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?


10. CRY FOR THE MOON

[Chorus]
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
Behind the scenes opens reality

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

[Chorus]

Virginity has been stolen at very young ages
And the extinguisher loses its immunity
Morbid abuse of power in the garden of Eden
Where the apple
Where the apple gets a youthful
A youthful face

[Verse]

[Chorus]

Forever and ever

[Verse]

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

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