Epica (NL) : The Classical Conspiracy

Metal Symphonique / Pays-Bas
(2009 - Nuclear Blast)
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DISC 1 - CLASSICAL SET


1. PALLADIUM

(Instrumental)


2. DIES IRAE (VERDI)

Dies irae - Dies illa

Solvet saeclum in favilla
Teste David cum Sybilla
Dies irae - Dies irae - Dies illa
Solvet saeclum in favilla
Dies irae - Dies illa
Solvet saeclum in favilla
Teste David cum Sybilla

Dies irae - Dies irae - Dies illa

Solvet saeclum in favilla
Solvet saeclum in favilla
Teste David cum Sybilla - Sybilla
Dies irae - Dies irae - Dies irae

Quantus tremor est futurus
Quando judex est venturus
Cuncta stricte discussurus


3. OMBRA MAI FU (HANDEL)

(x2)
Ombra mai fù
Di vegetabile
Cara ed amabile
Soave più

Cara ed amabile
Ombra mai fù
Di vegetabile
Cara ed amabile
Soave più
Soave più


4. ADAGIO (DVORAK)

(Instrumental)


5. SPIDER-MAN MEDLEY

(Instrumental)


6. PRESTO (VIVALDI)

(Instrumental)


7. MONTAGUES AND CAPULETS (PROKOFIEV)

(Instrumental)


8. THE IMPERIAL MARCH (J. WILLIAMS)

(Instrumental)


9. STABAT MATER DOLOROSA (PERGOLESI)

Stabat mater dolorosa
Juxta Crucem lacrimosa
Dum pendebat Filius ...


10. UNHOLY TRINITY

(Instrumental)


11. IN THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING (GRIEG)

(Instrumental)


12. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN MEDLEY

(Instrumental)


13. INDIGO

Quaestio nostra est aeterna
Ultima requies fons vitae
Sed nos eam novam existimemus


14. THE LAST CRUSADE

(x2)
Magna culpa nostra
Poena danda nobis
Usque ad finem erit dierum

Ad finem temporum

You can't force yourself upon me
And you never will
You can't keep digging in
Desecrated graves
No more innocence left to spill

[Chorus]
Don't be afraid - Participate and
Just give us all your trust
Your soul will be saved
Just honour me - I'll set you free so
Get ready to join the
Very last crusade

Ad finem temporum

You can't get away with your crimes
And you never will
For you'll have to pay the price
And the time is near
No more innocence left to kill

[Chorus]

Magna culpa nostra
Poena danda nobis
Usque ad finem erit dierum
Ad finem temporum

[Chorus] (x2)

Get ready to taste the
Final victory

Ad finem temporum


15. 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 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]


16. 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]


17. 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

[Chorus]
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

[Chorus]

Poison is slowly seeping through my veins
Stealing the only dignity in me
I pick them up and let them fall
To cause you pain and hit them all
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 wreaking havoc in my brain
Plays my emotion - A never ending game

[Chorus]

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 us 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


18. FEINT

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


DISC 2 - EPICA SET


1. 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?

[Pre-Chorus]
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

[Chorus]
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

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus]

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 me complete?

[Chorus]

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


2. 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

[Chorus]
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 and 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?

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
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

[Chorus] (x2)

[Bridge]


3. 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


4. SAFEGUARD TO PARADISE

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

[Chorus]
It's the truth between his cunning lies
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

[Chorus]

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 for all 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


5. BLANK INFINITY

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

[Pre-Chorus]
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 the storm - Wait for the rain
Wait for the tears to fall down on me

[Pre-Chorus]

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 this labyrinth without end?
Labyrinth has no end
Which turn should I take?
Left or right?
Should I stay?
Should I be the one?

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
This substance in time forced into life
But still exists because it's here
Living in me - Living in all the memories - In my life

Lost inside blank infinity


6. 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

[Chorus]
Hope is a desert running dry
Deep inside
You refuse to face the facts
But pray for life
Find salvation 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 it's the end all and be all there's

[Chorus]

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

[Chorus]

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


7. 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


8. 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

[Pre-Chorus]
And you will not find me
I am safe in here
I'm where I want to be

[Chorus]
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

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus]

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

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus] (x2)


9. 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


10. 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

[Chorus]
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

[Verse]
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 minds
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

[Chorus]

[Verse]

We just flee into a dream that never comes true

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

Oblivisci tempta quod didicisti

[Bridge]
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 to be
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

[Bridge]

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

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

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