Epica

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1. Another Me "In Lack'ech"
2. Blank Infinity
3. Consign To Oblivion
4. Cry For The Moon
5. Dance Of Fate
6. Façade Of Reality
7. Feint
8. Force Of The Shore
9. Illusive Consensus
10. Mother Of Light
11. Never Enough
12. Quietus
13. Run For A Fall
14. Seif Al Din
15. Sensorium
16. Solitary Ground
17. The Last Crusade
18. The Phantom Agony
19. Trois Vierges
20. Venality

Another Me "In Lack'ech"


If you search for enrichment
And injure others
Earning more than you can spend
You’ll pass the borders

When you think you’ve succeeded
But something’s missing
Means you have been defeated
By greed, your weakness

This fantasy is not enough for me
I want it, I’ll take it away from you
Your misery that softly incites me
All I do is using, abusing you

Life is often miserable
In the search for happiness
The power so desirable
They bring so much distress

Life is often pitiful
In the search for blessedness
If we weren’t so insatiable
There would be much more than less

When you think you’ve succeeded
But something’s missing
Means you have been defeated
By greed, your weakness

If you search for enrichment
And injure others
Earning more than you can spend
You’ll pass the borders

I cannot see why you’d be another me

When you think you’ve succeeded
But something’s missing
Means you have been defeated
By greed, your weakness

I just take care of myself and no-one else

This fantasy is not enough for me
I want it, I’ll take it away from you
Your misery that softly incites me
All I do is using, abusing you

Life is often cynical
In the search for hopefulness
We’re only wanting more and more,
So we got into this mess

When you think you’ve succeeded
But something’s missing
Means you have been defeated
By greed, your weakness

If you search for enrichment
And injure others
Earning more than you can spend
You’ll pass the borders

I cannot see why you’d be another me

When you think you’ve succeeded
But something’s missing
Means you have been defeated
By greed, your weakness

I just take care of myself and no-one else

All that you’ve taken from others
Will be taken from you
All that your dissonance smothers
Will then come back to you
Whatever happens tomorrow, and whatever you do
Just keep in mind, that the source and end is you

When you think you’ve succeeded
But something’s missing
Means you have been defeated
By greed, your weakness

If you search for enrichment
And injure others
Earning more than you can spend
You’ll pass the borders

I cannot see why you’d be another me

When you think you’ve succeeded
But something’s missing
Means you have been defeated
By greed, your weakness

I just take care of myself and no-one else

This fantasy is not enough for me
I want it, I’ll take it away from you
Your misery that softly incites me
All I do is using, abusing you

Never finding fulfilment, the source and end is you

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 heavens 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

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

Do you cry to the heavens 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?

Lost inside blank infinity

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 learned
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 need 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
Fulfill your dreams, life is not what it 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 on 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

Cry For The Moon


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

Dance of Fate


When darkness will reign and blind us all
Allegiance will bind us if we do not fall.

We cannot tell when morning comes
Is there a chance 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 thought without meaning
The fire to burn away my thickened skin

Novas portas pandimus

What is the space, the type of dance?
I cannot tell what steps I have to take
I want 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 its 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

Façade Of Reality


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

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

As untouched snow turns red
Innocence dies

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

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 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 facade 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

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
Capured inside such an austere Elysium

Imperfect feelings, futile greef
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

Primo somniare videbamur
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

Mother of Light


It always put me on the edge,
To think of all the spoilt lives
Today I’m one step further
Not sure if I’ve survived myself

Reality is sometimes stranger than fiction
Whatever happens in my dreams
I know it can’t be worse than this
So I prefer to sleep

I am searching
without vision
For the answers in the dirt

I am waiting
just for nothing
For the day that I’ll be heard

You’re the sea in which I’m floating
And I lose myself in you
I am feeling these sensations
I communicate with you

I am looking
without vision
For a different kind of way

I am thinking
just for nothing
About that specific day

You’re the night so you’re the dark side
Of the day you’ll never see
You’re the past but everlasting
Can you share one day with me?

You’re the hand that I rejected
But I can’t forgive myself
I am selfish and not worthy
To think of, even to die for

Reality is sometimes stranger than fiction
Whatever happens in my dreams
I know it can’t be worse than this
So I prefer to sleep

Tomorrow, don’t know where I’ll be
I need some place to go now
So do you know the way I feel
Or shall I give up my belief?

You’re the lock I’ve never opened
‘Cause I threw away the key

I’m enclosed within my own thoughts
That will never set me free

Youre the hand that I rejected
But I cant forgive myself
I am selfish and not worthy
To think of, even to die for

You’re the question to the answer
And without there’ll never be
Any thought in this direction
You’ve created this in me

Youre the hand that I rejected
But I cant forgive myself
I am selfish and not worthy
To think of, even to die for

Serenity is taking over all I am, it gives me peace
And all I see are visions of my destiny
Why should I bleed and pay for the others’ greed?

We consciously sign our own sentence of death
How can you go on, did you forget
What we have learned from the past?
We can’t go on killing ourselves
And with us all the rest
Why can’t you see, don’t you regret?

Reality is sometimes stranger than fiction
Whatever happens in my dreams
I know it can’t be worse than this
So I prefer to sleep

I am alone with all my thoughts
Alone without a hope and
I lost the thing I needed most
I feel I can’t survive this fall

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 me 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

Quietus


The culprit, you act before thinking
Caught in your ignorant win
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 its 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

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

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

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

Sensorium


Chance doesn’t exist
But the path of life is not totally so predestined and
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

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 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 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

Solitary Ground


Living in different places
Evading into various spaces
My compass has broken, Im 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 where all lay ahead
A fading illusion now plagues me instead

In me theres still a place that fulfills 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 theyve 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 theres still a place that fulfills 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

The Last Crusade


Magna Culpa Nostra
Poena danda nobis eru
Usque ad finem dierum

Ad finem temporum

You cant force yourself upon me
And you never will
You can't keep digging in desecrated graves

No more innocence left to spill

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
Get ready to join the
Very last crusade

You can't get away with your crimes
And you never will
For you'll have to pay the price
And your time is near

No more innocent left to kill

Get ready to taste the
Final Victory

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 person 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 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...

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

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

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

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

Please leave me be in my own misery

Venality


Searching for what she can't find
For her own peace of mind

She can't forgive, nor forget the past
These ineffable feelings and hurt that last evermore

Bewail the truth, the face of fate, and conquer all the past

Don't employ yourself, let the penance begin
You've got to open your heart
to see the confinement

Bewail the truth, the face of fate, and conquer all the past (2x)

These seem so futile, forget this, your freedom
the present state of veniality

Bewail the truth, the face of fate, and conquer all the past (3x)
Search for the right, and then you'll find
your own peace of mind

Do sada su postavljeni sledeci tekstovi:

1. Another Me "In Lack'ech"
2. Blank Infinity
3. Consign To Oblivion
4. Cry For The Moon
5. Dance Of Fate
6. Façade Of Reality
7. Feint
8. Force Of The Shore
9. Illusive Consensus
10. Mother Of Light
11. Never Enough
12. Quietus
13. Run For A Fall
14. Seif Al Din
15. Sensorium
16. Solitary Ground
17. The Last Crusade
18. The Phantom Agony
19. Trois Vierges
20. Venality