Текст песни:

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

@ Epica

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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.

@ Epica

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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

@ Epica

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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

@ Epica

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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


@ Epica

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(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

@ Epica

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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

@ Epica

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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

@ Epica

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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

@ Epica