Epica - The Quantum Enigma lyrics
Tracks 01. Originem
02. The Second Stone 03. The Essence Of Silence 04. Victims Of Contingency 05. Sense Without Sanity - The Impervious Code 06. Unchain Utopia 07. The Fifth Guardian (interlude) 08. Chemical Insomnia 09. Reverence - Living In The Heart 10. Omen - The Ghoulish Malady 11. Canvas Of Life 12. Natural Corruption 13. The Quantum Enigma - Kingdom Of Heaven Part II 14. In All Conscience 15. Dreamscape 16. Mirage Of Verity 17. Banish Your Illusion 23. Originem 24. The Second Stone 25. The Essence Of Silence 26. Victims Of Contingency 27. Sense Without Sanity 28. Unchain Utopia 29. The Fifth Guardian 30. Chemical Insomnia 31. Reverence 32. Omen 33. Canvas Of Life 34. Natural Corruption 35. The Quantum Enigma 01. Originem Music by Bob Katsionis and Epica Lyrics by Mark Jansen
Nos sumus conjuncti
Fontem nostram quaerentes Originem sciendi Nos pleni vigoris Quo colendo res fiunt Sic naturam fingimus Aenigma solventes Edrediamur Nil, certum est 02. The Second Stone Music by Isaac Delahaye and Epica Lyrics by Simone Simons
O, ne moriar bis
Oro supplex Sometimes I feel like my reason is weakinning My inner clock's forcing time stand till I'm breaching borders between life and sanity That's when it all starts to shatter in front of me Liberate me Why don't you liberate me? Sometimes I feel I'm betraying my memory This time it seems that I'm losing the fight Finding it hard to be consciously part of life That's when awareness and dreams start to separate Reunite me It's time to reunite me As time goes by I hide the truth Cannot stand myself with a broken shell As time goes by I try to choose Don't know where to roam in this private hell Give me relief Let me believe between sweet fiction and reality My train thoughts got lost somewhere along the way I'm chasing shadows that cross on my path Repeating visions that dance faster than my mind Can't stop the rain casting shadows on my parade Can't defeat me I will not bot to defeat As time goes by I hide the truth Cannot stand myself with a broken shell As time goes by I try to choose Don't know where to roam in this private hell Give me relief Let me believe between sweet fiction and reality My train thoughts got lost somewhere along the way I'm chasing shadows that cross on my path Repeating visions that dance faster than my mind Can't stop the rain casting shadows on my parade Ne moriar bis Another life, anothe mind close to insanity Another road, a cryptic code the second stone All the is left is a cross that's mine to bear A cruse with no ending drenched in anxiety O, ne discedam bis Oro supplex As time goes by I hide the truth Cannot stand myself with a broken shell Give me relief Let me believe between sweet fiction and reality As time goes by I try to choose Don't know where to roam in this private hell Give me relief Let me believe between sweet fiction and reality Ne moriar bis 03. The Essence Of Silence Music by Ariën Van Weesenbeek and Epica Lyrics by Mark Jansen
Something is wrong
My strength has gone Thoughts are corrupting my mind I can see I perceive This ain't me Something so strong My mood has swung I can't get it out of my head I believe That my mind misleads me (We confuse) Is it a doubt you try to hide (Tangle and abuse) Just have an open look inside (We appear) It's just a dreary memory stuck in your mind (Memory stuck in your mind) Retrieve your balance Use your senses to observe (The essence of silence) Search for your essence Find the silence within you (The essence is...) You're searching And bursting There seems to be no cure When tension endures Delusions corrupting my mind I can see I perceive This ain't me There seems to be no way When light fades to grey To get them all out of my head I believe That my mind misleads me (We confuse) Is it a doubt you try to hide (Tangle and abuse) Just have an open look inside (We appear) It's just a dreary memory stuck in your mind (Memory stuck in your mind) Retrieve your balance Use your senses to observe (The essence of silence) Search for your essence Find the silence within you (The essence is...) Make a start Explore your heart When a persistent memory Penetrates deep in your mind Allow the silence to destroy Your thoughts in every kind (We confuse) Is it a doubt you try to hide (Tangle and abuse) Just have an open look inside (We appear) It's just a dreary memory stuck in your mind (Memory stuck in your mind) Retrieve your balance Use your senses to observe (The essence of silence) Allow the silence to wipe your thoughts away Retrieve your balance Use your senses to observe (The essence of silence) Search for your essence Find the silence within you (The essence is...) In silence 04. Victims Of Contingency Music by Mark Jansen and Epica Lyrics by Mark Jansen
Your words are meaningless, as pain fills the void
Hollow words won't hurt no longer You will regret every life you've destroyed Bleaming the whole world will mever make you stronger Be prepeared for the righteous self If you blame all your fialures on someone else Without any remorse Without your remorse If you don't face the weakness of your own self You will take the same course You'll take the same course Your deeds are reasonless, you adore yourself Empty deeds impress no longer You will regret everyone you've envied Blaming it on life will never make you stronger Be prepared for the confrontation If you blame all your fialures on someone else Without any remorse Without your remorse If you don't face the weakness of your own self You will take the same course You'll take the same course If you blame all your failures on someone else You avoid every chance You've lost your last chance To learn from yourself If you blame all your failures on someone else Without any remorse Without your remorse If you don't face the weakness of your own self You will take the same course You'll take the same course We can't blame all our failures on someone else For our own protection So much to protect We can't learn from decisions in our own lives Without self-reflection We will never flee from congingency We will never flee from contingency 05. Sense Without Sanity - The Impervious Code Music by Mark Jansen and Epica Lyrics by Mark Jansen
See through the veil
Our perspective on life Defines everything we reach Most of us will aim for All the certainties Beyond the veil Our perspective on death Can manifest in many ways Some of us stay fearful Til the end of days As we believe in what we see We all assume that this is real Our experience will just hamper us Sense without your sanity We've tried to conceive and intertwine circles Circles of your life Our knowledge will only hinder us Sense without your sanity We've tried to conceive and interweave the cycles of life Cycles of your life Death will ease us See through the veil Our perspective on birth Defines how we honor life An esthetic wonder Blessed with splendid eyes As we believe in what we see We all assume that this is real Sense without your sanity Perceive a new reality Your heart is guiding you into Blessedness, we will pull through The longer you wait for the future the shorter it will be We're searching for the origin Dig deeper, where we've never been Carry the light, we should cherish the night The questions that we cannot solve We don't know how we should evolve Carry the light, we should cherish the night Bring us all to new heights Our feelings are ready to warm us, to finally heat us up Our mind will betray us and leave us in coldness, undefined Our vision of life says what we will experience Our vision of death defines what we will see Beyond the veil Our persperctive on life Defines everything we see As we all could aim for A sense of unity Se through the veil Our perspective on death Defines how we spend our days Everyone interprets Things in different ways As we believe in what we see We all assume that this is real Sense without your sanity Perceive a new reality Your heart is guiding you into Blessedness, we will pull through Sense without your sanity A changed mentality Perceive a new reality Don not sppress Your heart is guiding you into Moments of pure blessedness 06. Unchain Utopia Music by Isaac Delahaye and Epica Lyrics by Simone Simons
We're in a time where all enterprises fall
We should beware of the wolves that haunt us They are not all the same, cannot take the blame Await the time to unchain utopia Am I the only one who sees the troubled lines? Reading illusive writings on the mirror Is there a way that we can all erase mistakes and start anew? Don't mislead us and stop stabbing with blunt knives Liberty unchained We're in a time where all enterprises fall We should beware of the wolves that haunt us They are not all the same, cannot take the blame Await the time to unchain utopia What is a reason to wreck hopes and all our dreams? You're leaving endless riddles for the masses Does it make sense to mend the cracks that you hide behind our backs? It's afflicted by a virus of the brain Liberty unchained Recite the insane We're in a time where all enterprises fall We should beware of the wolves that haunt us They are not all the same, cannot take the blame We should beware of the lives that are at stake Before it's all too late Can we believe it all? Should we all take the fall? Our backs against the wall United we stand tall Why should we all believe you? Carry your own burden We won't succumb to Your delusion now We're in a time where all enterprises fall We should beware of the wolves that haunt us They are not all the same, cannot take the blame Await the time to unchain utopia Why should we all believe you? Carry your own burden We won't succumb to Your deceiving games Conquer the insane United we stand tall Time to free ourselves once more from the ball and chain 07. The Fifth Guardian (interlude) Music by Isaac Delahaye
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08. Chemical Insomnia Music by Isaac Delahaye and Epica Lyrics by Simone Simons
Everlasting nights leave all views behind
Limits will become less clear and A misty memory played out in a dream This endeavor is causing fear That's why I can't explain This is stabbing pain Come undone in nightly rhyming It's time for me to roll the dice Absent sanctity is shifting gravity Addiction's growing faster, making you go insane Ivory fangs are smiling, you'll have to break the habit Imprisonment's appraoching, catching the savages The mirror's magic showing chemical insomnia Don't give in to all of this Dive into ecstatic bliss Tame the lion that's hiding the need to be free Waking sunset finds, making restless minds Wistful moments need enclosure A new hysteria is fading gravity Which is slowly taking over That's why I can't unwind All thoughts aligned Floating on rivers that are drying I fear the beast is rising high Your intuition's fading, a thumping sound impedes The daybreak is awaking chemical insomnia Don't give in to all of this Dive into ecstatic bliss Don't you believe what the sands of time see Tame the lion that's hiding the need to be free And the monsters that consume your energy Your barbaric puppets live between the cracks of lies from hate revived Silver secrets shining through the night An enslaved fool in search of burning light from medicine contrived Golden treasures turning off the lights Forbidden fruit tastes better when it can numb the bran The outcome of the future is looking quite insane White bricks and darkened stones are building the fundament The silence's calling out for chemical insomnia Don't give in to all of this Dive into ecstatic bliss Tame the lion that's hiding the need to be free And you should not believe what the sands of time see Free the lion that's hiding your identity Fight the monsters that consume your entity 09. Reverence - Living In The Heart Music by Ariën Van Weesenbeek and Epica Lyrics by Mark Jansen
An overactive mind where a thousand thoughts come floating by
Will not be able to slow down at time Don't be afraid, live in the now, enjoy simplicity Avoid incentives that will make you blind Don't let it bur you down Live in the heart Experience the now To really know yourself, ignore your mind and find yourself again Life is always challenging To really find yourself, you can't be blind to signals you obtain and gain Thoughts are slowly changing here Here in the now if you identify with your own heart Will change your views and make you feel at home You're not your thoughts, observe how the can be duplicity Don't follow those that make you drift away Don't let them pull you down Live in the heart Experience the now To really know yourself, ignore your mind and find yourself again Life is always challenging To really find yourself, ignore your mind and find yourself again Life is always challenging To really find yourself, you can't be blind to signals you obtain and gain Thoughts are slowly changing Reward yourself To really know yourself, ignore your mind and find yourself again Life is always challenging To really find yourself, you can't be blind to signals you obtain and gain Thoughts are slowly chaging To really know yourself, ignore your mind and find yourself Life is always challenging To really know yourself, you can't be blind to signs you gain Thoughts are always ranging now 10. Omen - The Ghoulish Malady Music by Mark Jansen and Epica Lyrics by Mark Jansen
This omen
Deceive us Misfortune unites us all When it seems like the world is shattering Remember that you set your course When it feels like no one is answering Revert to your deep inner force As the bell begins to chime Together we'll be strong To defy all that can't bring us down United standing strong You will not fight alone This omen Deceive us Misfortune unites us all When it seems like you're always giving in Make sure that you take back control When you can't stand the world we're living in Remember that you're not alone As your words are carved in stone Together we'll be strong To defy all that can't bring us down United standing strong You will not fight alone Don't drown in a sea full of sorrow and pain United standing strong, here is where you belong Your angels will whisper Nothing is what it seems to be Search with your heart and you'll find the key You'll see Together we'll be strong To defy all that can't bring us down United standing strong You will not fight alone Don't drown in a sea full of sorrow and pain United stanting strong, here is where you belong This omen Deceive us Misfortune unites us all Disaster Nothing can bring us down Can't beat us Together we stand strong Misfortune You will not fight alone Can't bring us down As one we'll overcome It unites us all in life All misery we face in life 11. Canvas Of Life Music by Coen Janssen and Epica Lyrics by Simone Simons
A thousand signs declined
That traveled through light Translate this mystery That covered my eyes Accept approaching fear And courage appears Death is a certainty It's growing near Letting go is fateful uniting broken rhymes That visions divide Painting my memories That colored my life Somewhere safe and sheltered Saved forever Stuck in the light of day Waiting for answers A seed that grew into branches Another page has turned, ended a letter Come on home and return to the canvas of life Shapes and boundaries Will not disappear Detangle the misery And enter new spheres Facing right and wrong While waiting for life Can't change this destiny The curtain's blose by While your leaves descended Earth starts to unfold Stuck in the light of day Waiting for answers A seed that grew into branches Another page has turned, ended a letter Come on home and return to the canvas of life You're falling down While my fortune's alive We're safe and sound on the ground Time to found new memories The stains come alive where the paint has gone dry You float above looking down reaching out to me Depicting a beautiful scene that shapes divinity Stuck in the light of day Waiting for answers A seed that grew into branches Another page has turned, ended a letter I'll come on home I'm in the light of day Questions were answered A new life's arms are extending The final page has turned, sending the letter Come on home And I'll sing you the song has painted your canvas of life 12. Natural Corruption Music by Isaac Delahaye and Epica Lyrics by Simone Simons
Natural corruption
Another day passed by in ruined paradise Another night will pass until we're sheltered We're aiming for a life that won't be compromised And when we say goodbye it's devastating Now that we have finally realized Realized, petrified That profit's made from innocent demise Profit's made from tragic demise Another day goes by where money won't suffice A massive gift was meant as contribution Our conscience comes to aid that ends up in wrong hands And once the truth's revealed, intent is fading Now that we have come to realize Realized, sanctified Our hearts subdued by all those thousand cries Hearts subdued by all those fierce cries In moments of deadly gloom Young lives ended way too soon The facts that are all untrue Spread lies that wew not thought through Fight off the catastrophes Find true inned sanctity In modern society Welfare is stained, time to come clean again Feast on sheer agone Lean on generosity Pay in full, it all will vanish without care Grant us higher proceeds We'll ease your mind, guaranteed We should all be reaching out to the despaired Natural corruption Charity Can you believe it How nature's left its trace Could we foresee it What skies erased We all are trying We all are dying in nature's arms... In moment of deadly gloom Youg lives ended way too soon The facts that are all untrue Spread lies that were not thought through Fight off the catastrophes Find true inner sanctity In modern society Nothing to hide, lives to obtain Welfare is stained, time to come clean again 13. The Quantum Enigma - Kingdom Of Heaven Part II Music by Mark Jansen and Epica Lyrics by Mark Jansen
Visum commutamus
Nihil certum Qui observat, visi pars est The quantum enigma All your laws and the assumptions Leave them all behind There's no grounds for them right here where time can't go If we can't move on and keep all leaning on the past We will regret We can't get what we wish for New perspective keep us inspired The quantum enigma All shadows and illusions We tend to believe Are creations of our own deceiving mind If we can't let go and keep chasing satisfyin needs We will not get How to forget our sapience New perceptions keep us inspired Ingenuity is required When we will look around and see We will affect the energy When we observe by any means We will create reality We will not find if we don't seek We will not know if we don't peek We cannot do if we don't be Facing our deadlock now This is our quantum enigma We'll ignite the fire That burns under the rain All that we desire Is to find our source again The meaning of life All dreamscapes and inventions We tend to believe Are creations of our own deceiving mind If we can't let go and keep chasing satisfying needs We will forget How to retrieve true wisdom New perceptions keep us inspired Ingenuity is required The quantum enigma when will look around and see We will affect the energy When we observe by any means We will create reality We will not find if we don't seek We will not know if we don't peek We cannot do if we don't be Facing our deadlock now This is our quantum enigma Without a voice the soul is invisible in time and space Omne est vigor Sentimus eum Sicit concretum Vigor concrescit Observatione Vita est mare Infinitarum facultatum Si quae emergant opperiens Quod inspicimus Adipiscemur Each new discovery That we acclaim Brings us much closer To reach our aim So we will finally see All of the universe Exists by being observed Expanding every day As we reach further Let's take this chance to carry on We will unravel mysteries And take the challenge as it comes We will exceed our boundaries Let's use this chance to end this strife Obliterate anomalies Reveal the myths surrounding life We will decipher secrecies New perceptions keep us inspired Ingenuity is required The quantum enigma When we will look around and see We will affect the energy When we observe by any means We will create reality We will not find if we don't seek We will not know if we don't peek We cannot do if we don't be Facing our deadlock now This is our quantum enigma We cannot find if we do not seek With our confined capacity Reveal all mysteries Quantum enigma 14. In All Conscience
Allow me to write my final words
I can't stand this anymore Hold me when the time has come Cause I don't want to be alone In my heart you're still here, it's the bond that we share I can feel you're around everywhere Even though you are gone our spirit is strong We're honoring all the work that you've done When there's no chance for our defense I'll have to bend and give it all All that I've been standing for Was an illusion after all In my heart you're still here, it's the bond that we share I can feel you're around everywhere Even though you are gone our spirit is strong We're honoring all the work that you've done I'll see you somewhere again Away from all the insanity We can't beat injustice now and for all I'll see you somewhere again Away from humanity We can't beat unfairness now all alone Even though you are gone our spirit is strong I felt you all around alone In my heart you're still here, it's the wound that we share I can feel you're around everywhere Even though you are gone our spirit is strong We're honoring all the work that you've done I'll see you somewhere again Away from all the insanity We can't beat injustice now and for all I'll see you somewhere again Away from humanity We can't beat unfairness now all alone 15. Dreamscape Music by Rob van der Loo and Epica Lyrics by Simone Simons
Trying define eternity
No beginning and no end A world upside down Countless clouds on the ground I'm my feeling, my love, my imagination And for tricks of light Clouds painting colorful dimensions If we could roll through fantasies No more dusk and no more doubt Every little gray of sand shapes the endless land We are showing limited less reflections And for tricks of light Clouds painting blue dimensions You can make our times less still Come and bring the sky Flying with wings of true emotions And this time again it won't be the same Silent symphony playing eternity Every step I take every upon a break Every memory share a symphony And for tricks of light Clouds painting blue dimensions You can make our times less still Come and bring the sky Flying with wings of true emotions 16. Mirage Of Verity
Hate me as I am
For what I stand for and achieve Hate me as I am For all the lies that you believe Break the spell Defeat the silence We can't lose ourselves in reticence Can't feel my heart Can't feel my soul All I have done has been controlled It's time to break free Can't live my life Like this no more All I have done has been ignored It's time to break free Hate me as I am For all the wounds that I can't heal Bring me down to justice For the truth that I've revealed Break the spell Defeat the silence We can't lose ourselves in retinence Can't feel my heart Can't feel my soul All I have done has been controlled It's time to break free Can't live my life Like this no more All I have done has been ignored It's time to break free We cannot free ourselves As long as The truth won't get a chance To break through pseudo-omniniscence Can't feel my heart no more Can't feel my soul All I have ever done was mind controlled Break out, be free Can't live my life this way I can't, no more All I have ever done has been ignored Break out, be free Can't feel my heart Can't feel my soul All I have done has been controlled It's time to break free Can't live my life Like this no more All I have done has been ignored It's time to break free 17. Banish Your Illusion Music by Mark Jansen and Epica Lyrics by Mark Jansen
When all hope is gone
Our world will fall to pieces Visions are defeated and beaten All our dreams will come to an end Cannot pretend Another chance for this dominion A rose reborn through new opinions Show progress with firm deeds Fulfill our wishes and needs A sovereign came forth from ashes A savior who would lead the masses Entrance us with wise words And shine your light upon us Show progress with firm deeds Grant us our wishes Can you save us now our world will end Crave us now 'cause no one's daring Liberate the promised land The tables will be turning The time has come to free ourselves Can't you banish your illusion now? Another chance, a prophecy told A bliss arose, the sound of new hope Entrance us with wise words And shine your light upon us Show progress with firm deeds Grant us our wishes Can you save us now our world will end Crave us now 'cause no one's daring Liberate the promised land The tables will be turning The time has come to free ourselves Won't you banish your illusion now? When all hope is gone Our world will fall to pieces Visions are defeated and beaten All our dreams will come to an end Cannoy pretend Dropped in a field of enemies Fear won't get another chance Can you sense how provoked sly snake conspire? Beware of the stab Your back will be the target This fierce retribution won't expire Be prepared! Can you save us now our world will end Crave us now 'cause no one's daring Liberate our promised land The tables will be turning Save us now there won't be peace Waive your hope 'cause no one's caring Sail away across the seas The promise will be bruning The time has come to face the facts We're on the edge of a relapse Will you banish your illusion now? When all hope is gone Our world will fall to pieces Visions are defeated and beaten All our dreams will come to an end Emancipate all of this reprobate land 23. Originem
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24. The Second Stone
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25. The Essence Of Silence
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26. Victims Of Contingency
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27. Sense Without Sanity
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28. Unchain Utopia
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29. The Fifth Guardian
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30. Chemical Insomnia
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31. Reverence
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32. Omen
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33. Canvas Of Life
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34. Natural Corruption
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35. The Quantum Enigma
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