EPICA LYRICS

1. Samadhi - Prelude

Solve mentem a molestis.
Mentem ad concretum dirige.
Unum e jhanas intra.

[English translation:]

Free your mind of troubles.
Direct your mind to the concrete.
Enter one out of the jhanas.

2. Resign To Surrender - A New Age Dawns - Pt. IV

Can't move an inch
But for the act to
Leave fingerprints.
Freedom farewell!
Look in the lens.
Answer the questions.
Are you a threat?

Nec plus ultra [No further]
After all the grabbing, it's time to bite the dust
Leave behind the breaches of my trust
Cleaning up the mess is up to us

Non plus ultra [No further]
Now that all hands are tied
We're panic stricken
Wealth out of sight
Demolition, the damaged pride

The price of ambition
Nec plus ultra [No further]

The current system leads to profit seeking deeds
Leave behind the traces of our blood
Now the course for change is up to us
Non plus ultra [No further]

Now that all hands are tied,
We're panic stricken,
Wealth out of sight.
Demolition, the damaged pride,
The price of ambition.

Access is now denied
We're panic stricken
Wealth out of sight
Intuition, forgotten guide
The price of suppression

Terre eos vi
Augearis
Perde eos vi
Nobis imperium
[Frighten them with might.
May you be exalted.
Destroy them with might.
Power for us.]

Can't move an inch
But for the act to
Leave fingerprints.
Freedom farewell!
Look in the lens.
Answer the questions.
Will you behave as required?
When we think the end is here
With nearly all faith gone.
There is hope along the way
And there are new age dawns.

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free."
[Goethe]

Nobis victoria.
Non plus ultra
[Victory for us.
No further.]

Now that all hands are tied
We're panic stricken
Wealth out of sight
Demolition, the damaged pride
The Price of Ambition

Access is now denied
We're panic stricken
Wealth out of sight
Intuition, forgotten guide
The price of suppression

Can't move an inch
But for the act to
Leave fingerprints.
Freedom farewell!
Look in the lens.
Answer the questions.
Will you behave as required?

When we think the end is here,
With nearly all faith gone,
There is hope along the way
And there a new age dawns.

When we think the end is here
And our faith will disappear!
When we think (when we think)
The end is here (the end is near)
And our faith will disappear!

Chasing our addictions, we're stunting our growth.
Once we get rid of this ballast, we'll be able to
Restore the balance and distribute our wealth.

3. Unleashed

Declining
All color fading.
Defining
Time coming for me.
Rescinding
My inspiration.
Receding consciousness.

Back in the day, I can recall that
My thoughts were unclouded and sage.
There was no black
Staining the walls of my memories.

Now there's a haze pushing me sideways,
And leaving me nothing to gain,
Taking me back,
Locking me cold in disparity.

Where was I meant to be?
I feel I'm lost in a dream.
Long for the day I can be myself.

When I'm free,
When my sun has set,
Released my soul forever,
I'll have no regret
To be free.
I'll exist again.
No more lost endeavors.
Nothing to contend
When I'm free.

Color declines all that defines me
Is falling away, far behind.
Nothing to keep me with the time,
The here and now.

Where am I meant to be?
I feel I'm lost in a dream,
Yearning again only to be myself.

When I'm free,
When my sun has set,
Released my soul forever,
I'll have no regret
To be free.
I'll exist again.
No more lost endeavors.
Nothing to contend
When I'm free.

- (Cure me, free me, help me, see me
- No more worry, no more losing)

Time is just a concept
- (Save me, near me, help me, hear me.)
And always the first thing to fade.
- (No more heartache, no misery.)
Agony and weakness,
- (Cure me, free me, help me, see me.)
Nothing we can never evade.
- (No more worry, no agony.)

Years are cruel, they break us,
- (Save me, near me, help me, hear me.)
Bringing on decay and despair, (we despair)
- (No more heartache, no despairing.)
Awareness and perception.
- (Cure me, free me, help me, see me.)
Something we can never repair. (No repair)
- (No more worry, no repairing.)

Freedom for me is all I'm really wanting, needing.
Give me power to break out,
I can't hold on for any longer.
My time has come to end it all.

No one to blame,
Fate's only random.
It's nothing we'll ever explain.
So it remains.

Where was I meant to be?
I feel I'm lost in a dream
Long for the day I can be myself...
(Free...)
When will I be unleashed?
It's not the way it should be,
Yearning again only to be myself.

(Unleash my consciousness!)

When I'm free,
When my sun has set,
Released my soul forever,
I'll have no regret
To be free.
I'll exist again.
No more lost endeavors.
Nothing to contend
When I'm free.

4. Martyr Of The Free Word

Speaking interpretation
A conversation can take a sudden turn
And reaching the point of violence
Because your silence left you without a hand to hold

Your past will lead you on to make...

Making a final judgement
Based on your bias will never bring you forward
Terror should never guide you
For even the fearful can take a beating in the end

Suspicion gets you nowhere

Those who denounce a way of life
Will stand alone
Left to atone their social blunders
If you gun down the messenger
You guarantee that he will be made
Into a saint
A martyr of the free word

I will say
I will say what I think
I will do
I will do what I say
When liberty seems out of reach
We'll fight for our freedom of speech

Requiem aeternam dona eis,
Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis
[Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord
And let perpetual light shine upon them.
- From The Roman Rite liturgy]

Missing a simple context
A mental weakness can throw you out of balance
Listen, respect each other
Then you'll discover
It mustn't always end in hate
It's not too late for mercy

Those who denounce a way of life
Will stand alone
Left to atone their social blunders
If you gun down the messenger
You guarantee that he will be made
Into a saint,
A martyr of the free word.

I will say.
I will say what I think.
I will do.
I will do what I say.
When tolerance seems out of sight,
We will fight...
When liberty seems out of reach,
We'll fight for our freedom of speech.

5. Our Destiny

So many days we've spent together
Trying to get ahead with our dreams
Now we have come to the goal forgotten
Hurting within left us torn

The road is open
We find out way through ties where broken
So the means to the end
Was the peace that was meant
To be ours since it all began

We fight to win

I won't give up, we'll fight to win
To move along from where we'd been
I'll sing this song for you again
I'm looking up around the bend
We're so much stronger than before
Our fraying edges on the mend

Life as we know would be so different
Had our paths continued the same
Seizing the day with all that's offered
The good and the bad,
The clear and the haze.

The road is open.
We find out way through ties where broken.
So the means to the end
Was the peace that was meant
To be ours since it all began.

We fight to win.

I won't give up, we'll fight to win
To move along from where we'd been.
I'll sing this song for you again.
I'm looking up around the bend.
We're so much stronger than before,
Our fraying edges on the mend.

To move along from where we'd been
I'll sing this song for you again
I won't give up, we'll fight to win.
We're so much stronger than before,
Our fraying edges on the mend.

Don't let go.
Don't let go.
Don't let go.

So hard to face what we've done wrong.
We shared a life that can't be.
We cannot hide from destiny.
So hard to face what had gone wrong.
We've got to make this work
And give it our all.

Give our all and won't let go.
Waiting so long for the answer.
We've been waiting oh so very long and
Now we're ready to accept our fate.

I won't give up, we'll fight to win
To move along from where we'd been.
I'll sing this song for you again.
I'm looking up around the bend.
We're so much stronger than before,
Our fraying edges on the mend.

- (I won't give up this fight,)
Our melodies
- (The sacrifices made.)
Will be remembered
- (We gave our all)
Forever and ever.
- (And won't let it go to die in vain)

- (I'll sing this song again.)
Our memories
- (We're stronger than before.)
Will fade away
- (We have the chance of lifetime.)
When the leaves have reached the soil.
- (We'll never close this door.)

6. Kingdom Of Heaven - A New Age Dawns - Pt. V

[I. Hold In Derision]

Pioneering, big breakthroughs
Proceeded by the opposition
Hold in derision all that's new
Afraid to lose their own esteem

Scorn shall be directed at the genius
Represses subtle theories of the light
To the questions of life

Quantum physics lead us to
Answers to the great taboos
We create the world around us
God is every living soul

Science, spirituality
Will have to meet along the way and
We need new drifts, another view
Expand our grip on the cryptic soul

Scorn shall be directed at the genius.
Represses subtle theories of the light
To the questions of life.

Quantum physics lead us to
Answers to the great taboos.
We create the world around us.
God is every living soul.

Hope is more than a postponed disappointment.

Non intellegens nil explicas.
Videre nolens nil capies.
Non intellegens nil explicas.
Incognita non vides.
[Lacking understanding, you explain nothing.
Unwilling to see, you will grasp nothing.
Lacking understanding, you excplain nothing.
You do not see the unknown.]

Open your Sahasrara

[II. Children Of The Light]

Light creates us all.
Pride will make us fall.
Life is meaningful.
Life delights us all.

Light creates us all.
Pride divides us all.
Life is meaningful.
The soul survives us all.

Misled by science.
Our wake up call.
Conditioning cannot fool us 'till the end.

Light creates us all.
Pride will make us fall.
Life is meaningful.
Life delights us all.

Light creates us all.
Pride divides us all.
Life is meaningful.
The soul survives us all.

[III. Bardo Thödol]

Guide us safety through the gates of death

[IV. Paragons Of Perfection]

Nothing here will be the same
I'll see the world through different eyes and
I was given clarity
And the wisdom I can't deny

All that we can ever see
Until we leave this frail existence
Is just a shadow of reality
Death is not the final instance

It's not your time
You have to go back... back!
Now!

No, no, I don't want to return,
Please let me stay here, don't make me go back

Go back, you've got work to do

We're not alone, we are all one.

Nothing here will be the same
The smallest bit is as big as nature
Our limited capacities
Gives us trouble to comprehend

We are linked in every way
And we're strong as our weakest fragment
Every word that we convey
Is an act with consequences

[V. The Harsh Return]

Misled by science.
Our wake up call.
Conditioning cannot
Fool us 'till the end.

Light creates us all.
Pride will make us fall.
Life is meaningful.
Life delights us all.

Light creates us all.
Pride divides us all.
Life is meaningful.
The soul survives us all.

Greed will make us fall.
Light will bind us all.

Greed will make us fall
Light will bind us all

7. The Price Of Freedom - Interlude

[Instrumental]

[Malcolm X Speech:]
"No negro leaders have fought for civil rights;
They paid for civil rights.
They have begged the white man for civil rights.
They have begged the white man for freedom,
And any time you beg another man to set you free,
You will never be free.
Freedom is something you have to do for yourselves,
And until the american negro lets the white man know
That we are really, really ready and willing to pay the
Price that is destined for freedom,
Our people will always be walking around as second
Class citizens or what you call twentieth century slaves.
What price are you talking about sir?
The price of freedom is death."

8. Burn To A Cinder

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

I'll never let them stake you down
I'll fight to find a way out there
It must be hard
I'll never let them break 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.

9. Tides Of Time

You were always there to hold my hand
When times were hard to understand
But now the tides of time have turned
They keep changing

Seasons range, but you remain the same
A steady heart, a sun to rain
You'll be the light that's shining bright
High above me

Autumn gold losing hold
We are leaves meant to fall
There's a meaning to all that fades

Freezing winds were stayed by warming words
To touch your healing to the hurt
I'll treasure every lesson learned to the embers

Fire fails, blushes pale
We will answer the call
There's a meaning to all our

Seeds of eulogy to sow along with dreams
Fill the need that can leave us grieving alone

Frail is our beauty in the end
But all we count is sentiment

A memory stays to guide the way, and whisper
Don't lose sight, don't deny
We are leaves meant to fall
There's a meaning to all our

Seeds of eulogy to sow along with dreams
Fills the need that can leave us grieving alone
A symphony resounding in our minds
Guides us through what we knew would come all a long

Sometimes I feel I don't have the words
Sometimes I feel I'm not being heard
And then I fear I'm feeling nothing more

Sometimes I feel I don't want this change
I think we all have to rearrange
And now I feel there's no one losing more

Seeds of eulogy to sow along with dreams
Fill the need that can leave us grieving alone
A symphony resounding in our minds
Guides us through
(As you hear me)
As you do,
(As you need me)

Making true

What we knew would come all along

10. Deconstruct

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.

(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.

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.

We are caught up
- If we ever (Don't force me to believe.)
In our failure.
- We would never (I'm never needing anyone.)
Now our union
- If we're clever (I only care for me.)
Is our savior.
- We're together (I'm thinking through,)
It's the only way.

(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.

11. Semblance Of Liberty

Born to fight, and we're born to flee
Doomed to live on ecstasy
Born to lie, and we're born to cheat
Look in the mirror, who do you see?

Born to flee, and we're born to fight
Without your mask, you're terrified
Don't hide your personality
That's who you are, your identity

If the virtues of tomorrow
Cause the greed of today
We won't have a future
Nor liberty

Born to breathe, and we're born to pursue
That's all we are supposed to do
The semblance of our liberty
Is nothing more than slavery

Born to flee, and we're born to fight
Is it failure that's our delight?
Born to cheat, and we're born to lie
Look at yourself, have you lost your mind?

If the virtues of tomorrow
Cause the greed of today
We won't have a future
And no more liberty

If the virtues of tomorrow
Set the need on the way
We won't have a future nor liberty

Private vice leads to public virtue

[Laughs!]

Raised to think that we are free
Living in our caves
Being slaves

We lost control of our lives
At the mercy of the waves
Massive waves

Blind to see what's going on
Conditioned as we are
And we are

We lost control of our greed
But now we face it all
Face our fall

Keeping all that we've created
And consuming all that's possible
Reaching deep into temptation
Nothing can stop us

Guarantee our hard-earned profits
Multiplied ten-fold if possible
Reaching out for new redemption
Nothing avails our needs

"My opponent won't rule out raising taxes.
But I will, and The Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no.
And they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again, and I'll say to them:
Read my lips."
[George H. W. Bush]

If the virtues of tomorrow
Curse the greed of today,
We won't have a future
And no more liberty.

If the fails of tomorrow
Set the need on the way,
We never had a future anyway.
We had no future 'till today.

Time and tide
Will not wait for anyone

12. White Waters

I see a silhouette, liquid that moves
Skin like a pearl in the sea
I cannot resist this, her voice in the wind
But is it my eyes are deceived?
Is it you I see?

Lie down in my arms
Trust what you see
Smooth your brow, you will be with me
To find your relief

Gazing at whitecaps, coming so close
Everything's suddenly clear
Numb with the aching, and still I am waiting
The water is pulling me near
Would you welcome me?

Lie down in my arms
Try not to breathe
Quiet love, you are now with me
You need no words to speak

For my mistakes, I am to blame
Never believed that it was all meant to fall
I'd give my life, to have you near once again
Take me away, would you forgive me?

13. Design Your Universe - A New Age Dawns - Pt. VI

We're blind and eager.
Avarice will set us back to blank.
Those who wager all will have to name a reason.
(If you can't let go,) you will end up empty handed
(If you can't control,) you'll live your life in vain.

Who decides about my time to come?
Who is able to break through the circle of life and doom?

Don't look back.
Keep on track to break the curse.
Take the chance:
Design your universe.

We can't undo what we have done,
So show us now what we've become.
Confront us with our viciousness
And our weakness.
We can't evade our destiny,
So show responsibility,
For we all surely have a sense
Of our consciousness.

To take for taking's sake
Will leave a path of loss and strain,
And endless breaking of faith can warrant acts of treason.
(If you can't let go,) you will end up empty handed
(If you can't control,) you'll live your life in vain

Who decides about what's true or false?
Who is able to sift through the treasures from the flukes?

Don't look back.
Keep on track to break the curse.
Take the chance:
Design your universe.

We can't undo what we have done,
So show us now what we've become.
Confront us with our viciousness
And our weakness.
We can't evade our destiny,
So show responsibility,
For we all surely have a sense
Of our consciousness.

The time has come. We have to see
That total wisdom is in reach.
The time has come to colour in the lines.
We must identify the signs.

So many people are full of hate,
While love and light are in their reach.
So many people will harm themselves,
But life can be so beautiful.

So many people will idolize,
While their own success is in their reach.
Don't forget you're able to
Design your own universe.

Find your balance.
Sink into rumination.

Ipsum te reperies.
Potire mundorum.
Potire omnis mundi.
[You will discover yourself.
Become a master of worlds.
Become a master of the whole world.]

We can't undo what we have done,
So show us now what we've become.
Confront us with our viciousness
And our weakness.
We can't evade our destiny,
So show responsibility,
For we all surely have a sense
Of our consciousness.

Can't undo.
Show us now.
Confront us.
We're the weakness.
Can't evade.
Show us how.
We have our sense.

14. Incentive

[Bonus Track]

How can we conduct
Symphonies of our destruction
Without having a clue
How to interpret the darkest notes?

There is no need to feel so depraved.
A spotless disease is what I am.
All those fools that I have enslaved
Were so long ago already damned.

There is no need to be so engaged.
The master of the stash is what I am.
All this distress is what I have engraved
Is forming the path that I defend.

Come with me. Acquire the key
To unlock forbidden doors.
Come with me. Be finally free.
The incentive, your decree.

How can we conduct
Symphonies of our destruction
Without having a clue
How to interpret the darkest notes?

There is no need to feel so alone
When your white guide knocks at the door.
Don't you disappoint her, no don't you dare.
She'll destroy you to the quick, to the bone.

Come with me. Acquire the key
To unlock forbidden doors.
Come with me. Be finally free.
The incentive, your decree.

Come with me. Acquire the key
To unlock forbidden doors.
Come with me. Be finally free
The incentive, your decree.

Come with me. On your knees.
The celebration ends.
Come with me. Never flee.
Save me from this.

15. Unleashed (Duet Version)

[Bonus Track]
[feat. Amanda Somerville]

Declining
All color fading.
Defining
Time coming for me.
Rescinding
My inspiration.
Receding consciousness.

Back in the day, I can recall that
My thoughts were unclouded and sage.
There was no black
Staining the walls of my memories.

Now there's a haze pushing me sideways,
And leaving me nothing to gain,
Taking me back,
Locking me cold in disparity.

Where was I meant to be?
I feel I'm lost in a dream.
Long for the day I can be myself.

When I'm free,
When my sun has set,
Released my soul forever,
I'll have no regret
To be free.
I'll exist again.
No more lost endeavors.
Nothing to contend
When I'm free.

Color declines all that defines me
Is falling away, far behind.
Nothing to keep me with the time,
The here and now.

Where am I meant to be?
I feel I'm lost in a dream,
Yearning again only to be myself.

When I'm free,
When my sun has set,
Released my soul forever,
I'll have no regret
To be free.
I'll exist again.
No more lost endeavors.
Nothing to contend
When I'm free.

- (Cure me, free me, help me, see me
- No more worry, no more losing)

Time is just a concept
- (Save me, near me, help me, hear me.)
And always the first thing to fade.
- (No more heartache, no misery.)
Agony and weakness,
- (Cure me, free me, help me, see me.)
Nothing we can never evade.
- (No more worry, no agony.)

Years are cruel, they break us,
- (Save me, near me, help me, hear me.)
Bringing on decay and despair, (we despair)
- (No more heartache, no despairing.)
Awareness and perception.
- (Cure me, free me, help me, see me.)
Something we can never repair. (No repair)
- (No more worry, no repairing.)

Freedom for me is all I'm really wanting, needing.
Give me power to break out,
I can't hold on for any longer.
My time has come to end it all.

No one to blame,
Fate's only random.
It's nothing we'll ever explain.
So it remains.

Where was I meant to be?
I feel I'm lost in a dream
Long for the day I can be myself...
(Free...)
When will I be unleashed?
It's not the way it should be,
Yearning again only to be myself.

(Unleash my consciousness!)

When I'm free,
When my sun has set,
Released my soul forever,
I'll have no regret
To be free.
I'll exist again.
No more lost endeavors.
Nothing to contend
When I'm free.







EPICA LYRICS