Epica: Retrospect (2013) - full transcript
Epica's 10th anniversary concert featuring the extended Ede Reményi Chamber Orchestra and the choir of Miskolc National Theatre.
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* Monopoly On Truth *
At the Zenith of wisdom
No defying myself
(Defying myself)
To the point of reaction
You propose and I dispose
I see what you mean
It's clear, what you say
The truth isn't just a derivative of your views
(Truth is a fiction of your views)
These are my thoughts
No discussion
My righteous plan
Just think it over now
Another point of view
It's time we realize our errs
Where it is leading
to if nobody sees it
There's never an absolute
(Nos)
- Eindhoven!
(docti)
(Sed non semper veridici)
I can be so enchanting
With words beset in gold
(Beset in gold)
Your senseless demanding
You propose and I dispose
I see what you mean
It's clear, what you say
The truth isn't just a derivative of your views
(Truth is a fiction of your views)
This is the way
No discussion
In my life
Just think it over now
Another point of view
It's time we realize our errs
Where it is leading
to if nobody sees it
There's never an absolute
You're in denial
Can we trust all the facts and believe that
the fancied wise are just and needed?
Do we want to rely on the views of
the righteous ones who are succeeding?
If you look all around and you see
All the things that are not meant to be
(Then you know it's time to let them go)
Your fury can no longer stand
This hauteur will come to an end
Looking for leftover
friends is in vain
You'll be alone again
No more refusal
Face it, slow down
It is time for renewal
And expect no miracles
(Expect no miracles when you're in an endless fall)
No regrets if you're leaving
You're a true deceiver
(Accept the here and now or regret will end up)
(Mask of justice, shield of menacing strength
Will not bend, only break)
Can't we respect,
can't we neglect
Those who are
suffering in need of help?
You are the one I would like to become
Carry me slowly
In the depths of your life
Free me from barren fields
And grey thunder lies
Under that grand façade
The truth loves to hide
Can we trust all the facts and believe
that the fancied wise are just and needed?
Do we want to rely on the views
Of the righteous ones who are succeeding?
If you look all around and you see
All the things that are not meant to be
Then you know it's time to let them go
Can we trust all the facts And believe
that the fancied wise are just and needed?
Do we want to rely on the views
Of the righteous ones who are succeeding?
If you look all around and you see
All the things that are not meant to be
Then you know it's
time to let them go
To let them go
(Nos)
(Docti)
(Sed plus Scimus)
(Non spernentes
Quod dicunt alii)
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* Sensorium *
- Good evening everybody!
- Welcome all the people
from 50 different countries.
- Here in the Klokgebouw
and on the online screen.
- We love you guys!
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 consciousness 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 consciousness 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
- Thank you so much everybody!
- I'm going to do the announcements in english, because
we have people from 50 different
countries visiting us today.
- And unfortunately I don't know all those 50 languages,
I think english covers it all, so.
Thank you so much! (english)
Muchas gracias! (spanish)
Grazie mille! (italian)
Dank je wel! Welkomst! (dutch)
Merci Beaucoup! (french)
- I hope we going to have an amazing evening.
- We will have 3 hours, so that's going to be a long time.
- You are stuck with us! You can't get out!
- Next song for the evening, this is...
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* 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 stain
in 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
Time is just a concept
And always the first thing to fade
Agony and weakness
Nothing we can ever evade
Years are cruel, they break us
Bringing on decay and despair
Awareness and perception
Something we can never repair
(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
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* Martyr of the Free Word *
Speaking interpretation
A conversation can take a sudden turn
And reaching a point of violence
Because your silence left
you without a hand to hold
Your past will lead you on to
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, what I think
I will do, I will do
What I say, 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)
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, what I think
I will do, I will do
What I say, 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
- Thank you!
- Thank you so much!
- I think somebody needs to pinch me,
because I think we're still rehearsing and ...
- ... it's not real!
Can you please let me know that this is real!
- Ten years ago we were all little babies,
dreaming of the life of a rock star.
- Now, ten years later
we've traveled around the world, several times!
- Still countries, that need to be EPICA-fied!
- But in those ten years if I recall correctly
five years we spent on airports!
- All over the world!
- What do you do?
A lot of waiting, five years.
- Some of us read books...
some of us eat burgers...
- some of us go shopping...
- And some of us watch movies.
I mean everybody has a laptop nowadays
- iPod, iPhone, mp3 player...
everything is digital.
- I love to watch movies.
- One of my main inspiration source is...
is "From Hell"
- Where Johnny Depp has been secretly
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* 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
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
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
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
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
- Eindhoven, Friends!
Show your hands! Everybody!
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
- Thank you so much!
- Thank you!
- Reményi Orchestra, all way from Hungary!
- The Choir National Theatre of Miskolc.
- And the Conductor is called Zsolt Regős!
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* Presto *
taken from "The Four Seasons",
a set of four violin concertos
composed by Antonio Vivaldi in 1923.
Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8,
RV 315, "L'estate" (Summer) 3. Presto
The Four Seasons is Vivaldi's best-known work.
- Tamás Kriston!
(Artistic director)
- So are you guys having a good time there?!
- Oh, yeah! That sounds good!
- This is... never, never,
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* 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 still in need
Always hearing what your ears can't hear
(feeling what your hands can't touch)
Thinking you are 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 are 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 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
- Thank you very much everybody!
- We'd like to invite a special
guest on stage with me.
- Floor Jansen!
Give it up for Floor!
- Thank you!
Look at that!
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* Stabat Mater Dolorosa *
Stabat Mater is a musical setting
of the Stabat Mater sequence,
composed by Giovanni
Battista Pergolesi in 1736.
The Stabat Mater is one of
Pergolesi's most celebrated sacred works.
Stabat mater dolorosa
Iuxta crucem lacrimosa
Iuxta crucem lacrimosa
Dum pendebat filius
Dum pendebat filius
Stabat mater dolorosa
Iuxta crucem lacrimosa
Dum pendebat
Dum pendebat filius
Dolorosa
Lacrimosa
Dum pendebat filius
- Thank you Floor!
- Thank you!
- That was lovely, wasn't it?!
- Next song is one of the highlights.
- Stabat mater was on of my personal highlights.
- I love the song,
I love the Choir and Orchestra.
- Köszönöm szépen, Reményi!
- But the next song we going to playin' for you tonight...
... is a first ever.
- Let's see if you guys recognise this one...
... from the latest record.
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* Twin Flames *
You're eternal my love
For me you're all there ever was
Every limit overcome
As we are entangled we are one
Words are left unsaid burning in my head
Now I only wish I could hold you again
Being there with you I feel at ease
Being there with you is all I ever need
My one belief
We share a common energy
I’ve flown afar beyond the sea,
To find the other side of me
I’ve waited long and patiently,
To find the one to balance me
To live without dubiety
This is my covenant to thee
Life feels empty, my love,
It pains me so to give you up
Sentiments untold never to unfold
Now I only wish I could hold you again
Being there with you I am whole again
Being there with you is all I ever need,
My one belief,
We share a common energy
I’ve flown afar beyond the sea,
To find the other side of me
I’ve waited long and patiently,
To find the one to balance me
To live without dubiety
This is my covenant to thee
Ever need
My one belief
You’re all I need, my one belief
The winds of time will carry me
To live without dubiety
Don’t let this ever end
(We flown afar beyond the sea,
to find each other finally)
(We’ve waited long and patiently
to build a bridge between dualities)
- Thank you very much!
- It's time for something more heavy!
- The next song I would like to dedicate
to a dear friend of us,
who passed away last year.
- He worked on several albums with us.
His name was Simon Oberender.
- We still think about him a lot, and...
... this one is for you!
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* Serenade of Self-destruction *
Never could we see
What lies deeper
Seeming that our view
Can't be changed
Deciding where to go
And believe in your disaster
Deleting a future untold
This is the final deceiver
This is the devil in me
Expecting deeds in the making
Will show no final relief
Ever would we dance with the reaper
Seething in a monstrous cage
Ideas meant to placate
When meeting your disaster
Are only for a desperate fool
Destructive thoughts to mislead us
Can come from deep underground
Believing sources unbroken
Will tear the legion apart
Will we be forever free as we
unchain our souls From life forever
- You are just a slave to the dust
- Another time
where you and me will be freed
with one more last endeavour
You will never find your way out
No!
Try me, don't deny me
Please embrace me in your peace
I want to fly into the bright
Would you please guide my last goodbye
Why won't you lie with me
my light's ending on
a night when I find
I'll take my final flight
Now come and see divinity where night turns day
So far away from heaven
You will never earn my trust
Provoke the need, give word to deed,
And dive into another God-like atmosphere
You cannot escape your fate now
No!
Try me, don't deny me
Please embrace me in your peace
I want to fly into the bright
Would you please
guide my last goodbye
Why won't you lie with me
my light's ending on a night when I find,
I'll take my final flight
I'd rather die
Than breathe in my shame
They'll know my name
All hell in flames
(For our faith we proudly die)
For it we would die
(For our sovereign all hell will arise)
Hell will surely rise
(We'll serve our cause in earning reward)
Earning our reward
(Collision of skies the ocean wept dry)
Every ocean dry
Another's desperation
flying through the emptiness
As my degradation throws me out of line
- Eindhoven!
- Are you ready?
Try me, don't deny me
Please embrace me in your peace
I want to fly into the bright
Would you please guide my last goodbye
Why won't you lie with me
my light's ending on a night
when I find, I'll take my final flight
Take the final flight into the
serenade forever lost in time
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* Orchestral Medley *
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* Feint *
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* Fools of Damnation *
Bow to me, go for it, just do it
Die for the supremacy
Kneel for me, go for it, just do it
Die for the divinity
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* Mother of Light *
We consciously sign
our own sentence of death
How can you go on, did you forget
What we have learnt 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?
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* Kingdom of Heaven *
Non intellegens nil explicas
Videre nolens nil capies
Non intellegens nil explicas
Incognita non vides
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* Run for a Fall *
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* Deep Water Horizon *
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* The Divine Conspiracy *
Quaestio nostra est aeterna
Ultima requies fons vitae
Sed eam ut novam ducemus
We will never know all possibilities
to predict what is to come
And so we have illusions to think freely
Once we had been
Rich from within
Did not try to reach
What we couldn’t achieve
Because once we had been
Able to win
From the need to succeed
We need to be innocent to live
the life we've lived for so long
We need to be blind enough to live
the life we live right now
Who possesses your time
also possesses your mind
Once we had been
Rich from within
Did not try to reach
What we couldn’t achieve
Because once we had been
Able to win
From the need to succeed
We need to be innocent to live
the life we've lived for so long
We need to be deaf enough to live
the life we live right now
Who possesses your time
also possesses your mind
Reach out, touch infinity
Life is just a memory
Time is not the entity
Like it used to be
The Divine Conspiracy
Opens up the reality
Time is not the entity
Like it claims to be
Desperately we all
Clutch at the last straw
We stumble and fall
Countdown to die
To heal it all
Who possesses your time
also possesses your mind
Who possesses your time
(Mislead us all, we are not in control)
Also possesses your mind
(There is no trace that will lead to this place)
Reach out, touch infinity
Life is just a memory
Time is not the entity
Like it used to be
The Divine Conspiracy
Opens up reality
Time is not the entity
Like it claims to be
Time is not the entity
Like it claims to be
- Thank you so much!
- Tonight is like a dream come true...
... although it does really feel like I'm still dreaming.
- Reality can be beautiful sometimes, you know!
- But life has its dark side as well.
- This next song is about
the depths of despair.
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* Delirium *
Black was the night when I did surrender
I did give in to my weakening sight
Now that I'm empty my dreams once were many
Soul's bitter cry to unleash the divine
When you think there's no way out
And all you see collides
Hope will in the end chase all your fears away
Fighting the source was not recommended
Trails of a wish were the hope to survive
Skins full ablazing release crystal gazing
All of it led to a deeper demise
When you think there's no way out
And no one comprehends
Hope will show your smile again
What I left behind
Another night
Of weary dreams
What's been left behind
Another time
Where days of late are far away
Far away
Losing my reasons,
No lies to believe in
Left the obscure to the means of escape
Core has been shaken,
There is no more pain to break me
Time has commenced and I long to awake
When you think there's no way out
Leave everything behind
You can live your life
What I left behind
Another night
Of weary dreams
What's been left behind
Another time
Where days of late are far away
Far away
Dark days behind me
Won't ever break me now
- My fellow EPICAns! Show me your hands!
All that I left behind
Another night
Of weary dreams
What's been left behind
Another time
Where days of late are far away
Far away
Just another night
In another time
- Simone Simons!!!
- And on keys Mr. Coen Janssen!!!
- Give it up for Coen!
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* 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 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
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
Living in me, living in all the memories in my life
(Do you wonder why these tears never dry?)
Time forced into life (in my 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
The substance in time forced into life
Still exists because it's here
Living in me, living in
all the memories in my life
Lost inside blank infinity
- Klokgebouw, let me hear you!
- You guys are not tired yet, right?!
- NO!!!
- So its time for something more heavy now!
- Before we gonna play this,
we wanna hear how loud you can be!
- We're gonna split you guys
into right half and the left half.
- First we wanna hear you guys at the right half.
Come on!
- Left side!
- Right side!
- Left side!
- Right, left, right, left, right, left, right, left.
- Everybody!!!
- This is...
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* The Obsessive Devotion *
Don't you ever blind me
- Don't be a foolish thief
- Am I?
Don't you ever bring yourself to grief
Don't you ever blind me
- Don't ever trick my mind
- Did I?
- Don't you think that you can lie to me
- Did I...
...Lie
(Fortuna exprimitur)
(Artibus falsis)
(Et mendacem memorem)
(Esse oportet)
If he is your moon, I will be your earth
To which you can return, safely or injured.
I feel only misery for myself when I
Look through the eyes of someone else.
Don't you choke and bind me
- Don't be a bleeding heart
- Am I?
Fold then walk away or play your cards
Let us play!
(Fortuna exprimitur)
(Artibus falsis)
(Et mendacem memorem)
(Esse oportet)
If he is your moon, I will be your earth
To which you can return, safely or injured.
I feel only misery for myself when I
Look through the eyes of someone else
I can't even recognize the path
which has to be taken to enter infinity.
- I dare you
- Don't you dare me? Don't you care about me?
- I care about you
- Don't you touch me! Liar!
(Fortuna exprimitur)
(Artibus falsis)
(Et mendacem memorem)
(Esse oportet)
(Adoratio permanebit
Quotiens me eges, adero)
I prefer to be unhappy with you,
rather than being depressed without you.
I belong to someone, I'm dedicated to
Nothing lasts forever but you, you do...
I prefer to be a lair just like you
To fulfill my deepest desires
I belong to someone, I'm dedicated to
But all that I desire is you
One thoughtless moment
passes in slow motion
As I lie down, I realise that...
All I wish is to get rid of
this Obsessive Devotion
(Venia ad vitam aeternam)
(Non mibi, non tibi, sed nobis)
Hit me as you can
Beat me as you wish
Liar!
(Fortuna mutual coniuncti)
(Per tota saecula futura)
I have raised myself for you
But now I regret
(Venia ad vitam aeternam)
This is the end
- Thank you so much!
- We have prepared several surprises
for you guys tonight!
- One of them is about come right now.
- As a 'Thank you' for these wonderful 10 years.
- We wrote a song especially for tonight,
for you guys.
- In this song we look back on the
10 wonderful years we had.
- We are thankful for the past,
we are living in the present,
and we are hoping for a better future.
- This is...
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* Retrospect *
Tick-tock goes the clock
as time is passing by
Don't you know this moment
will exist and fade to black
When you look back upon mistake
We try to find the way
Never let the sticks and stones
break bones and beat us through
I remember the light
Turn the world upside down
Reflecting on the many years
that passed us by
Once in every now and again hard inside
To grasp reality and let
our light shine through
We welcome to end raids of rising tides
And the darkness that
surrounds us turns to light
Burn up there we'll always
say that ballast will remain
Find the key of might to open doors
and this engaged
When we all enterprise
find the key to survive
Unlock the secrets of
the heart and memories
Once in every now
and again hard inside
To grasp reality and let
our light shine through
We welcome to end raids of rising tides
And the darkness that
surrounds us turns to light
Mindless will show you now
And never reside
There is a different way
Inflame your energy
This hurting
Believing
Your preaching
Said all been paid
Once in every now
and again hard inside
To grasp reality and let
our light shine through
We welcome to end raids of rising tides
And the darkness that
surrounds us turns to light
Take it for the anniversary era
Out of our sight
- Thank you so much!
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* Star Wars Medley (John Williams cover) *
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* Battle of the Heroes *
Battle of the Heroes is a musical theme from the
movie Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
It was written by John Williams for the duel
between Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi
on the volcanic planet Mustafar.
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* The Imperial March *
The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme),
also known as the "Imperial Death March",
is a musical theme present in the Star Wars franchise.
It was composed by John Williams for the film
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
- Thank you so much!
- We brought some old friends with us tonight.
- What would an anniversary show be
without these guys!?
- You know who I am talking about?!
- Give it a warm welcome!
Ad Sluijter, Jeroen Simons and Yves Huts.
- Please put your hands up in the air!
Oh, yeah!
- Keep them up!
- Also in the back, everybody!
- Hey, hey, hey ...
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* Quietus *
- Are you ready?!
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
is your comeuppance
See, hear the torture inside
Devouring what was left of my pride
You thought it's not going to happen,
You thought you could hide
Deprived of my own innocence, denied
The infinity of recurring torment
is your comeuppance
Dwelling in a mind, mixed up and
your regret has spread over the sea
- Hey, give it up for Ad, Yves and Jeroen.
Deprived of my own innocence, denied
The infinity of recurring torment
is your comeuppance
Dwelling in a mind, mixed up and
your regret has spread over the sea
- Ad Sluijter, Yves Huts and Jeroen Simons!!!
- That was a long time ago.
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* The Phantom Agony *
I can't see you
- I can't hear you Eindhoven.
SCREAM!!!
- It's good to be alive!
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)
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
We are afraid of all the
things that could not be
A phantom agony
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?
We are afraid of all the
things that could not be
A phantom agony
Tears of unprecedented beauty reveal
the truth of existence
We're all pessimists
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
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)
- Thank you guys from
the bottom of our hearts!
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* Cry for the Moon *
- Thank you!
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
- Eindhoven, let me hear you scream!
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
Eternal silence cries out for justice
Forgiveness is not for sale
Nor is the will to forget
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
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
Eternal silence cries out for justice
Forgiveness is not for sale
Nor is the will to forget
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
- Eindhoven, are you ready to sing with me?
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
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
Eternal silence cries out for justice
Forgiveness is not for sale
Nor is the will to forget
You can't go on hiding yourself
Behind old fashioned fairytales
And keep washing
your hands in innocence
- AriŽn van Weesenbeek on drums!
- Give it up for the beast!!!
- I swear to you I think that AriŽn has a
couple of batteries up his ass!
- Because nobody has so much
energy... as that guy over there ...
- This next song. We go back to
The Divine Conspiracy.
- To a land, we all believe, is very very sacred.
Or maybe not.
- This is ...
... Sancta
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* Sancta Terra *
- Give it up for Floor!
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
This evolution will empower me
Now truth begins
And you will not find me
(I am safe in here)
I'm where I want to be
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
And you will not find me
(I am safe in here)
I'm where I want to be
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
You will not find me
I am safe in here
I am where I want to be
So leave me now in peace
And you will not find me
(I am safe in here)
I'm where I want to be
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
(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)
- Floor Jansen!!!
- Dank je wel Floor!
you kick ass!
- Thank you, and you too give it up for
EPICA!!!
- Yeah, you want some more?!
YEAH!!!
- Sure?
YEAH!!!
- All right!
- The next one is of realizing your dreams,
creating your own universe...
... because that's what we can do!
Let wishes come true!
- This is ...
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* Design Your Universe *
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)
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
Of our consciousness
- Come on everybody!
- Wave goodbye to EPICA!
- Thank you so much!
- We love you guys!
Can't evade...
Show us now...
Confront us...
... with our weakness
Can't evade...
Show us now...
We have a sense
Of our consciousness
- Eindhoven!
What's up?!
- Or should I say...
World what's up?!
- I see all these flags...
Brazil, Mexico, Finland, Uruguay, Colombia,
Izrael, Chile...
- Is there a dutch flag in the venue?
- Italia.
- You know guys, thank You so much for
coming tonight from all over the world!
- This has been the best show
for us, since our beginning.
- Thank you all for joining us at Restrospect!
- This cheer is for you guys!
- I think you can do
louder! Can you do louder?!
- What would EPICA be without the loyal fans,
which you are?! Thank you very much!
- And of course everybody at home,
watching the stream.
- Thank you too, I hope you enjoyed it!
- I don't know where you are, somewhere in the world.
- I think it's about like 25 different countries,
or 45-50, whatever... doesn't matter! Haha...
- I would like to say thank you to everybody
involved in this project, ...
... light, sound, cameras.
you know why we have cameras, don't you?!
- Not only because of the stream, but also because
we gonna release this show on a DVD.
- Hell yeah!
- This is so awesome!
But ...
EPICA, EPICA, EPICA!!!
- It's not only EPICA this time, we have
this great orchestra behind us and choir.
- Please give it up for Orchestra and
National Theatre of Miskolc Hungary!
- So you know what?
We are gonna play some more!
- Do you wanna hear more?!
- So let's scream very loud,
'til the band comes up again.
- I don't know where they are actually,
so... Just scream a little bit, okay?!
- You know what?
I love You all, each and every one of You!
- Also on the balcony, also in front,
also behind the cameras, everywhere.
I love you! Thank you very much!
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* Storm the Sorrow *
Along the way I find myself
To be confined within me
No place for any other's mind to interfere
To grasp the meaning of it all
To overcome my limits
And dance away from
any void and empty tones
Just tell me why
Just tell me how
I can survive this time
Believe yourself and look away
From all that's right within you
Leave all your worries
at the door and drift away
I've tried to peer into the core
But could not storm the sorrow
My hollow heart has bled
me dry, left me to stray
Another time without a trace
Condemn me now
Send me to hell
For I'm already failing
Intertwine the lines
That swim beneath the dark
Realize the pain we live in
Demonize the need we reel in, no
In my memories I'll dig deep enough to know
Centuries of dreams unending
Another me that yielded tears
when someone had betrayed
No time should ever go to waste
It's not that complicated
You're free to live your life at ease
No more restraint
No heed for shadows on your way
That try to steal your laughter
Your light will drive them all away
Be confident
Will I refrain?
Can I repent?
Will you be there?
Erase the page
For I'm alone and ailing
Intertwine the lines
That swim beneath the dark
Realize the pain we live in
Demonize the need we reel in, no
In my memories I'll dig deep enough to know
Centuries of dreams unending
Another me that yielded tears
when someone had betrayed
So, this is my life
And it can't break me down
Go, I will decide
Who can come in and heal my disease
Burn it in flames
Kill it and maim
Why can't you see that
you need to be freed?
Intertwine the lines beneath the dark
Every bit of pain we're feeling
Every other solemn life, no
In the memories you will find somehow
There used to be a dream unending
No more need to be alone
Intertwine the lines
That swim beneath the dark
Realize the pain we live in
Demonize the need we reel in, no
In my memories I'll dig deep enough to know
Centuries of dreams unending
Another me that yielded tears
when someone had betrayed
Someone had betrayed
- Thank you so much!
- This evening will be one we will never forget
- For us this is amazing
- We've seen all your faces, and we are very
glad we could share this wonderful anniversary...
...together with you...
...*(without you) we wouldn't be
here anymore. So thank you so much!
- This last song is for all of you.
May you all get home safe.
- And I heard there's
also an afterparty, so...
- Don't drink and drive!
- Enjoy!
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* Consign to Oblivion *
- Are you ready for the last rumble?!
- Put your horns up in the air!!!
- Howl, howl, howl!
- Go!
How can we let this happen and
Just keep our eyes closed 'til 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 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
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 minds
We are so afraid of all the things unknown
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)
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
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
- Hands up everybody!!!
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
- Thank you all so very much!
We will never forget this.
* Monopoly On Truth *
At the Zenith of wisdom
No defying myself
(Defying myself)
To the point of reaction
You propose and I dispose
I see what you mean
It's clear, what you say
The truth isn't just a derivative of your views
(Truth is a fiction of your views)
These are my thoughts
No discussion
My righteous plan
Just think it over now
Another point of view
It's time we realize our errs
Where it is leading
to if nobody sees it
There's never an absolute
(Nos)
- Eindhoven!
(docti)
(Sed non semper veridici)
I can be so enchanting
With words beset in gold
(Beset in gold)
Your senseless demanding
You propose and I dispose
I see what you mean
It's clear, what you say
The truth isn't just a derivative of your views
(Truth is a fiction of your views)
This is the way
No discussion
In my life
Just think it over now
Another point of view
It's time we realize our errs
Where it is leading
to if nobody sees it
There's never an absolute
You're in denial
Can we trust all the facts and believe that
the fancied wise are just and needed?
Do we want to rely on the views of
the righteous ones who are succeeding?
If you look all around and you see
All the things that are not meant to be
(Then you know it's time to let them go)
Your fury can no longer stand
This hauteur will come to an end
Looking for leftover
friends is in vain
You'll be alone again
No more refusal
Face it, slow down
It is time for renewal
And expect no miracles
(Expect no miracles when you're in an endless fall)
No regrets if you're leaving
You're a true deceiver
(Accept the here and now or regret will end up)
(Mask of justice, shield of menacing strength
Will not bend, only break)
Can't we respect,
can't we neglect
Those who are
suffering in need of help?
You are the one I would like to become
Carry me slowly
In the depths of your life
Free me from barren fields
And grey thunder lies
Under that grand façade
The truth loves to hide
Can we trust all the facts and believe
that the fancied wise are just and needed?
Do we want to rely on the views
Of the righteous ones who are succeeding?
If you look all around and you see
All the things that are not meant to be
Then you know it's time to let them go
Can we trust all the facts And believe
that the fancied wise are just and needed?
Do we want to rely on the views
Of the righteous ones who are succeeding?
If you look all around and you see
All the things that are not meant to be
Then you know it's
time to let them go
To let them go
(Nos)
(Docti)
(Sed plus Scimus)
(Non spernentes
Quod dicunt alii)
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* Sensorium *
- Good evening everybody!
- Welcome all the people
from 50 different countries.
- Here in the Klokgebouw
and on the online screen.
- We love you guys!
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 consciousness 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 consciousness 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
- Thank you so much everybody!
- I'm going to do the announcements in english, because
we have people from 50 different
countries visiting us today.
- And unfortunately I don't know all those 50 languages,
I think english covers it all, so.
Thank you so much! (english)
Muchas gracias! (spanish)
Grazie mille! (italian)
Dank je wel! Welkomst! (dutch)
Merci Beaucoup! (french)
- I hope we going to have an amazing evening.
- We will have 3 hours, so that's going to be a long time.
- You are stuck with us! You can't get out!
- Next song for the evening, this is...
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* 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 stain
in 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
Time is just a concept
And always the first thing to fade
Agony and weakness
Nothing we can ever evade
Years are cruel, they break us
Bringing on decay and despair
Awareness and perception
Something we can never repair
(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
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* Martyr of the Free Word *
Speaking interpretation
A conversation can take a sudden turn
And reaching a point of violence
Because your silence left
you without a hand to hold
Your past will lead you on to
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, what I think
I will do, I will do
What I say, 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)
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, what I think
I will do, I will do
What I say, 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
- Thank you!
- Thank you so much!
- I think somebody needs to pinch me,
because I think we're still rehearsing and ...
- ... it's not real!
Can you please let me know that this is real!
- Ten years ago we were all little babies,
dreaming of the life of a rock star.
- Now, ten years later
we've traveled around the world, several times!
- Still countries, that need to be EPICA-fied!
- But in those ten years if I recall correctly
five years we spent on airports!
- All over the world!
- What do you do?
A lot of waiting, five years.
- Some of us read books...
some of us eat burgers...
- some of us go shopping...
- And some of us watch movies.
I mean everybody has a laptop nowadays
- iPod, iPhone, mp3 player...
everything is digital.
- I love to watch movies.
- One of my main inspiration source is...
is "From Hell"
- Where Johnny Depp has been secretly
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* 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
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
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
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
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
- Eindhoven, Friends!
Show your hands! Everybody!
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
- Thank you so much!
- Thank you!
- Reményi Orchestra, all way from Hungary!
- The Choir National Theatre of Miskolc.
- And the Conductor is called Zsolt Regős!
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* Presto *
taken from "The Four Seasons",
a set of four violin concertos
composed by Antonio Vivaldi in 1923.
Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8,
RV 315, "L'estate" (Summer) 3. Presto
The Four Seasons is Vivaldi's best-known work.
- Tamás Kriston!
(Artistic director)
- So are you guys having a good time there?!
- Oh, yeah! That sounds good!
- This is... never, never,
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* 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 still in need
Always hearing what your ears can't hear
(feeling what your hands can't touch)
Thinking you are 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 are 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 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
- Thank you very much everybody!
- We'd like to invite a special
guest on stage with me.
- Floor Jansen!
Give it up for Floor!
- Thank you!
Look at that!
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* Stabat Mater Dolorosa *
Stabat Mater is a musical setting
of the Stabat Mater sequence,
composed by Giovanni
Battista Pergolesi in 1736.
The Stabat Mater is one of
Pergolesi's most celebrated sacred works.
Stabat mater dolorosa
Iuxta crucem lacrimosa
Iuxta crucem lacrimosa
Dum pendebat filius
Dum pendebat filius
Stabat mater dolorosa
Iuxta crucem lacrimosa
Dum pendebat
Dum pendebat filius
Dolorosa
Lacrimosa
Dum pendebat filius
- Thank you Floor!
- Thank you!
- That was lovely, wasn't it?!
- Next song is one of the highlights.
- Stabat mater was on of my personal highlights.
- I love the song,
I love the Choir and Orchestra.
- Köszönöm szépen, Reményi!
- But the next song we going to playin' for you tonight...
... is a first ever.
- Let's see if you guys recognise this one...
... from the latest record.
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* Twin Flames *
You're eternal my love
For me you're all there ever was
Every limit overcome
As we are entangled we are one
Words are left unsaid burning in my head
Now I only wish I could hold you again
Being there with you I feel at ease
Being there with you is all I ever need
My one belief
We share a common energy
I’ve flown afar beyond the sea,
To find the other side of me
I’ve waited long and patiently,
To find the one to balance me
To live without dubiety
This is my covenant to thee
Life feels empty, my love,
It pains me so to give you up
Sentiments untold never to unfold
Now I only wish I could hold you again
Being there with you I am whole again
Being there with you is all I ever need,
My one belief,
We share a common energy
I’ve flown afar beyond the sea,
To find the other side of me
I’ve waited long and patiently,
To find the one to balance me
To live without dubiety
This is my covenant to thee
Ever need
My one belief
You’re all I need, my one belief
The winds of time will carry me
To live without dubiety
Don’t let this ever end
(We flown afar beyond the sea,
to find each other finally)
(We’ve waited long and patiently
to build a bridge between dualities)
- Thank you very much!
- It's time for something more heavy!
- The next song I would like to dedicate
to a dear friend of us,
who passed away last year.
- He worked on several albums with us.
His name was Simon Oberender.
- We still think about him a lot, and...
... this one is for you!
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* Serenade of Self-destruction *
Never could we see
What lies deeper
Seeming that our view
Can't be changed
Deciding where to go
And believe in your disaster
Deleting a future untold
This is the final deceiver
This is the devil in me
Expecting deeds in the making
Will show no final relief
Ever would we dance with the reaper
Seething in a monstrous cage
Ideas meant to placate
When meeting your disaster
Are only for a desperate fool
Destructive thoughts to mislead us
Can come from deep underground
Believing sources unbroken
Will tear the legion apart
Will we be forever free as we
unchain our souls From life forever
- You are just a slave to the dust
- Another time
where you and me will be freed
with one more last endeavour
You will never find your way out
No!
Try me, don't deny me
Please embrace me in your peace
I want to fly into the bright
Would you please guide my last goodbye
Why won't you lie with me
my light's ending on
a night when I find
I'll take my final flight
Now come and see divinity where night turns day
So far away from heaven
You will never earn my trust
Provoke the need, give word to deed,
And dive into another God-like atmosphere
You cannot escape your fate now
No!
Try me, don't deny me
Please embrace me in your peace
I want to fly into the bright
Would you please
guide my last goodbye
Why won't you lie with me
my light's ending on a night when I find,
I'll take my final flight
I'd rather die
Than breathe in my shame
They'll know my name
All hell in flames
(For our faith we proudly die)
For it we would die
(For our sovereign all hell will arise)
Hell will surely rise
(We'll serve our cause in earning reward)
Earning our reward
(Collision of skies the ocean wept dry)
Every ocean dry
Another's desperation
flying through the emptiness
As my degradation throws me out of line
- Eindhoven!
- Are you ready?
Try me, don't deny me
Please embrace me in your peace
I want to fly into the bright
Would you please guide my last goodbye
Why won't you lie with me
my light's ending on a night
when I find, I'll take my final flight
Take the final flight into the
serenade forever lost in time
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* Orchestral Medley *
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* Feint *
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* Fools of Damnation *
Bow to me, go for it, just do it
Die for the supremacy
Kneel for me, go for it, just do it
Die for the divinity
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* Mother of Light *
We consciously sign
our own sentence of death
How can you go on, did you forget
What we have learnt 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?
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* Kingdom of Heaven *
Non intellegens nil explicas
Videre nolens nil capies
Non intellegens nil explicas
Incognita non vides
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* Run for a Fall *
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* Deep Water Horizon *
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* The Divine Conspiracy *
Quaestio nostra est aeterna
Ultima requies fons vitae
Sed eam ut novam ducemus
We will never know all possibilities
to predict what is to come
And so we have illusions to think freely
Once we had been
Rich from within
Did not try to reach
What we couldn’t achieve
Because once we had been
Able to win
From the need to succeed
We need to be innocent to live
the life we've lived for so long
We need to be blind enough to live
the life we live right now
Who possesses your time
also possesses your mind
Once we had been
Rich from within
Did not try to reach
What we couldn’t achieve
Because once we had been
Able to win
From the need to succeed
We need to be innocent to live
the life we've lived for so long
We need to be deaf enough to live
the life we live right now
Who possesses your time
also possesses your mind
Reach out, touch infinity
Life is just a memory
Time is not the entity
Like it used to be
The Divine Conspiracy
Opens up the reality
Time is not the entity
Like it claims to be
Desperately we all
Clutch at the last straw
We stumble and fall
Countdown to die
To heal it all
Who possesses your time
also possesses your mind
Who possesses your time
(Mislead us all, we are not in control)
Also possesses your mind
(There is no trace that will lead to this place)
Reach out, touch infinity
Life is just a memory
Time is not the entity
Like it used to be
The Divine Conspiracy
Opens up reality
Time is not the entity
Like it claims to be
Time is not the entity
Like it claims to be
- Thank you so much!
- Tonight is like a dream come true...
... although it does really feel like I'm still dreaming.
- Reality can be beautiful sometimes, you know!
- But life has its dark side as well.
- This next song is about
the depths of despair.
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* Delirium *
Black was the night when I did surrender
I did give in to my weakening sight
Now that I'm empty my dreams once were many
Soul's bitter cry to unleash the divine
When you think there's no way out
And all you see collides
Hope will in the end chase all your fears away
Fighting the source was not recommended
Trails of a wish were the hope to survive
Skins full ablazing release crystal gazing
All of it led to a deeper demise
When you think there's no way out
And no one comprehends
Hope will show your smile again
What I left behind
Another night
Of weary dreams
What's been left behind
Another time
Where days of late are far away
Far away
Losing my reasons,
No lies to believe in
Left the obscure to the means of escape
Core has been shaken,
There is no more pain to break me
Time has commenced and I long to awake
When you think there's no way out
Leave everything behind
You can live your life
What I left behind
Another night
Of weary dreams
What's been left behind
Another time
Where days of late are far away
Far away
Dark days behind me
Won't ever break me now
- My fellow EPICAns! Show me your hands!
All that I left behind
Another night
Of weary dreams
What's been left behind
Another time
Where days of late are far away
Far away
Just another night
In another time
- Simone Simons!!!
- And on keys Mr. Coen Janssen!!!
- Give it up for Coen!
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* 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 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
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
Living in me, living in all the memories in my life
(Do you wonder why these tears never dry?)
Time forced into life (in my 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
The substance in time forced into life
Still exists because it's here
Living in me, living in
all the memories in my life
Lost inside blank infinity
- Klokgebouw, let me hear you!
- You guys are not tired yet, right?!
- NO!!!
- So its time for something more heavy now!
- Before we gonna play this,
we wanna hear how loud you can be!
- We're gonna split you guys
into right half and the left half.
- First we wanna hear you guys at the right half.
Come on!
- Left side!
- Right side!
- Left side!
- Right, left, right, left, right, left, right, left.
- Everybody!!!
- This is...
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* The Obsessive Devotion *
Don't you ever blind me
- Don't be a foolish thief
- Am I?
Don't you ever bring yourself to grief
Don't you ever blind me
- Don't ever trick my mind
- Did I?
- Don't you think that you can lie to me
- Did I...
...Lie
(Fortuna exprimitur)
(Artibus falsis)
(Et mendacem memorem)
(Esse oportet)
If he is your moon, I will be your earth
To which you can return, safely or injured.
I feel only misery for myself when I
Look through the eyes of someone else.
Don't you choke and bind me
- Don't be a bleeding heart
- Am I?
Fold then walk away or play your cards
Let us play!
(Fortuna exprimitur)
(Artibus falsis)
(Et mendacem memorem)
(Esse oportet)
If he is your moon, I will be your earth
To which you can return, safely or injured.
I feel only misery for myself when I
Look through the eyes of someone else
I can't even recognize the path
which has to be taken to enter infinity.
- I dare you
- Don't you dare me? Don't you care about me?
- I care about you
- Don't you touch me! Liar!
(Fortuna exprimitur)
(Artibus falsis)
(Et mendacem memorem)
(Esse oportet)
(Adoratio permanebit
Quotiens me eges, adero)
I prefer to be unhappy with you,
rather than being depressed without you.
I belong to someone, I'm dedicated to
Nothing lasts forever but you, you do...
I prefer to be a lair just like you
To fulfill my deepest desires
I belong to someone, I'm dedicated to
But all that I desire is you
One thoughtless moment
passes in slow motion
As I lie down, I realise that...
All I wish is to get rid of
this Obsessive Devotion
(Venia ad vitam aeternam)
(Non mibi, non tibi, sed nobis)
Hit me as you can
Beat me as you wish
Liar!
(Fortuna mutual coniuncti)
(Per tota saecula futura)
I have raised myself for you
But now I regret
(Venia ad vitam aeternam)
This is the end
- Thank you so much!
- We have prepared several surprises
for you guys tonight!
- One of them is about come right now.
- As a 'Thank you' for these wonderful 10 years.
- We wrote a song especially for tonight,
for you guys.
- In this song we look back on the
10 wonderful years we had.
- We are thankful for the past,
we are living in the present,
and we are hoping for a better future.
- This is...
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* Retrospect *
Tick-tock goes the clock
as time is passing by
Don't you know this moment
will exist and fade to black
When you look back upon mistake
We try to find the way
Never let the sticks and stones
break bones and beat us through
I remember the light
Turn the world upside down
Reflecting on the many years
that passed us by
Once in every now and again hard inside
To grasp reality and let
our light shine through
We welcome to end raids of rising tides
And the darkness that
surrounds us turns to light
Burn up there we'll always
say that ballast will remain
Find the key of might to open doors
and this engaged
When we all enterprise
find the key to survive
Unlock the secrets of
the heart and memories
Once in every now
and again hard inside
To grasp reality and let
our light shine through
We welcome to end raids of rising tides
And the darkness that
surrounds us turns to light
Mindless will show you now
And never reside
There is a different way
Inflame your energy
This hurting
Believing
Your preaching
Said all been paid
Once in every now
and again hard inside
To grasp reality and let
our light shine through
We welcome to end raids of rising tides
And the darkness that
surrounds us turns to light
Take it for the anniversary era
Out of our sight
- Thank you so much!
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* Star Wars Medley (John Williams cover) *
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* Battle of the Heroes *
Battle of the Heroes is a musical theme from the
movie Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
It was written by John Williams for the duel
between Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi
on the volcanic planet Mustafar.
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* The Imperial March *
The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme),
also known as the "Imperial Death March",
is a musical theme present in the Star Wars franchise.
It was composed by John Williams for the film
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
- Thank you so much!
- We brought some old friends with us tonight.
- What would an anniversary show be
without these guys!?
- You know who I am talking about?!
- Give it a warm welcome!
Ad Sluijter, Jeroen Simons and Yves Huts.
- Please put your hands up in the air!
Oh, yeah!
- Keep them up!
- Also in the back, everybody!
- Hey, hey, hey ...
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* Quietus *
- Are you ready?!
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
is your comeuppance
See, hear the torture inside
Devouring what was left of my pride
You thought it's not going to happen,
You thought you could hide
Deprived of my own innocence, denied
The infinity of recurring torment
is your comeuppance
Dwelling in a mind, mixed up and
your regret has spread over the sea
- Hey, give it up for Ad, Yves and Jeroen.
Deprived of my own innocence, denied
The infinity of recurring torment
is your comeuppance
Dwelling in a mind, mixed up and
your regret has spread over the sea
- Ad Sluijter, Yves Huts and Jeroen Simons!!!
- That was a long time ago.
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* The Phantom Agony *
I can't see you
- I can't hear you Eindhoven.
SCREAM!!!
- It's good to be alive!
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)
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
We are afraid of all the
things that could not be
A phantom agony
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?
We are afraid of all the
things that could not be
A phantom agony
Tears of unprecedented beauty reveal
the truth of existence
We're all pessimists
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
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)
- Thank you guys from
the bottom of our hearts!
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* Cry for the Moon *
- Thank you!
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
- Eindhoven, let me hear you scream!
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
Eternal silence cries out for justice
Forgiveness is not for sale
Nor is the will to forget
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
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
Eternal silence cries out for justice
Forgiveness is not for sale
Nor is the will to forget
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
- Eindhoven, are you ready to sing with me?
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
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
Eternal silence cries out for justice
Forgiveness is not for sale
Nor is the will to forget
You can't go on hiding yourself
Behind old fashioned fairytales
And keep washing
your hands in innocence
- AriŽn van Weesenbeek on drums!
- Give it up for the beast!!!
- I swear to you I think that AriŽn has a
couple of batteries up his ass!
- Because nobody has so much
energy... as that guy over there ...
- This next song. We go back to
The Divine Conspiracy.
- To a land, we all believe, is very very sacred.
Or maybe not.
- This is ...
... Sancta
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* Sancta Terra *
- Give it up for Floor!
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
This evolution will empower me
Now truth begins
And you will not find me
(I am safe in here)
I'm where I want to be
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
And you will not find me
(I am safe in here)
I'm where I want to be
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
You will not find me
I am safe in here
I am where I want to be
So leave me now in peace
And you will not find me
(I am safe in here)
I'm where I want to be
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
(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)
- Floor Jansen!!!
- Dank je wel Floor!
you kick ass!
- Thank you, and you too give it up for
EPICA!!!
- Yeah, you want some more?!
YEAH!!!
- Sure?
YEAH!!!
- All right!
- The next one is of realizing your dreams,
creating your own universe...
... because that's what we can do!
Let wishes come true!
- This is ...
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* Design Your Universe *
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)
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
Of our consciousness
- Come on everybody!
- Wave goodbye to EPICA!
- Thank you so much!
- We love you guys!
Can't evade...
Show us now...
Confront us...
... with our weakness
Can't evade...
Show us now...
We have a sense
Of our consciousness
- Eindhoven!
What's up?!
- Or should I say...
World what's up?!
- I see all these flags...
Brazil, Mexico, Finland, Uruguay, Colombia,
Izrael, Chile...
- Is there a dutch flag in the venue?
- Italia.
- You know guys, thank You so much for
coming tonight from all over the world!
- This has been the best show
for us, since our beginning.
- Thank you all for joining us at Restrospect!
- This cheer is for you guys!
- I think you can do
louder! Can you do louder?!
- What would EPICA be without the loyal fans,
which you are?! Thank you very much!
- And of course everybody at home,
watching the stream.
- Thank you too, I hope you enjoyed it!
- I don't know where you are, somewhere in the world.
- I think it's about like 25 different countries,
or 45-50, whatever... doesn't matter! Haha...
- I would like to say thank you to everybody
involved in this project, ...
... light, sound, cameras.
you know why we have cameras, don't you?!
- Not only because of the stream, but also because
we gonna release this show on a DVD.
- Hell yeah!
- This is so awesome!
But ...
EPICA, EPICA, EPICA!!!
- It's not only EPICA this time, we have
this great orchestra behind us and choir.
- Please give it up for Orchestra and
National Theatre of Miskolc Hungary!
- So you know what?
We are gonna play some more!
- Do you wanna hear more?!
- So let's scream very loud,
'til the band comes up again.
- I don't know where they are actually,
so... Just scream a little bit, okay?!
- You know what?
I love You all, each and every one of You!
- Also on the balcony, also in front,
also behind the cameras, everywhere.
I love you! Thank you very much!
________________
* Storm the Sorrow *
Along the way I find myself
To be confined within me
No place for any other's mind to interfere
To grasp the meaning of it all
To overcome my limits
And dance away from
any void and empty tones
Just tell me why
Just tell me how
I can survive this time
Believe yourself and look away
From all that's right within you
Leave all your worries
at the door and drift away
I've tried to peer into the core
But could not storm the sorrow
My hollow heart has bled
me dry, left me to stray
Another time without a trace
Condemn me now
Send me to hell
For I'm already failing
Intertwine the lines
That swim beneath the dark
Realize the pain we live in
Demonize the need we reel in, no
In my memories I'll dig deep enough to know
Centuries of dreams unending
Another me that yielded tears
when someone had betrayed
No time should ever go to waste
It's not that complicated
You're free to live your life at ease
No more restraint
No heed for shadows on your way
That try to steal your laughter
Your light will drive them all away
Be confident
Will I refrain?
Can I repent?
Will you be there?
Erase the page
For I'm alone and ailing
Intertwine the lines
That swim beneath the dark
Realize the pain we live in
Demonize the need we reel in, no
In my memories I'll dig deep enough to know
Centuries of dreams unending
Another me that yielded tears
when someone had betrayed
So, this is my life
And it can't break me down
Go, I will decide
Who can come in and heal my disease
Burn it in flames
Kill it and maim
Why can't you see that
you need to be freed?
Intertwine the lines beneath the dark
Every bit of pain we're feeling
Every other solemn life, no
In the memories you will find somehow
There used to be a dream unending
No more need to be alone
Intertwine the lines
That swim beneath the dark
Realize the pain we live in
Demonize the need we reel in, no
In my memories I'll dig deep enough to know
Centuries of dreams unending
Another me that yielded tears
when someone had betrayed
Someone had betrayed
- Thank you so much!
- This evening will be one we will never forget
- For us this is amazing
- We've seen all your faces, and we are very
glad we could share this wonderful anniversary...
...together with you...
...*(without you) we wouldn't be
here anymore. So thank you so much!
- This last song is for all of you.
May you all get home safe.
- And I heard there's
also an afterparty, so...
- Don't drink and drive!
- Enjoy!
__________________
* Consign to Oblivion *
- Are you ready for the last rumble?!
- Put your horns up in the air!!!
- Howl, howl, howl!
- Go!
How can we let this happen and
Just keep our eyes closed 'til 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 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
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 minds
We are so afraid of all the things unknown
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)
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
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
- Hands up everybody!!!
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
- Thank you all so very much!
We will never forget this.