Interpret:

Epica

Album:

The Phantom Agony (single)

[I. Impasse of Thoughts] 


I can’t see you, I can’t hear you 
Do you still exist? 


I can’t feel you, I can’t touch you, 
Do you exist? 


The Phantom Agony 


I can’t taste you, I can’t think of you, 
Do we exist at all? 


[II. Between hope and despair] 


The future doesn’t pass 
And the past won’t overtake the present 
All that remains is an obsolete illusion 


We are afraid of all the things that could not be 
A phantom agony 


Do we dream at night 
Or do we share the same old fantasy? 
I am a silhouette of the person wandering in my dreams 


Tears of unprecedented beauty 
Reveal the truth of existence 
We’re all sadists 


The age-old development of consciousness 
Drives us away from the essence of life 
We meditate too much, 
So that our instincts will fade away 
They fade away 


What’s the point of life 
And what’s the meaning if we all die in the end? 
Does it make sense to learn or do we forget everything? 


Tears of unprecedented beauty 
Reveal the truth of existence 
We’re all pessimists 


Teach me how to see and free the disbelief in me 
What we get is what we see, the Phantom Agony 


[III. Nevermore] 


The lucidity of my mind has been revealed in new dreams 
I am able to travel where my heart goes 
In search of self-realisation 


This is the way to escape from our agitation 
And develop ourselves 
Use your illusion and enter my dream...