CANTANTE: Epica

TITULO:The Phantom Agony

[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 persen 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 revealde 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...