Favorite lyric from...

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

Run For A Fall?

Magna culpa nostra
Poena danda nobis
Usque ad finem erit dierum
Ad finem temporum

Resign to Surrender?

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


Incentive?

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 of 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

Chasing The Dragon??

Free my kind
Heal my scars
Erase the past

And then the whole song is a lyrical masterpiece

Quietus?

The infinity of recurring torment
Your comeuppance

Mother of Light?

It always put me on the edge
To think of all the spoilt lives
Today I'm one step further
Not sure if I've survived myself

Seif Al Din?

When the beautiful unreality holds out its hand
It's better not to lose yourself in blind faith

Deconstruct?

To break it we'll need everyone
Think it through: united is the only way

Design Your Universe?

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

And I also love the chorus

Safeguard To Paradise?

Your engine was so strong
But the road was just too long

and

Persuading with your force
Will never be the way
To our destiny

Linger?

Windows open up to life
Put your worries all aside
Sacred silence closes doors for opened eyes

Take the stairs to the stars
Wander long, travel far

Someday
Always

The Obssesive Devotion?

Venia ad vitam aeternam
Non mihi, non tibi, sed nobis

Tides of Time?

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

Semblance Of Liberty?

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

Menace Of Vanity?

We don't care what you say
We'll never join the games you play
We won't bleed for all your sins
We never followed your way now so
We don't care anymore
How you'll perform your last encore


The Fallacy?

Sensroium has got the best epica's lyric! It's entire great but I won't write here the whole song, just the most favourite parts:

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

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

And I also like the lyrics of Facade of Reality:

People created religious inventions
To give their lives a glimmer of hope
And to ease their fear of dying
And people created religious intentions
Only to feel superior and to have a license to kill

And many more... Epica has got the best lyrics of all symphonic metal bands I know and Mark is really great and iteligent writer, his lyrics are smart, measured and also really intereting. I enjoy a lot iterpreting his songs The rest of the band also write nic lyrics but Mark is just born to do it

Antlanet, I think you've misunderstood the game a bit....

I can't stand the way you've forsaken me
I see through the wicked games you've played with me
Do you feel the suspicion stirring up?
Can't you see that they long to give you up?




Consign to oblivion?

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

Kingdom of Heaven?