"The Phantom Agony" lyrics - EPICA

Act I: Impasse of Thoughts

[Intro: Simone Simons (whispers) and Choir]
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?

Act II: Between hope and despair

[Verse: Choir]
The future doesn't pass
And the past won't overtake the present
All that remains is an obsolete illusion

[Chorus: Choir]
We are afraid of all the things that could not be
A phantom agony

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

[Chorus: Choir]
We are afraid of all the things that could not be
A phantom agony

[Refrain: Mark Jansen & Simone Simons]
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

[Verse: Choir]
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?

[Chorus: Choir]
We are afraid of all the things that could not be
A phantom agony

[Refrain: Mark Jansen & Simone Simons]
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

[Outro: Choir]
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

Act III: Nevermore

[Whispered Words: Simone Simons]
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...