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AFTER FOREVER LYRICS
"Mea Culpa" (2006 Best of/Compilation)
1. Mea Culpa (A-Capella Version)
2. Follow In The Cry
3. Yield To Temptation
4. Silence From Afar
5. Wings Of Illusion (Non-Album Track)
6. Beyond Me (With Sharon Den Adel)(Gruntless Version)
7. Forlorn Hope
8. For The Time Being (Non-Album Track)
9. Imperfect Tenses (With Damian Wilson)
10. Monolith Of Doubt (Single Version)
11. Intrinsic
12. Emphasis
13. My Pledge Of Allegiance
14. Who Wants To Live Forever (Non-Album Track) (With Damian Wilson/Arjen Lucassen)
15. Come
16. Attendance (Previously Unreleased) (Industrial Remix)
17. Live & Learn (Non-Album Track)
18. Strong (Piano Version)
1. Mea Culpa (A-Capella Version)
O mi Jesu, demitte nobis debita nostra,
salva nos ab igne inferiori, perduc in caelum
Omnes animas, praesertim eas,
quae misericordiae tuae maxime indigent
Sicut erat in principio
et nunc et semper et insaecula
saeculorum
2. Follow In The Cry
Behind your façade hides an indomitable
lust for power and tyranny
Taking advantage of your pendencies
Fear is the doom, doom of us all
Instead of exterminating the weed
We allow it to overgrow our function
All means are justified for the "djihad fi sabil Allah"
I embrace you, accept my soul
I shall make my life subordinate to you
Live like your rules and laws prescribe
and follow you wherever I go
Follow in the cry
Hang this heretic who's indulged in unchaste thoughts
Silence him such as the laws of the vellums prescribe
Pusillanimous massacres the order of the day
On behalf of power-hungry fundamentalists
3. Yield To Temptation
They told you not to yield to temptation and opened their arms...
...Make your own inferences...
Inscrutable chaos in my head
Inevitably
Greed will take its toll
Why
There's no place to hide
Let me free myself
The anathema's driving millions
together in the pustules of our earth
Greed and self-denial the cause of
unimpeded desecration of the truth
They told you not to yield to temptation
but offered you only hypocrisy and ruin
The phantom of damnation
threw her coat over humanity
Captive in the shackles of this indoctrination
depraved souls wished to be pure
Delight in deformity the last convulsions
are building up a bridge to a new era
The assumption of a faded supposition
Never shall I be a marionette !
The embrace that smothers...
4. Silence From Afar
When the fate leaves you behind
and drags me of to an unknown destination
Shall my tears shape a sea
on which your boat has to reach the area
When the storm is most violent
and the horizon seems to be far away
You'll find strength to go on
and conquer the misery that wants to bring you down
When silence from afar is close at hand
Our harmony becomes as elusive like time
Viribus exhaustus sentio meum finem
Meam amicam viduam relinquens
5. Wings Of Illusion (Non-Album Track)
When the fate leaves you behind
and drags me of to an unknown destination
Shall my tears shape a sea
on which your boat has to reach the area
When the storm is most violent
and the horizon seems to be far away
You'll find strength to go on
and conquer the misery that wants to bring you down
When silence from afar is close at hand
Our harmony becomes as elusive like time
Viribus exhaustus sentio meum finem
Meam amicam viduam relinquens
6. Beyond Me (With Sharon Den Adel)(Gruntless Version)
(F. Jansen & M. Jansen)
I know I'm alone, but somebody's watching me
Follows me everywhere I go
A cold flow surprised again, I shiver
The presence of something
I can hear it's breathing
Leave me alone, wherever you came from
Hearing so much voices, no one's talking
Running for something
Nothing, in the black of the night
Creeps around you
The invisible force that makes you crazy
I can't remember
How it feels to be warm
To be alone...
Without that fear deep inside me
Icons of death float on beyond me
Whispering my name and breathing my fear
The menace of insanity
Inner voices cry out for action
Defenseless as I am
Lost in the alleged paradise
I'm not sure if I am here
Or elsewhere
Searching for satisfaction
Beyond the frontiers of my comprehension
7. Forlorn Hope
An old man is proud
But behind his modest smile lies the grief
Only one picture of his brave son remains
It seems that the vicious circle
Can never be broken through
The hopeful ones gathered their strength
To achieve the apparent impossible
But all plans seem to be in vain
As a soldier of Allah he’s an example
For the others on his bloody way
To immortality
It seems that the vicious circle
Can never be broken through
Because old wounds are reopened every time
This Intifada as a device
To thwart the peace negotiations
He can rely on a reward in the hereafter
Eternal paradise awaits him
"The peace that was born today, gives us
all the hope that the children born today
will never know war between us,
and their mothers will know no sorrow.
Allow me to end by the simple words:
Shalom, Salaam, Peace."
Pugnacity
With our blood
Show no mercy
With our soul
Die for heaven
An eye for an eye
Burn to let them...
Suffer for all their actions
We will not move an inch
They won’t play in our hands
We will not tolerate those who defy
We will not hesitate
To start an attack if
You undermine the agreement
Let them suffer
Stop to let them suffer!
8. For The Time Being (Non-Album Track)
Once he was someone whose honesty made me believe
that we could rely on him
Don't adhere to much to people who have no worth
and parts of life which don't last forever
He is branded as a hypocrite,
promted by the provoked morbid will of his father
For the Time Being
Be yourself, don't conform to the opinion of others
Life is too short to fall into prudence
You needed lies to save your skin
You'd better take your own responsibilities
Desipio
Incogitabilis
I don't feel compassion anymore
You're old enough to stand up for yourself
9. Imperfect Tenses (With Damian Wilson)
Why can’t they see?
They’re to blame, I can’t forgive
It left a permanent mark behind,
My weakness, my strength
I’m waiting for the perfect sign
To reveal what lies inside
There’s no lie in trying,
Why do you fear me?
Why can’t you see?
There’s neither blame nor forgiveness
Be strong by being susceptible,
And don’t quail, your frankness is your strength
And shows their weakness
I’m / Your waiting for the perfect sign
To reveal what lies inside
There’s no lie in trying
Why do you fear me?
Why should I fear you?
An open heart is just as confronting as honesty!
Why can’t I forgive?
You must stop to condemn the past
Why can’t this fear be my guide?
It will be your strength if you dare
There’s no blame in my life
Nor forgiveness for the pain
I will show them!
Let them know who you are!
This is my/your perfect revelation
10. Monolith Of Doubt (Single Version)
The ordeal has begun
To oblige the unknown, within me
As I drown
Cannot remember, cannot think
As I sink, free
Near the monolith of doubt
Creeps the fear
The fear to lose yourself
In the severe reflection
I don't know
A flashing moment that has frozen me
My whole existence passed by
Through the trusted eyes of a mirror
But it wasn't me I could see
This monolith of everything that I have been
Is vacillated and aghast
The inexorable time has taught me once again
That my features will change and macerate me
See, it's me, my monolith of doubt
11. Intrinsic
At night, assimilate life
In the infinite realm
Of our intrinsic side
Find, the missing parts of the mind
The hidden truth behind
Our dungeon of thoughts, this labyrinth
Search, it has a reason and a meaning
Remembered and repeated
A guide, not to be ignored
Feel, there's so much to feel
Amnesia must confiscate an elusive link
to consciousness
It's there; cause there's so much we don't know
Even our own true face
It's there, facing what we can't have
Our ideals ain't true, naked and exposed
To the bareness of what's real
Boundless fantasy, becomes reality
As we breathe water and run through the sand
Whispers and a scream, flying high, falling down
And a face with no features or name
Exposed to live, we can only divine
Tell me, what's your reality?
12. Emphasis
The game is over, time has taught life
Open your eyes and embrace our so-called paradise
All the notions and thoughts
Devise a way to make it yours
The enigma of a reason
How can life be what you want it to be
So find the emphasis in your own reality
Deviate from the search with episodic glimpses
Of a spectrum no one can see or feel, nor declare
No, slowly become aware life knows its prophecies
So find the emphasis in your own reality
In all life you see
A sudden shifting of events
What's coincidence, what's faith
The ambiguity makes the sense of our destiny
Worth searching for
What can it induce
If our being was omniscient
There's so much you'll never know, but
Your life will be what you want it to be
And so find the emphasis in your own reality.
13. My Pledge Of Allegiance
She kept her beauty concealed behind a curtain of suspense
and endures her fate, molded by an ancient culture
The honour wasn’t allowed to be injured
She is going to live as her community expects her to
I find myself confined between furtive desires and feelings of guilt
the letter:
These are my last words, I’m gonna leave you
I can’t stand your narrow mindedness any longer
Forgive me...
14. Who Wants To Live Forever (Non-Album Track) (With Damian Wilson/Arjen Lucassen)
There's no time for us
There's no place for us
What is this thing that builds our dreams
Yet slips away from us
Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever
There's no chance for us
It's all decided for us
This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us
Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever
Who dares to love forever
Oh oo woh, when love must die
But touch my tears with your lips
Touch my world with your fingertips
And we can live forever
And we can love forever
Forever is our today
Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever
Forever is our today
Who waits forever anyway?
15. Come
Come join your inner wonderland
A place of all you don't understand
Come join this labyrinth deep within
The place of all miracles of your mind
Come join the magic, the power that you create
Come be aware it's an illusion you have made
Come join the flow that guides you through a restless mind
Come join the flow that moves the night
You've passed the gates now, the door to inner wonderland
You've passed the gates made to create the borders of your dream
Come enter further, do you dare?
Come face the hell you daily bear
Come pass the borders of what's real
Come touch and see and feel
Come join the flow that guides you through a restless mind
Come join the flow that moves the night
Come join this flow
Come join us all, here within your mind
Come join the magic, your body is weightless
You roam and you are anyone you can be
Come join this flow
Come join us all, here beyond your mind
As you enter this inner flow, your second part begins
And while the night embraces you, you deal with the day
Come join the flow that guides you through a restless mind
Come join the flow that moves the night
16. Attendance (Previously Unreleased) (Industrial Remix)
Beauty and destruction
Pride and honour
Freedom, elimination
Speak out loud, hide
Now enter, here is our dreamworld
View the splendid sides
You can always tell we never learned, we'll never learn
Blindness and silence
No one dares
Action and reprisal
Raise your voice, die
Now enter, here is our dreamworld
View the splendid sides
You can always tell we never learned, we'll never learn
Now enter, here is our dreamworld
View the splendid sides
You can always tell we never learned, we never will
Oh, how will the earth be
seen for the first time?
Oh, how will the earth feel
touched for the first time?
Entwine and iconize
Passion ignites
Suspicion and betrayal
The voice of violence speaks again
Now enter, here is our dreamworld
View the splendid sides
You can always tell we never learned, we'll never learn
Now enter, here is our dreamworld
View the splendid sides
You can always tell we never learned, we never will
17. Live & Learn (Non-Album Track)
I’ll be climbing another high mountain
I will climb and climb to see what lies far beyond all my restrictions
A glimpse of a better me
I’ll be diving another deep ocean
I will dive and dive to reach for what lies beyond my restrictions
A deeper me
Chorus:
I know many doors are waiting for keys in life
Waiting for courage to learn what’s kept hidden
I’ll be running another great distance
I will run and run to know what lies far beyond all my restrictions
To run into a faster me
I’ll be loving another great challenge
I will love and love to feel what lies deep within my inner chambers
Where’s the key!?
Chorus:
I know many doors are waiting for keys in life
Waiting for courage to learn what’s kept hidden
I know many doors are waiting for keys in life
Waiting for courage to learn what’s kept hidden
Keep moving on
Live and learn, the future lies open
Keep going strong
Search for the key, to open the next door
Now don’t let words hold you back from dreaming
The future is yours and you’re brave enough to choose your path
And to embrace all that comes to you
All you can bear
Hidden by dreams, hidden: So it seems
The challenge your fear
The courage is here, unlock!
Chorus:
I know many doors are waiting for keys in life
Waiting for courage to learn what’s kept hidden
I know many doors are waiting for keys in life
Waiting for courage to learn what’s kept hidden
18. Strong (Piano Version)
I see your pain, I see it grow
slowly inside you
You cannot control it
The hurting's ruthless, you cannot win
I see every smile you fake
Strong emotion, strong devotion to ignore the pain
to stand strong
Day after day
To be there for us, always
To pretend there's nothing wrong
How you feel or how it feels
No words describe it
Your body feels like a stranger
We cannot stop it, we cannot win
I see every smile you fake
Strong emotion, strong devotion to ignore the pain
to stand strong
I see every smile you fake
Strong emotion, strong devotion to ignore the pain
to stand strong
Every painful day
I'll be there for you, always
And together we will stand strong
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