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 EPICA LYRICS
 
 
  
 "Consign to Oblivion" (2005)
 
 1. Hunab K�u: �A New Age Dawns� ~ Prologue
 2. Dance of Fate
 3. The Last Crusade: �A New Age Dawns� Part I
 4. Solitary Ground
 5. Blank Infinity
 6. Force of the Shore
 7. Quietus
 8. Mother of Light: �A New Age Dawns�  Part II
 9. Trois Vierges
 10. Another Me �In Lack�ech�
 11. Consign to Oblivion: �A New Age Dawns� Part III
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1. Hunab K�u: �A New Age Dawns� ~ Prologue
 
 Numquam Remotiores ab origine
 Media parte mundi
 Funditus aberramus
 
 Ultimum excidium sui
 
 
 
 
 2. Dance of Fate
 
 When Darkness will reign and blind us all
 Allegiance will blind us if we do not fall
 
 We cannot tell when morning comes
 Is there a choice to live another day?
 It�s hard to find a new direction in your fragile life
 
 The precious time of your existence is now to come
 Don�t throw your life away by cheating time
 Sugared Placebos only fool your mind
 
 Now I want the water to wash away all my sins
 The wind to blow away my thoughts without meaning
 The fire to burn away my thickened skin
 
 Novas portas pandimus
 
 What is the space, the type of dance?
 I cannot tell which steps I have to take
 I�d like to leave, just run away
 My feet are tangled up
 
 So hard to face the pace of the clock
 What do you think; will it ever stop?
 So, will I fall and not get up?
 I take it all in stride
 
 Everything has a reason for its happening
 Can�t you tell it�s your own spell and
 Everyone has to dance his dance like anyone
 Can�t break free of destiny
 
 We should open new doors
 And close the ones that we�ve left behind
 
 Novas portas pandimus, et post nos occludimus
 Novas portas pandimus et post nos occludimus
 
 
 
 
 3. The Last Crusade: �A New Age Dawns� Part I
 
 Magna culpa nostra
 Poena danda nobis erit
 Usque ad finem dierum
 
 Ad finem temporum
 
 You can�t force yourself upon me
 And you never will
 You can�t keep digging in
 Desecrated graves
 
 No more innocence left to spill
 
 Don�t be afraid, participate and
 Just give us all your trust
 Your soul will be saved
 Just honour me, I�ll set you free so
 Get ready to join the
 Very last crusade
 
 You can�t get away with your crimes
 And you never will
 For you�ll have to pay the price
 And this time is near
 
 No more innocent left to kill
 
 Get ready to taste the
 Final victory
 
 
 
 
 4. Solitary Ground
 
 Living at different places
 Evading into various spaces
 My compass has broken
 I'm losing the way
 An ongoing madness has led me astray
 
 My past breathes down my neck
 And it seems now that all I can do is
 Go back to beginnings when all lay ahead
 A fading illusion now plagues me instead
 
 In me there's still a place that fulfils me
 A sanctity here that I call home, I run to
 When winter descends
 If I try, can I find solid ground
 
 I follow elusive paths
 Oh, it seems they've been written in stone
 And the door to a new life is closing so fast
 Burning the bridges will not bring me back
 
 I know that in me there's still a place that fulfils me
 A sanctity here that I call home, I run to
 When winter descends
 If I try, can I find solid ground
 Or am I just wasting time?
 
 
 
 
 5. Blank Infinity
 
 Trying to keep myself afloat upon this stream
 But a thought is pulling me down
 Pulling me all the way down
 
 We are wandering towards a blank infinity
 And extinguishing will now be the only way
 to diminish your sins
 This vortex can't be filled up again
 A hole in space and time
 
 Do you cry to the heaven's high
 when you're confined in here?
 Do you not ever wonder
 why these leaden tears will never dry?
 They�ll leave behind so many shadows in my mind
 
 High in the sky, all of the clouds are passing by
 Wait for this storm, wait for the rain,
 and wait for the tears to fall down on me
 
 Do you cry to the heaven's high
 when you're confined in here?
 Do you not ever wonder
 why these leaden tears will never dry?
 They�ll leave behind so many shadows
 Living in me, living in all the memories in my life
 
 Do you wonder why
 These tears never dry
 Time forced into life
 Living in my mind
 
 Can we ever find a way in t his labyrinth without end?
 
 Labyrinth has no end
 
 Which turn should I take?
 Left or right?
 Should I stay?
 Should I be the one?
 
 Lost inside blank infinity
 
 
 
 
 6. Force of the Shore
 
 Appearance is deceptive
 So perfect in disguise
 There�s more than what you see
 
 A semblance is protective
 A blinder for the eyes
 A place to hide and flee
 
 Flee and you�ll never see
 What you�re going to be
 If you throw away the key
 
 The truth from the past you can�t make it last
 
 Flee and walk away
 From what you are this day
 If you are afraid to stay
 
 Beyond the shore the sea is filled up
 with sentiment and strength
 Here lie the thoughts imprisoned
 A field of forces and laments
 
 How can we hide here
 We need to change our ways
 How can we tell lies here
 We turn our eyes away
 
 From the truth
 From the past
 You cannot
 Make it last
 
 If you do not cease to run away from truth
 You will never see the shadow
 of your dying youth
 
 A façade is what we all possess
 But on the inside it stays a mess
 
 Superficial changes won�t recall the past
 Don�t deny the clock is ticking
 and it�s racing fast
 
 Fading tokens of our latter days
 Make us think we need to change our ways
 
 Deep, the feelings hide
 They�re wasted from within
 And my shell will never break
 
 Appearance is deceptive
 So perfect in disguise
 A place to flee and hide and run away
 Lift the shadow
 
 
 
 
 7. Quietus
 
 The culprit, you act before thinking
 Caught in your ignorant sin
 And lying to your own reflection,
 you thought you could hide
 
 Deprived of my own innocence, denied
 
 The infinity of recurring torment, your comeuppance
 
 See, hear the torture inside
 Devouring what was left of my pride
 You thought it�s not going to happen to you,
 thought you could hide
 
 The infinity of recurring torment, your comeuppance
 Dwelling in a mind, mixed up and
 Your regret has spread over the sea
 
 
 
 
 8. Mother of Light: �A New Age Dawns�  Part II
 
 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
 
 Reality is sometimes stranger than fiction
 Whatever happens in my dreams
 I know it can�t be worse than this
 So I prefer to sleep
 
 I am searching
 ~ without vision ~
 For the answers in the dirt
 
 I am waiting
 ~ just for nothing ~
 For the day that I�ll be heard
 
 You�re the sea in which I�m floating
 And I lose myself in you
 I am feeling these sensations
 I communicate with you
 
 I am looking
 ~ without vision ~
 For a different kind of way
 
 I am thinking
 ~ just for nothing ~
 About that specific day
 
 You�re the night so you�re the dark side
 Of the day you�ll never see
 You�re the past but everlasting
 Can you share one day with me?
 
 You�re the hand that I rejected
 But I can�t forgive myself
 I am selfish and not worthy
 To think of, even to die for
 
 Tomorrow, don�t know where I�ll be
 I need some place to go now
 So do you know the way I feel
 Or shall I give up my belief?
 
 You�re the lock I�ve never opened
 �Cause I threw away the key
 
 I�m enclosed within my own thoughts
 That will never set me free
 
 You�re the question to the answer
 And without there�ll never be
 Any thought in this direction
 You�ve created this in me
 
 Serenity is taking over all I am, it gives me peace
 And all I see are visions of my destiny
 Why should I bleed and pay for the others� greed?
 
 We consciously sign our own sentence of death
 How can you go on, did you forget
 What we have learnt from the past?
 We can�t go on killing ourselves
 And with us all the rest
 Why can�t you see, don�t you regret?
 
 I am alone with all my thoughts
 Alone without a hope and
 I lost the thing I needed most
 I feel I can�t survive this fall
 
 
 
 
 9. Trois Vierges
 
 Memory, fading out
 Its presence still lingers in my mind
 Listen to your inner voice
 There's no escape, there's no other choice
 
 A foolish fate that came about
 Death could not leave without
 Don't try to scour your inane soul
 It would be labour lost
 
 Deep inside hides a lie
 Where can we try to seek
 A way so this will die
 
 Innocence died when they took his mind
 And they tried to leave him behind
 Not even a cascade of tears will save you
 And keep you away from harm
 
 Concinnity of destiny
 Is not what you wished it to be
 
 Blinded by love
 Between lust and hate
 You scarred your fate
 There�s no time to waste
 
 Ride for your own ruin
 Odium became your opium
 
 Please don�t let me bleed for all eternity
 
 Please leave me be in my own misery
 
 
 
 
 10. Another Me �In Lack�ech�
 
 If you search for enrichment
 And injure others
 Earning more that you can spend
 You�ll pass the borders
 
 When you think you�ve succeeded
 But something�s missing
 Means you have been defeated
 By greed, your weakness
 
 This fantasy is not enough for me
 I want it, I�ll take it away from you
 Your misery that softly incites me
 All I do is using, abusing you
 
 Life is often miserable
 In the search for happiness
 The power so desirable
 They bring so much distress
 
 Life is often pitiful
 In the search for blessedness
 If we weren�t so insatiable
 There would be much more than less
 
 I cannot see why you�d be another me
 
 I just take care of myself and no-one else
 
 Life is often cynical
 In the search for hopefulness
 We�re only wanting more and more,
 So we got into this mess
 
 All that you�ve taken from others
 Will be taken from you
 All that your dissonance smothers
 Will then come back to you
 Whatever happens tomorrow, and whatever you do
 Just keep in mind, that se source and end is you
 
 In Lack�ech
 
 Never finding fulfilment, the source and end is you
 
 
 
 
 11. Consign to Oblivion: �A New Age Dawns� Part III
 
 How can we let this happen and
 Just keep our eyes closed �till the end
 
 The only thing that counts is the prosperity of today
 Most important to us is that our bills get paid
 
 Our good intentions have always been delayed
 
 How can we let this happen and
 Just keep our eyes closed �till the end
 When we will stand in front of heaven�s gate
 It will be too late!
 
 Try to unlearn all that you�ve learnt,
 try to listen to your heart
 No, we can�t understand the universe
 by just using our mind
 We are so afraid of all the things unknown
 
 A must we appease is the lust to get laid
 Nothing really matters, just devouring our prey
 
 Our good intentions have always been delayed so
 Our generous acts have always come too late
 
 We are so afraid of all the things unknown
 We just flee into a dream that never comes true
 
 Low to the ground we feel safe
 Low to the ground we feel brave
 
 Oblivisci tempta quod didicisti
 
 Open your eyes; we�re not in paradise
 How can�t you see, this stress is killing me
 Fulfil your dreams; life is not what is seems
 We have captured time
 so time made us all hostages without mercy
 
 Seemingly generous fooling ourselves,
 
 Selfishly venomous time tells
 
 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
 
 We all think we�re generous
 But we only fool ourselves
 The only thing that matters is
 Our way and our vision
 
 Selfishly we�re venomous
 But you know the time tells us
 There is more to life than our
 Higher positions, race for perfection
 Better, faster
 We must return to the laws of the nature
 Free ourselves from madness
 
 
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