The Phantom Agony (Live) - Epica

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

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 person wandering in my dreams

We are afraid of all the things that could not be

A phantom agony

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

We are afraid of all the things that could not be

A phantom agony

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

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