Tides Of Time

You were always there to hold my hand
When times were hard to understand
But now the tides of time have turned
They keep changing

Seasons range, but you remained the same
A steady heart, a sun to rain
You'll be the light that's shining bright
High above me

Autumn gold losing hold
We are leaves meant to fall
There is a meaning to all that fades

Freezing winds were stayed by warming words
To touch your healing to the hurt
I'll treasure every lesson learned to the embers

Fire fails, blushes pale
We will answer the call
There's a meaning to all our

Seeds of eulogy to sow along with dreams
Fill the need that can leave us grieving alone

Frail is our beauty in the end
But all we count is sentiment
A memory stays to guide the way
And whisper

Don't lose sight, don't deny
We are leaves meant to fall,
There's a meaning to all our

Seeds of eulogy to sow along with dreams
Fill the need that can leave us grieving alone
A symphony resounding in our minds
Guides us through what we knew
Would come all a long

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

Seeds of eulogy to sow along with dreams
Fill the need that can leave us grieving alone
A symphony resounding in our minds
Guides us through
As you hear me
As you do,
As you need me

Making true

What we knew would
Come all along

Simone Simons

4h52

O diferente é igual.
A igualdade é física.
Quântica.
Interligados subatomicamente.
Visivelmente belo.
Diferentemente visível...

É lindo.
É puro.
É árduo.
É duro.
É injusto.
É imaturo.
É arcaico.
É obscuro.

É lindo e puro.

Eu gosto do seu corpo...

Eu gosto do seu corpo.
Eu gosto do que ele faz.
Eu gosto de como ele faz...
Eu gosto de sentir as formas do seu corpo,
Dos seus ossos
E de sentir o tremor firme e doce
De quando lhe beijo...

E volto a beijar...

E volto a beijar...

E volto a beijar...

Banda nova!

Isso mesmo! Mark Jansen (fundador, guitarrista, vocalista e compositor do EPICA) está de banda nova! Tá ele, o Sander Gommans (ex-After Forever, agora HDK) e o Jack Driessen (ex-After Forever).
Imagino que seja um projeto de Death/Black Metal que o Mark tinha em mente. Projeto do qual a música Kingdom Of Heaven era "parte", porém, com os novos membros do EPICA, tocar essa música tornou-se possível.
Enfim, é Mark Jansen. Impossível ser uma categoria abaixo de 'foda'. UAHUAHH
Tô ansioso já. UHAUHUA

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Bom dia, senhores!

Venho lhes escrever, pois estava dando uma olhada nos tópicos da comunidade do Alborghetti no orkut (Com 16.247 membros, a mais populosa) e vi que há muitos tópicos criados por pessoas que se acham o próprio jornalista. Eu confesso que tive minha fase Alborghetti (sim, tive o famoso cacetete pra bater na mesa e afins também), mas nunca fui tão "radical" como alguns membros da comuindade. Tem um cara lá que só cria tópicos para criticar qualquer pessoa que tenha a orientação sexual diferente da dele e é claro que o alvo principal são os gays e bissexuais. E na minha percepção, ele vive demais o Alborghetti, só que nisso, esquece completamente um dos 'ensinamentos' mais belos que o jornalista nos deixou: Respeito.
Outro tópico foi criado falando sobre a pedofilia, onde alguns membros se manifestaram: "todo pedófilo é homo ou bi, mas nem todo homo ou bi é pedófilo". E é aí que mora o erro. A pedofilia é um tipo de psicopatia, não tem nada a ver com orientação sexual; a crítica aos homo/bisseuxais é tão grande que esquecemos que o X da questão não é o sexo da criança, mas a própria criança. E é o mesmo caso que acontece com a igreja, a mídia e os "preconceituosos" tratam a igreja católica como se fosse um covil de pedófilos. E não é. (mas isso é assunto para um outro post!)
Esse preconceito contra homo/bissexuais me irrita, pois tenho amigos que são.
E assim como sou contra homofobia, sou contra heterofobia, por exemplo, a lei da homofobia como está me faz ser contra, afinal, os gays vão praticamente poder fazer sexo em praça pública e quem reclamar será acusado de alguma coisa. Isso é errado. Eu acho falta de respeito até mesmo um beijo mais quente na frente dos outros, imagine algo pior. E não é só gay não, é casal hetero mesmo. Querem esquentar as coisas, que esquentem entre quatro paredes! Certo?
E se liguem, viver a vida de outra pessoa é perda de tempo! É burrice! Não seja como alguns membros da comunidade do Alborghetti! Viva a sua vida. Ela pode acabar cedo demais, entende?
É triste, mas é a mais pura verdade. :/
E vejo esse texto como um protesto sim. Burrice, hipocrisia, homofobia, falta de respeito estão denegrindo a comunidade de um cara que foi um grande homem e que continua e continuará sendo um mestre para muitos.

E nada melhor pra encerrar o texto do que usando um bordão do Mestre Alborghetti:

UM BEIJO NA SUA ALMA.



*Link da comunidade citada no texto:
http://www.orkut.com.br/Main#Community?cmm=34608

Merchan

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nhe.

E agora?

Piadas já não me fazem rir.
Horário eleitoral sim.

Fuga

Às 4h20 da manhã e eu não tenho o que escrever.
E tudo que eu queria era uma idéia.
É uma pena que a inspiração me fuja assim.
Sem dizer.

Nada a dizer.

Pensar nunca é demais.

Certo?
Eu penso demais e além da conta. Chego às minhas próprias conclusões.
Talvez seja esse o erro... ou não; é bom termos opinião, o ruim é quando nós temos 'uma velha opinião formada sobre tudo'. O problema é que eu não sei até que ponto minhas opiniões estão corretas. Claro, pra mim estão corretas, defendo-as até embaixo d'água.
Na faculdade eu estou estudando as teorias do conhecimento. Estávamos vendo ceticismo e cheguei a conclusão de que sou um cético, mas não tão cético a ponto de contradizer ou de duvidar do que eu disse. Talvez eu seja um pseudocético...
Algumas pessoas dizem que 'definir-se é limitar-se', porém, definir-se é conhecer-se na minha opinião (olha ela de novo!). Afinal, se você se define é sinal de que se conhece. Quem sabe isso seja um pouco de pretensão, mas quando você vê que não se conhece realmente, você re-define. O que é lindo. A mudança diante dos teus olhos. Assim você consegue ter a exata noção do quanto mudou ao longo do tempo, afinal, todos os dias você muda. O eu de ontem não é o mesmo que lhes escreve hoje. E nem será o mesmo que lhes escreverá amanhã. Talvez eu tenha uma opinião formada sobre tudo e seja ao mesmo tempo uma metamorfose ambulante.
No fim de tudo, eu não consigo me definir. Irônico, não?
O importante é continuarmos pensando. Refletindo sobre quem somos e sobre nossos conceitos. Talvez isso nos faça melhores seres humanos.

:*

Saudades.

Às vezes eu fico pensando em como a vida dá voltas...
Eu estava lembrando da minha turma no ensino médio, em como eu acreditava que tudo seria daquele jeito pra sempre, em como acreditava que eu mesmo seria daquele jeito pra sempre. E não sou. E ninguém é mais. E pouco do que eu achava se concretizou. Ou muito. Não parei pra pensar. O que importa é que a gente se distanciou. Minha turma foi a mesma do maternal até o terceirão. Imaginem se eu sinto falta?
De algumas pessoas, sim.
Amores deixados pra trás por medo. Talvez nem fossem vividos, talvez foi melhor assim. Ou não.
Eu sei lá, eu acho que estou muito cético. Ou não também. Talvez só seja um desabafo sem muita necessidade.
Mas quem lê isso, afinal?!
Talvez poucos.
Talvez muitos.
Ah, meu pessimismo me dá a certeza de que a primeira opção é a correta.
Mas certeza é a característica principal da ignorância, segundo alguém que eu não me lembro agora.

Enfim.

E eu. E você?

Homens vestindo sobretudo,
Mulheres melhor sem soutien.

Idéia

I
In
Ins
Insi
Insig
Insigh
Insight
Insights
Insight
Insigh
Insig
Insi
Ins
In
I

Descanso.

E aquilo que tocava
Já não me toca mais.
E aquilo que eu amava
Já não me ama mais.
Já não amo mais.
Aquilo que me esperançava
Já não me deixa em paz.
E por mais que eu fale
Como que por provocação
Não há nada mais que cale
E não quero mais falar.
Não quero mais amar.
Não quero.

Não.

Amizade who?

Desde o começo da faculdade tem uma pessoa na minha sala que não olha pra minha cara direito, evita olhar e só cumprimenta ou fala alguma coisa quando realmente não tem escolha. E vocês querem saber o motivo?
Eu também. o_o
Não fiz alguma coisa pra pessoa não querer nem me ver pintado. Talvez seja o jeito dela, o que eu creio que não seja, porque a pessoa realmente me evita. Demorou 150 anos pra me aceitar no orkut e tal.
Hoje eu chamei e ela fingiu que não ouviu. E eu só queria dar "Feliz Aniversário".
Bem, eu tentei e insisti. E desisti. E amizade pra que?
Bons são os velhos amigos (dica).

;**

The Embrace That Smothers & A New Age Dawns - "Índice"

Bom, antes eu dei a dica para vocês lerem e refletirem sobre as letras das músicas que eu postei no blog. Agora, direi em quais álbuns elas se encontram para quem gostou e quiser, procurá-las e ouvi-las. Vale a pena. ;) Fica a dica.

~The Embrace That Smothers~

Mea Culpa (The Embrace That Smothers - Prologue)
Banda: After Forever
Álbum: Prison Of Desire

Leaden Legacy (The Embrace That Smothers - Part I)
Banda: After Forever
Álbum: Prison Of Desire

Follow In The Cry (The Embrace That Smothers - Part II)
Banda: After Forever
Álbum: Prison Of Desire

Yield To Temptation (The Embrace That Smothers - Part III)
Banda: After Forever
Álbum: Prison Of Desire

Adyta (The Neverending Embrace)
Banda: Epica
Álbum: The Phantom Agony

Cry For The Moon (The Embrace That Smothers - Part IV)
Banda: Epica
Álbum: The Phantom Agony

Façade Of Reality (The Embrace That Smothers - Part V)
Banda: Epica
Álbum: The Phantom Agony

Seif Al Din (The Embrace That Smothers - Part VI)
Banda: Epica
Álbum: The Phantom Agony

La'petach Chatat Rovetz (The Last Embrace)
Banda: Epica
Álbum: The Divine Conspiracy

Death Of A Dream (The Embrace That Smothers - Part VII)
Banda: Epica
Álbum: The Divine Conspiracy

Living A Lie (The Embrace That Smothers - Part VIII)
Banda: Epica
Álbum: The Divine Conspiracy

Fools Of Damnation (The Embrace That Smothers - Part IX)
Banda: Epica
Álbum: The Divine Conspiracy


~A New Age Dawns~

Hunab K'u (A New Age Dawns - Prologue)
Banda: Epica
Álbum: Consign To Oblivion

The Last Crusade (A New Age Dawns - Part I)
Banda: Epica
Álbum: Consign To Oblivion

Mother Of Light (A New Age Dawns - Part II)
Banda: Epica
Álbum: Consign To Oblivion

Consign To Oblivion (A New Age Dawns - Part III)
Banda: Epica
Álbum: Consign To Oblivion

Resign To Surrender (A New Age Dawns - Part IV)
Banda: Epica
Álbum: Design Your Universe

Kingdom Of Heaven (A New Age Dawns - Part V)
Banda: Epica
Álbum: Design Your Universe

Design Your Universe (A New Age Dawns - Part VI)
Banda: Epica
Álbum: Design Your Universe

OUÇAM!!!!!

Design Your Universe (A New Age Dawns - Part VI)

We're blind and eager
Avarice will set us back to blank
Those who wager all will have to name a reason
If you can't let go, you will end up empty handed
If you can't control, you'll live your life in vain

Who decides about my time to come?
Who is able to break through the circle of life and doom?

Don't look back
Keep on track to break the curse
Take the chance
Design your universe

We can't undo what we have done
So show us now what we've become
Confront us with our viciousness
And our weakness
We can't evade our destiny
So show responsability
For we all surely have a sense
Of our consciousness

To take for taking's sake
Will leave a path of loss and strain
And endless breaking of faith can warrant acts of treason
If you can't let go, you will end up empty handed
If you can't control, you'll live your life in vain

Who decides about what's true or false?
Who is able to sift through the treasures from the flukes?

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 your able to
Design your own universe

Find your balance, sink into rumination

Ipsum te reperies

Potire mundorum
Potire omnis mundi

Mark Jansen

Kingdom Of Heaven (A New Age Dawns - Part V)

I. Hold In Derision

Pioneering, big breakthroughs
Proceeded by the opposition
Hold in derision all that's new
Afraid to lose their own esteem

Scorn shall be directed at the genius
Represses subtle theories of the light
To the questions of life

Quantus physics leads us to
Answers to the great taboos
We create the world around us
God is every living soul

Science, spirituality
Will have to meet along the way and
We need new drifts, another view
Expand our grip on the cryptic soul

Hope is more than a postponed disappointment

Non intellegens nil explicas
Videre nolens nil capies
Non intellegens nil explicas
Incognita non vides

Open your Sahasrara

II. Children Of The Light

Light creates us all
Pride will make us fall
Life is meaningful
Life delights us all

Light creates us all
Pride divides us all
Life is meaningful
The soul survives us all

Misled by science
Our wake up call
Conditioning cannot fool us 'till the end

III. Bardo Thödol

Guide us safely
Through the gates of death

IV. Paragons Of Perfection

Nothing here will be the same
I'll see the world through a different eyes and
I was given clarity
And the wisdom I can't deny

All that we can ever see
Until we leave this frail existence
Is just a shadow of reality
Death is not the final instance

It's not your time
You have to go back... back!
Now!

No, no, I don't want to return
please let me stay here, don't make me go back

Go back, you've got work to do

We're not alone, we are all one.

Nothing here will be the same
The smallest bit is as big as nature
Our limited capacities
Give us trouble to comprehend

We are linked in every way
And we're strong as our weakest fragment
Every word that we convey
Is an act with consequences

V. The Harsh Return

Light creates us all
Pride will make us fall
Life is meaningful
Life delights us all

Light creates us all
Pride divides us all
Life is meaningful
The soul survives us all

Greed will make us fall
Light will blind us all

Mark Jansen

Resign To Surrender (A New Age Dawns - Part IV)

Can't move an inch
But for the act to
Leave fingerprints
Freedom Farewell
Look in the lens
Answer the questions
Are you a threat?

Nec plus ultra

After all the grabbing, it's time to bite the dust
Leave behind the breaches of my trust
Cleaning up the mess is up to us

Non plus ultra

Now that all hands are tied
We're panic stricken
Wealth out of sight
Demolition, the damaged pride
The Price of Ambition

Nec plus ultra

The current system leads to profit seeking deeds
Leave behind the traces of our blood
Now the course for change is up to us

Non plus ultra

Access is now denied
We're panic stricken
Wealth out of sight
Intuition, forgotten guide
The price of suppression

Terre eos vi
Augearis
Perde eos vi
Nobis imperium

Can't move an inch
But for the act to
Leave fingerprints
Freedom Farewell
Look in the lens
Answer the questions
Will you behave as required?

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

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those
who falsely believe that they are gree
-Goethe-

Nobis victoria

Non plus ultra

When we think the end is here
And our faith will disappear

Chasing our addictions we're stunting our growth
Once we get rid of this ballast we'll be able to
Restore the balance and distribute our wealth

Mark Jansen

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 hear
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 it seems
We have captured time
So time made us all hostages without mercy

Seemingly generous fooling ourselves,
Selfishy 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

Selfishy we're venomous
But you now 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

Mark Jansen

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 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 nothin-
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 others' greed?

We consciously sign ur 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

Mark Jansen

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

Mark Jansen

Hunab K'u (A New Age Dawns - Prologue)

Nunquam remotiores ab origine
Media parte mundi
Fundius aberramus

Ultimum excidium sui

Mark Jansen

Fools Of Damnation (The Embrace That Smothers - Part IX)

Go for it
Bow to the supremacy
Go for it at last

You do believe, so I can say
That you are owned by me

Fool
Dance with me again
I am your Destiny
Mark my words, don't you ever disagree

Fool
Kneel for me again
I am your agony
Walk my way, I will never set you free

Kneel for me unknowing fool
Bow to the supremacy
Kneel for me unworthy pig
Die for the divinity

You do believe, so you display
All that we want to see

Go for it
Just do it
Walk my way just to serve me

Go for it
Just do it
Kneel for me and obey me

A humble genuflection for the onrushing
ascendancy
Not able to turn back anymore

Bow to me
Bow to the supremacy

Kneel for me
Die for the divinity

Bow to me
Go for it
Just do it
Bow to the supremacy

Bow to me
Go for it
Just do it
Die for the divinity

Believing is the cure
Religion is an opium
You'd better feed them all
Before they start eating you

Et fictum fit factum

Ne timeas obscurum
Id autem cognoscas

Ne timeas obscurum
Primum id cognosce
Deinde iudica
Post iudicandum demum age

Go for it
Just do it

Mark Jansen

Living A Lie (The Embrace That Smothers - Part VIII)

Don't believe what you see
Believe in me
In my reality
I am a man of God

God can't you hear that I'm begging you

Don't believe what you hear
Believe in me
And I will reappear
Salvation here at last

At last someone to answer all my prayers

Hope is a desert running dry
Deep inside
You refuse to face the facts,
But pray for life
Find salvation in distress
We will wait
For the day you'll break out and
Re-awake

Lies

Don't believe what you see
Believe in me
In my reality
Eternity indeed

Indeed it's the end all and be all there's

Domine lesu, dimitte nobis debita nostra,
salva nos ab igne inferiori
perduc in caelum omnes animas,
praesertim eas, quae misericordiae tuae
maxime indigent

In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti,
Amen

Living a lie

Human power
Will devour
Our senses
Brings us to forget
Human sources will not save
Him now
The power of faith
Heals us all

Hope is a desert running dry
Deep inside
You refuse to face the facts,
But pray for life
Find salvation in distress
We will wait
For the day you'll break out and
Re-awake
And we wait for the day
To discover there's no way
I can't wait at this rate
It's too little and too late
To live this lie

Living a lie

Simone Simons; Mark Jansen

Death Of A Dream (The Embrace That Smothers - Part VII)

I followed your rules
A willing fool
Branded by shame

My soul suffers from your hostile ways
I bear so many scars, bit me hard
Time to change we have to rearrange
For this has gone too far, way too far

Creating new laws and living by unwritten rules
Restricting us

My soul suffers from your hostile ways
I can't let go

Creating new spins on ancient creed to fit
Your views
Denying us

You created this world
Where honesty is not allowed
You created this world
Where ignorance is being taught

You created this world
While I am all, you'll never be
You've been drilling these
Such falsely-based philosophies
...in me

the curtain has fallen
There's no one behind
Corrected one mistake
But I am still around

Our fight is over
My scars will leave a stain
You thought that it was all easy
But I will still remain

You created yourself
Based on nothing else but lies
You created yourself
But all your aspiration died

You created yourself
While I am all, you'll never be
You're deceiving me
Now I am forcing you to see
...this

The curtain has fallen
There's no one behind
Corrected one mistake
But I am still around

Take my hand, I'm sinking, I'm reaching out
For you

Can't you see what you've done to all of us?
Torturing me has no use here anymore

I followed your rules
A willing fool
Branded by shame

My soul suffers from your hostile ways
I bear so many scars, hit me hard
Time to change we have to rearrange
For this has gone too far, way too far

Creating new laws and living by unwritten rules
Restricting us

My soul suffers from your hostile ways
I can't let go

Creating new spins on ancient creed to fit
Your views
Denying us

The curtain has fallen
There's no one behind
Corrected one mistake
But I'm still around

Your time is over
I'm taking back what's mine
You thought that you could keep me
Under your thumb and mind

Take my hand, I'm sinking, I'm reaching out
For you
In my dying dream

Simone Simons; Ad Sluijter

La'petach Chatat Rovetz (The Last Embrace)

~Música Instrumental~

Mark Jansen; Yves Huts

Seif Al Din (The Embrace That Smothers - Part VI)

The origin of a dogma
Placed in a new millennium
Vilified demons have been embraced
And given a warm welcome

The Seif al Din
Hasn't got the ghost of a chance to rust
Because it has always been kept in shape
In serving the one Almighty

The rudiments have always been misinterpreted during
history, despite the good intentions of many disciples
who's faithfull believe was strong and unswayed.
Most leaders interpret the old words to their
advantage in the attempt of gaining leadership and power
over those unfortunate enough to fall under their maliciousness
and manipulative ways. This misuse of trust will
forever stain the pages of history, echoing the exploitation
and the frailty of decent men carried away by nurtured rancour...

Perpetual disgrace fed by a belief
In the malevolence of the others

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

La Illah Illallah, Mohammad rasul Allah

Mark Jansen

Façade Of Reality (The Embrace That Smothers - Part V)

Sanguis meus tibi non iam perbibendus sit

Macula aeternitatis
Nunquam detergenda
Quisnam surget et deteget
Imaginem veritatis?

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

Our desire to die is stronger
Than all your desire for life
There is no getting away from it now
Only true faith survives

People created religious inventions
To give their lives a glimmer of hope
And to ease their fear of dying
And people created religious ascentions
To subject the others and to enslave, just to further enrich
Themselves

It doesn't matter where we die
It doesn't matter that you cry
We will take you with us

A disgrace on the beyond

O servator, sempiterne
Te grati coluimus
Odor atrox quo nos superfundis intolerabilis est

Deceive yourself by yielding
To soft words that cause no pain
Enrich yourself with different views
Learned without disdain

A disgrace on the beyond
That can never be undone
Who shall rise and unveil
The Façade of Reality?

Is there still room for new dents in old wrecks?
A disgrace on the beyond that can never be undone
Deceive yourself by yielding to soft words
Enrich yourself by making up your own mind

Sanguis meus tibi non iam perbibendus sit

Mark Jansen

Cry For The Moon (The Embrace That Smothers - Part IV)

Follow your common sense
You cannot hide yourself
Behind a fairytale forever and ever
Only by revealing the whole truth can we disclose
The soul of this sick bulwark forever and ever
Forever and ever

Indocrinated minds so very often
Contain sick thoughts
And commit most of the evil they preach against

Don't try to convince me with messages from God
You accuse us of sins committed by yourselves
It's easy to condemn without looking in the mirror
Behind the scenes opens reality

Eternal silence cries out for justice
Forgiveness is not for sale
Nor is the will to forget

Virginity has been stolen at very young ages
And the extinguisher loses its immunity
Morbid abuse of power in the garden of Eden
Where the apple gets a youthful face

You can't go on hiding yourself
Behind old-fashioned fairytales
And keep washing your hands in innocence

Mark Jansen

Adyta (The Neverending Embrace - Prelude)

O nate vulnerate
Cito veni ad me

Te amplectar et vulnera tua lingam
Utinam te haberem, mi amor caelestis

Simone Simons

Yield To Temptation (The Embrace That Smothers - Part III)

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 tool
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 hipocrisy 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...

Mark Jansen

Follow in the Cry (The Embrace That Smothers - Part II)

Behind your façade hides an indomitable
Just 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 djihed 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 the 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

Mark Jansen

Leaden Legacy (The Embrace That Smothers - Part I)

I can't look behind because I'm living in the past
Tears without emotion are filling up the unbridled hours

Sicut erat in principio
Et nunc et semper et insaecula
Saeculorum

We cannot be
What you expect from us
We cannot see through the glasses of dispair
Evade the leaden legacy

Those who separate and joing the opposite
Do not see that will get them nowhere
Can't you understand it is a similar manipulation
Wake and see the light

Doomed to wander in repressed emotions
This imaginary refuge restrains me from awakening

Fear of pertance
Doomed to sycophancy

Doomed to syconphancy...

Mark Jansen

Mea Culpa (The Embrace That Smothers - Prologue)

O mi jesu, demitte nobis debita nostra,
Salva nos ab igne inferiori, perduc in caelum
Omnes animas, praesertim eas,
Quae misericordiae tuae maxime indigent

Secut erat in principio
Et nunc et semper et insaecula
Saeculorum

Mark Jansen

The Embrace That Smother & A New Age Dawns

Bom, como vocês (ninguém lê, mas) têm visto, eu estou postando bastante letras de música aqui no blog. Venho por meio deste post avisar que vou colocar as letras das séries The Embrace That Smothers (que começou no After Forever com o álbum Prison Of Desire e teve fim com o Epica no álbum The Divine Conspiracy) e A New Age Dawns (começada no álbum Consign To Oblivion do Epica e continuada no álbum Design Your Universe da mesma banda). As duas séries são conceituais; A primeira tem como princípio que as religiões são uma forma de teste e que quando as pessoas perceberem a existência de um único Deus (sem religiões) a paz será instalada. A segunda tem como influência a cultura Maia e seus ensinamentos.
Aproveitem e reflitam sobre essas letras!

Never Enough

Can't you hear me screaming, once again?
Voices you can't hear
Because you are consumed and incontent
With everlasting greed

Don't you see me on my hands and knees?
Begging and bleeding
You're smiling as you bite the hands that feeds
But will you never see?

Always wanting what your eyes can't see
(needing what your arms can't reach)
Thinking you are in need,
Always hearing what you ears can't hear
(feeling what your hands can't touch)
Thinking you are incomplete

It was,
Never enough that I gave to you
All of the horror that you've put me through
Now can't I make up my mind this time?
This is where I will draw the line

Sacrificed my life to be with you
Why did you leave me?
There's nothing more from me you can consume
Cause you are incomplete

Everlasting need
Would you please?
Set me free
Fulfil all my needs and make me complete

Never again will I be with you
No promise eternal carrying us through
I finally made up my mind this time
This is the end, I've drawn the line
Never enough to devour your greed

Simone Simons; Ad Sluijter

Force of the Shore

Appearance is deceptive
So perfect in disguise
There's more thank 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 crease 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

Simone Simons

Run for a Fall

Do not use the past as an alibi
For all of your deficiencies always standing by
Face your negligence, do not fool yourself
Shortcomings will soon appear
For weakness shows itself

Blind from you success and all of the excess
Deaf from the praise you had

Don't cry out of self pity and forcing your way through
For I will not be vulnerable to slander made by you

In a misty veil, misplaced
Where castles in the air will be no longer seen
As something out of reach
In time the dream will be erased
So many things will never be the way they seemed
And pride will have its fall at last

Her eyes fell while the shame was written on her face
When she realised that her failures
Could never be undone again

You did not notice the manipulated hand
That overshadowed your thoughts all those years
That made you insecure
You did not notice the ancient shifting sand
That pulls you down into an everlasting sham
You will never be able to fight
Never be able to hide
Run for a fall, you'd better run

Mark Jansen

Insistência

Vou pensar em você em todo instante
Em todo momento.
E em toda a vez que eu parecer distante.
A cada tormento.
Vou pedir pra você me olhar
Pra você me falar.
Vou clamar pra você me amar.
Pra você me beijar.
O beijo quente e adocicado
Que só sua boca sabe dar.

Quero sentir o teu corpo
Cada curva, cada linha.
Quero sentir tua pele
Arrepiando a minha.
Quero teus lábios a me roçar
Teu calor a me esquentar
Quero teu carinho.
Quero tua vida e a minha
Cruzadas no mesmo caminho.

Quero uma história sem fim.
Só pra você. Só com você.
Com tudo que estivermos afim.
Só você... só pra mim.

Unleashed

Declining, all color fading
Defining, time coming for me
Rescinding, my inspiration
Receding consciusness
Set me free!

Back in the day, I can recall that
My thoughts were unclouded and sage
There was no black staining the walls of my memories
Now there's a haze pushing me sideways
And leaving me nothing to gain
Taking me back, locking me cold in disparity

Where was I meant to be?
I feel I'm lost in a dream
Long for the day I can be myself

When I'm free
When my sun has set
Released my soul forever
I'll have no regret
To be free
I'll exist again
No more lost endeavours
Nothing to contend
When I'm free

Color declines, all that defines me
Is falling away, far behind
Nothing to keep me with the time, the here and now

Where am I meant to be?
I feel I'm lost in a dream
Yearning again only to be myself

Cure me, free me, help me, see me
No more worry, no more losing
Save me, near me, help me, hear me
No more heartache, no misery
Cure me, free me, help me, see me
No more worry, no agony
Save me, near me, help me, hear me
No more heartache, no dispairing (We despair)
Cure me, free me, help me, see me
No more worry, no repairing (No repair)

Time is just a concept
And always the first thing to fade
Agony and weakness
Nothing we can ever evade
Years are cruel, they break us
Bringing on decay and despair
Awareness and perception
Something we can never repair

Freedom for me is all I'm really wanting, needing
Give me power to break out
I can't hold on for any longer
My time has come to end it all

No one to blame, fate's only random
It's nothing we'll ever explain
So it remains

Where am I meant to be?
I feel I'm lost in a dream
Long for the day I can be myself

- Free -

When will I be unleashed?
It's not the way it should be
Yearning again only to be myself
When I'm free

Unleash my consciousness

Simone Simons

Diário de Cazuza - 1978

Olhar o mundo
Com a coragem do cego
Ler da tua boca as palavras
Com a atenção do surdo
Falar com os olhos e as mãos

Como fazem os mudos