英文摇滚歌曲：Epica - The Phantom Agony

（单词翻译）

I. Impasse¹ of Thoughts
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 Phantom² Agony

I can't taste you, I can't think of you,
Do we exist at all?

II. Between hope and despair

The future doesn't pass
And the past won't overtake the present
All that remains³ is an obsolete⁴ 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 silhouette⁵ of the persen wandering in my dreams

A phantom agony
Tears of unprecedented⁶ 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 meditate⁷ 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 pessimists⁸

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
III. Nevermore
The lucidity⁹ 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 agitation¹⁰
And develop ourselves
Use your illusion and enter my dream...