SONG LYRICS & CHORDS (M)

Sound is ripping through your ears, the deafening sound of metal nears / Bodies waiting for his whips, the taste of leather on your lips / Hear the cry of War louder than before...

Alright! / Scanning the scene in the city tonight / We’re looking for you to start up a fight...

Guilty as charged but damn it, it ain’t right / There’s someone else controlling me / Death in the air, strapped in the electric chair...

Give me fuel, give me fire / Give me that which I desire, uh! / Yeah! Turn on, I see red...

Life it seems, will fade away, drifting further everyday / Getting lost within myself, nothing matters, no one else / I have lost the will to live , simply nothing more to give...

Off through the new day’s mist I run / Out from the new day’s mist I have come / I hunt, therefore I am, harvest the land...

One, two / Luck runs out / Crawl from the wreckage one more time...

Hey! I’m your life, I’m the one who takes you there / Hey! I’m your life, I’m the one who cares / They! They betray, I’m your only true friend now...

Becoming weary of your lies / You disguise the truth belies / Only fooling yourself...

Multinational corporations / Genocide of the starving nations...

Stark, bleak, wasted / Devastated / When?...

Syringe into this earth / A virus known as profit / Extract from it the goodness...

An eagle breaks the silence / And overflies the field / My eyes will try to follow...

Man the cannons, climb aboard, Together weather every storm, oh Man the cannons, draw your sword, They’ll remember us forever more / For glory and adventure, we sail the seven seas An ancient quest for treasure, a tale of destiny And if it takes forever, I’ll see us rich and free And if we band together, so it shall be, oh / Man the cannons, climb aboard, Together weather every storm, oh Man the cannons, draw your sword, They’ll remember us forever more...

Has it dawned on you yet? / Have you begun to grasp / That life is not a clock...

Piss off! Of my depraved realm / No light's to enter here, / In the Name of Satan...

Multinational corporations / Genocide of the starving nations...

A superiority complex / Pious, holy to the hilt / Outwards displays of cleanliness...

Stark, bleak, wasted / Devastated / When?...

Tell me, assure me / I really can't relate to your dishonesty / Dissension, seeking attention...

Your aspirations, unable to stretch / Beyond the barriers of what's expected / As the free thought you were born with...

Multinational corporations / Genocide of the starving nations...

It always put me on the edge / To think of all the spoilt lives / Today I’m one step further...

As some of you might know, the first concert we did with Epica was in the 013 venue in Tilburg, which is a beautiful venue, by the way, especially to have your first concert at, but we had a little problem. / As we haven't recorded The Phantom Agony yet, we also couldn't use Adyta as an intro like we do during the gigs after its release, so I decided to try and record it myself in the little studio I have at my place, just a week before. / The CD version of course is much better with choirs, orchestra and no proper arrangements, but I still think it turned out pretty well, especially since it was only recorded in one night....

This is the pre-production for Cry for the Moon, as we recorded it at my place before entering the Excess Studio to record it as a demo track. / As you can hear, it contains drums (which I then played on my synthesizer), guitars and synthesizer, and this last one has a funny story to it. / Since we only had two days in the studio, we wanted to use all the time we had as efficient as possible, so we came up with the idea of recording all the synthesizer tracks as MIDI tracks on my computer before entering the studio, so we would only have to transfer that to the recording computer at the studio....

Quietus was the first Consign to Oblivion song we played live, which was at the Graspop festival in Belgium. / As you can hear, this pre-production recording contains drums, guitars and synthesizers. The drums I played on my synthesizer again. Also, the guitars were recorded at my studio. And Mark, Coen and Yves did the synthesizer recording in their studio. / Probably the first thing that you'll notice is the sound of the intro, which isn't that folk as you can hear on the CD. The reason for this is that it was Miro who came up with this idea, while we were in the studio. For the ones who don't know who Miro is, he also works in the Gate Studio, and he usually takes care of the orchestral arrangements and sound building. We thought it really sounded cool, so we used it....

Previous times you stuck by me / Relations fine undeniably / Mutual trust and honesty...

Your aspirations, unable to stretch / Beyond the barriers of what's expected / As the free thought you were born with...

Reasoning poison in the vein / Chasing the dragon who's frying your brain / The shit that once gave you the high...

Multinational corporations / Genocide of the starving nations...