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Lyrics : Mark Jansen
Music : Mark Jansen, Simone Simons, Ad Sluijter

Versions

Album Version (08:10) – The Phantom Agony album, The Phantom Agony single
Live at 2 Meter Sessies 2004 (08:15) – We Will Take You With Us album

Lyrics

Sanguis meus tibi non iam perbibendus sit

Macula aeternitatis
Numquam detergenda
Quisnam surget et deteget
Imaginem veritates ?

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 ascensions
To subject the others and to enslave
Just to further enrich themselves

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

“This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today”

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

“For those people who lost their lives on September, 11th and those that mourn them
Now is the time for the strength to build that community
Let that be their memorial”

A disgrace on the beyond

O servator, sempiterne, te grati coluimus
Odor atrox quo nons 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 ?

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

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
Sanguis meus tibi non iam perbibendus sit

Translation

(translation : source)

Trivia

• This song contains two quotes by Tony Blair (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 1997 and 2007). The first quote (“This mass terrorism…”) is from a speech he made after the terrorist attacks on September, 11th 2001 in the USA. The second quote (“For those people…”) is from the Labour Party conference in October 2001.

“This song is dealing about the 11th of September, fundamentalism and religions. […] Especially in the middle east (arabic countries), religion is still very important in people’s lives. When people think it’s good to die as martyr […] others misuse this to gain more power.” – Mark Jansen