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Lyrics : Mark Jansen
Music : Mark Jansen, Coen Janssen, Ad Sluijter
Versions
Album Version (13:56) – The Divine Conspiracy album
Live at the Klokgebouw 2013 (Anniversary Edition) (07:38) – Retrospect album
Lyrics
Quaestio nostra est aeterna
Ultima requies fons vitae
Sed eam ut novam ducemus
We will never know all possibilities to predict what is to come
And so we have illusions to think freely
Once we had been
Rich from within
Did not try to reach
What we couldn’t achieve
Because once we had been
Able to win
From the need to succeed
We need to be innocent to live the life we’ve lived for so long
We need to be blind enough to live the life we live right now
Who possesses your time also possesses your mind
Once we had been
Rich from within
Did not try to reach
What we couldn’t achieve
Because once we had been
Able to win
From the need to succeed
We need to be innocent to live the life we’ve lived for so long
We need to be deaf enough to live the life we live right now
Reach out, touch infinity
Life is just a memory
Time is not the entity
Like it used to be
The Divine Conspiracy
Opens up the reality
Time is not the entity
Like it claims to be
Once we had been
Rich from within
Did not try to reach
What we couldn’t achieve
Because once we had been
Able to win
From the need to succeed
We need to be innocent to live the life we’ve lived for so long
We need to be insensitive to live the life and so ignore it all
Who possesses your time also possesses your mind
Who possesses your time
(Mislead us all, we are not in control)
Also possesses your mind
(There is no trace that will lead to this place)
Reach out, touch infinity
Life is just a memory
Time is not the entity
Like it used to be
The Divine Conspiracy
Opens up the reality
Time is not the entity
Like it claims to be
Desperately we all
Clutch at the last straw
We stumble and fall
Countdown to die
To heal it all
We will never reach
Our capacities (no more !)
We cannot expand
Our boundaries
Once we had been
Rich from within
Did not try to reach
What we couldn’t achieve
Because once we had been
Able to win
From the need to succeed
We need to be innocent to live the life we’ve lived for so long
We need to be insensitive to breathe so we can take it all for granted
Reach out, touch infinity
Life is just a memory
Time is not the entity
Like it used to be
The Divine Conspiracy
Opens up the reality
Time is not the entity
Like it claims to be
Translation
| Quaestio nostra est aeterna Ultima requies fons vitae Sed eam ut novam ducemus |
Our search is everlasting Final rest, source of life But we value it as new |
(translation : source)
Trivia
“[The song] deals with the theory which the main character has revealed : As a test, God created all kinds of different religions and released those upon humanity to see if they would be able to find the true nature of them, realizing that in all religions it is actually the same. Will humanity see this or keep on killing people who finds out ?” – Mark Jansen
