Epica - Dancing In A Gypsy Camp

Album: "The Holographic Principle" CD 2 "The Acoustic Principle" (2016)
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Simone Simons – clean lead and backing vocals
Mark Jansen – growled vocals
Isaac Delahaye – lead, rhythm, and acoustic guitars, mandolin, balalaika, bouzouki, ukulele
Rob van der Loo – bass
Coen Janssen – keyboards, grand piano, synthesizer, glockenspiel, xylophone, tubular bells
Ariеn van Weesenbeek – drums, timpani

LYRICS:

We are forced to live in silence
Eating dust and breathing violence
Keeping all the suffering within
Let me be the one to hold you
Trying hard, remaining hopeful
Making sure your heart is free of sin

In mother's scorn
Blood was born
Where we belong
Our nations torn
Passage gone
A war unknown to us all

Waiting to see your conviction
Swallowing proud premonition
Clinging on to hope that slowly dies
Standing in the ruins of nature
Caused by forces born from danger
Cleaning hands where virtues lives on ice

In mother's scorn
Blood was born
A war unknown to us all

See the rays of light dance in hurricanes
The essence of life held within cruel chains
Come and see the day's unresolved history
The mirror in the eyes is reflecting fear

We can't hide cruel commands
We will see their last stand
From the heart where we belong
Forever blind to the wasteland and beyond

Find security
In this misery
Build a world of death
Hear the fallen prey
In the fire we've ignited of slaying dreams
In the ashes evil is reborn
Your mortality
Is the highest prize
Your mind's intricate
In a labyrinth turned inside out
In mother's scorn
Blood was born
Where we belong
Our nation's torn
Passage gone
A war unknown to us all

See the rays of light dance in hurricanes
The essence of life held within cruel chains
Come and see the day's unresolved history
The mirrors in the eyes are reflecting fear

See the sands of time play with prophecies
We always end up losing to life's guarantee
Barren promises feed on your demise
The challenge to be free is a lost enterprise

We can't hide cruel commands
We will see their last stand
From the heart where we belong

Yet we all know why the cruel commandments came along
Forever blind to the wasteland and beyond