After Forever
After Forever
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A lonely heart can beat
A lonely heart can bleed
A lonely heart can be
Enclosed but isolated
A lonely heart is weak
A broken heart will see
Its broken promises
My faith is broken forever
Can’t you believe that this power within can be for real?
It smothered my skin but light now seems to freeze, but why?
A lonely heart won't break
A lonely heart won't forsake me
A lonely heart can be broken to pieces but still not defeated
So if it's all for real
The own heart should be melting
Because we're all the same
Beloved and burning forever
Can’t you believe that this power within can be for real?
It smothered my skin but light now seems to freeze, but why?
Won't you believe?
Won't you embrace it?
Can't you believe?
The power between us!
Won't you believe?
Won't you embrace it?
Can't you believe?
The power between us!
Can't you believe that this power within can be for real?
It smothered my skin but light now seems to freeze, but why?
Evoke
So wild, so beautiful and pure
All elements divine
The essence of all life
So false extensive and remote
Unbridled and erratic
Savage but glorious
It burns (...)
It calls
Its drawing power will enchant us with its might
Its massive spirit's bright
Let it flow
This endless beauty will evoke
A timeless sequence we all share
We cannot break through, no control
But to feel its true soul
Dare to foresee
Dare to correct?
Emerging waves and brightened skies
The sun that burns in your eyes
The winter blooms and (...)
It shines
Its energy is willing
It fights
Will not be interfered
With people who can't feel
It's all nature’s flow
Let it flow
This endless beauty will evoke
A timeless sequence we all share
We cannot break through, no control
But to feel its true soul...
Its endless beauty will evoke
A timeless sequence we all share
We cannot break through, no control
We should cherish it
(....)
Let it flow!
Let it flow
This endless beauty will evoke
A timeless sequence we all share
We cannot break through, no control
It is not in our command, no!
Transitory
Life at its best
You are doing fine
But your pride is (...)
As it breaks
Suddenly clear
Beautiful, but transitory
What
We won’t break easy
We won’t give in
To an unbearable pain
We’ll pull through
We won’t crack
Will endurance survive?
Oh, transitory
Pain is as life itself
Evanescent as it fades
Oh, Transitory
Life, all you’ve got
All was swept away
Now you see
What there is to miss
Silently (...) than you thought
As you know
It's transitory
Cause we won’t break
Survival is all we’ve got
And our unbearable greed
We’ll hold on
And won’t crack
And we’ll value our life
Oh, transitory
Pain is as life itself
Evanescent as it face
Energize Me
Energize me with a simple touch
Or with an open heart
Energize me, fire up this flame
That's burning between us
It's not a fantasy
Another mistery
It's just what I can feel
And something I can see
It's like a memory
And in a melody
It's just what we all know
And we all hear
I was blind
I was closed down
Could not feel
Or set it free
Energize me with a simple touch
Or with an open heart
Energize me, fire up this flame
That's burning between us
It lies in everyone
This swalling energy
It's all around us too
Electrifying you
So can't you set it free?
This virtue is the key
Just something we all know
And we are used
I can feel
It's inside me
Open up
Enlighten me
Energize me with a simple touch
Or with an open heart
Energize me, fire up this flame
That's burning between us
Energize me with a simple smile
Open up your mind
Energize me activate that light
That's given and taken
Can you believe in the power that's burning between us?
Would you believe if you open up your mind
Open up your mind
Energize me with a simple touch
Or with an open heart
Energize me, fire up this flame
That's burning between us
Energize me with a simple smile
Open up your mind
Energize me, fire up this flame
That's burning forever
Equally Destructive
Ground is shaking, waves are breaking
The wind has lost control
The air is shifting
While it's lifting
(...) gravity
A huge eruptions
Fast explosions
As it bursts the earth
Water's pounding
Waves asounding
Deadly and extreme
But we are equally destructive
Equally destructive as we are!
Don't you think we've all so gone too far?
We are just a part of this machine
In this endless stream
(...) silence predicts the violence
That is yet to come
We are senseless
Proud (...) with us
We must measure while the pressure
(...) false expense
We feel minor, punished and (...)
Betrayed by (...)
We are a part of it
We are equally destructive
Equally destructive as we are!
Don't you think we've all so gone too far?
We are just a part of this machine
In this endless stream
Withering Time
Withering time
So elusive, so shapeless
Graceful coil
Crumbling glory
It will revive
Exalt the endless chain
Exalt the withering times
Time decides what lives or dies
Time can crawl, time can fly
It can wither and erase
It can make a new beginning
There’s nothing time can’t beat
There is nothing time will need
To destroy and bloom again
A vicious circle older than the earth
Decay, destroy to reform again
Withering time
(choir)
Broken windows, blistering paint
Lashing winds, hot suns and rain
wood has splintered, walls are cracked
The elements are just vicious
All what men have made won’t last
In the future as in the past
But our memories are strong
And we’ll outlive all circles of time
Time, transcend byond all life,
Trancend byond
On! Until the end of time, on and on
Live! Before we waste our time, before we run out
Broken, blistering, lashing, splitering, cracking, crawling, flying, withering time
(Choir)
De-Energized
You take, you give nothing but misery
You are reluctant in your vanity
Your eyes are blinded by your conceit
You turn my fire into negative energy!
You are stranged by your jealousy
A weakness in your personality
Your lack of social skills annoy me
Your fuel, my hate by your negative energy!
I see a false alliance causing all this pain
I see a sick relation ending up in vain
I see a world in war because of pride and might
I feel it all getting de-energized
I am amazed by your ability
To make me feel all this insanity
I am discouraged by your falsity
You sink so low to get things done your way
(Chorus)
Unwilling, absent, dissenting
Conflicting, adverse, annoying
You’re cureless, painless, disgusting
False, ruthless, blinded, recusant
You damage, injure and destroy
Unbalanced, troubled, unfaithful
You’re senseless, heartless and fearless
Cold, hostile, distant and empty
You are a freak!
You won’t get closer to my dignity
Something you’ve lost, just like empathy
I won’t degrade to your pathetic ways
Nor let take any more positive energy
(Chorus)
Cry With a Smile
Cry with a smile
My heart is bleeding
Bewildered I'm here alone
Why is there in a beautiful moment?
Why do I feel so lost, so empty?
Cry with a smile
My heart is healing
From pain I knew that would come
Why stay locked in a deeply sad moment?
Why do I feel so cold, so peaceful?
Take my heart and set it free
Take my heart and give a time to heal
I know, in my memories you live
Take my heart a little while
Take it with you to the place you go
I know, we will meet again someday
Cry with a smile
My heart was dreaming
Of time I knew would come to an end
Why do I cry about a beautiful memory?
Why do I feel so hurt, so lonely?
Take my heart and set it free
Take my heart and give a time to heal
I know, in my memories you live
Take my heart a little while
Take it with you to the place you go
I know, we will meet again someday
Envision
I see it
I hear but cannot know how you are feeling
I sense it but can't comprehend
He's standing there waiting for the news
To hear what's wrong with her
His feelings go away beyond my own
Lonely sense it
Only imagine their fate
Just envision
The only way to relate
We try to
We say so
But we can only imagine
We want to
But can never (...)
She’s laying there crying
For the truth is stronger than her pain
Her feelings go way beyond my own
Only sense it
Only imagine their fate
Just envision
The only way to relate
Can we sense it?
Can we imagine their fate?
Just envision
There's no way we relate
For real
Who I Am
You hipnotize me
I do not dare to look
You mesmerize me
Don't even dare to feel
I want to have it just to prove I can take control
I want to have it just to show them I wont be fooled
I take it
I break it
I'll force you
Just to let them know who I am
Who I am
I'll softly touch this
I'll fire up this flame
I'll hold on gently
It's time to leave the game
I want to have it just to prove I can take control
I want to have it just to show them I wont be fooled
I take it
I break it
I'll force you
Just to let them know who I am
Who I am
I want to have it just to prove I can take control
I want to have it just to show them I wont be fooled
I take it
I break it
I'll force you
Just to let them know who I am
Oh, I want to have it
Just wait and think it over
I break it, I take it
I don't want to push it
I'll force it
Just to let them know
That is not who I am
Who I am
Dreamflight
Welcome and wake up
This is not a dream
But something in-between that and reality
Wake up if you dare
This is not a regular nightmare
Before your eyes the world will change
Slowly takes you down to unknown places
Welcome to a world that's only yours
Wake up if you dare and just follow me!
Leave me alone
My grief speaks to me where I'm still awake
Leave me alone
I'm my own (...) victim of my mind
Let go!
I fold you, I warned you though
I won't let go before you dream all your dreams
I'll play you, you want me to
You ask for more, you want to know
Leave me now, I need to know I'm in control
Leave me alone
Leave me be within my private fantasies
Let go!
I told you I won't let go
I want to show you what dreams can do for you
I'll free you, I'll overdose, I'll show you all
You want to know
As sun is light, as sun is dark
Dreams can be both, they have two sides.
Fear, I am your fear deep inside
(....)
Pain, I am your pain deep inside
(....)
Silence I'm here
No words, no songs, no pain or doubts
I'm floating, even time itself
Can never touch me, I am free.
Silence I'm here
No voices, no music
I'm roaming through this harmless place
Leave me here where I am free
Doubt, I am your doubt deep inside
I am all you try to hide
Hate, I am your hate deep inside
I am your mirror, your pride!
(....)
So face it
You know, I'm right
You have no reason to resent me and fight
You are me and I am you
Beyond the sign of the sleeping truth
Leave me please I cannot rest with you in soul
Leave me alone, I'm too tired for this crazy theories
Let go!
I'll leave you but won't let go
For I am part of what you will never do
I'll help you, I'll overdose
I'll show you all
You need to know
For I'm your dream energizer
Empty Memories
Here, here in this heart
It's cold, cold as stone
Must welcome these memories
As shallow as my eyes have slowly become fright
Frail heart left broken
Cold and numb
For its bitter agony
Here are the memories
As empty as my life has slowly become
Sting, crush and bite in my soul, my heart bleeds
Times changed forever that night
Leaving only empty memories
Empty memories won't heal the pain
We know only sorrow
There's no future in tomorrow
All our hopes have buried to young
For the years that should have followed
We know only hatred
There's no future in our anguish
For our hope was buried with life
And reprisal will be ours
It's empty
We're empty
They're empty memories
Here, here in this heart
It's cold as stone
For no feelings there to warm
It is as empty as our dreams and hopes
Now our future is gone
It stings and bites in my soul, my heart bleeds
Times changed forever that night
Leaving only empty memories
Time once changed forever that night
Leaving me... No, no, no
With empty memories
Empty memories
Empty memories
Produced & mixed by Gordon Groothedde.
Recorded and engineerd by Gordon Groothedde at Rooftop Studios, Holten & Studio Eternia, Reuver, Netherlands.
Artwork & layout by Thomas Ewerhard.
Photographies by Stephanie Pistel.
Lineup:
Floor Jansen – Vocals
Bas Maas – Guitar
Sander Gomans – Guitar
Luuk van Gerven – Bass
Lando van Gils – Keyboards
Andre Borgman - Drums
Guest appearance:
The city of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
Conducted by Richard Hein.
Arranged by Joest van den Broek.
After Forever Choir:
Floor Jansen - Soprano
Rannveig Siv Sigurdardottir - Mezzo Soprano
Amanda Somerville - Alto
Previn Moore - Tenor & Bariton
Lyrics in plain text format
