[I. Impasse of Thoughts]

[Intro: Simone Simons (whispers) and Choir]

I can't see you, I can't hear you

Do you still exist?

I can't feel you, I can't touch you

Do you exist?

The Phantom Agony!

I can't taste you, I can't think of you

Do we exist at all?

[II. Between Hope and Despair]

[Verse: Choir]

The future doesn't pass

And the past won't overtake the present

All that remains is an obsolete illusion

[Chorus: Choir]

We are afraid of all the things that could not be

A phantom agony!

[Verse: Choir]

Do we dream at night

Or do we share the same old fantasy?

I am a silhouette of the person wandering in my dreams

[Chorus: Choir]

We are afraid of all the things that could not be

A phantom agony!

[Refrain: Mark Jansen & Simone Simons]

Tears of unprecedented beauty

Reveal the truth of existence

We're all sadists!

The age-old development of consciousness

Drives us away from the essence of life

We meditate too much

So that our instincts will fade away

They fade away!

[Verse: Choir]

What's the point of life

And what's the meaning if we all die in the end?

Does it make sense to learn or do we forget everything?

[Chorus: Choir]

We are afraid of all the things that could not be

A phantom agony!

[Refrain: Mark Jansen & Simone Simons]

Tears of unprecedented beauty

Reveal the truth of existence

We're all pessimists!

The age-old development of consciousness

Drives us away from the essence of life

We meditate too much

So that our instincts will fade away

They fade away!

[Outro: Choir]

Teach me how to see and free the disbelief in me

What we get is what we see, the Phantom Agony

A te spiritus noster devoratur

Et nostra anima capitur!

[III. Nevermore]

[Whispered Words: Simone Simons]

The lucidity of my mind has been revealed in new dreams

I am able to travel where my heart goes

In search of self-realization

This is the way to escape from our agitation

And develop ourselves

Use your illusion and enter my dream...