Don't believe what you see
Believe in me and my reality
I am a man of God

God, can't you give that I am begging you

Don't believe what you hear
Believe in me and I will reappear
Salvation here at last

At last, I want you, answers all my questions

Is a desert running dry
Deep inside
You refuse to face the facts
But pray for life
Find salvation's in this phrase
We will wait for the day
You began ending a way

Don't believe what you see
Believe in me and my reality
Infinity in me

This is the end all and be our last hope

Is a desert running dry
Deep inside
You refuse to face the facts
But pray for life
Find salvation's in this phrase
We will wait for the day
You began ending a way

Domine Jesu,
Demitte nobis debita nostra
Salva nos ab igne inferiore
Perduc in caelum omnes animas
Praesertim eas, quae misericordiae tuae maxime indigent
In nomine patris, et filii, et spiritus sancti
Amen

Give me our lie
You and I will devour,
Our senses bring us to forget
Children, sons and you have seen
And our cross, it gives us hope

Is a desert running dry
Deep inside
You refuse to face the facts
But pray for life
Find salvation's in this phrase
We will wait for the day
You began ending a way
And we wait for the day
To discover there is no way
I can't wait and this play
Is the bitter way to wait to end this lie


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    The Latin verse in this song is so similar to the one Mark Jansen wrote in Mea Culpa for After Forever before he created Epica, this song is the part viii of " The Embrace That Smothers " that Mark started in After Forever and continued in Epica that generally critisizes religions, or -in my opinion- the wrong things in religions...

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