epitaph

• fates warning'in "the spectre within" albümünde yer alan mükemmel parça.parçanın hemen başında akustik gitar eşliğindeki mükemmel soloyla insanı daha birinci dakikadan itibaren mahfeden,sahip olduğu atmosferle insanı başka boyuta sürükleyen,lyricleriyle son darbeyi vuran bir başyapıt.
  
  epitaph
  isolation freezes my life, coldness grips my heart
  trapped within a world, a world apart.
  desolate am i, a tempest raging silently.
  lost a barren adrift at sea.
  
  catatonic state, it sharpens life's depressing edge
  the clamor draws me closer to the ledge
  as i gaze upon this burning world i curse this life.
  a life through which i'm hurled
  
  lies, lies upon this side and that
  truthless violence deception mourned by the wise.
  thousands of voices drowning out his own
  in a popular torrent of lies upon lies
  turn to stone.
  
  so intense the pain that has crawled
  from the bleeding corpse of pleasure.
  that feeds the worm the writhes
  inside my brain.
  in the deep of night it stirs again
  in the heart of the sleeper,
  from the crack of dawn i wake to curse
  the rising of the sun.
  every life is built on hope
  now my dreams have surely passed,
  inner voices haunt my numbered days
  darkness calls me with her laughs
  
  torn between life and death inertia
  fills my soul.
  no will to be nor pride to care
  reapers take your toll.
  
  strangers cast a menacing glance as
  existence i defy.
  shatter their dream like world i'm not
  afraid to die
  
  omen bird soars the desert land to the castle
  of idolence, there lies the shadow of a man.
  see the colored flowers and marble towers
  they fade to brown
  like the unknown inscribed in stone
  he's abandoned, abandoned flesh and bones
  he's lost in silence swallowed in vastness
  drowned in the depths of a meaningless
  past