Retrospect (Official music video)
Channel: Ruurd Woltring
Date: 2013-03-17

This song is a birthday gift for EPICA's 10th anniversary.

CREDITS
Ruurd Woltring - music, clean vocals, screams, programming
Pascal Soomers (Gunsmoke) - music, guitars
Herman Lorentzen Flaaten (Ecliptic Dawn) - lyrics, bass guitar
Samir Yanni (Ecliptic Dawn) - grunts, mastering
Tim Zuidberg (Suncrown & Vannstein) - drums

LYRICS
All my thoughts, like snow they drop
I'm bound in stasis, downing life's cup
Life, so clear within my dreams
My dreams - my home and silver screen

Youth - The spring of life
Constrained, yet full of love
Dreams are born, yet needing force

Mirroring the starry skies
By sylvan choirs, at home was I
My world made me fit for strife
Beauty was the core of life

Chorus 1:
Love of my life - the bond of two
How wonderful to live anew
All my dreams were in my reach
Finally, I'd cross the breach

The treasure chest of pristine art
Tearing chains, freeing my heart
Sounds of sweetness moving me
Expressing what our words can't reach

A chance to shine, I was granted
A chance to live my dreams concrete
A chance to free my mind, enchanted
The rock of fear I did defeat

Chorus 1

Two worlds collided
The path collapsed
Flooded by tears
Last kiss, sealed golden years

I yearn for them
As I lay here
Before my mind to Sandman drops
Sterile angels wake me up

Patiently, I see through them
Reminding me of now and then
Divided by chance, by bitter pain
Dwelling in dreams, chasing the race

Spoken:
My heart, I sense it pour, excel
My blood, as sweet as life itself

Free and healed, I glide outside
Euphoric waves restore my mind
My pack, embracing me tonight
Finally, at peace am I

Chorus 2:
Love of my life - the force of six
Immortality's kiss - the prize of risk
All my dreams came free at last
Designing our universe - free and vast

FACEBOOK
Ruurd Woltring:
https://www.facebook.com/rfjwoltring (public)
https://www.facebook.com/ruurd.woltring (private)
https://www.facebook.com/RuurdWoltringOFFICIAL (artist)

Samir Yanni:
https://www.facebook.com/Sam.Sj.90 (private)
https://www.facebook.com/Samir.Y.90 (public)

Pascal Soomers:
http://www.facebook.com/narasan.soomers

Herman Flaaten:
http://www.facebook.com/herman.flaaten

Tim Zuidberg:
https://www.facebook.com/timzuidbergprive (private)
https://www.facebook.com/TimZuidbergOfficial (artist)
https://www.facebook.com/timzuidbergfoto (photography)