<1>
When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world.
I found that I couldn't change the world... so I tried to change my nation.
When I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town.
I couldn't change the town, so then I tried to change my family...

Now I realise the only thing I can change is myself.
Suddenly I see that if long ago I had changed myself,

I could have made an impact on my family.
My family and I could have made an impact on our town.
Together, we could have changed the nation...
And I indeed, could have changed the world.

<2>
"When I finish school, I'll be happy."

Well I finished school but I wasn't happy...
So then I thought,
"When I get a job and earn money, THEN I'll be happy."

I soon got a job but... I still wasn't happy.
"When I get married, settle down and have kids, THEN I'll be happy."

Well, I got married to a beautiful wife, bought a house, had two kids I loved,
but still... I wasn't really happy.

So then I said
"Okay. When the kids leave home, I retire and have all the time for myself:
THEN I'll definitely be happy."

The kids left home, grew up and I retired
but I still wasn't happy.

I started going to church alot lately.

"Because, when I die, I want to go to heaven...
and then... I'll finally be happy."

<3>
Una volta che avrai
Spiccato il volo, deciderai
Sguardo verso il ciel saprai:
Lì a casa il cuore sentirai.

<4>
Dormientis
Experrectus
Splendor Praeteritum
Ne memineris
Incipiens
Primi motus
Mundus in dolore
Reanimate.

<5>
"The only way you can be saved from eternal damnation is through Jesus Christ.”
“What about if a person has never heard of him?”
“God does not punish those who have never heard his name.”
“So then why did you tell me?”

<6>
I used to cross mountains and seas
and came across thousands of people.
I used to own everything I wished for,
I held the world aloft in my hands.

I once destroyed all I had,
trying to leave this place forever.
I fell in the immense darkness
struggling and failing to find help.

I asked everyone where I should go, but never got an answer.
I used to be like you, like him and her, like wild flowers in the wind.

But in the end I'm just an ordinary person
And somehow this is the only way for me.

<7>
Welcome death. Do not fight it.
Release your grip on hope.
Five keys to open our way. Five torches to light our path.
Flesh is his gift. He is your true creator.
The pain of flesh is fleeting...
True torment, lasts forever.

<8>
There is no place and no moment in history where I would stand and say,
I wish that it begins here, now.

<9>
In the end you couldn’t escape the path you had chosen
Uprooted by a seed sown by your own hand
You were laying there to rot….defeated
Starved by the one created in your own image
You cast darkness into the fates of many, unknowing you had cast yourself…
Into the void

<10>
Searching for quests, roaming the lands,
Before long, they will be sung about and become thousands, even millions of melodies.
Even though their fate is to be lost, forgotten by time, to disappear someday,
They are the very things we cannot forget -
Stories