Released: January 14, 2000

Songwriter: Michael Cretu

Producer: Michael Cretu

[Verse 1]
Don't look back, the time has come
All the pain turns into love
We're not submissive, we're not aggressive
But they think we can't defend

[Chorus]
STAND UP, JOIN US, MODERN CRUSADERS ALIVE
We have the power to face the future
'Cause we are the fighters
Just fighting for our rights

[Verse 2]
They're accusing, like always without knowing
What is just fiction or what is the truth
They have no mission, they have no passion
But they dare to tell us what's bad and what's good!

[Chorus]
STAND UP, JOIN US, MODERN CRUSADERS ALIVE
We are the power who'll face the future
'Cause we are the fighters
Just fighting for our rights

[Bridge]
Est affectus
Et defectus
Semper in angaria

Quod per sortem
Sternit fortem
Mecum omnes plangite!

Nunc obdurat
Et tunc curat
Ludo mentis aciem
Egestatem
Potestatem

[Chorus]
STAND UP, JOIN US, MODERN CRUSADERS ALIVE
We are the power who'll face the future
'Cause we are the fighters
Just fighting for our rights

[Outro]
STAND UP, JOIN US, MODERN CRUSADERS ALIVE

Enigma

Enigma is a musical project founded in 1990 by Romanian-German musician and producer Michael Cretu. He recorded the first Enigma studio album, MCMXC a.D. (1990), with contributions from David Fairstein and Frank Peterson. The album remains Enigma’s biggest, helped by the international hit single, “Sadeness (Part I)”, which sold 12 million units alone.

According to Michael, the inspiration for the creation of the project came from his desire to make a kind of music that did not obey “the old rules and habits” and presented a new form of artistic expression with mystic and experimental components.