SHROUD OF FALSE Anathema

SHROUD OF FALSE (Words & Music: D.Patterson) We are just a moment in time, A blink of an eye, A dream for the blind, Visions from a dying brain, I hope you don't understand

SHROUD OF FROST Anathema

SHROUD OF FROST Undying odyssey ..... a myriad of times The soul has seen Through eyes of heaven The imperium of earth Nothing left to perceive Help me to escape from this existence I yearn

RE-CONNECT Anathema

RE-CONNECT (Words & Music: V.Cavanagh) The fragments of connection died Some things just won't fade with time Hide behind a transparent eye You can't see me but I can you...

Panic (Remastered) Anathema

the ceiling below you Fixing up the walls with your crooked hands While you're miles away, miles away, miles away I didn't think it'll all end up like this There's spiders on the wall and they stink of

Anathema Himsa

the unfamiliar warmth Coy gesture To paralyze Beloved Covetous Stuns the brute with uninvited praise The troubled times The tear aways Disconnected But forever demanding Cataclysm The slate is clean Anathema

WINGS OF GOD Anathema

WINGS OF GOD (Words and Music: J.Douglas) No one can find me Here in my soul Kicking and screaming Out of control Calm myself down Nobody knows No one can find me Here in my soul Hooked

Sunset Of Age Anathema

"Throne of grief ..... in a dying essence Crying beauty ..... the fettered aura Forgotten oceans of hope .....

MEMENTO MORI Anathema

walls close in on me Dementia strikes, there's no turning back Drowning in the stygian sea As those voices repeat to me my malediction Memento Mori Remember you must die A gratuitous wraith of

SUICIDE VEIL Anathema

SUICIDE VEIL (Words: D.Patterson, Music: D.Patterson & D.Cavanagh) A sacrifice in the flight of dawn The beauty of twisted reality In my heart, my dreams A sacrifice for freedom Alone in the

... ALONE Anathema

ALONE I gave you my soul You left me dying (freezing in the cold wind that screams through the silence, in the barren wastes of my heart) Within the walls Of my mind ..... alone The winter

Hindsight Anathema

That sweeps through nature like a ripple in an ocean, sending cascades of timeless wonder through the air, on the song of a bird, the freshness of the morning air.

Electricity (Remastered) Anathema

Seems like you never really knew me Seems like you never understood me Seems like you never really knew how to feel But electricity it drew you near to me What you needed was to be rid of me There were

Pulled Under At 2000 Metres A Second (Remastered) Anathema

sea The mirage ahead says that they can be free Become lost in delusion drowning their reason Swept on by the current of selfish ambition Frightened ashamed and afraid of the blame The questions are screaming

A DYING WISH Anathema

A DYING WISH I bear the seed of ruin A golden age turned to stone Elysium ..... to dust For this, a tragic journey A vision of a dying embrace Scattered earth Silence .....

Forgotten Hopes (Remastered) Anathema

Hey you rotting in your alcoholic shell Banging on the walls of your intoxicated mind Do you ever wonder why you were left alone As your heart grew colder and finally turned to stone Did I punish you for

REGRET Anathema

(Words & Music: D.Cavanagh) As I drift away... far away from you, I feel all alone in a crowded room, Thinking to myself "There's no escape from this fear regret loneliness... " Visions of

JUDGEMENT Anathema

Secure in the comfort of slumbers faint embrace. Blissfully ignorant, unaware of the imminence. Recurring memories emerge from the deep of old secrets unforgotten sleep.

HOPE Anathema

HOPE (Spoken word transcribed by Phil Morgan - These aren't part of the original lyrics to "Hope") I was not put here by anyone in fear I came alone as me Just an idea in a long chain of discovery

... AND I LUST Anathema

By the golden beauty of dusk and the sun low in our sky By the haunting shadows of trees and graves, mesmerized am I.

THEY DIE Anathema

THEY DIE All tears, restrained for years Their grief is confined Which destroys my mind An ode to their plight is this dirge Some yearn for lugubrious silence Serenity in the image of the coffins

CRESTFALLEN Anathema

CRESTFALLEN I cry a tear of hope but it is lost in helplessness The darkness eats away at the very embers of my soul For the deepest love I had has dissolved before my eyes My sorrow is bleak,

Presence Anathema

And you can't really help people who are having problems with mortality, if you've got problems of your own.

THEY (WILL ALWAYS) DIE Anathema

DIE All tears restrained for years Their grief is confined Which destroys my mind An ode to their plight is this dirge Some yearn for lugubrious silence (It is the) serenity in the image of

THE SILENT ENIGMA Anathema

THE SILENT ENIGMA In dreamland grandeur I held mesmerised peace Innocence breathed again A mind's escape Leave walls of tears behind Ethereal vision haunting still .....

Dreaming Light Anathema

Suddenly... life has new meaning Suddenly... feeling is being And you shine inside And love stills my mind Like the sunrise Dreaming light of the sunrise Suddenly... don't have to be afraid Suddenly..

Wings Of God (Remastered) Anathema

No one can find me Here in my soul Kicking and screaming Out of control Calm myself down now Nobody knows No one can find me Here in my soul Hooked on your problems Do I know why And if you come my way

ETERNITY PART 1 Anathema

I've been in tears Hope has dies in me But now I'mm here, I don't wish to leave Trapped in time A miracle of hope and change A swirling mass, no mercy now If the truth hurts prepare for pain

Pressure (Remastered) Anathema

As the pressure grows and these feelings flow Trample on bodies, bodies in holes of faith Times I've asked the lord for forgiveness While kept under a spell of a sweating locust's breath No need to tell

Alone Anathema

"I gave you my soul You left me dying (Freezing in the cold wind that screams through the silence, in the barren wastes of my heart) Within the walls Of my mind... alone The winter serenade Fell silent

THE SWEET SUFFERING Anathema

THE SWEET SUFFERING As a shadow is cast overhead I rejoice in the coming of the gloom Lifting my eyes to view what, to me, is beauty I decipher what is read in the cloud The verse is shouting

ALL FAITH IS LOST Anathema

ALL FAITH IS LOST As the dawn emerges I cry in grief Sorrows flow, the sadness of another day tortures my heart Life fades. Echoes, voices calling Within my mind. Shadows.

FORGOTTEN HOPES Anathema

FORGOTTEN HOPES (Words and Music: D.Cavanagh) Hey you rotting in an alcoholic (empty) shell Banging on the walls of your intoxicated mind Do you ever wander why you were left alone As your heart

PARISIENNE MOONLIGHT Anathema

MOONLIGHT (Words and Music: D.Cavanagh) I feel I know you I don뭪 know how I don뭪 know why I see you feel for me You cried with me You would die for me I know I need you I want you To be free of

Parisienne Moonlight (Remastered) Anathema

I feel I know you I don't know how I don't know why I see you feel for me You cried with me You would die for me I know I need you I want you to Be free of all the pain You hold inside You cannot hide

Emotional Winter (Remastered) Anathema

Your waning smile Your scars concealed So far from home, do you know you're not alone Sleep tonight Sweet summer light Scattered yesterdays, the past is far away How fast time passed by The transience of

Leave No Trace Anathema

Born to the glare of the senses Spoon fed reality infused A new inherent passive contentment You are so easily amused Here and now we are gone in a heartbeat A dream in the passage of time Chances are

EMOTIONAL WINTER Anathema

waning smile Your scars concealed So far from home, do you know you뭨e not alone Sleep tonight Sweet summerlight Scattered yesterdays, the past is far away How fast time passed by The transience of

A Simple Mistake Anathema

veiled like diamonds in.. ...time could be the answer, take a chance or lose it all It\'s a simple mistake to make to create love and to fall So rise and be your master you don\'t need to be a slave Of

UNDER A VEIL (OF BLACK LACE) Anathema

UNDER A VEIL (OF BLACK LACE) With loving passion, oh your radiance A serenade I cry Your silk lined coffin the lachrymatory To hold a mourner's tears Ethereal splendour Pale skin and down cast

RADIANCE Anathema

The light of dawn is here once more The light... Darkness is slipping away Of dawn... I don't want to be alone Is here... Won't you stay?

Judgement (Remastered) Anathema

The inequity of fate The pains of love and hate The heart sick memories That brought you to your knees And the times when we were young When life seemed so long Day after day You burned it all away All

Looking Outside Inside (Remastered) Anathema

Is this the one who thought it was insane Coming down against it all Didn't want it Didn't need it Didn't want it Twisted face of fading beauty Count the cost of suffering Cannot see the day before you

ETERNITY PART III Anathema

by innocence, a sanctuary for your mind Born alone beneath pale sardonic skies One love, one life, one sorrow I won't reproach myself this time A condemned mman, granted a sweet reprieve A turn of

Don't Look Too Far (Remastered) Anathema

If I begin to feel lighter Hold me down And I'll be yours for evermore God bless this mess I'm in For it is time To be rid of a certain sin A cool breeze down my spine And if I'm really here Then I feel

Underworld (Remastered) Anathema

If I could just ignore the truth Scratching at the window This time I've got to make a move Ego obliteration Stand back and watch me melt away Dissolve all recognition I've got to burn this weight out of

Unchained Tales Of The Unexpected Anathema

Unbroken unchained relentless to regain What we have lost A grip on reality screaming deep down within me as I count the cost Holding on in spite of the doubt Always trying to find it out That we could

KINGDOM Anathema

KINGDOM There is a whole mountain And a river runs through it If you split my mountain wide You would find many rivers Among flocks of non-white doves And non-temptable mortals The kingdom

ETERNAL RISE OF THE SUN Anathema

ETERNAL RISE OF THE SUN (Transcribed by Phil Morgan) An unstoppable end The world turns every day An ending with no end So, for this time of morning I can no longer cry Even though the story

A Fine Day To Exit (Remastered) Anathema

Long way from home Nowhere to go What made the river so cold The sweat of thoughts Trickle down my brow Soaking and stinging my eye You've got to face it head on So you can turn this thing around 'cause

PITILESS Anathema

PITILESS (Words: V.Cavanagh/D.Pybus/J.Douglas, Music: D.Cavanagh) Is it the emptiest of All your broken hearted feelings A serious misconception To choose a path that led to ruin I live for