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from Anathema - Alternative 4 (1998)
They flutter behind you, your possible pasts
Some brighteyed and crazy, some frightened and lost A warning to anyone still in command Of their possible future, to take care In derelict sidings the poppies entwine With cattle trucks lying in wait for the next time Do you remember me? How we used to be? Do you think we should be closer? She stood in the doorway, the ghost of a smile Haunting her face like a cheap hotel sign Her cold eyes imploring the men in their macs For the gold in their bags or the knives in their backs Stepping up boldly one put out his hand He said, "I was just a child then, now I'm only a man." Do you remember me? How we used to be? Do you think we should be closer? By the cold and religious we were taken in hand Shown how to feel good and told to feel bad Strung out behind us the banners and flags Of our possible pasts lie in tatters and rags Do you remember me? How we used to be? Do you think we should be closer? |
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from Anathema - Judgement (2006)
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 on your problems Do I know why And if you come my way again Would I lend you a hand Would I understand Solitude was never seen as loneliness And things need time And time leads to other things And playing roles Which are limited By the poor fund of knowledge In this sick, sick world We all fall down Once in a while Escaping the law of the unexplained pains |
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from Anathema - Judgement (2006)
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 on your problems Do I know why And if you come my way again Would I lend you a hand Would I understand Solitude was never seen as loneliness And things need time And time leads to other things And playing roles Which are limited By the poor fund of knowledge In this sick, sick world We all fall down Once in a while Escaping the law of the unexplained pains |
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from Anathema - Pentecost III + The Crestfallen [ep] (1995)
How can you climb a mountain to kill a God?
Why do you cross unknown lands, to kill our Gods? Why do you build walls.... to starve our Gods? Is it for the same reason you blind us? Is this why you punish our children? And rape our sisters? When will we drown? When will we burn? Will you die with us? I think so You are slicing your own wrists You are tearing out your own hearts And you are drowning your own children So you can end it ....... Or we will We are telling them the truth And revealing all your lies We do not need to climb a mountain Or to cross unknown lands..... ....... Because we are Gods And we will drown you We will burn your homes We the people, we the spirits, we the Gods. |
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from Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here (2010)
Above the clouds
We flew to heaven Through the eye of the storm Into the light And I see you in everything You're everywhere I go And it's in everything I do I dreamed a thousand years Just to be here Where everything is right Scrape those screaming skies Defy the limits and fly high And I see you in everything You're everywhere I go And it's in everything I do In you with you |
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from Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit (2006)
There's always something you won't dare to say
your good intentions, are boring, take me away if it keeps you sane, well then it's ok but, if I played it safe, would it save me? I'd like to get some rest now, if I can just ignore the truth scratching at my window, this time I got to make a move ego obliteration, stand back and watch me melt away dissolve all recognition but, I got to, Burn this wait, out of my mind running through my veins, until I dissapear This feeling is over, this felling is over me There's always something, you won't dare to say (Climbing up my wall, gonna creep between the cracks, get out of my skull, tie the rope around my neck) your good intentions are boring, take me away (Destroy all emotion, wanna rip my face to shreds cut my eyeballs open) you know, i got to, Burn this wait, out of my mind running through my veins, until I dissapear This feeling is over me. |
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from Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit (2006)
There's always something you won't dare to say
your good intentions, are boring, take me away if it keeps you sane, well then it's ok but, if I played it safe, would it save me? I'd like to get some rest now, if I can just ignore the truth scratching at my window, this time I got to make a move ego obliteration, stand back and watch me melt away dissolve all recognition but, I got to, Burn this wait, out of my mind running through my veins, until I dissapear This feeling is over, this felling is over me There's always something, you won't dare to say (Climbing up my wall, gonna creep between the cracks, get out of my skull, tie the rope around my neck) your good intentions are boring, take me away (Destroy all emotion, wanna rip my face to shreds cut my eyeballs open) you know, i got to, Burn this wait, out of my mind running through my veins, until I dissapear This feeling is over me. |
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from Anathema - Serenades (1993)
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 eyes Scent of paradise Like her, forever remains unknown Through tear stained eyes My view is growing weaker Please help my grief be vanquished Thy bed of roses, funereal drapery Impale my on your thorns Celestial splendour Pale skin and down cast eyes Farewell autumn kisses Like her, forever remains unknown I loved her ... but now she's gone (it's so hard to face) Overcoming ... tender reckoning If I too depart the earth I harmony to (our) heaven we'll elope Heavenly grace with which to ease The virgin's tears |
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from Anathema - Unchained (Tales Of The Unexpected) / Flying [single] (2008)
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 find a way back there Beyond the moon right through the air Always remembering... Always remembering... Holding on in spite of the doubt Always trying to find it out That we could find a way back there Beyond the moon right through the air Always remembering... Always remembering... Always remembering... Always remembering... |
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from Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here (2010)
Love
Is free In time In peace And now Is here This life This dream You know how it feels but Is it all in your mind? When you know how it feels to be Pushed and pulled through your life And sometimes it seems like There is life in your eyes And all that I know is I love you Yes I love you And it feels like we're already flying But the air is too thin and we're dying The clouds all around take us higher The world far below is on fire I hold out my hand just to touch you And all that I know is I love you A vision, a promise of heaven A reason for being forever You're just a whisper away We've come too far to turn back This is where we stand And face it This is who we are One step closer Into thin air We will go there We've come too far to turn back This is where we stand and face it I feel you breathe And you're just a whisper away We've come too far to turn back This is where we stand And face it This is who we are One step closer Into thin air We will go there We've come too far This is where we stand |
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from Anathema - Pentecost III + The Crestfallen [ep] (1995)
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 Shall life renew these bodies of a truth? All death will he annul, all tears assuage? Fill the void veins of life, again with youth And wash with an immortal water, age They die. |
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from Anathema - The Crestfallen Ep + Pentecost 3 (2001)
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 Shall life renew these bodies of a truth? All death will he annul, all tears assuage? Fill the void veins of life, again with youth And wash with an immortal water, age They die. |
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from Anathema - Serenades (1993)
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 Shall life renew these bodies of a truth? All death will he annul, all tears assuage? Fill the void veins of life, again with youth And wash with an immortal water, age They die. |
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from Anathema - Pentecost III + The Crestfallen [ep] (1995)
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 out and ringing in my ears The claps of thunder, scared? No, me I revere in the enchantment of mother nature Her caress it soothes and brings me joy Kneeling in the rainfall Wind's whispers beckoning Inhaling the sweet scent Elation is overwhelming The way is dim, but somehow I find it One by one the victims of life are dwindling Me, take me... grief no more if death will save me Take me, save me, show me salvation Lead me... a sacred path, reinstate creation Show me joy, grief, pride and show me your envy The way is dim but somehow I find it. |
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from Anathema - The Crestfallen Ep + Pentecost 3 (2001)
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 out and ringing in my ears The claps of thunder, scared? No, me I revere in the enchantment of mother nature Her caress it soothes and brings me joy Kneeling in the rainfall Wind's whispers beckoning Inhaling the sweet scent Elation is overwhelming The way is dim, but somehow I find it One by one the victims of life are dwindling Me, take me... grief no more if death will save me Take me, save me, show me salvation Lead me... a sacred path, reinstate creation Show me joy, grief, pride and show me your envy The way is dim but somehow I find it. |
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from Anathema - The Silent Enigma (1995)
In dreamland grandeur
I held mesmerised peace Innocence breathed again A mind's escape Leave walls of tears behind Ethereal vision haunting still ..... The solitude left me blind Beneath an open sky Sibilant cries of youth dying Enslave me with grief A moonlit era, oblivion's twilight kiss Wishes in lament Happiness in a broken vision Utopia still unborn ..... Tormented echoes of a fallen Eden I longed for her beauty Yet from dust, she returned The dream, an enigma ..... silent |
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from Anathema - Eternity (1996)
Another day unfolds, still I exist
Never felt so cold, I never knew I was turning away Though I can't explain, I only love you now that your missed As I stand in the rain, leave me to go through this I don't think I could face another sleepless night If only I could trace that elusive light In a dreammland flight to your agonizing eyes A never ending flight, my silent cries Still I close my eyes and my mind becomes clear Still I dream, and there you are... How still you lie and how your eyes bring back the fear Still I can't facen what's going on in here... Everything that I've evet felt has gone, At last my spirit breathes I see no point in going on So goodbye... It's time for me to leave |
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from Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit (2006)
Deep inside the silence
staring out upon the sea the waves are washing over half forgotten memory Deep within the moment laughter floats upon the breeze rising and falling dying down within me and I swear I never knew how it could be and all this time all I had inside was what i couldn't see I swear I never knew how it could be all the waves are washing over all that hurts inside of me Beyond this beautiful horizon lies a dream for you and i this tranquil scene is still unbroken by the rumors in the sky but there's a storm closing in voices crying on the wind the serenade is growing colder breaks my soul that tries to sing and there's so many many thoughts when I try to go to sleep but with you I start to feel a sort of temporary peace there's a drift in and out Left Channel : Not being able to speak was just fear's merchandise, callous building blocks and accidental stepping stones, relevant undercurrents, spirals of no control, crabs performing stunts, fish on the game, disgusting waves of doom, bombastic... bombastic invisible antinight, incredible fucking awfuls, mutant shit-stirrers death weighs a ton buggrit, where you going? don't believe you've just done that, look what you've done now, how many've you got left? isn't it true, just put me head in, I've already told you, I'm not going in there, I knew this was going to happen, did anyone bring a torch? stop and ask for directions, will you? we'd better go after her, fucking hell, this is strong, the left one'll be all right, I've got to get up, got to get out of here, will you stop fucking looking at me? Do you have to do that? Ah, fuck, it's been screwed in so tight? Right channel : Hello, I'm here, What about dogs? What about cats? What about chickens? What about dogs? What about cats? What about chickens? What about dogs, what about dogs? What about chickens? What about cats? What about chickens? What about dogs? What about cats? What about chickens? What about dogs? What about cats? What about, what about dogs, what about dogs? What about chickens? What about dogs? ...Cats? What about chickens? What about chickens? What about cats? What about chickens? What about dogs? What about chhhhhh...chickens? |
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from Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit (2006)
Deep inside the silence
staring out upon the sea the waves are washing over half forgotten memory Deep within the moment laughter floats upon the breeze rising and falling dying down within me and I swear I never knew how it could be and all this time all I had inside was what i couldn't see I swear I never knew how it could be all the waves are washing over all that hurts inside of me Beyond this beautiful horizon lies a dream for you and i this tranquil scene is still unbroken by the rumors in the sky but there's a storm closing in voices crying on the wind the serenade is growing colder breaks my soul that tries to sing and there's so many many thoughts when I try to go to sleep but with you I start to feel a sort of temporary peace there's a drift in and out Left Channel : Not being able to speak was just fear's merchandise, callous building blocks and accidental stepping stones, relevant undercurrents, spirals of no control, crabs performing stunts, fish on the game, disgusting waves of doom, bombastic... bombastic invisible antinight, incredible fucking awfuls, mutant shit-stirrers death weighs a ton buggrit, where you going? don't believe you've just done that, look what you've done now, how many've you got left? isn't it true, just put me head in, I've already told you, I'm not going in there, I knew this was going to happen, did anyone bring a torch? stop and ask for directions, will you? we'd better go after her, fucking hell, this is strong, the left one'll be all right, I've got to get up, got to get out of here, will you stop fucking looking at me? Do you have to do that? Ah, fuck, it's been screwed in so tight? Right channel : Hello, I'm here, What about dogs? What about cats? What about chickens? What about dogs? What about cats? What about chickens? What about dogs, what about dogs? What about chickens? What about cats? What about chickens? What about dogs? What about cats? What about chickens? What about dogs? What about cats? What about, what about dogs, what about dogs? What about chickens? What about dogs? ...Cats? What about chickens? What about chickens? What about cats? What about chickens? What about dogs? What about chhhhhh...chickens? |
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from Anathema - Serenades (1993)
In each others arms
We cried together And your tears tasted sweet All is not lost And never to be forgotten Like a shiver down my spine The lonely nights keep falling And I still want you All is not lost And never to be forgotten She's passed away but dreaming Her soul's awake and screaming The weeping willow is weeping And beneath our hearts ... ... all joy is sleeping our bliss is carried away ... sweet tears |
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from Anathema - The Silent Enigma (1995)
Throne of grief
..... in a dying essence Crying beauty ..... the fettered aura Forgotten oceans of hope ..... Betrayed aphony Sullen laughter in unventured paradise (as one) forever searching For landscapes serene Amidst the sunset of age With joyous masquerade ..... ..... the summers died |
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from Anathema - Eternity (1996)
A sacrifice in the flight of dawn
The beauty of twisted reality In my heart, my dreams A sacrifice for freedom Alone in the grace of the dark The pains of a failed generation I longed for the death of the sun Another glorious revelation Destiny's plan for ruin I danced with the shadows In tranquil chaos, I lay naked in the rain An interception of light A disturbing memory This suicide veil I wear in shame |
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from Anathema - The Silent Enigma (1995)
And I often sigh
I often wonder why I'm still here and I still cry And I often cry I often spill a tear Over those not here But still they are so near Please ease my burden And I still remember A memory and I weep In my broken sleep The scars they cut so deep Please ease my burden Please ease my pain Surely without war there would be no loss Hence no mourning, no grief, no pain, no misery No sleepless nights missing the dead... Oh, no more No more war |
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from Anathema - Serenades (1993)
And I often sigh
I often wonder why I'm still here and I still cry And I often cry I often spill a tear Over those not here But still they are so dear Please ease my burden And I still remember A memory and I weep In my broken sleep The scars they cut so deep Please ease my burden Please ease my pain Surely without war there would be no loss Hence no mourning, no grief, no pain, no misery No sleepless nights missing the dead ... Oh, no more No more war |
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from Anathema - Serenades (1993)
It is not I who sleeps
It is you who sleeps ... you sleep Insane you sleep, I sleep in sanity |
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from Anathema - The Silent Enigma (1995)
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 excistence I yearn for an answer..... can you help me? I'm drowning in a sea of abused visions and shattered dreams In sommolent illusion..... I'm paralysed Infinity distraction..... A pious human disorder Blind to passage of souls Conclusion from one remembrance Help me to escape..... Transfixed..... I gaze through my window at a world lying under a shroud of frost In a forlorn stupor I feel the burning of staring eyes, yet no-one's here Detached from this reality, in the knowing of dreams, we know the entity of ensuing agony waits to clasp us in it cold breast, in an empty room We awake and it's true I dreamt of the sun's demise awoke to a bleak morning In the emptyness i beheld fate for the dead ligth is a foretelling of what will be..... I saw a soul drift from life through death and arrive at Elysian Fields in welcoming song Yet i stand in a dusk-filled room depondently watching the passing of a kindret spirit..... and there is no song...... just a delusion of silence..... |
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from Anathema - Alternative 4 (1998)
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 |
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from Anathema - Serenades (1993)
We are scars of the old stream
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from Anathema - The Silent Enigma (1995)
My paralysed heart
is bleeding ..... My love's torn apart Desire to be free A bleak garden to cry When my inamorato died Loveless so real Lifeline of mortality Condemned to misery Restless oblivion forever A bleak garden to cry When my inamorato died My visionary dreams are vanquished Aspirations fade away Reverence dies within A bleak garden to cry When my inamorato died |
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from Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit (2006)
Seeing is believing but I don't want to know
Walk on through the wasteland I just can't let go Face down I just break down, When I see you cry all the time Hold on please Behind those grey and lonely eyes Hold on to me Unforgotten by time Tempt fate release Reality is dawning Escape Someone now is screaming As the flames fly high Think now that we're lost here But we don't know why Face down I just break down When I see you cry all the time Hold on please, behind those grey and lonely eyes Hold on to me, unforgotten by time Tempt fate, Release, reality is dawning Escape, spirit is awakening Hold on please, somewhere in the hurricane Hold on to me, hope is waiting Tempt fate release, crying in the distance Escape, calling out your name |
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from Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit (2006)
Seeing is believing but I don't want to know
Walk on through the wasteland I just can't let go Face down I just break down, When I see you cry all the time Hold on please Behind those grey and lonely eyes Hold on to me Unforgotten by time Tempt fate release Reality is dawning Escape Someone now is screaming As the flames fly high Think now that we're lost here But we don't know why Face down I just break down When I see you cry all the time Hold on please, behind those grey and lonely eyes Hold on to me, unforgotten by time Tempt fate, Release, reality is dawning Escape, spirit is awakening Hold on please, somewhere in the hurricane Hold on to me, hope is waiting Tempt fate release, crying in the distance Escape, calling out your name |
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from Anathema - Alternative 4 (1998)
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 love and hate A collage behind my eyes Remnants of dying laughter Echoes of silent cries I wish I didn't know now what I never knew then... Flashback Memories punish me once again. Sometimes I remember all the pain that I have seen. Sometimes I wonder what might have been... Visions of love and hate A collage behind my eyes Remnants of dying laughter Echoes of silent cries And sometimes I despair At who I've become I have to come to terms With what I've done The bittersweet taste of fate We can't outrun the past Destined to find an answer A strength I never lost I know there is a way, My future is not set, For the tide has turned But still I never learned to live without regret. |
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from Anathema - Alternative 4 (1998)
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... Betray withouta moment's thought Regret nothing but getting caught Your time has come and here I stand Why should I hold out my hand to you... I could never turn to you Silenced by that look in your eye Feel I'm slipping back again Black cold night I toss and turn I'm sinking, feel so ...drained Shroud me, blind me sick, week, empty, drag me ...into pain I tried so hard, don't drown me, bound to me, self indulgently ...crazed Black as coal, my sunken soul, will it ever be ...saved? Come on and twist that knife again Well I'd like to see you fucking try Never going back again An anwer won't come from me Confront your own worst enemy What does your mirror see Is it time to face up to me? |
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from Anathema - Eternity (1996)
Inside...
The dark is fading away I don't want to be alone anymore Inside... 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? Not a word passed your lips Just a golden kiss As I whispered silently "Help me through this" |
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from Anathema - A Natural Disaster (2006)
Freedom is only a hallucination
That waits at the edge of the distant horizon And we are all strangers in global illusion Wanting and needing impossible heaven Chasing the dream as they swim out to 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, the answers are hiding The sickness is growing distracted condition You can feel the disgust and smell the confusion Lying insane getting soaked in the rain Draining the sky of the guilt and the shame The nightmare is coming the clouds are descending Pulled under at two thousand metres a second! Clawing at walls that just slip through my fingers Darkness consuming, collapsing, and breaking Distilled paranoia seeped into the walls Filled in the cracks with the whispering calls Shadows are forming, take heed of the warnings Creeping around at four in the morning Lie to myself, start a brand new beginning But I’m losing myself in this fear of living [?] Freedom is only a hallucination That waits at the edge of the places you go when you dream Deep in the reason betrayal of feeling The mistakes that I made tore my conscience apart at the seems Freedom is only a hallucination That waits at the edge of the places you go when you dream... Freedom is only a hallucination That waits at the edge of the places you go when you dream Deep in the reason betrayal of feeling The mistakes that I made tore my conscience apart at the seems Freedom is only a hallucination That waits at the edge of the places you go when you dream.... |
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from Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit (2006)
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 me 'cos its written on your face sliding down now with the black lights shining I don't care where you go you won't get away from me black as the night is day filled with no sympathy marching down the hall for a misery I don't care where you go you won't get away from me... Mouth tastes of sick stomach twisting inside everything's wrong and I can't get away the gravity of fear you can feel it coming near it's coming straight for you it'll twist and drag you down I don't care where you go you won't get away from me... |
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from Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit (2006)
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 me 'cos its written on your face sliding down now with the black lights shining I don't care where you go you won't get away from me black as the night is day filled with no sympathy marching down the hall for a misery I don't care where you go you won't get away from me... Mouth tastes of sick stomach twisting inside everything's wrong and I can't get away the gravity of fear you can feel it coming near it's coming straight for you it'll twist and drag you down I don't care where you go you won't get away from me... |
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from Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here (2010)
One has to come to terms with one's own mortality.
You know, you can't really help people who are having problems with mortality if you've got problems of your own, so you have to begin to sort things out. And I thought I had sorted things out until I saw this little excerpt from this book which said, as far as I can remember: "Life is not the opposite of death. Death is the opposite of birth, life is eternal" and I thought that was the most profound words I'd ever heard about that issue, and it really put me at peace. I felt this wonderful stillness... and I thought "That's it!" what else is there to say? Life is eternal, so the opposite of life is not death, but life is eternal, it has no opposite. So what happens there is.. I suppose one just remains in a state of pure consciousness. Stillness... silence... you know, what we're looking for now, we're searching for it, or we have been searching for it, and now we have come closer to it. And it's knowing that it's already there, there's nothing to look for, nothing to seek, it's there. And it's going to be there all the time, forever more." Only you can heal you're life Only you can heal inside |
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from Anathema - Judgement (2006)
Is it the emptiest of
All your broken hearted feelings? A serious misconception To chose a path that led to ruin. I live for today Can't get away from the burning inside. Ashes to ash. Dust to dust. So quick to point the finger When you're the source of your condition. Why should I feel sympathy When you only show me nothing? I live for today. Can't get away from the burning inside. Ashes to ash. Dust to dust. I could stare for a thousand years. Penetrate your deepest fears. Leave you cold with a faceless embrace Then disappear without a trace! I live for today Can't get away from the burning inside. Ashes to ash. Dust to dust. |
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from Anathema - Judgement (2006)
Is it the emptiest of
All your broken hearted feelings? A serious misconception To chose a path that led to ruin. I live for today Can't get away from the burning inside. Ashes to ash. Dust to dust. So quick to point the finger When you're the source of your condition. Why should I feel sympathy When you only show me nothing? I live for today. Can't get away from the burning inside. Ashes to ash. Dust to dust. I could stare for a thousand years. Penetrate your deepest fears. Leave you cold with a faceless embrace Then disappear without a trace! I live for today Can't get away from the burning inside. Ashes to ash. Dust to dust. |
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from Anathema - Judgement (2006)
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 have inside You cannot hide I know you tried To be who you couldn't be You tried to see inside of me And now I'm leaving you I don't want to go Away from you Please try to understand Take my hand Be free of all the pain You hold inside You cannot hide I know you tried To feel |
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from Anathema - Judgement (2006)
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 have inside You cannot hide I know you tried To be who you couldn't be You tried to see inside of me And now I'm leaving you I don't want to go Away from you Please try to understand Take my hand Be free of all the pain You hold inside You cannot hide I know you tried To feel |
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from Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit (2006)
You know you ain't going nowhere
You're stuck inside while the mind is flying You said you'd help me in the morning Twisting on pins into my eyes And we driving on the ceiling below you Fixing up the walls with your crooked hands while you're miles away... I didn't think it'd all end up like this There's spiders on the wall and they stink of piss Dead heads lying in the corner Staring at me, making me feel bad I put my hands up to my eyes But the holes in my palms let me find a way to corner you... I can't feel my chest pushing inwards Sucking through my skin into my brain Oxygen pushing on the window Cracks in the glass let it slip away I start to cry and I keep on laughing I closed my eyes at what's left inside and then I ran away... For all the time this land For all the time in my hand Circle around, in depth found Calmness fall once again... Razor blades floating in the warm bath Air bubbles in your veins turning my hands black Whispers coming from the next room Window cleaner, keep on spying I put my hands up to my eyes But the holes in my palms let me find a way to corner me... Twelve ton hammer for my breakfast Slipping off the edge in catatonic blood Multiple decibel inscriptions Trying all they can in miles an hour All face grey and looming downwards Sniffing all the time for a ounce of silence screaming all the way... Numbers counting down inside me Solar system thoughts circle 'round my head False teeth hanging from the ceiling Feet looking of the goms of the second son I eat my hands 'cause my legs are crying You broke my neck 'cause I snapped my spine I wish you would die away... For all the time this land for all the time in my hand circle around in depth found calmness fall once again... |
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from Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit (2006)
You know you ain't going nowhere
You're stuck inside while the mind is flying You said you'd help me in the morning Twisting on pins into my eyes And we driving on the ceiling below you Fixing up the walls with your crooked hands while you're miles away... I didn't think it'd all end up like this There's spiders on the wall and they stink of piss Dead heads lying in the corner Staring at me, making me feel bad I put my hands up to my eyes But the holes in my palms let me find a way to corner you... I can't feel my chest pushing inwards Sucking through my skin into my brain Oxygen pushing on the window Cracks in the glass let it slip away I start to cry and I keep on laughing I closed my eyes at what's left inside and then I ran away... For all the time this land For all the time in my hand Circle around, in depth found Calmness fall once again... Razor blades floating in the warm bath Air bubbles in your veins turning my hands black Whispers coming from the next room Window cleaner, keep on spying I put my hands up to my eyes But the holes in my palms let me find a way to corner me... Twelve ton hammer for my breakfast Slipping off the edge in catatonic blood Multiple decibel inscriptions Trying all they can in miles an hour All face grey and looming downwards Sniffing all the time for a ounce of silence screaming all the way... Numbers counting down inside me Solar system thoughts circle 'round my head False teeth hanging from the ceiling Feet looking of the goms of the second son I eat my hands 'cause my legs are crying You broke my neck 'cause I snapped my spine I wish you would die away... For all the time this land for all the time in my hand circle around in depth found calmness fall once again... |
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from Anathema - Alternative 4 (1998)
When you're one of the few to land on your feet
What do you do to make ends meet? Make them mad, make them sad, Make them add two and two, Or make them me, or make them you, Make them do what you want them to. Make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, Make 'em lie down and die. |
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from Anathema - Judgement (2006)
How I needed you
How I grieve now you're gone In my dreams I see you I awake so alone I know you didn't want to leave Your heart yearned to stay But the strength I always loved in you finally gave way Somehow I knew you would leave me this way Somehow I knew you could never stay And in the early morning light After a silent, peaceful night You took my heart away and my being In my dreams I can see you I can tell you how I feel In my dreams I can hold you And it feels so real I still feel the pain I still feel your love I still feel the pain I still feel your love And somehow I knew you could never never stay And somehow I knew you would leave me And in the early morning light After a silent, peaceful night You took my heart away Oh I wish, I wish you could have stayed |
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from Anathema - Judgement (2006)
How I needed you
How I grieve now you're gone In my dreams I see you I awake so alone I know you didn't want to leave Your heart yearned to stay But the strength I always loved in you finally gave way Somehow I knew you would leave me this way Somehow I knew you could never stay And in the early morning light After a silent, peaceful night You took my heart away and my being In my dreams I can see you I can tell you how I feel In my dreams I can hold you And it feels so real I still feel the pain I still feel your love I still feel the pain I still feel your love And somehow I knew you could never never stay And somehow I knew you would leave me And in the early morning light After a silent, peaceful night You took my heart away Oh I wish, I wish you could have stayed |
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from Anathema - The Silent Enigma (1995)
My passions rise ..... a twilight ride
Stark light of dark night in my eyes My forlorn lust ..... My soul it burns My forlorn lust ..... My soul is burning Take you now, in my sleep I want to touch you, to scratch you deep To leave you scarred ..... To see you burn To leave you scarred ..... To see you burning |
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from Anathema - Serenades (1993)
Your souls are nailed to the cross.
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from Anathema - The Crestfallen Ep + Pentecost 3 (2001)
Be smothered in life
Listen, listen, listen The written word will devour you And burn your mind I'm burning your mind I am entering your soul My promise to love and caress you Mirrors destiny and breathes the universe Before tomb ........ (regression) Taste me Let the angels wings close And shield you I bleed for you In the shadows and the recesses You'll find dark Yearn (me) ]from the dark all is revealed Light sheds through Bleed with me We will share the light and dark Together and more |
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from Anathema - Pentecost III + The Crestfallen [ep] (1995)
Be smothered in life
Listen, listen, listen The written word will devour you And burn your mind I'm burning your mind I am entering your soul My promise to love and caress you Mirrors destiny and breathes the universe Before tomb ........ (regression) Taste me Let the angels wings close And shield you I bleed for you In the shadows and the recesses You'll find dark Yearn (me) ]from the dark all is revealed Light sheds through Bleed with me We will share the light and dark Together and more |
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from Anathema - Pentecost 3 (2001)
Be smothered in life
Listen, listen, listen The written word will devour you And burn your mind I'm burning your mind I am entering your soul My promise to love and caress you Mirrors destiny and breathes the universe Before tomb ........ (regression) Taste me Let the angels wings close And shield you I bleed for you In the shadows and the recesses You'll find dark Yearn (me) ]from the dark all is revealed Light sheds through Bleed with me We will share the light and dark Together and more |
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from Anathema - Pentecost III + The Crestfallen [ep] (1995)
My life's minds plagued by lyssophobia
In a cage solitude locks me in As the dar blackened 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 violence Blots out the light of my mind For on this night someone must pay For the cost of my life For me to escape the curse of perdition This poor, weaker being must receive pain As you wince at the actions of my sadist ways And cry at the throes of your moribund state A Daemon issues your last rites Pater Noster Upto In Terra I break, I twist, I burn, I destroy Memento Mori As the candle of life, that burned in your heart Is doused by the grip of death's hand Asmodeus, the spirit of lust Bears his necrophile ways For the wishes of the demon in black My largesse in life should be immortality Dislike the weak, mortal humans But in life there's always death A multitude are born to be damned His perdisized body will burn forever In the scorching flames of Gehenna. |
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from Anathema - The Crestfallen Ep + Pentecost 3 (2001)
My life's minds plagued by lyssophobia
In a cage solitude locks me in As the dar blackened 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 violence Blots out the light of my mind For on this night someone must pay For the cost of my life For me to escape the curse of perdition This poor, weaker being must receive pain As you wince at the actions of my sadist ways And cry at the throes of your moribund state A Daemon issues your last rites Pater Noster Upto In Terra I break, I twist, I burn, I destroy Memento Mori As the candle of life, that burned in your heart Is doused by the grip of death's hand Asmodeus, the spirit of lust Bears his necrophile ways For the wishes of the demon in black My largesse in life should be immortality Dislike the weak, mortal humans But in life there's always death A multitude are born to be damned His perdisized body will burn forever In the scorching flames of Gehenna. |
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from Anathema - Judgement (2006)
I know that I want you
I know that I need you But I can't pretend that This'll make it right You whisper your name But I can't hear you Don't leave me behind Lend me your hand I can feel them I think they're closing in Don't leave me behind Lend me your hand Let me feel you By my side Be where I can hear you I long to feel |
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from Anathema - Judgement (2006)
I know that I want you
I know that I need you But I can't pretend that This'll make it right You whisper your name But I can't hear you Don't leave me behind Lend me your hand I can feel them I think they're closing in Don't leave me behind Lend me your hand Let me feel you By my side Be where I can hear you I long to feel |
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from Anathema - Serenades (1993)
I hear your voice
It sings so softly Curious to join in A harmony to breathe forevermore Joyous the one to hear a voice In fields where grass grows tall Golden carpets swell and whisper Autumn trees will weep Immune to pity, I've grown used to grief The eternal tear reciprocates In fields where grass grows tall Golden carpets swell and whisper Autumn trees will weep Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh In bleak misery, the lifeless lie in squander Love has left me, fled from me Fragrant lust waits beside and dies Like flowers that wilt without refreshment In midday sun I sit and bide time Adorning me, a lovelorn rhapsody |
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from Anathema - Alternative 4 (1998)
Life... has betrayed me once again,
I accept that some things will never change. I've let your tiny minds magnify my agony, and it's left me with a chemical dependency for sanity. Yes, I am falling... how much longer till I hit the ground? I can't tell you why I'm breaking down. Do you wonder why I prefer to be alone? Have I really lost control? I'm coming to an end, I've realized what I could have been. I can't sleep so I take a breath and hide behind my bravest mask, I admit I've lost control. |
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from Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit (2006)
Is this the one who thougt 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 only feel what's deep inside try to change it makes no difference didn't want it didn't need it didn't want it didn't want it didn't need it didn't want it let me go looking outside inside craving for something hoping for anything - I'll believe in anything who has eyes that see - who wants to believe? in something, in anything? in one thing in freedom - looking outside inside set assist pandemonium - broken promises died alive flying high - you caught me in your eye. disintegrated insinerated this is not now I want to be - too much is coming through someone please tell me what to do looking outside inside |
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from Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit (2006)
Is this the one who thougt 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 only feel what's deep inside try to change it makes no difference didn't want it didn't need it didn't want it didn't want it didn't need it didn't want it let me go looking outside inside craving for something hoping for anything - I'll believe in anything who has eyes that see - who wants to believe? in something, in anything? in one thing in freedom - looking outside inside set assist pandemonium - broken promises died alive flying high - you caught me in your eye. disintegrated insinerated this is not now I want to be - too much is coming through someone please tell me what to do looking outside inside |
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from Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit (2006)
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 your time Chances are fading This world isn't waiting The moment is passing you by Questions lie beneath the surface The fools are fooled once again Benign coincidence We stole our existence And gladly cast it to the wind Here and now We are gone in a heartbeat A dream in the passage of time Chances are fading This world isn't waiting The moment is passing you by Slowly spinning on the wind back home |
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from Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit (2006)
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 your time Chances are fading This world isn't waiting The moment is passing you by Questions lie beneath the surface The fools are fooled once again Benign coincidence We stole our existence And gladly cast it to the wind Here and now We are gone in a heartbeat A dream in the passage of time Chances are fading This world isn't waiting The moment is passing you by Slowly spinning on the wind back home |
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from Anathema - Pentecost III + The Crestfallen [ep] (1995)
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 is much more real And the beauty is endless Only when tightened beyond recall Is your necklace a blessing Leave your pearls in the sea You undeserved bitch You are not worthy of such a treasure My hand on your heart, I know there is a beating In this oh so bleak landscape There are many mountains .........but not so much water. My Kingdom |
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from Anathema - The Crestfallen Ep + Pentecost 3 (2001)
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 is much more real And the beauty is endless Only when tightened beyond recall Is your necklace a blessing Leave your pearls in the sea You undeserved bitch You are not worthy of such a treasure My hand on your heart, I know there is a beating In this oh so bleak landscape There are many mountains .........but not so much water. My Kingdom |
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from Anathema - Pentecost 3 (2001)
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 is much more real And the beauty is endless Only when tightened beyond recall Is your necklace a blessing Leave your pearls in the sea You undeserved bitch You are not worthy of such a treasure My hand on your heart, I know there is a beating In this oh so bleak landscape There are many mountains .........but not so much water. My Kingdom |
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from Anathema - Judgement (2006)
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 the hate that feeds your needs All the sickness you conceive All the horror you create Will bring you to your knees |
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from Anathema - Judgement (2006)
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 the hate that feeds your needs All the sickness you conceive All the horror you create Will bring you to your knees |
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from Anathema - Serenades (1993)
La voie, le saule s’incline dessus du ruisseau,
Comme une personne qui se descend criant pour l'amant. La voie le saule s’incline dessus du ruisseau, Comme une personne qui se descend criant pour l’amant. Me rappele d’automne precedente, en reverence, Je m’ai engage, je m’ai engage, je m’ai engage a vous Je m’ai engage, je m’ai engage, I plegded myself to you. |
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from Anathema - Alternative 4 (1998)
When the silence beckons,
And the day draws to a close, When the light of your life sighs, And love dies in your eyes, Only then will I realise, What you mean to me |
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from Anathema - Eternity (1996)
I was not put here by anyone in fear
I came alone as me Just an idea in a long chain of discovery Surrounded by the same you Sometimes your tide pulls me out to sea And I die in a thrashing curse Sometimes we are kind More often, I doze So far up the beach that those who try to reach are burnt alive in the searing heat of the desert of my dispassion So far removed, I never hear the water 'Cept once or twice a month when I see a mirror And I refuse to believe in some of the things that are said to be here Let alone those that are not I'm trying to change my direction Ours is pathetic in my own humble estimation I love the planet The great benign she-wolf Benefactor Spinning gently on towards the red giant four aeons hence When all the rose gardens are consumed in the flash-fire of flying time She'll leave alone to you |
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Intangible. Eternal. Without beginning nor end. The nameless,
Formless energy that permeates all living things. 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. A clear calling for our inner Nature to awaken beyond our every day lives, and fears. Love Is timeless, love is purity. It is the lightless light, the Rays of the sunrise dancing on the surface of the sea. Love is You, and love is me. It is the deepest knowing, the serenity of Being, the laughter of the earth, the limitless breath of the Wind, the wonder of potential, the power of thought, the gift Of life, the highest vibration, the most profound awareness... The knower. Life. Love. Infinite. within you. Now. Always. For it is in love's gentle embrace that we come to know the Space between us. A feeling deep within that not all is what it Seems. that we bear witness to a magic as deep our own, to a Summernight horizon that whispers "welcome" to your soul. And In those fleeting, trembling moments that we share between the Worlds, it is enough for us to know that in each other we must Care, for alive and not alone are we the children of the world, Here to witness time and the unfolding miracle of the soul. There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer. There is No disease that enough love cannot heal, No door that enough love Will not open, No gulf that enough love will not bridge, and no War that enough love will not throw down. It makes no difference How deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outcome, how Muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization Of love will dissolve it all. And if you could love enough, you Would be the happiest and most powerful person in the world. |
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from Anathema - A Natural Disaster (2006)
feel free to comprehend
what I see will never end it can't be now that life is gone its too real to overcome it's too real it's too real it's too real and these days my hands are tied these days I think you'll find I'm not me now a light has died it's too real to run and hide I was floating in the water something tried to pull me under I was floating in the water something tried to pull me under I was trying to live my life it wouldn't let me let me let me let me I was trying to live my life it wouldn't let me let me let me let me feel free to comprehend what I see will never end I'm not me now a light has died its too real to run and hide I was floating in the water something tried to pull me under I was floating in the water something tried to pull me under I was trying to live my life it wouldn't let me let me let me let me I was trying to live my life it wouldn't let me let me let me let me |
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from Anathema - Alternative 4 (1998)
Goodbye, cruel world,
I'm leaving you today. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. Goodbye all you people, There's nothing you can say, To make me change my mind. Goodbye. |
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from Anathema - Alternative 4 (1998)
Countless times I trusted you
I let you back in Knowing... Yearning... you know I should have run... but I stayed Maybe I always knew My fragile dreams would be broken for you Today I introduced myself To my own feelings In silent agony after all these years they spoke to me After all these years Maybe I always knew My fragile dreams would be broken For you |
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from Anathema - Judgement (2006)
Hey you, rotting in your alcoholic shell
Banging on the walls of your intoxicated mind. Do you ever wonder why you are left alone? As your heart grew colder And finally turned to stone. Did I punish you for dreaming? Did I break your heart and leave you crying? Do you ever dream of escaping? Don't you ever dream of escaping? Pathetic oblivion. Forgotten hopes buried in your soul's lonely grave. Pathetic oblivion. Remember how you were before you locked your heart away. Did I punish you for dreaming? Did I break your heart and leave you crying? Do you ever dream of escaping? Don't you ever dream of escaping? |
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