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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 goes on The script is being written Start shape our destiny We are the bible... Believe in angels, they believe in you Oh, spread your wings, there is more than this darkness Open your eyes, the horizon has no end You can see forever, you can know all time You can live forever... Every dusk can blind, as a sunrise on a day Every sunset there is, lifts the eternal sunrise And the sunrise ends when the sun dies... And every ending has an eternal beginning... We are the bible... |
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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 - 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 - Serenades (1993)
Your souls are nailed to the cross.
The blood still runs But the wounds will heal And leave scars of rememberance. |
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We are scars of the old stream
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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 - 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)
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 - 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 - 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 - The Silent Enigma (1995)
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 ..... Where Echonia wept I sank into the silent desert Fallen am I, In the solitude of a broken promise ..... I cried alone My empyrean is a scar From the memory of her beautiful life Forever was her name Fulfilment lost in a lifetime of regret Ornate peace would cover me As I would die now ..... For one last wish |
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from Anathema - The Silent Enigma (1995)
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 to me |
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from Anathema - The Silent Enigma (1995)
I'm lying here, oh so peaceful .....
..... In serene harmony I'm dreaming yet I feel awake I'm dreaming yet I am awake Subjected to pain. Dark screams repent And in a foreboding rage, a soul will die ..... ..... a soul will die My mind is burning, I'm burning I can't feel you anymore Have I reached my point? Will I drown in delusion? The winds fell silent And in my cerulean twilight I left myself once again ..... it's overwhelming Suffer yourself, and let me die here awhile |
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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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Pentecost III + The Crestfallen [ep] (1995)
Wandering aimlessly thorough dead filled fields.
Rewards are just, who knows what absence yields? By the golden beauty of dusk And the sun low in our sky. By the haunting shadows of trees and graves, mesmerized am I. Searching deep inside, trying to reach my dreams I see a face stare back at me. . . Oh, so serene. By the golden beauty of dusk And the sun low in our sky. By the haunting shadows of trees And graves, mesmerized am I. Those whispering shades. . . Sad, silent glades Pain is a far away land. Misery, a lifetimes journey. . . . . . And I lust for death (Judgment) |
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from Anathema - Pentecost III + The Crestfallen [ep] (1995)
I cry a tear of hate but it is lost in helplessness.
The darkness eats away at the very embers of my soul For the deepest love I have has dissolved before my eyes. My sorrow is bleak, I beg for deliverance. Lord, in your mercy, hear my prayer. All emotion is consumed by an inner silence. All grief is unassuaged by disconsolate tears. I want for nothing, I live for nothing. I am waiting to die, but I am afraid dying. Lord, in your mercy, hear my prayer. Crestfallen emotion. Wallowing in guilt trying and drowning forevermore. Falling deeper into fear. My inner self is now a sleeper of stone. |
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from Anathema - Pentecost III + The Crestfallen [ep] (1995)
Somniferous whisperings of scarlet fields
Sleep calling me and my dreams are wondrous My reality abandoned (I traverse afar) Not a care if I never wake |
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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 - 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 - 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 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 - 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 - 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 - Eternity (1996)
Where are you tonight?
Wild flower in starlit heaven Still enchanted in flight Obsessions lament to freedom A timeless word, the meanings changed But I'm still burning in your flames, Incessant, lustral mmasquerade, Unengaged, dilit love didn't taste the same And I still wonder if you ever wonder the same And I still wonder... |
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from Anathema - Eternity (1996)
Where are you tonight?
Wild flower in starlit heaven Still enchanted in flight Obsessions lament to freedom A timeless word, the meanings changed But I'm still burning in your flames, Incessant, lustral masquerade, Unengaged, dimlit love didn't taste the same And I still wonder if you ever wonder the same And I still wonder... |
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from Anathema - Eternity (1996)
Reaching out...
How things look different on the way down Disillusioned, I've lost desire Will I burn in the unforgiving fire? From the flames, I walk away I've found a way to erase the pain An empty bottle, my receptacle A guardian angel called escape Don't dwell on the forthcoming As I know it won't be happening And you know, when I'm gone You'll hear my cries on the wind |
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from Anathema - Eternity (1996)
As I turn away from a life so grey,
Where have all the flowers gone? Just what went wrong? Innocence, insanity, irony Stone cold reality Oh lord come and save me Do you think we're forever? I've been in tears Hope has died in me But now I'm 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 Do you think we're forever? The unseen, the eternal river of understanding Persevering, dying escape Forever tempting fate Take me back A flood of tears bonding my soul with my mind A dream of love, reality closing in behind As I close my eyes, the vision dies As I bid my last farewell to mankind The unseen, the eternal... |
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from Anathema - Eternity (1996)
Destiny, Infinity, Eternity
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from Anathema - Eternity (1996)
So little time
Your crystal eyes gaze into mine A burning flame Forever dreaming, dreaming a lie Trapped inside internal eyes Caressed 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 man, granted a sweet reprieve A turn of fate, a genial twist of the knife Undying affection for life |
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from Anathema - Eternity (1996)
So little time
Your crystal eyes gaze into mine A burning flame Forever dreaming, dreaming a lie Trapped inside internal eyes Caressed 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 man, granted a sweet reprieve A turn of fate, a genial twist of the knife Undying affection for life |
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from Anathema - Eternity (1996)
One common, subterranean destination
One life, another day A vestal child unveiled by temptation Innocence slips away Far away Been down so long Too deep the water that I tread Sometimes I feel myself going under Sometimes I envy the dead So take me far away |
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from Anathema - Eternity (1996)
One common, subterranean destination
One life, another day A vestal child unveiled by temptation Innocence slips away Far away Been down so long Too deep the water that I tread Sometimes I feel myself going under Sometimes I envy the dead So take me far away |
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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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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 - 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 - 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 - Alternative 4 (1998)
It's killing you, you're killing me,
I'm clinging on to my sanity, All I need is a short term remedy Come and hide me from this terrible reality... Dreaded memories flood back to me But there's still a wilful mind behind these cold, psychotic eyes, Now I tread this path so differently, I've opened my mind and darkened my entire life. I'll dance with angels to celebrate the holocaust, And far beyond my far gone pride, Is knowing that we'll soon be gone, Knowing that I'll soon be gone... |
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from Anathema - Alternative 4 (1998)
I'm sorry about the sun
How could I know that you would burn? And I'm sorry about the moon How could I know that you'd disapprove? And I'll never make the same mistake So, next time I create the universe I'll make sure we communicate at length Oh, yeah... But until then you're better off dead A smile on the lips and a hole in the head Better off dead, it's better than this Take it away 'cause there's nothing to miss I'm sorry about the world How could I know you'd take it so bad? And I'll never make the same mistake So if you're looking for a fantasy Why not try the entire human race? Just to play it safe Until then you're better off dead A smile on the lips and a hole in the head Better off dead, better than this Take it away 'cause there's nothing to miss Better off dead, better off dead Why don't you try pushing daisies instead? Better off dead, better off dead A smile on the lips and a hole in the head And I'll never make the same mistake The next time I create the universe I'll make sure you participate Oh, yeah... And I'll never make the same mistake The next time I create the universe I'll make sure we communicate at length Just in case |
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from Anathema - Alternative 4 (1998)
I tried to murder the lonely,
Contemplate our mortality. Into infinity, Frozen memory Wipe the tears from yesterday, A time for change, take the pain away. Angel, my destiny, Can you feel me? |
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from Anathema - Alternative 4 (1998)
Empty vessel under the sun wipe the dust
From my face another morning black sunday Coming down again, coming down again Empty vessel empty veins, Empty bottle wish for rain that pain again Wash the blood off my face the pulse from My brain and I feel that pain again I'm looking over my shoulder coz millions Will whisper I'm killing myself again maybe I'm dying faster but nothing ever lasts I Remember a night from my past when I was Stabbed in the back and its all coming Back and I feel that pain again I abhor you I condam you coz this pain Will never end you got away without a Scratch and now youre walking on a lucky Path i have to laugh but you 'd better watch Your back There's pathetic opposition they're the Cause of my condition I 'll be coming back For them I've a solution for this sad Situation nothing left but to kill myself Again because I'm so empty! |
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from Anathema - Alternative 4 (1998)
I've a feeling I wont be coming down from this,
I was searching through the heavens and somehow I slipped, I feel, I'm seeing so clear Trying to forget tomorrow and all that's happened. This is not the way, the way I meant to be. I feel, I'm seeing so clear, I thought I was never going to die I feel, I'm seeing so clear, We need more time. Slipping away, I think I'm gonna crack, Misplaced trust, loyalty stabbed in the gut. I feel, I'm seeing so clear, I thought I was never coming back I've been down for a while And now I'm coming back.... |
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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 - 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)
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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)
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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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 - The Crestfallen Ep + Pentecost 3 (2001)
Stately columns standing in solemn rows
Such empty honours are suitable for those Whose death erases all renown and fame And vanquishes their glory with their name Wandering aimlessly through dead filled fields Rewards are just, who knows what absence yields? By the golden beauty of dusk and the sun low in our sky By the haunting shadows of trees and graves, mesmerized am I. Searching deep inside trying to reach my dreams I see a face stare back at me... oh, so serene. By the golden beauty of dusk and the sun low in our sky By the haunting shadows of trees and graves, mesmerized am I. Those whispering shades... sad, silent glades But not for those whose superior worth After death extols them to the earth I would even venture to assume That one need not build for them a tomb By human art, since glory heaven sent Serves them as a living monument Pain is a far away land, Misery, a lifetime's journey... ...and I lust for death (judgement). |
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from Anathema - The Crestfallen Ep + Pentecost 3 (2001)
I cry a tear of hate but it is lost in helplessness.
The darkness eats away at the very embers of my soul For the deepest love I have has dissolved before my eyes. My sorrow is bleak, I beg for deliverance. Lord, in your mercy, hear my prayer. All emotion is consumed by an inner silence. All grief is unassuaged by disconsolate tears. I want for nothing, I live for nothing. I am waiting to die, but I am afraid dying. Lord, in your mercy, hear my prayer. Crestfallen emotion. Wallowing in guilt trying and drowning forevermore. Falling deeper into fear. My inner self is now a sleeper of stone. |
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from Anathema - The Crestfallen Ep + Pentecost 3 (2001)
Somniferous whisperings of scarlet fields
Sleep calling me and my dreams are wondrous My reality abandoned (I traverse afar) Not a care if I never wake |
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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 - 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 - 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 - 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 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 - 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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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 - Judgement (2006)
No one seems to care anymore
(as) I wander through this night all alone No one feels the pain I have inside Looking at this world through my eyes No one really cares where I go Searching to feel warmth forever more The wheels of life they turn without me Now you are gone... eternally No... Don't leave me here The dream carries (me) on Inside I know... Its not too late Lost moments blown away Tonight [Chorus] Mankind, with your heresy Can't you see that this is killing me There's no one in this life To be here with me at my side |
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from Anathema - Judgement (2006)
Feel my heart burning
Deep inside yearning I know it is coming A fettered heart, waking... A tainted youth, fading... Leave it all behind Delirious again Mesmerise my senses Our souls entwine one more time All our times will come Certain oblivion Leaving nothing but the memories of All the things you give They're all you'll leave behind Open laughter held in distant days (how those) Eternal stars have changed I know that it can't be the same But there is no lament for you tonight Feel my heart burning Deep inside yearning I know it is coming And time recedes every day You can search your soul but you won't see As we pass ever on and away Toward some blank infinity |
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from Anathema - Judgement (2006)
Feel my heart burning
Deep inside yearning I know it is coming A fettered heart, waking... A tainted youth, fading... Leave it all behind Delirious again Mesmerise my senses Our souls entwine one more time All our times will come Certain oblivion Leaving nothing but the memories of All the things you give They're all you'll leave behind Open laughter held in distant days (how those) Eternal stars have changed I know that it can't be the same But there is no lament for you tonight Feel my heart burning Deep inside yearning I know it is coming And time recedes every day You can search your soul but you won't see As we pass ever on and away Toward some blank infinity |
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from Anathema - Judgement (2006)
Speak to me
For I have seen Your waning smile Your scars concealed So far from home, do you know you're not alone Sleep tonight Sweet summerlight Scattered yesterdays, the past is far away How fast time passed by The transience of life Those wasted moments won't return And we will never feel again Beyond my dreams Ever with me You flash before my eyes, a final fading sigh But the sun will (always) rise And tears will dry Of all that is to come, the dream has just begun And time is speeding by The transience of life Those wasted moments won't return And we will never feel again |
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from Anathema - Judgement (2006)
Speak to me
For I have seen Your waning smile Your scars concealed So far from home, do you know you're not alone Sleep tonight Sweet summerlight Scattered yesterdays, the past is far away How fast time passed by The transience of life Those wasted moments won't return And we will never feel again Beyond my dreams Ever with me You flash before my eyes, a final fading sigh But the sun will (always) rise And tears will dry Of all that is to come, the dream has just begun And time is speeding by The transience of life Those wasted moments won't return And we will never feel again |
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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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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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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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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)
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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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)
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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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)
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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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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