A DYING WISH Anathema

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

REGRET Anathema

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

ETERNITY PART 1 Anathema

ETERNITY PART 1 (Words & Music: D.Patterson) As I turn away from a life so grey, Where have all the flowers gone? Just what went wrong?

EMPTY Anathema

EMPTY (Words & Music: D.Patterson) Empty vessel under the sun wipe the dust from my face another morning black sunday coming down again empty vessel empty veins empty bottle wish for rain that

SHROUD OF FALSE Anathema

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

... ALONE Anathema

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

Sunset Of Age Anathema

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

Flying (Remastered) Anathema

Started a search to no avail A light that shines behind the veil trying to find it And all around us everywhere Is all that we could ever share if only we could see it Feel there's truth that's beyond

THE SILENT ENIGMA Anathema

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

CRESTFALLEN Anathema

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

Temporary Peace (Remastered) Anathema

Deep inside the silence Staring out upon the sea The waves washing over Half forgotten memories Deep within the moment Laughter floats upon the breeze Rising and falling dying down within me And I swear

Alone Anathema

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

Temporary Peace Anathema

Deep inside the silence staring out upon the sea The waves washing over half forgotten memories Deep within the moment laughter floats upon the breeze Rising and falling dying down within me And I swear

ONE LAST GOODBYE Anathema

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

Thin Air Anathema

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

A Fine Day To Exit (Remastered) Anathema

feelings and I don't know why I see all my fears in the darkness of light What made the river so cold Never anyone to rearrange and fall to Time inside the empty Call to the blameless, I am faithless Placid dying

Are You There? (Remastered) Anathema

ghosts Freak my selfish out My mind is happy Need to learn to let it go I know you'd do no harm to me But since you've been gone I've been lost inside Tried and failed as we walked by the riverside And I wish

Are You There Anathema

ghosts Freak my selfish out mind is happy Need to learn to let it go To know you'd do no harm to me Since you've been gone I've been lost inside Tried and failed as we walked by the riverside Oh I wish

Panic (Remastered) Anathema

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

Anathema Himsa

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

A Simple Mistake Anathema

yourself and feel your soul come alive tonight Here in the moment we share, trembling between the worlds we stare Out at starlight enshrined, veiled like diamonds in.. ...time could be the answer, take a

A Natural Disaster Anathema

It's been a long cold winter without you I've been crying on the inside over you You just slipped through my fingers as life turned away It's been a long cold winter since that day And it's hard to

ETERNITY PART III Anathema

ETERNITY PART III (Words & Music: D.Patterson) So little time Your crystal eyes gaze into mine A burning flame Forever dreaing, dreaming a lie Trapped inside internal eyes Caressed by innocence

SHROUD OF FROST Anathema

A pious human disorder Blind to passage of souls Conclusion from one rememberance Help me to escape ..... Transfixed ..... I gaze through my window at a world lying under a shroud of frost.

Closer (Remastered) Anathema

Your dream world is a very scary place Your dream world is a very scary place Your dream world is a very scary place To be trapped Your dream world is a very scary place Your dream world is a very scary

KINGDOM Anathema

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

PITILESS Anathema

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

Leave No Trace Anathema

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

Leave No Trace (Remastered) Anathema

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

Don't Look Too Far (Remastered) Anathema

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

Pittless (Remastered) Anathema

Is it the emptiest of All your broken hearted feelings A serious misconception To choose 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

Breaking Down The Barriers (Remastered) Anathema

Floating with nowhere to hide Unspoken twist back inside How did we get here Life don't belong here Feel like I just never tried To find a way back to the outside It stops me from breathing Kills all the

SUICIDE VEIL Anathema

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

RESTLESS OBLIVION Anathema

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

LOVELORN RHAPSODY Anathema

LOVELORN RHAPSODY 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

Pulled Under At 2000 Metres A Second (Remastered) Anathema

Just 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

CERULEAN TWILIGHT Anathema

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?

A Natural Disaster (Remastered) Anathema

It's been a long cold winter without you I've been crying on the inside over you Just slipped through my fingers as life turned away It's been a long cold winter since that day It's hard to find Hard to

Unchained Tales Of The Unexpected Anathema

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

Hindsight Anathema

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

... AND I LUST Anathema

Searching deep inside trying to reach my dreams I see a face stare back at me ... oh, so serene.

UNDER A VEIL (OF BLACK LACE) Anathema

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

RADIANCE Anathema

Not a word passed your lips Just a golden kiss As I whispered silently "Help me through this"

HOPE Anathema

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

MEMENTO MORI Anathema

MEMENTO MORI My life's minds plagued by lyssophobia In a cage solitude locks me in As the dark blackened walls close in on me Dementia strikes, there's no turning back Drowning in the stygian

WE, THE GODS Anathema

WE, THE GODS 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?

We The Gods Anathema

"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?

Pressure (Remastered) Anathema

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

CRIES ON THE WIND Anathema

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

ALTERNATIVE 4 Anathema

ALTERNATIVE 4 (Words & Music: D.Patterson) 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...