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

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

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

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

Flying Anathema

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

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

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

SHROUD OF FROST Anathema

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

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

RE-CONNECT Anathema

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

Harmonium (Remastered) Anathema

see will never end It can't be now that life is gone It's 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

JUDGEMENT Anathema

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

FAR AWAY Anathema

FAR AWAY (Words & Music: D.Patterson) One common, subterranean destination One life, another day A vestal child unveiled by temptation Innocence slips away Far away Been down so long Too

Panic (Remastered) Anathema

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 feel my chest crushing inwards Sucking

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

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

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 .....

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.

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

A Simple Mistake Anathema

chance or lose it all It\'s a simple mistake to make to create love and to fall So rise and be your master you don\'t need to be a slave Of memory ensnared in a web, in a cage I have found my way

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 .....

WINGS OF GOD Anathema

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

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

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?

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

... AND I LUST Anathema

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

Sunset Of Age Anathema

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

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

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

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 (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

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,

RADIANCE Anathema

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

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

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

... 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

Wings Of God (Remastered) Anathema

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

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

THE SWEET SUFFERING Anathema

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

THEY DIE Anathema

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

Presence Anathema

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

THEY (WILL ALWAYS) DIE Anathema

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

Temporary Peace (Remastered) Anathema

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 washing over all that hurts inside of

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

ETERNAL RISE OF THE SUN Anathema

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

Temporary Peace Anathema

I never knew 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 I never knew how it could be All the waves washing over all that hurts inside of

EVERWAKE Anathema

EVERWAKE 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

A Fine Day To Exit (Remastered) Anathema

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

Balance (Remastered) Anathema

Glad to see your wide awake This is the great escape From a life that tried to mould you And the lie it sold you What would you do What wouldn't you do What would you do What wouldn't you do What would