... AND I LUST Anathema

AND I LUST Wandering aimlessly through dead filled fields Rewards are just, who knows what absence yields?

NOCTURNAL EMISSION Anathema

NOCTURNAL EMISSION My passions rise ..... a twilight ride Stark light of dark night in my eyes My forlorn lust ..... My soul it burns My forlorn lust .....

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

MEMENTO MORI Anathema

mind For on this night someone must pay For the cost of my life For me to escape the curse of perdiction This poor, weaker being must receive pain As you wince at the actions of my sadist ways And

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 Natural Disaster Anathema

find hard to find Hard to find the strength now but I try And I don't want to I don't want to I don't want to want to speak now of what's gone by no matter what I do I can't change what happened

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

ONE LAST GOODBYE (Words and Music: D.Cavanagh) (Additional lyrics transcribed by Phil Morgan) How I needed you How I grieve now you뭨e gone In my dreams I see you I awake so alone I know you

One Last Goodbye (Remastered) Anathema

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

A Natural Disaster (Remastered) Anathema

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 find Hard to find the strength now but I

SLEEPLESS Anathema

SLEEPLESS 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

Sleepless 96 Anathema

"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

Presence Anathema

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

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

Thin Air Anathema

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?

FEEL Anathema

FEEL (Words & Music: D.Patterson) I've a feeling I may not 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

Dreaming Light Anathema

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

CERULEAN TWILIGHT Anathema

In serene harmony I'm dreaming yet I feel awake I'm dreaming yet I am awake Subjected to pain.

Are You There? (Remastered) Anathema

Are you there Is it wonderful to know All the ghosts All the 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

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

Release (Remastered) Anathema

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 Hold on To me Tempt fate Release

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

Everything Anathema

Needed time to clear my mind Breathe the free air, find some peace there I used to keep my heart in jail But the choice was love or fear of pain and I... chose... love...

FORGOTTEN HOPES Anathema

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

THE BELOVED Anathema

THE BELOVED (Words: V.Cavanagh, Music: D.Cavanagh) 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

EMPTY Anathema

sun wipe the dust from my face another morning black sunday 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

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

Are You There Anathema

The wonderful to know All the ghosts all the 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

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

MINE IS YOURS TO DROWN IN Anathema

MINE IS YOURS TO DROWN IN (OURS IS THE NEW TRIBE) 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

LOST CONTROL Anathema

LOST CONTROL (Words & Music: D.Patterson) Life has betrayed me once again, I accept that some things will never change.

PARISIENNE MOONLIGHT Anathema

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

Forgotten Hopes (Remastered) Anathema

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

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

Panic (Remastered) Anathema

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 dragging on the ceiling below you Fixing up the walls

SHROUD OF FROST Anathema

I'm drowning in a sea of abused visions and shattered dreams In somnolent illusion ..... I'm paralysed Infinity distraction .....

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...

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

Harmonium (Remastered) Anathema

Feel free to comprehend What I 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

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

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

ANGELICA Anathema

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

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...

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

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

SWEET TEARS Anathema

SWEET TEARS 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

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

MAKE IT RIGHT (F.F.S.) Anathema

(Words and Music: J.Douglas) I know that I want you I know that I need you But I can뭪 pretend that This뭠l make it right You whisper your name But I can뭪 hear you Don뭪 leave me behind Lend me

INNER SILENCE Anathema

INNER SILENCE (Words & Music: D.Cavanagh) 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

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