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

Anathema Himsa

Come close to 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

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

AT ONE WITH THE EARTH Anathema

AT ONE WITH THE EARTH The intense grasp death's strangle-hold has over me confines me to my own personal agony Set me free, let me go Release the chilling grasp with which it clutches me The

Looking Outside Inside (Remastered) Anathema

Is this the one who thought 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

Emotional Winter (Remastered) Anathema

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 summer light Scattered yesterdays, the past is far away How fast time

EMOTIONAL WINTER Anathema

EMOTIONAL WINTER (Words: V.Cavanagh, Music: D.Cavanagh) Speak to me For I have seen Your waning smile Your scars concealed So far from home, do you know you뭨e not alone Sleep tonight Sweet

ETERNITY PART III Anathema

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 mman, granted a sweet

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

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

Pulled Under At 2000 Metres A Second (Remastered) Anathema

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

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.

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..

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

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

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

Judgement (Remastered) Anathema

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

JUDGEMENT Anathema

JUDGEMENT (Words: V.Cavanagh/D.Cavanagh, Music: D.Cavanagh/J.Douglas) Asleep is the rose, in tired innocence dreaming time away. Secure in the comfort of slumbers faint embrace.

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

... 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

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?

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 .....

We The Gods Anathema

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?

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

CRIES ON THE WIND Anathema

CRIES ON THE WIND (Words: D.Patterson, Music: D.Cavanagh & D.Patterson) Reaching out...

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

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

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

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

NAILED TO THE CROSS Anathema

NAILED TO THE CROSS Your souls are nailed to the cross The blood still runs but the wounds will heal and leave scars of rememberance.

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

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

ALL FAITH IS LOST Anathema

ALL FAITH IS LOST As the dawn emerges I cry in grief Sorrows flow, the sadness of another day tortures my heart Life fades. Echoes, voices calling Within my mind. Shadows.

Are You There Anathema

Are you there 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

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

... 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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

DESTINY Anathema

DESTINY (Words & Music: D.Patterson) I tried to murder the lonely, Contemplate our mortality.

Jai Fait Une Promesse Anathema

"(this song is translated from French) The way that the willow bows over the stream like a mourner crying for their loved one reminds me of last fall when on one knee, I pledged myself to you "

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

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

Sunset Of Age Anathema

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

Don't Look Too Far (Remastered) Anathema

here Then I feel fine A freelance child You bring it all back This world is eating me inside Don't look too far Don't look too far Missing a degree of warmth A name without a face I'm losing grip all the

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