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

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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

The Pitiless Dark Tranquillity

Right now, right here we stand alone Against pitiless indifference we stand alone [Verse 1] Forever confounded by the burning margins To get without context when into denial Give in to ignorance when 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 out...

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 se...

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 tomo...

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 deep t...

ANGELICA Anathema

ANGELICA (Words: D.Patterson, Music: D.Cavanagh) Where are you tonight? Wild flower in starlit heaven Still enchanted in flight Obsessions lament to freedom A timeless word, the meanings changed...

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 ..... Where Echonia wept I...

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? Is it for the same reason you blind us...

DEEP Anathema

DEEP (Words: V.Cavanagh, Music: D.Cavanagh/D.Pybus) 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 ...

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 you...

CRIES ON THE WIND Anathema

CRIES ON THE WIND (Words: D.Patterson, Music: D.Cavanagh & D.Patterson) Reaching out... How things look different on the way down Disillusioned, I've lost desire Will I burn in the unforgiving fi...

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 is mu...

LOST CONTROL Anathema

LOST CONTROL (Words & Music: D.Patterson) 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 chem'cal...

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. Blissfully ignora...

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... Betray withouta momen...

RADIANCE Anathema

RADIANCE (Words & Music: D.Cavanagh) 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 ...

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... Dre...

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 mis...

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 for...

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,...

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 o...

SLEEP IN SANITY Anathema

SLEEP IN SANITY It is not I who sleeps It is you who sleeps ... you sleep Insane you sleep, I sleep in sanity

... AND I LUST Anathema

... AND I LUST 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 ...

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, I ...

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 ...

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

ETERNITY PART II Anathema

ETERNITY PART II (Words & Music: D.Patterson) Destiny, Infinity, Eternity

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 gra...

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 ..... My soul is burning Take you now, in m...

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 And I sti...

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 ..... The solitude left me bli...

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 didn...

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 goe...

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. I cry My senses deter...

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.

ANYONE, ANYWHERE Anathema

ANYONE, ANYWHERE (Words: D.Pybus, Music: D.Pybus/D.Cavanagh) 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 thro...

RESTLESS OBLIVION Anathema

RESTLESS OBLIVION 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 mi...

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 pa...

THEY (WILL ALWAYS) DIE Anathema

THEY (WILL ALWAYS) 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 ...

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 coffin...

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

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

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? Innocence, insanity, irony Stone cold reality Oh lord come...

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 My ...

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 you To ...

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 still wa...

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 e...

FRAGILE DREAMS Anathema

FRAGILE DREAMS (Words & Music: D.Cavanagh) "Tonight your soul sleeps, but one day you will feel real pain, maybe then you will see me as I am, A fragile wreck on a storm of emotion" Countless ti...

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 summer...