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

LOST CONTROL Anathema

I've let your tiny minds magnify my agony, and it's left me with a chem'cal dependancy for sanity. Yes, I'm falling... how much longer till I hit the ground?

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...

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 .....

SLEEPLESS Anathema

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 still remember A memory and I weep In

Sleepless 96 Anathema

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 A memory and I weep In

Temporary Peace Anathema

never knew I never knew how it could be All the waves washing over all that hurts inside of me Beyond this beautiful horizon lies a dream for you and I This tranquil scene is still unbroken by the rumors in

Temporary Peace (Remastered) Anathema

swear I never knew how it could be All the waves washing over all that hurts inside of me Beyond this beautiful horizon Lies a dream for you and I This tranquil scene is still unbroken by the rumors in

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

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.

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

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

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

A Simple Mistake Anathema

Think for yourself you know what you need in this life See for yourself and feel your soul come alive tonight Here in the moment we share, trembling between the worlds we stare Out at starlight enshrined

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

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

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

SHROUD OF FROST Anathema

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

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

Looking Outside Inside (Remastered) Anathema

Only feel what's deep inside Try to change it makes no difference Didn't want it Didn't need it Didn't want it Let me go Looking outside inside, craving for something Hoping for anything, I'll believe in

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

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

... 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

CERULEAN TWILIGHT Anathema

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

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

ANGELICA Anathema

Wild flower in starlit heaven Still enchanted in flight Obsessions lament to freedom A timeless word, the meanings changed But I'm still burning in your flames, Incessant, lustral mmasquerade,

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

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

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

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

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,

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 .....

ETERNITY PART 1 Anathema

I've been in tears Hope has dies in me But now I'mm here, I don't wish to leave Trapped in time A miracle of hope and change A swirling mass, no mercy now If the truth hurts prepare for pain

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

Sunset Of Age Anathema

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

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

THE BELOVED Anathema

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 As I stand in

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

Harmonium (Remastered) Anathema

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 light has died It's too real to run and hide I was floating in

Are You There? (Remastered) Anathema

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 you could see the love in

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?

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 inside To be trapped inside To be trapped inside All your life Shine in

Are You There Anathema

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 you could see the love in

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.

A DYING WISH Anathema

Where Echonia wept I sank into the silent desert Fallen am I, In the solitude of a broken promise .....

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...

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

KINGDOM Anathema

Among flocks of non-white doves And non-temptable mortals The kingdom is much more real And the beauty is endless Only when tightened beyond recall Is your necklace a blessing Leave your pearls in

... 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.