ANATHEMA – Your Possible Pasts

They flutter behind you your possible pasts
some bright-eyed and crazy some frightened and lost
a warning to anyone still in command
of their possible future to take care
in derelict sidings the poppies entwine
with cattle trucks lying in wait for the next time
Do you remember me? how we used to be?
do you think we should be closer?
She stood in the doorway the ghost of a smile
haunting her face like a cheap hotel sign
her cold eyes imploring the men in their macs
for the gold in their bags or the knives in their backs
stepping up boldly one put out his hand
he said, “I was just a child then now I’m only a man”
Do you remember me? how we used to be?
do you think we should be closer?
By the cold and religious we were taken in hand
shown how to feel good and told to feel bad
tongue tied and terrified we learned how to pray
now our feelings run deep and cold as the clay
and strung out behind us the banners and flags
of our possible pasts lie in tatters and rags
Do you remember me? how we used to be?
do you think we should be closer?

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?
Is this why you punish our children?
And rape our sisters?

When will we drown?
When will we burn?
Will you die with us? I think so

You are slicing your own wrists
You are tearing out your own hearts
And you are drowning your own children

So you can end it
……. Or we will

We are telling them the truth
And revealing all your lies
We do not need to climb a mountain
Or to cross unknown lands…..
……. Because we are Gods
And we will drown you
We will burn your homes

We the people, we the spirits, we the Gods.

ANATHEMA – Untouchable, Part 2

Why I should feel this way?
Why I should feel this way?
Why I should feel the same?

Is something I cannot say
Is something I cannot say
Is something I can’t explain

I feel you
Outside at the edge of my life
I see you
Walk by at the edge of my sight

Why I should follow my heart?
Why I should follow my heart?
Why I should fall apart?

Why I should follow my dreams?
Why I should follow my dreams?
Why I should be at peace?

I feel you
Outside at the edge of my life
I see you
Walk by at the edge of my sight

I had to let you go
To the setting sun
I had to let you go
And find a way back home

When I dream all I see is you
When I dream all I see is..

I never seen a light that’s so bright

I never seen a light that’s so bright

I never seen a light that’s so bright

Blinded by the light that’s inside
Blinded by the light that’s inside
Blinded by the light that’s inside you

ANATHEMA – Untouchable, Part 1

And I feel like I knew you before
And I guess that you can hear me through this song

And my love will never die
And my feelings will always shine

And I know that you just want me to belong to someone
And I guess that now I’ll just be moving on to someone

But my love will never die
And my feelings will always shine

I’ll never betray your trust
I’ll never betray your faith
I’ll never forsake your heart
I’ll never forget your face

There’s a feeling that I can’t describe

There’s a reason that I cannot hide

Because I’ve never seen a light that’s so bright

As the light that shines behind your eyes

I can see
This life
And what you mean to me

And when I dreamed
I dreamed of you
Then I wake
Tell me what could I do?

I had to let you go
To the setting sun
I had to let you go
And find a way back home

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 splendor
Pale skin and down cast eyes
Scent of paradise
Like her, forever remains unknown

Through tear stained eyes
My view is growing weaker
Please help my grief be vanquished
Thy bed of roses, funereal drapery
Impale my on your thorns

Celestial splendor
Pale skin and down cast eyes
Farewell autumn kisses
Like her, forever remains unknown

I loved her… but now she’s gone
(It’s so hard to face)
Overcoming… tender reckoning

If I too depart this earth
I harmony to (our) heaven we’ll elope

Heavenly grace with which to ease
The virgin’s tears

ANATHEMA – Unchained (Tales Of The Unexpected)

Unchained
unbroken unchained relentless to regain what we have lost
a grip in reality screaming down within me as I count the cost
holding on in spite of the doubt always trying to find it out
that we could find a way back there
beyond the moon right through the air
always remembering..

ANATHEMA – Thin Air

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?
When you know how it feels to be pushed and pulled through your life
And sometimes it seems like there is life in your eyes
And all that I know is I love you

Yes I love you

And it feels like we’re already flying
But the air is too thin and we’re dying
The clouds all around take us higher
The world far below is on fire
I hold out my hand just to touch you
And all that I know is I love you
A vision a promise of heaven
A reason for being forever

You’re just a whisper away

We’ve come too far to turn back
This is where we stand and face it
This is who we are, one step closer
Into thin air we will go there

We’ve come too far to turn back
This is where we stand and face it
I feel you breathe
You’re just a whisper away

We’ve come too far to turn back
This is where we stand and face it
This is who we are one step close
Into thin air we will go there

We’ve come too far …
This is where we stand …

ANATHEMA – The Storm Before The Calm

Never, never
Ever
Worry
I will always
Always
Be there
For you
Found you
Found you
I will never, ever
Leave you
Never
I will always
Be here
With you
Getting better, better, better
Better, better, better

It’s getting colder
I’m getting colder, colder
It’s getting colder
Let it get colder until I can’t feel
Anything at all
It’s getting colder
It’s getting colder, colder

Come on, come on
On me, on me
Touching, laughing
Ha ha
Love me, love me
For me
Holding
Watching
Loving
Getting better, better, better
Better, better, better

It’s getting colder
I’m getting colder, colder
It’s getting colder
Let it get colder until I can’t feel
Anything at all

It’s getting colder
It’s getting colder, colder
I’m getting colder
Let it get colder until I can’t feel
Anything at all

It ebbs and flows and comes and goes
And rips you up and lets you go
It eats inside and splits your mind
As you search around for others kind
You gather strength from the depths
Fight the fight from day ’til night

This beautiful feeling soars over the skies
Moving through my body out my mind
It rises up and floods my brain
This is fucking insane
This is fucking insane

(Am I still here? As one with the fear
Am I still alive? As one with the fear
Am I still here? As one with the fear
Am I still alive? As one with the fear
Am I still here? As one with the fear
Am I still alive? As one with the fear
Am I still here? As one with the fear
Am I still alive? I’m still fucking here
Am I still here?)

ANATHEMA – The Silent Enigma

In dreamland grandeur
I held mesmerized peace
Innocence breathed again

A mind’s escape
Leave walls of tears behind
Ethereal vision haunting still…
The solitude left me blind

Beneath an open sky
Sibilant cries of youth dying
Enslave me with grief

A moonlit era, oblivion’s twilight kiss
Wishes in lament
Happiness in a broken vision

Utopia still unborn…

Tormented echoes of a fallen Eden
I longed for her beauty
Yet from dust, she returned
The dream, an enigma… silent

ANATHEMA – The Lost Child

Adrift on a silent sea
The cold night surrounds me
Black ice forms beneath

The waves of a childhood dream
A far light hypnotized
A voice calls from paradise

Paradise

To here

My light is fading now
My heart is breaking now
My light is fading now
My heart is breaking now

A child sings to me
The mists rise blinding me
I can’t find a way out of here

And the sound of angel dreams
The stars fall into the sea
The ice breaks
I’m pulled beneath

Pulled beneath the waves

My life is fading now
My heart is breaking now
My life is failing now
My mind is drowning now
But your hand reaches down
To reach down and pull me out and

Save me

Andy Allo – Yellow Gold

Wish I had some yellow gold
Heard that it’s your kryptonite
Wish I had some yellow gold
So you wouldn’t put up a fight
I just wanna love you right
Even if it’s just one night

Always seem to like what I can’t have
I’m a girl that always picks last
But now I know when I want it’s on
Nothing’s gonna stop me now
And here I am the same situation
Forever parked in a lonely station
I want a person but the person is taken
And I just want this cycle to end

[Chorus]
Wish I had some yellow gold
Heard that it’s your kryptonite
Wish I had some yellow gold
So you wouldn’t put up a fight
I just wanna love you right
Even if it’s just one night

A black on late on a cold day
Goes down smooth on some Friday
Yeah I got the moves, I can make em soon
I just need to chase the wounds
We all have fences around our hearts
You got thorns, alarms and guns
I’m throwing rocks and pebbles at your window
So when you’re gonna love me?

[Chorus] x 3
Wish I had some yellow gold
Heard that it’s your kryptonite
Wish I had some yellow gold
So you wouldn’t put up a fight
I just wanna love you right
Even if it’s just one night.

ANATHEMA – The Beloved

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 the rain, just leave me to go through this

I don’t think I could face another sleepless night
If only I could trace that elusive light
In a dreamland flight to your agonizing eyes
A never ending flight, my silent cries

Still I close my eyes and my mind becomes clear
Still I dream, and there you are…
How still you lie and how your eyes bring back the fear
Still I can’t face what’s going on in here…

Everything that I’ve ever felt has gone
At last my spirit breathes
I see no point in going on
So goodbye… It’s time for me to leave

ANATHEMA – The Beginning And The End

Inside this cold heart is a dream
That’s locked in a box that I keep
Buried a hundred miles deep
Deep in my soul in a place that’s surrounded by aeons of silence

And somewhere inside is the key
To everything I want to feel
But the dark summer dawns of my memory
Are lost in a place that can never be

Can someone please show me the way?
Can someone please help me?
‘Cause I cannot see and the silence is raging

Silence
Silence
Fade into silence

Memory
Memory
Inside is the key to a memory

ANATHEMA – Temporary Peace

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 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 me

Beyond this beautiful horizon
Lies a dream for you and I
This tranquil scene is still unbroken by the rumors in the sky
But there’s a storm closing in
Voices crying on the wind
This serenade is growing colder breaks my soul that tries to sing
And there’s so many, many thoughts
When I try to go to sleep
But with you I start to feel a sort of temporary peace

There’s a drift in and out

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 want you

All is not lost
And never to be forgotten

She’s passed away but dreaming
Her soul’s awake and screaming
The weeping willow is weeping
And beneath our hearts…
.. all joy is sleeping
our bliss is carried away… sweet tears

ANATHEMA – Sunset Of The Age

Throne of grief
…in a dying essence
Crying beauty
…the fettered aura

Forgotten oceans of hope
…Betrayed a phony
Sullen laughter in unventured paradise

As one forever searching
For landscapes serene
Amidst the sunset of age
With joyous masquerade…
…the summers died

ANATHEMA – Sunset Of Age

Throne of grief
..in a dying essence
Crying beauty
..the fettered aura

Forgotten oceans of hope
..Betrayed aphony
Sullen laughter in unventured paradise

(as one) forever searching
For landscapes serene
Amidst the sunset of age
With joyous masquerade…
..the summers died

ANATHEMA – Sunlight

Sunlight failed but only for a while
In the moonlight pale someone made me smile
The shining almost took me but I made it through that night
And in the morning life it graced me and I ran for miles
(Sunlight) In a billion dreams that are lost and won
(Moonlight) In spite of all you’ve seen there’s only one way out

(Say you will love me until I leave the world)
In a billion dreams that are lost and won
(Say you will love me until I leave the world)
In spite of all you’ve seen there’s only one way out

ANATHEMA – Sleepless 96

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
A memory and I weep
In my broken sleep
The scars they cut so deep

Please ease my burden
Please ease my pain

Surely without war there would be no loss
Hence no mourning, no grief, no pain, no misery
No sleepless nights missing the dead… Oh, no more
No more war

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 near

Please ease my burden

And I still remember
A memory and I weep
In my broken sleep
The scars they cut so deep

Please ease my burden
Please ease my pain

Surely without war there would be no loss
Hence no mourning, no grief, no pain, no misery
No sleepless nights missing the dead… Oh, no more
No more war