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?

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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 …

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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..

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