Anathema (in Greek Greek language Ανάθεμα) originally meant something lifted up as an offering to the gods; later, with evolving meanings, it came to mean:
# to be formally set apart setting apart ;
# banished, exiled, excommunicated;
# denounced, sometimes accursed curse ; or
# a literary term [read more] - Better Off Dead
I'm sorry about the sun, how could I know that you'd burn?, and I'm sorry about the moon, how could I know that you'd disapproved, I'll never make the same mistake, the next time I create the universe I'll make sure...
- Eternity Part III
So little timeYour crystal eyes gaze into mineA burning flameForever dreaming, dreaming a lieTrapped inside internal eyesCaressed by innocence, a sanctuary for you mindBorn alone beneath pale sardonic skiesOne love,...
- Deep
Feel my heart burningDeep inside... yearningI know it is comingA fettered heart, wakingTainted youth, fadingLeave it all behindDelirious againMesmerize my sensesSouls entwine one more timeAll our times will...
- Kingdom
There is a whole mountainAnd a river runs through itIf you split my mountain wideYou would find many riversAmong flocks of non-white dovesAnd non-temptable mortalsThe kingdom is much more realAnd the beauty is...
- The Sweet Suffering
As a shadow is cast overheadI rejoice in the coming of the gloomLifting my eyes to view what, to me, is beautyI decipher what is read in the cloudThe verse is shouting out and ringing in my earsThe claps of thunder,...
- One Of The Few
when you're to land on your feet what do you do to make ends meet? teach make them mad, make them sad, make them add two and two make them me, make them you, make them do what you want them to make them laugh, make...
- ...And I Lust
Wandering aimlessly through dead filled fieldsRewards are just. who knows what absence yields?By the golden beauty of duskand the sun low in our skyBy the haunting shadows of treesand graves, mesmerised am ISearching...
- Mine Is Yours To Drown In
We smothered in lifeListen, listen, listenThe written word will devour youAnd burn your mindIm burning your mindI am entering your soulMy promise to love and caress youMirrors desting and breathes the universeBefore...
- Goodbye Cruel World
Goodbye, cruel world, I'm leaving you today. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. Goodbye all you people, There's nothing you can say, To make me change my mind. Goodbye.
- 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...
- At One With The Earth
The intense grasp death's strangle-hold has over meconfines me to my own personal agonySet me free, let me goRelease the chilling grasp with which it clutches meThe earth issues it's extreme unctionas I realise my...
- All Faith Is Lost
As the dawn emerges I cry in griefSorrows flow,the sadness of another day tortures my heartLife fades. Echoes, voices callingWithin my mind. Shadows. I cryMy senses deterioratedI break down devoid of hopeAll faith is...
- They Die
All tears, restrained for yearsTheir grief is confinedWhich destroys my mindAn ode to their plight is this dirgeSome yearn for lugubrious silenceSerenity in the image of the coffinsShall life renew these bodies of a...
- Crestfallen
I cry a tear of hope but it is lost in helplessnessThe darkness eats away at the very embers of my soulFor the deepest love I had has dissolved before my eyesMy sorrow is bleak, I beg for deliveranceLord, in your...
- 2000 And Gone
[Instrumental]
- Hope
"I was not put here by anyone in fearI came alone as meJust an idea in a long chain of discoverySurrounded by the same youSometimes your tide pulls me out to seaAnd I die in a thrashing curseSometimes we are kindMore...
- Ascension
[Instrumental][Music: D.Cavanagh]
- Eternity Part I
As I turn away from a life so greyWhere have all the flowers gone?Just what went wrong?Innocence, insanity, ironyStone cold realityOh lord come and save meDo you think we're forever?I've been in tearsHope has died in...
- Sentient
[instrumental][Intro][Music: D.Cavanagh, Arranged: Les Smith]
- Eternal Rise Of The Sun
An unstoppable endThe world turns every dayAn ending with no endSo, for this time of morningI can no longer cryEven though the story goes onThe script is being writtenStart shape our destinyWe are the bible...Believe...
- Sleeples '96
And I often sighI often wonder whyI'm still here and I still cryAnd I often cryI often spill a tearOver those not hereBut still they are so nearPlease ease my burdenAnd I still rememberA memory and I weepIn my broken...
- Sweet Tears
Sweet Tears Rating: N/A In each others armsWe cried togetherAnd your tears tasted sweetAll is not lostAnd never to be forgottenLike a shiver down my spineThe lonely nights keep fallingAnd I still want youAll is not...
- Sunset Of Age
Throne of grief..... in a dying essenceCrying beauty..... the fettered auraForgotten oceans of hope..... Betrayed aphonySullen laughter in unventured paradise(as one) forever searchingFor landscapes sereneAmidst the...
- Lovelorn Rhapsody
I hear your voiceIt sings so softlyCurious to join inA harmony to breathe forevermoreJoyous the one to hear a voiceIn fields where grass grows tallGolden carpets swell and whisperAutumn trees will weepImmune to pity,...
- Nocturnal Emission
My passions rise..... a twilight rideStark light of dark night in my eyesMy forlorn lust.....My soul it burnsMy forlorn lust.....My soul is burningTake you now, in my sleepI want to touch you, to scratch you deepTo...
- Nailed To The Cross/666
Your souls are nailed to the crossThe blood still runsbut the wounds will healand leave scars of rememberance.
- Anyone, Anywhere
No one seems to care anymore(as) I wander through this night all aloneNo one feels the pain I have insideLooking at this world through my eyesNo one really cares where I goSearching to feel warmth forever moreThe...
- Make It Right
I know that I want youI know that I need youBut I can't pretend thatThis'll make it rightYou whisper your nameBut I can't hear youDon't leave me behindLend me your handI can feel themI think they're closing inDon't...
- Lost Control
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 chemical dependency for sanity.Yes, I am falling... how much longer till I...
- Wings Of God
No one can find meHere in my soulKicking and screamingOut of controlCalm myself downNobody knowsNo one can find meHere in my soulHooked on your problemsDo I know whyAnd if you come my way againWould I lend a handWould...
- Pitiless
Is it the emptiest ofAll your broken hearted feelingsA serious misconceptionTo choose a path that led to ruinYou ***ed up your lifeCan't find your mind, you burned it all awayAshes to ashDust to dustSo quick to point...
- Judgement
The inequity of fateThe pains of love and hateThe heart-sick memoriesThat brought you to your kneesAnd the times when we were youngWhen life seemed so longDay after dayYou burned it all awayAll the hate that feeds...
- Shroud Of False
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
- Forgotten Hopes
Hey you rotting in an alcoholic empty shellBanging on the walls of your intoxicated mindDo you ever wonder why you were left aloneAs your heart grew colder and finally tourned to stoneDid I punish you for dreaming?Did...
- Don't Look Too Far
If I begin to feel lighterHold me downAnd I'll be yours for evermoreGod bless this mess I'm inFor it is timeTo be rid of a certain sinA cool breeze down my spineAnd if I'm really hereThen I feel fineA freelance...
- Emotional Winter
Speak to meFor I have seenYour waning smileYour scars concealedSo far from home, do you know you're not aloneSleep tonightSweet summerlightScattered yesterdays, the past is far awayHow fast time passed byThe...
- Parisienne Moonlight
I feel I know youI don't know howI don't know whyI see you feel for meYou cried with meYou would die for meI know I need youI want youTo be free of all the painYou have insideYou cannot hideI know you triedTo be who...
- One Last Goodbye
How I needed youHow I grieve now you're goneIn my dreams I see youI awake so aloneI know you didn't want to leaveYour heart yearned to stayBut the strength I always loved in youFinally gave waySomehow I knew you would...
- Leave No Trace
Born to the glare around the sensesSpoofing reality infusedA new inherent, passive contentmentYou are so easily amusedHere and now we are gone in a happyDream in the passage of timeChances are fading, world isn't...
- Looking Outside Iside
Is this the one thought it was insane?Coming down against it allDidnt want it. Didnt need it. Didnt want it.Twisted face of feigning beautyCount the cost of sufferingCannot see the day before youOnly feel what's...
- Release
Seeing is believing but I don't wanna knowWalk on through the wasteland I just can't let goFace down I just break down when I see you cry all the timeHold on please behind those grey and lonely eyesHold on to me...
- Underworld
Your good intentions are boring, take me awayIf it keeps you sane, is that ok?If i played it safe would it save me?Id like to get some rest now if I could just ignore the truthScratching at my windowThis time Ive...
- Panic
You know you ain't going nowhereYou're stuck inside while the mind is flyingYou said you knew me in the morningTwisting on pins into my eyesAnd we driving on the ceiling below youFacin' up the walls with your crocked...
- Barriers
Floating with nowhere to hideUnspoken twist back insideHow did we get here?Life don't belong hereFeel like I just never triedTo find a way back to the outsideIt stops me from breathingKills all the dreamingTalking to...
- Looking Outside Inside
Is this the one thought it was insane?Coming down against it allDidnt want it. Didnt need it. Didnt want it.Twisted face of feigning beautyCount the cost of sufferingCannot see the day before youOnly feel what's...
- (Breaking Over The) Barriers
Floating (inatankofhatredfuel) with nowhere to hideunspoken (10000thousandthoughtsanhourandrising) twist back insideHow did we get hereLife don't belong hereFeel like I just never triedto find a way back to the...
- Temporary Peace
Deep inside the silence staring out upon the seaThe waves are washing over half forgotten memoryDeep within the moment laughter floats upon the breezeRising and falling dying down within meAnd I swear I never knew, I...
- A Fine Day To Exit
Long way from home, nowhere to goWhat made the river so cold?The sweat of thoughts trickle down my browSoaking and stinging my eyeYou gotta face it head onSo you can turn this thing aroundCos this ain't rightTell tale...
- Pressure
As the pressure grows and these feelings flowtrample on bodies, bodies in holes of faithtimes I've asked the lord for forgivenesswhile kept under a spell of a sweating locust's breath.No need to tell me 'cos its...
- In The Dog's House
Tilted just a bit to the wrong sideMother Mary your tea's in the ovenMy head's got caught in the red tapeVoodoo sunset, morning JesusMarilyn Manson just fell overCos his dress got caught in his high heelsTwist the...
- Echoes Of Terror
Existence, throught a spirit's willA force, use the power of evilDarkness, visualizeAs light pierces through your yearning eyesRebirth of a lost soulYour body, a channel with witch to grow oldMephitic, smell of...
- Memento Mori
My life's minds plagued by lyssophobiaIn a cage solitude locks me inAs the dark blackened walls close in on meDementia strikes, there's no turning backDrowning in the stygian seaAs those voices repeat to me my...
- The Lord Of Mortal Pestilence
Storm-lord, the Dreaded OnePoison of our worldsIn times of darkness, of death and decayhe grasps dominion all overHis stench hovers as shamein the house of fraticideAn impressive depravity of a cadaverous epiphanyA...
- In The Name Of The Father
[Dream:]In the world of my subconscious, a realm of the unknowna vision is carved by the almighty handThe agony of a thousand souls supressed by life itselfreleased unto the lord by his command.My hands are covered...
- Cerulean Twilight
I'm lying here, oh so peaceful.......... In serene harmonyI¹m dreaming yet I feel awakeI¹m dreaming yet I am awakeSubjected to pain. Dark screams repentAnd in a foreboding rage, a soul will die.......... a soul will...
- Black Orchid
Instrumental
- ...Alone
I gave you my soulYou left me dying(Freezing in the cold wind that screams throughthe silence, in the barren wastes of my heart)Within the wallsOf my mind... aloneThe winter serenadeFell silent to me
- Shroud Of Frost
Undying odyssey..... a myriad of timesThe soul has seenThrough eyes of heavenThe imperium of earthNothing left to perceiveHelp me to escape from this existenceI yearn for an answer... can you help me ?I¹m drowning in...
- Serenades
All tears restrained for yearsTheir grief is confinedWhich destroys my mindAn ode to their plight is this dirgeSome yearn for lugubrious silence(It is the) serenity in the image of coffinsShall life renew these bodies...
- Restless Oblivion
Restless OblivionMy paralyzed heartIs bleeding...My love's torn apartDesire to be freeA bleak garden to cryWhen my inamorato diedLoveless so realLifeline of mortalityCondemned to miseryRestless oblivion foreverA bleak...
- A Dying Wish
I bear the seed of ruinA golden age turned to stoneElysium... to dustFor this, a tragic journeyA vision of a dying embraceScattered earthSilence...Where Echonia weptI sank into the silent desertFallen am I,In solitude...
- Far Away
One common, subterranean destinationOne life, another dayA vestal child unveiled by temptationInnocence slips awayFar awayBeen down so longToo deep the water that I treadSometimes I feel myself going underSometimes I...
- Destiny
I tried to murder the lonely,Contemplate our mortality.Into infinity,Frozen memoryWipe the tears from yesterday,A time for change, take the pain away.Angel, my destiny,Can you feel me?
- Eternity Part II
So little timeYour crystal eyes gaze into mineA burning flameForever dreaming, dreaming a lieTrapped inside internal eyesCaressed by innocence, a sanctuary for you mindBorn alone beneath pale sardonic skiesOne love,...
- Everwake
Somniferous whisperings of scarlet fieldsSleep calling me and my dreams are wondrousMy reality abandoned (I traverse afar)Not a care if never wake
- J'ai Fait Une Promesse
(this song is translated from French)The way that the willow bows over the streamlike a mourner crying for their loved onereminds me of last fallwhen on one knee, I pledged myself to you
- Inner Silence
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 mean to me.
- Angelica
Where are you tonight?Wild flower in starlit heavenStill enchanted in flightObsessions lament to freedomA timeless word, the meanings changedBut I'm still burning in your flamesIncessant, lustral masquerade,Unengaged,...
- Cries On The Wind
Reaching out...How things look different on the way downDisillusioned, I've lost desireWill I burn in the unforgiving fire?From the flames, I walk awayI've found a way to erase the painAn empty bottle, my receptacleA...
- Shadow Side Of Me
I feel your existence in your bodyThough you try to hide itI know there's a battle in your mindI'm filling the distance you are driftingAnd I just can't fight itHow do we go on like thisPutting everything at riskHard...
- Sweetest Surprise
I never knew life, could like thisNever thought I that would be the one that u would kissI never new love could be so roughBut now I found the real thing I can't get enoughThe sweetest surpriseCome at me tonight,...
- Sleep In Sanity
It is not I who sleepsIt is you who sleeps... you sleepInsane you sleep, I sleep in sanity
- They (Will Always) Die
All tears restrained for yearsTheir grief is confinedWhich destroys my mindAn ode to their plight is this dirgeSome yearn for lugubrious silence(It is the) serenity in the image of coffinsShall life renew these bodies...
- Sleepless
And I often sighI often wonder whyI'm still here and I still cryAnd I often cryI often spill a tearOver those not hereBut still they are so nearPlease ease my burdenAnd I still rememberA memory and I weepIn my broken...
- Under A Veil (Of Black Lace)
With loving passion, oh your radianceA serenade I cryYour silk lined coffin the lachrymatoryTo hold a mourner's tearsEthereal splendourPale skin and down cast eyesScent of paradiseLike her, forever remains...
- The Beloved
Another day unfoldsNever felt so cold, I never knew I was turning awayThought I can't explain, I only love you now that you missedAs I stand in the rain, leave me to go through thisI don't think I could face another...
- Re-Connect
The fragments of connection diedSome things just won't fade with timeHide behind a transparent eyeYou can't see me but I can you...Betray without a moment's thoughtRegret nothing but getting caughtYour time comes and...
- Fragile Dreams
Countless times I trusted you,I let you back in,Knowing... Yearning... you knowI should have run... but I stayedMaybe I always knew,My fragile dreams would be broken for you.Today I introduced myself,To my own...
- Empty
Empty vessel under the sun wipe the dustfrom my face another morning black sundaycoming down again empty vessel empty veinsempty bottle wish for rain that pain againwash the blood off my face the pulse frommy brain...
- Regret
As I drift away... far away from you,I feel all alone in a crowded room,Thinking to myself"There's no escape from thisfearregretloneliness..."Visions of love and hateA collage behind my eyesRemnants of dying...
- Feel
I've 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 clearTrying to forget tomorrow and all that's happened,This is not the way, the way I was...
- Radiance
Inside...The dark is fading awayI don't want to be alone anymoreInside...The light of dawn is here once moreThe light...Darkness is slipping awayOf dawn...I don't want to be aloneIs here...Won't you stay?Not a word...
- Alternative 4
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...Dreaded memories flood back to me,But there's still a wilful mind behind...
- Suicide Veil
A sacrifice in the flight of dawnThe beauty of twisted realityIn my heart, my dreamsA sacrifice for freedomAlone in the grace of the darkThe pains of a failed generationI longed for the death of the sunAnother...
- Violence
(instrumental)
- Closer
(your) dream world is a very scary place... to be trappedyour dream world is a very scary place... to be trapped insideall your lifeshine in time... until you findyou're closer... to the truthwithin you... is the...
- Childhood Dream
(instrumental)
- Electricity
seems like you never really knew meseems like you never understood meseems like you never really knew how to feelbut electricity oooh it drew you near to mewhat you needed was to be rid of methere were times you...
- Flying
started a search to no availa light that shines behind the veil trying to find itand all around us everywhere is all that we could ever shareif only we could see itfeel there's truth that's beyond melife ever changing...
- Harmonium
Feel free to comprehendwhat i see will never endit can't be now that life is goneit's too real to overcome(it's) too real, too real(and) these days my hands are tiedthese days i think you'll findi'm not me now a light...
- Balance
Glad to see you're wide awakethis is the great escapefrom a life that tried to mould youand the lie it sold youwhat would you do?what wouldn't you do?do you try to reason whylook yourself in the eyewhat you are is all...
- Are You There?
[yes]are you there?(is it) wonderful to knowall the ghostsall the ghostsfreak my selfish out(my) mind is happyneed to learn to let it goi know you'd do no harm to me(but) since you've been gone I've been lost...
- Pulled Under At 2000 Metres A Second
(just) freedom is only a hallucinationthat waits at the edge of the distant horizonand we are all strangers in global illusionwanting and needing impossible heavenchasing the dream as they swim out to seathe mirage...
- A Natural Disaster
it's been a long cold winter without youi've been crying on the inside over youyou just slipped through my fingers as life turned awayit's been a long cold winter since that dayit's hard to find, hard to findhard to...
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