ANATHEMA
Judgement
©1999 CD
Deep
(Lyrics Vincent Music Danny/Dave)
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 again
Mesmerise my senses
Souls entwine one more time
All our times will come
Searching oblivion
Leaving nothing but the memories of
All the things you give
They're all you'll leave behind
Within their mind
Open laughter held in distant days
Eternal stars have changed
I know that it can't be the same
There's no romance for you tonight
Feel my heart burning
Deep inside... yearning
I know it is coming
All our times will come
Searching oblivion
Leaving nothing but the memories of
All the things you give
They're all you'll leave behind
Within their mind
And time recedes every day
You can search your soul but you won't see
As we pass ever on and away
Towards some blank infinity
Pitiless
(Lyrics Vincent/Dave/John Music Danny)
Is it the emptiest of
All your broken hearted feelings
A serious misconception
To choose a path that led to ruin
I live for today
Can't get away from the burning inside
Ashes to ash
Dust to dust
So quick to point the finger
When you're the source of your condition
Why should I feel sympathy
When you only show me nothing
I live for today
Can't get away from the burning inside
Ashes to ash
Dust to dust
I could stare for a thousand years
Penetrate your deepest fears
Leave you cold with a faceless embrace
Then disappear without a trace
I live for today
Can't get away from the burning inside
Ashes to ash
Dust to dust
Forgotten Hopes
(Lyrics & Music Danny)
Hey you rotting in your alcoholic shell
Banging on the walls of your intoxicated mind
Do you ever wonder why you were left alone
As your heart grew colder and finally turned to stone
Did I punish you for dreaming?
Did I break your heart and leave you crying?
Don't you ever dream of escaping...
Pathetic oblivion
Forgotten hopes buried in your soul's lonely grave
Pathetic oblivion
Remember how you were before you locked your heart away
Did I punish you for dreaming?
Did I break your heart and leave you crying?
Do you ever dream of escaping...
Don't you ever dream of escaping?
Destiny is dead
(Music Danny/Dave)
One last goodbye
(Lyrics & Music Danny)
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
Somehow I knew you would leave me this way
Somehow I knew you could never stay
And in the early morning light
After a silent peaceful night
You took my heart away
And I grieve
In my dreams I can see you
I can tell you how I feel
In my dreams I can hold you
And it feels so real
I still feel the pain
I still feel your love
I still feel the pain
I still feel your love
Somehow I knew you could never, never stay
And somehow I knew you would leave me
And in the early morning light
After a peaceful night
You took my heart away
I wished, I wished you could have stayed
Make it Right (f.f.s.)
(Lyrics & Music John)
I know that I want you
I know that I need you
But I can't pretend that
This'll make it right
You whisper your name
But I can't hear you
Don't leave me behind
Lend me your hand
I can feel them
I think they're closing in
Don't leave me behind
Lend me your hand
Let me feel you
By my side
Be where I can hear you
I long to feel
Parisienne Moonlight
(Lyrics & Music Danny)
I feel I know you
I don't know how
I don't 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 be free of all the pain
You have inside
You cannot hide
I know you tried
To be who you couldn't be
You tried to see inside of me
And now i'm leaving you
I don't want to go
Away from you
Please try to understand
Take my hand
Be free of all the pain
You hold inside
You cannot hide
I know you tried
To feel...
To feel...
Don't look too far
(Lyrics & Music John)
If I begin to feel lighter
Hold me down
And I'll be yours for evermore
God bless this mess I'm in
For it is time
To be rid of a certain sin
A cool breeze down my spine
And if I'm really here
Then I feel fine
A freelance child
You bring it all back
This world is eating me inside
Chorus:
Don't look too far
Missing a degree of warmth
A name without a face
I'm losing grip all the same
I sever the line that divides
I sever the feelings inside
I sever between you and me
And I want to learn to fly
Bring the pain right back again
Is this all there is of me
Hearts and minds, find the time
That in the end there was no
possible reason for anything
Chorus:
Rant & rave
In the eyes of the beholder
You've gotta face this straight on
You've gotta go head to head
If you want to understand
And begin to turn this thing around.
Emotional Winter
(Lyrics Vincent Music Danny)
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 summerlight
Scattered yesterdays, the past is far away
How fast time passed by
The transience of life
Those wasted moments won't return
And we will never feel again
Beyond my dreams
Ever with me
You flash before my eyes, a final fading sigh
But the sun will (always) rise
And tears will dry
Of all that is to come, the dream has just begun
And time is speeding by
The transience of life
Those wasted moments wont return
And we will never feel agai
Wings of God
(Lyrics & Music John)
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 on your problems
Do I know why
And if you come my way again
Would I lend a hand
Would I understand
Solitude was never seen as loneliness
And things need time
And time leads to other things
And playing roles
Which are limited
By the poor fund of knowledge
In this sick, sick world
We all fall down
Once in a while
Escaping the law of the unexplained pains
Judgement
(Lyrics Vincent Music Danny/John)
Asleep is the rose, in tired innocence... dreaming time away. Secure in the comfort of
slumbers faint embrace. Blissfully ignorant, unaware of the imminence...
Recurring memories emerge from the deep... of old secrets unforgotten sleep. They sink
beneath the surface just long enough for you to breathe. Then return to choke you when you wake
up alone. Shredded inside... there's one place left to turn. A long-term problem, a temporary
remedy, but fuck it all anyway you can pretend to be happy.
So many years of pathetic lies, empty promises and unfulfilled dreams are scattered like dust
into the winds. Looking for the sun that eclipsed behind black feathered wings. Tomorrow never
comes, there was only ever one day... but now it's too late.
The inequity of fate
The pains of love and hate
The heart-sick memories
That brought you to your knees
And the times when we were young
When life seemed so long
Now you are left alone
Where did it all go wrong
Day after day
You burned it all away
(and it's too late)
All the hate that feeds your needs
All the sickness you conceive
All the horror you create
Will bring you to your knees
Anyone, Anywhere
(Lyrics Dave Music Dave/Danny)
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 through my eyes
No one really cares where I go
Searching to feel warmth forever more
The wheels of life they turn without me
Now you are gone... eternally
No...
Don't leave me here
The dream carries (me) on
Inside
I know...
Its not too late
Lost moments blown away
Tonight
Chorus.
Mankind, with your heresy
Can't you see that this is killing me
There's no one in this life
To be here with me at my side
2000 & Gone
(Music Dave/Danny)
Transacoustic
(Music Danny)
Vincent Cavanagh - Vocals & Guitar
Danny Cavanagh - Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Keyboards
Dave Pybus - Bass Guitar
John Douglas - Drums
Live Keyboards by Martin Powell Produced and Engineered by Kit Woolven
Assisted by Dario ('Ki-Nell) Mollo
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered at Damage inc. Studios, Ventimiglia, Italy. Feb 1 - April 15, 1999.
Piano on "Anyone, Anywhere" by Dario Patti
Female Voice on "Parisienne Moonlight" and "Don't Look too Far" by Lee Douglas
Backing vocal on "Parisienne Moonlight" by Danny
Front cover designed by Vincent & Danny
Live Photos by Carnivore
Band photos by Dario ('Ki-Nell again) Mollo
Digital Artwork By Vincent
Layout by Liam. Designed by ANATHEMA
Dedicated to Helen Cavanagh (1949-1998) - A wonderful mother and a beautiful friend.
Thanks in no order to: Paul Loasby and Will at one fifteen, Kit, Dario & Rosalba, Martin (Shit off) Powell, Andy Black, Doug and all at MFN, Mike (Arse Biscuits) Unsworth, Loz (We ask the questions) Pybus, Big Martin Lamb, Dave (I Y Cock) Nuttbrown, Mega (Cthulhu calls mate!), Karin Gibson, Daniel & Stefan, Didier & Corrinne, Lez and the Cradle, Andy Watson, Lee Douglas, Dario Patti, Darren White, Shaun Steels and Ali, Al Smith, Mike at Razamataz, Chris and all at Crash studios, Andrea at Parr Street studios, Jamie & Natascja, Hammy & Lisa, Tez, Sonia Machen, Clare Scott, Natasha, Ste & Redhouse, The Eindhoven crew, Manuel Vicari, Don Airey, Gaz Querns, Brian Moss, Christina Barras, Tony (Caution: Muscles aren't gothic!) Young, Aaron Stainthorpe, Jeff Gruslin, Simona Beghelli, Laura Lamy, Camilla Karlsson, Carnivore Remco, Frank (Dynamo), Baz, Digga, George, Ste, Paul, Di Di & Si, Marita, Danny & Kate, Hill, Charlene, Kylie, The Mentalists, Johntty Rhoades, Katherine, The Elite mob, Sarah (X), Sean (Fuck out,), Kev (Stagger my droop), Our Paul, Steve Bowland, Weynants Family, Vera & Friends, My mates in Antwerp & Brussels, Bart & Karen, Chris & Krista (R.I.P. Bar Sjok), Haroun, Bjorn, Jurgen (home studio 97), The Scheeres family, The Emanuel family, Gabriel, Mario, Bruno & Anna and all at the Flying Dutchman, M, All our friends and families for much needed support, Ourselves, Most of the bands we have played with, Red Wine, Blow Jobs, and to all those who doubted Top sens!
Respect is due to the writers of the following songs for inspiration in these dark times: Morning Theft, Spine of God, No Quarter, Goldilox, Smokestack lightening, Once, Orion, Let Down, Phantom of the opera, Tragedy Man, Helter Skelter, Modern Man, Blowin' In the wind, Brothers in Arms, On a Plane, The Blue Garden, A National Acrobat, Sand & Mercury, God Save the Queen, Promises, Chapter 24, Postmortem, Caress into oblivion, Hellhound on my trail, Sympathy for the Devil, Albatross, Always look on the bright side of life, She said, she said, Hear my train a comin', A new Machine, Desloate Ways, Exit, The Orange Theme, Hey You, Godless, Bridge of sighs, Breeding Fear, No more I love You's, Black, Big Balls, Rain When I Die, Anaesthasia (Pulling Teeth), Vision Incision, Wandering Star, Long, Long, Long, Baba O'reilly, Love on the Rocks, Here Come the Vorbus, Apocatastasis, Vest, Fart Powder, The wind howls death, Balls on an Anvil, Dead Girl, The Moonlight Sonata, Adagio in G Minor, Sunset Eagle, Hellraiser, Halloween, Its a Trap.
