Anathema - Were You There? lyrics
Tracks 02. Balance
03. Closer 04. Pressure 05. Release 06. Forgoten Hopes 08. Are You There? 09. One Last Goodbye 10. Pulled Under At 2000 Metres A Second 11. Parisienne Moonlight 12. A Natural Disaster 13. Judgement 14. Panic 15. Temporary Peace 16. Flying 17. One Last Goodbye 18. Temporary Peace 19. Flying 20. Release 21. A Natural Disaster 02. Balance
Glad to see your wide awake
this is the great escape from a life that tried to mould you and the lie it sold you What would you do? what wouldn't you do? what would you do? what wouldn't you do? what would you do? what wouldn't you do? Did you try to reason why look yourself in the eye what you are is all you have been what will be is all you do now What would you do? what wouldn't you do? what would you do? what wouldn't you do? what would you do? what wouldn't you do? Spill a tear as your sense of self slowly melts away melts away melts away Until death's mirror reflects the meaning of our lives we wander aimless and mesmerised as the fear starts to rise 03. Closer
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 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 time Shine in time Shine in time Until you find Your closer Your closer to the truth Within you Within you Within you Is the truth That your dream world is a very scary place That your dream world is a very scary place That your dream world is a very scary place to be trapped inside to be trapped inside to be trapped inside All your life Your closer Your closer Your closer to the truth Within you Within you Within you Is the truth 04. Pressure
As the pressure grows and these feelings flow
trample on bodies, bodies in holes of faith times I've asked the lord for forgiveness while kept under a spell of a sweating locust's breath. No need to tell me 'cos its written on your face sliding down now with the black lights shining I don't care where you go you won't get away from me black as the night is day filled with no sympathy marching down the hall for a misery I don't care where you go you won't get away from me... Mouth tastes of sick stomach twisting inside everything's wrong and I can't get away the gravity of fear you can feel it coming near it's coming straight for you it'll twist and drag you down I don't care where you go you won't get away from me... 05. Release
Seeing is believing but I don't want to know
walk on through the wasteland I just can't let go face down I just break down when I see you cry all the time (sometimes) Hold on please hold on to me tempt fate release escape Someone now is screaming as the flames fly high think now that we're lost here and we don't know why face down I just break down when I see you cry all the time Hold on please hold on to me tempt fate release escape Behind those grey and lonely eyes unforgotten by time reality is dawning our spirit is awakening and somewhere in the hurricane hope is waiting crying in the distance and calling out your name 06. Forgoten Hopes
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? 08. Are You There?
Are you there?
the wondeful to know All like ghosts All the ghosts Freak my selfish out (my) mind is happy Need to learn to let it go I 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 her eyes the best friend that eluded you lost in time Burned alive in the heat of a grieving mind oh what can I say now? And it couldn't be more wrong cos there's no one there Unmistakebly least and without a care oh (did we) lose all the love that we could have shared And its wearing me down And its turning me round And I can't find a way now to find it out oh where are you when I need you? Are you there? Are you there? 09. One Last Goodbye
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 10. Pulled Under At 2000 Metres A Second
Just freedom is only a hallucination
that wait's 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 sea the mirage ahead says that they can be free become lost in delusion drowning their reason swept on by the current of selfish ambition Frightened ashamed and afraid of the blame the questions are screaming the answers are hiding the sickness is growing distracted condition you can feel the disgust and smell the confusion Lying insane getting soaked in the rain draining the sky of the guilt and the shame the nightmare is coming the clouds are descending pulled under two thousand metres a second Clawing at walls that just slip through my fingers darkness consuming collapsing and breaking distilled paranoia seeped into the walls and filled in the cracks with the whispering calls Shadows are forming take heed of the warnings creeping around at four in the morning lie to myself start a brand new beginning but I'm losing myself in this fear of living Freedom is only a hallucination that wait's at the edge of the places you go when you dream deep in the reason betrayal of feeling Freedom is only a hallucination that wait's at the edge of the places you go when you dream .... Freedom is only a hallucination that wait's at the edge of the places you go when you dream deep in the reason betrayal of feeling freedom is only a hallucination that wait's at the edge of the places you go when you dream.. 11. Parisienne Moonlight
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... 12. A Natural Disaster
It's been a long, cold winter
without you I've been crying on the inside Over you You've just slipped through my fingers So life turned away It's been a long, cold winter Since that day.. And it's hard to find, hard to find, hard to find the strenght now but I try And I don't wanna, don't wanna, don't wanna, don't wanna to speak now of what's gone by Cause no matter what I say, no matter what I do I can't change what happend, can't change what happend No matter what I say, no matter what I do Can't change what happend, can't change what happend no matter what I say, no matter what I do Can't change what happend, can't change what happend No, no, can't change You've just slipped through my fingers And now I feel so ashamed You've just slipped through my fingers and I've paid 13. Judgement
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 14. Panic
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 we driving on the ceiling below you... facin' up the walls with your crocked hands while you're miles away I don't think at all end up like this there's spiders on the wall and they stink of piss dead heads lying in the corner staring at me making me feel BAD I put my hands up to my eyes but the holes in my palms let me find a way to corner you I can't feel my chest because it ain't much sucking through my skin into my BRAIN oxygen pushing on the window cracks in the glass let it slip away I start to cry and I keep on laughing I close my eyes at what's left inside and then i'll ran away For all the time this land for all the time in my hand slip around (... ...) once again Razor blades floating in the warm bath air bubbles in your veins turning my hands black whispers coming from the next room window cleaner keeps on SPYING I put my hands up to my eyes but the HOLES in my PALMS let me find a way to corner me twelve (12) hammer for My breakfast slipping of the edge in catatonic blood multiple decibel inscriptions trying all they can in miles an hour ... face grey and looming downwards sniffing ALL THE TIME for a ounce of silence screaming all the way numbers counting down inside me solar system thoughts circle round my HEAD false teeth hanging from the ceiling feet looking of the goms of the 2nd son I eat my hands cos my legs are crying you BROKE my neck cause i snapped my spine I wish you would die away to all the time in this land and all the time in my hands circle round in depth found calmness fall once again 15. Temporary Peace
Deep inside the silence
staring out upon the sea the waves are washing over half forgotten memory 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 couldn't be all the waves are 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 rumours in the sky but there's a storm closing in voices crying on the wind the 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 16. Flying
Started a search to no avail
a light that shines behind the veil trying to find it And all around us everywhere Is all that we could ever share if only we could see it Feel there's truth that's beyond me Life ever changing weaving destiny And it feels like I'm flying above you Dream that i'm dying to find the truth Seems like your trying to bring me down Back down to earth back down to earth Layers of dust and yesterdays Shadows fading in the haze of what I couldn't say And though I said my hands were tied Times have changed and now I find I'm free for the first time Feel so close to everything now Strange how life makes sense in time now And it feels like I'm flying above you Dream that I'm dying to find the truth Seems like your trying to bring me down Back down to earth back down to earth Back down to earth back down to earth Back down to earth back down to earth 17. One Last Goodbye
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 18. Temporary Peace
Deep inside the silence
staring out upon the sea the waves are washing over half forgotten memory 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 couldn't be all the waves are 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 rumours in the sky but there's a storm closing in voices crying on the wind the 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 19. Flying
Started a search to no avail
a light that shines behind the veil trying to find it And all around us everywhere Is all that we could ever share if only we could see it Feel there's truth that's beyond me Life ever changing weaving destiny And it feels like I'm flying above you Dream that i'm dying to find the truth Seems like your trying to bring me down Back down to earth back down to earth Layers of dust and yesterdays Shadows fading in the haze of what I couldn't say And though I said my hands were tied Times have changed and now I find I'm free for the first time Feel so close to everything now Strange how life makes sense in time now And it feels like I'm flying above you Dream that I'm dying to find the truth Seems like your trying to bring me down Back down to earth back down to earth Back down to earth back down to earth Back down to earth back down to earth 20. Release
Seeing is believing but I don't want to know
walk on through the wasteland I just can't let go face down I just break down when I see you cry all the time (sometimesssssssss) Hold on please hold on to me tempt fate release escape Someone now is screaming as the flames fly high think now that we're lost here and we don't know why face down I just break down when I see you cry all the time Hold on please hold on to me tempt fate release escape Behind those grey and lonely eyes unforgotten by time reality is dawning our spirit is awakening and somewhere in the hurricane hope is waiting crying in the distance and calling out your name 21. A Natural Disaster
It's been a long, cold winter
without you I've been crying on the inside Over you You've just slipped through my fingers So life turned away It's been a long, cold winter Since that day.. And it's hard to find, hard to find, hard to find the strenght now but I try And I don't wanna, don't wanna, don't wanna, don't wanna to speak now of what's gone by Cause no matter what I say, no matter what I do I can't change what happend, can't change what happend No matter what I say, no matter what I do Can't change what happend, can't change what happend no matter what I say, no matter what I do Can't change what happend, can't change what happend No, no, can't change You've just slipped through my fingers And now I feel so ashamed You've just slipped through my fingers and I've paid |