Anathema
                           Serenades

Vocals on J'ai Fait une Promesse by Ruth.

- Lovelorn rhapsody                 6:12
- Sweet tears                       4:06
- J'ai fait une promesse            2:32
- They (will always) die            7:06
- Sleepless                         4:07
- Sleep in sanity                   6:46
- Scars of the old stream           1:06
- Under a veil (of black lace)      7:22
- Where shadows dance               1:52
- Dreaming: the romance            22:30


     Lovelorn Rhapsody

I hear your voice
It sings so softly
Curious to join in
A harmony to breathe forevermore

Joyous the one to hear a voice

  In fields where grass grows tall
  Golden carpets swell and whisper
  Autumn trees will weep

Immune to pity, I've grown used to grief
The eternal tear reciprocates

  In fields where grass grows tall
  Golden carpets swell and whisper
  Autumn trees will weep

Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh
In bleak misery, the lifeless lie in squandor

Love has left me, fleed from me
Fragrant lust waits beside and dies
Like flowers that wilt without refreshment
In midday sun I sit and bide time
Adorning me, a lovelorn rhapsody


     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


     J'ai Fait Une Promesse

The way that the willow bows over the stream
like a mourner crying for their loved one
reminds me of last fall
when on one knee, I pledged myself to you


     They (Will Always) Die
 
All tears restrained for years
Their grief is confined
Which destroys my mind

An ode to their plight is this dirge

Some yearn for lugubrious silence
(It is the) serenity in the image of coffins

Shall life renew these bodies of a truth?
All death will he annul, all tears assuage?
Fill the void veins of life, again with youth
And wash with an immortal water, age

They Die ... (they will always die)


     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


     Sleep In Sanity
 
It is not I who sleeps
It is you who sleeps ... you sleep

Insane you sleep, I sleep in sanity


     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 splendour
  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 splendour
  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 the earth
I harmony to (our) heaven we'll elope

Heavenly grace with which to ease
the virgin's tears