@BAND: ANATHEMA @ALBUM: THE SILENT ENIGMA Total playing time : 54:39 İ1995 Peaceville / Music For Nations Out on October 23 1995 1. RESTLESS OBLIVION 8:03 2. SHROUD OF FROST 7:31 3. ... ALONE 4:24 4. SUNSET OF THE AGE 6:57 5. NOCTURNAL EMISSION 4:20 6. CERULEAN TWILIGHT 7:05 7. THE SILENT ENIGMA 4:25 8. A DYING WISH 8:12 9. BLACK ORCHID 3:40 Anathema are : Vincent Cavanagh - Vocals, guitars Duncan Patterson - Bass Guitar Daniel Cavanagh - Guitars John Douglas - Drums, Percussion Produced by Anathema. All songs written by Anathema. Orchestral arrangements by Daniel Cavanagh. Spoken part on ³Shroud of Frost² by Deryk Fullwood Vocals on ³Alone² by Rebecca Wilson All tracks recorded at Lynx Studios, Newcastle except ³Alone² recorded at M.A. Studios, Liverpool Engineered by Kev Ridley. Executive Producer : Hammy Mixed at the Academy, Dewsbury by Mags. Front cover picture : ŒLady In Miltonıs Comusı by J. Wright used by kind permission of The Board Of Trustees Of The National Museums And Galleries On Merseyside (Walker Art Gallery) Horsehead Nebula picture : Royal Observatory, Edinburgh/AATB/Science Photo Library. Photography by Simon Mooney. Band picture by Meany. For information on Anathema Send SAE/ 2 I.R.C.ıs/$1.00 to : Anathema F.C P.O. Box 17 Dewsbury West Yorkshire WF12 8AA England Typin' job done by Pierre-Jean Fontaine. December 2 1995. I havenıt an Internet address, but you can write to me at : Pierre-Jean Fontaine Avenue Bel Horizon 48 B-1341 Ottignies Belgium @SONG: RESTLESS OBLIVION My paralysed heart is bleeding..... My loveıs torn apart Desire to be free A bleak garden to cry When my inamorato died Loveless so real Lifeline of mortality Condemned to misery Restless oblivion forever A bleak garden to cry When my inamorato died My visionary dreams are vanquished Aspirations fade away Reverence dies within A bleak garden to cry When my inamorato died @SONG: SHROUD OF FROST Undying odyssey..... a myriad of times The soul has seen Through eyes of heaven The imperium of earth Nothing left to perceive Help me to escape from this existence I yearn for an answer... can you help me ? Iım drowning in a sea of abused visions and shattered dreams In somnolent illusion... Iım paralysed Infinity distraction...... A pious human disorder Blind to passage of souls Conclusion from one remembrance Help me to escape..... Transfixed... I gaze through my window at a world lying under a shroud of frost. In a forlorn stupor I feel the burning of staring eyes, yet no-one is here. Detached from reality, in the knowing of dreams, we know the entity of ensuing agony waits to clasp us in its cold breast, in an empty room. We awake and itıs true. I dreamt of the sunıs demise, awoke to a bleak morning. In the emptiness I beheld face for the dead light is a foretelling of what will be..... I saw a soul drift from life, through death, and arrive at Elysian fields in welcoming song. Yet I stand in a dusk-filled room despondently watching the passing of a kindred spirit... and there is no song... just a delusion of silence. @SONG: ... ALONE I gave you my soul You left me dying (freezing in the cold wind that screams through the silence, in the barren wastes of my heart) Within the walls Of my mind..... alone, The winter serenade Fell silent to me @SONG: SUNSET OF AGE Throne of grief ..... in a dying essence Crying beauty ..... the fettered aura Forgotten oceans of hope ..... Betrayed aphony Sullen laughter in unventured paradise (as one) forever searching For landscapes serene Amidst the sunset of age With joyous masquerade..... ..... the summers died @SONG: NOCTURNAL EMISSION My passions rise..... a twilight ride Stark light of dark night in my eyes My forlorn lust..... My soul it burns My forlorn lust..... My soul is burning Take you now, in my sleep I want to touch you, to scratch you deep To leave you scarred..... To see you burn To leave you scarred..... To see you burning @SONG: CERULEAN TWILIGHT Iım lying here, oh so peaceful..... ..... In serene harmony Iım dreaming yet I feel awake Iım dreaming yet I am awake Subjected to pain. Dark screams repent And in a foreboding rage, a soul will die..... ..... a soul will die My mind is burning, Iım burning I canıt feel you anymore Have I reached my point ? Will I drown in delusion ? The winds fell silent And in my cerulean twilight I left myself once again ..... itıs overwhelming Suffer yourself, and let me die here awhile @SONG: THE SILENT ENIGMA In dreamland grandeur I held mesmerised peace Innocence breathed again A mindıs escape Leave walls of tears behind Ethereal vision haunting still..... The solitude left me blind Beneath an open sky Sibilant cries of youth dying Enslave me with grief A moonlit era, oblivionıs twilight kiss Wishes in lament Happiness in a broken vision Utopia still unborn..... Tormented echoes of a fallen Eden I longed for her beauty Yet from dust, she returned The dream, an enigma.... silent @SONG: A DYING WISH I bear the seed of ruin A golden age turned to stone Elysium..... to dust For this, a tragic journey A vision of a dying embrace Scattered earth Silence..... Where Echonia wept I sank into the silent desert Fallen am I, In the solitude of a broken promise .... I cried alone My emptyrean is a scar From the memory of her beautiful life Forever was her name Fulfilment lost in a lifetime of regret Ornate peace would cover me As I would die now..... For one last wish