Anathema The Silent Enigma Vincent Cavanagh : Vocals, guitars Duncan Patterson : Bass guitar Daniel Cavanagh : Guitars John Douglas : Drums, percussion - Restless oblivion 8:03 - Shroud of frost 7:31 - ...Alone 4:24 - Sunset of the age 6:57 - Nocturnal emission 4:20 - Cerulean twilight 7:05 - The silent enigma 4:25 - A dying wish 8:12 - Black orchid 3:40 Restless Oblivion My paralysed heart Is bleeding... My love's 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 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? I'm drowning in a sea of abused visions and shattered dreams In somnolent illusion... I'm 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 it's true. I dreamt of the sun's demise, awoke to a bleak morning. In the emptiness I behled fate 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 the kindred spirit... and there is no song... just a delusion of silence. ...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 Sunset Of The 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 Nocturnal Emission My passion 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 Cerulean Twilight I'm lying here, oh so peaceful... ...In serene harmony I'm dreaming yet I feel awake I'm 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, I'm burning I can't 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 ...it's overwhelming Suffer yourself, and let me die here awhile The Silent Enigma In dreamland grandeur I held mesmerised peace Innocence breathed again A mind's 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, oblivion's 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 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 solitude of a broken promise ...I cried alone My empyrean 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 Black Orchid (Instrumetal)