Anathema Lyrics

Burn low the candles

In a desiccated ritual

They say vigilance brings comfort

But I don't believe it's true

Straighten the noose

That chokes the suit onto these ruins

An avalanche unfitting as a tribute

Carve up the kingdom

Change the names on all the maps

Take all that you can carry

Escape here while you can

My stormy friends will hover close

My clouds are coming with me

Together we'll destroy the end

This should have been a letter

And not a paper epitaph

I'm mistaking shadows

On the wall for ghosts again

I'm mistaking shadows

I have seen here for the dead

Alien sedition

Running rampant in my head

All my contrition

Can't roll back the wheels of death

I am anathema

We are the damned

And so do we reach the stars

This should have been a letter

And not a paper epitaph

This should have been a letter

And not some foolish epitaph

I'm mistaking shadows

On the wall for ghosts again

I'm mistaking shadows

I have seen here for the dead

There is a pulse unrivaled in its resonance

A requiem that promises we won't forget

For we are the damned

We are the damned

We don't forget