Anathema - Alternative 4 [Full Album 1998]

Lyrics to Alternative 4 [Full Album 1998] by Anathema

Tracklist: 01. Shroud Of False We are just a moment in time A blink of an eye A dream for the blind Visions from a dying brain I hope you don't understand 02. Fragile Dreams Countless times I trusted you, I let you back in, Knowing... yearning... you know I should have run... but I stayed Maybe I always knew My fragile dreams would be broken... for you Today I introduced myself To my own feelings In silent agony, after all these years They spoke to me... after all these years Maybe I always knew My fragile dreams would be broken... for you 03. Empty Empty vessel under the sun wipe the dust from my face another morning black Sunday coming down again... coming down again Empty vessel, empty veins empty bottle wish for rain that pain again wash the blood off my face the pulse from my brain And I feel that pain again I'm looking over my shoulder cause millions will whisper I'm killing myself again Maybe I'm dying faster but nothing ever last I remember a night from my past when I was stabbed in the back and its all coming back And I feel that pain again I abhor you I condemn you cause this pain will never end you got away without a scratch and now you're walking on a lucky path I have to laugh but you'd better watch your back there's pathetic opposition they're the cause of my condition I'll be coming back for them I've a solution for this sad situation nothing left but to kill myself again Because I'm so empty 04. Lost Control Life... has betrayed me once again I accept that some things will never change. I've let your tiny minds magnify my agony and it's left me with a chemical dependency for sanity. Yes, I am falling... how much longer 'till I hit the ground? I can't tell you why I'm breaking down. Do you wonder why I prefer to be alone? Have I really lost control? I'm coming to an end, I've realized what I could have been. I can't sleep so I take a breath and hide behind my bravest mask, I admit I've lost control Lost control... 05. Re-Connect The fragments of connection died Some things just won't fade with time Hide behind a transparent eye You can't see me but I can you... Betray without a moment's thought Regret nothing but getting caught Your time has come and here I stand Why should I hold out my hand to you... I could never turn to you Silenced by that look in your eye Feel I'm slipping back again Black cold night I toss and turn I'm sinking, feel so ...drained Shroud me, blind me, sick, weak, empty, drag me ...into pain I tried so hard, don't drown me, bound to me, self indulgently ...crazed Black as coal, my sunken soul, will it ever be ...saved? Come on and twist that knife again Well I'd like to see you fucking try Never going back again An answer won't come from me Confront your own worst enemy What does your mirror see Is it time to face up to me? 06. Inner Silence When the silence beckons And the day draws to a close When the light of your life sighs And love dies in your eyes Only then will I realize What you mean to me. 07. Alternative 4 It's killing you, you're killing me I'm clinging on to my sanity All I need is a short term remedy Come and hide me from this terrible reality... Dreaded memories flood back to me But there's still a willful mind behind these cold psychotic eyes Now I tread this path so differently I've opened my mind and darkened my entire life. I'll dance with the angels to celebrate the holocaust, And far beyond my far gone pride, Is knowing that we'll soon be gone, Knowing that I'll soon be gone... 08. Regret As I drift away... far away from you, I feel all alone in a crowded room, Thinking to myself "There's no escape from this fear, regret, loneliness..." Visions of love and hate A collage behind my eyes Remnants of dying laughter Echoes of silent cries I wish I didn't know now that I never knew then... Flashback Memories punish me once again Sometimes I remember all the pain that I have seen Sometimes I wonder what might have been... Visions of love and hate A collage behind my eyes Remnants of dying laughter Echoes of silent cries And sometimes I despair At who I've become I have to come to terms With what I've done The bittersweet taste of fate We can't outrun the past Destined to find an answer A strength I never lost I know there is a way My future is not set For the tide has turned But still I never learned to live without regret. 09. Feel I've feeling, I won't be coming down from this, I was searching through the heavens and somehow I slipped! I feel, I'm seeing so clear Trying to forget tomorrow and all that's happened This is not the way, the way I was meant to be I feel, I'm seeing so clear I thought I was never going to die I feel, I'm seeing so clear We need more time Slipping away, I think I'm gonna crack Misplaced trust, loyalty stabbed in the gut I feel, I'm seeing so clear I thought I was never coming back I've been down for awhile, And now I'm coming back... 10. Destiny I tried to murder the lonely, Contemplate our mortality. Into infinity, Frozen memory Wipe the tears from yesterday, A time for change, take the pain away. Angel, my destiny, Can you feel me?