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Rating: Anyone who listens to this record should know that this is not a normal album. This is a work of art. With this creation, Anathema provides the ideal complement to SERENADES and THE SILENT ENIGMA.
ETERNITY is, in fact, the perfect conclusion to what is the first period of their career.
But already now the music has definitely changed; the tracks are more melodic, although as anguished and dark as ever, and moreover, Vincent Cavanagh adopts a clean singing style here.
Opening the album after the instrumental intro is ANGELICA, one of the absolute masterpieces of the English group. We could almost define it as a ballad with a somber melody and a heart-wrenching sadness capable of evoking great emotion.
The tones become more intense with THE BELOVED and the first part of the title track ETERNITY PT.1, a dramatic piece in its progression and once again emotionally intense.
This is followed by the spectral ETERNITY PT.2 and HOPE.
The seventh track, SUICIDE VEIL, is probably the most distressing piece ever composed by the group.
The track progresses in the grimmest of ways, leading to a central section in which Vincent sings with desperate anger that tears at the heart. And in the end, only the faint sound of rain accompanied by the notes of an acoustic guitar.
Following RADIANCE and the desperate FAR AWAY (worth mentioning is the lyrics of this piece), here comes ETERNITY PT.3, probably the best track on the album, where once again Anathema demonstrates an enviable ability to infuse all the songs with a devastating emotional charge in all its despair and darkness.
Finally, CRIES ON THE WIND and ASCENSION close what is yet another masterpiece from an extraordinary band that has been able to compose unique and unforgettable tracks with each album.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Angelica (05:50)
Where are you tonight?
Wild flower in starlit heaven
Still enchanted in flight
Obsessions lament to freedom
A timeless word, the meanings changed
But I'm still burning in your flames,
Incessant, lustral masquerade,
Unengaged, dilit love didn't taste the same
And I still wonder if you ever wonder the same
And I still wonder...
03 The Beloved (04:44)
Another day unfolds, still I exist
Never felt so cold, I never knew I was turning away
Though I can't explain, I only love you now that your missed
As I stand in the rain, leave me to go through this
I don't think I could face another sleepless night
If I could only trace that elusive light
In a dreamland flight to your agonizing eyes
A never ending flight, my silent cries
Still I close my eyes and my mind becomes clear
Still I dream, and there you are...
How still you lie and how your eyes bring back the fear
Still I can't face what's going on in here...
Everything that I've ever felt has gone,
At last my spirit breathes
I see no point in going on
So goodbye... It's time for me to leave
04 Eternity, Part I (05:35)
And I feel like I knew you before
and I guess that you can hear me through this song
and my love will never die
and my feelings will always shine
and my love will never die
and my feelings will always shine
and I know that you just wanted me to belong, to someone
and I guess that now I`ll just be moving on, to someone
and my love will never die
and my feelings will always shine
and my love will never die
and my feelings will always shine
I`ve never betrayed your trust
I`ve never betrayed your faith
I`ll never forsake your heart
I`ll never forget your face
there`s a feeling that I can`t describe
there`s a reason that I cannot hide
`cause I`ve never seen a light that`s so bright
the light that shines behind your eyes
I`ve never betrayed your trust
I`ve never betrayed your faith
I`ll never forsake your heart
I`ll never forget your face
There`s feeling that I can`t describe
a reason that I cannot hide
I`ve never seen a light that`s so bright
the light that shines behind your eyes
I can`t see this life what you mean to me
when I dream, I dreamed of you
when i wake, tell me what I do
I had to let you go
to the saddest song
I had to let you go
to find your way back home
I had to let you go
to the setting sun
I had to let you go
to find your way back home
06 Hope (05:55)
I was not put here by anyone in fear
I came alone as me
Just an idea in a long chain of discovery
Surrounded by the same you
Sometimes your tide pulls me out to sea
And I die in a thrashing curse
Sometimes we are kind
More often, I doze
So far up the beach that those who try to reach are burnt
alive in the searing heat of the desert of my dispassion
So far removed, I never hear the water
'Cept once or twice a month when I see a mirror
And I refuse to believe in some of the things that are said to be here
Let alone those that are not
I'm trying to change my direction
Ours is pathetic in my own humble estimation
I love the planet
The great benign she-wolf
Benefactor
Spinning gently on towards the red giant four aeons hence
When all the rose gardens are consumed in the flash-fire of flying time
She'll leave alone to you
When you look at me
From your own century
I may seem to be
Strange archeology
But when the winds blow
From this direction
You may sense me there
In your reflection
I think I feel you
But I will never know
As the swallows leave
And the children grow
I wanted to live forever
The same is you will too
I wanted to live forever
And everybody knew
When I caught you there
In tomorrows mirror
I thought felt you
Jump out of my skin
Throwing oil into
My blazing memories
Filling empty footsteps
I was standing in
I wanted to live forever
The same as you will too
I wanted to live forever
And everybody knew
As the falling rain
Of the northern jungle
Hanging droplets on the leaves
Bombards my brain
I hear you
Across the room
A sea of daffodils spring into bloom
You are the mist
The frost across my window pane
And again
She moves her body
And her whispers weave
And the world spins
And tells me that I'll never want to leave
As I think of you
From this dark century
I will always be
With generosity
That we both may share
The hope in hearing
That we're not just
Spirits disappearing
11 Cries on the Wind (05:01)
Reaching out...
How things look different on the way down
Disillusioned, I've lost desire
Will I burn in the unforgiving fire?
From the flames, I walk away
I've found a way to erase the pain
An empty bottle, my receptacle
A guardian angel called escape
Don't dwell on the forthcoming
As I know it won't be happening
And you know, when I'm gone
You'll hear my cries on the wind
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