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Anthology XV

by The Awakening

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Is it time here for praying? Is it time here to die? And I wake up and it's raining And you're leaving here tonight Is it winter in the morning? Is it over or a lie? And I'm shaking but I'm breathing I just need to close my eyes Oh you never were to blame The broken glass is everywhere It's crawling through your veins The memory won't disappear Again - tonight Even Fallen Angels cry Fallen Angels cry Is it time here for dreaming? Is it time here to die? And there's nothing to believe in But the One who gave me life Oh you never were to blame The broken glass is everywhere It's crawling through your veins The memory won't disappear Again - tonight Even Fallen Angels cry Fallen Angels cry I can hear you falling, feel you breaking See you calling me I can taste you bleeding, feel you shaking Know you're needing me Fallen Angels Cry Oh you never were to blame...
3.
Hear those voices calling There's sorrow in the air Falling leaves, like falling tears Of meaningless despair She picks up the flowers And weaves them through her hair Her dress is torn down to her thigh Her world has disappeared And she says go inside I'm waiting for the rain She keeps the pain alive Waiting for the rain Ice has closed the chamber The candles have all died A trail of incense to the place She lies in deathly white Shrouded by a halo The pillow made of stone She holds the lace against her chest And welcomes in the cold And she says go inside I'm waiting for the rain She keeps the pain alive Waiting for the rain When they find a new forever Behind this mortal tomb She'll take the sacrificial knife Beneath the scarlet moon When they find a new forever She'll be someone new Her skin will warm to summer light Her eyes a deeper blue And she says go inside I'm waiting for the rain She keeps the pain alive Waiting for the rain
4.
Angelyn Rise above the bitter end Angelyn Your smile won't let the winter in I needed you More than I thought I ever did Won't you just Bring your sweet touch back again 'cos I lied, I lied Angelyn The morning sun won't shine again Everything Belongs to where we started it I'm falling down More than I could ever stand Angelyn Won't you bring your healing hand 'cos I lied, I lied Kept your world inside Can't take back the years Can't swallow all the tears Sweet Angel let me in Quench the thirst I'm drowning in
5.
Fault 03:45
Dress it down so it feels like fashion The high life in a low-lit glow Turning out for the same reaction Light it all, light it up and go Light it all, light it up and go ah ah ah Find a reason for the last time and the thousand times before Find a reason to say goodbye Find a reason for the memories you buried in the dirt Find a reason to say goodbye Oh it doesn't feel like heaven anymore Tear it up like a New Romantic lip gloss, lip service show The impulse so automatic Break it down, light it up and go Break it down, light it up and go ah ah ah Find a reason for the last time and the thousand times before Find a reason to say goodbye Find a reason for the memories you buried in the dirt Find a reason to say goodbye Oh it doesn't feel like heaven Oh the feelings are all broken No it doesn't feel like heaven anymore
6.
Bleeding out the light From the corners of your soul Truth is on your side But it's buried far below Colour's in your eyes And it's raining back at home Needle's in the fire and it's closer to the bone And all along you had to be Always just beyond my reach You wore it well So nervously complete And all alone you had to go The way that angels have to go I'd trade this hell For the ground beneath your feet The ground beneath your feet Fading like your sin And you're down beneath the waves The ritual begins Your identity just fades I could keep you warm Angel I could keep you safe Open up your eyes Angel Get out of that grave And all along you had to be Always just beyond my reach You wore it well So nervously complete And all alone you had to go The way that angels have to go I'd trade this hell For the ground beneath your feet The ground beneath your feet What's wrong with forever What's wrong with forever The memory of life can leave you cold The memory of life can leave you cold It leaves me cold And all along you had to be Always just beyond my reach You wore it well So nervously complete And all alone you had to go The way that angels have to go I'd trade this hell For the ground beneath your feet The ground beneath your feet
7.
Down on your fever with a Razor Burn Can never tell you're a bleeder when you're innocent And it's a new resolution for a miracle You've got a poor constitution and you're letting go Oh that's you You're always needing proof You're waiting for the dark To watch me fall apart And nothing gets you high Oh you You're waiting for the dark You're down before the start And everything's a sign To you Frozen believer with a Razor Burn Oh just a casual deceiver and you'll never learn That the one revolution is to know your name And that the death of confusion is to see His face Oh that's you You're always needing proof You're waiting for the dark To watch me fall apart And nothing gets you high Oh you You're waiting for the dark You're down before the start And everything's a sign To you And it's over It's overdue again Oh your dreams are all in vain And you need more proof You need more proof and pain Down on your fever with a razor burn Can never tell you're a bleeder when you're innocent And it's a new resolution for a miracle You've got a poor constitution and you're letting go Oh you You're waiting for the dark...
8.
I'm falling - keep on falling As you rise above - you and I Believing - keep on dreaming For today I hear you - I can feel you Following the storm in to the night I try to - try to keep you Warm and safe inside See the walls are coming down, down, down As the nation rises ready for the fight And the fires burning down, down, down As we walk upon the water to the light I'm falling - keep on falling As the winter covers all the scars We need to - need to stop and pray For healing - pray for healing Hold on to your faith and don't let go This world is getting in the way It's getting in the way See the walls are coming down, down, down As the nation rises ready for the fight And the fires burning down, down, down As we walk upon the water to the light Our hope for tomorrow calls tomorrow home Oh we stand alone One more prayer for the broken One more prayer for the found See the walls are coming down, down, down As the nation rises ready for the fight And the fires burning down, down, down As we walk upon the water to the light
9.
It doesn't have to be like this Down on the floor with your heart It never felt so meaningless It's over but the hurting won't stop It doesn't have to be like this As time leaves and time wounds the dark You suffocate the emptiness It's over There's nothing like the rain here To wash away the scars There's nothing like the rain here Feel it fall It doesn't have to be like this Broken by who you are not Sorrow leaves you with her kiss And echoes the words to a song It doesn't have to be like this Down on the floor with your past The suffocating emptiness Is over There's nothing like the rain here To wash away the scars There's nothing like the rain here Feel it fall And like some other tragedy You drift away in spite of me And like the words I've never known I'm shown There's nothing like the rain here To wash away the scars There's nothing like the rain here Feel it fall
10.
Feeling like these photo-scenes Your world is black and in-between the paradox you call your life you stop to cry I picked up where they left off and held you 'til you were alive And now the room is mirror-tricks and dappled light And if you walk away I won't understand If you walk away I won't understand You were like a work of art that had its canvas torn apart and found itself an icon in its disarray I was just an afterthought who practised everything he taught But innocence can sometimes be an enemy If you walk away I won't understand Oh if you walk away I won't understand Every phase is something new with your eyes away from mine Oh this isn't living proof This is only borrowed time Feeling like these photo-scenes Your world is black and in-between the paradox you call your life you stop to cry If you walk away I won't understand If you walk away I won't understand I'm here waiting for you I am here waiting for you I picked up where they left off and held you 'til you were alive But now the room is mirror-tricks and dappled light
11.
I turned my head to stop the light You held a candle and a silver knife The words were black the words were cold I'd never given thought to your fool's gold In my world Constricted by the hands of definition - here I've taken and beaten all the ways they've complicated me In my world I need rebirth I turned my voice to another cause They've sent morality to fight on distant shores I've held the truth I've held despair deep in my lungs dyed as black as my hair In my world Constricted by the hands of definition - here I've taken and beaten all the ways they've complicated me In my world I need rebirth I need to be someone with some worth I need to be someone with some worth I've turned this water into blood I've spent so many years lost in this flood In my world Constricted by the hands of definition - here I've taken and beaten all the ways they've complicated me In my world Constricted by the hands of definition - here I've taken and beaten all the ways they've complicated all the ways they've reinvented all the ways they've devastated all the ways they've desecrated me
12.
You put your dress away with your feelings I know the tears will be mine again You take moment to stop my breathing And I know the tears will be mine As I believe I believe in you It's been some time now and I'm still broken My head is empty, my eyes are swollen And just behind me the void is growing And inside me I feel unwoven And I believe I believe in you I'm on the surface where wind is blowing Eyes are shut to the weight of knowing That everything I am is forbidden Through the hallways of doubt I'm driven As I believe I believe in you Take a moment crawl deeper under Take this moment And wish it away
13.
We are the Dark Romantics The Dark Romantics in our candle's glow We are the Dark Romantics and our dreams are where the poets go. Oh Go The photograph child holds her head in shame While the Crystal Wilde fears a statue with no name The velvet touch of the warmest mystery Is where our kind welcomes serenity We are the Dark Romantics The Dark Romantics in our candle's glow We are the Dark Romantics and our dreams are where the poets go. Oh Oh Your eyes are shut to the world that we hold dear You mock the way we paint ourselves You mock our Theatre tears We bow in love I know the Angels smile Drinking on emotion Lighting altar fires We are the Dark Romantics The Dark Romantics in our candle's glow We are the Dark Romantics and our dreams are where the poets go. Oh we will be Passionate, delicate Oh we can see all that God has given It's surreal Surreal (surreal) The photograph child holds her head in shame While the Crystal Wilde fears a statue with no name Oh we are the Dark Romantics The Dark Romantics in our candle's glow We are the Dark Romantics and our dreams are where the poets go. Oh, we will be Passionate, delicate Oh, we can see all that God has given It's surreal Oh, surreal (surreal) We are the Dark Romantics The Dark Romantics in our candle's glow We are the Dark Romantics and our dreams are where the poets go.
14.
Rain (XV) 04:14
I need to know all the truths behind the lies I need to show the guilt that is inside me Try to grow, a little sun and rain to die Try to grow, apart from this escaping Actions for the words Linear touche Actions killed the first Border on insane So let it rain Let it rain Let it rain Let it rain now Little child with war in her eyes Little false summation Little war taken for a slide Time for lost salvation I've had to go and leave the doubtful tears behind Because the glow, well I could see it fading Actions for the words Linear touche Actions killed the first Border on insane So let it rain Let it rain Let it rain Let it rain now Little child with war in her eyes Little false summation Little war taken for a slide Time for lost salvation Oh clouds are overhead Oh sentimental shade Oh why am I scared So let it rain Let it rain Let it rain Let it rain now
15.
Maree (XV) 04:13
I told myself to wait But the greyness around me took a liking to me I stood there against your gate But the coldness was growing so I began walking I began walking away Inside I knew what I was leaving But hey Maree We belong together Hey Maree We belong together girl Breathing the sour taste Of indecision of incompletion Can't believe it's going to waste The candle-lit passion That honest sensation But hey Maree We belong together Hey Maree We belong together girl I could not believe the deception in me as I left you in rags of grey I could not believe that I chose this bereavement When with you is all I can be (I said) Hey Maree We belong together Hey Maree We belong together girl
16.
If I could only for a moment If I could look before I leap To test it out before diving To test to see how deep When I'm alone, dressed up in crayon Pulling burdens from the weak For just to look in her direction To bear the cause or bear deceit Oh but the night time is where it breeds Feed on the night time, feelings bereaved Oh but the night time is what I need Thought I'd improve my concentration A little more breathing space But I'm suffocated by the ventilation That circles 'round this hollow place Oh but the night time is where it breeds Feed on the night time, feelings bereaved Oh but the night time is what I need It doesn't matter where the hurt is It's only worse when it's dark I see her face and then the burning Tomorrows breathe into a spark If I could learn from past disaster That left my mind a riddled fuse When eyes were turned to the hereafter And life had seemed so far removed Oh but the night time...
17.
Well raise your hands, it's all ours for the taking With disbelief they see the march go by Go by A history of wrongs and blistered implications Less of what we need and more, more frustration Taken to the altar and left to deteriorate Taken just for granted, they laugh and devastate You won't be the first or last to take a stand Idols will remain, in glass, your highered hand Well raise your hands, it's all ours for the taking With disbelief they see the march go by Haunted by the echo of the loading Bodies in the throat of the beast Hounded by the forces rejecting, rejecting peace Try as you might I don't believe You have the strength You are nothing more than the empty men Nothing more, we'll see your end Raise your hands, it's all ours for the taking With disbelief they see the march go by (Taken to the altar, taken for granted) Haunted by the whimper of the children Bodies in the throat of the beast Try as you might, I don't believe I don't believe You have the strength You are spoken for The empty men Nothing more We'll see your end
18.
Well here comes my Vampyre Girl She's a Halloween Dish dressed in fur She's a pale skin androgynous delight Black hair, black nails, black humour, All the boys stare like she's going to eat 'em But she wants 'til the audience is right Tonight She'll cover you like milk Scarlet lace and bloody silk My favourite melodrama in the world Vampyre Girl After the Witching Hour She's a sure-fire Lestat devotee Bloody lips and sinfully blue eyes She's got the whole Anne Rice collection But she don't mind the mirror's reflection She won't leave the house 'til her look is right Tonight She'll cover you like milk Scarlet lace and bloody silk My favourite melodrama in the world Vampyre Girl Vampyre Girl Oh she's the one Who's always planned the night With such a perfect bite Oh she's such a perfect perfect Vampyre Girl Oh girl She'll cover you like milk Scarlet lace and bloody silk My favourite melodrama in the world Vampyre Girl Vampyre Girl
19.
Sitting by myself again Battered and alone Wondering to myself again whether I have grown Stand and be counted Stand to be seen Stand and be counted I look into your eyes again and memories unfold I wonder about the time we spend The place we call a home Stand and be counted Stand to be seen Stand and be counted You force my mind to turn away to your dreams of black and gold A pain so sharp it bleeds the night I give you my hand to hold Stand and be counted Stand to be seen Stand and be counted It's not long to go to find your way home It's not long to go to find your way home
20.
nd where martyrs stand the idols fall 
but in my solitude I surrender
 Where Judas lies the curtain is torn
 I am the weaker here, the pretender

 And the Blood will make angels of us all 
Oh beyond comprehension
 that He would choose one who seldom takes the call
 straight to heart, defy convention

 And our heroes are tangible and able 
to keep our focus from the One 
who bled and died in a halo of pain
 labeled a fake, a heretic, while He is the true Son 

And the Blood will make angels of us all
 Oh beyond comprehension
 that He would choose one who seldom takes the call
 straight to heart, defy convention 

Perfect Martyr for me
 Perfect Martyr for you
21.
Look away Oh my precious one The weight of hurt was fed to those you feared Turn away Oh my only one Trapped inside my head you seem to be Is life worth living without your body against mine Is my air worth breathing without your tiny hand in mine Is my life worth fighting for without your arms around mine Oh is the Amethyst or is this the weight of bliss And the taste of your tender skin leaves my senses scattered on the tiles And the fear of compassion's interim Hold me as the dark claws at my side Is life worth living without your body against mine Is my air worth breathing without your tiny hand in mine Is my life worth fighting for without your arms around mine Oh is the Amethyst or is this the weight of bliss like your kiss your kiss

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[CD released 27 April 2014 / Download released 27 April 2013]

21 songs celebrating 15 years of music from The Awakening. Every song has either been remixed, reworked or re-recorded. Anthology XV includes new versions, alternate versions and 2 new songs: "Fault" and "Beneath Your Feet".

Digital version includes 3 bonus tracks: "Nothing Like The Rain (xv)", "Rain (xv)" and "Before I Leap (xv)".

CD version is packaged in gatefold digipak - www.theawakening.com/anthology-xv

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released April 27, 2014

All music & lyrics by Ashton Nyte
except "The Sound Of Silence" by Paul Simon.
Published by Intervention Arts
except "The Sound Of Silence"published by Paul Simon Music
Produced by Ashton Nyte

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"Music to make angels and vampires alike weep for wanting."- Fangoria. The Awakening is a Gothic Rock band fronted by vocalist & multi-instrumentalist Ashton Nyte. Originally from Johannesburg, South Africa and based in the USA since 2008 with 9 full length albums and a career-spanning retrospective in their catalogue, the band have just released their latest album "Chasm" in November 2018. ... more

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