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This journal is about TG's part in the formation of gothic metal and their influence in female fronted bands.It's not about the history of the Gothic movement though I'm planning on writing some of my thoughts about it in the future.

To begin with, i don't think that we should tag bands whose music and style has developed and/or changed over the years e.g. the gathering.
They started as a death/doom/atmospheric metal band with grunt male and ethereal female vocals and helped in the formation of GOTHIC METAL as represented by bands such as early THEATER OF TRAGEDY, early TIAMAT, MOONSPELL, some TRISTANIA, TYPE o NEGATIVE, PARADISE LOST, My DYING BRIDE(I by no means mean that TG influenced all of the above but I just try to define gothic metal by suggesting some bands that I think represent it even though the line between gothic and doom is soo blur),TG then passed to atmospheric/doomy progressive when Anneke (now Agua de Annique) joined AND ENCOURAGED THE FORMATION OF FEMALE FRONTED BANDS SUCH AS THE ONES WE KNOW OF, and then after How to measure a Planet they developed this trippy/atmospheric/alternative rock music we so much love and cannot be copied, but never forgetting their metal foundations - it's quite obvious if u ever saw them live!The thing is they never stopped experimenting and that's why you can deem them ever-evolving-musicians and tag them avant-garde, highly influential, experimental or progressive. Because progressive is about progress, it doesn't matter if they don't sound like the soo called "prog" Dream Theater at all...

Let's face it.Not every band tagged as gothic is actually gothic.

http://www.last.fm/tag/gothic <-lol
this one's a bit better :P

It may be atmospheric but not gothic (lacuna coil, within temptation), it may be symphonic/epic/power metal but NOT gothic (guess: nightwish, epica..), it may even be mellow rock with dark surroundings/clothing/makeup/lyrics like HIM or Evanescence - even though HIM's new Venus Doom finds them to have evolved as musicians and no one can deny Ville's incredible voice..Also it may just be a band with female vocals.That doesn't make it gothic.
Neither melancholic alternative post punk The Cure with Robert Smith's scissorhands' hair and sorrowful lyrics are gothic.
Gothic is not just all blacks, suicide, death, fancy clothes..People should do some serious research about gothic poets, the gothic subculture, gothic art and gothic rock/metal music's roots and they'll find that jim morisson's gothic figure was not that similar to siouxsie's darkwave whatever, and that moonspell is not that much like HIM or Sirenia anything like sisters of mercy...

The Gathering My Dying Bride Sisters of Mercy Fields of the Nephilim Anneke van Giersbergen Moonspell Tiamat Lacuna Coil HIM Theatre of Tragedy Sirenia Nightwish Within Temptation London After Midnight The Doors Siouxsie and the Banshees The Cure Type O Negative

ASLEEP

Come in, my love
Tell me, and I'll come with you
To these lovely places

And I will believe then you
And you are asleep
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BEAUTIFUL ONE

Beautiful one
Your hair shines in the sun
I wish I never left

The wind entwines our hair
Our words get swept through the air
I wish I never left

Your face shines in my eyes
Our last look before our goodbye
I wish I never left

Beautiful one
You shine like the sun
I wish I never left

Before I said
You are the one
You are the one

Your son will come and go
But his beauty will keep its glow
I wish you raised a child over me
Keep filling me with your beauty

I wish I never left
I wish I never left

Love

I

Beautiful one
You shine like the sun
I wish I never left
Before I said
You are the one
You are the one

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DAY AFTER YESTERDAY

Today is the day after yesterday
And yesterday didn't go so well
My love came down and assured me
Sit down, I have something to tell

When I met you my eyes hurt
That is how beautiful you are
I don't suppose I could feel this way
If I'd still have you by my side
By my side

I did not anticipate your candour
Even though I didn't know you too well
They say one door closed is another door open
But this door is leading me straight to hell

When I met you my eyes hurt
That is how beautiful you are
I don't suppose I could feel this way
If I'd still have you by my side
By my side

I'm just broken up
I'm caving in
That is how tired I am
I don't suppose I could feel this way...

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TRAIL OF GRIEF

Mister I cannot read you
Your eyes are clouds of mist
Well well, how can I heed you?
I wish you did not exist

Uncover me
I hail to see
Your mystic trail of grief

It's funny how my heart feeds
On overload
It will never lead me through
I am just too old

For this game
I bear to see
Your mystic trail of grief

Uncover me

Uncover me

uncover me, i want to see your mystic trail of grief

(Your eyes are clouds of mist
Uncover me, I want to see your mystic trail of grief.)
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COME WANDER WITH ME

He said come wander with me love
Come wander with me
Away from this sad world
Come wander with me

He came from the sunset
He came from the sea
He came from my sorrow
And can love only me

Oh where is the wanderer
Who wandered this way
He's passed on his wandering
And will never go away

Come wander with me love
Come wander with me
Away from this sad world

Come wander with me

He sang of a sweet love
Of dreams that would be
But I was sworn to another
And could never be free

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WITNESSES

No change, no pleasure, no jokes, no sex
No choice, no morals, no ethics, no depth
No color, no fight, no freedom, no life
Profound creation, temptation is swept

I hear knocking on my door

I wonder how it's possible
That I just sit here in my room
Watching some TV
Thinking of nothing and nothing
And I don't know how
Does anybody have the nerve
To come to my door
And sell the world of God

I wonder what's the remedy
And I can move on with my life

Before you people are through
With the extinction of the universe

You save the world from me
I wonder who will be left over...

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ICE WATER

I shield you from this life
Your heart is kept on ice
I'll file you where I need
And keep you from the heat

Running, running away

You hold me in contempt
Forever will I depend?
You'll file me where you need
But never kept me from the heat

Falling, falling away
(I'll serve you, I'll serve you well)
On the surface, on the surface

It's always cold in hell
I have felt it
I can tell

They file you where they need
In ice water there is no heat

Burning, burning away
(I'll serve you, I'll serve you well)
On the surface, on the surface

Burning, burning away
Burning, burning away

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LOST AND FOUND

I sit in your chair
You are aware of me and my life
You speak of words that are unheard of
Though many await your time

The Belgian men with the Dutch accent
You are a shining star
Your hands, they reach through all of our lives
This far in the universe you are

You are, you are, you are

The hardest thing in the world is to speak my fears
I am afraid to let go
My beautiful boys, I love you the most
With you I share my life in joy

In joy, in joy, in joy

I sit in your chair
The room that we are in is filled with people from the past
It's you who cares and all that I live for
Is to have a home that lasts

A home, a home, a home

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MY GIRL

My hands are tied
I'm on your side
You are my girl
I hold your hand and understand
You are my girl, my girl

She has to learn
To walk on artificial grass
They have to hurt her love
Your big embrace
Just kept me in this place, my girl

And when we change
We did not lose our faces, my girl

She has to learn
To walk on artificial grass
They have to hurt her love

Now all is said and done, my friend
We´re growing up

And now that we are
What we have become
I still don't know, sometimes

She has to learn
To walk on artificial grass
They have to hurt her love

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SUNKEN SOLDIERS BALL

I can't go home
I cannot sleep
I cannot give
I cannot keep

This heart of stone has left me here
With only rumors of your left
I guess to see you leaving was for the best

I dream too much
and spend my days
Like a sailor lost at sea
And you were like a mermaid
in that Danish fairytale
I guess the best thing that I could do
is to sail

Away from this sunken soldiers ball
Away, do you remember me at all?
I have no better words than "Thank you and goodbye"
I wish I didn't have to see our love die

At last I'm home
My horse will rest
This tattoed heart
This trembling chest must be alone
And carry this sorrow back to bed
I hope there was no innocent blood shed

Away from this sunken soldiers ball
Away, do you remember me at all?
I have no better words than "Thank you and goodbye"
I wish I didn't have to see our love die

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TAKE CARE OF ME

Hush in my hands
There´s not a thing
So precious than you in my hands

You can never let me leave you
So please, take care of me

Hail in my hands
The euphoric feel will never part with me
I spend my time
In your hands
I'm as in love as I am tired
So please, take care of me

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YALIN

My friend, she's gone away
And left us here to stay
And I understand
I do

You write and think of her
About whatever may occur
We ask the clouds in the sky
We do

When you were here you didn't feed us
When you passed by it hit us
You are the one who knew
The only hidden truth

We write and think of her
About whatever may occur
We ask the clouds in the sky
We do

When you were here you didn't feed us
When you passed by it hit us
You are the one who knew
The only hidden truth

Thirty-four and I am hardly beginning to understand
What this is all about
Do you think you will be able to forgive me?
Do you?

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YOU ARE NICE

Oh, you are nice
Paradise
I'll say it only twice
Man, you are nice
Your skin soft like veil
Warm but pale

Oh, you are great
Fascinating
Although you are out of my mind
Damn, you are fine
Your skin soft like veil
Warm but pale
Oh, you are sweet
Sweep me off my feet

Oh, you are nice
Para-holy-dise
I'll say it only twice
Man, you are nice

Your skin soft like veil
Warm but pale
Oh, you are sweet
Sweep me off my feet

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Agua de Annique

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