Spectres
A path lies ahead That feet seldom tread Through tunnels of branches Sunlight lances are touching the ground with gold All fears melt away Like early spring snow Into the dark and cold of the earth To where the vigil takes hold Tarry for a moment and feel the sun's warmth for the last time The point of no return
Submitted by MetalElf — Jun 22, 2026
Voices echo back at me To whom do they belong? Shades once alive To claim birth right Waiting within hall of kings Ancestors (and) sages Burn low The torch in my hand Light and life in the darkness Reveal My church Stalactites in the twilight Swords of Damocles in the night Dressed by the flickering candle-light Swords of Damocles for the night For the night to recede Behind yawning void before me Descend in it's depths The denizens they lay in wait Come Without a sound Life breathed into bone Come Behold No sunlight penetrates these depths But our presence lingers here Interred in stone
Submitted by MetalElf — Jun 22, 2026
He knows to follow the path to the soul To traverse The abyss below The path he walks is steady but it's slow "I press on regardless" Surround Do the lines he draws into the ground Shielding himself from the sounds As he forces his mind into other realms "I summon the spectres" Coaxing the visions of nightmares Absent sun By the light of the flame Fear and anguish grips me Phosphenes usher the spirits inside
Submitted by MetalElf — Jun 22, 2026
(<em>Instrumental</em>)
Submitted by MetalElf — Jun 22, 2026
"Be the end, the end I know A bitter spear to cleanse my soul" We exist outside of time Beyond your comprehension Harbringers of your demise Or your liberation "Where do you dwell if not in this chasm Our forefathers held in veneration And pious awe?" Between the depths of this cave and the top of the mountain Where the sky meets the tip of the trees Where the shore is caressed by the sea
Submitted by MetalElf — Jun 22, 2026