Condemned to Hope

Who is the maiden running through the trees? Her crown catches the moonlight as she drops to her knees She stumbles around on the sodden leaves She peels off an eyelash and begins to dry heave Come to me Tumbleweave Beef-witted wonder wench, he's on your trail The belligerent poker from the Daily Mail You're the fairy-tale princess of his wildest dreams In a paper tiara you're the Burger Queen Come to me Tumbleweave Your eyes say rock and roll but your breath Says pepperoni Baby you're the one for me Your smile says you got soul but your blue lips Say WKD Baby you're the one for me

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025

Dawn has cussed the black sky Dread is slowly creeping in That bitch has sent her rays to prize Our crusty eyelids open Wicked, lazy, saturnine Stargazing, drunken parasites We've built a vaulting wall of thorns I've seen you pruning fondly Set yourself alight, surrender to the night We built ourselves a pyre while we waited for a sign Set yourself alight, illuminate the night No longer paralysed by the impulse to survive Here they come, torches raised Asking how we spent our days But it takes time to cultivate A squalor quite like ours We'll be baptised in paraffin Fumes will hide the stink of sin Pink like pork and saccharine The gods will feast tonight! Set yourself alight, surrender to the night We built ourselves a pyre while we waited for a sign Set yourself alight, illuminate the night The body's sacrifice sees the spirit catalysed Set yourself alight, illuminate the night No longer paralysed by the impulse to survive Set yourself alight, the immolation rite Like a moth drawn to the fire, all desire's realised

Submitted by Warbringer — Feb 09, 2026

Stack your books, plant a vase on my breast, love Watch me bend over backwards for you Invite your friends, spill your beers on my chest, love I've got a sister if you need a stool My mind’s a balloon So blow it up more I like the bang Come on give me more It's you I adore And you're twisted I’m sure Blow till it bursts Yeah, I like the bang! Stack your plates, crack an egg on my breasts, love Whirl me like a dervish on a spool Call all your friends, so the games never end, love I've got a brother (if you'd rather) too Looners are meant to fly, we'll hang in the church hall sky Helium trips my mind, let's do this one more time My mind's a balloon So blow it up more Lip to rubber lip Give me more and more It's you I adore And you're twisted I’m sure I like the bang Yeah, I like the bang!

Submitted by Warbringer — Feb 09, 2026

Many fools have tried in vain To lift my sunken eyelids This groovy mover danced right into a coma The undead king of rock 'n' roll My tomb; a bedsit shrine I'm pickled in cheap wine The silence is deafening But I still hear the crowds scream I reach for my guitar pick To wrench the meat from out my teeth Sweat-stained polyester, musty leather I'm a rotting relic of rock 'n' roll Exalted in my shrine Soaked in cheap white wine Swallowed by shadows But I still hear their screams Dusty trophies make me sneeze As I lurch about my merch Phantom septum haunts my dreams Succubus groupies make my cream

Submitted by Warbringer — Feb 09, 2026

Crooked highway, zigzag path Twisting down to hell You have gone the wrong way and it's too late To return from whence you came Try to deny the demons clawing at your backbone Wide eyes belie the devil squatting on your torso A piggy-feast of lies, the truth you serve is just a morsel Lord of the flies, you're the anti anti-hero Lost in a labyrinth of fear, you keep on building walls You rebound round your empty pinball world eluding ghosts Yet you share their home Try to deny demons hiding in your wardrobe All you despise sits nice and cosy in your household Kids getting high, mum and daddy even more so Shame rots the mind Pangs of conscience even more so The serpent coils his tail around your happy home Squeezing every ounce of hope from your body

Submitted by Warbringer — Feb 09, 2026

I'd tell the truth but you'd never believe me So I may as well have some fun White lies on silver tongues make my heart race And I wanna taste the barefaced highs White lies, white lies Talk is cheap You may as well be speaking in tongues for all I understand I just stand there biting mine, so hard it bleeds I'm still spitting out the pieces You said I'd get a penny for my thoughts and... I've got a few to share I'm broke and I'm morally bankrupt How much have you got to spend? White lies, white lies Life is cheap You might as well sell it and be free, for all I care Taste faith, suck fear, masticate fantasy Read your stars in the sun!

Submitted by Warbringer — Feb 09, 2026

And then she knew, it was graver than before And then she knew they would never find a cure In time she'd be sorry that she asked Because he coldly answered, "Darling... Let my sins be scarlet, if it means my words are read, Let my songs be sung by those who don't belong when I am dead" He turns a page. In the front she has inscribed: My love, your words are a thousand dancing knives." In time, he'd be sorry that he asked Because she coldly answered, "Darling... They say each sin will write itself upon a guilty face Until the world may read with ease your heavy fail from grace." Red ink, dripping from your fingers Red ink, can never be erased. If their fate was preordained, it was scribbled across the skies With a chewed up leaky biro drooling ink on hows and whys Red ink, dripping from your fingers Red ink, can never be erased It's too late for us to turn the page

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025

Doctor? Patient? Heroine? Villain? Lover? Mother? Killer? Brother? Electric head, Deathbed, cyanide drip, body bags Criminal? Victim? Salvation in Room 13 I've worn out my mind this way for years Thought I'd turn it inside out What's living in the folds? Any story left untold? Have I said too much? Cautiously approach the border, Wide-eyed lamb led to slaughter? Doctor? Patient? Heroine? Villain? Lover? Mother? Killer? Brother? Electric head, Deathbed, cyanide drip, body bags Criminal? Victim? Salvation in Room 13 She's clawing her way to the centre of the earth It's hotter down there See her eyeballs spinning in her skull? Is she mad or is she me? Unknown landscapes haunt my dreams Strange terrains I may never reach I'm on the brink, the horde approaches Are they here to save me or annihilate me? Bad guy, good guy, disintegrate, pixilate Delete, delete, negate, deplete, molecule by molecule Tight glass capsule, unholy roar, chainsaw Frozen screen, can't escape Judgement Day in Room 13

Submitted by Warbringer — Feb 09, 2026

Henrietta Darwin dons her hunting cloak and gloves Basket swinging by her side, she strides Hawk-eye and nostrils flaring wide Nature's little hard-ons, pale dwellers of forest floor She roots through rotten leaves searching for its denizens They part the earth with putrid life Behold the Stinkhorn Deny it at your own risk Even chaste eyes will not avert 'Cause life is dirt and we grow in it Grandpa's in the garden, romancing love-sick violets They sway with whorish air and flick their purple hair Let the efflorescent orgy commence Brazen little harlots pierce the earth with wanton strife Only to ripped up by their slender legs Imprisoned in a china vase Intoxicate me now Reason is waning now Come on, intoxicate me now Spirit reigning now Hail family of Phallaceae And all their deadly brethren: Destroying Angel, Death Cap, Sulfur Tuft Satan's Bolete and Poison Pie

Submitted by Warbringer — Feb 09, 2026

I don't believe in time, just a psychic, pendulous pulsation Measured by the beat of your heart You cried when I said, "when I die... My life will not flash before my eyes, but yours!" But then I left you, for sad and solemn, slumbers with the worm Ghost of my ribcage states to rise I feel your coffin slide on top of mine Oh little darling, it hasn't been long Slip beneath my crumbling shroud of love And then you joined me for sweet, eternal slumbers with the worm Discarnate, bloodless No tendon quiver and no nerves are thrilled Yet some strange ecstasy floods my shell Poor humankind! Spare them a knowing smile, my love For they don't know they'll only rise When something else dies

Submitted by Warbringer — Feb 09, 2026

Turbulent firmament, clutter in the atmosphere The hand of order is ever at chaos' throat You tried to run today? They'll catch you anyway! Round and round, back and down again There is no rhyme, there is no reason Every day, I pray Every day Life is when I feed off those Who are weaker than me Blind them, break them Crush them 'til I reach the fruit Round and round, back and down again There is no luck, there are not blessings Every day, I pray Every Day You tried to help today? It's okay, they'll kill you anyway Find a clearing, seize it and reach out for truth

Submitted by Warbringer — Feb 09, 2026