Criminal Response
A king reposed today Another's on his way his heart was stabbed with grief That was his release Two friends they walk behind A blind man and a fool His head holds only laughter The blind man trips and falls All to Battle now, Daughters of the crown Lead your men onward, your father's hour is late Loyalties divided, bring us ships and fate The old man's tired hands crumble with his crown Younger hands await, he can't hold them down A misplaced legacy banishing of royal men Admission and jealousness The beginning of the end A subject's bastard son schemes With hopeless want Two sisters prepare for war It's a miracle the fight is won While residing on the throne A blind man's arm he grips No laughing matter now As the hold begins to slip
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 19, 2026
In the streets of Hamlyn Street A Deutsche cat has smelt a rat In quiet corners scuffing can be heard On breakfast tables food is snatched And in their cradles babes are scratched A scent so strong the cat no longer purrs Clawing at the baker's door Five at first but then them a score Soon a hundred thousand fold arrive Clasping on the cobblestones Screams arise from waking homes A fraulein's nightmare, now the town's alight Shout to tail with nose held high Sharp in tooth and wild of eye And in their tongue the pack all cry "Follow the leader" Walk through windows, walk through doors On the rooftops and under floors And into the rich but no minor paw "Follow the Leader, Follow the Leader" Midday Hamlyn's overrun Food and shelter from dust 'til dawn Townsfolk stand on tables in the black for grip But who's this in the market square? Talking with the desperate mayor Light of foot, the stranger places pipe to lip With the mayor's promise in his ears, Into Main Street he disappears The tune he's play's heard at a mile Incredible as it may seem Into his wake the rats now stream Ears cocked catch ending music Strange but sweet As a cloak of black they trail him now Over the bridge at the top of town Heat those running feet Oh hear those running feet The town is free the curse is raised Claws are drawn to a different craze For those lost in a musical maze "Follow the Leader" Over the bridge the last tall slips, the mayor's Relieved with hands on hips Receives the praise from the people's lips "Follow the Leader, Follow the Leader" Alone the piper returns to the square A hand outstretched and anger in the air The piper strings, the pipe again appears To sons and daughters parents cling But follow they must their Fairy King His whistled magic falls upon the youngest ears
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 19, 2026
The wild is calling The shriek of owl and baying wolf The prey are falling To eagle eye and sharpened tooth No shield no blade shall slay The beast I've brought tonight From a tower of stone Comes an eerie light The pound of steely hooves The ring of armoured place Heard as a shadow moves Towards the tower's gate High at a window At tonight shows the traitors face He knows the reason Why fate has brought him to this place Blackmayne! A coat of steel like the tolling of the bell Blackmayne! The guilty kneel to the breaker of the spell The wind is howling Across the vast and empty plain The city's burning The traitor's power still remains He took their tranquil lands and crushed it in his fist The people couldn't see Their lives would come to this The thrust has been betrayed And now will be avenged A saviour has appeared Tyranny must end Below the window The traitor's broken body lies While from the valley Galloping thunder slowly died
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 19, 2026
Can you tell what this is When you make me promises You spoke of nights I've never known before Nights to share you made me sure When you shook me to the core When we got together we went against the law Every night from dusk 'til dawn You rid me of my body, soul and bones You win, I lose You turned me into something else Showed me how to feed yourself Take but never give is no release Against the law of love The law you think you're above You broke the rules And you will break me too Against the law of love You never get enough You suck me dry Never have an alibi You don't care you say that's tough Can't you see enough's enough Leave me with the strength to pick up the pieces You bit into me like a leech I learned the lesson that you teach Together quick, this blackmail never ceases This night I can't make you stop Until you've had the final drop of blood The blood you're using right I'm the victim of this crime Where's the reason, where's the rhyme Pick on someone else Oh can't you see?
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 19, 2026
In every waking hour From the heights of ivory towers The curious appear to know my call While in the land of night As vicious villains set their sights They're all for one and one for all Always the taller looms subordinates Shall have their moon Too soon to wonder If they'll form a building in their plight As sure as business men fly In their screaming jets jungle seas While men lay naked in their main Brought up through vine and trees Watching the time the flyers live American Express While in the natives hands It's kept within and nothing less The cycle of the years, beyond that road appears Revolution in that day, come back to wider plains And why the fools and fallen rain Stay leading where they law Reflect the majesty of clouds Straight on their feet again Where the men may ride the rain With every foe and every drop Come to the sorry showers If castles in the sky must fall Broken by the way to go The fallen rain above the sea and land He took the lowest bloom Nurturing the glowing tune And driving down the mountains Where they stand The cycle of the years, beyond that road appears Revolution in that day, come back to wider plains Steady as the sleeper turns From right time's bed he slowly burns He grows and facing to the silent sun While a maternal maid rise above the endless days Stars shine again and sing their silent song You must end what you've begun To run like father not like son The weather vane of life will change the tune Stand behind, stand by your stone The waves have turned they've done your shore Turning tide is gnawing at the highest dune The cycle of the years, beyond that road appears Revolution in that day, come back to wider plains
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 19, 2026
Hot head, you know you'll always be the same You lose! You know you'll never win this game I tried, but I know it was in vain You know you're driving me insane Hot blood woman, hot blooded woman I need a change Give in, you might as well admit defeat Otherwise, you know I'm gonna have to cheat I know that you will never change So you will just have to be tamed Out on the streets tonight you'll wander Pleasing the people that want you So don't you say I didn't warn you One day you'll understand what I say Hot head, you know you'll always be the same You lose! You know you'll never win this game I tried, but I know it was in vain You know you're driving me insane Give in, you might as well admit defeat Otherwise, you know I'm gonna have to cheat I know that you will never change So you will just have to be tamed Hot blood woman, hot blooded woman I need a change
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 19, 2026
I dreamed a dream, I thought it true I was the ship, you went the crow On a lovely sea, you abandoned me No reason seen or heard I drifted to the end of the World And then I woke, just as I fell Reached for your hands, the bed was empty as well Where had you gone? I hit the deck Crawled on to a beach of sheets, a nervous wreck Had you really gone? Don't leave me now I thought I was alone, my windswept hell But then relief, in the light I saw As a shadow moved by the bathroom door I laid back again, once more asleep and to another dream, once more alone in the deep I drifted for an hour, that was eternity onto a shore, the island of me So listen now and please be told what you've got is a man overboard MayDay, MayDay, don't make a new castaway Head over hills and over the top I feel so low don't tell me to stop Give me a sign, Man Overboard, throw out a line I need signals please, paranoia fantasies Your love will give me the rope I move alone onto the edge isolation is the thinnest ledge, rescue the only hope Another time and place, a day at the beach I'm sinking on the sand, my mind was far in the East The desert is a sea, that's far and wide And now a caravan, on ships of the desert we land A babe in arms, I was dropped dropped from your hands far out of view and no one stops They disappeared, the silence grew along with the whisper of Rush, and the wind it blew
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 19, 2026
There'll be no ceasing The speed is increasing Phosphor inside him like flies The impulse is seen as they practically scream There's an implosion behind his eyes The silence the guitar is making Closing in Pandora's box While outside the ceiling is quaking And reality's broken the locks The old pioneer knows the risk he is taking He goes one on one as the border is shaking The stuff is as not as one that we call reality Smiles mission dropping within a space Looming he leaps before he can look The clothes rearranging The essence is changing The world opens out like a book The ages fly by ever faster The moment is too hard to breathe The power that he has a master Shares him to in banished seed Thrown from the pan he falls into the fire He's trying again, he must take this thing higher The evil is dead, this thing they once called a man It happens now at any time Altered State, Altered State Feels the drug from the warning sign Altered State, Altered State Had to try, couldn't wait Altered State, Altered State Took the bait, Altered State Altered State, Altered State Resisting and Fighting He's taking his time This feeling will be here before long Senses are reeling He clings to the feeling he has for his closest one Energy spits from his fingers The trail of normality held There in his grasp it still lingers Now she is in this as will The desperate pleas as stability fades The process in time from this substance did take Oblivion cheated by me as I save out the hour...
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 19, 2026