Shrine

Sovereign Yeah Subject to denial of a life worth living Stain the scope to blind our eyes We wait with baited breath Under the weight of societal fate I seek to put an end to this structure They said to bide my time so I fall in line And turn a blind eye to the crimes of late Then robbed of all that could separate me From the world outside and the powers that be Make no mistake It's a sovereign state Forced down, denied our severance Dissipating vision Aim the arrows at the gates in the face of hate Holding the weight of our own defeat We're pushed and pulled apart by this system They said to bide my time so I fall in line And turn a blind eye to the crimes of late Then robbed of all that could separate me From the world outside and the powers that be Make no mistake It's a sovereign state Our minority Held under lock and key Forge your lies in ink To take us all down when you sink The worst is yet to come The driving force is pushing down on us with all its might But our unbending quest for truth will come to light Has oppression got the best of us? Primed for the glory of applause

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025

Digging into despair In the crashing waves Crisis maze, unclear paths and growing graves I shed my spirit in this prison You can't kick 'em out if you don't let 'em in I'm fighting demons, to hell, I descend All hail The deafening essence of doubt All hail This burden is relinquished I shed the flesh that houses fear In this march towards ascendancy Invisible enemy You will always be a part of me I try to hide what's inside But you will always win I'm digging into despair The sickness sinks its teeth back into the earth Are we the living dead who dared to seek the light? In the presence of possibility When the ancient march is through The walls start to swell, will these wounds ever heal? I sink into this elixir, remedy We coexist together, going back and forth But this time, you won't pull me under Invisible enemy You will always be a part of me I try to hide what's inside But you will always win I'm digging into despair (Now, we will die) This time I will let you win We coexist together, going back and forth But this time you won't pull me under Crashing waves Crisis maze, unclear paths and growing graves I shed my spirit in this prison You can't kick 'em out if you don't let 'em in (I'm fighting demons) To hell, I descend

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

This track is instrumental.

Is this song not instrumental?

We've all got demons resisting at every turn But I won't bow down To the voice that drowns me out I've waited for safety Within this sanctuary Dead inside, for all to see I buried it deep The curse is real, I need to feel Does death define or do I live with this curse? God forbid, I make it worse Give me a sign Will I find peace in the end? What have we left to defend? In the shadow of sanctuary Let go of eternity Your faith will fade with you Thе dagger of silence now holds thе truth Dead inside, I breathe relief The sinner in me is living without fear (Does death define) Or do I live with this curse? God forbid, I make it worse Give me a sign Will I find peace in the end? What have we left to defend? God forbid I make it worse What have we left to defend? Along the sculptures of the ancient faith The truth is now as clear as day Eradicate Eradication of the ancient faith The truth is now as clear as day Eradication of empyrean The truth is now as clear as day In the shadow of sanctuary

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

I see a shapeshifter in the corner of the room Restless embers fill this tomb Don't look twice at the devil himself The first is a blessing A second is hell Feed this new belief Eyes burn a hole in me I stretch myself to fit this identity you made I've held my breath for so long But in the grip of the cynic, I am reborn Now even in my dark days, I shed this wolfskin But it's wearing thin under the friction, the friction of life Shatter all the negative judgement A mirror image fallacy Faceless giants in an abstract realm of twisted fantasy Nothing left to betray Magnify the crownless fraud you portray (Living inside yourself) Deeper down than you see Life begins when you erase the sabotage I see a shapeshifter in the corner of my eye Reflections of a failed design Walk with me, do not look down I turn to the edge It was all in my head To fill the noose Now you bend the truth I stretch myself to fit this identity you crave I stand before you as all hope fades away But in the grip of the cynic, I am reborn The silence now depleted There is no room to fail I'll take what's mine and slay the rest Feed on the pulse of the innocent But preach integrity Sharpen your teeth and prepare to feed Nothing left to betray Magnify the crownless fraud you portray Nothing left to betray Magnify the crownless fraud you portray (Living inside yourself) Deeper down than you see Life begins when you erase the sabotage Sabotage (I've held my breath for so long) Now even in my dark days, I shed this wolfskin But it's wearing thin under the friction, the friction of life

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 26, 2025

I renounce my duty to serve the world For I have failed, failed to save myself Pray for me Even if I cannot see this tragedy I am the eye of the tempest With fury in my hand Fuck this, I'm sick of feeling worthless I bridge the gap between myself and the abyss Psychosomatic I fight the fear of death Silhouettes are descending around me I can't deliver what the world expects of me What the world expеcts of me Defeatеd by this disease I conjure all the strength it takes To defy adversity But in my dreams, I'm dyin' Show me freedom in my doubt Trapped inside, I'm clawin' out But here I am, still breathing Now I am fluent in the language of the cynic Drink from the mouth of deception Through malice I am born Witness the true face of hypocrisy Still life resides in me Still breathing Psychosomatic I fight the fear of death Silhouettes are descending around me I can't deliver What the world expects of me I crumble under the weight Our cheap illusions fulfilling our needs We're self-defeatists with a hunger for greed Our cheap illusions fulfilling our need We're self-defeatists with a hunger for greed I conjure all the strength it takes To defy adversity But in my dreams, I'm dyin' Show me freedom in my doubt Trapped inside, I'm clawin' out But here I am, still breathing Between reality and what's real to me Sits the temple of my lunacy I crept around you for so long But now I've found a home in me

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025

How do we reflect upon a lifetime spent begging for relevance To our own detriment Hunger never satisfied so you pray instead For inclusion in a mass charade, the cast are playing dead To what end do we chase this role now Audition for suffering, reality takes its toll When all is said and done We were all just searching for someone It's a grand deception, the game of life I feel it all slipping away Just killing time As you wait for the elements, lost in the moment You still can't tell me what you've done with any purpose To what end do we lie to ourselves Audition for suffering, preparing for hell Now my number is up, exposing the truth All it took was the life of a man To pass through the palm of my hand Have I resisted existence When all is said and done We were all just searching for someone It's a grand deception, the game of life I feel it all slipping away Just killing time See death circle in the distance Are you ready to die? See death circle in the distance I'm not ready to die Was it fate that led me here? Or something more I can't ignore For now I know It's the loss of love, the loss of love we fear I feel it all slipping away

(Your paradise was never in the afterlife Your paradise was never in the afterlife Your paradise was never in the afterlife Your paradise was mine) These floral words that meet decay As open arms wither away Against the breeze, I am weightless I felt you breathing but I couldn't stop you fading And now it haunts with a constant projection This house of glass now casts no reflection But I'm losing track of the days that pass It comes at me from all directions We all suffer the same We all suffer the pain Release me I bathe in waves of absence In a sea of misery Are we led to the grave? Are we destined to fade In sickness? Your paradise was Your paradise was mine Lost in dreams of elysian With nothing left to alleviate Even in death, I feel your presence Now imprinted in the fibres of my being And now it haunts with a constant projection In the stillness of a fading impression Held in broken glass, nothing's built to last It comes at me from all directions We all suffer the same We all suffer the pain Release me I bathe in waves of absence In a sea of misery Are we led to the grave? Are we destined to fade In sickness? Your paradise was Your paradise was mine I bathe in waves of absence In a sea of misery Your paradise was mine I'm broken, feeling worthless, breathe Suffer through this absence alone Broken, feeling worthless, breathe Save me Broken, feeling worthless, breathe Suffer through this absence alone Broken, feeling worthless, breathe

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025