Where Nightmares and Dreams Unite

With our hearts stripped of love With our heads a tangled mess We are the desperate to come To haunt and to hunt By the night falls down, Searched for something That we might never find We the dead - we raise our flags We the dead - we're the disease That breaks hearts Arm us up with the knives To cut the throat of lights So we'll immerse in this forever night With our fingernails bleeding From crawling in vain Up the sewer to your backyards To your bedrooms To the back of your minds To your shiny heavens Made of gold showing us What seemed to be real Is already buried untold As the marrow leaves our bones As bleeding dry we choke As we kneel down in thorns And we lose our focus on hope Stripped and messed Abused and depressed We have nothing left to lose - fuck you For stealing our days But we'll rule these nights And like rats we'll flow These streets you're so proud to own We the dead, we raise our flags We haven't come this far To give up and turn back We the dead we raise flags Bloodthirsty we watch this sun's death

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

Where have we gone, Among the faceless masses, The dead and the unknown Close and far apart Torn in between What's said and what's done Endless nights and endless fights, To make our heart's wishes last To make these beats come to life To make ourselves feel alive Where have you gone, Out of reach for my stretched arms Out of reach in the land of The dead and the unknown Endless fights break heart's Will these words, breathe life Into the agony of what Once meant the world to us Where have we gone - The dead and the unknown Where have we gone - Aren't we supposed to want more Where do I turn, In the loss of idealistic visions In the loss of hope Among the dead and the unknown, Broken dreams, yet dear to me Now gather around to watch me bleed, From thousands of wounds As the nails shred the skin the flesh the bone Are we born to lose The endless wars Among the dead, among the unknown Struggling to survive Alienated but alive In the land of the guilt In the home of our sins We always wish for more Where do the wages of sin lay In death or in the freedom of our will?

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 26, 2025

When we both kill Who's left there to keep sane And keep hearts in motion amidst emotions That lift up and tear down Heal and poison One out of two is there to die And I am sworn this cross will be mine And I walked through The ashes and I've bled And now I see ourselves Through the eyes of the dead When we both bleed Who's left there coagulate, And keep blood streaming And lungs breathing And swallow tears down And throw them up On this world that is cruel enough For letting us die When we both kill Who's left there to keep sane When we both bleed Who's left to coagulate When we both smile Who's left there to cry Who's left there to rise When we both smile Who's left there to cry And keep tears flowing And our insides aching For what we have had, But it was never enough For us to be content with, And now we walk hand in hand With the dead

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025

Drag me down with all you've got With patterns and dogmas designed To kill what's still alive And we're left to march through the buried Thirsty for status, hungry for symbols Amidst slogans echoing back in our ears Telling us to be dead is to be alive And what more's there to life than keeping out Functions, and closing our eyes, letting moments slip by, With our heads bowed, with our hearts buried under The ruins of our heavens in our minds I'm not here to save this world, I'm here to save myself, and set it ablaze I'm not here to save this world I'm here to dance in ruins, as heavens and hells collide I'm not here to save this world, I'm here to save myself, with my heart bled dry I'm not here to save this world, I'm here to dance in the ruins of our heavens made of hopes As youthful ideals turn, Into jaded apathy extreme is the path I take Towards the greater good, The benefit of the self, Among lives to be led and lived astray, Astray in the ruins of our heavens in our hearts, Ruins-of our heavens made of hopes Hearts-bled dry and what's left untold Let it rise!-let it rise!-let it rise! Nightmare and dreams unite! I'm not here to save this world, I'm here to save myself, and set it ablaze I'm not here to save this world I'm here to dance in ruins, as heavens and hells collide I'm not here to save this world, I'm here to save myself, with my heart bled dry I'm not here to save this world, I'm here to dance in the ruins of our heavens made of hopes Dragged me down with all you had, And our patterns and dogmas, Might have killed what was still alive, And I was bound to march through the buried Yet among my thirst and my hunger, And from the ruins of my heavens I built this wall around-to keep myself alive I built-this-wall-around-to-keep-my fuckin' self, alive

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

Did you ever hear anyone Calling out your name Or are you just so busy Saving the world That you just choke Upon your dogmas And your mindless isms And the wish to find Their meanings, Are ruining your dreams Leaving you alone Did you ever see anyone Reaching out their hand Or are the visions Of your martyrdom Blinding you, as much as your Senseless labels land upon targets Who refuse to bear the crosses Of your selfish wars Wars you even doubt to wage yourself Just take everyone down the drain I'll just keep my beliefs And faith for myself Just make everyone Feel like shit for Not walking your selfish ways I'll keep crossing my own paths of life Did you ever hear anyone Telling you the little secrets of life Or are the gunshots of your revolution Deafening your ears Efforts to gain Credibility at any cost Won't make you look smarter, But just another hypocrite Who's the next on in the line, Keep walking the Martyr's path Keep thinking you're the only one that's blessed I'll keep my beliefs my faith, my ways, And that already made my world change

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

Torn between heavens and hells Being fed with seeds of a half-life What we silently watch as bystanders Should be lived instead, to our bests Should be fought for, till the very end Where's solace Where's the peace of souls In a culture of denial Through the denial of death We deny life, We deny our own All dressed up and good to go to The funeral march of the buried alive Will we keep living in denial Or will we leave our marks? Torn between rights and wrongs Being stuck in the valley of death What we silently assist to Is the rape of humanity Is the rape of our lives The very core of existence Is stripped down to mere survival Where's solace Where's the peace of souls In a culture of denial Through the denial of death We deny life, We deny our own All dressed up and good to go to The funeral march of the buried alive Will we keep living in denial Or will we leave our marks? Is the facade worth wearing Is denial better than swearing On our lives, On opening our eyes On leaving our marks, On tearing down our bars Torn apart - by a culture of denial Cast aside - by a culture of denial Torn between life and death Torn between cursed and blessed From the dawn of our species We are destined to create We are destined to leave Our marks on humanity When will we stop denying? When will we start again?

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

Today is the day When I have given up Looking for any reasons On how my brightest heaven Turned into my darkest hell How can poison be this sweet How can I be left thirsting for More and more joyful pain Or did I just say painful joy? Am I the only one left To chain smoke my hunger away? To drink my thoughts away To be left with nothing but all those Don't cares and don't knows That secure our egos deep inside And we build our walls high Up from the ground And this voice is ringing loud In the back of my head Let go Let go Let go! Never care for what has been done But strive for what is to come This is where nightmares and dreams unite This is where nightmares poison our dreams And there's no happy endings But the painful joys, and the joyful pains Unloved loves - Unsaid words - Undone actions The things we've always wanted The beliefs for which we'd kill The flames that ever burned The dreams we're wanting still Where have they gone, Where's our home In this world that's destined To burn - To burn - To burn Nightmares and dreams unite And I might have given up on reasons But let this song remain as a middle finger Of a clenched fist And the voice of a youth gone wild Will ring in the back of my head This is where nightmares and dreams unite And we are the ones to fight this fight With no possible end in sight But the salvation of souls that scream Where's our dream, Where's our home But the salvation of souls that won't scream Let go Let go Let go! We are the ones to wage this fight

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

As our dreams are killing As our hopes are shattered We lay the blame on ourselves Wishing for one last deadly kiss To poison our blood with hopes That might as well be as dead as we are What have we left When everything's out of reach But the will not to give up When all worlds collide What have we left To deal with ourselves When giving up is where We are heading towards As our dreams are dying As our hearts are blackened We lay the blame on everyone Wishing for one last deadly strike To clean our blood from desires denied While we might as well be as dead as they are All the hopes abandoned All the dreams shattered All the"If"s and All the questions That never really mattered All the veins poisoned All the hearts blackened All the fears stacked up That should have never mattered All the anthems unsung All the wishes unspoken All the lies we have told ourselves That left us scattered All the loves unloved All the pain we've felt All the lies we told each other That left us suffered All the crimes we committed All the dying moments All the hopeless cries for help That remained unheard As in dreams we're crying As our hopes are dying As our crimes are binding As our eyes are burning in tears Is failure what we've left to embrace

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

Some are born to wander Some are born to run Some are born to oppose Some are born to hide Some are born to escape Some are born to bleed Some are born to die alone Some are born to survive Some are born to give Some are born to take Some are born as cowards Some are born as braves Some are born to fear Some are born to sacrifice Some are born to suffer Some are born to realize Are we running from or towards our dreams? Are we trying to dare whatever it may take? To dare whatever it may take To draw an honest breath To rebuild the ruins of our lives To ask the questions that's been Longing for the answers Longing for the answers Deep within our hearts To tell the answers that's been Waiting to be asked for Waiting to be asked for Deep within our minds Some are born to break the chains Some are born to live in cage Some are born to run in vain Some are born to escape the shame But where does shame lay And who do we lay the blame on If we escape from being burned What really just defines Who we are What we are And how we fight Who we are What we are And how we lead our lives

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025