The Stormchaser

Never enough truth to keep you safe and well In the cocoon you knit for no one else You never thought it could change You could stay the shame You never could see the water in spite of the rain Then it rose and you dove just when you needed to float Listen to me, into the churn There will be no pretty words to swallow This is a test, it's not a war Watch as we weather the storm together We are the calm, here for the few We could be shelter and shore Heads above water So come for the king, stay for the view Proud of the nothing you grew When we stood against the storm It's never enough, you are the first and last to know Your proud, empty hands through the crowd that bears the load You never thought it could change “Storms will pass, and I remain” And turned away the moment it came Over wine-dark sea Thunder over the wine-dark sea Thunder, what will become of me? Thunder over the wine-dark sea (Thunder over) Seas and storm All that was sacrificed The blood for the pride that clarion cry Like stones in your throat The anchor and rope to keep you afloat Deafened to me, this is the churn There will be no pretty words to swallow This is a test, it's not a war Watch as you sink in the storm, untethered We are the wild wind to the scorn We could be shelter and shore Heads above water So come for the king, stay for the view You're fighting for nothing but you While we stood against the storm So when we heard that thunder Over the wine-dark sea No wave could drag me under An ocean of arms to carry me I, the undeserving, and I, the hanged man Was held aloft, and safe at last So, where is your sworn compassion? Your condescending lie Is this the love you promised? How could you be so goddamn blind? When we heard that thunder, the echo and alarm Your footsteps, running for the calm When we stood against that storm When we stood again When we stood

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 11, 2026

So this is who we are Forced to want to watch the sorrow The short leash and the led The suicide, the addict, the voyeur, the dead Are you comfortable? Did you do enough of nothing? Hand to hardened lungs and barely breathing So tell yourself there's peace on Earth And sing us all to sleep And now you shake your fist And spit and curse the question Why tell these bloody hands To waste their hate on this beautiful life? So tell yourself there's peace on Earth The words that cost a weeping's worth I hear the echoes in the dirt When silence took the loudest first God forgive us, peace on Earth No, I can't watch anymore Close your eyes, love And wait till we learn from war Till echoes for the deaf are all that's left So give me peace or give me Your futile reckoning Little dreams for little men Truth, a patient weapon Waits to sting the spiteful again So tell yourself there's peace on Earth The words that cost a weeping's worth I hear the echoes in the dirt When silence took the loudest first Please forgive me I want it and I deserve it The fractured and the frail lie below to feed it I want it and I believe it Reflections of myself, the crime, the crowd, the creedless I want it and I deserve it The fractured and the frail lie below to feed it I want it, I want the world I know Close your eyes No, I can't watch anymore Close your eyes (I made mountains, I shook the earth) (The flood, the voice, the blood, what the peace was worth) Oh, let me drift from the shore (I want it, I want it, I want it) On the road to ruin And we're still walkin' with stones to weigh us down But hey, I'm still breathing On the road to ruin As long as you're with me, I'll be singing I breathe and the world breathes with me I breathe and the world breathes with me I breathe and the world breathes with me I breathe and the world breathes with me The world breathes with me The world is in me The world breathes with me (The world breathes with me)

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 11, 2026

A slow burn Down to the last dead letter Sulphur To cover up the smell of the blood in the water Absolve me Could kick out the flame, but we both know better than To follow a road to its end Just give me that feeling again, sing A slow burn A bite to the bone, a shudder Lay down And die in the mud like a good little soldier Absolve me Could kick out the flame, but we both know better, you'll Follow that rope to its end to give me that feeling again Now sing Wreck A slow turn Blind to the verdant mother Lay down Refusing to believe it's over Absolve me It's a kick in the teeth, I'm not that better man And I'm on my knees at the end to beg for that feeling again (Sling hope, hope around your neck) Oh, when you fell out of the world, you Saw that it still turned Only mercy for the dead, sling Hope around your neck You're not done yet You don't learn Still striving to understand Stay down The tongue bites the blood for a taste of the backhand We're home-free But fixing the fight leaves us all no better than The hammer that's striking the nerve We're getting just what we deserve Now sing Wreck Now sing, wreck Take wrong and ruin intertwined And pour your nothing into mine Where do I put the violence? He's gone and I still carry it Golem For all the peace you'll never find For all your little suicides You turn and face the bayonets It's time, get up and finish it Golem (Follow that rope to its end) (To give me that feeling again) Oh, when you fell out of the world, with No hope to return Did you think we would forget? Sling Hope around your neck You're not done yet Oh, mother, won't you save me? Oh, mother, please, we're bleeding out Just send the sun to face me And tell me that I'm needed now Oh, mother, won't you pull me down? I'll raise a voice, I'll pay the debt Don't let the silence take me yet (Take me)

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 11, 2026