You Won’t Get What You Want

This city is an empty glass Words do nothing No one sleeps This city is an empty glass This city is an empty glass Graciousness is lost The betrayed yearn This city is an empty glass This city is an empty glass Shops are closed There is nothing This city is an empty glass This city is an empty glass The buildings shriek As everything weeps This city is an empty glass The trees hang their heads And the wired wants faith, fray The songs sing silently Oh This city is an empty glass (Clouds) This city is an empty glass (Clouds) In the air: shrieks (In the air: shrieks) The breath is long (The breath is long) For the fires are out (For the fires are out) The waters sit still (The waters sit still) This city This city is an empty glass In the air: shrieks The breath is long And the fires are out The waters sit still

Submitted by NecroLord — Feb 25, 2026

Everybody climbs up high then falls real far A little is all it takes A little is all it takes Everybody climbs up high then falls real far And I don't know what to say I don't know what to say I don't know what to say when people come apart The road is long, the road is dark And these are just the words to somebody else's song Everybody gets in line and makes mistakes A little is all it takes A little is all it takes Everybody gets in line and makes mistakes And I don't know what to say I don't know what to say I don't know what to say when people come undone The road is dark, the road is long Remember these are just the words to somebody else's song So don't play along, or play a part Don't look to me Under the weight of Your shouldered cross These are just the words to somebody else's song Please your heart to- Please your heart to- It may please your heart to see some shackled, wrists and throat Naked as the day they were born So, everybody climb up high then fall real far A little is all it will take A little is all it will take Everybody get in line and make mistakes But I won't know what to say When you come undone When you come apart Remember that the road is long Remember that the road is dark Don't waste your time learning the words to somebody else's song Please your heart to- Please your heart to- It may please your heart to see some shackled, wrists and throat Naked as the day they were born It will please your heart to- Please your heart to- It may please your heart to see some shackled, wrists and throat Naked as the day they were born But no one's going to do that for you No one will do that for you No one will do that for you Well, ain't it funny how it works Someone's always got it worse (They hit the ground harder than you) Well, ain't it funny how it works Someone's always got it worse (They hit the ground harder than you) Well, ain't it funny how it works Someone's always got it worse (They hit the ground harder than you) Well, ain't it funny how it works Someone's always got it worse (They hit the ground harder than you)

Submitted by NecroLord — Feb 25, 2026

I don't lie, I don't lie I don't lie, I don't lie I don't lie, I don't lie I don't lie, I don't lie I don't lie awake at night For a good time I don't live, I don't live I don't live, I don't live I don't live, I don't live I don't live, I don't live I don't live near the ocean anymore Out of fear that the tide will turn I don't lie awake at night For a good time, because it's fun I don't live near the ocean anymore For fear the tide will turn I don't bet on the horses anymore Keeping away from the one I rode in on Is something burning here, or is it me? Is something burning here, or is it me? Is something burning here, or is it me? Is something burning here, or is it me?

Submitted by NecroLord — Feb 25, 2026

An eye drips, a heavy heart A heavy heart, a heavy heart Something waiting, winged A heavy heart, a heavy heart A heavy heart wanting- For the chorus to sing itself For the meandering years to fade I cry about it, I cry about it I cry about it because I want to I cry about it, I cry about it I cry about it because I want to If one could hear the song The sampled voice of God Singing cry A will stirs a stolen arc A stolen arc, a stolen arc Cannons, trumpets swell for A falling arch, a falling arch A falling arch stolen- With the words beneath my pillowed head I am staring at the ceiling again I cry about it, I cry about it I cry about it because I want to I cry about it, I cry about it I cry about it because I want to If one could hear the song (If one could hear the song) The sterile voice of God (The sterile voice of God) Singing cry on, cry on Cry on, cry on Cry on, cry on Cry on, cry on Cry on, cry on I cry about it, I cry about it I cry about it because I want to I cry about it, I cry about it I cry about it because I want to

Submitted by NecroLord — Feb 25, 2026

I let it into my home, I let it into my home Led a long way down, led a long way down I let it in from the cold, I let it in from the cold Led a long way down, led a long way down I let it into my head, I let it into my head Led a long way down, led a long way down I let it into my heart, I let it into my heart Led a long way down, led a long way down I let it into my bed, I let it into my bed Led a long way down, led a long way down I gave it complete control, I gave it complete control Led a long way down, led a long way down I let it into my home (Led a long way down) I let it in from the cold (Led a long way down) I let it into my head (Led a long way down) I let it into my heart (Led a long way down) I let it into my bed (Led a long way down) I gave it complete control (Led a long way down) I gave it complete control (Led a long way down) I gave it complete control (Led a long way down) I gave it complete control (Led a long way down) I gave it complete control (Led a long way down) I gave it complete control (Led a long way down) I gave it complete control (Led a long way down) I gave it complete control (Led a long way down)

Submitted by NecroLord — Feb 25, 2026

I just thought I'd let you know There's a war in an old set of bones When they shake, you can feel the earth moan There's a war When it rips through the hills on a child's roar Skips across the water like a stone There's a sure rope swinging, without a head in its jaws It's waiting There's a war (It comes then it goes, it comes then it goes) We're open mouthed in the deepest shit of all (It takes time then goes, it takes time then goes) The spitting image of an unanswered call (It comes then it goes, it comes then it goes) Lost love in a gaping maw (It takes time then goes, it takes time then goes) The same dead hand knocking at the door (It comes then it goes, it comes then it goes) The same dead hand knocking at the door There's a war So reel back and say "Oh, we never should've let them go" And say "No, no, no, no There are no saints anymore" And "Oh, love is a tired whore" And "Oh, love is a tired whore" And "Oh, love is a tired whore" And "Oh, love is a tired whore" And "Oh, love is a tired whore" Then the piano wire is impressed by the key The hammer pulls the car around back and everyone piles in A schedule is mentioned, a horn sounds in the distance Some pasteurized idea vibrates a pocket Is this meant to be or wicked chance? They drive on, as each street lines a memory Knowing they'll die here or there Knowing they die here and there Knowing they'll die here or there Knowing they die here and there Knowing they'll die here or there Knowing they die here and there Knowing they die here and there Knowing they die here and there Knowing they die

Submitted by NecroLord — Feb 25, 2026

Don't tell me how to do my job You carry on like a son of a bitch They got a name for people like you But I didn't take the time to write it down, though You have a lot of fun playing grab-ass with the boys Which one's going to give you a ride home? Which one's going to walk you to the door? Wonder which one's going to call? Maybe the sun waits for you to be shown what to do And pretend, and pretend, and pretend And pretend, and pretend, and pretend And pretend, and pretend, and pretend Maybe the sun waits for you to be shown what to do Don't tell me how to do my job You gimme-gimme son of a bitch They got a name for people like you But I don't give a good goddamn to remember what it is, now Hoping that emotionless trip's gonna pay-off You're gonna hope and wish all day If you could slide a couple fingers under the skin Will you find the affirmation that you need? Maybe the sun waits for you to be shown what to do And pretend, and pretend, and pretend And pretend, and pretend, and pretend And pretend, and pretend, and pretend Maybe the sun waits for you to be shown what to do Don't tell me how to do my job! Don't tell me how to do my job! Don't tell me how to do my job! Don't tell me how to do my job! Maybe the sun waits for you to be shown what to do

Submitted by NecroLord — Feb 25, 2026

Paul eases into the driveway and kills the engine Sits for a spell, staring out the windshield Down the hood to the stalled garage door "Nothing ever works around here," he says to himself The ignition births the keys into his hand He opens the door, the world is suddenly different He senses something terrible awaiting A loose thread, a worsening In that moment he turns to the sky He notices that it's darker now than it used to be It's darker now at this hour, than it was last week Within or beyond himself A voice more primal, is urging him To go, run, to go, run To go, run, to go, run Go, run, go, run Go, run, go, run Across the loose brick, he prepares himself for the evening greeting But his inability to shake the warning sees him grinding his teeth Paul turns to the right, tracing the unkempt bushes aligning the house And the beds cracking beneath He reaches over to uncouple the latch And sweat forms on his brow and the back of his neck And years of servitude are at last present; He can feel them in his bones And Paul is overwhelmed with the urge to cry To crumple down to his knees and release But pride gives him a shove Nursing him across the muddied, neglected lawn He inhales through his nose "There is so much more to be done" Stopped in his tracks His youngest child, telling his father To go, to run, to go, to run To go, to run, to go, to run He explodes through the backyard like he's shot from a gun (Go, run, go, run) Clearing the fence in one leap Landing in a heap in the alley between the neighbouring houses (Go, run, go, run) Body broken by nothing, just falls Knocking over trash as he makes his way Sprinting like some wild animal A blur beneath the streetlamps Overhead, a terror-scream Everything he has is within him His shoes come up from off his feet The shadow haunts him for several yards The ghosts of what he was, desperate to keep up until gone Now the road, punching upwards into his soft, naked feet He is never-knowing, never again Forever flowing, no more waiting His muscles burn, deciding to run till he can run no more To find everything he can find To know, to see for himself If there is an ocean beyond the waves, beyond the waves To know, to see for himself If there is an ocean beyond the waves, an ocean To know, to see for himself If there is an ocean beyond the waves, beyond the waves To know, to see for himself If there is an ocean beyond the waves, beyond the waves To know, to see for himself If there is an ocean beyond the waves, beyond the waves

Submitted by NecroLord — Feb 25, 2026

The incorrigible wheel tilts at a grotesque angle The delay is upon me Who locked the door? Who bent the key? I've been knocking and knocking and knocking and knocking Pounding and knocking and knocking Let me in I need a place to bury the soulless, charming Winter-hell creature upon me Who boarded the windows? Who closed the screens? I've been knocking and knocking and knocking and knocking And knocking and knocking and knocking Let me in I have come from the distance Where you can't see It is there, believe me Now let me in Let me in Let me in Who put a padlock on the cellar door? Let me in I've been knocking, let me in Who bricked off the chimney? I can't hear you speak I've been knocking and knocking Let me in Let me in Let me in Let me in Let me in

Submitted by NecroLord — Feb 25, 2026