The Grand Disguise

For such a long time We have sat here in the dark Quiet observers of your mind falling apart We’ve faced so many days When you were wasted Trading power for lust Hoping you’d become Someone that we could trust You have found A sad excuse to free you from sadness You have told The same old lies again You deny The truth that’s pumping Right in front of your eyes And don’t even have the guts to assume The choices you have to make Here we stand Healing the wounds now the war is over Stitching the shreds of our hearts again Here we stand Trying to find a reason to follow on A meaning for our lives Keeping the dream alive Forever we will be Thinking of all the places we could have seen And all the battles that together we could win Our fate was strong, it was great I may forget but I’ll never forgive, no The way you failed on us When we needed you the most You may cry Until your soul is weary and black as the night But we’ll keep riding on to reclaim The victory on every fight Here we stand Healing the wounds now the war is over Stitching the shreds of our hearts again Here we stand Trying to find a reason to follow on A meaning for our lives Keeping the dream alive We must keep the dream alive The daydream alive Here we stand Healing the wounds now the war is over Stitching the shreds of our hearts again Here we stand Trying to find a reason to follow on A meaning for our lives Keeping the dream alive

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

A shadow’s been lurking Deep within the labyrinth of my mind A whisper of death and decay Growing in silence It won’t go away A spark of insanity Glowing in the deep Beckoning me And though I try to run from it I know I will end up giving in (It was) just when I saw Life fading from dying eyes That I felt whole and strong In my miserable life Killing was the only way For me to thrive (And rule like darkness) And rule like darkness rules the night I feel so much more alive than I’ve been before Now that murder taints my heart And life seems to have a reason Now that my story is written in blood I am the twisted face of hate Invading your nightmares The cold incarnation of your deepest fears A scourge of madness Killing was the only way For me to thrive (And rule like darkness) Slaying is the only way To ease my mind (And rule like darkness) And rule like darkness rules the night Isn’t it strange? When at every minute of every day You just sit there, hoping to belong, longing to feel alright Waiting for that especial moment, that milestone That will turn your existence upside down And you will become Everything you’ve ever wanted to be Killing was the only way For me to thrive (And rule like darkness) Slaying is the only way To ease my mind (And rule like darkness) And rule like darkness rules the night

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

Dance in darkness Swing to your master, your guide Claiming to be all I need You're nothing but mischief and lies Scream in madness Cry to your devil, your pride Saying I need to believe Now you are next in line Within the dark I'll reap off your life There's no way out Just let me take you down The bringer of doom Now I will have your soul Forever I rule On top I stand alone My deepest desire's The fear inside your eyes Get down on your knees As you watch me rise Crawl like a beast Taste the venom of lust Slowly infecting your veins When I am earning your trust Feel the temptation To join me in my dance of death And your life drain away When facing the final test

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

Bleeding eyes boiling in corrosion A bitter taste of ashes in my mouth Acid clay clutching on my limbs As a million blades of fire seem to crawl inside my skin Need to break out Through the blazing walls I seal my fate For too long I’ve been tortured Now at last I run away For a long time trapped in shadows and oblivion My damned soul finally can break free From the guts of hell Souls crying Daylight dying Death howls in endless fields of desolation Life dying Beauty crying Tormented souls in eternal desecration “But the fearful, and unbelieving And the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers And sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars Shall have their part in the lake which burneth With fire and brimstone: Which is the second death" (Souls crying, daylight dying) I’m aware I can’t be afraid I have to fight to stop this agonizing wait (Life dying, beauty crying) What shall I do to find my own salvation? What will I endure to reach my vindication?

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025

Lights will guide your way When all the colors fade to grey And there’s no one else to blame In the age of sadness Deep within your soul When nothing seem to fill the hole You will find the strength To fly away from darkness Breathe Allow your senses to fly And grieve As our essence slowly dies I know We’ve lost our way Killing each other Draining the waters With no salvation we live But someday Lights will guide your way When all the colors fade to grey And there’s no one else to blame In the age of sadness Deep within your soul When nothing seem to fill the hole You will find the strength To fly away from darkness Oh no! We’re losing control We’re stripped of the life we used to know We’re trapped in cages of delusion Forever lost with no solution But I know We’ll find a way Helping each other Restoring the order At the end of the tunnel I see But someday Lights will guide your way When all the colors fade to grey And there’s no one else to blame In the age of sadness Deep within your soul When nothing seem to fill the hole You will find the strength To fly away from darkness Deep within your soul When nothing fills the hole You will find the strength To fly away

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025

Crumbling skies We are the last men alive Crawling on the edge About to face our own demise United we stand We have blood in our hands Staring into the eyes of death Just waiting for the end (But) we don’t know What’s out there for us So we will not give up We’ll fight Lightning strikes Igniting the skies We struggle to stay awake And live throughout the night See the smoking clouds Hear them crying out loud As our world is burning And there is no way out (But) we don’t know What’s out there for us So we will not give up We’ll fight Beneath the wings of destruction We must find a way to create a better life And in our souls of corruption We must find the power to cry our last goodbyes We have found a reason To keep holding on for one more day All we know is crumbling to the ground But I have faith Someday we will collect our fears And throw’em all away (We won’t give up We’ll keep fighting ‘till the end of times The skies are on fire The world is crumbling before our eyes But we’re alive) Beneath the wings of destruction We must find a way to create a better life And in our souls of corruption We must find the power to cry our last goodbyes

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

I have seen all of your fears And I wrote them in my mind I’m calculating the answers Abstracting the concept of being alive What’s the meaning of a lifetime (How could I’ve been so blind?) To someone who foresaw the future (But now I see it all) And patiently awaits for something (And patiently I wait for something) That the whole human kind is afraid of? The knowledge of the centuries And the understanding of the universe Are locked far away inside myself Hiding inside my deepest shell Every time I get a little closer It struggles to come out And when it finally happens A new existence will rise as old lies fall It was about life When I took my first step into infinity And now it doesn’t matter what I’m pretending All my thoughts are about life and its ending

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025

Now the glory days aregone The claws of fear are dragging us Into an abyss of pain Our pride and joy forever thrown away Hard to forget who we were For our story lives on In the tales of those who dreamed Of someday being like us (We went too far) The chains of pleasure have bound our hearts (Became too great) Loss have tore our worlds apart Like a phoenix she will rise again Like a star upon your face Shining over the sadness Lightning upon the ashes of our disgrace She will rise, over the sky Like the burning fire of agony within Now I see what they meant A message of hope (This is what they sent) Find the key to the chains And free your hollow hearts again (You’ll be free again) She is not a person A riddle of elder men (Wisdom, courage and cure) Wisdom, courage and cure The firebird is those who are pure (To heal the wounds) The star in the prophecy is innocence (The key to all locks) The very meaning of existence Times of wise Become an age of disguise Sages foresaw our fate In the prophecy they say Like a phoenix she will rise again Like a star upon your face Shining over the sadness Lightning upon the ashes of our disgrace She will rise, over the sky Like the burning fire of agony within Now I realize we are all doomed The story shall not end the way I presumed Pure-hearted can’t be found anyway Forever cry for the faded innocence we may No matter how we try things won’t be like before All that we can do now is to listen to the prophecy once more

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

The first of its kind In secrecy has been designed Carefully built to destroy Without trace, with no sign Thousands of lines of code A new form of power unfolds Cruelly lurking inside Infecting, will grow (There’s gonna be a day that you will know There is a weapon entirely made of code) It’s gonna rule the lives of men Life will never be the same (It’s the threat of our time) The danger unseen The most clever scheme Lies dormant within Our securities are failing (As we face the other side) We can’t blame no one For what they have done So sad they found the gaps The zero days How did they make us so blind Fomenting a new form of crime One that could never be caught Supported by lies Millions of lives in their hands So weak to this evil they send Open to be redesigned Making warfare a trend Life will never be the same (It’s the threat of our time) The danger unseen The most clever scheme Lies dormant within Our securities are failing (As we face the other side) We can’t blame no one For what they have done So sad they found the gaps The zero days Hear my call We want you all Knights of the digital nation Forgotten souls The system will blow Show us the road to salvation Life will never be the same (It’s the threat of our time) The danger unseen The most clever scheme Lies dormant within Our securities are failing (As we face the other side) We can’t blame no one For what they have done So sad they found the gaps The zero days

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

Blinding, deafening, silence Surrounding all there is Throat choking memories Impossible to breathe in Life fades in solid eyes That can no longer cry Hands reach out in darkness An attempt to grasp in vain The more I try to hold on to it The more it goes away See your face through this darkened shroud of your own See the blood staining every road that we walk on All that we have gained doesn’t matter anymore In this fading time of silent cries I can realize Though we’ve got so far holding on to what we are In the end I’m just...alone Dark replaces time In a quiet spinning flight In a rush of clarity An alluring path of light All seem to crumble down Consciousness going round and round The masquerade you’ve always worn Is cracked and filled with pain I’m sorry for the times I’ve been Much less than you could gain I’m just alone I die alone

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

The morning star shined for the first time Bringing life-force into the earth By the will of the one, the place of human’s birth Zealous hands and wings of light Looking after his sons in all their might Unaware of the one who walks behind Secretly threatening the creation divine (But) the creator’s eye cannot be deceived Punishment was set on he who did not believe Lightning flashes across the sky Spears clash thundering deafly Warriors of God flying high Fiercely fighting the unholy might Screaming and laughing Striking and slashing Lucifer and his corrupted birds of evil Heavens trembling Light prevails Ban him forever with his evil horde Never to enter again the home of the lord Damned by God and tortured by the angels Banished from paradise In misery I lay planning my disguise Underground silently you will live Foolish thoughts of yours, I’ll destroy what you conceived Destroy it you cannot, you are just one man Although his wings are broken this one man will rise again Into the fire pit I fall Dark wings will grow and wounds will heal At the end of the torment within Humans will succumb in sin The pain of fire shall pass Rise from your torpor legions of darkness Banished with me you have been And now by my hand you are more To every human on earth a demon to corrupt Now spread your wings and fly Make them my slaves, make my fire burn high Once there was a place where people lived in harmony But then something happened, corruption and tyranny Chaos and war raging from the inside People being killed by the rising tide Consuming our planet, covered suicide Life is a gift from above and here we are willing to die Corrupted by evil, blind monsters we remain Trying to make things better we’ll all die in vain Fortresses of stone fall into rivers of blood Corpses all around, we were abandoned by our God Deceived by the fallen angel, seduced by his sins We are all devils disguised under animal skins Together we criy for we were not prepared Menace of one, all the damage he have done Surrounded by darkness his servants they’ve become Our children they once were but not anymore Now humans are just animals pretending to be gods Look to all the pain that we have caused Look to all the deaths in the name of God Castles and machines, giants of metal and stone Just symbols of power of the ones in the thrones Moving their nations like pieces on a chess board They simply can’t see they are puppets among the devil’s horde Why do you cry wings of power? Despise for the creatures you put on the earth Suffering through ages finally comes the hour A new age will come, the good shall have rebirth House of demons, the earth is my domain Before the sunrise you were the angel of light The rulers of mankind, my slaves they will remain: Bringing back the pureness, we won’t abandon this fight So here we are Standing on the edge of existence Bound to an uncertain fate At the brink of the judgement day Shall we go on? I feel we’ve crossed the line Has he abandoned mankind? Can you feel the winds of change? Can you feel the fire of rage? Do you remember the peace we’ve been evading? Struggling through this battle my faith is slowly fading Here we stand at the edge of time Where no one can hear our cries We have failed our own existence We’ll forever be forged in lies

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025