Sweet Nothings

Dancing like a cobra Up on the silver screen You haunt my nightmares You hide in my dreams Without words You speak to me Thoughts caught in clouds The wind through the trees I'm laying in the gutter And telling myself Love may be a leper It's bad for my health I don't want to wait til tomorrow And you don't want to wait for me I don't want to wait til tomorrow And you don't want to wait for me

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Before they set the world on fire By decree of the almighty profit Before they strike the match stick They passed out big cigars They'll sell you a dream But it's all a lie They'll spend all your money On party supplies They'll act so sincere Pretending to care They'll pump you with fear Broadcast through the air I don't want to come to your war party A VIP ticket to a blood orgy Poisoned food No water to drink With the terror threat high Does it help to think That your governmеnt's in control? As the pawns all play their role And thе dead begin coming home And the pawns have played their role Before they pull the death card It's champagne all around As smiling glad hands Wave false flags Napalm Cyanide Burning bodies piled high Hiroshima Vietnam Jesus Christ Islam Cold War Communism Palestine Zionism Holocaust Genocide Mass decay Suicide Endless wars Feed the machine Industrial complex An empire of greed If we can't find a profit in peace They'll continue to feed the beast It's 1, 2, 3 What're we fighting for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn Next stop might be Iran Ain't no time to wonder why Whoopee, we're all going to die As the pawns all play their role And the dead are coming home And the pawns have played their role And the dead are flying home Embrace no evil Fear no enemy Send in the bulls To a blood orgy Embrace no evil Fear no enemy Send in the bulls To a blood orgy They'll sell you a dream But it's all a lie They'll spend all your money On party supplies They'll act so sincere Pretending to care They'll pump you with fear Broadcast through the air No one wants to come to your war party A VIP ticket to a blood orgy Poisoned food No water to drink With the terror threat high Does it help to think That your government's in control? As the pawns all play their role Now the dead begin coming home And the pawns have played their role I don't want to come to your war party

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Now sterilized We're lily white With no evidence We eat our own So gluttonous Turn to their young To satiate They eat their own Come out, come out Wherever you are Come out and play Wherever you are Rose buds bloom all over you Reptilian skin to scales You stoke the fire without mercy The fragile betray the frail Foul is our home Our den not solemn Hunger pangs I takе you in Come out and play Wherevеr you are Possess the masses With your snake charm smile Now our fever is rising high Overdosed under your spell I feel your grip I know it well Scarlet fever rising high Scarlet fever rising high Come out, come out Wherever you are Come out and play Wherever you are Foul is our home Our den not solemn Hunger pangs and jaundice skin Come out and play Wherever you are Now overdosed Under your spell I feel your grip I know it well

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

One pound of flesh, no more, no less Punching my heart, and pounding my chest Bulging tongue, blood on my breath Devour the hour until there's nothing left The way you're smiling, tantalizing Carving the bedpost, counting the passing days Swirling embers ignite my desire To set fire to this house ablaze She's got those bedroom eyes Now I finally realize You're the sugar that makes the medicine taste so sweet All your preaches bring me to my knees When you wave your hand you're parting the big blue seas Praise the lord, now you've sold out every seat I'll follow you to the gates of hell I've got a story and a soul to sell Nose in the dirt, sniffing your scent No reason to pray, confess or repent Damage done and I'm mending my wounds A headless thought is polluting the womb The floor is crawling to exit the room Not a second to waste, not a minute too soon And now I realize What's behind those bedroom eyes You're the sugar that makes the medicine taste so sweet All your preaches bring me to my knees When you wave your hand you're parting the big blue seas Praise the lord, now you've sold out every seat I'll follow you to the gates of hell I've got a story and a soul to sell Nose in the dirt, sniffing your scent No reason to pray, confess or repent You're the sugar that makes the medicine taste so sweet All your preaches bring me to my knees When you wave your hand you're parting the big blue seas Praise the lord, now we'll sell out every seat Tastes so sweet

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

This ain't no Armageddon sunrise This ain't no Hiroshima bomb This ain't no mushroom cloud laying mother This ain't no time space continuum Suicide was once my valentine Now she's laying beside me under the sun It's no longer cheap to get a proper high Hit the streets and ask anyone I eat Hexes for breakfast Join Sinners for dinner As the baboons grow louder My patience grows thinner Silver bullets in the messenger Before he can speak Of somе horrid abominations And the plight of the meek Suicide was oncе my valentine Now she's laying beside me under the sun It's no longer cheap to get a proper high Hit the streets and ask anyone I sit and stare at the phone Inside my head no one's home The dog is chewing his bones And in my head no one's home I say your name over and over repeating On bloodied knees, i'm begging and pleading To a God that stares at me through the ceiling Answer my prayers, anoint me a healing I sit and stare at the phone Inside my head no one's home The doctor ordered what? A spoonful won't do? 20 milligrams of Xanax In the witches brew Bull whip the synapse To survive the 9 to 5 Wife and kids, white picket fence You made your hell, now lie in it Suicide was once my valentine Now she's laying beside me under the sun It's no longer cheap to get a proper high Hit the streets and ask anyone

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Cat scratches and smoke burns on her face and hands Neglected children build castles in quicksand Tongue lashes And whip cracking innocence Empty mouths craving spoonfuls of pestilence Burn down the harvest It's a plague nation The golden noose Is our one and only salvation The face I wear now is not my own, not my own These days are rats minutes skin And seconds are bones Chain up the pearly gates We're all flying south Silence the witnessеs We're out I envy thе vultures No conscious inside All they can eat just as soon as it dies It won't taste as sweet when it's still alive I envy the vultures That peck out your eyes Scavenge the New World where's your spirit now? Beckon the wake And they all gather around The face you wear now is not your own, not your own These years are lions minutes skin Seconds are bones The face I wear is not my own The face you wear is not your own The skin I wear is not my own The skin you wear is not your own Chain up the pearly gates We're all flying south Silence the witnesses We're out I envy the vultures No conscious inside All they can eat just as soon as it dies It won't taste as sweet when it's still alive I envy the vultures That peck out your eyes I envy the vultures Scavenge the New World Where is your spirit now? Beckon the wake And they all gather around

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Death rattle, brittle bones No sunlight in my tomb Echoes and emptiness Now filling up the room You are a snake Weaving in and out of sight Shape shift embrace my bitter loneliness tonight I can't find a reason to ever push you away Slow suicide takes my hand And invites me to stay as Carnal waves approach and recede Unrelenting desire overcoming me The more I feed it the more it needs Pleasure’s now a mistress to enslave me Drag me low down the river of denial Drown me in your skin I feel you Primitive and wild Sinking in and under with nowhere left to hide Guide me in and slow sliding deeper inside I can't find a reason to ever push you away Slow suicide takes my hand and invites me to stay as Carnal waves approach and recede Unrelenting desire overcoming me The more I feed it the more it needs Pleasures now a mistress to enslave me You take the stage creeping Beneath the neon glow Weakness consumes me And I don't want to let it go Jezebel I’m frozen At the foot of your altar Unable to control The fire burning me alive I can't find a reason to ever push you away Slow suicide takes my hand and leads me astray Carnal waves approach and recede Unrelenting desire overcoming me The more I feed it the more it needs Pleasure's now a mistress to enslave me Carnal waves approach and recede Dominate me, let me be your slave Dominate me Let me be your slave Be your slave

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

With the whipping wind the tumbleweeds roll Suddenly I trip and begin falling down a rabbit hole Gravity betrays me, strangers enslave me Neverland becomes a prison under the ground In the poppy fields I rolled with you Recall your skin as ocean blue Sucking your tongue, caress your curve Soft lips taste just like cinnamon In a dream state underwater we embrace the tide Gliding through the current of our midnight ride Invincible and high never coming up for air Invincible and high never coming down We rant and roar We are young forever more Songs unsung without regret Without remorse Fate now takes the wheel Drives the course Crash the car become a star We are young forever more And now angels begin to grow horns Halos are melting into ashen dust Ash and dust Shrunken Heads Cheshire Cat Occam's razor Cuts the fat All the waves we make All the hearts we break All the push and pull This is just a dream This is just a dream It has to be a dream Wake up Wake up now Ghost of malevolence Wake up and face me Face me Tempted in the desert By will and mirage No place to hide from the sun No place to hide No place to hide Down the rabbit hole We rant and roar We are young forever more Songs unsung without regret Without remorse Fate now takes the wheel Drives the course

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

All that once moved you Has now gone away Packed it's bags And boarded a train Cattle cars Prison bars Barbed wires isolation Believe every word I say Fear not tomorrow, only today Act as though That you know nothing at all Mind controlled Now you know nothing at all Hell is now empty All the devils are here Feeding on fire Binging on fear Memories exist in the darkest lights Photos of you only black and white Act as though That you know nothing at all Mind controlled Now you know nothing at all We aren't the world We aren't the children We are anesthetized As we multiply Ignoring our fault lines Moving on and on As the cracks appear Into extinction We aren't the world We aren't the children It was your enemy That led me to you Like flies sent to wounds That will never heal A pox on your house Foul disease in your swine Chanting sick wishes Now you will rot on the vine We aren't the world We aren't the children We are anesthetized As we mulitply Ignoring our fault lines Moving on and on As the cracks appear Into extinction We aren't the world We aren't the children Es ist eine kleine welt Es ist eine kleine welt Es ist eine kleine welt Es ist eine kleine welt May you choke on your tongue May your blood fill the streets Like piss in a cup You tremor and quake Murder by numbers Accept your fate It's a small world after all It's a small world after all It's a small world after all It's a small world after all Now the world is your stage Becomes your mark of cain The master and slave The ying and the yang Becomes your mark of cain Now my tender hearts breaking As we're waving goodbye Now we mumble a toast To our wasted lives We aren't the world We aren't the world We aren't the world We aren't the world

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Electro shocking treatment Bug zapping inner demons I see storm clouds clearing away Once hissing in a corner I know now I'm changing form And if it's for the better, let's roll Let's roll Over the moon I'll make it mine I've got the wind under my wings The skies are wide and smiling I feel the love electric lightning striking everywhere No fear, no reason to hide I feel the love down to the marrow in my bones Oh how beautifully calming Scarecrows and sparrows Cupid shooting all his arrows The green fields are vast and calling my name Tin men and lions blow a kiss to dandelions And clearly see the error of their ways Over the moon I'll make it mine I've got the wind under my wings The skies are wide and smiling I feel the love electric lightning striking everywhere No fear, no reason to hide I feel the love down to the marrow in my bones Oh how beautifully calming Under the sunshine Only you and I On the white sand shore Emeralds waters kiss the horizon This is paradise Only you and I This is paradise Only you and I I feel the love, lightning striking everywhere No fear, no reason to hide I feel the love down to the marrow in my bones Oh how beautifully calming

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Sweet nothings whispered in my ear Tell me all you crave now tell me all you fear Sweet nothings help to kick me into gear Tell me your desires, not what I want to hear Dripping honey, hot stinger Place your bets I'm an ace Now I'm a dead ringer Tied to horses drawn to quarter Laying in wait now to heed my order Pillars of salt, statues of white Moonlight wolf cries, undressing the night I fear no evil I have not a care As I lay beside you stroking your hair From the vine make the wine far more Thicker than blood as we feast on the flesh now Spared from the flood Necks are breaking as you walk in the room Eyes of the envious all staring at you Swallow my tongue, no air in my lungs Like a Houdini punch right in the gut Lick you out like a French kiss, buckle my knees Wicked minds reeling emerge from the garden Denying their God and ignoring his pardon Empires burned and vast kingdoms fell Now farther from heaven and hotter than hell Sweet nothings whispered in my ear Tell me all you crave now tell me all you fear Sweet nothings help to kick me into gear Tell me your desires, not what I want to hear With my head in the clouds And my feet on the ground Spitting lightning at kings Clapping thunder around Wicked minds reeling emerge from the garden Denying their God and ignoring his pardon Empires burned and vast kingdoms fell Now farther from heaven and hotter than hell Necks are breaking as you walk in the room Eyes of the envious all staring at you Swallow my tongue, no air in my lungs Like a Houdini punch right in the gut Sweet nothings whispered in my ear Tell me all you crave now tell me all you fear Sweet nothings help to kick me into gear Tell me your desires, not what I want to hear

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Staring at the hourglass I hear them marching Locked in precision Goose-stepping approaching Reduced to ash, rubble and dust Mental defects in the brain trust And now the lonely in their darkest hour Fall at the hands of obscene power Heart of the pale horse, pumping and pounding Chomping at the bit, waiting for the hammer to fall For the hammer to fall Ghosts of war walk the killing fields No second thoughts only a stitch in time Accomplice to the perfect crime Everyday illusion don't even bother You're no competition, don't waste your time Murder the masses now ash and dust Worms eat away at the brain trust And now left hopeless in their darkest hour Fall at the hands of obscene power Heart of the pale horse, pumping and pounding Chomping at the bit, waiting for the hammer to fall For the hammer to fall Ghosts of war walk the killing fields No second thoughts only a stitch in time Accomplice to the perfect crime Mortal man thorny crown Rabid dogs hunt you down Sinful soul empty hole Growing numb left you cold Behold the pale horse Devouring man Swallowing souls Tonight we ride With death in full stride Tonight we ride Into the cold dark and unknown Behold the pale horse And his lone rider Devouring man Swallowing souls Devouring man Swallowing souls Heart of the pale horse, pumping and pounding Chomping at the bit, waiting for the hammer to fall For the hammer to fall Ghosts of war walk the killing fields No second thoughts only a stitch in time Accomplice to the perfect crime Tonight we ride With death in full stride Tonight we ride Into the cold dark and unknown

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

A wise man once said "Life's just a ride" Only illusion only a ride It's brightly colored Goes up and down Thrills and chills Around and around But I feel that pale death creeping in I see my mother's face now grieving I feel that pale death creeping in This must be the dead end of the road A wise man once said The eyes of love See us all as one As below so above Far from the rainbow The storms roll in And as soon as they're here Then they're gone with the wind But I feel that pale death creeping in I see my mother's face now grieving I feel that pale death creeping in This must be the dead end of the road The last midnight The last sunrise The last song Gaze into your eyes Every breath Every tear All of the love All of the fear I feel that pale death creeping in I feel that pale death creeping in I see my mother's face now grieving I feel that pale death creeping in On and on and on and on...

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026