In Somnolent Ruin
You're the hunter I'm the haunted Woven with sorrow's thread Where I go you will follow I welcome thy arrow Hand me thy poisonous chalice Impale me on thy spear And adhere! Steadfast in my sorrow I welcome thy arrow Neath idle, blood-shut eyes There's a whole universe there The indefinite chart Of life's spectral ocean But I was lost in woodlands Famished and broken Of what seemed like еndless winter The huntеr and the haunted Adrift from here Over soul-sick burrow and shore I welcome thy arrow Hand me thy poisonous chalice With arms outstretched Come here This is thy prey! And I will not pray to be saved Not at ease with my sorrow So I welcome thy arrow Recounting its history I'm keeping it here The indefinite chart Of life's spectral ocean But I was lost in woodlands Famished and broken Of what seemed like endless winter The hunter and the haunted I lay outstretched and bare In the vermillion glare There's a whole universe there No more am I to weep I'm awakened from the dream Of an insomniacs sleep Like a newly fallen star I overcome the unwinnable war I overcome the unwinnable war
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Jul 09, 2026
Icy dew around burning cinders Ardent features, skeletal fingers Faces yield, torn by splinters Sacred heroes, grinning Like monstrous creatures Erase me from this vision Halt the burning season This burden, this burden Is it my own? Am I alone in writing my song? Erase me from this vision: Thoughts dismayed Souls betrayed Through this prison of flesh This burden, this burden Is it my own? Am I alone in writing my song? The burden, the burden The ancestral daughters and sons The perilous ones The burden, the burden The ancestral daughters and sons The perilous ones Like a blade stuck inside our hearts Held to the throat It's the binding of the spirit onto shame And God's in the gutter Drunk on the tears he claimed For He is alone Inquisitor of the monochrome We ascend to a Heaven Overgrown by dusk Among the misgiven Shards of our lives With a downcast face And tears aligned We're leaving this place To reclaim the divine We are alone Refugees from the monochrome Their burden, their burden The ancestral daughters and sons The perilous ones Coming undone The burden, the burden The ancestral daughters and sons The perilous ones Is this what we've become?
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Jul 09, 2026
Anima, break me Defend me before the storm Anima, recover me Defend me before the storm (Envelopes me) For my heart is tired Tired from trying Freeing the soul From all of this dying From shipwrecks and tides And counterfeit smiles Til You my Anima dies Anima, don't forsake me Breathe life into me Console me so I don't turn blind Not to fade as Saturn passes by For my heart is tired Tired from trying Freeing the soul From all of this dying From shipwrecks and tides And counterfeit smiles Til You my Anima dies Anima, I kiss the lights My co-creator in silence It's the darkling grace Of this spectral bride within I lie awake with the rustlings In the attic of my mind The harrowing trauma Paints the shadow that walks beside me Oh Anima You're the wind in my sail And the heartbreak in my smile You're the tender whisper as I die For my heart is tired Tired from trying Freeing the soul From all of this dying From shipwrecks and tides And counterfeit smiles Til You my Anima dies Anima, watch over me
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 05, 2026
I saw the face of God And it was weeping The spirit of Man Fitfully sleeping To imagine what's true With images With cutting nightmares Cringing while sleeping In wreckage Slithering By sea, come forth Through dark ocean eyes And rivers' flooding out Petrified and dreaming Encircling the grace And the face of God Is drowned by weeping His blood now ebon Dripping I saw the fate of Man And I was screaming I saw the face of God It was weeping This bewildered gaze With a futile plight Of some glorious sun Never to rise again Confusion, come forth! Be my еpitaph! With each day of creation Walking backwards Into the ruins of cold light And divinе providence God Into absolution: Void! You're flooding this tear-carved trail By mindless rumination It's something you've always done A supernova - There Stillborn Here Pay heed, dearest friend! I won't drag you down Into darker waters I promise This cavern's like a veil Of a life thwarted and foiled Unrealized in my sobriety And You would Cross oceans of anxiety And bleed generously To set me free Murdering your dread Life is for the Living So don't waste it on me For I saw the face of God And it was weeping
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Jul 09, 2026
I gave you wings You gave me death I gave you life And you were blessed I gave you wings You gave your love The kingdom within I'll let you in I was left here alone To be the tortured sun Doom-riven Deprived of her song Long ago On this derelict path Through cosmic night I am the servant on the fields of sorrow Now, I have no strength left within me It was turned into tears For the Heavens to see Hold it togethеr For one more winter I gavе you wings Tears down my chest My arms around you Now you can rest I gave you wings A way to learn So you can find me When you return Woe to them: Hypocrites! Murderers! Brood of vipers Veiled in false pretence Whose virtue is but a cold offense Seated high within their gilded places Slithering deep inside Archonic temples You and I We are the residues of light And we took the sacrifice Long ago This derelict path Through drizzling snow The path to wisdom edged with thorns Now, I have no ardour left within me It was turned into tears For the world to see For one more winter Hold it together! You gave me wings I gave you Death And took your sins From your dying breath I cannot save you From this world I wrap my arms around you As darkness stir If you perceive me, you perceive yourself It is through my eyes that you see me And see yourself For if you approach me It is because I have approached you
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Jul 09, 2026
Something's always wrong Even when I'm sleeping So I cracked the moon And sang along Just breathe And everything is always wrong Even as I'm breathing So I cracked the moon And sang along And if I wish to leave Who'd tell me that I'm wrong? 'Cause God just seem to sing along Breathe in Breathe out And breathe No more
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Jul 09, 2026
I am estranged A desperate plea for escape So we must part This tether now must break Just let it burn For all this waiting is murdering my soul Be it life, be it death It's all perpetual unrest What's life but to learn how to die? I'm there, at the edge of despair Devil may care! With any raging storm, some bitter funeral How dreadfully cold must the heavens be A land of misery bestowed on me I see no saving grace in your masters face I am estranged I cannot drive this shade away Then, where's my heart? What devil kept us apart? Just let it burn For all this waiting is murdering my soul Be it life, be it death It's all perpetual unrest And what's life but to learn how to die? I'm there, at the edge of despair God, Devil may care! With any raging storm, some bitter funeral How dreadfully cold must the heavens be A land of misery bestowed on me I see no saving grace in your masters face I am the sound of falling In the rift between God and dust Now I'm in this prison forever Drifting the starless tide
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Mar 25, 2026
Here, perhaps, 'tis the sole current that forever flows Leaving the gilded, youthful shore behind By venomous grief to drench the ever-belligerent stream All too real, too vast, this the shattered, incompetent dream When nothing is what it seems And the world has been Pulled over your eyes When false light beings flock In the dissonance We're moving upstream Down the misanthrope river Where shall I go if one of us dies? Where shall I go if one of us dies? Beware, my psychic inheritance No withdrawal, please Remedy me From where nothing Is what it seems I've never asked for this! What truth has gone beneath the tide When every measure's been taken To steal the rushing light? Where shall I go if one of us dies? I'm moving upstream Down the misanthrope river Cleansing our souls Down the misanthrope river And cold is the shiver With a brushing stroke of winter Cold, cold is the shiver I'm moving upstream Down the misanthrope river River For You, my heart's last drum No withdrawal, please Remedy me For what am I not allowed to see? I've never asked for this!
Submitted by Nargaroth — May 09, 2026
An Archon waits by the river The Archon waits for me Watching myself dissolve I'm stuck inside this dream It waits in shadows deep Its' eyes are fixed on me I fall silent into the void Far from the Mercy Seat And they call us Sinners But we are the last Believers They call us Sinners There's an Archon by the river They've always preyed on me Even now as life has left me Their currеnt, my ceaseless tidе Oh God, I am drowning Another name without a memory This light is cruel and blinding Devoid of symmetry And they call us Sinners No, we're the last Believers! They call us Sinners Oh, shooting star Drown in me! Drink Forget Repeat Oh, shooting star Oh, restless soul Drown in me! Drink Forget Repeat
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Jul 09, 2026