The Winter Wake

Concealed from the view Hidden from the knowledge of Men A little kind through trees it lives Nymphs of dark and lust "Fairy of bad fate!" Somebody tells he has seen Some of the little ones Some even that have talked with them So nice and handsome "Please, don't be such a fool! Tell everyone that the witches come tonight" bridge: Desire grows, denial howls Your will has gone "Divine the wicked multitude Worship your servitude" Enthroned and ringed with gold Of the mighty old oak I'm on the lightness side chorus: Daughters and sons There are times to carry on, All my life for you Keep on singing my tale Deny the Trows kind Don't you dare to stay behind? Through years and centuries, through myth and poetry Our race's slowly dying in the heart of mankind Deep in the woods They're dressed with the fruits of earth Arcane adorers of the roots Dance Henking tonight "Fairy of bad fate!" -bridge and chorus- Trapped in a web of branches and leaves dead You hear voices reciting a prayer... come nearer and see! "Hare hare good sent the care I am in a haire likeness, just see me there But I shall be in a woman's likeness soon"

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 24, 2025

“Brimstone eyes she hath, Black in colour looking sad The hair like straw, her skin so raw... A debauchery decadent” Grandmother used to tell “Beware do not go near the hut – I say!” It was believed to be the home of a witch A house left in decay They speakest alright ‘Cause I went one night And saw the old house Ivy all around Suddenly I was bound And fell in darkness They speakest alright ‘Cause I went one night And saw the old house Ivy all around Suddenly I was bound And fell in darkness People brave enough went And faced the things they said They never came back, neither to be, Sorry for their misbelieve Only pieces of their bodies hanging up On the strangest trees they found Forming shapes that may have linked To whom the parts belonged in a whole lifetime They speakest alright ‘Cause I went one night And saw the old house Ivy all around Suddenly I was bound And fell in darkness In her arms you’ll crackle like fire In the night you’ll see her Swallowtail When she’s near you’ll hear hell’s choirs Run as fast as you can, right in the arms of the unknown In her arms you’ll crackle like fire In the night you’ll see her Swallowtail When she’s near you’ll hear hell’s choirs Run as fast as you can, right in the arms of the unknown Swallowtail, Swallowtail They told me that your evil would prevail on me But now I know you are not what they say Swallowtail, Swallowtail Your beauty comes like sunshine after rain, So warm, an unexpected spark to wash away the dark She was supposed to be so old, deceitful, not deceivable Death she’d exhale from her never ending rings hanging on her nose They speakest no right ‘Cause I went one night And saw the old house Butterflies around Suddenly I was bound And fell in beauty In her arms you’ll crackle like fire In the night you’ll see her Swallowtail When she’s near you’ll hear hell’s choirs Run as fast as you can, right in the arms of the unknown All the things they told me – liars! All because she is too beautiful I know I won’t go back ‘cause at the end I’ll be a butterfly, oh Swallowtail, Swallowtail... They told me that your evil would prevail on me But now I know you are not what they say Swallowtail, Swallowtail Your beauty comes like sunshine after rain, So warm, an unexpected spark to wash away the dark

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 24, 2025

As the lights are growing dim Freezing cold, slowly is fading in Another winter night will hold this wicked soul I will wait for the new sun to rise Blind in darkness, witness my demise Another winter night is so long... The lands are dressed in the purest white Pure as I was and I am no more The ones of you who are free of guilt Wound me with your stones and then step in Buried in the whitest snow I will suddenly awake The winter wake As the steps are leaving trails Of the side of me I hate This is the night when I will face all my disgrace Cover me, cover all that I see A little light flake for your heart and the sea A single flake for all the good ones... The lands are dressed in the purest white Pure as I was and I am no more The ones of you who are free of guilt Wound me with your stones and then step in Buried in the whitest snow I will suddenly awake The winter wake The ones of you who are free of guilt Wound me with your stones and then step in Buried in the whitest snow I will suddenly awake I spent my time gazing at the stars As silently it snows inside my heart Someone said that life brings and then takes The winter wake

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 24, 2025

A slight call afar is tempting me Like a whisper sweet or an awful scream I cannot ignore what I’ve always been I am leaving again – one last time? Laid on the pale scythe of the Moon I play with stars around me The elvendom is now calling out my name My fairy and I are wandering through times And stories forgotten, some old fairytales Of wizards of Oz, of lost keys and gardens Hiding secret doors that lead to a dream For those who believe there’s always a door to get in A slight call afar is tempting me Like a whisper sweet or an awful scream I cannot ignore what I’ve always been I am leaving again – one last time? In my little kingdom I can be what I really wanted to be The wanderer I’m hearing scratches at my door Somebody wants me again Some little creatures will be fellows tonight My demon and I are playing some wicked games I should not play Not fair to be played Don’t tell anyone the place where I’m going ‘Cause they won’t believe – this time I don’t know If I’ll ever return, say goodbye for me to my home A slight call afar is tempting me Like a whisper sweet or an awful scream I cannot ignore what I’ve always been I am leaving again – one last time? In my little kingdom I can be what I really wanted to be The wanderer A slight call afar is tempting me Like a whisper sweet or an awful scream I cannot ignore what I’ve always been I am leaving again – one last time? In my little kingdom I can be what I really wanted to be The wanderer The wanderer...

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 24, 2025

I look around myself I’m feeling like a stranger to this world Where are the friends once I got (as) I used to know No trace of common sense, a dash of a normal sanity I wonder: “Are they all mad? ... Or is it me? Thousands years have passed and nothing gonna change Marching the plains as loud as hell they’re coming Drawn up in lines, proud their eyes, the army of the fools Ruling the thrones, it conquered and won I’m getting older Maybe I don’t recognize, I’m yet too old For all this mind-blowing fair of insanity When I was a kid I promised to myself I’d never grow up But now wiser a bit I can see! Thousands years have passed and nothing gonna change Marching the plains as loud as hell they’re coming Drawn up in lines, proud their eyes, the army of the fools Ruling the thrones, it conquered and won, yeah The march of the fools rise! Follow me, don’t promise to be What you never had thought you’d have wanted to be Tell me I’m wrong but I follow myself And the dreams that I’ve lived since I was born Thousands years have passed and nothing gonna change Marching the plains as loud as hell they’re coming Drawn up in lines, proud their eyes, the army of the fools Ruling the thrones, it conquered and won... And the march goes on

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 24, 2025

At the border of the plain where suddenly the forest dies On the first day of the season when the moon will shine full in the sky I will wait for you there bathed by a magic light I will wait, I will pray for this moment to become alive For this night I will see as an elf clad in leaves You’re going to see myself the fairy of your secret dreams Even if all this belongs to worlds of fantasy For this time, only this night everything is fair, belongs to me One night fantasy... Live my every breath, my every touch, my every single sigh Seizing hold of every glance as the day’s passing by begins a wonderful sight Dancing on the morning dew, the dawn has come only for you I look up at the sky for the stars to be my guide At the border of the plain where suddenly the forest dies On the first day of the season when the moon will shine full in the sky I waited for you there bathed by a magic light I have waited, I have prayed and this moment has become alive One night fantasy... Live my every breath, my every touch, my every single sigh Seizing hold of every glance as the day’s passing by begins a wonderful sight Dancing on the morning dew, the dawn has come only for you I look up at the sky for the stars to be my guide To be my guide... To be my guide...

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 24, 2025

On a hill on the devil’s top There is a man hiding in the shadows of the night He’s trying to stop the course of time The line dividing good from wrong There is more than meets the eye In this world full of lies and death The devil’s carriage is leading all the souls to a place so far away You can’t deny your innocence! Your life won’t be forever You should show your nicest part You are the one who cries You will see what you have never seen In the afterlife you know you will forever be At the fair, in the dragon’s lair You won’t be safe ‘cause the red driver’s waiting there He will be taking you through a nightmare you have never had before You can’t deny your innocence! Your life won’t be forever You should show your nicest part You are the one who cries You will see what you have never seen In the afterlife you know you will forever be You will see what you have never seen In the afterlife you know you will forever be The devil’s carriage ride It’s a trip to the other side All it’s said and done Won’t count a single word Been taken in the devil’s care You’ve never been a step downstairs But you have to know It’s gonna happen here and now... It’s your future and watch out ‘Cause the devil’s carriage’s running on and on! It’s running on and on... At the fair, in the dragon’s lair You won’t be safe ‘cause the red driver’s waiting there He will be taking you through a nightmare you have never had before At the sight of this dark fright night He came and took another soul Bleeding all its light And from the coach the sound of laughter, of laughter You will see what you have never seen In the afterlife you know you will forever be You will see what you have never seen In the afterlife you know you will forever be The devil’s carriage ride It’s a trip to the other side All it’s said and done Won’t count a single word Been taken in the devil’s care You’ve never been a step downstairs But you have to know It’s gonna happen here and now... It’s your future and watch out ‘Cause the devil’s carriage’s running on and on, yeah

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 24, 2025

Find out some poetry... (ah...) The topic must be: love and happiness So easy to write, so easy to spell Find out a melody... (ah...) That your brain won’t forget So come out and play, don’t be upset The roads in the night, plagued by desolation Are waiting for you... So sing us your song! They dance! They dance! The rats are following Follow the melody It must be quiet and simple or you’ll overload their heads Rats are following Follow the melody It must be quiet and simple or you’ll overload their heads Find out a remedy... To their unconditioned way of bothering So harmless for you, so deadly to them The lowliest symphony... A joke to your hears will fly like a vulture And will show them their worst side The roads in the night, plagued by desolation Are waiting for you... Delight us with your song! They dance! They dance! The rats are following Follow the melody It must be quiet and simple or you’ll overload their heads Rats are following Follow the melody It must be quiet and simple or you’ll overload their heads Like a storm from the sky is falling (We want to hear this sweet warm melody) With havoc, rapture, crawling (We will embrace its every single note) There the vulture, dying, falling We’d like to hear (it) but this is just the end The rats are following Follow the melody It must be quiet and simple or you’ll overload their heads Rats are following Follow the melody It must be quiet and simple or you’ll overload their heads Or you’ll overload their heads

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 24, 2025

Let’s go! Listen yourself talking words meaningless Listen, where are the emotions you feel? Take a look into yourself for a while What you see doesn’t scare you at all? Balance on the edge of what’s wrong and what is nothing But a different way to see things as they are (Please, don’t go astray) On our way through seas we go For every single day you live For every fragment of your broken dream This night is so evanescing (Rouse your rocking) All the times they told that you were wrong There’ve been reasons to be strong Start again and find you way to live Rouse your dream, oh Don’t let anyone walk over your dreams Listen, don’t let them fall on your path If they do I will be one meter behind I’ll pick up and dean them for you Waiting for a life a single reason to feel You’re not surviving, tell me how I’ll recognize? (It’s in front of you) Don’t look back, there’s no return For every single day you live For every fragment of your broken dream This night is so evanescing (Rouse your rocking) All the times they told that you were wrong There’ve been reasons to be strong Start again and find you way to live Rouse your dream For every single day you live For every fragment of your broken dream This night is so evanescing (Rouse your rocking) All the times they told that you were wrong There’ve been reasons to be strong Start again and find you way to live Rouse your dream... Rouse your dream, oh

I can see them running towards me All the time they steal my dreams The ghosts of past and sorrow All the time they steal my dreams When I take a walk outside, whispers will surround my head I can hear the echo of my voice, a hundred times or more They shout, they carry on (They whisper on my sorrow) They shout all night long (But the whispers will not end) And the whispers will not end The ghost of past is showing me all the good times that have gone Now just a shadow on the wall (The rose is, so fragile, but still so everlasting) The ghost of sorrow is recalling all the damage done Now just a brick off from the wall (The rose is so strong but it won’t be ‘till the end) No! (I can see them running towards me) (All the time they’re everywhere) They are still haunting my dreams All the time they’re everywhere All the time they steal my dreams The ghosts of past and sorrow All the time they steal my dreams When I take a walk outside, whispers will surround my head I can hear the echo of my voice, a hundred times or more They shout, they carry on (They whisper on my sorrow) They shout all night long (But the whispers will not end) And the whispers will not end The ghost of past is showing me all the good times that have gone Now just a shadow on the wall (The rose is, so fragile, but still so everlasting) The ghost of sorrow is recalling all the damage done Now just a brick off from the wall (The roses, so fragile, forever will fade away with the tide of life) But this night will hold them on! Yeah... (Oh, I want to see when I was a child) (All the emotions, the smiles and the cries) (Now that I see, never it hides, the neverending nights) (Remember the flash, the crowd was no more) (A light that surrounds you, never before) (Now that I see, never it hides, the neverending nights) (Oh, I want to see when I was a child) (All the emotions, the smiles and the cries) (Now that I see, never it hides, the neverending nights) (Remember the flash, the crowd was no more) (A light that surrounds you, never before) (Now that I see, never it hides, the neverending nights) (Oh, I want to see when I was a child) (All the emotions, the smiles and the cries) (Now that I see, never it hides, the neverending nights) (Remember the flash, the crowd was no more) (A light that surrounds you, never before) (Now that I see, never it hides, the neverending nights...) At the end of this horrid night, whispers stopped to haunt my dreams All emotions cast inside my mind, a hundred times or more... These neverending nights no more... no more These horrid nights But these neverending nights, the neverending nights... no more! No more!

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 24, 2025

Every time I try to understand The meaning hidden deep into my heart I crumble down the taste of losing all Is always bitter when I sip from my cold blood Losing what when there is nothing much to gain? Oh stop yourself and have a thought Watch your life Mother earth is there, emotionless to your eyes You can love her sons, but at the end you’re all alone Come and dance this reel, disillusion’s for real Stop yourself for God’s sake, try to take a look at yourself How can you pretend of having my faith Of gaining all the respect and the love that I can give? I even hardly believe in myself Where is the tunnel white, they told me of? Losing what when there is nothing much to gain? Oh stop yourself and have a thought Oh watch your life Mother earth is there, emotionless to your eyes You can love her sons, but at the end you’re all alone Come and dance this reel, disillusion’s for real Stop yourself for God’s sake, try to take a look at yourself To take a look at yourself To take a look at yourself To take a look at yourself...

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 24, 2025