The Beast and the Machine

The beast and the machine I want to know, where I should go Should I follow your path or find my own? I know it’s time to decide To figure out what to do with this life But can I really be free in your society Adjust to your norms and your beliefs? Can I be tamed within your frames Can I be free if I’m in chains? I am the monster you tamed A beast inside its cage Now I’m the bitter clown in your play A proud man drowning in shame Gave up on my dreams Sucked down in the flood that is the mainstream I transformed, became the norm that I fear the most I am the monster you tamed A beast inside its cage Now I’m the bitter clown in your play A proud man drowning in shame There’s something calling deep within me Begging to be released I let myself die piece by piece In your machinery I’ve been adapting for so long It’s time I finally got to see who’s the weak The beast or the machine I am the monster you tamed A beast inside its cage Now I’m the bitter clown in your play A proud man drowning in shame

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025

Periphery The bitter reminder of all that is gone a rapid reflection, a suffering heart somewhere but not here, anywhere state of denial continue leading me wrong from time to time I catch a glimpse there is never more than just a glimpse existing here beside me now faithfully, dear periphery for a fraction of time nerves unwind the precious moments I live to find distracting, disrupting, disturbing me the second I feel it, it's killing me from time to time I catch a glimpse there is never more than just a glimpse existing here beside me now faithfully, dear periphery timing, lightning - always too late fractions flashing for me stretching, reaching - never enough distance, approach me now I can see it there I see, it's there I believe it is here just out of sight from time to time I catch a glimpse there is never more than just a glimpse existing here beside me now faithfully, dear periphery

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

One with the shadows The more I observe, the more I want to close my eyes And ignore the entire world Ignore the fact that I’m a part of this herd A part of me wants to Run from my existence, shed my skin I’m running out of persistence This is a fight I’m never going to win So I disappear I become one with the shadows I step away, from the weak and the shallow Watch me disappear The life in my eyes, was taken long ago The thoughts in my head, once rebellious, are dead I’m shaped, sharped and polished to look like the others I need an exit, something to help me Run from my existence, shed my skin I’m running out of persistence This is a fight I’m never going to win So I disappear I become one with the shadows I step away, from the weak and the shallow Watch me disappear Cannot take it, cannot take it Cannot fake anymore No adjusting, no abjection Cannot adapt to the norm So I disappear Disappear, I become one with the shadows I step away, from the weak and the shallow Watch me disappear

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025

Passenger This is the mask I wear a silent surface just to hide my fear a violence stirring within control is caving in dark thoughts gathering Black fog embraces me now let the chaos begin I let the dark inside me take control now so let the dogs behind me run me down For every good thought I think there are seven dark thoughts pounding on the barrier my endless struggling to quench the will of sin It gave me nothing but an empty void Red skies descending now let the heavens come down The last light is slowly fading dead night is drawing near black souls in swift ascending closed eyes now open wide

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

Mr. Death Dim light, curtains closed A silence fills my head Eyes shut, a glimpse of hope As the needle twists my vein Pitch black, soulless shell Pure sorrow swept in sin Dark dreams, even darker days No colors may shine in Wish I could see the end Mr. Death would you take my pain away? I cannot stand the waiting Mr. Death please lead my soul astray This broken body is not worth saving The deep red clears my mind A thought is taking hold Black ink against the white My truth at last be told Now I’m off to meet the end Mr. Death would you take my pain away? I cannot stand the waiting Mr. Death please lead my soul astray This broken body is not worth saving Dim light, curtains closed A silence fills my head

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025

Mechanical Slaves I’ve seen the death in your eyes You use consumption as a way of life I’ve seen it enter your mind Like a disease that made you blind and weak We’re the souls manufactured and tuned to perfection This is what we’ve become Robotic, mechanical slaves of our own greed This is the modern humanity I see excitement in your eyes You found salvation in an advertise In a world where everything’s for sale The quest for wealth has replaced the Holy Grail We’re the souls manufactured and tuned to perfection This is what we’ve become Robotic, mechanical slaves of our own greed This is the modern humanity I’ve seen this apathy expand In the air, across the seas, throughout the land It’s just a matter of days before we erase ourselves It’s time to wake up Open your eyes Souls manufactured and doomed to perfection This is what we’ve become Robotic, mechanical slaves of our own greed This is the modern humanity

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

Plastic We are stuck, no new directions creators drained of ideas in the age of constant replacements when everything's already made we expand, every inch must be covered nothing will stand in our way in the age of the greatest delusions everyone's thinking the same so let your conscience fade now cause we can never blame ourselves adaption - nowhere in reach devastation under our feet tempting shape and design desperation - our wills collide plastic excitement craving for more, an unstoppable greed elastic environment for how long will you bend the truth? so let your conscience fade now cause we can never blame ourselves adaption - nowhere in reach devastation under our feet tempting shape and design desperation - our wills collide

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

The final spin A cold wind sweeps across the land it reminds me that it's time the last sunset seems ages ago and the light should have long ago arrived On this dreadful day all is silent fuel ignites and burns we are the last to leave So wave goodbye to the world we know mother earth now dies and taste the shame just for a moment we stand and watch as rotation stops see her final spin is this the peak of our revolution? Our ever growing thirst for more resulted in decay inspiration painted thoughts that common sense should have long ago denied and thrown away We turn and look away as the earth collapses her last motion still with grace our mother forever laid to rest

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

Parhelia I am apart from my equals because I know of what's to come the future holds no sequel and no new dawn as the light from the halo flows betrayal, deceit the ground is shaking underneath your feet Now watch what I have seen the markings in the sky (deserved and predicted) a proof of our belief the ending of our time (as expected) beware of the halo And I see in your blackened eyes that you would rather become blind we face the truth from the scenes that has been haunting me now I know what it's all about Now watch what I have seen the markings in the sky (deserved and predicted) a proof of our belief the ending of our time (as expected) here in these blank surroundings at the eye of a perfect storm there's no excuse, no escape, no exit may a constant darkness bury us all predictions never lie Now watch what I have seen the markings in the sky (deserved and predicted) a proof of our belief the ending of our time (as expected)

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

Life, the obstacle It’s a violent whisper A kind of weightless burden It’s a lonely swim in a crowded ocean A will to set sail in a dying wind I hope someday you will find That glorious moment A sense of pride I will stay in my mind The perfect hideout Where even life itself cannot get to me You’re a vibrant static A life within a shell that’s dying You’re a constant chained to an endless motion Courage now swept in a cloak of fear Too few, the answers Too vague, the signs Too weak resistance Too true, the lies We seek deliverance and find denial We seek salvation where faith is blind I hope someday you will find That glorious moment A sense of pride I will stay in my mind The perfect hideout Where even life itself cannot get to me

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

Spokes in the wheel Waste the endless days pondering on how to get away you're a mask, nothing real just a piece in a spinning wheel when you're almost there it steals your thoughts disturbance surrounds you then it's gone in the shades, in the weakest of moments deep in your doubts full of agony don't forget that we're fuel for the engine and you're nothing but a spoke in the wheel the same awakening strikes your mind every time it's a shame, all this suffering like you thought you had a life are you closing in? you forgot one thing that it's a dead end street where all the dreamers meet in the shades, in the weakest of moments deep in your doubts full of agony don't forget that we're fuel for the engine and you're nothing but a spoke in the wheel

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025

Release the floods Every day is a repetitive grey No sharp edges, no color, no shape Every day is just a short-term solution An endless confusion, a longing for escape Take me somewhere Far away from this weight I’m under Save me now, release the floods Wash away what is left of the grey Every day is an endless delay I’m just waiting for the barriers to break Every day I build up more desperation Increasing frustration about to explode Take me somewhere Far away from this weight I’m under Save me now, release the floods Wash away what is left of the grey You spend your life doing things you don’t want to do Every day is the same, nothing breaks through the grey I forgot who I am, I forgot where I came from And where I belong Take me somewhere Far away from this weight I’m under Save me now, release the floods Wash away what is left of the grey

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

Through black holes Eyes wide open in here Sensing there's something wrong with me and with the room they've put me into I try to fall asleep when there's no really need to breathe How come I ended up alone? absent, forgotten, slowly withering away wither away, wither away I wither away, wither through black holes I stray eyes go blind in here wither away, wither away I wither away, wither through black holes I stray now I don't want to turn this around, bring me the stars when the last of the bright goes dark I am a part we are all of the same old matter, it matters no more we unite, reconcile

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025