Dream Alive

Gone, I compare with none They would never let me miss a step, catch my breath Done, I’m finally down and stunned Tried my best with this stumbling mind, but fell behind They speak to me like I cannot see Flood of fortune awaits I should leave a mark, blinded by the dark Witness divergent falling See me on my way, on false ideals I prey Step inside the cast a prison man made I am on my way, wind up toy astray Candle burns fast in endless charade More, exhaust, consume explore I’ve done all I can to leave a trace in this maze Soar, recall what life was for? I am somebody else’s dream but no more me They speak to me like I cannot see Flood of fortune awaits I should leave a mark, blinded by the dark Witness divergent falling See me on my way, on false ideals I prey Step inside the cast a prison man made I am on my way, wind up toy astray Candle burns fast in endless charade See me on my way, on false ideals I prey Step inside the cast, this prison man made See me on my way, on false ideals I prey Step inside the cast a prison man made I am on my way, wind up toy astray Candle burns fast in endless charade See me on my way, on false ideals I prey Step inside the cast a prison man made I am on my way, wind up toy astray Candle burns fast in endless charade

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

Time it moves too slowly Life’s too short for such a pace I have conquered my days Outlived my meagre years Every nightly hour I lay low and hide The window opens wide This glowing screen, these worlds unseen They are my private time machine On every page a key to my cage While the centuries are walking past The first and last alive Cast aside to watch the world go by Some stories just were made to last Across the seams of time I sleep to keep my dream alive Time and place are only passages I cross at will Ages pass, I’m here still older than I seem to be Every nightly hour, I am on my way To escape the present day The future dreams, the histories I craft my own realities On every page a key to my cage While the centuries are walking past The first and last alive Cast aside to watch the world go by Some stories just were made to last Across the seams of time I sleep to keep my dream alive While the centuries are walking past The first and last alive Cast aside to watch the world go by Some stories just were made to last Across the seams of time I sleep to keep my dream alive While the centuries are walking, oh... Some stories made to last While the centuries are walking, oh... I sleep to keep my dream alive

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

The pendulum’s last sway Just one heartbeat away This midnight the time is right to let go In a carnival I see in your face a gentle glow If we crash and burn then let it be so Seize the day while we’re not yet old Seize the day before the trail’s cold We’ll join the marching masquerade... Seize the day, I believe I was told Everything that glitters is gold Let these small hours last for a day... If you bring the light I’ll be a king for a night We’ll go to see all houses high and low In a carnival I now find myself in vertigo And if I’m a fool then let it be so Seize the day while we’re not yet old Seize the day before the trail’s cold We’ll join the marching masquerade... Seize the day, I believe I was told Everything that glitters is gold Let these small hours last for a day... Seize the day while we’re not yet old Seize the day before the trail’s cold We’ll join the marching masquerade... Seize the day, I believe I was told Everything that glitters is gold Let these small hours last for a day, oh... yeah...

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025

Welcoming the new century when hopes were soaring high Came along a child with starry eyes the color of the sky A few years more and the drums of war were thundering away And a pair of eyes cast in the sky saw wherein lay the way There was a place to be for her who had no care Other than finally to be lighter than the air Come now, hear the engine sing And winds on the windshield cry The aerodrome grew angel~s wings A shot went through the sky Ever upward, heavenward To heights that will twist the mind Hardly before known to man Let alone to her kind From all the corners of the world, the wings they carried far From the heights you finally realize we’re not so far apart For all the world, down on the ground we live and there we die Who was never meant to walk on earth one day returns to sky She kept the course until the signal died away Up there where eyes cannot see lies aviator’s grave Come now, hear the engine sing And winds on the windshield cry The aerodrome grew angel’s wings A shot went through the sky Ever upward, heavenward To heights that will twist the mind Hardly before known to man Let alone to her kind ...

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025

The bell strikes my hour, I greet the setting sun I do not understand why all of this is still undone The river used to flow is now a bed of sand I only hope that these dreams will refresh this drying land Mind wonders across the time Never lets me rest It’s taken control, pulling the strings All seems like a mess Distant shore on ahead Pushing thru the waves Standing at the crossroads Knowing which path to take Release the time After all you’re in the prime No longer pretend And silence will be your new friend Release your mind Don’t let yourself be confined On a way to make amends And learning how to transcend The new life has appeared, fresh and plentiful The greatest time on the way and I am acceptable Distant shore on ahead Pushing thru the waves Standing at the crossroads Knowing which path to take Release the time After all you’re in the prime No longer pretend And silence will be your new friend Release your mind Don’t let yourself be confined On a way to make amends And learning how to transcend Like turns of the tides, feelings come and go Some will move you and I, some leave us cold The essence of this all is if we shed a tear And share a smile, there’s nothing, there’s nothing to fear Release the time After all you’re in the prime No longer pretend And silence will be your new friend Release your mind Don’t let yourself be confined On a way to make amends And learning how to transcend Release the time After all you’re in the prime No longer pretend And silence will be your new friend Release your mind Don’t let yourself be confined On a way to make amends And learning how to transcend...

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025

Live faster life Live hard and loud, be alone in the crowd Day in, day out Gain higher ground Be such a trickster That devil himself would be proud I’m a dancer, I dance on the line Live one day at a time I’m a lancer, my life’s on the line Rise or fall and decline The choice is mine He’s a jester (on the throne) One man kingdom, castle made of sand (made of sand) A pair of queens against the dead man’s hand I’m out of sight Masked like a joker, you can’t see the core Two faces or more Shadows have grown I’m one to myself And I cast a shade of my own I’m a dancer, I dance on the line Live one day at a time I’m a lancer, my life’s on the line Rise or fall and decline The choice is mine He’s a jester (on the throne) One man kingdom, castle made of sand (made of sand) A pair of queens against the dead man’s hand He’s a jester (on the throne) One man kingdom, castle made of sand (made of sand) A pair of queens against the dead man’s He’s a jester (on the throne) One man kingdom, castle made of sand (made of sand) A pair of queens against the dead man’s hand... Oh... ...

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

Be here for a while or two while I cease to talk In fine northern breeze on the shore it is cool to walk Wherever we are, we’re never too far We just came ashore We’re stranded and lost, we follow a star To be home once more... Home of our past lives on in dreams For ages we drifted with erratic streams Until we found the end of our way Deadwater Bay, as we know it today Wherever we are, we’re never too far We just came ashore We’re stranded and lost, we follow a star To be home once more... What went wrong? Before we came along, what beat us here? The nameless one We try to outrun, we see the end is near Wherever we are, we’re never too far We just came ashore We’re stranded and lost, we follow a star To be home once more... What went wrong? Before we came along, what beat us here? The nameless one We try to outrun, we see the end is near What went wrong? Before we came along, what beat us here? The nameless one We try to outrun, we see the end is near The end is near, oh, the end is near End is near, oh...

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

When I sleep you are there When I rise you’re a million miles away Long ago, long before dreamtime We were bound to rule the sky Up there far away, every single night The firmament is bathing in your light On the eclipse day, in the vastness high It will be ours, our private sky One holy day a charioteer Traversed the sky with blazing wheels One holy night the silver shield Rose to make the land blessed and healed On the eclipse day We will hide away from sight The firmament is left without its light And we slowly slide away, we slide away... One holy day a charioteer Traversed the sky with blazing wheels One holy night the silver shield Rose to make the land blessed and healed ...

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025

I’ve seen the highlands and I have been low I’ve been to places you’d rather not know A rock and a hard place have nothing on me I’ve been there and set myself free The game has been won, now I run up the score And then I will come back for more and more I’m a man alive My soul on overdrive Privateer on the run Man alive I’m here and I revive Hold on, I’m not yet done I crossed many lines, now I wear ‘em on my face My eyes saw bright nights and permafrost days I win by heads and I win by my tails My head’s a storehouse of tales The game has been won, now I run up the score And then I will come back for more and more I’m a man alive My soul on overdrive Privateer on the run Man alive I’m here and I revive Hold on, I’m not yet done I’m a man alive My soul on overdrive Privateer on the run Man alive I’m here and I revive Hold on, I’m not yet done I’m a man alive My soul on overdrive Privateer on the run Man alive I’m here and I revive Hold on, I’m not yet done!

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025

Some games are fair Some played with loaded dice Fake and loaded with lies Sweet words are cheaply sold No Eldorado’s gold ever met your eyes Castaway, thrown away One lesson learnt the hardest way Lift up your head and listen close As before, there is more, more for me and you We got some living left to do Still outside the road is wide Back into the saddle and ride... Come what may, the light of day That lives in your eyes, don’t let it die away Friendly fire, the blazing pyre Your living daylights aflame... Cast aside, still alive ‘Cause I can still see the spark of fire It may be hurt but it’s not gone Let us see how you breathe on your own again You know that this was not the end Still your soul remaining whole Down and out, your heart still of gold... Come what may, the light of day That lives in your eyes, don’t let it die away Friendly fire, the blazing pyre Your living daylights aflame... Come what may, the light of day That lives in your eyes, don’t let it die away Friendly fire, the blazing pyre Your living daylights aflame... Come what may... (oh...) The light of day (oh...)

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

[Act I: Forlorn Son] I was never a child at all I was raised to stand as tall as father’s immemorial Born to be a portrait on the wall I am the race car, they’re the timer I’m the firstborn, set for higher power than I care to be It is not for me Blue blood, bound by fate Son of a steel magnate Golden chains are so hard to bear... Railway tracks are my life story From Rome to London, I wield the glory of the gold and green It should not be for me Blue blood, bound by fate Son of a steel magnate Golden chains are so hard to bear... One day I’ll revise the story A door will close one final time Path will be mine only to the unknown One was born to rule a nation To rule with fists of gold and steel There will be no name or station unknown to the world One night in Dublin at last On the shore I hold fast to the treasure that I carry along A painting that I worked on for so long Blue blood, heart gone black Finally not turning back World of the old, it’s ending here Today I’ll revise the story A door will close one final time This path will be mine only to the unknown One was born to rule a nation To rule with fists of gold and steel Today will be no name or station unknown to the world... [Act II: Repentance] On the docks against the nightfall I should take the step if I dare With the painting hidden away About to sail to Delaware My portrait, picture of my life Father’s face blended with mine Destiny, it always gets you in the end of the line... This will never hang on a wall Down there in the ancestor’s hall On the final break of a day Atlantic washes me away My colors away [Act III: To the New World] Today I’ll revise the story A door will close one final time This path will be mine only to the unknown One was born to rule a nation To rule with fists of gold and steel There will be no name or station unknown to the world Today I’ll revise the story A door will close one final time This path will be mine only to the unknown One was born to rule a nation To rule with fists of gold and steel There will be no name or station unknown to the world, oh Unknown to the world...

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025