The Spectre Within

Old man time, wisdom and rhyme Seeker of reason, reaper of time Born to a spell he walks the beaten path To hell, rusty shackles of time burden his mind Once on his side time turns to defy In a flash of the lightning he's come and gone. The clock strikes the hour, he climbs to the belfry, As he's done a thousand hours before. Many dark years, not a vacant hour through War and fear had the bell been ever strayed Hypnotized rhythmic the pendulum synchronized With the beat of the old man's heart. Man or machine he's living a dream Forever the clock lives so does he Faces below fade with seasons of long ago Forever awake in his brass bed, He holds the key It's all a matter of time, there is no reason or rhyme - is there? Traveler in time you're another left behind - you are Tangled in the web of time you've Swallowed the pill of illusion Writings so clear on the wall you Waste in seclusion Mirror reflects the mark of the crowfoot In his eyes now he realize Nearing his hour he climbs to the belfry As he's done a thousand hours before. Moon of blue is in the sky West wind he whispers why Sacrifice living for life his perpetual vice Lonely wind blows through his empty soul He cries a river of tears on the clock below Nothing's forever and time will tell His tears rust the clock and he died as well (repeat chorus)

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 24, 2025

Young warrior to the drunken galley slave, Running with the wind running wayward knave. I'm a vagabond with a maëlstrom mind My blood has left me behind So go away leave me alone If you look in my eyes you see only stone I won't let you in I can lock you out In your world, your fallacy, I don't want desolate island debris Sister superior, which is on her winged flight Nightmare dream children scream Echo orphanage hall tonight I'm a misconception never had affection I don't even know my name Just as well who would know locked in The closet all day, but I like it here They leave me alone I the sheep, she is the wolf, I must run Run to the end of the world Orphan Gypsy I'll ever be Magic for emotion I am free Orphan Gypsy all I want to be Lift your chains from me No place to call home, sever my roots from the Earth, eternal exile from day one. In this lease of life I entered as one In the end I leave as one. Not a single word of guile is heard Come the clouds before the rain You've entered my sanctum blasphemed And caused my pain. You're a figment of my imagination I am stone now you know I gave my Soul to read your mind repeat chorus

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 24, 2025

What lurks beyond thew minds of men The switch is triggered once again A silent rage makes the front page A work of art so neatly done homicide Cannot decide was it accident was it suicide She's just a face without a name never made It home. They found her car down by the lake The bottom was raked The news says it's a classic case She disappeared Without A Trace A witness reward but nothing is heard (chorus): Run, Rabbit, Run, hawk in the sky hides in the sun Run for your life he'll take it away Run run run fast away Don't look behind you'll stun if you look in his eyes Run for your life, he'll take it away Run run run fast away Defective unit on the street tonight he hunts the weak and clips its wings The moon ignites a flaming raging child An empty soul is running wild. He's just a name without a face, hides from the camera in disgrace His mother stands by, wipes the tear from her eyes In an island in the sea rots a mind of seventeen He dreams of the girl he cast from this world. repeat chorus

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 24, 2025

So you learn real hard babe in the woods Fight for your keep cause deep in the dark wolves rip at your Heart as you lie asleep Endangered species of the megahertz follow the yellow brick road Your Asylum awaits you Sign on the dotted line. Pirates of the underground Mutiny is in the air You're the wind in the sail's mothership Drifters at sea remain to be 'til land which speaks our tongue is found On our way cut the tongues of dragons breathing fire ride the waves through the air down below the mire Preacher man spins backward secret messages Tell me, what are you looking for? Something your subconscious can devise. Such a sin to disappoint your suspicion Your force is ours There are no hidden lies Tuned out in natural vegetation prime time Bleeding hearts howl at the moon Foul temptress, oh she sings seduction As vultures feast forbidden fruit Live your abstract life in your hibernation A rude awakening the underdog typhoon. Set the Thames on fire Climb aboard this man of war She'll take you far away to a land of fantasy in your imagination.

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 24, 2025

When the stars are right and you're alone Take a journey, lock the world up tight Out of your mind. The hall beckons your presence, the doors Open wide you're to decide to turn back. Deep the bowels of this black abyss, Compelled I just can't resist it, take me. Take me away take me away I wanna know what's deep within Take me away. Drawing near someone passes through me, A silent entity never looking back I won't dare. Evil eyes staring through the walls of stone As I feared I travel not alone. Laughters echoes with the blatant wind I have passed the threshold deep within me. Take me away take me away I wanna know what's deep within Take me away. A voice of thunder said turn back Tabernacle is forbidden. No mortal dares to enter here. I want to know. Flame is burning center of a fountain yearning, waters Spring eternal, spiritual water physical fire. Above the center is sky, cold cold neverness Just vastness filled with stars upon stars. In the four corners of life are the golden mirrors Reflecting what you are and what you are to be. In the first is a young boy white dove in His hand, in the second is a warrior in armour, In the third is an old man gold watch In his hand fourth and last No reflection at all No reflection at all No reflection at all Waters rise toward physical fire, voice says Tabernacle is forbidden never looking back I don't dare. If the water touches the flame Forever in darkness yes I'll remain. White dove flies from the young boys hand Through the mirror of the old man, only way out Take me away take me away I wanna know what's deep within Take me away. Take me away take me away I wanna know what's deep within Take me away.

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 24, 2025

Never thought my time was coming Wasn't in my dreams. Twice I visioned I was falling down, Down to the ground, I screamed out loud, Woke on a cloud. Never really a holy man even though I understand the father son and Holy Ghost. He's the one that scares me most Ashes to rain you feel no pain. Hell fire burns my conscience. My mind explodes. Spine is severed, blood runs cold, confess the Deepest of sin, envision a king With a white violin. Crucifix hung above my death bed begins To bleed. Imagination, lunacy, has he come to hear my plea, Grant absolution condone my sin. The lady in black I ask what do you see. A glimpse in your glass what good Fortune for me. The lady in black said your lifeline is damned. The tarot of death card she held in her hand. Kyrie Eleison Christe Eleison Kyrie Eleison Christe Eleison Segments of my life flash through my mind Things never seen. It must be fate warning me for now The walls are closing in. Rosary in Hand, Last grain of sand. Here I go I start to fall again. Try to scream I'm mute it is the End of my last fall. To the land of nevermore Shatter her glass I woke on the floor. The lady in black I ask what do you see. A glimpse in your glass what good Fortune for me. The lady in black said your lifeline is damned. The tarot of death card she held in her hand. Kyrie Eleison Christe Eleison Kyrie Eleison Christe Eleison Lord please have mercy on me.

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 24, 2025

Isolation freezes my life, coldness grips my heart Trapped within a world, a world apart. Desolate am I, a tempest raging silently. Lost a barren soul adrift at sea. Catatonic state, it sharpens life's depressing edge The clamor draws me closer to the ledge. As I gaze upon this burning world I curse this life, A life through which I'm hurled. Lies, lies upon this side and that Truthless violence deception mourned by the wise. Thousands of voices drowning out his own In a popular torrent of lies upon lies. Turn to stone. So intense the pain that has crawled From the bleeding corpse of pleasure, That feeds the worm the writhes Inside my brain. In the deep of night it stirs again In the heart of the sleeper, From the crack of dawn I wake to curse The rising of the sun. Every life is built on hope Now my dreams have surely passed, Inner voices haunt my numbered days Darkness calls me with her laughs. Torn between life and death inertia Fills my soul. Now will to be nor pride to care Reapers take your toll. Strangers cast a menacing glance as Existence I defy. Shatter their dream like world I'm not Afraid to die Torn between life and death inertia Fills my soul. No will to be nor pride to care Reapers take your toll. Strangers cast a menacing glance as Existence I defy. Shatter their dream like world I'm not Afraid to die Afraid to die Omen bird soars the desert land to the castle Of idolence, there lies the shadow of a man. You see the colored flowers and marble towers They fade to brown Like the unknown inscribed in stone He's abandoned, abandoned flesh and bones He's lost in silence swallowed in vastness Drowned in the depths of a meaningless Past

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 24, 2025