The Grand Descent
Burning alive from inside Now I'm nothing, now there’s nothing I can do Nothing to save me Nothing to save you Flames eat at your flesh Smoke strangles your neck Ceilings collapse into your body Your bones break Wasting away underground Waiting for someone to hear me Wasting away underground Waiting for someone to see me To see me It wasn't enough, now I'm nothing It wasn’t enough, now I'm nothing It wasn't enough, now I'm nothing It wasn't enough, now I'm nothing
Submitted by Pestilence — Jun 03, 2026
You lied Inside You already died Hemorrhaging stops You type but the blood clots Your pages are empty and blank There's nothing to bleed Admit it You're killing me My history will be written in a book of blood All your insides are drying up All the blood you've spilt isn't enough Nothing to bleed
Submitted by Pestilence — Jun 03, 2026
The asphalt warps People scatter the streets Screams twist from the darkness Bombs burst into silence Metal scrapes the pavement Headlights tear through the night Painted the ground With the insides of innocence Trying to bring back life to your body Trying to bring you back but you’re gone So close to home but closer to God
Submitted by Pestilence — Jun 03, 2026
The sands of time burn red as the heat roars in my hands The blast lights the grains into vitrified glass Shatter and smash everything I touch Let it break The hours I’ve lost The minutes I’ve traded The hands of the clock are burning away The flames fade away and all that’s left are my mistakes Colors aren’t vivid they’re trying to escape Escape from time Let it break Time disintegrates The hour glass breaks The spectrum permeates
Submitted by Pestilence — Jun 03, 2026
Instrumental
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026
Kneel down at the bloodstained frame The edge of the blade is calling your name Weighted Suspended Begging to fall Begging to drop It’s begging for your neck You can’t feel the same When your choice was to leave You pushed me away, you can’t feel the same, you already changed When will it be enough? Behead their disbelief Kneel down Kneel down Let the rope fly and the razor fall Let the rope fly and the razor fall
Submitted by Pestilence — Jun 03, 2026
Blind in the catacombs Looking for life in something that died Break my bones and rip out my spine Add another number to these coffin walls Is it the end? Will I hurt forever? Is there a way I could change this? I want to die and take my life Why the fuck do I have to suffer? The shape takes form But all I can see are visions of purgatory Visions of purgatory
Submitted by Pestilence — Jun 03, 2026
I tried but I’m gone You’ll be fine without me My voice will soon be a memory
Submitted by Pestilence — Jun 03, 2026
Peeled to the bone Sliced from the front of your head I’ll cut off your face and wear it as mine You pretend to be me So I’ll pretend too, I’ll pretend to be you Your face Is my mask The sutures stitch The tables turn Turned inside out You can hide in your disguise You’re still a clone Pretend to be me, pretend to be me
Submitted by Pestilence — Jun 03, 2026
Dark clouds form around your savior and your lord These shadows span the corners of your mind Awake in a dream while paralyzed Sleeping under a sky with no one Nothing, just rain until you die You plan a place in line But nightmares still bind You turn a blind eye But you can't hide the tears in your eyes
Submitted by Pestilence — Jun 03, 2026
Dragged through my mind while I scrape at my skin Living forever but waiting to die Waiting to die Waiting to die Waiting to die but I’ll live forever Waiting to die or am I still alive My body decays Tear off my jaw before I grind my teeth to dust Trapped in my mind. Living forever but waiting to die Pull me apart Tear me to shreds I’ll never die I’ll never rest
Submitted by Pestilence — Jun 03, 2026