The Journey Into
You treat me like a pawn Is that what I am? I have nothing left inside and you don't give a damn You keep me in check with a look My move is stalled The game reads like an open book I've been positioned to fall Tell me how you can say that you love me when the only thing you love is control? Tell me how I can stay when you hurt me, when the things that you say take their toll? [CHORUS] I need to see the end of you controlling me and haunting me I want to see what I can do away from here, away from you I need to make my last move, get out of here and see it through I'll be free without your noose and not a pawn for you to use I'm waiting patiently for a chance to get out of this trap When the hold that you have loosens its grip from my life I've hesitated far too long and I'm afraid to be alone I'm afraid that when I break away, I'll be lost without a home Tell me how you can say that you love me when the only thing you love is control? Tell me how I can play when you beat me, when the moves that you make strip my soul? [CHORUS] I'm going down that lonely road I have to get out on my own I hope the place that my path ends is a place that I've never been (x3) (In my life I've made mistakes, and now I'm drowning in their wake Checkmate doesn't mean I'm through: only that I'm through with you) (x2) The sting of your words still burns me The scar of emotion is too deep to heal Your move has become failed strategy as the prison that you built burns down [CHORUS]
Submitted by Grave666 — Jun 21, 2026
Searching for the dreams of my life I don't know if I'll find them again Looking for the doorway of time I don't know if I'll see it again Finding all the meaning in life Can't keep asking my will not to bend Seeing it's not a matter of time Can't keep asking the question of when In the light of the dawn's embrace, I arrive in this time and place I've searched for now, I've searched for then It's all been lost and found again From this vantage point I see the world spread out in front of me All that I have searched to find has been revealed to keep in mind And from this vantage point I see the trials of tomorrow confronting me All that's left for me to find will be revealed and kept in mind Moving through an ocean of fire The ship I sail is turning to ash Standing atop a mountain of sand Searching for heaven in a desolate land Believing in the choices I've made Never asking the question of why Receiving all that's coming my way The worst I can do is to try In the light of the dawn's embrace, I arrive in this time and place I've searched for now, I've searched for then It's all been lost and found again From this vantage point I see the world spread out in front of me All that I have searched to find has been revealed to keep in mind And from this vantage point I see the trials of tomorrow confronting me All that's left for me to find will be revealed and kept in mind Welcome to the time of your life It's been ticking away from the start And now the highest peak is reached The best you could do was to play your part When all is said and done as you walk into the setting sun, remember how the wheels have turned and keep in mind all that you've learned In the light of the dawn's embrace, I arrive in this time and place I've searched for now, I've searched for then It's all been lost and found again From this vantage point I see the world spread out in front of me All that I have searched to find has been revealed to keep in mind And from this vantage point I see the trials of tomorrow confronting me All that's left for me to find will be revealed and kept in mind
Submitted by Grave666 — Jun 21, 2026
[ONTO THE PLAINS] My heart is bleeding through the water from my eyes I step onto the plains Away from bleakness and starless city skies Will the dust enter my veins? Memories come fading back as the darkness casts his shadow I feel something in the air Chances fading quickly This time I thought you might know I'm bleeding and just don't care Can I remember and stay, hope I remember today? It's not easy, it's not easy Can I surrender the day, forget what you say? Can you help me? Can you help me at all? The mountains are fading as I start to run Sunshine is changing and life is no fun Seconds are fading as quick as the sun Moonlight is changing and I've come undone (x2) [CHANGE BEGINNING] We tried to fabricate our dreams although they're fading away Can't start to make a change We'll try again some other day Open eyes and broken homes won't lead us through this pain We've come so far without a chance Let's press on through the pouring rain Head up, heart down, we walk across the broken ground of the plains What's done is done Better keep on moving before our time has come No place to run with change beginning to shape what we become Time is fleeting as we're meeting halfway through the plains Pressures beating while you're cheating one more day from death (Vision - Pretender) Of dreams and life reborn (System - Defender) Your chance at change unworn I feel change beginning! Never fear the end is near For you it's been too long All those years of bleeding tears have left you so alone (Waken - Remember) All that you have learned (Shaken - Surrender) To the trust that you have earned Head up, heart down, we walk across the broken ground of the plains What's done is done Better keep on moving before our time has come No place to run with change beginning to shape what we become (x2) [FOR YOU] Reaching out for something as I cross the running water Calling out for that someone I don't know who until I've found her Breaking up the picture that I'm seeing in the distance My life's becoming clearer with time and your persistence The mountains are fading as I start to run Sunshine is changing and life is no fun Seconds are fading as quick as the sun Moonlight is changing and I've come undone for you
Submitted by Grave666 — Jun 21, 2026
A man walks down a beaten path His hands are worn and cracked Haunted by the images of his past There's nothing left but to look back Standing incomplete and alone Her leaves will fall no more With all the things that she's been shown If only she had known before As the circle breaks the trend, good things must always end You will see that life lives for you and that you can transcend When you take the things you've found and stop to look around, you will see it's not the end when the circle breaks the trend A soft wind blows, and with it brings the scenes of days long past When leaves were green and branches strong, those days went by so fast As he walks, a path leads to an old friend he once knew In this holy place, he used to play to wash all pain and fear away As the circle breaks the trend, good things must always end You will see that life lives for you and that you can transcend When you take the things you've found and stop to look around, you will see it's not the end when the circle breaks the trend He stops to rest and catch his breath A leaf descends onto the ground He then looks up, he's taken back, left in awe by what he's found A better thing they could not find as night proclaims the end of day As he leaves this world behind, he's finally found the place he'll stay As the circle breaks your trend, good things must always end You will see that life lives for you and that you can transcend When you take the things you've found and stop to look around, you will see it's not the end when the circle breaks your trend
Submitted by Grave666 — Jun 21, 2026
His wings have been clipped and yet he can fly He's too old to try and too young to die He's lost in fear's path and he's far from home He's found in times past and he's all alone Now the price it seals his fate Now his mind reels too late In a moment his life has changed All is lost if time can't wait Don't hold me down, don't break my mind Don't shut the door, I've still got time Don't lock me out, don't cut my line Don't take me now, it's not my time The pain that he feels is born in his mind The hand that he deals is dealt to the blind He'll be spent inside when his time is done His last thought is gone, his last breath is drawn Now his mind is torn in two and there's nothing he can do All his dreams have bled and died His tears have long been cried Don't hold me down, don't break my mind Don't shut the door, I've still got time Don't lock me out, don't cut my line Don't take me now, it's not my time Now the price it seals his fate Now his mind can't think straight In a moment his life has changed There he stands at heaven's gate Don't hold me down, don't break my mind Don't shut the door, I've still got time Don't lock me out, don't cut my line Don't take me now, it's not my time Not my time! Not my time! (x4)
Submitted by Grave666 — Jun 21, 2026
[THE BARRIER FALLS] For a moment, touch the sky For a moment you can fly if sunlight will fall today For a moment, who am I? For a moment, for a try as the barrier falls today All too soon, what am I? All too soon, you and I fly to the end of time All too soon, I'm falling fast All too soon, a fading past is gone with no reason or rhyme [RECKLESSNESS] Spending life so helpless My world has fallen apart Spending life so friendless I'm praying for one new start Taking on the challenges that I'm faced with everyday Facing all the differences so things will change someday I'm not ready for this How could I be ready for this? I need to find another way to hold on for one more day It's deliverance that I need with no warnings left to heed As I rise above the restlessness, I find a sense of carelessness A sense of loss, a sense of life, a pretense of my recklessness Trying to wait patiently for things that carry weight A greater hope of faithfulness is hope I can't create Looking for the solution or an answer from the sky Things will start to fall in place when I live outside the lie I'm not ready for this How could I be ready for this? I need to find another way to hold on for one more day It's deliverance that I need with no warnings left to heed As I rise above the restlessness, I find a sense of carelessness A sense of loss, a sense of life, a pretense of my recklessness Do you hear the thunder as the clouds prepare for somber rain? Do you ever wonder why life is strange and full of pain? (x2) I'm not ready for this How could I be ready for this? I need to find another way to hold on for one more day It's deliverance that I need with no warnings left to heed As I rise above the restlessness, I find a sense of carelessness A sense of loss, a sense of life, a pretense of my recklessness [THE ROAD DOWN] In the dark, I close my eyes There's an image of you deep inside And every day that passes by, part of me is gone with the tide My thoughts reflect too far as I wonder where you are This fear has found a home and lies deep within the bone On a clear and distant night with no heat from summer light, I begin to see the end in the wake of fate's new trend I have no way to clear my sight I have no sense of wrong or right As I force my will to go a direction no map can show And as I find a way down the wandering road I feel a sense of sadness I steal a sense of hope I have what's in my mind What I need is what I can find On this road that leads me down while my head spins 'round and 'round While my head spins 'round and 'round [WHERE I STAND IN THE LIGHT] Now the storm, the storm is raging and I feel it inside tonight And since the norm is always changing, I can't find where I stand in the light All the lack of care I've shown has left me lost without a home I'm playing roles not meant for me I'm making goals not meant to be For a moment, what would I give to see the day end this night? All too soon I'm forced to live with no dawn in my sight Where do I stand? Can't someone tell me? I've been searching, searching all this time It's not what I planned, but something tells me I've been waiting too long for a sign (x2) What I feel, I've had to steal What I've got is all that's real What I've got, I've had to steal What I feel is all that's real Now the storm, the storm is raging and I feel it inside tonight And since the norm is always changing, I can't find where I stand in the light And the storm is raging on and on The answers I'm seeking are on the horizon All questions are fleeting in the storm that's raging on The storm that is raging is where I walk into the light [THE RAGING STORM - Instrumental] [DELIVERANCE] In my search, I found the path Now my mind is freed at last All thoughts that plague me are stripped away as I find the meaning in the dawn of the day In the forefront of my mind is what I left behind In this long journey's end, I'm taken to a new light What I had from the start is the thing that was right If only I had seen deliverance was in me And the storm, the storm was raging I could feel it inside that night And since I was set on changing, I have found what to stand for and what is right It's deliverance that I've found with no warnings left to sound 'Cause I rose above the restlessness to find a sense of carelessness A sense of loss, a sense of life Deliverance from my recklessness (x2)
Submitted by Grave666 — Jun 21, 2026