Waves of Loss and Power

Cells divide in the marrow Some kill some remember Breathe the germ of salvation Hate is forever All the guardrails are failing Those fairy tales we adore The laws you thought you could count on Live no more Watching the madman as he spins his lies Where kings are born the truth must die All the lemmings lined up in a row The web expands, the fever grows When moments breach the needle's eye Rome - Nero is fiddling He can't smell the fire Proud - the brownshirts are marchinG They've found their messiah All the beacons are fading Darkness falls on the land The end of our short-lived brotherhood's at hand Watching the madman as he spins his lies Where kings are born the truth must die All the lemmings lined up in a row The web expands, the fever grows When moments breach the needle's eye Masters in their shiny jumpsuits Thrust into the void They can't escape their DNA Or the gift that they destroyed The promise of technology Deprived us of our home Still we look for answers in The stories from a dusty tome The moment That fission split the atom's core Nature changed forevermore We shall appease the God of War Now, it's happening here Plans are in motion Answer - does this fractured soul Deserve our devotion? We know catastrophe's coming Still we choose not to see Are we ready to meet our destiny? Watching the madman as he spins his lies Where kings are born the truth must die All the lemmings lined up in a row The web expands, the fever grows When moments breach the needle's eye?

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

Riverflow, storm will blow In hope we row, the clouds will go You're a long way from home Lost wherever you roam Such a long way from home But oh, the courage you've shown All the wonders I've seen in my life From the glaciers to silversword Live in them For they may never rise again You will find your way again There are many roads You won't know where You won't know when Let the river flow inside And you'll find your way home One grain of sand from a far-off land Crossed endless miles Just to rest for a while Riverflow Riverflow Riverflow Riverflow The river holds within it many voices Many voices Time and memory have no power have no power The current carries with it all emotion Renewal's only one more wave away In weary souls the thunder rolls When fortunes chum the lightning burns You've drifted so far from home Can't see yourself anymore Such a long way from home Still you search for the score All the changes I've seen in my life From Napali to butterfly I live in them For they may never come again Into the drink I fell I had no life preserver Out from the cliff I jumped There was no net Foundation broke away And left the deep below me Let the tide decide You will find your way again There are many roads You won't know where You won't know when Le the river flow inside And you'll find your way home The ripples sigh, the white-top cry The river speaks to me Riverflow Riverflow Riverflow Riverflow Surrender to the tide You cannot dam the torrent Feel the foundation flow within your veins Listen for your story in the rushing waters Teaching you that nothing stays the same You will find your way again There are many roads You won't know where You won't know when Le the river flow inside And you'll find your way home Speak to me, speak to me

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025

The vessel came to me With open heart I climbed aboard It bore me forth into the dawn My mind was open wide My body floated on the tide The day was young and I was warm And I can remember you When the sky was blue Our land was a childish dream But the grass was green A tree its branches bowed by ice Still it grows upon the hill Our names upon it still Reconcile, as the hemispheres collide We must rise against the tide And cross the great divide The future becomes the here and now Decisions were made for us somehow The dreams we were taught The light that we sought Our shadows would not allow Forever becomes the here and now The parchment it read "from many one" Still we would stand apart Piper will play his dissonance In hopes we will lose our heart By arctic firefight The acid bleached the coral white The colors ran, the day was gone The dust that clouds the sight The harbinger of coming night Into my lungs the poison drawn The fear in my blood and bones Left me all alone The lure of memory's appetite Swallows hope and light A man with his signals held on high He will swim the sea of lies And find the caves of ice He will climb though his passions have no home They are all he's ever known And his breath becomes his own The future becomes the here and now Decisions were made for us somehow The dreams we were taught The light that we sought Our shadows would not allow Forever becomes the here and now Look in the mirror, the child has grown You can't turn away from the time Still you chase your innocence in rhymes All your convictions required compromise It came with a terrible cost In time you learn to live within the loss Lost inside the great divide We can't abide this great divide Lost inside the great divide The future is rooted in the past The living were not designed to last We honor what's gone And then we move on The time slips away so fast Forever is rooted in the past The future becomes the here and now Decisions were made for us somehow The dreams we were taught The light that we sought Our shadows would not allow Forever becomes the here and now Still we would stoke the ancient fires Science remains unlearned In the cauldron that boils our base desires Together our creeds will burn Perpetual child Declaration in your hands Perpetual child Find your fooling, make you stand Perpetual child See the lines around your eyes Perpetual child Can you love what you despise? Perpetual child Speak the truth and let it rise

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

Together now, we all know how Purpose rides the wave I'll meet you there, no time to spare Still our dream to save Loss to power, seed the flower Repair what you forgave The mirror shows me who I am Some see a lion, I a lamb The image changes over time And just one man can't hold the line Movements are verses And our history's a song Once disconnected, now align Our chorus rights the wrongs Together now, we all know how Reasons lights the spark I'll meet you there, so don't despair Communion bends the arc Seize the day, come what may In unity embark When all that you've built Is crumbling down Shake off your armor Find all the pieces and try again Search high and low Never give up the quest Together now, together now The mirror shows us who we are Cosmetic fixes hide the scars The image skaters under strain The shards are scattered Edges sharp That perfect union Was a vision for all time Bring them together Common bonds Will make the fragments rhyme Together now, we all know how Compassion rides the wave I'll meet you there with hope to spare Still our dream to save Put them together now Put them together now Seize the day, come what may Forward and engage Put them together now Loss to power, seed the flower A moment for the age

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

Drifting' around, town to town My guitar in hand A veteran of the sleepy bars And the zero-night stands Washed up on a lonely beach On the Long Island Sound I planted my flag in the sand And took a good look around The more you live, the more you learn And the less you really know The more you risk, the more you lose And it's hard to let it go All my years on the run From the aimless world All my years I saw the truth in the smile of a runaway girl All my years All my years on the run From the ailing world All my years I saw the truth in the smile of a runaway girl She had been a city queen Traveled east quite a ways She went on 'til break of dawn About her younger, wild days Been to hell and back again She was up, and she was down A fighter in a cage of fear A smile inside a frown The more you live, the more you learn And the less you really know The more you risk, the more you lose And it's hard to let it go All my years on the run from the aimless world All my years I saw the truth in the smile of a runaway girl All my years All my years on the run from the cold, dark world All my years Her hair caught the light of the sun And her skin was like pearls 'Cmon All my years, all my years Can't let go, never let go All my years on the run from the aimless world All my years I saw the truth in the smile of a runaway girl All my years All my years on the run from the desperate world All my years I saw the hope in the eyes of a runaway girl All my years, all my years, all my years

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

Adrift upon the oceans of the mind Afraid to face the light The stars above and yawning sea below Will guide me through the night Float away, one more day Float away, one more day Make me alive again, lead me to shore Can't hear the harmony that quiets the roar I give my body to the random wind No strength to fight the tide And now the waves are crashing over me Can't kill what lives inside Float away, one more day Float away, one more day Hold me in your arms again I'm falling apart Feed me the antidote to this poison in my heart You know I still believe I will find you, I will find you again Drowning in the oceans of the mind I turn to face the sun One hope remains That i can still believe in what i might become Float away, one more day Float away, one more day Float away, one more day Float away, one more day Make me alive again, lead me to shore Sing to me the harmony that quiets the roar

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

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At the water's edge A precarious ledge A distant swell is forming It's moving toward the shore... Walk on water Sons and daughters Show us scenes from a life We'll never know Mothers, fathers, Bodhisattvas Teach us how we will suffer And still grow I can hear your laughter on the wind I can see you playing in the sand I can feel creation in my hands Aware, but hopeful Full of vigor, full of pride To bring to full fruition This enduring love inside But time is fleeting... We'll entreat the tree of life Accept the will of science Like the plunging of the knife Child of light A joy we hope to know The seeds of life In awe we'll watch them grow The pills are bitter Pricks are sharp The probes are cold The future rests upon This bill of goods that we've been sold If you work a little harder If you only try again The cycle of last chances It's a con that never ends The waves break upon us now A heartbeat or the ending of the world Walk on water Sons and daughters Assuage our sins Give us purpose, give us power Mothers, fathers, Bodhisattvas Guide us though Or this darkness will devour We'll never know you And we'll never hold you And we'll never call you our own To the water's edge Where the path has led We can move no further forward The earth has given way Were we not deserving With all we had to give? We always knew what love was We must nurture it to live They say they understand They know just how I feel They are thoughtless, they are careless And this wreckage is for real Child of light, we had to let you go Seeds of life, we'll never watch them grow We survived the battles In the end we lost the war This prison of our freedom Has no windows and no doors Which way to turn now? An exit from this pain A getaway to the future Where we learn to smile again The waves cannot break us now Our hearts beat on together And we rise How will we ever learn to say goodbye? On the sea of loss Where are lives are tossed We'll make our final journey Across the autumn-tide To the farthest shore Where we'll grieve no more Behold an act of wonder Your arms are open wide Walk on water Sons and daughters Care for us Now our light is fading low Mothers, fathers, Bodhisattvas Teach us how we will suffer And still grow Mizuko Kuyo Peace from sorrow Affirm this absence And validate this soul We'll always miss you And we'll always love you For now we must say goodbye Jizo protects you now He wraps you in his robes You who never were Forever shall you be Waves of loss and power Move through me Low and high, like tides upon the sea Water child Will come to lead us home We can't embrace But we are not alone Walk on water Sons and daughters We're still here There's no easy way To say goodbye On our way We're all on our way On our way We're all on our way On our way We're all on our way On our way We're all on our way

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025