Every Trick in the Book

So come one and come all to the crumbling walls Of our city now painted with red As the stench of defeat emanates through the streets Is the life we once dreamed of now dead? But we won’t break, we will fight, we will storm through the night Enslaved to their game nevermore With the locks on our cage broken off by the rage Now it’s time to settle the score We are the frayed, we are the torn We are the beaten and the scorned And now you’ve forced the beast to bare its teeth We’ll come in droves like animals Hungry to reclaim our control As we fight to bite the bitter hand that feeds We are the frayed We are the frayed We are the frayed Beyond the barricade Oh, can’t you hear that sound? The march of tortured souls screaming “ Burn this place to the ground ” The pack you played for fools, the herd you led astray Now run the slaughterhouse , welcome to Judgment Day You’ll pay in blood as your retribution So let’s gather at the gallows for the execution We are the frayed, we are the torn We are the beaten and the scorned And now you’ve forced the beast to bare its teeth We’ll come in droves like animals Hungry to reclaim our control As we fight to bite the bitter hand that feeds We are the frayed And when the new day dawns upon our master plan Just hold your rifles still and then wait for my command We’ll kill like savages ‘cause we’re unbreakable But what did you expect? We’re fucking animals Though what good is it to find the same sad solution? Another power hungry biased fucking institution We took the fort, we stormed the gates But what kind of crooked paradox did we create? We took the fort, we stormed the gates But became the very thing that we hate We are the frayed, we are the torn We are the beaten and the scorned And now you’ve forced the beast to bare its teeth We’ll come in droves like animals Hungry to reclaim our control As we fight to bite the bitter hand that feeds We are the frayed We are the frayed We are the frayed We are the frayed Where is the end? What have we done? We’re what we swore we’d not become Despite intent a noble heart still bleeds Time goes on and history repeats

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 23, 2026

So where’s your savior tonight? As angels fall from the sky His idle hands let me inside Where I cannot be crucified Forgive me father, have I sinned? Who gives a fuck how long it’s been Just let this holy war begin I am the darkness deep within The devil in her daughter’s skin And I’ll be there ’til the bitter end Don’t raise your claws to me In the name of God, I command you to flee Relentlessly ‘cause we believe By the power of Christ we will set her free So where’s your savior tonight? As angels fall from the sky His idle hands let me inside Where I cannot be crucified You spent your life in His light Still, faith can’t save you tonight Yet evil stands the test of time I cannot be crucified So round and round I spin my head Circulate the blood that I have shed Pass the cup and drink from me instead Savor the taste and quench your thirst With the communion of the cursed Get on your knees and prove your worth Don’t raise your filth to me I know you’re in there, Regan Just continue to breathe I will cast him out, his grip is weakening Cast him out, this is his day of reckoning Through the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost I will lure this parasite from its wholesome host Eternally, my last decree If a soul must be taken I demand you take me So where’s your savior tonight? As angels fall from the sky His idle hands let me inside Where I cannot be crucified You spent your life in His light Still, faith can’t save you tonight Yet evil stands the test of time I cannot be crucified Now I lay her down to sleep Her soul is mine, and mine to keep If she dies before she wakes I’ll find another soul to take So where’s your savior tonight? As angels fall from the sky His idle hands let me inside Where I cannot be crucified You spent your life in His light Still, faith can’t save you tonight Yet evil stands the test of time I cannot be crucified If she dies before she wakes I’ll find another soul to take

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 23, 2026

It's been six days since I've had my fix And now I'm fixed on you Despite your trembling body I can tell you want it too I'm every man you've ever dreamed of All your fantasies combined You can tell I'm the best by the blood on your dress There's no bite as good as mine Through the darkest of ages and blackest of plagues I have fed off the blood of the land Every girl that's in sight knows she's mine for the night They're all trapped in the palm of my hand I've crossed oceans of time, caused unspeakable crime But I would not change a bloody thing Hunted by all mankind but they're one step behind "Prince of Darkness?" Fuck that, I'm the king And I'm slipping through the cracks again They'll never take me alive because I'm already dead And forever in your head So won't you come with me And taste immortality You're dripping from the ecstasy of one last crimson kiss When the blood pours out like rain Take pleasure in the pain You're not the only girl to scream my name But the first I can't resist So here's one last crimson kiss In my hungrier years I would prey on their fears Devoid of all reason or rhyme I've made every girl melt for the notch on my belt But I swear that it's different this time Don't think of this as damnation Cause we don't need their salvation And I'm slipping through the cracks again They'll never take me alive because I'm already dead And forever in your head So won't you come with me And taste immortality You're dripping from the ecstasy of one last crimson kiss When the blood pours out like rain Take pleasure in the pain You're not the only girl to scream my name But the first I can't resist So here's one last crimson kiss And you know what, baby? Your neck is up next You are too late My blood now flows through her veins You will live through the centuries to come, as I have lived And I'm slipping through the cracks again They'll never take me alive because I'm already dead And forever in your head So won't you come with me And taste immortality You're dripping from the ecstasy of one last crimson kiss When the blood pours out like rain Take pleasure in the pain You're not the only girl to scream my name But the first I can't resist So here's one last crimson kiss One last crimson kiss Don't think of this as damnation Your neck is up next

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 23, 2026

We’ll make it out alive Lord hear our prayer across the air The captain’s screaming, “Mayday!” Is God’s intent final decent or just a test of our faith? This oxygen is wearing thin, the ground is fast approaching Our fears intact upon impact, so brothers here’s to hoping If we have to crawl out, in spite of this hell We’ll find a way out, we’ll find a way out Left behind by God or the devil himself To find a way, find a way, to make it out alive The sight at hand, gruesome and grand, cannot be rectified Searching for signs of life in wreckage we can’t recognize We cry out for those who can’t be saved One foot on sacred ground and one foot in the grave If we have to crawl out, in spite of this hell We’ll find a way out, we’ll find a way out Left behind by God or the devil himself To find a way, find a way, to make it out alive Steady we climb, ready to die To look salvation in the eye If we have to crawl out, in spite of this hell We’ll find a way, find away, to make it out alive Sixteen souls left in the cold, to be alive is a miracle It all comes down to flesh and bone It’s hard to swallow the unthinkable The final course we won’t concede Desperate times call for desperate deeds Forgiven in our time of need Desperate times call for desperate deeds The final course we won’t concede Desperate times call for desperate deeds Forgiven in our time of need Desperate times call for desperate deeds If we have to crawl out, in spite of this hell We’ll find a way out, we’ll find a way out Left behind by God or the devil himself To find a way, find a way, to make it out alive Steady we climb, ready to die To look salvation in the eye If we have to crawl out, in spite of this hell We’ll find a way, find away, to make it out alive We’ll make it out alive We’ll make it out alive

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 23, 2026

Here, we’re just stuck in the spotlight We should make like shadows and disappear Silhouettes in the sunset, our final curtain call is drawing near If parting is such sweet sorrow, to hell with waiting for tomorrow Hand in hand like we planned, as the night takes us away And I hope when they find me and you in this tomb built for two They get the glory for the end of our story, and take their fucking bows So remember us, the soon dearly departed And how the war our fathers started Sealed the fate of star-crossed enemies You and I both know that death won’t matter Bring on the poison and the dagger They set the stage for tragedy Don’t scream cause the show must go on Though our fairy tale is ripping at the seams But love doesn’t have to be something that we hide behind the scenes If parting is such sweet sorrow, to hell with waiting for tomorrow Side by side when we die, as the night takes us away And I hope when they find me and you in this tomb built for two They get the glory for the end of our story, and take their fucking bows So remember us, the soon dearly departed And how the war our fathers started Sealed the fate of star-crossed enemies You and I both know that death won’t matter Bring on the poison and the dagger They set the stage for tragedy They set the stage for tragedy They set the stage for tragedy, they set the stage for tragedy So remember us, the soon dearly departed And how the war our fathers started Sealed the fate of star-crossed enemies You and I both know that death won’t matter Bring on the poison and the dagger They set the stage for tragedy

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 23, 2026

I tear apart the pages of the story of my life In black and white, the wrong and right will struggle to survive And I've been falling apart in the pouring rain I'm waging war on myself A captive casualty Traded a merciful heart for a murderer's brain But now I curse what's in my head Because I can't stop seeing red Did you really think I would falter my friend? I've destroyed you before I'll destroy you again I'm the hell that is your future I'll incinerate your past I'm the devil on your shoulder But I'll always be your better half We might share one body But this spine is fucking mine By now you should know You're just a spectator, I'm the show Is this the end of me? ‘Cause I've been falling apart in the pouring rain I'm waging war on myself A captive casualty Traded a merciful heart for a murderer's brain But now I curse what's in my head Because I can't stop seeing red Did you really think you could Hyde from me, doctor? Have you not seen the legacy I've carved into the flesh of this city? Even Van Gogh would call it a bloody good impression An artist of infection And you're just another piece in my collection A mirror image of perfection Who's time has fucking come And I've been falling apart in the pouring rain I'm waging war on myself A captive casualty Traded a merciful heart for a murderer's brain But now I curse what's in my head Because I can't stop seeing red Friends and fellow countrymen, lend me your ears The following revelation's for you skeptics to hear There exists no good, only unrealized evil I'll bring hope to the sinners And death to the people I tear apart the pages of the story of my life Cuz I've been falling apart in the pouring rain I'm waging war on myself A captive casualty Traded a merciful heart for a murderer's brain But now I curse what's in my head Because I can't stop seeing red I'm seeing red The doctor is dead I bid thee farewell Fuck my fate Just save a seat for me in Hell

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 23, 2026

Dear diary This battle’s on the verge of emergency Call in a chemical warfare attack Tempting fate with the crisis that my vices will orchestrate Cold sweats as my bold pupils dilate I could die from the weight of it all Or make it through another close call Here’s a note to myself, “Back to the wall The higher you get, girl, the further you fall” Here’s a note to myself, “Alone in my pain How close can you come to the edge before you walk away?” Through blackened veins the evil in the needle bleeds into my brain And sells me on the sense of a fool’s escape I could die from the weight of it all Or make it through another close call Here’s a note to myself, “Back to the wall The higher you get, girl, the further you fall” Here’s a note to myself, “Alone in my pain How close can you come to the edge before you walk away?” Before you walk away But I just need one more taste, one more taste Scars earned from searching for solutionsSo desperate just to feel Sold on self-prescribed pollution, just distorting what was real And so it goes in the throes of what I can’t overcome Painfully numb Dear diary This battle’s on the verge of emergency (Emergency) Here’s a note to myself, “Back to the wall The higher you get, girl, the further you fall” Here’s a note to myself, “Alone in my pain How close can you come to the edge before you walk away?” Before you walk away Before you walk away

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 23, 2026

It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality (These are the words that set me free) We are the last of what used to be Every breath, every moment They’re getting closer and closer to me Stripping my dignity with every brick as it’s broken Stealing hope from my whole family Lights out The path that God has lit grows ever darker But my faith goes further now I didn’t want to be a fucking martyr But I can’t put my pen down I stare through the cracks of my life in slow motion As my world crumbles down around me I write the words that set me free Always glued to the radio Getting lost in the static as the attic is taking its tollCan’t we all just go? I’m fucking sick of the inside We’re alive yet deprived and alone Alive yet deprived and alone But never on our own I stare through the cracks of my life in slow motion As my world crumbles down around me I write the words that set me free These are the words that set me free These are the words that set me free, yeah I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside and the good part on the inside, and keep trying to find a way to become what I’d like to be and what I could be if...if only there were no other people in the world Good morning, sir, I am officer Silberbauer of the SS I… You're hiding enemies of the state, are you not? Yes… Take me to them now No! I stare through the cracks of my life in slow motion As my world crumbles down around me I write the words that set me free These are the words that set me free These are the words that set me free, yeah

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 23, 2026

A makeshift smile, a polished look Some rehearsed lines was all it took He had it down, man, he was good A woman screams, her mother weeps A life so changed irrevocably What he stole from her is gone for good I see sirens spinning around through my eyelids As he begs and he pleads just like I did Is this what my life is? Restless and silent Where all I can do is survive When the purest soul is stained by sin To the public eye where can she begin? She lost it all and it’s gone for good And she may never beat the system But she won’t rest until she’s turned the villain to the victim I see sirens spinning around through my eyelids As he begs and he pleads just like I did Is this what my life is? Restless and silent Where all I can do is survive So officer please that’s the man who’s destroyed my existence Yeah he begged and he screamed just like I did And for this I was willing to die It was all I could do to survive All I could do to survive It was all I could do to survive

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 23, 2026

The girl that was lost The girl no one saved, with blood on her face The girl that they crossed They’ll never contain and no one is safe The girl that was lost The girl no one saved, with blood on her face The girl that they crossed They’ll never contain and no one is safe Maybe now they’ll remember her name Ostracized and terrorized The outcast knows no way to survive Plagued by fear, year after year Her cries for help fell on deaf ears Forever unknown and so alone Where the hell in the hallways always feels like home The girl that was lost The girl no one saved, with blood on her face Maybe now they’ll remember her name The girl that they crossed They’ll never contain and no one is safe Maybe now they’ll remember her name Stepped on like shit and drowned in their spit They tore her world apart for their own benefit But they can’t hold back the certain wrath of a pissed off prom queen psychopath The girl that was lost The girl no one saved, with blood on her face Maybe now they’ll remember her name The girl that they crossed They’ll never contain and no one is safe Maybe now they’ll remember her name When happily ever after came crashing from the rafters She knew she wasn’t meant to wear their crooked crown But look who’s laughing now And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for: Your Bates High Prom queen for 1976 is…Carrie White! Covered in blood, they called it good clean fun But now her mind is a weapon that they can’t outrun When rivals attack a school’s spirit strikes back The girl that was lost The girl no one saved, with blood on her face Maybe now they’ll remember her name The girl that they crossed They’ll never contain and no one is safe Maybe now they’ll remember her name When happily ever after came crashing from the rafters She knew she wasn’t meant to wear their crooked crown But look who’s laughing now Look who's laughing now Well look who's laughing now Well look who's laughing now Look who's laughing now Well look who's laughing now

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 23, 2026