Rebuilding the Ruins

(Sorrow shall end - x2) Drowning in water where no one ever hopes to sail Visions growing darker every day When we look at where we are, we're sinking fast between the oceans and the sand Drowning in a metaphor, the quicksand pulls you under There we see a soul that never lived to cry - Why?! Living everyday only to regret But you were given a choice, something you cannot forget All for one, for nothing, you are not to blame It never saw the world, there was never life to hate Playing God today, giving life a second chance Why do you pity what was never born to be? Living in shame is not what he would wish to see 'Tis better to give than to take away Forgive yourself today, let's embrace tomorrow hand in hand No lives were ever taken, they're all crosses in the sand Let the waves wash them away, here and all across the land In your new Independence Day, pray for the crosses in the sand Maybe ten, twenty, even thirty years He'd be another dead man walking Stepping off the ledge, never to be saved Forgive yourself today, let's embrace tomorrow hand in hand No lives were ever taken, they're all crosses in the sand Let the waves wash them away, here and all across the land In your new Independence Day, pray for the crosses in the sand If God's so forgiving, then he would understand Sometimes a choice is better to be made

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

Meditating in the morning rain at the center of the storm Safe and sound at the beginning of our new world Surrounded by Earth, water and bright eternal light Another chapter in this man-made paradise A burning sun heals the wounds we bled for so long yesterday Falling tears from above cleansing the bright blue sky Surrounded by tranquil waters leading from infinity Savoring this moment so reborn in time Meditating without pain Healing the wounds we've suffered for so long Breathing celestial air, I have drifted so far away from home Fate has carried me away onto distant shores I cannot foresee what the future - the future will bring for me Time will only tell, for now God only knows Meditating without pain Healing the wounds we've suffered for so long (Suffered for so long) And today comes the rain (And today comes the rain) Sailing through oceans of lifelong memories (Holding on) Holding on with no will to fight Tomorrow is just a dream away (Praying for that guiding light) No will to fight Rising above and to lift them away Human angels, reflections from beyond Bringing new life to those long gone Remember, you are never alone I am here to carry you when you fall For we have seen the errors in our ways rewarded with tomorrow and another day Meditating without pain Healing the wounds we've suffered for so long (Suffered for so long) And today comes the rain (And today comes the rain) Sailing through oceans of lifelong memories (Holding on) Holding on with no will to fight Tomorrow is just a dream away (Praying for that guiding light) No will to fight Rising above and to lift them away Human angels, reflections from beyond Bringing new life to those long gone Forever is just a dream away, but the dream is still alive The dream is still alive Forever is just a dream away, (It's just a dream away) but the dream is still alive The dream is still alive Forever is just a dream away, but the dream is still alive The dream is still alive Forever is just a dream away Now I have found a new world But the dream is still alive

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

The red sun is still burning War paint is drying Warm rain is falling from a cloudless sky Wardance under moonlight Great Spirit, give us sight until the morning sun ignites Dance with me and the rain will fall Around the fire we'll pray 'til dawn Heal your wounds and breathe new life Now your war is over inside Moonlight is fading, now dawn is breaking Can you feel the scars through my words? In a tribe where I never wanted to be In a tribe where I never want to leave Dance with me and the rain will fall Around the fire we'll pray 'til dawn Heal your wounds and breathe new life Now your war is over inside (Blood still flows from our scars) (Twilight skies ablaze) Turning dusk into dawn (Moonlight seas of haze) I'm crying through song I'm just a feather in the Great Spirit's hand The poet, write your words through me I'm still holding on by a thread so thin All that remains is my one and only dream (Twilight skies ablaze) Turning dusk into dawn (Moonlight seas of haze) Prophecy through song (Twilight skies ablaze) Rain dance under starlight (Moonlight seas of haze) Life begins at daylight (Twilight skies again) (Moonlight seas of haze)

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

It seems like forever since I last heard your voice I'd dreamed of it so many times, only to awaken Now time has healed the pain Again I see you as I did when I was young And I prayed the silence would end You have more life in you now, more than I'd ever seen before Now the years have passed and the wounds have healed, but we never said we were sorry until today Let time forget the sadness Put the past behind, carry on with our lives Let time forget our pride It took years for me to say you are the one I always wanted to be Now I am! I see you as the one I always remembered You were there, the tide carried us back home I cry just like you I feel pain just like you I laugh just like you Oh, why did I carry this weight for so long? Let time forget the sadness Put the past behind, carry on with our lives Let time forget our pride It took years for me to say you are the one I always wanted to be Now I am! (x2) So many years of words unspoken Today, all dreams are unbroken

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

She dreams of visions that come to be She hears the voices of pending reality Waiting for silence, the whispers so consuming She awakens in tears, but the images remain, then fade away, fade to gray, to return another day Premonitions of our fate, so burned within her mind To escape would change the course of our future and our past She'll tear the stars from the sky and hold them in her hand for the day when her sorrow will end (Sorrow shall end - x2) (Listen now, listen well, listen to what you fear) The sight is changing (Listen now, listen well, listen to what you cannot hear) If I could change what is to be, then why can't I hold you next to me? (Listen now, listen well, listen to what you fear) I don't want to hear them anymore (Listen now, listen well, listen to what you cannot hear) Please take them away The voices (x4) She'll tear the stars from the sky and hold them in her hand, but no one would understand Sorrow shall end (x2) But I will never see her, never see her again I will never hold her, never know her again Never see her, never feel her again I will never touch her, never love her again She'll tear the stars from the sky and hold them in her hand, for the day when the sorrow will end

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

"Temples and ivory towers that once stood tall now lie in ruin With shattered icons and broken dreams Here they are: the servants!" On this day when all our heroes have fallen, justice has become a fading memory One day our stones will shatter your glass castle walls when time and the elements have taken their toll (Frozen hearts) Frozen hearts (So enslaved) so enslaved (A dying wish) A dying wish only to be free Blood of the life forsaken Mutiny breeds as we awaken from this dream, but the usurpers are still playing God Justice will soon end their reign over our world Dreaming through the years, our voices would be heard Tell me, who will wear my crown of thorns today? Will we ever be saved, or are we destined to drown in our own misery? Don't let go, never let go I'm not sorry for dying Prayer brought another hero with strength beyond our years Putting faith in his name will end the tyranny today Rebuilding the ruins! (x2) Fallen sand castles and broken clay soldiers lie before me on this warm spring day Now tables are turned and life's breeding justice Retribution only a heartbeat away today (Frozen hearts) Frozen hearts (So enslaved) so enslaved (A dying wish) A dying wish only to be free Tell me, who will wear my crown of thorns today? Will we ever be saved, or are we destined to drown in our own misery? Don't let go, never let go I'm not sorry for dying What once were ruins are again towers standing tall Rebirth for the ones who deserve Time will heal all wounds, but only faith can rebuild our ruins Rebuilding the ruins!

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

You cry my wounds, I bleed your tears Thorns in my soul, wearing your crown for years You are my brightest night, I am your darkest day We are tomorrow, bonded by blood today I am the only one that you have seen that you believe in You are the only one, I let you see inside my dreams We have nothing to grieve! You see me how I wanted you to see, and you've become what I intended you to be We are so different, yet one in the same, but I never wrote the rules to this game You are the only one, I let you see what I can conceive In the end we stand alone and still you choose to believe We have the only means to shine our light and rid the disease In a dying world, we are the holy trinity There is nothing to bleed! If I would ever let go, would you still believe? Now I'm wearing the crown of thorns so invisible to me I bleed the wounds from my hands and my feet for you open every day of my life (My stigmata) Wounds I've never bled, scars of humility that yearn (My stigmata) Chasing the dragon just to watch him burn (My stigmata) Wounds I've never bled, scars of humility that yearn (My stigmata) Chasing the dragon just to watch him burn (My stigmata) Tears I've never shed, cries of serenity have won (My stigmata) Trinity blood red, another hero unsung (MAN) "Help me to remember, to find the place that I once knew Renew my hope, mend my faith I see myself in you, as I see you so much in me My wounds are so open, my soul filled with uncertainty When will I bear my cross, or is that something I haven't deserved? Humility so subdued, my imperfections show through It seems the day has come for you to carry me once again Now one set of footprints appear in the sand..." [ANGEL] "I have carried you in times when you knew not what to do I have watched you from the day when you first opened your eyes I let you make mistakes, learn so you would grow, and I will carry you once again for your one last lesson learned It will not be long before I see you again It will not be long before you will carry another Now return to the place you once knew Today there are two sets of footprints in the sand Welcome home again..." (I'm so afraid...I can't carry on.) [I will be here to guide you until the end!] (But why must I hold the weight of the world?) [Soon you will know, so never give in!] (My heart is with you.) [And mine is with you!] (All of my dreams and all that I've seen shall become what I am soon to be.) [Hold onto me, my child, and never let go!] (We are one. We are one in the same.) [We are one in the same!]

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

Back to a place and time when I was young in a simple world so far away All the memories coming back to me made me what I am The land I knew for so very long Had to leave but never let go Time has passed again, here I am where the story began Life had taken this world away from me Through wiser eyes I see Home to my new native land, but so foreign to me Where I roam, where I cry Where I sleep, where I will lie Where I dream, where I survive Where I believe, where I'm alive This land my native land, once upon a dream I saw your towers standing so tall This land my native land, ruined remains Fallen before me, lying at my feet Full circle, here I stand Once a boy, now a man I returned to a new native land Now I can move on This land my native land, once upon a dream I saw your towers standing so tall This land my native land, ruined remains Fallen before me, lying at my feet This land my native land, once upon a dream I saw your towers standing so tall This land my native land, and today I know my time has come to let go

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025

Small fragile hands wielding heavy stones Trying to break the glass cages that surround them With no one to comfort and no one to protect them, their loneliness carries a heavy weight And are we so tired that we refuse to run the course? And are we so blind that we forget what's in our hearts? Autumn brings dusk to life, the endless night But there is still time to mend the wounds that you bear Why haven't I fought for you? My one and only regret Time cries for you, my tears will never forget And are we so cold that we ignore helpless life? Are we so naive to think someone else will save them? The days are gone when I believed that man would keep the flame alive A cold heart will never warm the children for another night A man lifting the weight of the world, never to see it all again Shining our warm light onto a cold, desolate night We cannot bring back what is gone, but we can save all that remains How can you face the day when you can live unseen at night and hide behind your selfish pride while the children of autumn cry? We cannot bring back what is gone, but we can save all that remains Today I shed my human skin and spill my blood for the animals I live among For the animal I have become On this judgment day of my brothers, I am their keeper How can you face the day when you can live unseen at night and hide behind your selfish pride while the children of autumn cry? (x2)

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025

Last night, I had another dream Again at the edge of eternity Looking down below at our world A new sight overwhelming me If I could play God, then I would create a different world You call me a hero, but I'm only a man, and I still bleed the same as you, for you...who knew? Sometimes when you see me smile, it's only a façade Holding it in but crying so deep inside I know I can never be what you think you see, but I try If I could play God, I would create a world Where tears become laughter Where sadness is no more Where peace conquers fear Where sounds of war are silenced Where feast will end famine Where love will fill the world Where summer skies are never gray Where autumn leaves will never fall Where we will live eternally Here on elevated ground, we walk through valleys of the shadows of life, where love will be all and love will end all Through utopian skies we pray Over the cloudscape, above the rain, we can watch the world We can watch the world from miles away

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

In this ethereal light we meet again It must be forever So welcoming but it is not my time I must return So many visions I see of tomorrow What is lost is never gone Questions we have, answers we'll find I believe the end is never really the end I believe this life is not the only one I believe there is another world for me I have seen eternity Somewhere far away, angels are dreaming, waiting to see us again Somewhere far away, angels are flying on their way home I believe the end is never really the end I believe this life is not the only one I believe there is another world for me (I've been there before) I have seen eternity I've learned all that I will know, given all there is for me to give I guided the way, I bore the truth, given life back to what was gone You gave me the world Now the time has come for me to see you again Now I now know where I am to go Today God is playing God This is goodbye but not farewell, for the end is never really the end We will one day meet again and fly together hand in hand After the show, when we take a bow and walk away from this world, without a tear, regret or fight, we'll exit this grand stage we call life [ANGEL] "I watched you from the day that you were born Now it's time to see you again From the first emerald rain to the embrace of our spirits Your message there is done Your time at last has come..." Warming light surrounding me The astral sun is blinding my eyes Vertigo consuming me My soul is beginning to lift away I hear my angels from Heaven calling me, ready to take me away to their islands in the sky I once feared this moment as a child, but eternal life is before me Here I am standing tall Reaching for the clouds, staring at the sky I have spread my wings ready to fly With my very last breath of life I cry: "Kingdom of Forever, now I'm coming home!" I'm coming home Creator of Earth, Heaven and sea Now I'm home!

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025