Heart Like a Grave

Under these cold northern stars Songs are filled with sorrow Brief is the time of summer winds Moon is sad as the night Here the callous frost slowly crawls inside the hearts Here the winter's breeze will break the purest soul Grown on this rimed soil we've learnt to rue and yearn Grown in these bleak woods we've learnt to forsake our dreams And again, the mourning unfolds before me Like an open black grave (Like an open black grave)

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

When you revel and feast Bask in victories When you ravish the crown Claim the godly reward Do not forget the lurking crows Sitting on the gallows Looming against the sky Waiting for your demise Soon on the scaffold The king will stand For the mirth and glory Will never last For the love and ardor Will never dure When you behold her glow Fairness and the grace When you can feel her warmth Blazing right beside you Do not forget the unkind fate Doom that hangs upon you All here is meant to end It's only temporary Even the fairest flower Will soon die For everything is meant to end Nothing here is built to last When you long to touch the sun Grab the sphere of divine clouds Don't forget that if you reach the utmost peak Then the fall down shall hurt even more

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025

Lonely path across the marshland Leads to a forlorn grey lodge Grey like the misery Empty, abandoned For the lone dweller is now gone Ailment and poverty was her lot Only guest ever the nightly frost that crept inside Brief were the moments of bliss and gladness For on this hoar peatland no joy will live And bells they toll In cold morning light And bells they toll In bleak morning light Once there was a fleeting time When sky was less dark for a while And the one that she adored Walked her across the churchyard Flowers bloomed and bells they tolled Hopeful was the spring's tone But on this barren marshland No gladness will ever last Here the nightly frost will creep inside the hearts Here the brittle flowers will die before their time And soon came the day, when bells they tolled again For her dearest one, beneath the stones now lies Under the churchyard sleeps

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025

On through the burning night The fever and the fear Against the gates of death I pound, I wail, I cry With broken voice and heart I demand a bargaining I offer all I have This blackened soul of mine That once was pure, unspoilt That once was fair Hear me now Open up your hinges Let me enter Receive my soul Let me lapse into the dusk Into soothing shadows Gladly I will step down Redeem the one I love On through the scalding nights The anguish and despair Against the gates of death I claw, I wilt, I starve It would be just and fair To let this old man fade away Accept this sacrifice This doomed soul of mine It would only be right To take this soul My offering It would only be fair To let my dearest live Still walk this earth

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025

How could there be laughter left in these songs How could there be mirth and joy in this world For what am I now anymore But a wretched old bard Weary and torn For all of those dreams have withered and died For all of those hopes have vanished into night No grace in this voice anymore But a wretched old bard Forlorn and torn But there was ever only one The one that I would hold The one that I still long Mute is the sorrow of mine Voiceless the yearning inside Dark is the path in the end Sore are the wounds I hide Once there was a time when they all praised my name Once there was a time when hearts turned to me For even the birds hearkened to my song That quivered in the wind Echoed through the night But where is the glory, the gold and fame now But where is the crown that once blazed on my brow Not one by my side anymore This wretched old bard Unsung and torn And after all the years that go by I remember the one The one that I still look for Only for her I would play my tunes Only for her I would write these words Only to her I would sing But she never hearkened to me

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

I rue the day The day I turned the tides I made a grave mistake Left from your side Now I am lost in the shadows' lap Straying on this downward road Now I am left in the woods of woe Roaming these twilight trails You asked me to stay But I closed the gate behind me Bright lights beyond the trees The gleam above the skyline In vain I tried to reach In vain I sought And too late I comprehend It was just illusion I've spent all those years chasing Something I once had Long time ago I cannot find my way home I cannot find the way to you (Anymore) With a black shroud over my eyes I don't see the skies or the earth I don't see if the moon will die Or the sun turns cold A dreary path that weaves down below Into the hidden abyss of the evenfall And here I stand on the darkened shore Forgotten man at the edge of the world For what is there left for me anymore But to languish and slowly fade away Regret and penance only friends by my side When I sink into the void of the night I lapse… (I lapse…) Descend… Alone…

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

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