Resistance

Hardest nails, impaled and wartorn Water vapours trailing Bloodshot down, I am drowning Born of ion failings and fear There is no fear Can be sustained No original sin To blame Breaking back, unreactive Shaking back my perspective Solid state, armour plated Deadly unattractive to all But you hunted me down Again Man, you ran me aground Right then Now I know Whatever lay beneath your skin Was all that pulled me in Weighted scales created fiction Empty revolution Essential trial, day of all days Silent retribution begins No expression That sell contains No ulterior gain Remains Now I know Anything hidden in your skin Enough to pull me in When I leave that sunrise Without a missile Someone flawless moves in With every potential What I thought could save me was artificial Raking across my nerves and taking possession Cutting a chainsaw swathe Through all defenses still in place Because it's crazy and nothing existed It all escapes me I'm not even making a promise There is no faith Can be sustained No original sin To blame Now I know Whatever lay beneath your skin Was all that pulled me in When I find that I've carved out another profile I will leave that sunrise without a missile

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

Could have been anyone my will to live inspired No one knew, maybe I should have guessed But now as then, I rise again I lay beneath I barely breathed Stranger now, explaining this unknown face Even after I stop believing I rise again The only one I stand alone Angels die, redemption rages The age of man on an empty page And chances are This will save your soul Or break it in pieces Traitors stay where they may stay They will not take my courage from me They make me blind when I can see It goes together and it's free I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm waiting I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm waiting I rise again I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm waiting I'm waiting there Angels die, redemption rages The age of man on an empty page And chances are This will save your soul or break it forever Independence, the best defence From way up here When my judgment fails and lets me down I rise again

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

May you never live like this Without the world you've known When every turn reveals no way home With time standing still I dared myself to feel something The same winds that sailed you skyward Will steal you back This last change That we've been going through The time I would spend With no one but you Days when I can't see where you go The times that I don't know And then I remember With the life torn in two that I'm born into That's some making of me In time my undoing Time stood so still But If I mistake those vital signs for real Then should I resist All the strength that failed As it held me derailed in the silence? Anyone left alive in the fire Hope expires without a sound Damn your eyes and you stay down Never again will I be out of my head on my way down Hold out your hands where I can see you complaining as you stay down If I don't make success out of real life Nothing doing Fall back, break out, inside, can't see, can drown Shut up while I stay down The less I can handle the more I can blame on my breakdown Tomorrow I bring in a better opinion when I stay down Nothing doing

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

Repentance I'm involved in Faithful lives Dissolving Eyes dilate Infiltrate us all

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

And nothing will be the same Now this moment leads me To strains that sound from overhead Stay hidden by a starless night sky Lest we forget In defiance of all this Without provision, I take that risk And in a shallow bay All best attempts fall through, misguided What can I do when I'm inside it? Still divided now I carry all connections, imperfections Every stolen interlude Life imbued with different daylight Like a fool believes it's all right Won't fight anymore In spite of me, no substance The rumours lie undisguised Beyond the life of my intentions When everything divides all convention And finally we'll come together You've set my mind again I shall obey So nothing will be the same Dimensions long since gone No, nothing will be the same Now this moment leads me on

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

All the days When light unbound shone amazing Only one occasion wouldn't change a thing Not anyone could take my heart And send it soaring so high Far above the setting sun we'd fly There's a way We make our lives run together Let yourself reveal what you feel for me now If anything it was always here While I've been falling to earth Hanging on for all I'm worth Stay close, now you're needed And when you're far from home Remember how that shadow formed You're not alone Anyway you're safe inside If anything should try to lock you down I settled on a simple place to hide And everything in time will come around

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

Cold conversation is all I can learn from now Uncensored crisis of confidence taught me how Pall bearing fakers making it fall apart My heart is not unbreakable Take the thing I dread To somewhere else instead then When you're endangered everything comes untied Who do you love enough to keep yourself inside For another lifetime? Somehow I have been slowed down Something is in between us now Somehow I have been slowed down Something is in between us now I'll die again on another day But it's not today I could make amends had I waited them It was way back when I meant it Weather breaks and the fire escapes Through an open door When the devil flies through a web of lies And the wind ain't howling anymore Always in dreams, in all ways unseen Showers into sparks rained down over me Hours after dark, still held shoulder high And wave after wave divide up the sky I planned it, just like I did before I never wanted more Land me where I should be In a solemn place where I'm free Beneath a landslide of uncertainty Loaded gun blown away And if there's no resistance What am I fighting for? An unsung renegade evading radar And if there's no existence to worship and adore A lethal chemistry invades, as dark as war Revenge won't find me And even I leave well alone, it's still surrounding This world confounds me How many times will I contest the smallest thing? Tides are turning again Red letter deadhead mourning Can I comment to getting enough reminders? If I learn to forget the reasons I can't forgive or live it down It's in the ground, beneath my feet From miles below It's in the air, it's everywhere I know So it's all in the mind, jet setter debt is over Should I condemn preserving an old sensation? If I live to regret those actions all my days In end out of sight I've seen the spirit of light I'm nowhere near it When you're endangered Everything comes untied Who do you love enough To keep yourself inside? For another lifetime For another lifetime For another lifetime, forevermore Forevermore Forevermore Cold conversation turns Remembered inside of me Locations where silence lived They're no longer mine to give And this is where I will stay, holding on Holding on, holding on

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

What kills the pain to bring me down I should face it, spin that wrong thing around Bring back the sun, get on your feet Keep that last temptation way out of reach Out there Some kinder fool to break the chain Cut right back until there's nothing in the brain Once I declined but not enough Five bells ringing out their song far above For everyone, for those to come Night after night along the great spirit way Try as I might, I don't play fair This is where I take an eye for an eye Long lost innocence led you nowhere Right in the ground like heaven An underland cavernous place Never seen neither heard By the ghosts of Odessa Now they're done wasting time With the language of living Demonstrations in avenues Dead end granite halls, unwalked corridors Cold as death, closed canyons Mined in better days Undecaying, now on display Elevation wading through unlit catacombs All stations abandoned Longstanding stonewalled planning rooms Resignations passed in empty space Contradictions ready made Reputations not worth their weight Recollections come what may I can't let you see me this way What was broken can surely mend We can work it out in the end But if not, then it's not the end Your distraction is well defended Like a dead man waking up, not his vision I will confess, in a heartbeat I changed my mind On reflection, I'd settled for less If tomorrow should come too late Preparations will go to waste Wait much longer, I'll lose the taste Late developer chased it underground Stay, do or die trying All the misfits in the world sure to change it Though they tried rearranging Good for bad Still the mad king reigns Take after me, go right ahead Just got to be alive here or dead Fear is the key that strikes from within Steps undetermined, a place to begin When the greatest show on earth Drew the headlines Life sold out killed the goldmine Not a chance when the dance is through All the wisdom in the world Would have missed it Odds against, couldn't risk it building up just to stop again At last alone I'd make the grade had I stayed alone If it's all stored in monotone Voices out of life belong to stone, in history Sometimes I deny the memory Make myself remove reality, once for all What my mantra lacked in radiance More than made up with experience Day by day I can find enough recovery Still confined in blissful agony Final time of death, where is your sting? Make me unbelieve most anything Played and paraded like a hopeless thing Made a kaleidoscope of early warnings Greyed out in photographs Laid down an understanding What an ode to pain is medicine One intense for all Take enough responsibility Shaken up for all eternity Innovation from accidents Hardworn evidence, dark and permanent Lowdown breath, stone inventions Last inheritance Lone assassin gone, unknown all the way Designations of elegance Waiting skeletons line the streets of Odessa Stand preserving unmarked residents Not in penance Last in empty space, last in empty space

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

In ambient asylums They live, sane as I These emptiest apologies Decay now and die In fire and security You flash through my brain My all-intact identity When I was losing my mind That was all I hoped to retain The towers of the universe Align way up high The sky completes their symphony If they can measure the hours Why oh why can't I? It's only forever now, a matter of time It's only another wall as yet unclimbed Am I still the sum of nothing Misguided, suddenly drained? If I'm about this new corrosion The slow emotional rate of change Have I shown an easy target Destructions that follow so well? I rail against that ultimatum Delivered in this untidy hell Alone inside the passive house Disaffected, looking back When time left no memory No dark circumference that I could see till now It's only forever Immortal remains contain who we are We burned like the sun at night We realigned the stars It's only forever now, no time at all It's only forever

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

There's nothing like this anywhere Not a thing compares All else pales into shade And here I've stayed Without evolving and making good before Aber ell where could I go? No return, not anymore Sleepwalking through the rank and file With a different sense of style Love and loss led along a crooked mile Was I resolving? The die was cast that lost afternoon Welcome to phases of the moon Cutting back our chance too soon Stand up this time, these are my reasons Your special needs, my speed of life Falling behind in open ended spaces Your star will guide you, my undivided one Life today, can't give it away So my empire, such as it is, will fade Stand up this time, these are my reasons Your special needs, any speed of life This now becomes where my perfect space is Your guiding star, my own decision was wrong And when uncertain times are gone You're soon in and moving on Overdressed, keep your best out of earshot Impressive noise signifying not a whole lot shining someday No way I could ever know how this happens ever And the more I save my own skin So the more I've strayed from within But I have the feeling That I'm in a dangerous mood Break enough like never before To shake it off And get without this thing in my head Remain beautiful, aching inside again Everything I'm thinking of Through the years I stayed for love All directions that lead me To the places where you are Not a thing compares Nothing like this anywhere I will always stand beside Your guiding star so bright

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

Down, unbowed, chased the omen found in the clouds Drove the highway a thousand miles to catch but a glimpse Stole a moment from the distance No other shade of influence would I invite And I've held tight ever since Before I could start, I'd made it this far Time was I knew Though I couldn't somehow get through Now I'll never be going back To what was untrue All remembrance I'm confided in The end for us was obvious And heaven knows I don't need reminding Beyond the thrones of kings They sing that love is the thing Turn away in flames Have you nothing left to say? I'm not ready until I make trouble for myself No non starter loved you harder Staying hidden, reconsidering Raised up weightless, made that skyline Left behind so much wasted time High from siphoning life from everything Brought to bear no final reckoning Wiped the samples from those stupid overfed faces Another star replaced Nothing will come from nothing No matter when No love will stay unchanneled in any event Rock still rolling, thrown off kilter No exceptions, flown in, filtered out Feels like long nights getting nearer Then again, I've been wrong before High from fighting back fires that rise above Spark ignition, the sky's lit up When I wasn't here Blew the stratosphere open Another starry place Nothing will come from nothing No matter when No love can go unspoken and stay unnamed Interrogation will bring out the worst in me These contradictions They breed bitter guarantees No intervention No sleepwalking to attention In times like these Anything lost what once belonged Big in a small pond Couldn't have ever preyed upon The life it stole from And this energy and this casualty Breaking deep in the heart of me That intensity's still alive Once I get outside my head and I'm flying I can stem the tide ahead without really trying Talk about the unimpressed perfectionist If I never get to claim second best I'll anticipate more than this Every little oversight tears my world apart When I can't hold it back anymore And it's all about the battle Want to see the first attack Breaking metal in this century If it's effective it's justified The means outweigh the plan When I get up into space I'm flying There's no coming down Keep me so alive Making my name across the planet lines Fall outside the light Hiding when I'm high From sight unbowed While the signs inhabit the clouds Drove the highway a thousand miles And I caught a glimpse That stolen moment from the distance No other shade of influence will I invite Till I am seen again

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026