The Road of Bones

Colliding highs, the slender sky, descend into empty spaces Sensational wasted fall from grace They'll never give alternatives the longer you live without it It's all about what you learn to hate In your unaltered state, you found yourself too late I carve your name with razor blades to feel like a decade younger Insatiable hunger from within Accept that poison skin from the outside in Whenever I look down and when I throw my weight around The unintended consequences die Nobody said instead of dead, I'd feel I was wild and futile I never knew blood could run so cold Accept that poison skin from the outside in Whenever I look down and when I throw my weight around The empty-handed meet with something worse A hand of narrow bone leads me on Among the fallen stones into the night less known Inside the needle veins, the blood is drained I lie unrestrained and breaking down alone This barren centigrade, the choices made from secrets best left kept However long I've slept The absence reconciled, the wrong denial is seen through hostile eyes I'm Waking up, I'm better dead Arm yourself, defend no-one else Far inside, you're mine Live again for if not now, when? This is not the end Your life is compromised, most of it was All your endeavour lies lost

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

And morning finds my night's work Lights the remnants on display I do not seek forgiveness, nothing to absolve For now the need is met, I almost hate myself Almost but not quite They survey the frozen scene The cold countenance of hell And they hang their heavy heads I'm seen as death itself Fear that holds this fragile town extends for miles around I've taken all control for I am someone now The shadow cross my face All the signs of my mistakes Shallow graves I mark with stones As I walk the road of bones We dance our unkind, compelling dance The arcane ritual observed I will see this whole thing through if I just keep my nerve All the journeys I've retraced To return me to this place I do not walk alone As I build the road of bones Their dumb shock of reaction's what it's for Full of nothing and I won't be ignored They got sirens and all that nervous force They concede a good death's it's own reward The shadow cross my face All the futures laid to waste Shallow graves I mark with stones As I walk the road of bones

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

Finding order torn asunder Sworn surrender stole the day Like a wave of wasted wonder Rising up and swept away These moments I retain Locked in against the pain As the darkness folds around me Colder forces hold me down And the doubt is growing stronger I no longer can be found Don't tell me anymore It's what this life is for In sight of lost amends Your light will shine never again I occupy these rooms I build And word by word, the silence is filled Light descends in empty shades Undermines the time we lost Here today I'm not afraid To calculate the hollow cost Never crossed that good expression Said I wouldn't and I didn't Cutthroat counsel that won't free me Language I could only dream of until now I'm ready to begin The science is wearing thin Without walls, constant breakdown Without time, any day now Without words, fake it somehow Without you Half of me is undeceased Half is underneath the ground Any way you gain release Don't go where you can't be found Are we late? It's complicated State the words best left unspoken Making nothing out of something They will break what can't be broken now I'm made of other skin Defiance is wading in Without walls Without time Without words Without you Now I'm ready to begin The science is wearing me down Down, down, down, down, down, down, down And I can't go outside And there is no reason why Unforsaken heart Take another shot Now Break it to me Protect me from the truth Keep that highborn hope Safe and future-proof Now Walls without our self control Sleep that brings no guarantees Night awake, come take your toll Right there's the life and death of me High like a permanent sun Fly hard through a sky made of thunder Carelessly counted on What possessed you? Swear to me, then you're gone What is with you still? Send out the sound of bells Let it splinter When sense of purpose fails It all disintegrates Crowds unascended now Rain with the burning showers Signs come to send me down Saw the deeper understanding Torn asunder, wrenched apart When the wave of wasted wonder Rose above our empty guard These moments made me then And by them now I am defined again You always knew In the sunken water shallows Imperfections yet remain Set beneath that mask of sorrow Lies a face without a name Don't tell me anymore It's what this life is for Until I stand alone Your light will shine Never again in this lifetime In this lifetime Shine on me again Shine on me again

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

How do I contain all the hours of change? Why do I give in to danger no one else would bear? How do I believe in all I’ve failed to give you? You return from nowhere when I’ve learned to live without you Now, now you say those vows couldn’t heal you How? You made all dreams seem real and somehow you still do... Fingerprints concealed and destinies then were sealed Ever since you burnt inside me How do I convince you? Now, now you swear that time was only sleeping How, how did you release all that we were steeped in? Found a heart a home when the mind was blown Hiding in an unsafe haven What if I’d never known you? Still an ocean cried in waves I know won’t reveal you So feel the second tide inside as it leaves you reeling Now you shield the need that compels you How? You set my soul on fire and somehow you still do...

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

Words spawned from fire scrape across the sky Where once they failed, now they strike Endless dreams have fallen through, lie unresolved One sentence is gone, intentions were wrong Unravelled the strands, the damage done Where I stand, the function fails without you there Knives so set and ready-made cut the wedding cake The cold sideways room, the ring that never breaks Bride and groom take the empty floor And they breathe in other fumes, exhumed within that law Caught on film, they fill their page And build their own gilded cage Hounds, cast-off clowns with anxious hands Compare them there, the perfect pair And the parasites descend as one Man and boy alike, a thousand strong Stand down your defences In shadows drawn from your future tense There attends the spectre on the causeway For this time, I'm not forsaken yet Live on through me Forget you ever knew me at all When I'm reckless and I don't belong Say again the words that I'm founded on Shout them out and high They scrape against the night sky in the startlight Putting the charlatans and frauds right behind me Any other day, you'd return and stay by the firelight Taking again the empty place right beside me From where you are, bring you back home Will you stay until the end? When I'm down upon my knees, will you defend me then? And wreath my form deep in your velvet arms one last time Before my heart Sets You Free

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026