The Seventh House

A sudden unpredictable sky contains the dawn Seconds in an hour Counting down before the day is born Long enough in the grave to be sustained Science or belief Reminders of a time we can't regain Have all the idle dreamers awoken from their dreams To find they're not alone? Nothing now is really as it seems This would always arrive somehow Problem left unsolved Radiating in the here and now And in my memory Only just begun to understand the reasons why A one in ten degree Alternate between the faithful and the fearless If all the riches and ransoms coalesced As one were intertwined You would be the brightest I possess If all the gold and the silver came combined You would still define The colours I imagine in my mind And in my memory Under the same moon, lighted on a lunar sea A one in ten degree Alternate between the faithful and the fearless I can't remember Can't even be him And chances are slim That I'm found No finer substance No final demand I'm tired and know No bounds Thought that I was pulling through Though I never had a chance of winning at all Caught between the heard and the seen Something out of quarantine beginning to call In silence I'm drowning I'm spinning around and round Oblivion lies unrevealed More than flesh and bone can bear together to feel In silence I'm sinking I don't think I'll make it down Riding the meltdown, right in the fallout And I turn to the fire when I'm spurned Send out the thing that is driving me crazy I can douse it and leave it to burn Daylight dissolving, crawling miasma On a spellbound and desolate prayer Somebody somewhere stop me before I rip away all the soul they've repaired Time already grows heavy, gravity won't hold steady Pole people cry for their lives passing by darkly This belongs to you for he would have loved you as I do Life as we feared on the wrong side of weird Binds us two And in my memory Only just begun to understand the reasons why A one in ten degree Alternate between the faithful and the fearless Where are you now? Who are you now? I can't go there Thought that I was pulling through Though I never had a chance of winning at all Caught between the heard and the seen Something out of quarantine beginning to call Riding the meltdown, right in the fallout And I turn to the fire when I'm spurned Send out the thing that is driving me crazy I can douse it and leave it to burn Once every lifetime shadows are lifted And the daylight disperses the dark Want to be sure that all I've endured is put away But where do I start?

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

Where do I start? This thing's tearing us apart Nothing is clear Where do we go from here? No wonder in sight Not even the blackest night So where do I start? It only remains to empty this heart Everything that I came to trust slipped away I resisted the call to arms, feet of clay Now when I sleep I reach for the book I keep In my hour of need I turn to the pages no-one will read Everything that I came to trust slipped away I live through this a thousand times every day All the time that I'm held in suspension And unable to make myself heard I can't hold back the tide of erosion And the vision that haunts me is blurred Been as cold as I can Since who knows when Would that I could feel now As I did then Get in out of the light Avoid the glare Lost and out on a limb Miles from anywhere All the time that I'm held in suspension And unable to make myself heard I can't hold back the tide of erosion And the vision that haunts me is blurred Everything that I came to trust slipped away I resisted the call to arms, feet of clay Everything that I came to trust slipped away

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

On a bleak and solitary road They return To be where once they met One who comes to lay the past to rest Inside One who can't forget Yesterday the heroes of the hour Who survived Those who fought and lost Standing at the moment of release They pause To count the dreadful cost My life is out of condition I've held it together myself the best I can I'll never feel this way again After all this time we've been apart Still now I wonder where you are No one understands how close you came To us No one knows how far This time it's harder than ever I've weathered the storm And I've kept you safe and warm I'll never feel this way again Oh my angel In black water All your heartache Will soon be over Oh my baby Rest you well Cathedral that man created You're weighted down by a jealous sound Bewildered and dislocated Your soul deflated and gone to ground Nobody, no final direction No way to connect in this heavier state The lives that we never remember Are heading us out to another mistake It's with me, it's waiting for me As Heaven is calling us to our knees And there in the seventh house Lie the seventy-five figures such as these I'm all out of random Sentenced by madmen Who have abandoned me What chance of survival? I've had an eyeful More than I cared to see And if I forget you Or if I let you Fall under someone's spell Nobody can blame you Put out the flame You kept it alive so well What web are we weaving Nothing achieving? Are you receiving me? So far out in the ocean Stuck in emotion On an unending sea And if you forget me Don't ever let me Under your broken wing Nobody can know You kept it below you I never felt a thing What a way to go How did all the dreaming in my life Arrive at such a bitter end? On the rooftops draped in black Denial stopped me in my tracks By the fearful light of dusk This position I defend All around the sky is cracked Won't somebody send me back? Fourteen hundred hours Won't forget that day Coal-black sky, the earth A hundred shades of grey In the aftermath As silent as the grave I alone remained No other soul was saved Faces turning over Limbs that shake without A conscious kind of movement now For all their tomorrows We gave our last day today In a future all their own Documents reveal patriotic zeal Singing to remember Drinking to forget the lie All the names beyond recall Empty politics in houses one to six Locked and barred against the memory My life is out of condition I've held it together myself the best I can I'll never feel this way again Again These are the lives we are measured by Heaven help us to answer why Every minute of every day they die Waiting and wondering all alone Silent voices across the land Speak in tongues they could never understand Nameless and wandering far from home Always held in the seventh house Everything we inherit now's the same

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

Yesterday is up for auction Souvenirs are in demand In the rooms where rocking horses Carried us on moonlit strands Thunder crash and flash of lightning Storms of metal raining down Little hands that cradle ashes Little eyelids heavy, head run aground Will the cross and all its stations Lead you where you want to go? You say you want a revelation Well, tell me something I don't know Zero hour, times are changing Count the seconds one by one Found a girl whose laughter turned me round To face a brighter sun Was it just hallucination Sent the artist off the rails? Searching for communication In the knife when all else failed Zero hour, tide is turning Calmer waters from now on Found a girl whose laughter turned me round To face a brighter sun

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

Something's up on the northern skyline Angels descending from their gallery on high Rally around me slowly Angels with dirty faces Leaving their lipstick trace across the human race Heavenly host unholy Walking the wire, I jump the gun Some of us fly too close to the sun Gone are the days when Heaven could wait Thought there was time but now it's too late So when you hear the angels sing Get ready to spread your wings How the hell am I going to do this? Heavenly bodies multiplying through the mist Steadily swell their numbers Under celestial orders Ascending the clouds right up into the stratosphere Marching us down to Slumbertown Walking the wire, I'm taking aim Keeping my tail ahead of the game Gone are the days of Heaven's Lament Satellite plays the whole event So when you want to take them higher Get ready to open fire In Arcadia All they've made of light is shade A halcyon retreat, now frayed Stay together In a Hell-for-leather world Torn apart by angels and their battlecries Walking the wire, I jump the gun Some of us fly too close to the sun Gone are the days when Heaven could wait Thought there was time but now it's too late So when you hear the angels sing Get ready to spread their wings

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

Came from the west Only to fly again The eyes that see The lips that tell no tales Nobody's guest Dressed like a mannequin Put out to sea Before the ship had sails I have always dreamed that somewhere in your heart There's a guiding light still shines For our lives and times we should have spent together But we passed each other by Like seasons out of time Easter you left Changed more than anyone I asked you why You told me "Just because" Nobody guessed Under your influence The man I am Is not the man I was We have lived our lives across this great divide I couldn't make you change your mind And we almost glimpsed a promise of forever But we passed along the way Like seasons out of time Sometimes everything is hard to bear Let go, following without a care Still now, though it's hard to understand We built on shifting sand Somehow memories are more than this Set free only with a deathly kiss And now, when the restless hour is high A million stars go by We never can remember All the lives we've lived before The days decline in number Slip the ropes away from shore Whenever Heaven calls us There's regret and compromise And in another distance Lies a past unrealised Where are you now? Who are you now? Is anyone really gone? In all the world In all this space The race is run I have always dreamed that somewhere in your heart There's a guiding light still shines For our lives and times we should have spent together But we passed each other by Like seasons out of time

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026