The Wake

Break out the waters Waiting for anything to come Hold on forever Hell below and Heaven dead ahead Don't ever change your way Burn down the prison Stay in the balance of the wire Hold on forever Only you can turn that lethal level I'll keep you safer than sound Even the rain won't fall in a straight line Take it from me, you'll find that the pulses shine I take the strain Let go the millions of us The whole divide It wasn't easy, I want to stay "You're not alone So don't look back You better see It's getting black You're not alone Surrender now You're going to fall in line You better learn this time" I'm trying to get there I'm falling from nowhere

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Feb 23, 2026

Singing praises was never a feature encouraged in me or my kind Every time they remain with my hands on my mouth The crowded borders leave me colour-blind Pushing me for the death warmed up and the flowers and fur to parade In the time that it takes for the ritual wake They've broken all the promises they made I was driven away to distraction and Couldn't see we were all laid to waste Never sleeping, I saw my abduction from Solid areas fallen from grace I come drifting through the draughting Dropping out of sight I'm not begging for love, I'm empty as I am I'm beginning to wonder Is the ability too weak? If this stark interior surrounds me Am I so unique? Little blue souvenir to remind me of Restless days when I should have said No And you know that I've nothing to share with you For the chance of the love that we save I wanted to be magnificent For the less-than-a-lifetime of mine I forget where I came in All I know there's no discipline now

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Feb 23, 2026

Stop your tears from hiding See them mesmerise your skin It's all that I can do To keep away from going in I fed the ghost of plenty As the perfume turned to grey If life is still worth living How come I feel afraid? One day, some day I will take from the air The only way out I can't deny the honesty I want to stay But it's more than me I'm losing all the reason Keep forgetting what I've said Oh I try to bring it closer But there's nothing in my head I don't believe in ever And I don't believe in now If life is still worth living How come I feel alone? Suddenly, if it comes then I'm gone Why don't you talk to me See I'm not Your enemy? I am right by your side I want to stay But it's more than me Each time you go down Don't forget to remember Everything is easy Most of all believing It will take you over It will bring you down It's hidden in the language It's in the words I say (I say so)

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Feb 23, 2026

Darker than the starlight gold Bearing down again to bury me In the air Suffer like a stained glass wire When the waves are gone, your eyes and fears I'll be there And if we can still believe in tomorrow Yesterday will disappear soon enough When it seems impossible to remember How the world could be so proud of itself Into lives of violent ends She hides away, relies on night All the time Holding out a hand to take Still awash in seas of ivory We steal away And it's such a lonely ride to tomorrow Through the corners where the light never shows When it seems impossible to imagine How the world could be so cold to itself And if we can still believe in tomorrow Yesterday will disappear soon enough When it seems impossible to remember How the world could be so proud of itself

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Feb 23, 2026

Garden over me, the secret I love most God and Man agree to giving up the ghost High above the moon, the sun has left the sky I would love to know if you're the reason why Garden under me, the naked and the dead I can still remember everything we said Higher, higher now than I have ever been More than meets the eye than mine have ever seen Garden over me, you never know the grief Hide this side away to satisfy belief I can't stand the agony of nothing new When the soft white belly enters into you I go down The ribbon wrapped a gun, I blinded everyone Collected underground, now I'm up I'm down It isn't how you lie, it's in the way you're mine How was I to know the nerves would overflow? I want to see you, I want to touch you I want to feel the breathing changing I want to be you, to be inside you To pull you under, get you fighting Unsodden even the water leaking Don't want to hear the widow speaking And just to know if there could be something You couldn't get that, yeah... Ah, you fools, don't you see? He's darker than he's going to be State I'm in, hollow bone Diamond hard heart of stone Lost in love, senses flown Diamond hard heart of stone

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026

I may be wrong But the miracle That I prayed for Is here Could be illusion Maybe some trickery I don't know why I'm scoring the angels Counting all the thousand days There were so many tears So many times Wasting away So what about the thousand days We miss the reason Because of what we are I fall silent With you The gash I know Is getting obvious The blood of ages From scoring the angels Guaranteed for all we know There were so many tears So many times Wasting away So what about the thousand days? I swerve the engine The balance disappears While I'm sleeping I'm scoring the angels Counting all the thousand days There were so many tears So many times Wasting away So what about the thousand days? The thousand days Thousand days

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026

I'm here The ragged burden come to nothing, comfort go We drift I talk with you and hear you though you're never here Hovering above me like a net I'm terrified to look beyond the threat I kill ambition while I can I'm cold I drag the beauty, black confetti swept away Stumbling, we go blindly marching on Bursting like a dream and now all gone In time I know we'll fly again Frail as ever, still the most severe Haven't I surrendered everything now? Naked in my cruellest waking fear From the rages of the weightless sleep "Who will catch him falling?" called the wind "I will claim him," volunteered the grave "Marry me forever," cried the bride Said the orphan, "Who'll remember me? Anyone at all? Are you coming back?" From the moment we were torn Thrown into the tunnel, we withdrew Whiter colours then untied Don't desert me now, I'm coming through I fought the memory of beautiful things Imaginings The only strength I got from wanting you All the love I've been needing The hunger is feeding on me Spirit, bear me away To the place of birth You, you put the fear in The fear of flying The breath of dying You want a sign You want a sign It's already there

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026

I may be wrong But the miracle that I prayed for is here Could be illusion, maybe some trickery I don't know why I'm scoring the angels Counting all the thousand days There were so many tears So many times, wasting away So what about the thousand days? We miss the reason because of what we are I fall silent with you The gash I know is getting obvious The blood of ages from Scoring the angels Guaranteed for all we know There were so many tears So many times, wasting away So what about the thousand days? I swerve the engine, the balance disappears While i'm sleeping I'm scoring the angels Counting all the thousand days There were so many tears So many times, wasting away So what about the thousand days?

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026

Stop your tears from hiding See them mesmerise your skin It's all that I can do to keep away from going in I fed the ghost of plenty as the perfume turned to grey If life is still worth living, how come I feel afraid? One day, some day, I will take from the air The only way out, I can't deny the honesty I want to stay but it's more than me I'm losing all the reason, keep forgetting what I've said Oh I try to bring it closer but there's nothing in my head I don't believe in ever and I don't believe in now If life is still worth living, how come I feel alone? Suddenly, if it comes then I'm gone Whey don't you talk to me, see I'm not your enemy? I am right by your side I want to stay but it's more than me Each time you go down, don't forget to remember Everything is easy, most of all believing It will take you over, it will bring you down It's hidden in the language, it's in the words I say (I say so)

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026