A Matter of Life and Death

You lead me on the path, keep showing me the way I feel a little lost, a little strange today I think I'll take a hold of whatever comes my way Then we'll see what happens, take it day-by-day I thought I had it all, I had it all worked out Just what the future held, that there would be no doubt But then the card came up and I took another turn But I don't know if it's fulfillment that I yearn Tell me what you can hear And then tell me what you see Everybody has a different way To view the world I would like you to know When you see the simple things To appreciate this life It's not too late to learn Don't wanna be here Somewhere I'd rather be But when I get there I might find it's not for me Tell me what you can hear And then tell me what you see Everybody has a different way To view the world I would like you to know When you see the simple things To appreciate this life It's not too late to learn Tell me what you can hear And then tell me what you see Everybody has a different way To view the world I would like you to know When you see the simple things To appreciate this life It's not too late to learn Don't wanna be here Somewhere I'd rather be But when I get there I might find it's not for me Don't know what I want Or where I want to be Feeling more confused The more the days go by

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Feb 06, 2026

It's the same in every country when you say you're leaving Left behind the loved ones waiting silent in the hall Where you're going lies adventure others only dream of Red and green light, this is real - and so you go to war For the passion, for the glory For the memories, for the money You're a soldier for your country What's the difference? All the same Far away from the land of our birth We fly a flag in some foreign earth We sailed away like our fathers before These colours don't run from cold bloody war There is no one that will save you going down in flames No surrender, certain death - you look it in the eye On the shores of tyranny you crashed a human wave Paying for my freedom with your lonely unmarked graves For the passion, for the glory For the memories, for the money You're a soldier for your country What's the difference? All the same (x3) Far away from the land of our birth We fly a flag in some foreign earth We sailed away like our fathers before These colours don't run from cold bloody war These colours don't run from cold bloody war

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 24, 2025

We are not the sons of God We are not His chosen people now We have crossed the path He trod We will feel the pain of His beginning Shadow fingers rise above Iron fingers stab the desert sky Oh, behold the power of man On its tower ready for the fall Knocking heads together well Rise a city, build a living hell Join the race to suicide Listen for the tolling of the bell Out of the universe a strange love is born Unholy union Trinity reformed Yellow sun its evil twin In the black the winds delivered him We will split our souls within Atom seed to nuclear dust is riven Out of the universe a strange love is born Unholy union Trinity reformed Out of the darkness Brighter than a thousand suns (x6) Bury Your morals and bury Your dead Bury Your head in the sand E=Mc squared - you can relate How we made God with our hands Whatever would Robert have said to his God about how he made war with the sun E=Mc squared - you can relate How we made God with our hands All the nations are rising through acid veils of love and hate Chain letters of Satan Uncertainty led us all to this All the nations are rising through acid veils of love and hate Cold fusion and fury Divide and conquer while ye may Others preach and others fall and pray In the bunkers where we'll die Where the executioners they lie Bombers launch with no recall Minute warning of the missile fall Take a look at your last sky Guessing you won't have the time to cry Out of the universe a strange love is born Unholy union Trinity reformed Out of the darkness Out of the darkness Out of the darkness Brighter than a thousand suns Out of the darkness Brighter than a thousand suns (x4) Holy Father, we have sinned...

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 24, 2025

The keys to death and hell The ailing kingdom doomed to fail The bonds of sin and heart will break The pilgrim's course will take Quelling the Devil’s might and ready for eternal fight Aching limbs and fainting soul Holy battles take their toll Liberty and hope divine Changing our water into wine So to you we bid farewell Kingdom of heaven to hell Spirit holy, life eternal Raise me up, take me home Pilgrim sunrise, pagan sunset Onward journey begun To courage find and gracious will Deliver good from ill Clean the water, clean our guilt With us do what you will Then will my Judge appear Bear no false angel that I hear For only then I will confess to my eternal hell Now give us our holy sign Changing our water into wine So to you we bid farewell Kingdom of heaven to hell Spirit holy, life eternal Raise me up, take me home Pilgrim sunrise, pagan sunset Onward journey begun Now give us our holy sign Changing our water into wine So to you we bid farewell Kingdom of heaven to hell Spirit holy, life eternal Raise me up, take me home Pilgrim sunrise, pagan sunset Onward journey begun (x2)

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 24, 2025

In the gloom the gathering storm abates In the ships, gimlet eyes await The call to arms, to hammer at the gates To blow them wide, throw evil to its fate All summers long the drills to build the machine To turn men from flesh and blood to steel From paper soldiers to bodies on the beach From summer sands to Armageddon's reach Overlord - your master, not your God The enemy coast dawning grey with scud These wretched souls puking shaking fear To take a bullet for those who sent them here The world's alight, the cliffs erupt in flame No escape, remorseless shrapnel rains Drowning men, no chance for a warrior's fate A choking death, enter hell's gates Sliding we go, only fear on our side To the edge of the wire and we rush with the tide Oh, the water is red with the blood of the dead Oh, but I'm still alive, pray to God I survive (x4) How long on this longest day 'till we finally make it through? The rising dead, faces bloated torn They are relieved, the living wait their turn Your number's up, the bullet's got your name You still go on to hell and back again Valhalla waits, Valkyries rise and fall The warrior tombs lie open for us all A ghostly hand reaches through the veil Blood and sand! We will prevail! Sliding we go, only fear on our side To the edge of the wire and we rush with the tide Oh, the water is red with the blood of the dead But I'm still alive, pray to God I survive (x8) How long on this longest day 'till we finally make it through?

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 24, 2025

Hold a halo round the world, golden is the day Princes of the Universe, your burden is the way So there is no better time: who will be born today? A gypsy child at day break? A king for a day? Out of the shadows and into the sun Dreams of the past as the old ways are done Oh, there is beauty and surely there is pain But we must endure it to live again Dusty dreams in fading daylight flicker on the walls Nothing new, your life's adrift - what purpose to it all? Eyes are closed and death is calling, reaching out its hand Call upon the starlight to surround you Out of the shadows and into the sun Dreams of the past as the old ways are done Oh, there is beauty and surely there is pain But we must endure it to live again (x4) A man who casts no shadow has no soul...

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 24, 2025

Are you a man of peace or a man of holy war? Too many sides to you, don't know which any more So many full of life, but also filled with pain Don't know just how many will live to breathe again A life that's made to breathe destruction or defense A mind that's vain corruption - bad or good intent A wolf in a sheep's clothing or saintly or sinner Or some that would believe a holy war winner They fire off many shots and many parting blows Their actions beyond a reasoning only God would know And as he lies in heaven, or it could be in hell I feel he's somewhere here or looking from below But I don't know... I don't know... Please tell me now what life is Please tell me now what love is Well tell me now what war is Again tell me what life is More pain and misery in the history of mankind Sometimes is seems more like the blind leading the blind It brings upon us more of famine, death and war You know religion has a lot to answer for Please tell me now what life is Please tell me now what love is Well tell me now what war is Again tell me what life is And as they search to find the bodies in the sand They find it's ashes that are scattered across the land And as their spirits seem to whistle on the wind A shot is fired somewhere, another war begins And all because of it, you'd think that we would learn But still the body count, the city fires burn Somewhere there's someone dying in a foreign land Meanwhile the world is crying stupidity of man Tell me why... Tell me why... Please tell me now what life is Please tell me now what love is Well tell me now what war is Again tell me what life is (x2) For the greater good of God (x8) Please tell me now what life is Please tell me now what love is Well tell me now what war is Again tell me what life is (x2) For the greater good of God (x8) He gave His life for us, He fell upon the cross To die for all of those who never mourn His loss It wasn't meant for us to feel the pain again Tell me why... Tell me why...

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 24, 2025

There are secrets that you keep There are secrets that you keep There are secrets that you tell to me alone I can't reach things I can't see You don't see this strange world quite the same as me Don't deny me what I am Nothing hidden, still you fail to see the truth These are things you can't reveal These are things you can't reveal We are part of some strange plan Why the slaughter of the brotherhood of man? Infernal sacrifice of hell Fire breathing lead the way Mounds of bodies as they all burn into one Revenge is living in the past Time to look into a new millennium Spiral path leads through the maze Down into the fiery underworld below Fire breathing lead the way Lucifer was just an angel led astray Free your soul and let it fly Give your life to the Lord of Light Keep your secrets and rain on me All I see are mysteries (x2) We are not worthy in your black and blazing eyes We gather demons in the mirror every day The bridge of darkness casts a shadow on us all And all our sins to you we give this day Others wait their turn, their lives were meant to last Use yours wisely as the light is fading fast Free your soul and let it fly Mine was caught, I couldn't try Time returns again to punish all of us We are cast out by our bloody father's hand We are strangers in this lonely promised land We are shadows of the one unholy ghost In our nightmare world, the only one we trust Free your soul and let it fly Give your life to the Lord of Light Keep your secrets and rain on me All I see are mysteries (x2)

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 24, 2025

Tell you a thing that you ought to know Two minutes of your time, then on you go Tell tale of the man all dressed in black That most of them not coming back Sent off to war, to play little games And on their return, can't name no names Some strange yellow gas has played with their minds Has reddened their eyes, removed all the lies And strange as it sounds, death knows no bounds How many get well? Only time will tell Only time will tell... You lie in your death bad now, but what did you bring to the table? Brought us only holy sin Utter trust is a deadly thing To the prayer of holy peace We didn't know what was lying underneath So how could we be such fools? And to think that we thought you the answer I can't begin to understand in all the lies But on your death bed I can see it in you're eyes Just as clear as all the sweat upon your brow It really makes sense, I can see it clearly now Tangled up in a web of lies Could have been a way to prophesies Unaware of the consequence Not aware of the secrets that you kept Nothing that we could believe to reveal the facade of faceless men Not a thing that we could foresee Not a sign that would tell us the outcome You had us all strung out with promises of peace, but all along your cover plan was to deceive Can it put to rights? Now only time will tell Your prophecies will send us all to hell as well Left to all our golden sons All to pick up on the peace You could have given all of them a little chance...at least Take the world to a better place Given them all just a little hope Just think what a legacy you now - will leave We seem destined to live in fear and some that would say Armageddon is near But where there's a life while there's hope that man won't self destruct Why can't we treat our fellow men with more respect and a shake of their hands? But anger and loathing is rife The death on all sides is becoming a way of life We live in an uncertain world Fear, understanding and ignorance is leading to death Only the corpses are left for vultures that prey on their bones But some are just not wanting peace Their whole life is death and misery The only thing that they know: Fight fire with fire - life is cheap But if they do stop to think that man is teetering right on the brink But do you think that they care? They benefit from death and pain and despair

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 24, 2025