I Will Fight No More Forever
Living out your life of pain, pretend to hide the sorrow Who is there to guide me now? Who is there who cares? Cults of unreason deny, promising love they can't give Still, cults of unreason survive Carving out your mind with their emotional destruction Giving up your free will to established domination Cults of unreason deny, preaching against what you've known Still, cults of unreason survive Your life falls before your eyes Depraved souls believing lies Deriving fortunes from their faults Defend yourself from their assaults Force yourself to love their life Take it as it follows Mindless waste you have become, fortuitous decay Cults of unreason, promising love they can't give Preaching destructive lies, destroys your life A mocking religion betraying your honor for gold Still, cults of unreason survive
Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025
Left to ourselves behind our barricades, an open wound preys on our closed minds We reach for the Self, outstretched and falling How can we see when we are blind? Banished Assume control of life, don't let it pass you by Responsibility is yours and you're not banished When we're without being, caught in nothingness, greed goes unwashed to our strychnine lord I'll inherit this land I'll inherit the wind Will I last? Lasts the will.... Banished Assume control of life, don't let it pass you by Responsibility is yours and you're not banished Fall by the side or stand away... We yearn for the free and we yearn to see I'll inherit this land I'll inherit the wind But I will last I am strong
Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025
Melanin means hardships stand Memory means it's not our land But we try to make life worth living Fear will mean there's work to do Motion means we'll overcome We'll overcome But we try to make like we try to make life worth living There comes a time when I've got to ask you... What did you do? What will you do? What have you done? There comes a time when I've got to ask you... What have we done?
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025
A chosen few, impartial for today With a single word we can put this man away It seems so trivial to those who sit in the box But if the roles were reversed would we want the same feelings? Twelve different minds, twelve different reasons for wanting this trial to end Twelve Angry Men: but are we qualified? The scene is set We're in for a very long ride A sea of testimony drowns each juror with its tides To ask for perfection under pressure and limited time, is to brew a vintage spirit with the grapes off any vine Day after day, the wheels of Justice keep turning The more that we try, it seems the less we are learning Day after day, the bridges crossed, we keep burning As hard as the dimb may seem, we must continue yearning Preservation of every Right will keep the wheels spinning forevermore The coward's way out, keep quiet and just agree Or take the path not chosen, and voice my discrepancy Eleven fierce stares But I know I can justify It's a small price to pay when we know we've done what's right Twelve different minds, twelve different reasons for acting as we did Twelve Angry Men: but were we qualified?
Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025
Perfection is inhuman To forgive is divine Diogenes and his lantern An honest man he could not find When they live up to the standards that other people set, they sell themselves short, they settle for second best A misanthropic lifestyle, reclusion and contempt.. I use my mind, become myself, don't fear what might come next See the contagious phobia spread through our streets Realize no branch can bear fruit on its own Hope: in our hands lies success or defeat Pray we can cure... Destroy the social syndrome Quick to give an answer when it's all in retrospect Living with their prejudice, ignorance feeds neglect Misdirected logic, their priorities are confused Just living day to day for them is catch 22 Knowledge is our weapon Faith provides a cure We must believe in what we know is right, believe in what is pure If we vow to make a change and open up our hearts, we'll combat the social syndrome and we're free to a new start
Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025
This track is instrumental.
Self-stricken from their blinded eyes What is their future? Telling of the screams of Guernica Is this our future? Clutching at their medicated minds Our neo-leaders Choking in the novocaine response... We are driven underground by the novocaine response Yet there must be hope to see before the sadness screams Novocaine relinquishing the future for dying change and sadness screams Novocaine denying us our crimes As for hope: sadness screams We are hidden by ourselves this time What is our future? Just like the war in '39 What was their future? But where's the town of Guernica If no one listens? ...New York or Moscow, it doesn't matter We are driven underground by the novocaine response Yet there must be hope to see before the sadness screams Novocaine relinquishing the future for dying change and sadness screams Novocaine denying us our crimes As for hope: sadness screams A closed mind is paralysis: a seething ignorance; a regulated sketch The cancer bores its way inside: an urgent need to kill; an urgent need to die Sadness screams a loss of man: denying us our fate; enslaving of our tears Responses dulled by leperous blinds: a novocaine response for medicated
Submitted by Lake of Tears — Nov 10, 2025
Welcome home to Mother Earth This is life not some rebirth Can't spend my time awaiting something that may never come Apathy, the thief of time; I confess guilt of the crime yet I refuse to act I place the blame on someone else Sacrifice what I have, fade to the past or shall I take a stand here in my world? Fabric of my life unfolds, must reach out and take a hold I must prove a point Can't watch the others pass me by Gift of life or punishment? Will I worship or resent? Am I on a mission or is this what I deserve? Cry insignificance Surrender my life or shall I take a stand here in my world? Should I ask the questions of the things that I'm unsure or should I take for granted what I'm told to believe? You must find out for yourself There is no absolute Belief is what you make it, self-realized truth Sacrifice what I have, fade to the past or shall I take a stand here in my world?
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025
Stay in line, young man We've got rules, you understand, and it takes just one bad apple to spoil the bunch Sameness is the key Pride in mediocrity And we can't afford to have you singled out Suffer obedience My chance to jump the fence I will not be broken down I will stand firm in my ground Color inside the lines Exile the brightest minds I can see right through your plot I am alive while you are not We serve a common good Your father always would I am one and I am strong I can see I don't belong We have you on file Come now, we don't beguile I will hold on to myself I give in to no one else... I thought I'd change the world in a day It doesn't work that way I know I've made a mark on the world if I should die today Don't exceed your peers Son, we know your worst fears This will hurt us more than it hurts you We have set no trap Add a feather to your cap Listen, we all like things just the way they are Suffer obedience My chance to jump the fence I will not be broken down I will stand firm in my ground Color inside the lines Exile the brightest minds I can see right through your plot I am alive while you are not We serve a common good Your father always would I am one and I am strong I can see I don't belong We have you on file Come now, we don't beguile I will hold on to myself I give in to no one else... no one else... I thought I'd change the world in a day It doesn't work that way I know I've made a mark on the world if I should die today
Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025