Manticora
Album • 2010
I wish I could free myself of the arrogance I had when I was younger but the knowledge does not make up for the pain, for all the pain that I suffer. Nothing really works anymore, this proud machine is falling apart in decay and the disparaging eyes that stare at me makes me want to die today. I know I breed contempt, I felt the same in my first stages. It's just another lesson that you learn through the ages. I only rejected you to keep away from sorrow, I pushed you away to kill the future pain. To see all your loved ones disappear one by one would make an old fool like me go insane. Weakened beyond what I thought was possible, defying my sense of imagination and I'm crying out from the abyss of desperation. I know I breed contempt, I felt the same in my first stages. It's just another lesson that you learn through the ages.
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025
I never thought it'd come to this, the day when freedom was raped and torn. Burned into a cinder and cast away for us all to mourn. And if I disconnect sometimes just leave me be, if I should disconnect just plug me in and see. Freedom... You keep on giving in to demands, a paradoxical right they have abused. The parasite is slowly eating his host, when freedom dies you stand accused. And if I disconnect somehow don't you contemplate, if I should disconnect just plug me in and wait. Freedom... Condemn the atrocities committed in the name of the one. Not a trace of remorse to be found, even if we know that man made God. Not the other way around! And if I disconnect again it's just that I'm sick of it all. So if you plug me in I'll make you beg and crawl. Freedom...
Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025
But there was always something missing somewhere, there was always something that I couldn't put my finger on. The driving force behind me wanting to be number one, whatever it was it is now gone. I have come to the ultimate understanding that this one also has to pass away one day. You are the one to succeed me and you're the one who carry on my reason to be. But you also brought me the apathy to think it was all to no avail. I have finally become complete, you have made me complete. I could die happy knowing that I became complete. A veil of destruction crosses my path and degeneration plants in me a growing seed. It is however but a fleck of dust to me as you have made me, helped me, saved me! My grand illusion of immortality was my youth that now fades away. I gave you life, I fueled the spark that created you and marked the spot in the horizon, the end to my own tale. I have finally become complete, you have made me complete. I could die happy knowing that I became complete.
Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025
Tired of pulling knifes out of my back, they say you reap what you sow. But where along the road did I do wrong, I guess I really just don't know. A boy made man by lines, trenches that deepen day by day. A boy made man by lines, trenches that deepen day by day. In the dreamland between sleep and reality, on the verge of tears of hate I have seen the truth in the eyes of an angel of light from the bottom of my aching heart. I'm sick of cleaning up after all your quarrels, they say you learn from your mistakes So now I have to find where I go wrong and I guess that's really all it takes. In the dreamland between sleep and reality, on the verge of tears of hate I have seen the truth in the eyes of an angel of light from the bottom of my aching heart.
Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025
Another soul departed today, a grieving fact that I have grown used to. Ashes to ashes and dust to what? A ticket to oblivion when your dear ones follow you. Sickness drained the lake inside me that I used to shed my tears, sorrow and sadness in abundance left a desert through so many years. Gone forever, all but a memory, a grain of sand in a brief moment in time. The rain is pouring down, saddening me, as I listen to the sound of the church bell chime. Sickness drained the lake inside me that I used to shed my tears, sorrow and sadness in abundance left a desert through so many years. What is life, but a flash of a switch in the light of eternity? What is life, but a flash of a switch in the light of eternity? What is life, but a flash of a switch in the light of eternity? What is life, but a flash of a switch in the light of eternity? Another soul departed today accompanied by the choir's song. Another soul departed today, it took a little part of me along. Sickness drained the lake inside me that I used to shed my tears, sorrow and sadness in abundance left a desert through so many years.
Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025
Through the portrait you paint you become the creator, you can destroy at will. The claustrophobic sensation increases, my freedom of speech has been sentenced to death. Before we know it the sword comes out of its sheath! By the sculpture you mould you become the creator, you can destroy at will. Level of stupidity increases the more you choose your deity to decide for you. You actively seek discomfort and call for me to feel it too. Find and destroy them all for they have no right to live. Find and destroy them all for they have the nerve to think. Find and destroy them all for theirs are live to spill. Find and destroy them all, you have his blessing to kill. Keep on believing and you shall receive, you will be filled by his power. But what is there left to believe, believe in nothing when belief has turned sour. Through the fire you fuel I become the destroyer, I choose to destroy. I'm feeling cold, I have grown numb! There's nothing left inside this hollow shell. You killed the freedom and no one lives to tell. Find and destroy them all for they have no right to live. Find and destroy them all for they have the nerve to think. Find and destroy them all for theirs are live to spill. Find and destroy them all, you have his blessing to kill.
Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025
I. Searching So the search went on to find where the essence of things lay, always on the prowl to discover the light of day. Somebody once told me that all good comes to he who waits, hard to believe when the lung of life deflates. The only thing worse than losing your mind and being is to know about the fact that it is happening. So why do we keep on fighting when death's cold embrace brings us nothing but nothingness, still we carry on. And my search always ends in death... II. A Miracle Then came the day when it was time to greet you with a "Welcome to the world". I saw a miracle unveil before my eyes the birth of a little baby girl. A picture says more than a thousand words, so here I am, look at me. Try to fathom the love that you see in my stare, my blood, my love, my life. I'll fight for my miracle, I'll conquer for my miracle. I'll endure for my miracle, I'll die for you, my miracle. And I'd kill the whole world if I knew it'd made you smile, down to the last of human kind. They've got supremacy in numbers but I have an image of you in my mind. So I look at my miracle and fill with pain that I ever have to separate from you again. I think of my miracle and tears fill my eyes as all my frustration fades and dies. I'll fight for my miracle, I'll conquer for my miracle. I'll endure for my miracle, I'll die for you, my miracle. III. Fading I feel my days are growing shorter, with that a battle has begun to live and breathe every moment with you, to stay with you under the sun. I planted a seed, the image of me, and now that you're here I wonder about my own mortality. Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder so I am not objective, that's true, but you are the sweetest thing to gaze upon and I bleed inside when I look at you. I planted a seed for the world to see and now that you're here I ponder my own immortality. IV. End(less) Now that nature can dispose of me I ask myself how can you go on? The answer lies in you, you made me safe. My life, my love, my blood!
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Nov 12, 2025
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