Ruins

“I had a dream which was not all a dream The bright sun was extinguish’d And the stars did wander darkling In the eternal space, rayless and pathless And the icy earth swung blind And blackening in the moonless air” Everlasting night suck color out of our soul Grip your claws around this barren land Create shadows to make us look small, yeah Like we’ve got something to live Nation of maggots, ready to infest Carrion stripped of flesh long ago At least we have each other to devour This is the point where all life is engulfed into nothing And our timelines are curled into a circle Pin a thousand needles in me Peel my skin with lye Cut me up with your rusty blade I will not make a sound, oh Like we’ve got something to live Nation of maggots, ready to infest Carrion stripped of flesh long ago At least we have each other to devour Like we’ve got something to live Like we’ve got some place to go Like we’ve got somewhere to turn Like we’ve got something to live I won’t speak another word Mute the sounds of your world My chapter is written, the end in ink This book is now closed Look but never see again Evolve into something new Lost without a light We are chasing shadows Haunted by our own sight Suffocated in cradles Gone without a trace Cocooned and turned to dust Thrown into abyss I mark the zenith in aeons of terror, yeah

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 07, 2026

Destroy as I build My fortress rising in the wasteland Towering upon nothing Grounded on errors of the past Cast into iron I will lead, I will follow Inhale this torment As you slowly turn to stone, yeah This pressure made a broken man Crumbling sanity A monument of bitterness Empty space surrounds me There’s room to collapse within Man built all and all is lost Hole in a world of nothing Nothing! Palace of void beneath all this Empty, drained dry Here, under a dying sun Solace found in all that’s gone Everything comes to a halt When all is said and all is done Laughter will echo From the walls of these ruins, yeah!

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 07, 2026

Crawl through knives to reach the brink It hurt like hell but here I am Put down these torches From now on everything turns black Drag myself all the way down To the bottom of this charade When you dive long enough You shall witness the end of me Seasons change But after this I will never Symbol of all long-lost hope Buried inside a dying dream Trapped within my shell Genealogy of bad decisions Destroying all I touch Bring the whole world down with me! You cowards never had the guts To turn your back, to reject it all To cripple yourself and be happy to crawl Now lay your eyes on me Revel as I take this step I shall prove my worthless point With this triumph in misanthropy Seasons change But after this I will never Symbol of all long-lost hope Buried inside a dying dream Trapped within my shell Genealogy of bad decisions Destroying all I touch Bring the whole world down with me Oh! Bring the whole world down And witness the end of me Bring the whole world down! Let it crumble all over Seasons change But after this I will never Symbol of all long-lost hope Buried inside a dying dream Trapped within my shell Genealogy of bad decisions Destroying all I touch Bring the whole world down with me! Bring the whole world down with me! “The rivers, lakes and ocean, all stood still And nothing stirr’d within their silent depths”

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 07, 2026

My god is dead These screams are not of this world Cut a piece as a gift to make all the bad go away Carved of empty words Built from worn-out promises Blending into the grey Like a ghost trapped between two worlds Throw your lashes against my back And burn me with your tongue This skin is too thick to break But old wounds still fester inside Grind my bones into dust And scatter me with the wind I will fade and join you all Becoming one with Shadows Linger inside our walls Shadows I am programmed to be alone until I take the fall Shadows Cut through our scars Shadows Abused mind dying to welcome this call Save what’s left of my sanity Preserve my thoughts in a jar Memorize this trail as a warning for you all Dispose of this shell Throw what’s left on top of a pile I was destined to be just another open tomb in the yard Shadows Linger inside our walls Shadows I am programmed to be alone until I take the fall Shadows Cut through our scars Shadows Abused mind dying to welcome this call Shadows Shadows Shadows Shadows

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 07, 2026

Where are you I used to know you Come out its warm The sun is shining What happened to you Where did you go Please come out I miss you I can hear you I am Down in the deep Up in the distance Floating in the air I’m so sorry for not Trying enough That I cowered under my shell But I can still hear you Sinking into oblivion Powerless to stop the motion All movement ends It pulls me under Towards the end All sound is fading There you are still, somewhere I’m glad you kept on trying

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025