Grand Materia

So it came to me – and i saw beyond the dark reflection of myself in me I closed my eyes and i flew away and i inhaled eternal life Behind – the deepest of my soul beyond the world you live in i found a miracle i caught the shadowstone With the knowledge in my hand more alive than ever with the seven astral planes within – i will live forever So far away but somewhere inside me an angel slumbers wrapped in shadows Grand materia catch the shadow of your soul I became alone my gift was both a blessing and a curse Because i couldn't tell, didn't dare to speak, no one to trust i kept my knowledge for myself Alone but with a presence inside me an angel is awake in the shadows Grand materia tame the shadow of your soul There is no end in my life – no final destination both blessed and doomed to walk the earth, as an immortal transmutation Something dark is always close- trying to control me i think it wants the shadow back, through the barriers inside me Alone but with a presence inside me a demon is awake in the shadows Grand materia

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 24, 2025

Heartbeats pounding – almost sounding under my skin in disguise – i'm about to begin to stage my plan – my decease am i insane qualms of remorse – what a sinister deed Betrayal – they're close to reveal what i am brothers i thought that i had greed takes possession of man my funeral is calling Dead man poor man – you'll die twice to cover my life decomposed – in a chamber of mine my death is done – soon i'm free vanished and gone a dead man lives – a living man dies Betrayal – they're close to reveal what i am brothers i thought that i had greed takes possession of man my funeral is calling Inquisition, church, disciples i fooled you all veiled and secured – is the secret, my soul o'er that grave – they will pray for a dead man unknown i will live on – through time and beyond Betrayal – they're close to reveal what i am brothers i thought that i had greed takes possession of man my funeral is calling

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 24, 2025

Sometime i miss the life before when there was no forever more it's bittersweet to live forever All the friends around me died so did my emotions and cries it took me a long, long time to learn to live my life in the mists of my memories and on the shores of the centuries i do sometimes find a piece of harmony but i recall pain as well tremendous sorrow and regrets unveiled it's bittersweet to live and never die i have seen it all and even more i have lived through countless wars but love torments me more than anything i know in the corridors of time behind the doors to my deepest mind i will always keep the ones i loved alive in the mists of my memories and on the shores of the centuries i do sometimes find a piece of harmony but i recall pain as well tremendous sorrow and regrets unveiled it's bittersweet to live and never die only endless time remains in the corridors of time behind the deepest of my mind well, only endless time remains

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 24, 2025

Something's here, it's everywhere it's sad and cold, it's in the air hollow voices, mumbling talk limping steps, when someone walks staring eyes, from a sallow face in the mirror, in the haze a bell that chimes, from behind the walls or doors, or from the other side hollow – there's the hollow sound of a bell hollow – hollow sound of hell i want you no harm, just make a friend in this lonely endless end i sense your fear, i feel it well i hear it too, the sound of a bell hollow – there's the hollow sound of a bell hollow – hollow sound of hell hollow – there's the hollow sound of a bell hollow – hollow sound of hell you deny me, when i'm there as if i was just, mist and air i will reach you with my chime i'm the ringer of infinite time shadows move, haunting me sucking all my energy why don't you come, when i call you never speak, no never at all i summon you, with my chime i want your soul it is mine the more i crave, the more you die the more i sense that i'm alive hollow – there's the hollow sound of a bell hollow – hollow sound of hell

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 24, 2025

Life – deep within all lies a shadow a soul to find – and to hold it is to hear how insanity roars something comes with the knowledge of all that is deeper and darker and see through my soul face to face – i crumble before the being of all the edge at the edge of all life and beyond the edge at the end of my mind time – is wrapped all around me (and) choking my thoughts (and) eyes – staring (gazing) right through me for secrets i hold trying to find the shadow inside me - find it and take it while i'm petrified face to face – i crumble before the being of all the edge at the edge of all life and beyond the edge at the end of my mind

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 24, 2025

If i open up my mind and receive the other side where the day reflects the night in frenetic timeless time and knowledge is a well there in heaven there in hell where every thought and fantasy is reality on the other side in the immutable eternity on the other side in the impalpable eternally there i face my soul angelical – unbound (a) shadow of the free forever meant to be and the presence that i feel from my kindred soul strengths my life – my energy through eternity on the other side in the immutable eternity on the other side in the impalpable eternally there i've found the power the secret source the grand materia the shadowstone – my soul (there i drink the knowledge) (there i find the truth) but it can be hard to stand the menacing and sad that is beyond my grasp like heartbeats in the vast that entity that's haunting me searching for my soul it's everywhere – unreachable not tangible on the other side in the immutable eternity on the other side in the impalpable eternally

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 24, 2025

Wherever i walk no shadow will fall i hold it inside me, the angel my soul this dark opacity-following entity fly inside my domains, prisoned in mind i roam – in my non- existing shadow i roam – in a world that goes round and round can the eyes of a man understand what they see when they see the loss of the shadow of me for your eyes non existing, invisible, missing and gone but your brain's apprehension will tell that it's there in the sun (on the lee side of the sun) i roam – in my non- existing shadow i roam – in a world that goes round and round i roam – with my invisible shadow i roam – in my non- existing shadow i roam you walk – this earth – with a dark reflection – a curse that has to wait – until the end – of your life to get free and transcend(ed) but not the shadow of me – no, not the shadow of me. i roam – in my non- existing shadow i roam – in a world that goes round and round i roam – with my invisible shadow i roam – in my non- existing shadow i roam

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 24, 2025

I have found a little hideaway it's a place not so far away like a nest in my mind where i rest and sense no time there i am as much as i can as an old and crumbled man and i hide from the pain and sorrow that i fear behind this barrier i can just deny all the thoughts no cause and action (effect/consequence) there at all an emotional sanctuary time has gone too far to turn around the pain i feel will fade away 'cause life goes on in a colder way an emotional sanctuary like a spider in a web of dreams i control my sanctuary and the walls that i've built are my lost memories cause i live in a (cause i'm living in a)world of madness and the only place to heal is the place too close for man to find and feel behind this barrier i can just deny all the thoughts no cause and action (effect/consequence) there at all an emotional sanctuary time has gone too far to turn around the pain i feel will fade away cause life goes on in a colder way an emotional sanctuary

Black eyed strangers trapped in time oh, bitter angels caught behind the thought – given only to mankind legions of the seraphim the fallen army stained with sin patiently they're waiting for the end the fall of time from where fallen angels rule the hatred never seems to fade their malicious dark deception closing in from where fallen angels rule the hatred never seems to fade their malicious dark deception soon fulfilled giving coded secrets to some chosen of the race of man so that grand materia can be found eagerly they're waiting for the monumental moment when they fly once again free and unbound they are trapped in time from where fallen angels rule the hatred never seems to fade their malicious dark deception closing in from where fallen angels rule the hatred never seems to fade their malicious dark deception soon fulfilled they are trapped in time in terrestrial skies fallen (angels), darkened (angels), blinded (angels poisoned) by their hate from where fallen angels rule the hatred never seems to fade their malicious dark deception closing in

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 24, 2025

As below, so above; and as above, so below with this knowledge you may work miracles (i know) and all things emanate, from the one who is the cause (fate) all things are born (after their kind) from this one the sun is the father, its mother is the moon earth – the guardian and its nurse it's the father of all things eternal will is contained (within) this is the truth, with out falsehood, certain and most true i possess the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world the operation of the sun this is what i know the consummated sum of the work - the operation of the sun (thou shalt) separate the earth from fire the subtle from the dense (bla bla) gently with, unremitting care (and wisdom) it ascends from earth to heaven and again descends to earth and receives the strength of the superior (and the) inferior this is the truth, without falsehood, certain and most true i possess the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world the operation of the sun this is what i know the consummated sum of the work - the operation of the sun by means of this one thing all the glory of the world shall be yours and all obscurity (shall) flee from you it is power of all power it will dispel all ignorance by this one, the world was created this is the truth, without falsehood, certain and most true i possess the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world the operation of the sun there's nothing more to say (nothing more to say about) the consummated sum of the work - the operation of the sun

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 24, 2025

Here i am seven centuries away from the discovery that led this way my eyes can testify to miracles you wont believe the things i've seen in my immortal life i see the truth behind every lie and i sense who shall live and who shall die the knowledge of the blind humanity where insanity controls the world – i weep open up your eyes knowing just as i you are blind blind you are blind The room bulges and every atom is pulsating. The hollow sound of a wind chime rings pleasantly in the distance. My fear is gone and a feeling of calm is spreading through my body Your chime is calling i'm coming i'm yours (you are mine) oh, time nothing matters to me anymore i am harvested by the scythe of time i'm not the virus that i where before time will heal all wounds – i'm sure its ascending, descending course strikes with out remorse finally it finds the scythe of time hits blind time hits (strikes) blind

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 24, 2025

Knowledge beyond the knowledge i had a fool was i for sure still my thoughts belong to my mind but slowly they are fading away to become a part of timeless time i wonder who i am and why where am i and why am i alive it's time to rest now rest and reconcile with time silence i'm drifting away with the currents of time to become absorbed by timeless time and there by the shores – the beginning of all my shadow is waiting for me to be whole i'm the essence of my soul i wonder who i am and why where am i and why am i alive it's time to rest now rest and reconcile with time it's time to rest now my task is done i wonder who i am and why where am i and why am i alive i thought that i was doomed to die but here i am to face a blood red sky

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 24, 2025