Damnatio Memoriae

Then we crafted beauty Our transcendent art Until the hands of fury Tore our work apart We're the music playing In a distant room From another lifetime Echoes of the tomb They will come for you Mindless destruction Split your world in two In the name of some god Your genius unruly You could turn the times around Simple men of fury Will bury you and your theories underground Hear the children playing In a distant room Casualties of conflict Damned within the womb They will come for you Mindless destruction Split your world in two In the name of some fool For these destructive ways There is no defense Intolerance born of ignorance So much damage done Shattered bloody pieces Lying on the ground Bodies of the innocent Scattered all around All their futures lost to violence Hatred so ingrained In the end what has been gained? For nothing will survive Shattered bloody pieces Littered on the ground Bodies of the innocent Scattered all around They will come for you Mindless destruction Split your world in two In the name of some god They will come for you Mindless destruction Split your world in two In the name of some tyrant

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 18, 2026

Purveyor of imperfection Let the healer bring disease Preacher of confusion Thomas doubts to our beliefs While a face from the past With no warning recast Brings the once beating heart to life I want to be me and somebody else Cut me in two in the darkness at night Piss on the bonfire Grease on the highwire Why in the world did you have to come here? You're a fly in the ointment Let the healer bring disease Imperfection Doubts to our beliefs To your fanatic I am your heretic Empty handed now unknowing As you labour with your burdens Asking why you feel so alone Question all you think is true Never lose that part of you A face from the past Brings the once beating heart to life I want to be me and somebody else Cut me in two in the darkness at night You're a fly in the ointment Let the healer bring disease

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 18, 2026

This love was dangerous And now it destroys Brings us down to our knees Such foolishness our sorrow breeds So tired of all the pain coiling up inside Lead me here This is where I hide Dragging through all our failures All our regrets Yearning to feel the love and innocence Lost to neglect To any other wraith no longer I belong What's loved is broken Words can never be unspoken So tired of all the pain coiling up inside Leave me here To rise again in my time Entrenched in all my failure All of my shame I don't need you I don't need anyone To share the pain Face another day Face a new nightmare Open your eyes Once you're aware Finding reasons Finding truth All you need right now is precious solitude No fight goes on forevermore You had the one you think you battle for Perfect love let disappear Was it ever real? Can it ever reappear? Now it destroys

Losing my mind Black oil on blue sea Lost little child But nobody knew me Carnival ride Spinning alone in the darkness Far from the crime Yet still I would confess Love me so deep Then bury me deeper Put me to sleep Like arms of the reaper I am your child You are my keeper I'm so afraid Now you cannot be here Mindless Existence Turned from flesh to stone No resistance Engraved with bitter loss Burning bridges crossed Future yet unknown Crippling fear of dying alone And as you clean my wings You will see that the damage is already done In my eyes, in my skin See the sickness that can't be undone Feel it seeping deeper within To the heart of all I have become As the journey begins Through the valleys that banish the sun

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 18, 2026

From the distant waters Her siren's song came Now their hell, then your heaven As you whispered her name This moment changes everything Nothing will ever be the same again And in your faces Joy has drained from your eyes The dream, the journey is over Can you rebuild the empty shell of your lives? This fleeting moment in time When you come to your senses There is nothing left to look upon Finality the bitter pill And the clocks keep ticking on Another midlife crisis Trust slipping away Does it seem worth the price now In this cold light of day? This moment changes everything Nothing will ever be the same again This night rearranges everything No words to defend And so it goes And so it comes to an end Fleeting moment in time.

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 25, 2025

Thieves of innocence Cursed be your birth The world forever blackened by you Tell me please, where is your worth? Cast your shadow Upon the meek You have power now Inside you know that you are weak Destroyers of innocence Cursed be your birth The world forever blackened by you Tell me please, where is your worth? Cast your shadow Your foul disease You manipulate Insidiously preying upon the weak Alone in your captivity Now stripped of your authority Inflicting no more your savagery On the lives of those we try to protect How can a man sink down to this? Lower himself fully into the abyss In your shadow Twisted and bleak Wake up and see The destruction you wreak Now the world Has become a greyer place With one more scar upon its face You take what's good and in its place Leave the lasting legacy of your disgrace What have you done to the innocent children? You selfish bastards, your deeds have ruined them How can they ever be free from this? Innocence gone, and childhood forever missed Alone in your captivity Bars of steel and bitter regret Inflicting no more of your savagery On the lives of those we try to protect

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 18, 2026

I need to redeem myself Need to release my tortured mind You know this wasn't my choice The words are mine in another man's voice Darkness came down upon me Sickness tore right through me Pressure, the depth of that misery Felt just like suffocation You can look anywhere for answers I looked for too many answers in you This fool thought it lasted forever Trying so hard not to witness the truth Lost to supplication Forever beyond the pale Tribulation, sorrow and pain Burning deep within my veins All we have is ourselves now and we are alone All we hear is the silence, the empty unknown We kept turning the key but this wasn't our home Looking up at the skies when the follows had flown This is not me This is not my voice You look at me with tears in your eyes Believe me now This was not my choice Wait long enough and everything dies Love lost and found And lost and found Moving forward then turned around Feeling alive then feeling alone in this garden of thorns and neglect Gaining our strength and losing ground I need to redeem myself Need to release my mind from this I will live on in hope of something better than this Until I breathe my dying breath

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 18, 2026

Turn me around The world spins above me I'm falling down and the chaos enfolds me Where are we now And where are we going? Lost to these dreams Growing and growing Time to move on Time to retreat Turn back the clock Did we ever meet? Turn back the clock This is never going to work Stand well back and look away This is always going to hurt like nothing else Watching all we built burning away Lift the lid and look inside Into the darkness we have found All is given then denied All our ships have run aground Turn back the clock This is never going to work Stand well back and look away This is always going to hurt like nothing else Watching all we built burning away Could this have been an illusion from the start? We trusted in this and we ripped it apart And I knew you once like the back of my hand Separation so final Never part of the plan Thanks to sir_lancelot149 for sending these lyrics. Submits, comments, corrections are welcomed at webmaster@darklyrics.com MY SILENT WAKE LYRICS

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 18, 2026