Sorceress

A beloved name inside my heart A fleeting glance became the start A missing word I am still awaiting A wretched deception, I am creating

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 24, 2025

I am a sinner and I worship evil Blood is thinner, but you will never know Can you confess that you thrive in chaos You're a sorceress and your eye is on the lost But you're dying It's in your eyes You're a charlatan, you get everything you wish You're a harlot carry poison in your kiss Beg forgiveness with a dagger in your hand Sow your death seed and reap the dying lands But you're crying It's only vice Empty vessel drained of hope And none the lesser at the end of a rope Have you ever hated like I? Know I still awaited the absence of lies Watch your eager tongue Attack me from behind Riddle whisper, bleak futile control Like a twin sister adapting to a role You're a murderer, bloodlust increase You're a harvester, come close to spread disease And you're hiding I hear you cry

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 24, 2025

Sun hangs high, I turn away Failure underground Heart is sick and fever is high Waiting for a sound Like a trail of insects to me I watch them from afar Feeding, breeding, scheming Tell me I am wrong Hiding from discovery Staring down into the ground Had they seen the posion in me A tide of spite wound be found Moving faster lingering gaze Feasting on my sanity A grain of sand against endless waves A wish for the slaughter of conformity Blinding light as the flames grow higher Searing skin on a funeral pyre Blinding light as the flames grow higher Searing skin on a funeral pyre Inside me sleeps a violence waiting to be freed [Solo: Åkesson] Blinding light as the flames grow higher Searing skin on a funeral pyre Blinding light as the flames grow higher Searing skin on a funeral pyre Blinding light and the flames grow higher Searing skin on a funeral pyre Should I speak and they'll call me a liar I'll retreat to my funeral pyre My sanctuary, a thousand centuries I'm not waiting, I'm tired of waiting I'm not waiting, I'm tired of waiting I'm not waiting, I'm tired of waiting I'm not waiting

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 24, 2025

When you're tired of waiting and time is not on your side When you're tired of hating me, you no longer want to hide You're stuck to the failures of your life Marred with the sorrows of your strife And time it waits for no one It heals them when you die And soon you are forgotten A whisper within a sigh When there's trouble admitting that you have been wrong all along When the words you have written down reads "everything is gone" You're stuck to the failures of your life Marred with the sorrows of your strife And time it waits for no one It heals them when you die And soon you are forgotten A whisper within a sigh And time it waits for no one It heals them when you die And soon you are forgotten A whisper within a sigh When you smother your friendships and take much more than you need When you can't keep a secret to yourself and points to the source of the deed You're stuck to the failures of your life Marred with the sorrows of your strife And you can never find the satisfaction When you can't outgrow your false distractions [Solo: Åkesson] You know your soul is weighed on the silver scale of deceit and lies [Solo: Åkerfeldt]

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 24, 2025

And on the furthest day when you lay down Discard your disarray and your rusted crown And face the wretched image of you and I No trust in what you say, you are a dead poison seed Stronger when you are away, you have nothing that I need The rhyme has settled in the ghost of a sigh Nothing now remains, now you will leave me be Sunrise into the moonlight A broken body lies in wait Your prize won you the stark night And you made peace with your fate Blind eyes sensitive only to white light Reacting just a bit too late Preying on insecurity, a design of your schemes A true believer of purity must tend to what it means Or allow its gospel to turn into a lie You forsake everything you feel in favor of despair Immune and blind to everything that is real in your secret lair And cast away the captive heart that was thine And you will go and leave me be Winter in your soul, building a wasteland And you tread a thin ice 'neath your feet Sneering, and everyone you would shun Collecting flowers to your wreath Lifeline, a river cuts deep in your cold hand It is changing when you try to breathe [Solo: Åkesson, Svalberg, Åkesson, Svalberg] Leave it all behind you, there is comfort in giving up A seed in a barren soil might curl up into a coil Flourish into something new Give back what you thought was "you" And give way to all that is new [Solo: Åkerfeldt] Leave it all behind you...

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 24, 2025

Until I take my final breath In a year or even less I hope you will give me all your time And do not forget me down the line And I will never ask you if you will stay Or if you will cry when I go away Until I take my final breath In a year or even less I hope you will give me all your time And do not forget me down the line And I will never ask you if you will stay Or if you will cry when I go away Ice melting into the sea Your river flowing back to me And when you take your final breath In many years from now, no less I hope you feel a peace at heart Don't be afraid to kiss the dark And don't ever wonder if I stayed My love for you can not die away

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 24, 2025

Hold me in your arms Never do me harm Never do me harm Hold me in your arms A raging sea in your eyes Gives away your disguise Grants me the peace to leave And finally leave you be

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 24, 2025

An afternoon walk through the park I keep to the shadows until it's dark I am not educated nor free of sin I carry thoughts of giving in There is a void surrounding me No sound, and in the black I can not see There is a chasm between you and me You have no face, no body, no words to speak [Solo: Åkerfeldt, Åkesson] There is a wickedness in me I can't seem to make it go away I am a spiritual leper but I can see A flock of believers gone astray There's eternal night in my gaze I'm cast out and I am not like you Find my way on through the haze I'm liquefied in a strange brew An early morn walk through the park I look to the sun when it is cold and stark I blend with the crows of robot minds Never a leader, I am always behind A voice through the rain tells me I'm here A glance from a veil brings me to tears A voice through the rain tells me I'm here A glance from a veil brings me to tears A voice through the rain tells me I'm here A glance from a veil brings me to tears A voice through the rain tells me I'm here A glance from a veil brings me to tears

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 24, 2025

Up until recently I have been alone Leading a tranquil life but never at home Something had changed and I turned to the wind That blew through me and told me, "How long? How long?" Silenced the voice of my heart now for years I was perplexed by a fleeting blank stare Biding my time until courage had build up inside me Then came clean, "Or am I wrong" [Solo: Åkerfeldt] I spend all my days contemplating my will For the weak shall inherit the earth when it's still A govenment bid for my life I was sold as a cog in a machine, "I walk the line" A fleeting glance again tells me everything Took a chance in vain, drown to a futile idea A pursuit of happiness as the storm rolls in An idol of helplessness, paved the way and then gave in I met with my mother and I asked her why For ten years so more she would never reply Suddenly she said we are all born to die Gave me purpose, freed me, "How simple it can be" But it's fading away from my mind There's another "me" waiting behind [Solo: Åkerfeldt] But it's fading away from my mind There's another "me" waiting behind

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 24, 2025

There's a sign in the rain Every now and again It is a symbol of hope In the midst of a catastrophic episode In the hour of death There's a spiritual wealth When we dance through the rain And form the signs once again If even for a second I hear a voice on the air It has a warning to share "Don't believe what you see" "You can't perceive what you feel" But if I do what I'm told And shun the spirit I hold I'm no longer a human And I will not shift with the sands The end of an era One starts anew You know the devil He lives in you The end of an era One starts anew You know the devil He lives in you There are moments of doubt when I don't know what to do And giving in is the only way out When there's too much shouting about how I should choose Incapacitated, I'm left behind In a sea of hatred I go blind A storm is coming, I hide away In the years of need reason leads astray [Solo: Åkesson] The end of an era One starts anew You know the devil He lives in you The end of an era One starts anew You know the devil He lives in you He lives in you He lives in you

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 24, 2025

The years went by with disquieting grace A past obsession sunk without a trace I moved into winter and found my home As my boiling blood had turned to chrome

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 24, 2025

I am going away, I am going down I am going away, I am going down Sifting through a memory before it fades away Adolescent secrecy, a million words astray I can't remember happiness, I thrive within the dark The security of a loneliness is a veil that keeps my calm By the way, I'm doing fine I have a place to stay, just behind the sunshine And by the way, I don't need sympathy I have a place to lay, I have more than you can see I walk the streets alone at night, it helps to ease my mind I lay me down come the morning light and leave all woes behind

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 24, 2025

On a wind that's sailing through the morning I have cut the harness off of my heart On a tide that's rising with the dawning I find I belong inside the dark And when the waves roll in to cover me in shame I avoid another sign of the efforts made in vain I am just another ripple in the current of an age Another crossed out name on another wrinkled page Carry me home Carry me home Carry me home Carry me home Carry me home Carry me home Carry me home Carry me home There's a dream that tells me I'm haunted It comes to visit every fortnight or so I wake up having lost all I have ever wanted And a bleak apparition wants what I hold And when the waves roll in to cover me in shame I avoid another sign of the efforts made in vain I am just another ripple in the current of an age Another crossed out name on another wrinkled page Carry me home Carry me home Carry me home Carry me home Carry me home Carry me home Carry me home Carry me home Should it disappear, should it go away? Would it mend the wounds I bare, the wound of love? Could it reappear like a familiar tale? Like a broken friendship that snuffs the moonlight above [Solo: Åkerfeldt, Åkesson, Svalberg]

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 24, 2025

A child of autumn was born Into a world of deceit and death And a land of ice A break of bonds would take her away And install a sense of loss and eternal sorrow She walks across the country She holds her head up high in the rain A mother is screaming for help And she turns around to stare At a scene from her memory She is hiding a wish in her heart That flows through her blood always And it's culled from a dream That someone is waiting to say her name And call her to his side at the cusp of eternity

Submitted by Grave666 — Nov 08, 2025

Please remedy my confusion, and thrust me back to the day. The silence of your seclusion brings night into all you say. Pull me down again, and guide me into pain! I'm counting nocturnal hours, drown visions in haunted sleep. Faint flickering of your powers leaks out to show what you keep. Pull me down again, and guide me into... There is failure inside, this test I can't persist. Kept back by the enigma, no criterias demanded here. Deadly patterns made my wreath, prosperous in your ways. Pale ghost in the corner pouring a caress on your shoulder. Puzzled by shrewd innocence, runs a thick tide beneath. Ushered into inner graves, nails bleeding from the struggle. It is the end for the weak at heart, always the same. A lullaby for the ones who've lost all, reeling inside. My gleaming eye in your necklace reflects, stare of primal regrets. You turn your back, and you walk away never again! Spiralling to the ground below like autumn leaves left in the wake to fade away. Waking up to your sound again, and lapse into the ways of misery.

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Nov 08, 2025

The mist is sleeping on the water And winter is hiding in my heart Thorns in my eyes are slowing me down I can't pass through to the other side She knows I'm the one who sought her But when we fall, we'll fall so hard She holds a secret and won't show me how How to break the riddle in her eyes This is treason of the mind and soul Death is no reason why you would go Inside the ghost of love is laughing It mocks the footsteps where I go It tells me nothing has been lost It whispers: "you've seen darkness before" In time the hurting will subside And longing is overthrown What's left is a void that grows inside And the echo of a failure This is treason of the mind and soul Death is no reason why you would go Have you ever had the feeling of a sorrow inside? Have you ever been the reason why a hope subsides? Have you ever seen the aftermath of giving up? Have we given up? Is it over? Have you given up? Is winter hiding in your heart?

Submitted by MetalElf — Nov 08, 2025