Watershed

[Mikael Akerfeldt:] She told me Why she told me lies Always take care of this I told her how I've always stayed Always waiting for nothing [x2] When I get out of here When I leave you behind I'll find that the years passed us by And I can see you Running through the fields of sorrow Yes I can, see you Running through the fields of sorrow [x2] When you get out of here When you leave me behind You'll find that the years passed us by And I can see you Running through the fields of sorrow Yes I can, see you Running through the fields of sorrow

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 24, 2025

Cold days Old ways Told lies No more So many years to clean the slate Endless despair within its wake His touch soiling what used to be clean His gaze burning on the edge of our dreams Cold days Cold days And again he rides in It's September and he covets the gullible Skeletal wish Hunter A thousand lies cast from the throne of secrecy Hear him spewing forth a meaning to miserables lies See the twisted hand of doubt seal the affair The insect trust Believer our body a vehicle to him just the same Pearls before swine they are nothing but blind Submit to nothing and swallow my spit of scorn Invisible king Dying Procession of woe struck down by sorrow A burden so great weighs heavy on old and withered beliefs The swift solution crumbles beneath the mock notes of a masterpiece Death in his eyes Waiting Spiralling judgement provoked in the rains Futile test drowned in the levee of deception His futile test drowned in the levee of deception In the year of his sovereign Rid us of your judgement Heir apparent

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 24, 2025

The liquid is in your throat For hopeless delight After all you fell in love with death, Life has aborted. All you've had and all you became, The night is calling, you pray forth. The barren waste is your land Your crops, they were sown to die The skin is a mirror The eyes hollow with ignorance Health runs from your lips Sucked in and safe in a world of sleep All those years caring for a liar A benefit road that is winding higher You're a moth too close to the fire You are stuck in a route of confusion Changing and waiting and seeking the truth of it all Fleeing your sorrows Pushing your spirit away Sick of the weakness of the psyche A whisper from the heart of evil luring them all into despair Resenting the goods of a savior And cries out For the restless will also die A selection culled from the damned, drawing a lifeline of one A friend died in your room and sought the birth of a follower O brother, you are a killer and you target yourself I wish you'd never come back for us to see the beckoning end And the pride of a mother brought flaws in a mother's son And the love from a father was used by a father's son Overheard us talking in a smoke of lost hope The language of a parting so clear and so true Overheard us talking

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 24, 2025

I, once upon a time Carried a burden inside I sung a last goodbye A broken rhyme I had underlined There's an ocean of sorrow in you A sorrow in me I saw movement in their eyes They said I no longer knew the way I had given up the ghost A passive mind submit to fear And the wait for redemption at hand Waiting to fail Failing again If death should take me now Count my mistakes and let me through Whisper in my ear You've taken more than we've received And the ocean of sorrow is you

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 24, 2025

[Mikael Akerfeldt] I lost all I had (that April day), I turned to my friends (nothing to say), I wrote down a name (and read it twice), I wallowed in shame. I said that I loved (eternal schemes), I cling to my past (like childish dreams) I promised to stay (and held my breath) I went far away. Icy roads beneath my feet, Lead me through wastelands of deceit, Rest your head now, don't you cry, Don't ever ask the reason why Kept inside our idle race Ghost of an idol's false embrace Rest your head now, don't you cry Don't ever ask the reasons why.

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 24, 2025

Will their children cry When their mother dies And in the autumn of their lives Will they feel the same? Her longing for me Comin' down like hail Why did you leave me? Come here inside And tell me how How in my final days I've found her out The light comes on The signal for us to end our lives You wait beneath the white sheets and you wait forever The night comes on Your weakness starting to erase all your lies So I left you alone We all left you alone Lock the children away from harm They'll lock all your reason why Seeking tenderness with a dagger Skin is blocked by the years of trial You felt abandoned in the fog of flesh Sitting in place from the dead Awaiting the face of the moon to ascend You follow the siren in your head

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 24, 2025

Two years in your heart One moment of doubt Two lives torn apart One second from now Held him in your arms Your fever subside Always safe from harm Kept demons inside Still you always start runnin' Touch the light from the moon Some way mother cried Left us space here

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 24, 2025