I Welcome Thee, Eternal Sleep
(<em>Instrumental</em>)
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026
Accursed Sickness Wasting my body away Encased in decay Terminal Begging for the end For my spirit to be freed Please stay by my side I know it hurts to see me this way Please take my hand Reassure me that my peace draws near Will you remember me? Not as I am But that which I once was Will you recall the vibrance I held in my prime? When you recall my face Will it be full of laughter? Promise you won't forget The vibrance of my life A pale, waxen, morbid shell A hideous shade of myself My greatest fear Is this deathly state Becomes your memory of me Please calm my fears Soothe me with tales of better days So I may drift into the night A memory of when I felt alive Will you remember me? Not as I am But that which I once was Will you recall the vibrance I held in my prime? When you recall my face Will it be full of laughter? Promise you won't forget The vibrance of my life
Submitted by SerpentEve — Jun 16, 2026
Beneath the pale, firmament Becalmed, upon a frozen shore Within this earthly, Tartarus Their souls, forever lost Endless rains of snow, descend Unending, emptiness The cold, gnaws upon their bones And winter, claims them all A field of stone beneath them Without feature or form A march to false horizons Before the midnight sun One by one they die Frozen and starving, they succumb Their stories lost to time The passage never found The silence once more returns The shroud of death What use are crowns or gold to Nature's wrath His own imperial designs As man proposes But nature won't be denied As god disposes As they waste and weaken Hunger scours their resolve Nothing left to be consumed Nothing but the flesh of man One by one they die Frozen and starving, they succumb Their stories lost to time The passage never found
Submitted by SerpentEve — Jun 16, 2026
Pristine utopia of my mind Amorphous yet fragile of form All you were and shall ever be Endless possibilities Where does that man go When still more fades away? As utopia burns All deforms... and decays... As a stillness descends The finality of the grave The last of what was, no longer Lost forevermore As a stillness descends A serenity in oblivion As you succumb to the fade Succumb to the fade What now lies behind those eyеs? A stranger's gaze from your face What mеmories are with you now? Which chapters are not seared? Your last breath is drawn The last vestige of you, done What use is there for sorrow When we've made friends with grief? As a stillness descends The finality of the grave The last of what was, no longer Lost forevermore As a stillness descends A serenity in oblivion As you succumb to the fade Succumb to the fade
Submitted by SerpentEve — Jun 16, 2026
It slumbers dreamlessly lidless and unblinking Evermore it hungers in darkness Esoteric and eternal primordial, yet arcane Still lurking, revenants Suffer the darkness The eye now focused A gathering beneath the void and stars Evocation for divination calls The confluence of ascending aethers What wisdom from those long departed? Necromantic spells Now borne forth Covenant of death Peers from the dark Darkness falls As entities stir The veil rips the spirits rise The eye unblinking, focused The void piercing the light Of those who came before Unto those who call it forth Necromantic spells Now borne forth Covenant of death Peers from the dark
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026
Inexorably All dreams wither The world transformed A deathknell sounds Still waters hide dismay Of a tale indelibly set As we dwell on reverie Of days long gone by Metamorphosis Of time's savage glare The future now declined Lost dreams we once held Interminably We march to the grave To the sweet release Of death's cold embrace Inexorably All dreams wither The world transformed A deathknell sounds Days gone by Days gone by Days Gone By.
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026
A clock chiming The mournful peal Scores of hours Bleed ever away Frozen with fear Hope's toxic sting Faith's dying light And sanity betrayed Time's weary rot Corroding resolve Hope infests the calm Of purgatorial silence Uncertainty grows Eternities in moments Cancer to the soul The helpless in lament Time's weary rot Corroding resolve Hope infests the calm Of purgatorial silence Paralysis of inaction Eternity of a moment Abyssal majesty The obsidian tide Consumes him whole Consigned to the depths Cast unto eternity A watcher waits Upon tortured shore A reunion denied Never to return
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026
Desolation By candle's flame Raised in effigy Unto the catafalque In mourning's light The shroud displaced A mirror's gaze A soul unbound Sorrow wrought His yearning His life's love departed As grief descends Woe rains down Upon him The nightmare unending Just phantoms now remain Cursed apparition Forsake me now Vanquish thine self Leave me to despair Forsake thy quest Let anguish abound And in solitude fester Until death takes me Sorrow wrought His yearning His life's love departed As grief descends Woe rains down Upon him The nightmare unending Just phantoms now remain Love's caustic touch Spectres of the past Into finality's embace Return to the departed Terminus Est Unto thee, Eternal sleep
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026