Ashes

You claim I don't know you, but I know you well I read in those ash eyes we've been through hell I've walked with the weakest just to feel strong You've given your body just to belong Let's burn together Let's burn together This pain will never end These scars will never mend I taste your sorrow and you taste my pain Drawn to each other for every stain Licking the layers of soot from your skin Your tears work my crust to let yourself in Touching you harder Touching you harder now As we walk through the ashes I whisper your name A taste of pain to cling to As we walk through the ashes You whisper my name Who's the one with the sickest mind... now? This pain will never end Our scars will never mend Cleansing sweat We are just using each other Too depraved to stay alive But too young to die And we hurt Thus we hurt Scrubbing it harder Too late to back out now Scrubbing it even harder As these two broken barren desolate disordered words collide As we walk through the ashes I whisper your name A taste of pain to cling to As we walk through the ashes You whisper my name Who's the one with the sickest mind... now? This pain will never end These scars will never mend Damn this dirty bed Damn this dirty head

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 25, 2025

Music: D.Gildenlow/D.Magdic "...and he actually held up the weapon before our eyes, and there, dressed in a suit and tie, he smiled and told us with pride in his voice that "this model was largely represented in the Gulf war!". He was so very proper and clean. And so alarmingly blind! Welcome inside the machine It hurts! Go numb, go blind... One's drilling out a pipe One adjusts the aim One makes trigger parts Weapons as a game! All trapped in killing routine Washed clean... ...by this machine On these grey walls Lovely pictures of the weapons we produce But not their actions... All are part of the big Machine We do our job "Guilty!" But what if we save? And what if we solve? And what if we build? And what... ...what if we lose control? What if we lose control? What if we lose control? What if we lose control? (I am just a wheel!) ...and what if we ...stop?

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 25, 2025