Parkway Drive
Album • 2010
Freedom is slavery War is peace Ignorance is strength Existence is suffering! Existence is suffering! Existence is suffering! Suffering! Suffering! Suffering!
Submitted by Immortal — Feb 21, 2026
I've walked these streets a thousand times Still this world never seemed colder Compromised a thousand times To the will of malicious minds Reality never hit so fucking hard Crushed by endless desperation Endless surrender Retrace the steps, retrace the steps Is this what I have become? Retrace the steps, retrace the steps What the fuck have I become? Security, illusion for the weak Refuge, sought in routine Another gear in their fucking machine See, you can win the rat race But you're still Nothing but a fucking rat So seek that crown 'Cause in this kingdom of fools True ignorance reigns supreme I see this city for what it is Retrace the steps, retrace the steps A monument to the depths of human misery Retrace the steps, retrace the steps Retrace the steps Retrace the steps Retrace the steps Retrace the steps What have we become?
Submitted by Immortal — Feb 21, 2026
Consumed I feel the rage growing inside me A fear I cannot contain At war with an enemy Who does not rest, who will never relent This city, these lifeless catacombs Our tombs they have become Buried alive at birth Never to return, to return Chained to the masses Trapped and trained by vicious minds I let them tear, tear away everything inside Strip away my humanity Fracture my identity Sacrifice my integrity Just bodies through the teeth of the combine Just bodies through the teeth of the combine At war with an enemy Who does not rest, who will never relent At war with an enemy Who does not rest, who will never... Sleepwalk our lives away In search for shallow graves Sleepwalk our lives away Lost souls Lost Just bodies through the teeth of the combine Just bodies through the teeth of the combine Just bodies through the teeth of the combine Just bodies through the teeth... Consumed I feel the rage growing inside me I will not contain I have come to question every truth I know Not one more step In the name of progress In the name of blind ambition Not one more step In the name of progress In the name of blind ambition How the fuck am I supposed to feel When everything I know Lies broken at my feet?
Submitted by Immortal — Feb 21, 2026
I am the blackest soul The child of a loveless world The wreckage left in the wake of time I am the consequence Of complete collapse I am the horror you created The mindfuck you instigated I am the seed of self-destruction The bitter taste of life's regret Flood my lungs Pull my teeth Cross my eyes Until there's nothing left There's nothing left There's nothing left Casualties to the snares of modern life Anchored by avarice There is no further Left to sink I reside in my mind's eye Yet see no truth In a world of lies I reside in my mind's eye We are adrift In a world of lies Flood my lungs Pull my teeth Cross my eyes Until there's nothing left I am the blackest soul The child of a loveless world I am the consequence Of complete collapse Collapse Collapse I am the blackest soul I am the blackest soul I am the blackest soul I am the blackest soul
Submitted by Immortal — Feb 21, 2026
This is survival This is my exile I find no solace I find no solace Beneath a godless sky Will I find shelter In the places the sun could never find? Now behold the consequence The aftermath of ignorance Shackled to my worthless neck Give me one reason to resist So I slip below I can't resist the undertow So I slip below I can't resist the undertow I find no solace Beneath a godless sky Will I find shelter In the places the sun could never find? Because everything's turning black And I see no hope of turning back Cold terror grips my lungs To let it in would be to accept defeat But what's left to fight for? When I look inside The nothingness confronts me Vexed by the hands of time This is survival I against I What's left inside? What's left inside? What's left inside? So I slip below I can't resist the undertow So I slip below I can't resist I can't resist I can't resist I can't resist No I can feel the deadweight I can feel the deadweight of my soul Dragging me from this world Oh, deadweight
Submitted by Immortal — Feb 21, 2026
Shifting light outlines my battered form Stranger to the world Alone in my abandonment A gaining army of white horses Stark warning race before the icy front The deceiving calm betrays all signs Of impending change Evening tide, what do you hide? Damnation or salvation? As my skin breaks the blackened surface The cold is rising, yet all embracing Darkness, erase this lonesome place From my every existence An angry sky bares the signs A distant violence yet to break The ocean's travelers cry forth across the waves Lightning cracks across a vast horizon Reaching out its hands towards an unsuspecting shore No light to guide No ties, no ties to bind Evening tide, what do you hide? What do you hide? To the years spent waiting on the winds of change (This is penance paid This is my penance paid) To the morning sun whose warmth never found This young man's face Shifting light outlines my battered form Stranger to the world Alone! Evening tide, what do you hide? What do you hide? Lightning cracks across a vast horizon Reaching out its hands towards an unsuspecting shore With a final effort I strike out across the swells Seeking only the answers Maybe horizons hold With a final effort I strike out across the swells Seeking only the answers Maybe horizons hold
Submitted by Immortal — Feb 21, 2026
Their voices search for me, through the darkness Yet I feel desire's cold grip upon my heart no more My solitude My shield My armour My solitude My shield My armour Tested with full force I have seen the face of death And I, I choose not to accept its form I have seen the face of death An army of demons summoned forth Upon this endless night they swarm The fire in their eyes Like new suns shine through the abyss I taste the fear I see the weakness in their eyes They cannot hide as I devour all As the mountains crack and the oceans boil A fury-tempered heart is forged Within the flames This current of corruption will cease As the mountains crack and the oceans boil A fury-tempered heart is forged Within the flames This current of corruption will cease I taste the fear I see the weakness in their eyes They cannot hide as I devour all An army of demons summoned forth Upon this endless night they swarm The fire in their eyes Like new suns shine trough the abyss For I have seen I have seen the face of death I have seen the face of death And I choose not to accept its form My solitude My shield My armour My solitude My shield My armour Tested with full force Their voices search for me, through the darkness Yet I feel desire's cold grip upon my heart no more
Submitted by Immortal — Feb 21, 2026
Deliver me From the darkest abyss From the depths of eternal rest Grasping at the threads of sanity Only to watch them slip through my hands I see the light I see the end I see a frail hope Crushed by the weight of the world I see the light I see the end I see a frail hope Crushed by the weight of the world Crushed by the weight of the world My will is broken My will is broken Sinking, always sinking The sands of time, forever slipping Clawing at the emptiness But a ghost I reach towards the end Lost in darkness, lost in time Losing a grip on my fucking mind Ignorance is an easy friend But in the end it takes everything Fear, it finds me, and it binds me Illuminate the planes of consciousness Fear, it finds me, and it binds me But I'm lost Guilt draws me down like a stone It chokes my throat and gnaws my bones Regret breeds a heavy heart Reality, torn in two Torn in two Torn in two Canonised Canonised A life that fades A life that fades before Before my eyes Canonised A life that fades before Before my eyes Ever faithful friend Sorrow, sets its teeth Canonised A life that fades before Before my eyes Ever faithful friend Sorrow, sets its teeth Eaten alive But I will survive I survive Fury, deliver me How can you defeat what you can't kill? (Deliver me) I see the feat that twists inside (Deliver me) I watch the shadows fill with doubt (Deliver me) Fury, deliver me
Submitted by Immortal — Feb 21, 2026
Crashing to the surface My convictions lay bare before the tempest As chaos explodes around me I find myself in the jaws of destruction Tested, by the force of the tempest Pushed, to the point of no return Losing ground, let the steel of my resolve Be not bested by the sum of my fears Clarity unfolds A moments calm in the eye of the storm Relentless, I surge onward Surfacing No regrets, no second chance Nothing will hold me back Shipwrecked bones carry my seasick heart Seasick heart home Shipwrecked bones carry my seasick heart Seasick heart home Carry me home Tension clings to me Resistance coils inside Forcing me down, I fear nothing Into Poseidon's arms Forcing me down, I fear nothing I must hold on This is a strength born in misery A focus cut of this insanity I fight my way from the gates of hell I hold on This is a strength born in misery A focus cut of this insanity I fight my way from the gates of hell I hold on I hold on A body, locked in the vice grip of conflict A mind, sharpened on the shards of disappointment And from the depths of Hell I rise From gilded cage, my spirit flies Memories of another life call me home Surfacing Surfacing Shipwrecked bones carry my seasick heart Seasick heart home Shipwrecked bones carry my seasick heart Seasick, seasick heart home
Submitted by Immortal — Feb 21, 2026
(Woah, woah Woah, woah Woah, woah Woah, woah) If home is where the heart is Why do I feel so fucking heartless? The crumbling skyline Cuts a vicious horizon Sinking its teeth into the cold September sky Decaying towers of steel Reach with crooked spires for the heavens Like bones of the hollow chest of this town Torn wide for the scavengers Woah, woah Mother Mercy, take my hand Woah, woah Follow me through this forsaken land Woah, woah Father Time, return what's mine The innocence you stole from these eyes 'Cause I just feel, I just feel numb For the vision burning before me Is one of former glory An icon cast in the light of freer times Now writhes in a bed of lies Hope doesn't live Hope doesn't live here Love doesn't live Love doesn't live here anymore Anymore Anymore Woah, woah Mother mercy, take my hand Woah, woah Follow me through this forsaken land Woah, woah Father Time, return what's mine The innocence you stole from these eyes 'Cause I just feel, I just feel numb 'Cause I just feel numb I just feel numb I just feel numb Woah, woah Woah, woah Woah, woah Mother mercy, take my hand Woah, woah Follow me through this forsaken land Woah, woah Father Time, return what's mine The innocence you stole from these eyes 'Cause I just feel, I just feel numb 'Cause I just feel, I just feel numb 'Cause I just feel, I just feel
Submitted by Immortal — Feb 21, 2026
Lies! My truth has been revealed At the cost of everything I knew My last safehaven falls behind me With the self that once consumed Into the void I'm pursuing only answers I'm shedding skins and faces Past loves and bitter hatreds And it has come to pass A path set in stone now breaks like glass The failings of yesterday Become the catalyst to seek my change And it has come to pass A path set in stone now breaks like glass The failings of yesterday Become my catalyst So here I stand, a stranger to my new-found freedom I am a vessel I am a vessel without destination, devoid of direction No roles define me, yet conflict embraces me At the mercy of lucidity I am adrift in a world all too real A hollow man! Into the arms of eternal struggle I must condemn My restless mind I must condemn My restless mind And it has come to pass A path set in stone now breaks like glass The failings of yesterday Become my catalyst to seek my change And it has come to pass A path set in stone now breaks like glass The failings of yesterday Become my catalyst I seek the guidance gained from silence Illumination from within the darkness My council kept with the emptiness In the heart of the unknown
Submitted by Immortal — Feb 21, 2026
But there is no silence My thoughts drowned out Screeching and grinding resonates through a hollow shell There is no great wisdom There are no answers I close my eyes, but all I see is red I bite my tongue, but all I taste is blood Once again they set their traps, set their hooks, deep in my head Too naive to think these forked tongues would themselves devour I close my eyes, but all I see is red I bite my tongue, but all I taste is blood Once again they set their traps, set their hooks, deep in my head Too naive to think these forked tongues would themselves devour Show me war Show me pestilence Show me the blood red hands of retribution And the abyss stares back Leviathan I And the abyss stares back Leviathan I To break their hold, strip the flesh straight from their bones Cast their limbs into the gears of the beast Bring this monstrosity to its knees Cast their limbs into the gears of the beast Bring this monstrosity to its fucking knees Eye for an eye Eye for an eye Eye for an eye Eye for an eye I'll send this world blind Show me war Show me pestilence Show me the blood red hands of retribution And the abyss stares back Leviathan I And the abyss stares back Leviathan I Under a blackened sun Beneath a hunter's moon Seething Dogs of war, they call for blood but it will not be mine Dogs of war, they call for blood but it will not be mine
Submitted by Immortal — Feb 21, 2026
Brothers of abandonment Sisters of despair Orphans to the watching ones above Too far removed Too far to care We are the unwanted We are the one true threat We raise our hands to this World's throat And choke away its dying breath This is the end of days This is the end of days This is the end of days Set to destroy Fathers to our faithless days Mothers to our twisted ways Bow your heads Fold your hands and pray Your time has come This is the end of days This is the end of days This is the end of days Set to destroy Set Set to destroy Set Set to destroy Your flame is faded So sink below Rest now your heavy head Upon your bed of bones Too far removed Too far to care Set to destroy
Submitted by Immortal — Feb 21, 2026
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