Proving Ground

Obsessed with this therapy It's a reflection of self My motivation is clear It's just how I felt This machine that I've created Really pulls me through Like no other For no other It's just for me... maybe you Sometimes I'm on the outside Looking in on empty lives I may not think like you I've got my own mind Cause in the end all the matters Is that I've lived life my own way And that I can look myself in the mirror In the end will you say the same? I feel at home... In my own... Proving Ground I feel at home... In my own... Proving Ground Obsessed with this therapy It's a reflection of self My motivation is clear It's just how I felt This machine that I've created Really pulls me through Like no other For no other It's just for me... maybe you I feel at home... In my own... Proving Ground I feel at home... In my own... Proving Ground

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025

Breathing in this life I'm livin' yeah The taste is bitter sweet All the hardships endured I anticipate The time when I'm solid Looking past the downpours To a day that's cloudless Now, each day I pray The turmoil will pass I'm hoping that today is the day That there'll be no more stress Or any pain And I will hear your laughter once again Looking past the downpours To a day that's cloudless Now the darkness has gone And we've said goodbye But I won't forget no matter how I try And today is so bright And your smile's like the sun Bringing the world back to life again I've weathered the storms And today is cloudless

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

The astral doors are opening Bidding me to step on through A cosmic finger points the way Past skies of black and seas of doom Transcending now this mortal form Solar sailing on stellar waves My soul has gone beyond time itself Mind expanding through celestial terrain Distant landscapes appear - yet I have no fear Spinning through the vortex of mystic light and sound The answers lie before me the questions yet to be found Lost and found adrift in a lunar sea Looking down at Earth and the life I used to lead Myriad dreams in multi-color Leading me past Saturn's rings Translucid spectrum like no other Secrets of God unraveling

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025

Crawling through your mind A cancer on the inside Spreading sickness 'til no life remains You let me gain a foothold Now, I'll never let go I will choke your spirit down to its last breath You are dead already I'm just placing pennies on your eyes I'm the immoral The one corrupting your soul But my work's made easier with a some help from you Your fear of living Led you to your end What is life, my friend, when you only look to death? You are dead already I'm just placing pennies on your eyes Broken... Dying... Rotting Your life is nothing! Broken... Dying... Rotting Your life's worth nothing!

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025

When the night is gettin' old And the air is gettin' colder You know I'll never fold up I turn my back on fear... As I lie awake alone And the voices come to taunt me Every night another haunting Driving me beyond my years... When sleep finally flies me away Under crimson clouds of pain All my regrets have taken shape As bitter tears that fall like rain Hey - I think I'm ready To confront the things in life that are haunting me Hey - If it takes me all my days I'll drive away the bitter tears of pain Phantoms of what could have been Now come to tempt my soul to sin Dark purple mountains of misery Bring the weight of the world on me Hey - I think I'm ready To confront the things in life that are haunting me Hey - If it takes me all my days I'll drive away the bitter tears of pain So tired of the pain - the never ending strain It's time I made the change It's time to rearrange... 'Cause I - I think I'm ready To confront the things in life that are haunting me Hey - If it takes me all my days I'll drive away the bitter tears of... Pain

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025

Emotions rise like wisps of smoke Too soon to dissipate Warm days now blowing colder Sunny days all turn to grey Solitude can bring on peace Or a piece of loneliness Drifting on a jaded sea Losing what I thought was me The sound of silence is deafening Screaming from every pore Overwhelming me Don't want to feel no more Holding hope when there's none Living in a world of no love Crying out in vain The only thing that's left is... PAIN I've come to know you so many times In so many ways The more things change the more they stay the same Oh how I love this little game What delight! In the dead of night With you at my side I've come to love this feeling of What you bring to me inside Lying, writhing this agony From the depths of night I lay my head in solitude Like I'm the only one alive Reserve myself to the fact That nothing's ever gonna change Embrace this hell I know so well Oh how I love you PAIN Nothing lasts And nothing is real Nothing lasts Life is surreal

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

All through life Whatever I've been dealt I've taken it in stride And I've always felt Sure of myself Confident with pride Rode through it all Grounded from inside Always Even through The adversity I never let the pain Break the will in me It made me stronger Set more my beliefs All I have is what I am And that's all I'll ever need Always Stand your ground With yourself intact Surround yourself with love It always comes back Always Always

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

Gaunt figures of a dismal world Cast in grey with tattered flags unfurled Gone beyond just me and you The perfect symmetry of being ripped in two Blue is the color of life While you're cast in grey All the years of tomorrow That are gone today Pallid shadows of a sight unseen Revealing truths of the machine Gossamer wings that could never fly Paint new horizons for you and I Blue is the color of life While you're cast in grey All the years of tomorrow That are gone today Heaven sends And Hell awaits With patience Smile at you with rage As I emerge from Hatred Lying in wait unbridled fury Laced with self-titled glory Crimson tides and ashen dreams Will rise above make you believe Moonlight backdrop of one dimension Multi-layers of my invention Weaving spells cast to the wind Reliving things that could have been

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 26, 2025

Sometimes I wanna cut myself So you'll flow out of my veins The kiss that tainted my blood Is beating down my heart again I want to bleed you from my heart I want to bleed you from my veins I want to kill you... in my mind I want to bleed away the pain These days the colors fade to grey All my hope and dreams now melt away Lost soul in turmoil crying out I'm wrenching out my guts again I want to bleed you from my heart I want to bleed you from my veins I want to kill you... in my mind I want to bleed away the pain Why won't you die???

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025

This mortal path I tread its trials are killing me As swirling winds of change now blow inside of me And clouds of ash have blinded eyes that once could see The path to happiness that lies in front of me Looking down at circle number nine Where my soul will fly Circle number nine The temporary light you've shown upon my heart Kaleidoscoping stars obscure the obvious The longer I embrace that which can never be The more the tongues of fire reach out to lash at me Looking down at circle number nine Where my soul will fly Circle number nine I'm looking out from circle number nine? Where my soul resides Circle number nine Looking up from circle number nine? Where my soul resides Circle number nine...

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025

I, too, hear the cracking The fury of the wind The sound of everything crumbling And fear it will not mend You are one I've known forever Yet your face has changed Your soul is somehow different Its aura rearranged I've let too much slip through And dread you'll finally see This darkness I've been hiding Deep inside of me My total lust for chaos and confusion that I feel Pain, suffering, and misery And demons all too real The end is drawing near And no one seems to care Things have come and gone before There's no need to shed a tear All the warnings go ignored As the final curtain falls I feel nothing and I fear the same As I stare straight into the sun

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025