The Art of Loss
Shaken Blind to your deceit But I finally learned That there won’t be a happy ending Meeting your stare There’s no answer there Yet it’s clear on your face That there isn’t a happy ending Sometimes it pays Not to give up But it heightens the pain When all is lost Falling Totally out of reach And I can’t return So there won’t be a happy ending Is it my destiny? A fate that’s designed for me? Must I accept That there isn’t a happy ending? Sometimes it pays Not to give up But it heightens the pain When all is lost We can try to insulate ourselves But there’s a truth that we can’t hide Unless we open up ourselves to pain We never truly are alive Choices All along the way Shape what will come So there might be a happy ending I have my will And sometimes my way In control of my view I will make my own happy ending We can try to insulate ourselves But there’s a truth that we can’t hide Unless we open up ourselves to pain We never truly are alive With realization comes empowerment And the truth will set me free I’m an author in my story And its end depends on me
Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025
Turned and tossed in this widening flight And I can’t find my bearings The voice that called me once is lost And the silence left is tearing at me Everything’s starting to fall apart The center cannot hold The blood-dimmed tide is loosed upon us And innocence is drowning All around the best of men are lacking in conviction While the wicked and the worst are full of passion and intent All we have is falling apart The center cannot hold The blood-dimmed tide has covered us And the innocent are drowning Surely there’s some revelation coming close at hand - A second coming I can barely mouth the words before the images assault me Somewhere in the desert, a monstrous affront turns its pitiless gaze to me Its blinding stare is like the sun I turn my eyes and fight to shake it but it’s frozen in my mind The darkness drops again, but now I know Twenty centuries of sleep have been shaken to a nightmare (x2) What rough beast, its hour come ‘round at last Slouches towards Bethlehem, waiting to be born? All we have has fallen apart The center could not hold The blood-dimmed tide was loosed And the innocent have drowned
Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025
You have your reasons for waiting for the worst Our learned behavior is so difficult to break I have my reasons for clinging to my hope Chances I have to take The only conclusion is love over fear Without it we’ll never live I have my reasons for pushing way too hard Solving a problem where one may not exist You have your reasons for wanting your own space Just don’t confuse yourself The easy solution is letting us grow So simple but yet so hard I know you’ve been so damaged by the choices you have made I know you don’t believe that you deserve what I would give Please recognize that love must conquer fear And that the struggle there is all life is I understand that I can push things To a self-defeating point It’s hard to make myself let go In order to hold on The last resolution is simply to be Embracing the possible I know I’ve been transformed by all the choices I have made I know I’ve been afraid to make the leap of faith I need One day perhaps we’ll recognize that love must conquer fear That’s what life is
Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025
Love can be beautiful and true, and it’s said it is enduring After what you have put me through, I’m not sure that I agree Put faith in enemies more than in friends – they’re much less likely to betray But faith is quick to fade, and when it ends there’s almost nothing that remains Faith is quick to die these days, so often misplaced With emptiness and sorrow, it quietly gives up the ghost Leaving cynicism grinning in its wake Love holds on a little longer; its death is more violent In the end, with choking sobs we pick up the pieces and grow And in time we just might learn to love again Hope has no plans of going quiet into the night Hope dies screaming and fighting with all it has Hope dies last There’s no dignity or shame when hope is put to death There’s no words to soothe the pain and you’ll beg for the end to your breath And yet hope will have you coming back for more Hope has no plans of going quiet into the night Hope dies screaming and fighting with all it has Hope dies last I am hurt but have not fallen I am wounded but unslain I will lay me down and bleed for a while Then I’ll rise and fight again Is it just being stubborn in the face of futility? Is it lack of self-respect? Or is it bravery? Maybe it’s foolish to hold on in vain But hope is not prepared to lose its fight Hope has no plans of going quiet into the night Hope dies screaming and fighting with all it has Hope dies last It fights without concern for vanity Dignity is sacrificed to desperation But it might be the finest part of me And I’ll thank God that hope dies last Though it’s broken and bleeding Hope dies last
Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025
A random happenstance so much against the odds But we both know that’s always how it is Afraid to open wounds, tentative yet hopeful We somehow still decide to join the dance again Broken individuals yearning to be whole One day I’ll be standing in that light again One day I will feel the glow And all the things I’ve struggled with will fade away And I will feel its warmth heal me Memories are made, and then reduced to bits Will I forget our story? Will you remember it? A part of us dies every time But without death we never are alive One day I’ll be standing in that light again One day I will feel the glow And all the things I’ve struggled with will fade away And I will feel its warmth heal me Each time it feels like we’ve given too much But without risk we’ll never know real love One day I’ll be standing in that light again One day I will feel the glow And all the things I’ve struggled with will fade away And I will feel its warmth heal me One day I’ll be standing in that light again (I will stand) One day I will feel the glow (and feel the glow) And all the things I’ve struggled with will fade away And everything I’ve ever done that led me to this day And all that I might do could bring me back to you And I will feel your warmth heal me
Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025
Push came to shove The allegiant trust we built took center stage Needed a lifeline But you watched me as my body slipped beneath the waves There’s a special place in hell for the disloyal Who cut and run when needed most So much invested I thought you had my back as I had yours Now that it’s tested Your loyalty is just a bunch of empty words There’s a special place in hell for the disloyal Who cut and run when needed most Stab the flesh, still it will heal Time repairs even a broken body Your betrayal cuts much deeper Cast your silver in the field And measure out your noose We lash our craft to those of others And place our faith in the rising tide But in the storm you were revealed Your humanity’s a lie Less out of malice And more just a sin of your omission Your moral cowardice Exposes you and all your insecurities There’s a special place in hell for the disloyal Who cut and run when needed most Stab the flesh, still it will heal Time repairs even a broken body Your betrayal cuts much deeper Cast your silver in the field And measure out your noose Stab the flesh, still it will heal Time repairs even a broken body Your betrayal cuts much deeper Cast your silver in the field And measure out… And measure out… And measure out… And measure out your noose
Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025
Don’t tell me what you do – tell me what you ache for Do you dare to dream of meeting what your heart is longing for? And I don’t care how old you are – I want to know if you will risk Looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for life itself Have you touched the very center of your sorrow? Has betrayal opened you, or shut you off? Can you sit with pain – mine or yours Without attempt to hide it, fade it, fix it, or make it go? And can you sit with joy – mine or yours Dancing with the wildness and filled with ecstasy Without cautioning that we should be more careful? Or remembering that we are limited? It doesn’t matter who you know or how you came to be here Will you stand in the center of the fire with me, and don’t shrink back? It doesn’t matter how you’ve learned, tell me what sustains you Will you stand in the center of the fire with me, and don’t shrink back? Can you still see the beauty when it’s not there? Can you source your very life from its abiding presence? And I don’t care where you live or how much you have But can you rise from bruises of despair and do what must be done? Can you live with failure – yours and mine And still stand at the water’s edge shouting your defiance? Can you be alone, and in those empty moments Truly like the company you keep? It doesn’t matter who you know or how you came to be here Will you stand in the center of the fire with me, and don’t shrink back? (Don’t walk away) It doesn’t matter how you’ve learned, tell me what sustains you (Well, I really want to know) Will you stand in the center of the fire with me, and don’t shrink back? (Don’t walk away) Don’t walk away Don’t walk away Don’t walk away
Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025
Only love can make it rain The way the beach is kissed by the sea Only love can make it rain Like the sweat of lovers laying in the fields Love, reign o’er me Love, reign o’er me Rain on me Rain on me Only love can bring the rain That makes you yearn to the sky Only love can bring the rain That falls like tears from on high Love, reign o’er me Rain on me Rain on me Love, reign o’er me Rain on me Rain on me On the dry and dusty road The nights we spent apart alone I need to get back home to cool, cool rain I can’t sleep, and I lay and I think The night is hot and blank as ink Ooh God I need a drink of cool, cool rain Love, reign o’er me Reign over me, over me, over me Love, reign o’er me, o’er me Love
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Nov 12, 2025
In quiet hours, still awake I listen to each breath you take And I wonder what you dream about How far we’ve come, since we were young Our preconceptions now undone So I wonder what you dream about I’m mine, I might be soaring Pushing things to greater heights But like Icarus, the flames are real And dreams turn into nightmares I know my wings might falter once up in the sky But I don’t want to fall – I want to fly I never saw myself as one who went outside the lines Our life’s momentum takes us, and in an instant it’s behind us It’s sacrilege to take advantage of the blind But what about uncertainties that work to cloud our mind? If our perception causes us to go astray, who can help us try to find our way? I never saw myself as one whose life was just a race out of control But in the mirror I see the lines grow deeper on my face It’s sacrilege to take advantage of the blind But what about uncertainties that work to cloud our mind? If our perception causes us to go astray, who can help us try to find our way? When I look back on all that’s happened When I look back on choices I have made Should I regret the contours of my path? The broken cobblestones that I have paved? We’re only given just so many sunny days We’re only given so much time to build a life Our choices all along the way construct a maze And when our time is up we could be trapped inside Lost in fantasies and never to return While we are building, tearing down or making plans The days are vanishing, the world won’t fail to turn Choices have consequences, limiting our future And yet the weight of outcomes cannot be discerned Make them wisely, child It’s hard to look around me now at everything I have And not derive contentment from it all Dreams made real, and the future unforeseen has played out well But is contentment the enemy of growth? Could I have overlooked what might have mattered most? (x2) You must have been something else when you were younger You must have been something else when you were free When all that you had was time and the world of choices was yours And you chose me We spend half our lives repairing bridges that our selfish actions helped destroy But it’s still so hard for us to recognize that a life is such a fragile toy We spend half our lives making disguises; we perfect and use them as our tools Then spend all of our remaining years searching for something we cannot fool At day’s end we’ll throw out our disguises with nothing to defend At day’s end we’ll pick up all the pieces and learn to live again When you look back on all that’s happened, would you do it all again? That’s the honest measure of our lives Knowing then what you know now, would you choose me once again? That’s the question carrying most weight at day’s end I know my wings have faltered once up in the sky But even if you’re falling, there’s still time to fly And looking with dispassion at the choices I have made I know it’s self-defeating to carry regret onto my grave I know that there’s a reason why my road returns to you And why, despite the obstacles we both had to fight through We both have had our doubts, but I think we know it’s true That you remain the best of me, and I the best of you And all our struggles, and every time we’ve cried They’re rendered meaningless in our embrace ‘Cause we’re still standing, and nothing can prevail Against a love that’s meant to be (x2) At day’s end we put down our disguises with nothing to defend At day’s end we pick up all the pieces and learn to love again
Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025
Shaken - blind to your deceit But I finally learned that there won't be a happy ending Meeting your stare, there's no answer there Yet it's clear on your face that there isn't a happy ending Sometimes it pays not to give up, But it heightens the pain when all is lost Falling, totally out of reach And I can't return, so there won't be a happy ending Is it my destiny? A fate that's designed for me? Must I accept that there isn't a happy ending? Sometimes it pays not to give up, but it heightens the pain when all is lost We can try to insulate ourselves, but there's a truth that we can't hide Unless we open up ourselves to pain, we never truly are alive Choices all along the way shape what will come So there might be a happy ending I have my will, and sometimes my way In control of my view, I will make my own happy ending We can try to insulate ourselves, but there's a truth that we can't hide Unless we open up ourselves to pain, we never truly are alive With realization comes empowerment, and the truth will set me free I'm an author in my story, and its end depends on me
Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Mar 28, 2026
Push came to shove The allegiant trust we built took center stage Needed a lifeline But you watched me as my body slipped beneath the waves There's a special place in hell for the disloyal Who cut and run when needed most So much invested I thought you had my back as I had yours Now that it's tested Your loyalty is just a bunch of empty words There's a special place in hell for the disloyal Who cut and run when needed most Stab the flesh, still it will heal Time repairs even a broken body Your betrayal cuts much deeper Cast your silver in the field And measure out your noose We lash our craft to those of others And place our faith in the rising tide But in the storm you were revealed Your humanity's a lie Less out of malice And more just a sin of your omission Your moral cowardice Exposes you and all your insecurities There's a special place in hell for the disloyal Who cut and run when needed most Stab the flesh, still it will heal Time repairs even a broken body Your betrayal cuts much deeper Cast your silver in the field And measure out your noose Stab the flesh, still it will heal Time repairs even a broken body Your betrayal cuts much deeper Cast your silver in the field And measure out… And measure out… And measure out… And measure out your noose
Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Mar 28, 2026
Push came to shove The allegiant trust we built took center stage Needed a lifeline But you watched me as my body slipped beneath the waves There's a special place in hell for the disloyal Who cut and run when needed most So much invested I thought you had my back as I had yours Now that it's tested Your loyalty is just a bunch of empty words There's a special place in hell for the disloyal Who cut and run when needed most Stab the flesh, still it will heal Time repairs even a broken body Your betrayal cuts much deeper Cast your silver in the field And measure out your noose We lash our craft to those of others And place our faith in the rising tide But in the storm you were revealed Your humanity's a lie Less out of malice And more just a sin of your omission Your moral cowardice Exposes you and all your insecurities There's a special place in hell for the disloyal Who cut and run when needed most Stab the flesh, still it will heal Time repairs even a broken body Your betrayal cuts much deeper Cast your silver in the field And measure out your noose Stab the flesh, still it will heal Time repairs even a broken body Your betrayal cuts much deeper Cast your silver in the field And measure out… And measure out… And measure out… And measure out your noose
Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Mar 28, 2026
Say something, I'm giving up on you I'll be the one if you want me to Anywhere I would've followed you Say something, I'm giving up on you And I... am feeling so small It was over my head I know nothing at all And I... will stumble and fall I'm still learning to love Just starting to crawl Say something, I'm giving up on you I'm sorry that I couldn't get to you Anywhere I would've followed you Say something, I'm giving up on you And I... will swallow my pride You're the one that I love And I'm saying goodbye Say something, I'm giving up on you And I'm sorry that I couldn't get to you And anywhere I would've followed you (Oh-Ooh) Say something, I'm giving up on you Say something, I'm giving up on you Say something...
Submitted by Morgoth — Feb 10, 2026