The Fullness of Time
You and I alone standing on shaky ground, wondering what became of yesterday. Everything seemed simple then We fit together hand in glove, but now everything has changed. Somewhere in our past we strayed and lost our way, now I search for us but we're not here. Looking at you now, you're so far away. Our connection's lost! Looking at me now I can't recognize myself, I can't count the cost. Somewhere up ahead perhaps our roads will cross again, somewhere maybe hope is still alive. There's an emptiness within and an isolation here that I never thought I'd feel with you beside me. There's a coldness to your touch and there's nothing in my heart, and the life we made is hanging by a thread.
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025
Look at you, you haven't seen anything. Your eyes so white and pure without a trace of red. No signs of self-abuse there and no tears have yet been shed. Just pure, pure white eyes! Look at you, you don't know anything. Not what the towers looked like on September 10th. And words like hate and death and politics mean nothing yet. They're sounds, they're only sounds. Once long ago I was young and I saw the world through innocent eyes like a child. But those memories are faded now and all that I can see is our despair. Look at you, you don't fear anything. Not loss of job, or loss of faith, or loss of self, you're not afraid. You're not afraid of anything, not even Death itself. Look at you, you haven't learned anything. Not all that people do in every single way. To hurt each other, harm each other, kill each other every day. But you will, and nothing I can say or do will stop you. Once long ago we were young and we saw the world through innocent eyes like a child. But those memories are faded now and all that we can see is our despair. And now I finally understand why we're told to suffer the little children. They're what we were before we fell, sweet unruined innocence.
Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025
I am scarred from the actions of others, I am scarred from the actions of self. I am scarred by the times that I held back the storm with no one to turn to, nobody else. I have risen beyond what I used to be, I have fought hard to gain what I lacked. But I still hear the footsteps of my failures on my heels. And everything I thought I left behind is clinging to my back. I have made myself a fortress in pursuit of all my dreams, but it's built upon my self-doubt and more fragile than it seems. I can struggle to forget that I've always felt alone, but I can't escape the consequence of standing on my own. I've been broken, nothing can make me whole again. I've been fighting battles that can't be won. Drowning in a sea of self-hate, searching for an answer that never was. I've spent half of my life trying to kill my demons, and I'm frightened that the process may have turned me into one of them. I've looked into the darkness of my personal abyss but I feel it staring back and it sees right through me. I am beaten but unbroken, I am bloodied but unbowed. And these years have left me shattered but I'll make it through somehow. I've been broken, nothing can make me whole again. I've been fighting battles that can't be won. Drowning in a sea of self-hate, searching for an answer that never was. I think that's probably why I've been alone all my life, I think that's probably why I am lost and I'm scared that I can't find my way. I've spent half of my life trying to kill my demons, and I'm frightened that the process may have turned me into one of them. I've looked into the darkness of my personal abyss but I feel it staring back and it sees right through me. Now I struggle to forget that I've always felt alone, and I can't escape the consequence of being on my own I've been broken, nothing can make me whole again. I've been fighting battles that can't be won. I've been tortured, shaped into what I am. Scars I've hidden through my entire life. Searching for what never was, drowning in an endless sea of doubt.
Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025
"Hi love, it's your girlfriend. Sorry I missed the chance to talk with you. Leave me a message and I'll call you back just as soon as I can. Talk to you soon, baby. Bye bye." The road I've walked for my whole life has brought me to this crossroads, and I'm standing here beside you. I know you've never been someone to take things on a leap of faith, please trust me once and never cry again. Hold my hand! We can take this slowly and see where it might lead. Going into you! "I have a really busy day tomorrow I might be able to call you tomorrow evening." And everything seemed to make sense, the first time that things seemed to fall in place just for a little while, and now my hopes and dreams are burning down. Claw out my eyes, I'd rather be blind than to see you turn around and walk away from me. Tear off my ears, I'd rather be deaf than hear you saying goodbye. Lucky ones will never share what we've shared, for I'm damned to know exactly just what might have been. Can't somebody stop this? I feel like I'm drowning, and everywhere I turn the water's deeper. It would tear out my heart to be nothing more to you than a smile that occasionally crosses your face. Twenty-five years from now what will we have? A pile of ash called "what could have been"? Treasures can slip through your fingertips, and sapphires melt in your hands. As I gaze in your jaded eyes, I pray that this road isn't ending. Walking down this road I thought I felt you hold my hand, but looking I can see my palm is empty. How can you turn from me? All that I wanted was to catch the stars and lay them at your feet. It would tear out my heart to be nothing more to you than a smile that occasionally crosses your face. Treasures can slip through your fingertips, and sapphires melt in your hands. You turn to me with your jaded eyes, and I'm scared that I know how this ends. And everything fell into place but now it is falling apart. I'm trying to hold on but I can see you fading. Be quick, or you've missed it! Sometimes when our backs are turned the choice is made. Once in a lifetime, if you didn't see it coming then you're much too late. This self-constructed prison is comfortable and warm, but I can't escape the feeling that there must be something more. Everything we've been through that's made us who we are, has brought us here, and now the choice is ours to make. I'm begging you, I'm pleading on my knees, I can't believe that this was just a big mistake. From jeweled gemstone memories to jaded guarded energies, to just gentle victory, I know we could last. Tell me what I've got to do, tell me what I've got to do to get inside your heart! Where do we go when there are no more conspiracies, when there's only you and only me seeing each other for the very first time? I pledge myself, if you stumble I will carry you and wipe away your tears if you will mine. And I'm holding out for a miracle but I'm scared to let go of the bird in my hand, and afraid that I've run out of time for a second chance. I want to drown myself in your eyes! I want to believe but I'm scared that you're lying. Tell me there's hope for the ghost of a second chance. For the ghost of a second chance! "Let me tell you something, my friend! Hope is a dangerous thing., hope can drive a man insane." Chances are meant to be taken but my life's so fragile and it's breaking into pieces. Somebody help me, I feel like I'm dying! And I'm reaching for your hand but it's not there. And I pray we won't know what we're missing, and we'll never imagine what might have been. But twenty-five years from now I'll still hold on to a fading dream of me and you. Treasures have slipped through my fingertips, and the sapphire vanished from my hand. I'll never forget the look in your eyes when you lied and said this wasn't ending. Treasures have slipped through my fingertips, and the sapphire vanished from my hand. I say goodbye to your jaded eyes as we reach our unnatural end.
Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025
Struck down by the persons that I trusted Robbed of dignity and left for dead I can feel unmeasurable anger building in me Emptiness and rage begin to burn inside my head Once I was a person withoug malice Once my heart bled red instead of black Friends with one hand held behind their backs carried knives Didn't see the blades 'till tehy were buried in my back Sleep with one eye open Knowing that I'm watching you Listen for my footsteps on every darkened street Like a call for help unanswered You can scream but no one hears your voice No one there to save you As I take my just revenge I can hear your laughter I can see you think you've won But I don't know how you live With no remorse for waht you have done You claimed you were my friend All the while you planned to murder me You claimed that I imagined all the things you'd done to me You'll pay for being so destructive Youll beg for compassion But I've nothing left to give
Submitted by NecroGod — Feb 18, 2026
[I. Rage] Struck down by the persons that I trusted Robbed of dignity and left for dead I can feel unmeasurable anger building in me Emptiness and rage begin to burn inside my head Once I was a person without malice Once my heart bled red instead of black Friends with one hand held behind their backs carried knives Didn't see the blades 'til they were buried in my back Sleep with one eye open Knowing that I'm watching you Listen for my footsteps on every darkened street Like a call for help unanswered You can scream but no one hears your voice No one there to save you As I take my just revenge I can hear your laughter I can see you think you've won But I don't know how you live With no remorse for what you have done You claimed you were my friend All the while you planned to murder me You claimed that I imagined all the things you'd done to me You'll pay for being so destructive You'll beg for compassion But I've nothing left to give [II. Despair] Left now Alone with your betrayal There's no way to feel secure Anymore Broken Crushed in soul and spirit With no way to set things right again Gone You have stolen everything I ever had And I'm left with nothing more than pain And I know I'll never trust the way that I once did You have taken all my dreams And turned them to ashes in my mouth Starving Searching for some comfort Left to choke on my despair Blinded My faith and friendship shattered And my life beyond repair [III. Release] Lying here surrounded By the pieces of my life Would it all be easier If I lay be down to die Dreams piled high On the back of this broken man Is this all? Born to fall? Or to rise again? So much pain and disillusionment Everything I once felt sure about We're all lost if we don't know It's all a game that we are playing The motions of all our counterparts A piece of sinister scheme The puppet that's broken has reason to smile They can no longer force him to dance on their strings Why shrug off the chains? If you wrap them about You'll be sunk to the bottom and drowning The clockwork behind their smiles Wound by hands that were made to harm Just release yourself 'Cause they can't rape the willing Or take what you have if there's nothing else Tired of life and filled with despair And covered with blood from the crosses I bear But I'm still standing Should I make myself crawl? Seems so counter to our nature Accepting with grace the things we can't change But when all's said and done and you're wronged and deceived Then it matters the most what you choose to believe Should I fight against fate Or should I just lay down and die? The puppet that's broken has reason to smile But the strings can't control you if you walk away No more tears of disillusionment I'l be a puppet no longer The hands that I thought had held me The clockwork behind their smiles They'll not have control over me I'll stand up and leave them behind Just release yourself 'Cause they can't rape the willing Or take what you have if there's nothing else Tired of life and filled with despair And covered with blood from the crosses I bear But I'm still standing Should I make myself crawl? Just release yourself When you're wounded by no one else Rise above pain, most past my despair And put down the cross that I've made myself bear Now I'm still standing And I'm not gonna crawl [IV. Transcendence] Now The smoke is finally cleared And I can see the wreckage of my past that lies about me Now It's all become so clear to me And I have learned the truth behind the lies and seen the lies within the truth Everything in context finally makes sense I see the paths I walked Some I've paved myself Some where I went gladly Some against my will I Can leave behind the fear and doubt And cast aside the shackles and the chains Of flawed assumptions I learned as a child I can't let them distract me So I'm putting aside the memories Of the things I never had but thought I wanted Now My notions of what makes relationships have a new light I have gained an understanding No more false facades Covering my feelings Preventing a connection I've been spending my whole life pursuing those who built this cell Lamenting all the hateful things that happened to me Never thought to look at how I might have played a part in what I am Or what it means to lose the game before it starts Now I know that I cannot turn back and change the past And that the only choice to save myself Is changing what I carry from it Everything I did to myself Everything that's been done to me I'll turn my back on that and walk away And left with only me At last I see the answer and what I need to be Letting go I destroy my shell Embrace my heart And free myself The point of the search, may not be the answer The value of a want, is not always a need Still I stand, I'm not going to crawl Now I know, I've got to believe Once I was a person without malice Once my heart bled red instead of black Openness and introspection now show me the way To reclaim all I've lost and take it back You may have taken everything I ever had But you cannot take my future Just release yourself All I was and All that I'll ever be Finally are integrated And I am whole again Now I know the reason for the suffering I'm a better person for having known the pain A better person having overcome the pain Thanks to kerrick_65 for sending these lyrics.Thanks to pleasantshadesofgray for correcting track #5 lyrics. Submits, comments, corrections are welcomed at webmaster@darklyrics.com REDEMPTION LYRICS
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 18, 2026
[I. Rage] Struck down by the persons that I trusted Robbed of dignity and left for dead I can feel unmeasurable anger building in me Emptiness and rage begin to burn inside my head Once I was a person without malice Once my heart bled red instead of black Friends with one hand held behind their backs carried knives Didn't see the blades 'til they were buried in my back Sleep with one eye open Knowing that I'm watching you Listen for my footsteps on every darkened street Like a call for help unanswered You can scream but no one hears your voice No one there to save you As I take my just revenge I can hear your laughter I can see you think you've won But I don't know how you live With no remorse for what you have done You claimed you were my friend All the while you planned to murder me You claimed that I imagined all the things you'd done to me You'll pay for being so destructive You'll beg for compassion But I've nothing left to give [II. Despair] Left now Alone with your betrayal There's no way to feel secure Anymore Broken Crushed in soul and spirit With no way to set things right again Gone You have stolen everything I ever had And I'm left with nothing more than pain And I know I'll never trust the way that I once did You have taken all my dreams And turned them to ashes in my mouth Starving Searching for some comfort Left to choke on my despair Blinded My faith and friendship shattered And my life beyond repair [III. Release] Lying here surrounded By the pieces of my life Would it all be easier If I lay be down to die Dreams piled high On the back of this broken man Is this all? Born to fall? Or to rise again? So much pain and disillusionment Everything I once felt sure about We're all lost if we don't know It's all a game that we are playing The motions of all our counterparts A piece of sinister scheme The puppet that's broken has reason to smile They can no longer force him to dance on their strings Why shrug off the chains? If you wrap them about You'll be sunk to the bottom and drowning The clockwork behind their smiles Wound by hands that were made to harm Just release yourself 'Cause they can't rape the willing Or take what you have if there's nothing else Tired of life and filled with despair And covered with blood from the crosses I bear But I'm still standing Should I make myself crawl? Seems so counter to our nature Accepting with grace the things we can't change But when all's said and done and you're wronged and deceived Then it matters the most what you choose to believe Should I fight against fate Or should I just lay down and die? The puppet that's broken has reason to smile But the strings can't control you if you walk away No more tears of disillusionment I'l be a puppet no longer The hands that I thought had held me The clockwork behind their smiles They'll not have control over me I'll stand up and leave them behind Just release yourself 'Cause they can't rape the willing Or take what you have if there's nothing else Tired of life and filled with despair And covered with blood from the crosses I bear But I'm still standing Should I make myself crawl? Just release yourself When you're wounded by no one else Rise above pain, most past my despair And put down the cross that I've made myself bear Now I'm still standing And I'm not gonna crawl [IV. Transcendence] Now The smoke is finally cleared And I can see the wreckage of my past that lies about me Now It's all become so clear to me And I have learned the truth behind the lies and seen the lies within the truth Everything in context finally makes sense I see the paths I walked Some I've paved myself Some where I went gladly Some against my will I Can leave behind the fear and doubt And cast aside the shackles and the chains Of flawed assumptions I learned as a child I can't let them distract me So I'm putting aside the memories Of the things I never had but thought I wanted Now My notions of what makes relationships have a new light I have gained an understanding No more false facades Covering my feelings Preventing a connection I've been spending my whole life pursuing those who built this cell Lamenting all the hateful things that happened to me Never thought to look at how I might have played a part in what I am Or what it means to lose the game before it starts Now I know that I cannot turn back and change the past And that the only choice to save myself Is changing what I carry from it Everything I did to myself Everything that's been done to me I'll turn my back on that and walk away And left with only me At last I see the answer and what I need to be Letting go I destroy my shell Embrace my heart And free myself The point of the search, may not be the answer The value of a want, is not always a need Still I stand, I'm not going to crawl Now I know, I've got to believe Once I was a person without malice Once my heart bled red instead of black Openness and introspection now show me the way To reclaim all I've lost and take it back You may have taken everything I ever had But you cannot take my future Just release yourself All I was and All that I'll ever be Finally are integrated And I am whole again Now I know the reason for the suffering I'm a better person for having known the pain A better person having overcome the pain Thanks to kerrick_65 for sending these lyrics.Thanks to pleasantshadesofgray for correcting track #5 lyrics. Submits, comments, corrections are welcomed at webmaster@darklyrics.com REDEMPTION LYRICS
Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 18, 2026
Now the smoke is finally cleared, and I can see the wreckage of my past that lies about me. Now it's all become so clear to me, and I have learned the truth behind the lies and seen the lies within the truth. Everything in context finally makes sense, I see the paths I've walked. Some I've paved myself, some where I went gladly, some against my will. I can leave behind the fear and doubt, and cast aside the shackles and the chains of flawed assumptions I learned as a child. I can't let them distract me, so I'm putting aside the memories of the things I never had but thought I wanted. Now my notions of what makes relationships have a new light, I have gained an understanding. No more false facades covering my feelings, preventing a connection. I've been spending my whole life pursuing those who built this cell, lamenting all the hateful things that happened to me. Never thought to look at how I might have played a part in what I am, or what it means to lose the game before it starts. Now I know that I cannot turn back and change the past, and that the only choice to save myself is changing what I carry from it. Everything I did to myself, everything that's been done to me, I'll turn my back on that and walk away. And left with only me, at last I see the answer and what I need to be. Letting go, I destroy my shell, embrace my heart and free myself. The point of the search may not be the answer, the value of a want is not always a need. Once I was a person without malice, once my heart bled red instead of black. Still I stand, I'm not going to crawl. Now I know I've got to believe! Openness and introspection now show me the way to reclaim all I've lost and take it back. You may have taken everything I ever had but you cannot take my future. Just release yourself... The point of the search may not be the answer, the value of a want is not always a need. Once I was a person without malice, once my heart bled red instead of black. Still I stand, I'm not going to crawl. Now I know I've got to believe! Openness and introspection now show me the way to reclaim all I've lost and take it back. You may have taken everything I ever had but you cannot take my future. Just release yourself... All I was and all that I'll ever be finally are integrated, and I am whole again. Now I know the reason for this suffering, and I'm a better person for having known the pain. And I am whole again... Now I know the reason for this suffering, and I am whole again... A better person having overcome the pain!
Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025