Poets and Madmen
Somewhere in this universe of lost forgotten dreams The silence weaves a tapestry of once enchanted themes The shadows listen carefully and question what it means For stories have lives of their own But what good's a story whose end is unknown Stay with me For the little night that's left to be For a moment in a memory That time cannot defile Stay with me Where the night still offers amnesty And the ending is still yet to be tomorrow's unborn child And stay with me awhile The darkness covers everything and carefully watches all It hides behind the storm's lightning and cushions every fall And everything it witnesses it always can recall Like things that the heart can regret Bury in time and then try to forget Stay with me For the little night that's left to be For a moment in a memory That time cannot defile Stay with me While the night still offers amnesty And the ending is still yet to be tomorrow's unborn child And stay with me awhile
Submitted by Immortal — Apr 24, 2025
Here on this night Behind walls made of stone Where no one can enter and The dark dreams alone But now someone's entered The walls are defied The shadows they watched While the dark sympathized But there in the silence There in the silence There in the silence... Something hides Something lies Something dies... Something breathes The mind can imagine The dark can deceive And here on this night Together they weave A shadow's repentance A forgotten life All brought together In the mercy of night But there in the silence There in the silence There in the silence... Something hides Something lies Something dies... Something breathes
Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 24, 2025
As the steam from the street starts to rise The gutter whispers That the moon like a child has arrived The dark has missed her And the light that she lends is a guide Among her shadows Like the ghost from the past that survive And you ask me now What is my intent? Here among the ruins Cloaked in false pretence And how do I belong? I seek power Where the power remains I seek power In the back of your brain How will you see me If you don't know where I hide? How will you bleed me If I am somewhere inside? In the ashes of empires lost A distant warning On the danger of ignoring cost And children mourning As the memories cloud in our mind The past can glitter And so it has been designed I know every lie That the mind invents Though they're well disguised And cloaked in innocence And how do I belong? I seek power Where the power remains I seek power Like the kiss of cocaine I seek power As the darkness descends I seek power And I'll have it again... I seek power Where the power remains I seek power Like the kiss of cocaine I seek power When it's not always wise I seek power For the power survives
Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 24, 2025
There's a thief on a summer's night Across an ocean Who sees another's life fading away And of this life he writes Without emotion Then pushes it from sight Somewhere faraway To a distant land Every tear betrayed And never makes And never makes And never makes And never makes a stand Never makes a stand Lord, there's something wrong Never makes a stand Could a star's forgotten light A child's devotion Embrace eternal night in shallow graves As we watch from distant heights No breath or motion Still every ghost must haunt in its own way Sleep beneath my dreams Safe within my hands Where I never under... Never under... Never under... Never understand Never understand Lord, there's something wrong Never understand No one remembers No one denies No one asks questions No one replies Here nothing enters Nothing departs Here nothing's ended If nothing starts In your life could you carry on? Could you never think about it Till in time you start to doubt it? Then you close your eyes Is it really gone? How in truth can you defend her If you're really not remembering? No regrets if you just forget If a memory is lenient You can find it most convenient So you let it fade Till it's very vague Just a silhouette of shadows But the shadows are still lingering Still I hold you there With your endless stare I'm too old to be living this Lived to long to be given this Can our God be forgiving this? I had a light that shined Across my mind Rarely see it any more Now it is mostly dark Accept for sparks Can't remember what they're for I am the morphine child The dream defiled The never ending metaphor I am the wizard Oz Result and cause Never look behind that door Cantations Cantations Cantations Cantations Never listen to the crowd before me Never listen to the self ordained Never really wanted to believe it any way Time is fading Night is calling I am on my way Turn around, turn around Turn around, turn around Time is fading Night is calling I am on my...
Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 24, 2025
Jesus What's the reason For these scars that will never heal? Hearts that no longer feel? Eyes that can no longer see? Jesus What's the reason For this child that will not survive With all her dreams inside? Could she mean nothing to thee? And Jesus please tell me if you can recall Just where you were when this sparrow did fall? Jesus What's the reason Every tear isn't weighed the same? Could you have died in vain If we have short memories? And Jesus would you then come down from your cross Return every nail and say we are lost? And in the dark we seek your silent company For each hope that arrives and fades from memory Still after all this time our loss you won't concede For in the dead of night the rumor is Your hands they still bleed Still bleed Still bleed Still bleed And Jesus It would seem then That somehow you still trust You have more faith than us Perhaps that is how it should be
Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 24, 2025
There's a man that I used to know And sometimes he still visits with me When it's late and the alcohol's glow is nearly gone And it's time to awaken And he looks and he laughs at the sight And he asks what has happened to me And I blame it all on the lights But he smiles and says I'm mistaken And there is no use in disguising What the eye can so clearly see That I've spent my whole life denying That the man in the mirror is me Give me one second chance Give me one final dance Give me one magic line Take a minute off my time Give me one final bow If the moment allows While he stares at the scars Saying just who you are Just who you are Just who you are In a childlike illusion of life He imagined the things yet to be But they all disappeared on this night Carry on among the foresaken In there is no use in denying What the eye can so clearly see That one day I too will be dying And the man in the mirror agrees Give me one second chance Give me one final dance Give me one magic line Take a minute off my time Give me one final bow If the moment allows While he stares at the scars Saying just who you are Just who you are Just who you are Just who you... are
Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 24, 2025
When in your life did you surrender? Late in the night do you remember? What were the dreams that you betrayed then? Would you go back if you could save them now? Did you believe there was something more Waiting behind some forgotten door? Or was that all long before? You felt the pressure grow inside your brain Where every nerve is on fire You start to wonder if you're going insane It's not a fate you desired ...Time is running down! Moments of reason that we hope to find Are we a thought somewhere in God's mind A work of art that he has never signed No! Children and mirrors have no memory They reflect us for that is all they see They are the us that is still yet to be And so we carry on! The clock is ticking and your growing afraid That the end will be violent You walk the edges all around your own grave And the gods they are silent ...Or can not be found! Searching your mind for correspondence from Joseph and Mary and their only Son Is their silence something you have done No! And in the end what have you defied To end up so nearly crucified Just let me know when you decide That all hope is gone! Come and see him dying, for it's really quite a show Walking on a wire though he never seems to know Even when he's falling you can see a little smile Figures that he's flying only for a little while The ground is rushing towards him but he never sees it there Lives his life in pieces always taking every dare What will be the ending, well I'm sure that I don't know The ground is getting closer, come and see the show See the show, oh See the show...
Submitted by The Void — Apr 24, 2025
Can you see the future Though it's well disguised? Is the end so certain That you've closed your eyes? Dark as the dark can be Beckons eternity Exits exist in life As they do on this night Now's not the time to sleep There are still nights to keep Chances are there to take Now it is time to... Awaken Awaken! Awaken Awaken! Do you fear the future? Do you fear the night? Do you fear the morning's Unforgiving light? Agony, ecstasy There is no certainty Exits exist in life As they do in this night Now's not the time to sleep There are still nights to keep Chances are there to take Now it is time to Awaken Awaken! Awaken Awaken!
Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 24, 2025
Time standing all alone I bled for you I wanted to Each drop my own Slowly they depart But fall in vain Like desert rain And still they fall on and on and on Got to get back to a reason Got to get back to a reason I once knew And this late in the seasons One by one distractions fade from view So drifting through the dark The sympathy of night's mercy Inside my heart Is your life the same Do ghosts cry tears Do they feel years As time just goes on and on and on? Got to get back to a reason Got to get back to a reason I once knew And this late in the seasons One by one distractions fade from view Years come around Men can be found Following orders Years come around Planning is sound Promises made Years come around Tears on the ground Blood stains the borders Leaders abound Chances are down No one's been saved Give me one reason For this dark treason Every chance unsaid Turn around, all dead What went wrong? Drink until you drown What else can I say When you're falling down? You seek the ground It's never far away Can you live your life Completely in a fall Until you're found Well underground Your marker very small As my world it keeps on spinning round Have to get away Have to ease the pain I embrace the morphine child And pump it in my veins Burning through my heart Fills in every hole Makes my mind so blissful numb And replaces my soul Every moment drags me further Down down down down down down! Got to get back to a reason Got to get back to a reason I once knew And this late in the seasons One by one distractions fade from view The only reason I have left is you
Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 24, 2025
She's got shotgun innocence In her eyes so intense Never sure of her intent She's a Paris pretty child Even got a wink that's styled Keeps it all behind a smile Look into those worldly eyes And you've got to wonder what she's done No use thinking you can win her Cause this child's already won And it's time that you stand up Show's on Here's why you paid Hold tight Net's gone So welcome to the stage And it's too late to be saved She don't need designer dress Has them all though I would guess Got the wardrobe of the blessed Cover of a magazine Movie star, beauty queen All wrapped up and razor clean Locking up with paradise Is really so much harder than it seems See her as a revelation Much more safely visited in dreams And it's time that you stand up Show's on Here's why you paid Hold tight Net's gone So welcome to the stage And it's too late to be saved So you find you're dreaming about her But it's such a little vice And if you think you've got a chance, boy Well it's time to roll the dice Stand up Show's on Here's why you paid Hold tight Net's gone So welcome to the stage Stand up Show's on Here's why you paid, yeah Hold tight, yeah Net's gone So welcome to the stage And it's too late to be saved Before it's too late Shotgun innocence Innocence
Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 24, 2025