Digital Ghosts

Guns slung low and taut Iron fists regrip and tighten down Pressing hard and close Scanning eyes alive search all around Unleash hell and fire Raining chaos, crashing in The screaming in the street calling far away I taste the shock, the perfume of this war Far away, far away I stand and dream of going home Far away, far away I lay down in this mess I'm scared and brave as stone Foreign lands of sinking sands so strange and unfamiliar And holden to the code of honor, bound to defend We are strong, believe the warrior inside Won't turn from With honor we will not turn away Don't forget about God's reason to be It's all arranged Predestining The ancient call The one and all Take arms and go Don't you forget about it Don't ever set your mind to roam Desert wind blows hot save for the nighttime Turn your gaze to the mirage A simple word can't describe the ruins And you're burdened with the questions now at hand They turn to dust Sorrowful the dirge, the song, the wailing of the wounded No respite from the battle at the edge of the fray Night is falling There's been funeral pyres been burning on for lifetimes With honor, we will not walk away When consolation wears a hidden smile (Hidden smile) I erase my yesterdays (All of them, every one) And all my complaints fade into gray (Fade to gray…fade...fading) My faith aligned with my fate (My spirit soars, I see your face) Over again I set my aim to the place that I call home Tension never lets up Always on the edge and on the guard Never dream of sleep Wayward flares illuminate the dark Hold the line and run Random sniper fire sends shots I'm hurdling the snares trying to cripple me against a bloodshot sky and watching moon Far away, far away We hunker down and disappear Far away, far away In black we're waiting for the daybreak and the earth shake for sunrise Heroes bleed the same as you when smitten with the combat You swallow fury with your every breath Every breath Set the flag and carry on, and carry on into the unknown With honor, we will not walk away Home someday

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

It was a cold night, but by the dawn's light, the city streets began to swell and crawl I emerge then from the alley, the tempest spirit now in my sight Well, I have seen you You walk the wire Oh yes, I know you very well You've got a place in the Hamptons Jet off to London The threads are Italian How very expensive! But oh, you wear them well As you serpentine I am the bringer of the rain and the foreteller of the pain The end of days is near at hand When God returns, your just reward gets paid in Venom! I will be with the others when the day breaks, as the earth shakes I will be with the numbers when the earth breaks open for you "Oh you kill me, well it's quite amusing I am drawn to your strength, yeah, you really believe All the churning and discerning anger, hatred, and resentment Bet you've gone catatonic, yeah, right on over the edge" And the greed of hell burns like gasoline No ransom for your petty soul I wipe your ashes from your gold The end of days is near at hand, when all that was becomes a vapor slain by Venom! I wrap a curse around your throat God's wrath reserved through time for you "How dare you proselytize me! I run the show, you fool!" Damnation "Hell hath no fury" Completely blind "I ride the golden rail" Vengeance "From where?" Vengeance "I wait" And so you ask and shall receive Vengeance upon all evil men Your time has come - All will repent All the riches, all the gold "Why so bitter, mortal man?" Gain the world, lose your soul "I am lion, you are lamb" Stallions from the sky Hellfire rain and demons fly From those of us sent here to kill your false religion now All the riches, all the gold "Into the wasteland of my life" All the riches, all the gold "I lie in waiting here" Day turn endless night, burned alive and scream The end of days, you're all alone when Jesus mighty from his throne drowns you in Venom! Gloria Agnus Dei

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025

Of all the stories that have ever been written I've been assailed right off the page Winter fell across the floor in silence I just stopped and wondered why Well, it's a cold and strange sad situation Off the shores, tossed by the waves My every other word misunderstood why I'd ever speak out loud again Clinging on so tight, I bled my hands I draw the shades and hang my head and run All those simple things essential to me You cast aside to go and be alone You can't see the way I grieve Love's the air I need to breathe I hope you understand Just need to find myself again I see no choice but leaving So tired of flying alone On the battlefield, you were never there beside me Who will I be if I recover from this? I'm not the enemy There's so much good inside me The real "you" left and never came back home Round and round, oh, there is a rhythm where two hearts should meet A sense of comfort and a point of common ground To have and then to hold, and then to cry and then to break upon the waves You see me through dark eyes that color me wrong Immersed inside a world where charity dies And what of all that talk of how two go become one? And I hope you understand Just need to find some grace again There seems to be no reason Rejected off and away On the battlefield, you were never there beside me Who will I be should I recover from this? There are no enemies, just death of love inside me The bitter truth of this has come back home

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

You and I lie awake for hours, separated by the world Well, I can't see you, you can't see me, but somehow I can feel you slip inside my soul Gold dust in my hands and always in my eyes I wait in the desert for you Moonbeams on my waves and always in my skies I close my eyes as I'm soaring for you You float, you're a dream, you take my hand and we run We run, we run, 'cause you are the one So lucid alone, I crystallize all my thoughts Resolute, I spin my compass as I chart my course Onward through the haze, you know I feel you I reach out through the black, you know I feel you So torrid the dream, this could be so unreal Who says I can't feel just what I want to feel? You trip through my skies, I'm captivated One look in those eyes, I'm captivated One lone silhouette is frozen, dancing in time Out over the edge, out over the line Who are you? I'm questioning you And who am I? Who am I? All this so lavishly displayed (Won't you come over to my side?) Pure essence I can't turn away (Only if you're in the light - in my life) Gold dust in my hands and always in my eyes I wait in the desert for you Moonbeams on my waves and always in my skies I close my eyes as I'm soaring for you You float, you're a dream, you take my hand and we run We run, we run, 'cause you are the one

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 26, 2025

Cold night on the mountain top, and it's the dead of the winter and the snow and the ice swirlin' all around But we're not climbing down from the top of the tower We are filled with the power of our age Young and proud - Hard and loud On the wing - Everything You know? There are those that talk the talk but fail when fire burns them (They are weak) What gives you strength, what gives you courage for tomorrow is inside We learned to let experience go turn us into men Concrete running through our veins, and it's the still of the morning long before dawn has broken Hanging so listless, deep in the wilderness We ride so silent and focused All the rest of the world can fade to grey In the dark - From the heart Take the fight - All our might And on The boys are tough as nails and killer under pressure (The time has come) To kill the king cause we are heading for tomorrow on the run We gotta let the anger burn until the bitter dawn I've just never known nobody quite as strong! So silent stands the archer, silent in the rain You just don't breathe, draw back waiting for the kill shot Street walking again And then we've been goin' all night, fists pumped in the air Everybody, time to sigh no more Sing "Hail to the Chief" and scream! One For All - All For One All For One - Rise or Fall

I believe in the afterlife We walk the ancient pathways of the sky through Heaven's hallowed halls Cross the epochs and the eons carved in time Our drift through life is mist, a smoke-filled mirror gone, returned to dust There's a chill in the air tonight as what once was has passed on through and gone Enduring anthems crossing time and crossing miles Charismatic countenance upon a distant fading smile I walked for hours and I never felt the rain (Oh, I never felt the rain) And through your window, just your shadow will remain Only your shadow remains Ashes to ashes they say, then dust to dust, and what was unbroken divides And the answer to this mortality walking on by The circle remains here, my friend We guard it with trust, and cast what remains to the sea In our wailing we will suffer, no last goodbye The empty days go by, fending off the slow decline of fall Raise your head up high and let the sorrow sing into your soul Oh, I'm never gonna be the same Echoes of this ghost song fade away Enduring anthems crossing time and crossing miles Sail on forever, sail unto your rest from trials Sing songs of wisdom, sing that chilling last refrain (Now I sing your last refrain) And through your window, just your shadow will remain Only your shadow remains You chart your life into a tidy little graph of where you've been, all you've seen But then there suddenly comes a day you reach the end, but only to the life you knew

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025

Between the whispers, a lonely candle flickers, and it slowly fades into its grave And as if knowing, enchantment slowly runs her fingers down my spine A jagged line Who waits for me, now who waits for me? Who waits so long, so long, so long? And shall I wait, for dawn won't come? Or shall I sink into myself? All is disquiet A dark assassin spirit draws back from the room Time folds in two I've vexed him surely I'm ravaged by my need for light It's all I feel, all I see I live and breathe and cry and die for love And shall I cast composure down? And shall I wait forevermore? I hear so sorrowful a sound Maybe in time I'll fly away and trade these wings in for a life A life where I am stronger and a place where there's no sleepless nights or moonlit arches cover me These paintings and these statues stare, chastised and imprisoned here alone under your stairs So was it all worth it, to sing out my song and to scream? I had the fire, the passion and will My dedication mistaken for disloyalty I'm lost in the heavens, statue in time Like ghosts in a prison and come undone And all those living out their lives in company of riders Silent and deliberate as they're counting out their coin I just can't relinquish my opinion that I'm so much different Insolent, their sins have drug them down into the deep The deep The deep The race not to the swift The prize, she just never fell right to the brave A long, long time ago And somewhere lost in all the rage, I was just a brush stroke away And the wind has caught the sails No one who's ever knelt here before has stopped to count up the cost They're gone, gone, lost in time Can love be so indulgent that it blinds you to your faith? And in the end the weight is all but lifted off The stars continue on their course And you fall away, fall away And it all comes around Another good man goes down He floods away Sorrow cannot bind me like the common thief I'll come out and I'll shine just like a caustic ray of light All of the raised here, the choirs alive It's just a matter of words spoke out over the river of time Gone off to war or gone off to hate You see me brandish the torch and the sword of your fate is real I walk alone through the spiritless void All account of my love, oh, my sweet flowing love, lost in vain On and on, and on and on And on and on, and on and on And on and on, and on and on And on and on, and on and on and on

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025