Wretched Heart
3am And we’re moving fast again This current pulls me in As we’re carried by the tide Days fall by the wayside And in the velvet night Another just feels right And together we’ll take flight No one else can find us But I can’t try to stop This dark inertia pulls me on The sun won’t rise until we’re gone And I can’t hear or see But your lips still find me And in the dark we’re free And I can’t hear or see But I feel your skin on me So hold on violently Will you die with me? Let me go Cus tonight is all I know This hunger takes control But it’s not your time to go No one else can follow
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 22, 2026
And you’re already there Your perfume fills the air But spring has just begun How can I keep you? And gold can never rival Your touch or haunting smile But if I turn away How can I make you stay? And I can’t hold on long time pulls me on But if I look away you’re gone Lilac! Are you coming back? And if I cut you by the stem Will rot creep in again? Behind your radiant eyes I feel your silent pride Though flowers crown your head An open wound has bled And when I come back With time for you at last The rot is running through And now I’ve lost you Lilac! Are you coming back? And if I cut you by the stem Will rot creep in again? Lilac! Can I bring you back? And if I cut you by the stem Will rot creep in again?
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 22, 2026
Eyes were blazing As I found you by the road You were broken And lay bleeding in the snow Though at your weakest Your power took control And then I heard you As you taught me what I know Before the light leaves your eyes Your fires burn bright one last time Oh let me hold you as you die You cry: Take my life! (You can take my life) It’s a cruel joke When a pure thing has to die I can’t watch you suffer But I’m afraid to say goodbye Give me strength, love I know you’ve made up your mind My hands are shaking But I know you’ll be my guide
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 22, 2026
Your ghost haunts me still Descending on my weakness Staring out from places where you used to be Waiting for your moment You make your home in every painful memory It only takes a minute And I’m lost again within your spectral fantasy Oh free me from your clutches Your icy fingers tightening their grip on me I want to love you but your lips are ice! Every moment I can feel you I can see you I can hear your voice I can’t silence These unquiet graves A silence that kills Screaming of your absence I feel you more when you’re not where you’re meant to be How can I escape you Your raging silence is exactly what draws you to me
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 22, 2026
The life I knew has gone away from me Behind a wall of time — a well of misery How many days, I can’t be sure How long can this go on, how much can I endure So far down Underground So far down Deep in a chamber unseen The skies are forgotten to me In time I will live to regret Far down in this oubliette My time is short, my efforts are in vain I’m filing down the bars, I must escape my fate With any fleeting strength, I take one final chance I’ll do the same again, each day until I can’t So far down Underground So far down Deep in a dungeon beneath The skies are forgotten to me Cast down where I try to forget I’m locked in this oubliette In silence a stillness obscene Heart racing and grinding of teeth In time I will learn to forget Fall into this oubliette
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 22, 2026
I can fantasize And breath into the pain I can blind your eyes So you won’t see me strain Someone help me! But when you taste my blood Does it taste like love? Your iron teeth begin To pierce my skin I don’t want your love I just want your pain So you can draw my blood And hurt me again I know you’re afraid You’re not afraid of pain but you’re afraid of love But it can’t be changed We’re gonna hurt each other and then run Show no mercy! And as your lips turn blue I’ll be choking too I’ll wait to hear you say I take your breath away I don’t want your love I just want your pain So you can draw my blood And hurt me again You can break my heart And wrap me in chain But don’t wait for me Because I can’t stay
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 22, 2026
I can sense your presence Moving towards me like a ghost you glide Perfect in your silent stride I can feel your heartbeat And I can hear your breathing close to mine A moment held in time Your reflection’s locked within my memory Where you’re always as I want you to be Now you’re perfect Like a statue in my mind You’re in my mind You’ll be worth it We’re together for all time You’re forever mine I can see you watching Embalmed in silence as your amber eyes Gaze at me for all of time And I know you’re listening My voice will haunt you as each year goes by And I’ll repeat this lie And if I can never keep you here again Then I’ll hold your dream cadaver instead
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 22, 2026
Beneath the sickly skies, in shallow breaths of your demise A distant fading voice cries out across the night Out on the empty streets, they twist and turn beyond your reach Caught up inside the maze, a game you cannot beat A savage scourge upon your back The fate of martyrs on the rack This suffering is the work you’ve done The cost of life is grimly won And while the world sleeps A cruel god demands his piece A blade that hangs above and waits to be unsheathed And when your time has come Stalked down like prey before the dawn Will you cry out for mercy, or will you be strong? You feel the fear caress your spine A freezing rain falls in your mind Heavy shackles on your weary heart You slowly feel your soul depart
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 22, 2026
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Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 22, 2026
You’re here in my arms But I’m still alone I want to love you But my heart is turned to stone Fruit turns to dust now As it falls from the tree Oh I taste your lips But your love makes no difference to me I can taste this blood But I can’t find the wound Is it me who suffers here tonight Or is it you? A Wretched Heart Give me your sorrow Give me your pain Let me become human Or I’ll turn to stone again There is no rest now That can make exhaustion flee My shame is cast off Like clothes before the sea You come to me for warmth But I’ll just make you hurt Is that what you want? Is that what you deserve? Vines grow from my mouth And branches from my eyes There’s no fire to warm me now Or bring me back to life Bring me back to life
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 22, 2026