Carved From Empty Words
When reason dies behind closed doors Face down in a cell in a pool of piss It's time to fear what we should respect It's time to question cause and effect Striking with impunity Hiding behind flags of immunity When corruption rears its ugly head The force of law becomes a farce Personal ambition usurps justice The rich protected at the expense of the poor Would you sit on the fence, take no chance? As those batons fall, turn a blind eye In an ideal world There'd be no need for law No need for police But in a society so sick So obsessed with blind greed Someone has to protect The old and the weak Officer down Can we really afford to be so selectively blind? If we dig too deep what would we find? At authority's heart beats a dollar sign Under such a regime we're all doing time Striking with impunity Hiding behind flags of immunity Never say, you weren't warned When they come to drag you away To silence the dissident hiding in us all They clench the fist of ordained might From which side of the barbed wire Do you want to see your life pass by? When reason dies behind closed doors Face down in a cell in a pool of piss It's time to fear what we should respect It's time to question Cause and effect Who teaches the teachers? Who makes laws for lawmakers? When they read us our rights What about human rights?
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025
I'll find peace within my life Without the need to judge my friends Before you start your critical preaching Remember every carnivore's a potential vegan True friends are hard enough to find Without adding to the constraints what's in their diet And you try to steal away Their inherent right to choose If all you do is divide and conquer Curl up and die, the scene doesn't want you I will live my life my own way Whilst you crawl away, stagnate You seek to judge me? You don't even know me So quick to pass the blame Yet you won't even sign your name This is not a judgmental song I'm not interested in casting stones But if SXE is about anti obsession Isn't being obsessed with SXE missing the point? Eating your words to save some face Your destiny: to fall from grace Scene elitists scaring kids away With their snobbery and power plays I will live my life my way While you curl up and die And every time that They force their views Someone else will lose The right to choose There is room for Everyone in this scene Pointless divisions Are all your cliques mean
Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025
As still as a tomb, where only memories roam No birds sing here, yet silence speaks volumes About tortured times, when man was blind And innocence died at the hands of genocide Lest we forget Prayers fall upon ears of the dead Drowning the bleat of sacrificial lambs Condemned to an eternity of bleeding Trapped in the teeth of demons Fifty years on, the oppression remains Haunted by the ghosts of the slain And now we walk this cursed ground The magnitude of suffering's like a shroud Let the death camps remain As epitaphs to pain Or have we learnt nothing despite their deaths? Do we credit ourselves too much intelligence? Is the harbinger of pain but a heartbeat away? Are we still ignorant and fearful despite what we say?
Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025
Sick of this shit Been as low as I go Now the tables will turn Now everyone must know The hunter's become the hunted I will take you down one by one No quarter will be given Until this judgement is done The last time that you stopped to think You forgot to start back up again Then you wonder why it is I view you with so much ridicule Well, all the seeds Of hate you've sown Are about to Come crashing home I swallowed my pride Swallowed my pride once too often I held my tongue, and walked away I watched you hold your fucking court A new disguise A new disguise, the same old lies If you think my hatred's unjust Just wait and see how much I can give Worm crawl away Or burn in these flames You cannot phase me And I drink long and deep your shame My very spirit is sick with hate The desire for revenge eats me whole You come crawling on bended knee To taste my tender fury I will not stop in this quest To destroy all you have and love If you think my hate's unjust Wait and see how much I can give I sit clipping The wings of angels As they fall Forever smitten
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025
The eyes are the windows of the soul And behind these eyes lurks a black hole I often wonder who's really insane... ... the givers or receivers of all the world's pain? I always seek to escape this place But then I always come back for more The only way to appreciate wealth Is to dream of it in vain when you are poor Everyone owes a death We try to make sense of the unknowable And what we find may be unbearable We need to understand the bias of the lens Through which we choose to view this world And only then a semblance of peace Some shred of meaning to clutch to our chest Some token that our life meant something As we shambled blindly towards our death The cries of the damned welcome me home Our 'life cycle' is just recycled life We just take up space until we die Our demise may as well be preordained Is it anywonder we couldn't care less? The black orb of another sun rising Another day to watch our dreams dying Sometimes I feel like I'm disappearing Seeking comfort in banality
Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025
Face the truth Despised for being godless Dismissed as being hopeless But if there is a hell, we're living in it So what's to lose by so-called sinning? I wonder why He was nailed up to die Sorry to say It means so little today Where is your god When the innocents die? Condemned by the righteous Martyred for a lost cause Sacrificed in countless wars We played no part in that ancient drama Yet your conscience insists (you still blame us) 2000 years of kissing ass How much longer will this penance last? You fail to see the hypocrisy That riddles every word of those arcane texts Are you really any better than me? Yet you say you preach 'unconditional forgiveness' Condemned... I know he moves in Mysterious ways, but I don't ever See him moving at all Condemned for all eternity By the self-righteous few For refusing to subscribe
Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025
Go your own way Go your own way in life And let me follow mine And maybe our paths will cross again In another place and another time So confused by the bludgeon of bland routine We resign our ambition to what might have been If this is how it's meant to be Who made these plans for you and me? Who says that we cannot achieve All the things that we believe? There is no secret to inner strength I need self-belief, and nothing else I need some self-respect Nothing less Can you look at yourself and truly say That you really acted for the best That you carry yourself with true respect? Pissing all over your ego's flame I strive to do my own thing An internal furnace fuels this dream And only dead fish swim with the stream
Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025
We don't mellow with age But our priorities change Life is so brief a play And years pass by in what seems like days We battle against the currents That would sweep us away All grim reminders Of our frail mortality You'll wonder why, you didn't act sooner When you had the chance Your actions all laced With the bitter poison of defeat This onslaught of truth Will engulf your conceit Slow self-destruction At your own idle hands Staring down at your palms Smeared with your own blood stains Nothing changes nothing Nothing you give and nothing you get Nothing changes nothing You'll never know unless you try Just because I've not yet succeeded Doesn't mean I do not care
Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025
Another day, another trial Another eternity spent in denial Of the fact that we mean so very little Face up to your mid-death crisis The darkness, it blinds me The misery always finds me The soul dissection Try to ascertain mid-death crisis We think we're living, I wonder why? We're just killing time until we die Is this all there is? There must be more than this If there's a light at the end of the tunnel Then I must be facing the other way All I can see is yet more turmoil One long ordeal of endless grey The turning of the century Should have meant the world to me But could've meant so much more If the world wasn't just as fucked as before Another year of nothingness Another test of our strengths How to deal with realisation And face up to a mid-death crisis Like a beggar, doubt comes creeping Cloaked in ice, devoid of feeling I try to learn to cope with the Fear and guilt of this mid-death crisis
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025
I've fallen down No one's perfect Don't even try I don't care, I Won't live a lie Who broke the neck of my guardian angel? Left him for dead in a pool of dreams? Trampled me flat with their cynical disbelief And carved their name into my self-esteem? Can't you see I've fallen down? You wanted a hero, but instead you got a clown No one's perfect, I don't even try I don't care; I won't live a lie Can't you see I've fallen? I teeter on the edge, staring into the abyss Daring myself to jump and finally end it all But even now I cannot admit defeat Even though I have no further to fall Can't you see I've fallen down? And no one I know could care fucking less And when they fall, I'll do my best To seal their fate with no regrets
Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025