The Hope Division

I live in the valley by the sea Lined with the scent of orange trees This is the place that's always loved me I wake where the sun never sleeps In-between the mountains and where the water and sky meet This is the place I was raised My family and my friends This is my everything This is the place I was saved My beginning and end I wouldn't trade it for anything And just because I leave you doesn't mean you leave my mind I think about you all the time This is my solid ground, this sun isn't going down Down, down, never going down And I have seen a lot of amazing things But there's no feeling like coming home brings Now nothing can bring me down Down, down, never bring me down Just look at the view If this is wrong then I don't wanna be true If you're not here then I don't wanna be you Even if I tried I couldn't forget It only makes sense that my heart belongs where the sun sets And when I start to smell the salt from the sea I know I'm close I'm coming home And just because I leave you doesn't mean you leave my mind I think about you all the time This is my solid ground, this sun isn't going down Down, down, never going down And I have seen a lot of amazing things But there's no feeling like coming home brings Now nothing can bring me down Down, down, never bring me down Orange County, this one's for you! I'm coming home And just because I leave you doesn't mean you leave my mind I think about you all the time This is my solid ground, this sun isn't going down Down, down, never going down And I have seen a lot of amazing things But there's no feeling like coming home brings Now nothing can bring me down Down, down, never bring me down I think about you all the time Down, down, never bring me down Down, down, never bring me down

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 22, 2026

You're fed up It never shuts up You're seeing red Once again you've had more than enough Patience wearing thin Your thoughts all turn to a blur Your head and your heart turn to lightning and thunder All you want is five minutes of peace So you raise your fist and let loose the beast But what goes around What goes around What goes around Goes around and around What goes around What goes around What goes around Goes around and around and around We are your children raised with the back of a hand Go! And I know that we've done wrong But we're not stupid We've learned And we won't make the same mistakes That you did

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 22, 2026

From the soul of the unnamed To the devastating depths Of the heads and the hearts of the shamed With patience like the fury of a freight train I’ll always have faith in the untamed I have faith in the untamed Bleagh! No room to think when digression is fought Progression of thought dies and goes right out the door It’s hard to move on when tradition is the whore That keeps your feet nailed to the frozen floor Now it weighs down your mind And once again left you deaf, dumb, and blind But I have faith that one day We’ll have the strength to rip out every single page I have faith You’ll find no peace You’ll still be empty It will never end This tradition is a downfall It’s hard to let go when you’re still holding on You’ll find no peace You’ll still be empty You better believe we’re breaking boundaries A routine for the uninspired For the hearts that lack any fire I have faith You’ll find no peace from this You’ll still be empty It will never end This tradition is downfall It’s hard to let go when you’re still holding on You’ll find no peace from this You’ll still be empty You better believe we’re breaking boundaries You put your thoughts in dying hands While you wade through the quicksand You put your thoughts in dying hands While you wade through the quicksand You put your thoughts in dying hands While you wade through the quicksand "First to realize, not verbally, but in your heart, your blood, your whole thinking, that human beings around the world goes through the same agonies that one goes through. The loneliness, the despair, the depressions, the extraordinary uncertainty, insecurity, whether they live ten thousand miles away or two thousand miles, or here, they are all psychologically bound together. If one realizes that profoundly, in your guts, your blood, your heart and your mind, then you are responsible."

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 22, 2026

Her name is Amber She has eyes like her mother She's beautiful, bright and the whole world's in front of her She has a smile that could end a war Yet no one wants her and she has nothing to care for She's only 14 and she thinks: "Why is the weight of the world crashing down on me?" 'Cause as of late the sun doesn't seem to shine so bright And the place where my heart once was has lost its fight She's on her own And as she braves her storm All alone She screams, "oh I've had enough, please make this go The sea is rough and I'm drowning slow" Her mind-numbing pain has her lost in the undertow I just wish she knew she didn't have to be alone You don't have to be alone You're not alone You're not alone Her arms are locked in the devil's chains And her heart, broken and trapped in a steel cage She can't catch her breath as she chokes on the pain So she brings her pain to the surface of her skin Your frozen agony burns you Can't even begin to know The nightmare that you've been through Only you can break the cycle that plagues you There is a light, you just have to see it through She's on her own And as she braves her storm All alone She screams, "oh I've had enough, please make this go The sea is rough and I'm drowning slow" Her mind-numbing pain has her lost in the undertow I just wish she knew she didn't have to be alone She screams, "oh I've had enough, please make this go The sea is rough and I'm drowning slow" Her mind-numbing pain has her lost in the undertow But please just know: You're not alone

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 22, 2026

Our heroes left to die We pushed our young ones to the side And hung our bright minds out to dry In the downpour we'll drown If we don't find the truth This is a nation without a roof The fire of this hopelessness ignites The fury of misfortune strikes The fury of misfortune strikes Supreme isolation reigns The wolves are at the door We walk on common ground It's in our hearts to help those That have been shut out And if just one We are all the tired and the poor So lift your lamp Before we break down the door New colossus They fall on blind eyes And your teeming shores, they multiply Naked as the birth of a new day Amazing grace Please show your sick and hungry a new fate Supreme isolation reigns The wolves are at the door We walk on common ground It's in our hearts to help those That have been shut out And if just one We are all the tired and the poor So lift your lamp Before we break down the door And if just one We are all the tired and the poor So lift your lamp Before we break down the door The wolves are at the door It is the obligation of those who have everything To help those who have nothing Nothing "Know that there is hope for a better world, there is hope for a better tomorrow. Without hope, not only gays, but those who are blacks, the Asians, the disabled, the seniors, the us's, the us's, without hope the us's give up. I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you, and you, and you, have got to give them hope."

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 22, 2026

In a world that can't, we can In a world that hates, we understand We are some kind of love We're at the end of our rope We are some kind of hate We are some kind of hope In a world that can't, we can In a world that hates, we understand In a world that won't Well, we've got the world by the throat We are some kind of hope I'll see through every inch of doubt I am the moon when the sun goes down And I'll reflect its shine It's my life I will define I woke up today And felt my age for the first time In both my mind and body And my thoughts are less of fitting in And more, more of being a better man I just want to be a better man A wrecking ball of warmth is beating in my chest And my head is buried in its gentleness Oh god, I am alive! Keeping warm in a cold world

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 22, 2026

Black dynasty You've defined true tragedy And this whole world bleeds But I've found peace As your enemy As your betrayer I am the traitor Erida, I pray that The very same hate that kills and rapes Doesn't give way in my head 'Cause if it does, I'm as good as dead You spread your mind plague to anyone who listens I can't believe your hate has so much ambition The infection you bleed of your own volition It's not enough to make your own decisions No more malice, watch us break it We want progress so we'll make it This is a new kind of justice We just have to take it Erida, I pray that The very same hate that kills and rapes Doesn't give way in my head 'Cause if it does, I'm as good as dead My mind is poised and this strike will be deadly You better believe I'm bringing all hell with me Erida Erida Erida, I pray that The very same hate that kills and rapes Doesn't give way in my head Erida Erida Erida

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 22, 2026

Out of style, out of date, quick! You better start clearing out some closet space Such a waste, but the TV has it justified Life through western eyes Homicidal kids, the drugs and the queer They have us all living in a culture of fear And you better forget about trusting your peers Life through western eyes "And what color is my safety today?" "And I drank water from the sink; do you think that’s okay?" "And I really don’t think it’s safe to go outside today" "And see, this is what happens when we don’t pray" Increase the insanity Increase the insanity They have us right where they want us By our heads and by our wallets Another day locked in paradise There’s nothing to see here So just close your eyes Substance abuse declines While the war on drugs intensifies You don’t have to agree This is called "Better safe than sorry" Life through western eyes Too fat, too ugly You will amount to nothing So you better pick up the pace Or you'll be stuck on the side lines Life through western eyes This is life through western eyes Life through western eyes This is life through western eyes Life through western eyes So you better not think Just sit back and take another drink Why swim when we can sink? Increase the insanity Increase the insanity Increase the insanity

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 22, 2026

Woah Broken salvation, complete devastation Woah The blood on your hands to satisfy your fixation Now you live with the weight of regret Crushing your chest You will never forget the life that you take Forever you pay for your mistake Oh, the hearts that you break You took someone’s mother You took someone’s father You took someone’s son You took someone’s daughter Now dwell as you burn in your own personal hell Woah Woah Woah Broken salvation, complete devastation Woah The blood on your hands to satisfy your fixation Mother, this eats me It’s so hard to reject the hate that this feeds me Father, do you remember when your life changed forever? The day the life with your father was severed? Someone took someone dear to you Someone dear to me Someone who I'll never have the chance to meet And all I can be is angry Your selfishness astounds me A horror that feeds off warmth surrounds me I'm drowning I'm drowning This has made a mess of me And frankly I have no more energy So all I’ll be is angry

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 22, 2026

The perversion of life through Gaia's eyes As good as dead, in the jaws of spite I can't sit back as the apathy amplifies In the darkest corners of their nightmare, I'll be a light Count our blessings No cover Showered in life's warmth The rest to suffer We are fortunate enough to make a choice Count our blessings No cover Showered in life's warmth The rest to suffer We are fortunate enough to make a choice I’ll be a voice They rest their eyes in a bed of filth And we suffer slow in a vice of guilt I refuse to add to this violent design In the darkest corners of their nightmare, I'll be a light Count our blessings No cover Showered in life's warmth The rest to suffer We are fortunate enough to make a choice Count our blessings No cover Showered in life's warmth The rest to suffer We are fortunate enough to make a choice I'll be a voice And the question is not, "Can they reason?" Or, "Can they talk?" but, "Can they suffer?" And may all creatures of life be delivered from this suffering Suffering Cast out, forsaken Desperate and ill-fated Every day the value of life spreads thinner But in this chaos, I'll be a hope-bringer Hope-bringer Hope-bringer Hope-bringer Their trials are mine And I stand for every single walk of life I'll fight, I'll fight for both human and non-human rights I know that things are much brighter on the other side

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 22, 2026

Somewhere I lost it Walking the fence between my anger and its bitterness Do I call it quits? Does my sanity have what it takes to afford the damage? Fighting with everything I am to hold it together Looking back in shame and regret at all the ties I've severed I'm spinning out of control, I'm one half of a whole I've lost faith in myself, nowhere to go As I dismiss responsibility, avoid opportunity Just to achieve my temporary relief With death and hate as far as my eyes can see And every anchor of pain and self-defeat chained to me I laugh in failures face and I throw it away Throw it away Throw it away And the hell that I've paid Is nothing compared to the monster that I face And sometimes it seems I haven't learned anything But I will die before I let this world bury me Bury me I'm breaking away from pain and self-defiance I've found my way in faith and self-reliance And I can say I stood to face the giant But if I die, at least I'll die a lion At least I'll die a lion At least I'll die a lion At least I'll die a lion At least I'll die a lion "It's very important to accept each other as we are. And that's the beginning of love."

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 22, 2026

Somewhere I lost it Walking the fence between my anger and its bitterness Do I call it quits? Does my sanity have what it takes to afford the damage? Fighting with everything I am to hold it together Looking back in shame and regret at all the ties I've severed I'm spinning out of control, I'm one half of a whole I've lost faith in myself, nowhere to go As I dismiss responsibility, avoid opportunity Just to achieve my temporary relief With death and hate as far as my eyes can see And every anchor of pain and self-defeat chained to me I laugh in failures face and I throw it away Throw it away Throw it away And the hell that I've paid Is nothing compared to the monster that I face And sometimes it seems I haven't learned anything But I will die before I let this world bury me Bury me I'm breaking away from pain and self-defiance I've found my way in faith and self-reliance And I can say I stood to face the giant But if I die, at least I'll die a lion At least I'll die a lion At least I'll die a lion At least I'll die a lion At least I'll die a lion "It's very important to accept each other as we are. And that's the beginning of love."

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 22, 2026