Vigilance

For once in your life, forget the faithless Reach for the dreams that you’re chasing and take them. I’m running from reality, because I’ve had it so easy All that I’ve needed has been given to me but now it’s gone And my existence needs meaning I just don’t want to spend the rest of my life avoiding death The rest of my life knowing nothing is left You’ll find me sifting through the lies Sifting through misguided thoughts of my false accomplishments. And I’ll slave for the rest of my days Until I get the life I so desperately crave At the end of a life, all we ever do is reach for the sky We beg for the chance to fix our scars But we’re no more alive than the stars I’ll find the strength to run away from the laws of light Those dark eyes, white lies, are much better off in our minds This is the world with its fragile frame You’ll try, oh you’ll try to break free from the shame of your failure. The only failure you have in your life is that you didn’t try You didn’t try at all. You didn't try! How can you not see the clouds up above me Are making it hard to breathe? There’s nothing but silence, as we look to the stars There is no picture perfect life No chance in a world where we kill to survive There is no picture perfect life Just the brush strokes of hope for a world where we kill to survive At the end of a life, all we ever do is reach for the sky We beg for the chance to fix our scars But we’re no more alive than the stars I’ll find the strength to run away from the laws of light Those dark eyes, white lies, are much better off in our minds This isn’t a fucking game You told me ‘lie down’, ‘quit now’ Just to save yourself some face That’s fine, throw away your precious life You let your dreams die, but I’m living mine And if the world gave you nothing Would you live for yourself? Would you live for yourself?

Submitted by The Void — Feb 22, 2026

I’m living a lie The truth stripped from my words Forever falling through grace You disgrace me The truth stripped from my words Forever falling through grace You won’t replace me You were kneeling before me The very king of performing And the only choice that you made was To live with death or conforming To understand just what we’ve been through (upon request you must relinquish) All that has held you together We are the eye of the storm Where the flames are the rain and volcanoes the water source. And as the fire consumes you You’re forgiving your fate as you beg for remorse. (x2) I’ll be there, when your limelight breaks And your body is bounded by chains So fight your fights little boy Because when you grow up you’ll find That you’ve lived your life blind Let me be the voice, that blocks out the noise And the shout that refrains from their cowardly mouths Let me be the hearts of the unloved, and the minds of the lost. These pure hearts and minds are The only thing that we have that they haven’t got I’ll be there, when your limelight breaks And your body is bounded by chains So fight your fights little boy Because when you grow up you’ll find That you’ve lived your life blind Crown your mind, with more than a throne Stay just alive ‘till you hear of home Crown your mind to keep them alive Tell me, would you leave this world behind? Just to find your place in the sky Would you leave this world behind? The black of the night it took you inside and became all the lies. But no, not even the dark will find you in time Where are my enemies now? Their bodies are stacked When you fuck with us, we fuck right back! OH! Where are they now? BLEGH! Where are my enemies now?

Submitted by The Void — Feb 22, 2026

I know you’re dying I saw you through the smoke Say what you want to, I know you’re lying 'Cause I saw you through the smoke Don’t tell me I don’t understand That every time I even blink my eyes I see the stains on your hands You don’t understand what it’s like to watch you Breathing away what’s left You’re setting the poison alight I need you to give me a sign just to keep you alive Stay away from the light This is suicide I know where you hide Don’t you dare think that lying will give you a longer life It’s all the same, nothing is changing Every breath taken shortens my patience How can you claim love for something you’ve broken? How can you live when your son isn’t coping? You’re setting the poison alight I need you to give me a sign just to keep you alive Stay away from the light This is suicide You can be so much more than I’ve witnessed Don’t just exist, run away from the sickness I know you’re ashamed of it, still you refuse to quit How did it ever come to this? Be strong, you know what you’re doing is wrong The next time you need to poison your life Remember the second you gave me one I’m your son, you picked me over everyone But if you’re not afraid of what you’ve become Then I’m afraid for the both of us Be strong, I can’t do this for one more day Soon I’ll have nothing more than the memory of your face And what if that fades? What if that fades? What if that fades? Be strong, so what will be left of you If you’re all that I have left to lose? You’re setting the poison alight And I need you to give me a sign That you want this life (That you want this life) So many pieces of me are making it hard to see And soon I won’t be able to breathe So many, so many pieces of me are making it hard to see And soon I won’t be able to breathe just like you Soon I won't be able to breathe just like you Soon I won't be able to breathe, just like you You’re dying, I saw you through the smoke Say what you want to, I know you’re lying 'Cause I saw you through the smoke

Submitted by The Void — Feb 22, 2026

Tracks, these trails, they lead me astray, seem to go on forever Bring me back to reality, oh, please say you’ll take me home These tracks are broken, but still we follow their stray paths, constantly blinded Our pride has defined us as false humankind. Fight for your life You won’t find peace by avoiding your mind If we were all the king of the world, there’d be no world to rule. So next time you dream, don’t try and tell me, just what your head sees, and if the skies that we need, all fell down There’d be no air to take for granted, and no gods to grant us the second chances You’ll never know, just what you’ve lacked, from a life time of men pulling strings in your back I’d live a minute for a moment that’s mine, I’d live a moment for the chance to be alive, don’t fall away Just prove that truth is the only sound that your mouth makes, because you know the liars will never find out that I’ve seen the future, it’s beautiful The kings and the queens, in hierarchy with misguided high arching views could not be further from our ground level reality When we were young and the stars never scared us, we heard of a world where the lies wouldn’t tear us apart. Severing every single tie that I could find, and nothing, no, no-one is stopping me now, and I can’t even find a reason how they were searching for ways inside They tried to corrupt our minds, how could we not see through this? Oh, if only we knew. Tear out my tongue, I will never speak again. Cut off my hands, I will never feel again

Submitted by The Void — Feb 22, 2026

I still remember those days, when everything was perfect. Living a normal life. We were as close as a family could be, oh what I’d give to go back to those days. But the shadows have consumed all the hope that I had, you see my brave face? I wear it in disgrace. Fuck. Just know, I’ll never look at you the same. How do I, get back to innocence? I just want the family that I love, but you tore it all apart. Just take me back to the start, I’ll never see you the same (it’s tearing me apart). And oh how it breaks me to say, that you made it this way. Every night, everyday, every lie along the way. I heard it all, oh I heard it all. I thought I was safe behind the door but the screams came through. Yeah, the screams came through. Tell me now was it fucking worth it? Was it worth it when the choices that you made, led to losing more than you had gained. It wasn’t enough to break up the family that you loved. You left the place where you raised us, you found a new home and you broke our trust. How do you expect to show me the way, when the past stains every single word that you say? I’m tired of longing for what will never be. A dream that yesterday will repeat itself to me, has now turned into a nightmare that I see, holding onto this dream has been destroying me. And I will always love you, I said I’ll always love you. But never again will I respect you

Submitted by The Void — Feb 22, 2026