More Constant Than the Gods

All of my life, I've been waiting for you, Come lay down your head, rest in my arms, you're free tonight You're in the eyes of those whose luck has run out A tender end to a life of descent Every lawman knows that you cannot be argued Even despots know that when they die, you'll rule still You're supreme, immutable, unchanging You're never failing through the ages You are the usher at the unknown portal You stand silent among the din and clamor All of my life I've been waiting for you With open arms, I'll come running towards you You're supreme, immutable, unchanging You're never failing through the ages You're more constant than the stars Because the change their paths with the seasons You're more constant than the Moon Because she hides her face in the shadows You're more constant than the sun Because one day her embrace will melt the earth You're more constant than the gods Because sometimes when we call, they don't answer at all All in all, we end the same (Come lay down your head, rest in my arms, you're free tonight)

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 25, 2025

One score for stepparents and the Seven Dwarves Falling all over yourselves To be the fairest in the land Slavery to a cruel idol Slavery to a hollow fable Don't forget that your Aryan lust has led To one hundred men hanging from trees amid the circling crows And as only the obscure know, the tainted fruit never ends They opened your mouth and they poured in the good of the land Then they claimed and leashed you to their heavenly plan Now the ghosts of a dead empire are written all over your face Along with the failed ruins of their version of eternal grace

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 25, 2025

O Cosey Mo, I feel your pain When they all want you but they don't know your game I guess your death will pass in time But in the meantime let me build your shrine I promise you that I will find you I'll dig up every unmarked grave I promise you that I will find you, darling, find you And on your tomb I'll carve your name Oh Cosey Mo, I feel your rage When they hunt you down and put you in their cage I understand your need to hide Not from fear from losing your mind Burning instead of beauty

Submitted by The Void — Apr 25, 2025

I live in a place where the horizon rises up to meet the sky And a dead lake lies fallow underneath a burning sun In the houses people dream what life would be like without a tally In the houses people dream what life would be like shadowless Cities by dead lakes and million miles of barbed wire Come to the altar and lay down your numb consecration Sorrow, desolation There's never shelter for me in the halls of the righteous All preserved corpses and mummified dancers They are all gentlemen They only kill by common consent Everywhere I look all I see is famine A famine of form instead of feeling Everywhere I look all I see are blanched bones And a loud starvation that drowns out the cries of the holy There's no shelter for me in the halls of the righteous They're too busy anointing themselves in their finest After all, they're gentlemen They only kill by common consent They are all gentlemen They only kill by common consent She stands like statue of a deer in the moonlight Listening to the sound of a faraway band only she can hear The wind pours down the canyons to the lakeshore And the ancient trumpets cry Mute applause and no perception No perception of these mountains upon mountains

Submitted by The Void — Apr 25, 2025

Oh, sweet God above, please take me home Show me the mercy that he denied I've paid my dues, and I've served my time The shadow's haunting me the way it haunted him He looked in my baby's eyes and he felt nothing then He felt nothing then, and he feels nothing now Not a day goes by that I don't think of him I don't know what he suffered Lord, I don't know what he's seen But he's spread his sadness like a disease The shadow's haunting me the way it haunted him He looked in my baby's eyes and he felt nothing then He felt nothing then, and all I feel's anguish now There's is a darkness born out of time It creeps along the edge of our excess Its hatred ripples in our fertile hearts Like heat waves shimmering with their mirage It gathers chessmen and loaded guns It snuffs candles out one by one Oh, sweet God above, please take me home Show me the mercy that he denied

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 25, 2025

For you I would cross the glass oceans of green Full of sights best unseen, and the worst kinds of dreams For you I would pass through deserts of fire Full of burning and ire, waterless and futile For you I would brave the disgust of the mob Walk completely alone, disavow all of them For you I would give up mountains of gold And possessions untold, health of body and of soul But don't ask me to do what the strongest of men Seeks to kill deep within, trembling sick to his bones Don't ask me to do what the strongest of warriors Backs up from the drawbridge and puts down her sword for Don't ask me to feel the moon on the door Or the fire on the shore as you bring my ship in Because the truth is, there is no safe harbor Because the truth is, there is no safe harbor anymore The first time I saw you, I felt the knives set in The first time I saw you, I felt my life cave in A perfect mirror tells no lies That's why I shattered you The truest mirror in my life A broken mirror cannot tell the truth That's why I shattered you I'll pick up shards for all my life

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 25, 2025