The Lotus Effect

Last I saw of those eyes So young inside this hand mirror Banished my new hope Learning to see the other side of a child's memory That's ripping at the seam With relative ease I might learn to pretend And bury the shame of raining on your dream On your dream for me Action-figure-sized brutality Beside this hand mirror Now what you saw I see this time Learning to feel what the other might have felt In this child's memory Ripping at the seam With relative ease have I learned too late Your just reward, I disintegrate From the darker side of me... High above ground I already lost what I found One final charade I already don't understand what we have made I long to find what might hide right in front of me The light reflects not what I was expecting to see Trial for your one offense Life-long the sentence Denial of your one defense That you gave up your life trying to make amends At last I see those eyes again So young upon this hand mirror Free from all I know Learning to see the other side of a child's memory Ripping at the seam With relative ease I might've tried another way to realize A world without the shame and the lies so... Unstitch me, strike clean and true Pull the string From the blanket of everything Unstitch me Clean and true Pull the string Disintegrate me from you Unstitch me Get it started but Without me You can't call it everything

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 25, 2025

I have lived to see a day that some would say Is hopelessly contrived A machine works to feed itself And so becomes alive... After so long on this unholy diet Common sense in atrophy Your feigning disdain will change nothing... Although I know I long for the sun Won't be alarmed when rain comes My faith in blind hope my only crime Tip-toe the fault-line one last time Though the I long for the sun Won't be alarmed when rain comes My faith in blind hope was all in vain Painted blue skies on a window pane Differences irreconcilable Follow just to see where it leads Never thought how this life would feel when you Indulge your suicidal greed Deaf to all who warn and plead If I paint a blue sky for you, on your window pane Would you feel more warm inside? How long will you hide From the rain? So I long for the sun Won't be alarmed when the rain comes My faith in blind hope my only crime Tip-toe the fault-line one last time...

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 25, 2025

Lost in a maze of my desperate reconsiderations Not that I seem to know And if I thought I could get out of here Where would I go? Keep running from the truth or take a chance Along the path of least existence... All the lessons I learned are nullified My soul's ashes earned tonight... Once inside forever flow Liquid lines as veins in stone Blind behind a two-way glass who's observing whom? And if I thought I could I'd get out and behold my own empty tomb And all the lessons I learned are nullified Blind eye I've turned until tonight Now all the lessons I learned are nullified My soul's ashes tonight... And my soul, my soul is in ashes Now I feel fine, yes I feel fine... Blind eye turned Ashes earned Now who's observing whom...

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 25, 2025

There was a time before This multitude of words and measures The truth lies just beneath this subtle eutrophia An elegy to be exhumed They laugh at what I say The ring of silence whiling the years away I'll place my faith in whispers along the shore of the Black Sea Dive under water Life in still serenity And frozen in time Desire to learn I am descending Among the shades of Hades I'll send a sign for you Motherless matrix of time Quinta essentia One look unto what leaves you all wanting Dive under water Life in still serenity And frozen in time Desire to learn I am descending A tale of warning sung by shades of Hades Will no one follow me down? Weightless warm welcoming blues skies of long ago Scavengers have smelled my blood Not a fantasy anymore Out of balance we all are turning leaves that fall... Getting clearer now I place my faith in whispers along the shores of the Black Sea (Let this lie at the bottom of your Seek and fund only blood at the core Let this die at the bottom of your mind) Dive under water Life in still serenity And frozen in time Desire to learn I am descending Among the shades of Hades I'll send a sign...

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 25, 2025

Playing in a child's game I never saw a meaning in the name And all along I was the one doing the seeking Or so I believed until your arrival... Now realize that I only sought one place to hide myself after another Light is getting low, and I feel as though you gave up You gave up looking for me All plain to see For anyone outside of this skin I'm wearing thin And I'll shed this version of me A search for the edge, a name for that shape that hides you From view... Reduction of all but none, every path has led to one Illusory conclusion of me in my own way... All plain to see For anyone outside of this skin that I taught myself to be And I'll shed this version of me A search for the edge, a name for the shape that hides you From view... I'm learning that all I hope to be (Can begin only when I give in) Crawling out from where I hide When I give in... And the light is getting low

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 25, 2025

So long I lived here alone in this heart of jade Clutching to you Afraid to be educated if I awake Will it be too late Light up and see the signs all around A dying ember glows Aching for you to follow So long the weight upon you How dignified you pray Voice inspired by fear of nothing Inside the stone and all alone Now tempted to dismay Willing to sacrifice comfort lies As night turns into day On again (left outside - riding a wave) No one knows how long it's been Don't want to be saved from Riding this wave ashore One moment of rest here at the crest, then we fall... Knowing is not enough to win Diastole of time breathing in To reverse again and again A fire rekindled but dare I believe again Trusting in you Afraid to be devastated Must I await what lust will recreate Loving to hate what can never change Hating to love what can't remain Off again (lost inside - riding a wave) No one knows what might have been Don't want to be saved from Riding this wave ashore Dance until we exhaust Life unlived and lost

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 25, 2025

No one untouched by it, in filth we thrive Darkness sublimated, from this we all derive Alluvium rising higher, hiding the way to my desire Mysteriously - Falling away or flying free... Each one of us keeps fighting not to be broken down, until we realize For one instant my love and my anguish fertilize Levity mysteriously Washes over me Climbing up out of the water Am I flying high, or falling away like a moment into clarity Lotus transcending out of the mire - Pure... And when I open my eyes all that's there to see Relies on every step I took while blind Impossible desire to embrace the child That fills the void you left behind Alluvium keeps rising higher For one instant my essence is one with the sky Levity mysteriously Washes over me Climbing up out of the water Am I flying high, or falling away like a moment of clarity Mysteriously dancing too slow to see Cool fire washing over me And now I'm flying high... Long enough just to say Long enough just to play through this melody of senses And the shadow inside this hollow disguise (Water, Earth, Air, Fire combine, fertilize your shadow with light) Will radiate when all elements arise As one...

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 25, 2025

Must not be easy for you I'm trying so hard to get inside your trusting mind Tired eyes adapt to read the symmetry Of empty spaces outlined Follow the sound of a whispering that's all around Subliminal designs abound You worked so hard to climb this far Will you remember who you are? Trade one burden for another Lie awake I'm burning inside - Pareidolized A tidal swell deep within the shell A call that won't abate Gone a minute or a day, I can't tell And I thought I knew you so well I'm lost for words you've lost your way Gone a minute or a day As we were walking hand in hand along the sand I stumbled and you fell Now I don't understand Lie awake I'm burning inside - Pareidolized A tidal swell deep within the shell Calling out to my island made of preconception Outlined by a need to believe And though it seemed to insulate Drown in the wave of sound that awaits As I try in vain Desperately striving not to strain Desire not to feel desire Adding more fuel to the fire Yet unaware there's nothing there to gain Crawling, unrelenting like ivy Dawn of a new melody A thundering silence overwhelms this spell That sirens have cast over me Crawling like ivy fog is rolling in From all directions it's calling (...a path is opening...) Lie awake I'm burning inside - Pareidolized A tidal swell deep within the shell Calling out to my island made of preconception Outlined by a need to believe And though it seemed to insulate Drown in the wave of sound that's awaiting now And when I learn the things I know Won't it be quite a show... quite a show

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 25, 2025

No more than a cardboard stage No struggle for an answer A line for you to sell and no matter what may change Treat your questions like a cancer and In time you'll hide your burden well Make me believe it's not make-believe Incentive to justify all of this longing inside My parasol shield from the falling Sky that I envision is nigh Standing by the water's edge And weighing all my options To leave behind what has brought me ashore Trying in vain to hedge Whispering a word of caution The raft is swept to sea forevermore... (Make me believe it's not make-believe incentive to justify all of this longing inside...) ...And you're still there, tearfully I wave farewell Our paths divide, no use to hide our despair (Hallucinated protection, natural parasol, save us all from despair)

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 25, 2025

A heart and mind embattled Now follow the standard that I bear Dare to be reconciled We summoned all our forces To synchronize my demise with that of fear Crack the illusion with a smile Wave the banner call to arms All your foolish pride Wave the banner start the war All you have denied

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 25, 2025

The vessel and the void never separate Each time I subdivide Wanting to see beyond the new surface That I create Upside-down Like fish afraid we'll drown So desperate to escape The meaning of this warm embrace Like ashes in the urn as the tables turn On this pin-hole point of view Outside the line No less a part of you Upside-down like fish afraid we'll drown So desperate to escape The meaning of this warm embrace

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 25, 2025

This track is instrumental.

Is this song not instrumental?

The human part of nature To eliminate any chance for the unknown What is a certain future but a life already dead and gone A bird that's flown Coming full circle on this ride How many times around you decide A diabolical humor self-fulfilling surreality A space I'm standing under Now in my hand I hold a Klein bottle Surrounding eternity... so far from empty in here Coming full circle on this ride How many times around you decide? Emanated Regulated Consummated fear you wed Let something yet be left behind Of this baggage you cannot hide

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Nov 08, 2025

Out of the water white blossom Darkness assails from every side No one can stay afraid for all time Let it wash away... All of the lessons All of the force-feeding All the hunger unsatisfied All of the rushing All of the misleading All stemming from where I hide Breaking the tension Nothing more impeding... Rising high this throne self-cleaning Light has shone brightly Magnify and... Notice the lotus effect Rise up from the muddy water Don't be afraid You're coming around the last corner Of this path you made Ask yourself what course you charted - smooth or rough terrain This method just a finger pointing - counting time You'll turn your head in your own time To see it shine With no start or end Arrive where I've always been

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 25, 2025