A Sign of Things to Come

Nurtured by no one Shunned and cast away Left out like rats in the rain Damaged cells assimilate Lost souls will aggregate Broken We'll never be your saviours Pariahs We took the fall for your failures The bastard sons and daughters The lambs that strayed from slaughter So now you want in? But now you need answers? Cauterised the wounds and now nothing stands between us? No bonds broken No love lost There was nothing to lose You never had our trust Broken We'll never be your saviours Pariahs We took the fall for your failures The bastard sons and daughters The lambs that strayed from slaughter Pariahs So sharpen the axe Pariahs We pulled arrows from our backs Pariahs Learned to breathe through suffocating hands Pariahs Baptised in flames no one could stand Pariahs So sharpen the axe Pariahs We pulled arrows from our backs Pariahs Learned to breathe through suffocating hands Pariahs Baptised in flames no one could stand I know how it feels We slipped through the cracks Covered in ash We bathed in the ashes I've seen that look In your eyes Behind mine Broken We'll never be your saviours Pariahs We took the fall for your failures Pariahs The bastard sons and daughters Pariahs And you can't fucking take this from us

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025

Damned I'm tied to this fucking stake Venomoid like a captured snake All I can make is a fist But there's nothing left to break Condemned Faced with exile We live like we're on trial I've searched for something to feel And all I felt was denial They said it's coming for all of us But we fell on our swords and we never got up And it feels like the walls are closing in Maybe they are And we're afraid to see it We'll deny our descent Can't erase the mistakes so I vent Can't carry the discontent Some wounds don't heal 'Cause we pick the scabs over and again Losing sleep on a blank page Grinding teeth on my own cage No empty kingdoms to reign So I'll build my own to deface They said it's coming for all of us But we fell on our swords and we never got up And it feels like the walls are closing in Maybe they are And we're afraid to see it We'll deny our descent I grew cold waiting for my deliverance All I know is the taste of bitterness A severed leash But no one set me free A cut through the rope with my own fucking teeth They said it's coming for all of us But we fell on our swords and we never got up And it feels like the walls are closing in Maybe they are And we're afraid to see it We'll deny our descent Descent

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

Words cut like jagged shards And your house of glass is falling apart You preach love but don't give it Teach hate but don't see it If there's nothing above Then there's nothing beneath But a fraud has to cut their teeth Hiding inside your own skin And now you're so absorbed Are you even listening? Words fallen on deaf ears Eye for an eye But you're the only one who's been left blind Worlds apart From the lives you crush Hypocrisy moves from bone to dust Spiritual fraud Cleansed in the waters Self inflicted stigmata You're no saint, no faith to claim A lifetime spent in vein Hiding inside your own skin And now you're so absorbed Are you even listening? Words fallen on deaf ears Eye for an eye But you're the only one who's been left blind Oh father, forsaker We felt the wrath of thee Oh father, have mercy Can you not turn the other cheek? No longer walking the line That exists in your own mind Was it all for nothing? Wasn't there always just... nothing? Hiding inside your own skin And now you're so absorbed Are you even listening? Words fallen on deaf ears Eye for an eye But you're the only one who's been left blind

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025

We circle the void Waiting for a saviour A light in the dark amidst our despair A feeble fraud With open arms we endure The hand of god never felt so impure Judas Turned your flock away Serpent Usurp your way to the grave You'd lie your way into heaven To slaughter the angels Pulled by our throats A contagion of misery Leading the rats to their lobotomies Cursed by all Adored by none And slowly your guise is undone An all consuming hate Pulses through the strings you manipulate Judas Turned your flock away Serpent Usurp your way to the grave You'd lie your way into heaven To slaughter the angels I see that crown of thorns bearing down The burden of all the souls you denounce Is nothing sacred You always did see red A calloused heart Tearing your whole world apart Rage filled veins fit to burst Because nothing seems to satisfy your Thirst

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

A solitary scratch From mortal coil into ash A poison tip straight through my chest From where your demons rest Trust fell by the wayside Venom seeping in my skin In my reflection there's emptiness So numb I couldn't feel you invert my world I never knew a soul could be so cold You've taken everything I had to give You cut your heart out to leave as evidence You've taken everything And it's all so wrong Now I'm left with your thorns My sacrifice for yours My silence for your pride Blue bodies sinking beneath Another soul to keep You clawed your way to me and never let go Pierced your thorns in me To hold me close The more I pulled the more it strengthened your hold I never knew a soul could be so cold You came before I could convalesce Just to tell me you confess

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025

Survivor's guilt What did I wish for? I never knew the cost All these years on It's not wasted on me But I never know what I have 'til it's gone I'm deaf to your words I'm blind to your actions Couldn't sense the change in the air Or see the lights refractions I don't know where I belong Why did I beg Wallowed in my own regrets Absorbed in my petulance Ungrateful as ever No matter how hard I try I know I'm not worthy I don't know where I belong But I feel like I've done wrong Guilt A godless throne I sat and wondered why I'm still here On this soil we lay our bodies down forever And I'll be waiting for the ground to swallow me Only to close my eyes And not see that it has taken you

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025