The Path

I swore an oath to myself I would never break A bond in blood A pact taken to the grave I lit the spark And let the flames circle me Watch it burn It's the only protection I need I'm too entrenched I'm too far gone I kept this vow Through the eye of the storm Some got burned along the way Dropped like flies While the rest of us stayed I stand in the rain under these clouds of grey Watch the seed grow from nothing I walk the path Unchanged Still chained I held onto my wrath Because it's ingrained Blood stained It still lives And it bursts through veins Scarred and bleeding On broken wings It can't be feigned A sentence to the grave Don't pray for me now I've weathered the flames I walk the path Unchanged Still chained I held onto my wrath Because it's ingrained Blood stained I walk the path Unchanged Still chained I held onto my wrath Because it's ingrained Blood stained I swore an oath to myself I would never break A bond in blood A pact taken to the grave Maybe the gate needs a lock Imposters run amok If they reach out their hand Cut them off I walk the path Unchanged Still chained I held onto my wrath Because it's ingrained Blood stained I walk the path Unchanged Still chained I held onto my wrath Because it's ingrained Blood stained

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

There are blisters on my tongue From biting it for so long I inhaled the darkness Dragged into hell for ransom A devil on each shoulder A conscience in decline So I kept my mouth shut But now my hands are untied Cauterise the nerves Who does my life serve I just keep falling from grace I'm decaying in this place So now I carry my halo around my neck Like predators that seethe With dripping teeth Salivating at the thought of your perpetual agony I just can't look away But we're sanctified And when the prey is already impaled We watch til we're satisfied Cauterise the nerves Who does my life serve I just keep falling from grace I'm decaying in this place So now I carry my halo around my neck I hear them calling my name I can't help but walk away So now I carry my halo around my neck A spectator, a witness, accomplice A conspirator, whisper the curses Another martyr without purpose Some flies are destined to die with the carcass Wading in your trauma Engulfed in your pain Dilute my senses And water down my veins Throw me to the wolves Cut out my tongue for yours Our sins are shared They're seeping through my pores Cauterise the nerves Who does my life serve I just keep falling from grace I'm decaying in this place So now I carry my halo around my neck I hear them calling my name I can't help but walk away So now I carry my halo around my neck

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

I drew blood from a stone Walked the beaten track I work my fists to the bone And the world spits back I won't die on my knees But I'm tired of dragging my feet 'til they bleed All I had came from within And it's what they took from me What goes around I know comes back again Bleed the light from each day or there's hell to pay Earned these scars with blood and bone As above, so below It's a cruel world but it's the one I know No pity What a tragedy Reform Rebuild Face a world that shows no mercy Drained Burned the candle at both ends Nothing to show when the light descends Burned All that's left is the breath in my lungs You're taking names I'm taking tongues What goes around I know comes back again Bleed the light from each day or there's hell to pay Earned these scars with blood and bone As above, so below It's a cruel world but it's the one I know Surrender your soul to nothing To no one Trembling masses Lined up for judgement day The reaper wants his toll but I won't pay I won't pay And all I have left is the breath in my lungs What goes around I know comes back again Bleed the light from each day or there's hell to pay Earned these scars with blood and bone As above, so below It's a cruel world but it's the one I know Know

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

On a knife's edge On this ice again Do you thirst knowledge or acknowledgement? How does it feel to be watched at all times? A million eyes can't read between the lines I want to see a pawn remove a king But it's a rigged board So fuck them all No saviours but us No saints you can trust Disengage from the world's stage Let the machine rust Desperate people in a desperate world Nowhere to turn with your fingerprints burned How does it feel to be ostracised? A scapegoat? Or the sacrifice? At what point do you turn on your own flesh and blood? No saviours but us No saints you can trust Disengage from the world's stage Let the machine rust Eat of their darkness Drink of their poison Inhabit their hell There's nowhere else to run Climbed the walls to find Nothing on the other side We were sinking from the onset Longing to forget So we cut ourselves off From the world we reject And we curse the skies For feeling so worthless Well, there's one thing we share We received the same curses No saviours but us No saints you can trust Disengage from the world's stage Let the machine rust

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025

You saw right through my eyes Piercingly Silent screams from the depths of my being A wounded beast left to bleed out Writhing in pain yet disavowed Swallow the lies I feed I only aim to mislead This mask is slipping Ever so tellingly Sorrow calls For all my sins it reaps I'd fall to my knees but I fear it would come for me Again A complacent accomplice Spare me your salvation I spit out the words And tore out all the pages We're all martyrs left to bleed out Writhing in pain Yet disavowed Sorrow calls For all my sins it reaps I'd fall to my knees but I fear it would come for me Again Burning hands cover the world from me I swallowed my pride But inside it's killing me My beating heart is a lie But I am the effigy A soul forever displaced Long lost and screaming From the depths of obscurity To the height of agony I have found nothing to change There is no saving grace The colours all look the same There is nothing within the flames No lesson, no pain Empty as the day Disavow me Sorrow calls For all my sins it reaps I'd fall to my knees but I fear it would come for me Again Burning hands cover the world from me I swallowed my pride But inside it's killing me

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025