Altered State
I'm a surrogate I'm archetypal and itinerant I'm your excuse to long for a superior I will undertake, I will overcome Imperfection you will find Look close enough, tear off the mask I need This endeavor is not mine You subject me to the daggers you conceive I'm stronger than I was before Thus you reinforce these walls, I can't fight you anymore Threatened by the open door All the chances I ignore, I can't stand still anymore The day is done, nothing left to say Resting head in hands, wishing I had known my place To take a stand, the errand of a fool I'm not to reprimand, I'm here to help you through Is nothing like it seems? Living in this sequence, a dream Is nothing like it seems? Gather broken shards of self esteem
Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 22, 2026
Burning bridges as I cower beneath Trying to salvage the debris My devotion tied around your waist, lest you fall No one seems to sense the strain, no one seems to know Burning bridges as I cower beneath Trying to salvage the debris My devotion tied around your waist, lest you fall No one seems to sense the strain, no one seems to know I don't begin to proclaim that I know I can't continue down this road Dwelling on what has come to pass No force alive will bring it back, I would know I can feel the pressure getting steeper with every life lost, you Hope that I won't see the light of day in time to come With no conviction founded just Judgement contorted based on lust, give me strength Your assumption brings to a conclusion of no consequence and I refuse to play into your hands for your appeal Inadequate Inadequate I know I know I know I know I've hoped I've hoped You'll see me
Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 22, 2026
Turn back time Reason why Breakneck speed History Waiting (Waiting), waning (Waning) Exasperating (Exasperating) Unstrung tether Hoping forever No! I tried to settle bets with my own soul Bless my lips for the first time before you don't Gripping to the last touch of your hand I grow to loathe Hope that you remember just how far I'll go Spend the rest of my life wishing I'm enough Resist, resist, resist Resist, resist, resist
Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 22, 2026
Climb You're dehydrated Fly Your wings are jaded Cry You're enervated Die For what you believe in Try You've nearly made it Why? You're the plague within my dreams Soaring through an atmosphere of an adequate lack of strength And we're responsible The truth is that it will end here Denial's an impairment of your fear Can we save us from ourselves? Can we save us from ourselves? (This is the saviour and its form) You can break through Wake me up Tell me it's gone False hope sells lies I won't buy We are still one Let's attempt escape Melancholia will feed We'll admit defeat The Vox Populi will cease The air is thickening We are drifting You're the plague within my dreams Soaring through an atmosphere of an adequate lack of strength And we're responsible (And we're responsible) The truth is that it will end here Denial's an impairment of your fear Can we save us from ourselves? Can we save us from ourselves? (This is the saviour and its form) What's done is done One more second chance would be enough Only on the brink can we see so clearly Wake me up Wake me up Wake me up Wake me up
Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 22, 2026
Turn your back on everything Banging heads with prophecy Lavish in uncertainty Who will I be? How will I live to tell what I have seen? Must I endure the hell that comes with the peace? An equilibrium of god's own release What does it all mean? How can he justify? How can we breathe When the stagnancy's choking me? How can we dream Of better reality? How do you sleep at night? Take this doubt and fear to your grave This life of stone The hand of god I'm too tempted to bribe I'm getting old and growing paralyzed We're all alone Until we let our minds take to the skies Our blood runs cold yet we remain alive What's the confliction between heart and mind? How to bridge the void? Fuse the two in kinship To understand your prospects and vistas And yet to see the love here too It's more than I can do Vows and pursuits which at best hollow I remain torn in two Just seize the moment Sabotage the lines Life turns on a dime Please cease the torment It's weighing on my mind The pressure you apply won't hold Just seize the moment Sabotage the lines Life turns on a dime Just cease the torment It's weighing on my mind The pressure you apply This life of stone The hand of god I'm too tempted to bribe I'm getting old and growing paralyzed We're all alone Until we let our minds take to the skies Our blood runs cold yet we remain alive Lavish in uncertainty Turn your back on everything
Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 22, 2026
I won't deny My mind has wandered to the other side Follow the light The beauty of explosions in the sky I've breached the silence I reek of sin A rift in the forked road I grow to dread Don't cry to me I'm not a friend To those who dwell on the dead Detox sunrise There's a crevice in my hope The scale, the means The end won't stop overwhelming me No light at the end of the tunnel The fear, the doubt The dark won't cast shadow over me I'm broken You're broken As the crescent grows As the light returns Can we face a new beginning? Such a retrospective obsession
Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 22, 2026
What emerges from this seed? (No one's to know) The endless possibilities (Continue to grow) I fight my way through soil and stone (Born to this world) Am I to face it all alone? (In solitude) Crawling through the furrows deep (I sense the storm) Waiting for me at the peak Marching to the drums of War won't suffice Will not satisfy Value your life Turn back now while there's time Change your mind Find a resolve of a peaceful kind We won't fight only to survive My back, your knife That's the price you have laid upon your lives I know It's too late It’s too late Can't redeem My respect You don't know what it costs All this work will be lost You deserve all you get (You deserve all you get) You don't know what it costs All this work will be lost You deserve all you get (You deserve all you get) You don't know what it costs All this work will be lost You deserve all you get
Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 22, 2026
[Instrumental] [feat. Christopher Barretto]
Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 18, 2026
No, don't Give me your hand I can save you from the fall Go, I'm in your shadow Run until your feet are aching to the bone I see you looking back at me As this might be the end of me Misfortune in my history And even more awaiting me Tired of such controversies Sometimes I long for sweet release I've found a place that welcomes me A greener grass and bluer sea Free from all the sudden grief No clenching fists no gritting teeth I feel the freedom as I breathe A nature and its calm relief It all comes to life Right before your eyes And I wander through ideals Reflecting all I know and how it falls into focus It seems my progression lays behind this wall So I plant a seed And lead erosion to the wall And lead erosion to it all And I wander through ideals Reflecting all I know and how it falls And I'll be here Looking for purpose in the sun And I'll be ever here The horizon bears such a beauty We'll never know how much we can't see Your atheist terse solemnity It bruises me No, don't Give me your hand I can save you from the fall Go, I'm in your shadow Run until your feet are aching to the bone And it all comes to life Why do I still feel? Dead inside So I plant a seed And lead erosion to the wall So I plant a seed And lead erosion to I see you looking back at me As this might be the end of me Misfortune in my history, and even more awaiting me Tired of such controversies Sometimes I long for sweet release I've found a place that welcomes me A greener grass and bluer sea Free from all the sudden grief No clenching fists, no gritted teeth I feel the freedom as I breathe A nature and its calm relief
Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 22, 2026
I think I've seen A million sights And then I see That I'm still a child How could I have Been so blind To firmly believe There is no choice I'm so aware That you are just As equally Cauterised as I Is this for me? Another flame To tarnish my every chance Wait inside the fire Wait inside the fire Wait inside the fire Wait inside the fire
Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 22, 2026