Labyrinthian

Dear departing heart How will you leave? I'm not unlike the others I'm not unlike the others am I? We knew that time would come take it Our truce so temporary I have turned on the things I love A choice that you made for me Why do those eyes now look away? Now I I am the same, just where you left me And in the presence of so-called foes You'll find the wretchеd are those you've hеld close Betray those you will leave, all that you grieve Betray those you will leave, all that you grieve Sing me the anthem you're all preaching Straight from the cut of your mouth Teach me those secrets you're all cradling Hiding in the depths of your keep With what's been done, how could you say that this land is for me? (Land is for me) Where is this peace you claim? (Peace you claim) And in the end, what will be left for your seed to believe? (Seed to believe) Where is this peace you claim? My mutiny My last chance to face what's in front of me What will come of a one man's trek To the deepest parts of discovery? Betray those you will leave, all that you grieve Betray those you will leave, all that you grieve Sing me the anthem you're all preaching Straight from the cut of your mouth Teach me those secrets you're all cradling Hiding in the depths With what's been done, how could you say that this land is for me? Where is this peace you claim? My heart, my home, my grave All in a place whose name I cannot speak

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

What we won't save will be praised Will be praised Lost in loathing, and set to destruct There's no seeing you again Tread this lurid path of what should not Please don't wait for me my friend Just close your eyes, we'll be there in no time Just close your eyes, horror's reprise Possession in the wake of self-defeat, the shadow self I've always been what waits for you in the end In your sleep your dark half's waking Submitting, induce the shadow self In your sleep, your dark half's waking Submitting, induce the shadow self Swayed by vilе yet familiar tongue Show me where this life begins Horrid master I now invoke Guide me in this cold descent Just close your eyes, we'll be there in no time Just close your eyes, horror's reprise Possession in the wake of self-defeat, the shadow self I've always been, what waits for you in the end In your sleep your dark half's waking Submitting, induce the shadow self In your sleep, your dark half's waking Submitting, induce the shadow self There is no one left What we won't save will be praised We will not be saved

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

Misplace my memory, a brain in decay Like all those creatures with forgotten names All that I cherish is fading away Like all those colors that peel in our wake Now tell me Where they are hiding and who is this man? How is it I can't remember just how lost I am? Slip into the hexing fog without name A scourge forgotten, I am plague Further away from the roots that I've laid My perception is blurring, this blight holds its sway Alone in the stillness a memory opaque Hunted by a monster behind my own face Purge my loves one at a time Thеn bask in the glow Slip into the hexing fog without name A scourge forgotten I am damned to dwell within this box Corrupting a life forgotten, I am plague Mind decrepit Past ingested I am the plague of paling A fiend who preys on memories I am claimed and empty I am claimed and empty

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

Closing on me, hounding the peace worth keeping Towards me he rows Son, you face what's left alone I can hear hunger's savage plea I can feel death's claws clutching me Dragging me We watch as meddle is mined from the hearts of lions Take from my will, collect the remains My faith is septic along with the rest of me I hold the word Tiring hands will seek their sleep My faith is septic along with the rest of me I hold the word Tiring hands will seek their sleep And as the sun wilts, he'll rise It won't be long now Hе's in the dark whispering about the placе Awaiting with no name Promising only the beginning Say, can you hear hunger's savage plea? Forage my tragedy Macabre reality coursing through this anatomy Cold vital agony cascade into eternity Hard to breathe, stay with me These wailing bones can feel him coming I can't see, please don't leave An unsealed soul is for the taking Seeker waiting in the corner Hear him growl behind poised teeth Closing on me, hounding the peace worth keeping Hold on to hope As the living veil unfurls Draped in the cloth of time and dearth It won't be long now Say, can you hear hunger's savage plea? Forage my tragedy Macabre reality coursing through this anatomy Cold vital agony cascade into eternity

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025

Flawed form built for beating Frail heart prone to mutiny Formed by my failure Arming me for Labyrinthian All that I am, toward Labyrinthian On this path scatter the ashes of the vainest parts of me Toward Labyrinthian Time with hands of spite Shapes what we leave behind Find what you had prized Has grown sick by your side May they forgive me I just had to try If I don't make it back Know that I fought with all I am Farewell, my brother, please remember It was my finest hour And through it all I walk this maze alone To find my path toward Labyrinthian And through it all I walk this maze alone To find my path toward Labyrinthian Far from all the others Chasing a cruel miragе I feel like I'm close Wandering towards thе distant ghost All that I am, toward Labyrinthian On this path scatter the ashes of the vainest parts of me Toward Labyrinthian

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

I can’t recognize what I won’t leave behind. Am I sleeping? Her voice calls me to wake. A fate wandering. These rooms have grown, what’s happened to my home? Walls sprawl, beams bend, the walk which has no end. Scour the endless towards what I’ll never find. I know you’re here, why do I feel left behind? I can’t recall how long it’s been, or what’s left of this death I live. Bound to forget, and join the forgotten. Like the body, the soul becomes rotten. I can’t recall how long it’s been, or what’s left of this death I live. I can’t recognize what I won’t leave behind. A-gain waking, my nightmare in rewind, these features blurring. Dead steps shall roam, true Hell is spent alone. I sleep, I wake, no life for me to take. Dark halls, wind and swallow. Dark halls, bleak and hollow. Just when I think there’s no one, emerging from the black. He is the purest hunger, and the drinker of what’s left. I will not, relinquish my hold. Our memory washed out in the tide’s pull. What is lost may wait in the light. In death I sleep, I wake. In death I sleep, I wake. In death I sleep, I wake.

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

Majesty, call your silent court for thee Celebrate, prop foul pomp on wooden stakes Primacy, purge what's filthy in our streets Consummate, a posh dream of lunacy Orations linger in empty halls I, the heir to none True heir to none, phantom acropolis True heir to none, phantom acropolis Majesty, call your silent court for thee Celebrate, prop foul pomp on wooden stakes Primacy, purge what's filthy in our streets Consummate, a posh dream of lunacy Fabled king, hear those wailing horns sing Fabled king, stained throne of suffering Nigh it be, this lie is crumbling Nigh it be, your last offering Exile's creation, self-imposed fate Ego's defacement, banished by hate False kingdom of no flag and no rule to keep Shunned sultan with no purpose, trapped in the bleak Fabled king, hear those wailing horns sing Fabled king, stained throne of suffering Nigh it be, this lie is crumbling Nigh it be, your last offering Your last offering Bring them at once Can you hear me? Where hath thy hand? Need breeds necessity

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

Covet which cannot grow, must fill what’s empty Declare your purest self missing Behold your doppelganger’s voracious appetite and wayward counsel I owe on an open debt, mortgaging my content in numbing doses Decay will take its place, embedding itself in the cracks of me Alter my pain to taste, convincing, excess becomes God you see When there's nothing left to barter with What will you take from me? Cursed character shrouded by this disguise Drainеd of all verve, a soul denied This hunt for the dimming glow Transforming this life I knew into bedlam Disease of a sickened soul, beginning with a vow to forsake myself Decay will take its place, embedding itself in the cracks of me Alter my pain to taste, convincing, excess becomes God you see When there's nothing left to barter with What will you take from me? Cursed character shrouded by this disguise Drained of all verve, a soul denied A sickened soul denied, left to a dimming glow Purged and calcified Purged and calcified I have little to trade Some crooked bones and the relics of no use to me Now what is left to cheat? Those swindled loves, and their haunting of my masquerade

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

Doubt's crushing slate Trusts heavy ore It's getting harder to hold their weight Splintering I can't hold much longer A worn, edging will, the death of this body Hear the words I cannot speak Within my pledge hides treachery Grasp slipping hope While breathing smoke Left behind in the ash I've primed is the sleeping fiend that won't die I turn in this pit of mine, I shed away my decaying hide In my blood I swore it, how I forgot to be In spite of my glory, there's no good left in me A last stand's redemption is only for the saints I will burn this body to find my inner peace Below Doubt's crushing slate A worn, edging will, the death of this body Hear the words I cannot speak Within my pledge hides treachery We're stranded at the isle of mind There is no rescue coming in time Bid farewell to a life contrived As we fade into the tide In my blood I swore it, how I forgot to be In spite of my glory, there's no good left in me A last stand's redemption is only for the saints I will burn this body to find my inner peace Open the door Where you will burn forever I will burn this body There is no inner peace I will burn this body There is no inner peace

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

The gallant light won't come for us Here we're on our own Our ships of strength sunk below us Here we are the drowned Betrayed, left in the grey, faith falls apart and slips away Where's your hope now in Hell? Where's your hope now here in Hell? There's not much time left and promise that you will stay with me Please come close now, I feel so tired but death has its hints of ecstasy Lured by your rapture, with malice I laid Mired as I watch it morph into decay Where have you run to? And why won't you stay? Here in the land that gave up on its fate The gallant light won't come for us Here we're on our own Our ships of strength sunk below us Here we are the drowned This façade, art of feign, I've come to face what I am not These demons hounding me to finish what my mother wrought This façade, art of feign, I've come to face what I am not These demons hounding me to finish what my mother wrought No one to see you through Now it's time to go One thing you must know We're all on our own I won't see my home We're all on our own We're all on our own For we are the drowned Façade art of feign, I've come to face what I am not I am not Demons hounding me to finish what my mother wrought I've come I've come to face what I am

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025