Ward of Roses
(<em>Instrumental</em>)
Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Jul 21, 2026
Enough No more This tired harvest Has left me Fallow And from the dust Resentment Blooms And when the nights are long And we're far from home You'll mourn for kingdoms That can never come And we'll wear the crown of thorns To hold a rose for just a moment In agony of Love Feel our blood In its silent ritual Flesh torn In bloody halos Adorned Body and soul We'll wear the crown of thorns To hold our roses In agony of love In silent ritual And when all is lost Your fealty is a whisper Evaporating Like the mists that hung In nooses on the necks of lilies In the mist of the stillborn moon
Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Jul 21, 2026
This body is a hole This body is a hole In the basement floor Of a burnt-out prayer house At the edge of all we know This body is a hole This body is a hole This body isn't whole I saw you On an unmarked road With your arms splayed out Like you were walking a tightrope I saw you... Like you were nailed to your cross Raving, mad, in the hills of the skull I saw you on that unmarked road In burning haze Of brittle weeds and window panes You couldn't hear me call your name You were In your garden Racked with pain And I wept to see you suffering But I can't ease your suffering When you build these monuments to pain I can't sound your savior's name Through these monuments to pain And I saw you on that unmarked road Treading a path I couldn't follow And in your hollow martyrdom I watched you slip away Under cover of rain Like a call From beneath the waves A chain link noose On judgement day Another useless barrier To your pain A chain link noose On judgement day
Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Jul 21, 2026
Extinguished fire of your soul These woods have decayed Like the smile from your face Drink deep the night Hollow out your being And dissolve Away Yellow haze from under the door Caught in my throat Like smoke From the extinguished fire of your soul Tell me, how many times have you tried to die? Tell me, how many lives have you lived? And how many lives were lies? These mountains are еtched with scars By the passing claws of time Likе the scars borne on your face Upon waking another day Oh damn this crimson curse I still hear on these empty autumn nights Those nights that burn With the extinguished fire of your soul How many times have you tried to die? How many times have you lived a lie? This purple void on our empty bed Vapor fled your being These leaves fall Covered in blight And I fear those empty autumn nights And I Let the night in This purple void upon the empty bed As I realize that you are gone Let in the night And hollow out your being Dissolve into Vapor
Submitted by NecroGod — Jun 08, 2026
Send in your petulant dog Sullen, sworn and suffering Deference, an end in itself Solemn, servile and sacred "You are ruin made flesh" Groans, guttural Maws, gnashing "And I shall be yours in turn" Grotesque, garish and gruesome Gatekeeper Gatekeeper "So why hast thou a key, oh vagrant? See thy lock doth grant passage" Haggard, harrowed and haunted Draw blood, lest death make resolution No hearth, home or haven Grotesque, garish and gruesome Haggard, harrowed and hauntеd
Submitted by NecroGod — Jun 08, 2026
Damned Standing in the stone-walled corridor Silence The hour of judgment has come Futile against the tide Cold, sea of contempt Wash over me Falling into a void Here where no hope dwells Spinning lifeforce Escape from me Every desire you turned away Walk through my fire And burn away Black abyss of my hollowed vessel I walk this sea of darkness Alone Falling into a void Here where no hope does dwell Spinning lifeforce Escape from me Feast upon the carcass of hope The promise of comfort and home At the end of the tunnel Fades like a cold flame Unknown the scorn That met me at the end Spit upon like a kiss from the lips of death A rift grows deep inside In this sea of darkness I walk alone Alone Killed by hands of pride Burn in my fire
Submitted by NecroGod — Jun 08, 2026
Her eyes were beautiful Like a bruise Contusions Spread across the sky Black plumes Rorschach clouds To divine Reasons why We buried him at dawn In a ward of roses A perfume to disguise The scent of death That rides Upon every horizon Guardian, guardian of roses
Submitted by NecroGod — Jun 08, 2026
Take me home Heaven knows Silence grows The fires within Once so fervent Once so vital Extinguished Body and soul Yearned for warmth with yours Now lifeless and cold Body and spirit They yearned for warmth with yours The embers, they've faded And we're all alone We danced around the fire Desires of grandeur In the end Rain falling down Washed away our foundations The rhythm, the pulse, integral Reduced to scarce breathing And then there was silence Cold, cutting Straight through the heart of me I wish to remember A time spent alive Before the sun set And the flames died And then there was silence Washed upon The shores Of the damned But I still remember That not all is lost There's fire within you Together we'll burn Silence Borne again I can't remember All is lost There's no fire within me I'll burn I can't remember All is lost The fire burns There's nothing to remember All is lost Silence Borne again
Submitted by NecroGod — Jun 08, 2026