Dividing Lines

Lost faith in the human race Lost hope in the ever after You got burned everywhere you turned You touched fire like a salamander Can't get up, can't get over it Won't let up, won't let go of it No time for another try So leave now or you're going to have a breakdown Abandon your instinct, it only tries to insulate No passion, no limit, you'll only hyperventilate You're lethal, you're forfeit, harmonically distorted Till you've forsaken all you wanted What doesn't kill you leaves you haunted And you're slipping away Hold tight while the bomb strikes Countdown to the new disaster Don't say you don't want to fight Are you going to be the next cadaver Can't get up, can't get over it Won't let up, won't let go of it Can't choose when you're going to lose So leave town or you're heading for a showdown Abandon your instinct, it only tries to insulate No passion, no limit, you'll only hyperventilate You're lethal, you're forfeit, harmonically distorted Till you've forsaken all you wanted What doesn't kill you leaves you haunted And you're slipping away The shadow lingers I will remember The hounds of winter I will remember Every promise, every cry Every silence, every lie I will remember Every spell you ever cast Every spectre from the past I will remember Abandon your instinct, it only tries to insulate No passion, no limit, you'll only hyperventilate You're lethal, you're forfeit, harmonically distorted Till you've forsaken all you wanted (Till you've forsaken all you wanted) What doesn't kill you leaves you haunted And you're slipping away And you're slipping away

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

Hear the voice, say the word Thoughts and theories are never heard No distrust, no recall One illusion to cover them all So burn all the books, destroy all the bridges Sell them the desert as mountains and ridges Wrong time and place but it's a matter of pride Shooting down the other side 'Cos the gulf is way too wide You're all shored up in your bunkers and silos Don't know the way but I'm sure it's the high road Shout the words till they come back louder Destroy the foil and feel the power Light the fuse and ignite the powder And maybe this could be your hour So build your fortress, raise your drawbridge Climb the tower as it grows Follow the feeling wherever it goes With narrow thoughts in narrow walls For narrow minds until they close The future is yours in a hall of echoes This is your DNA 'Do not alter', it's your constraint Sights are set, guns are primed By your halter forever defined So when you expose emotion that scares you Push it away now, don't let it impair you Wrong time and place but it's a matter of fact Walking down a one-way track Not a chance you're coming back You're all shored up in your bunkers and silos Your finger's poised and you're ready to fire now Shout the words till they come back louder Destroy the foil and feel the power Light the fuse and ignite the powder And maybe this could be your hour So build your fortress, raise your drawbridge Climb the tower as it grows Follow the feeling wherever it goes With narrow thoughts in narrow walls For narrow minds until they close The future is yours in a hall of echoes And there's no guarantee we've found reality Thoughts are forced and minds are stormed Memories lost and new ones formed Shoot the messenger and close the doors The future is now, the future is yours It's yours Shout the words till they come back louder Destroy the foil and feel the power Light the fuse and ignite the powder And maybe this could be your hour So build your fortress, raise your drawbridge Climb the tower as it grows Follow the feeling wherever it goes With narrow thoughts in narrow walls For narrow minds until they close The future is yours in a hall of echoes And there's no guarantee we've found reality

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

Heaven's burning, look up, the sky is on fire Have you seen enough, just what have we done here Did we fail to plan or plan to expire Day by day we count the hours till it comes Could we rebuild the world without modern machines Burning a hole in the sun The satellite's dying but what does it mean Escape plan with nowhere to run Exploitation by civilisation has come to haunt us Mother earth pleads as she falls to her knees Dust to dust We don't belong to this world This world belongs to no one We got it wrong Let it burn, let it burn Let it burn, let it burn We could belong to this world We have a chance to make it right All that we've wronged Or we could just let it burn If we could start again where would we begin With city walls dividing lines And prayers few understand We once had it all But oceans rise and empires fall If we could start again where would we begin Pushing the limits of what's meant to be Has left us a future undone Amend the escape plan There's no air to breathe It's too late, the end has begun How the hell did we get this far Just to get lost again Did no one listen Circumstances bring no second chances Let's just hold on We don't belong to this world This world belongs to no one We got it wrong Let it burn, let it burn Let it burn, let it burn We could belong to this world We have a chance to make it right All that we've wronged Or we could just let it burn

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025

Silenced a million spoken voices Their choices stolen without violence Stopped by unrelenting forces Who never saw their worth Who never saw their souls as they were Silenced a concept thought of freely In fury a statement of defiance Blocked, no judges and no jury From many to a few to everyone we knew We reel at the scale of the wall they created Lost at the cost of the world they deleted The shouting of a dream Was nothing but a scream inside As everyone was Silenced the past is just a memory Nostalgia is all that it's cracked up to be Stored like some forgotten history Left to gather dust, they were Loved and they were lost and they were Silenced they knew that it was coming They told us we'd reach the end of summer We stand in line with arrows To beat the new machine We're slaughtered by the bullets In the form of T's and C's We reel at the scale of the wall they created Lost at the cost of the world they deleted The shouting of a dream Was nothing but a scream inside As everyone was silenced As everyone was silenced Silenced, silenced Silenced, silenced We reel at the scale of the wall they created Lost at the cost of the world they deleted The shouting of a dream Was nothing but a scream inside And after their show of compassion is ended We'll hear the coda of what they intended The shouting of a dream Was nothing but a scream inside As everyone was silenced As everyone was silenced Silenced a million spoken voices Their choices stolen without violence Stopped by unrelenting forces Who never saw their worth Who never saw their souls as they were

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

Be careful what you're looking for You'll always find an open door One mistake just leads to more And you won't get to choose again An unintended consequence You become the target While you're busy taking aim Destroying all your evidence Knocking down the pieces In your never ending game Here in the afterglow we'll never let it go All we can do is know nowhere to talk about it Old fires will always fade The only constant left is change As the warhorse rides away Forced out but we will not forget The domino effect Your memory's like oxygen It's helping you to breathe again Staving off this pathogen Painting all your blues away You override your self-defence Undermining reason In your race to hold the flame With alibis and eloquence Knocking down the pieces In your never ending game Here in the afterglow we'll never let it go All we can do is know nowhere to talk about it Old fires will always fade The only constant left is change As the warhorse rides away Forced out but we will not forget The domino effect We started out The victim of a flawed machine Not sure of much But sure that we were culpable And through it all We thought that we could rule the world So hard to touch but nothing is unstoppable Did things get better now Did you find forever now Is it time to put us back in our box Till all of the fighting stops 'Cos I don't think we're Ever going to get back out again All the liars and all the fools Can light up the latest rules To burn away our promises and hopes Like oxygen and watch us fall So put us back in our box Till all of the fighting stops 'Cos I don't think we're Ever going to get back out again Here in the afterglow we'll never let it go All we can do is know nowhere to talk about it Old fires will always fade The only constant left is change As the warhorse rides away Forced out but we will not forget The domino effect And through it all We thought that we could rule the world The last to know That we were all just dominoes

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

We've still got a system we want you to use So cover your faces, we're lighting the fuse We've got all the data, we've stolen the facts You're losing control so we're taking it back Forget all the things that you've known all along Our latest advisors can prove that they're wrong And just when you think that you're getting ahead We'll change our research to confuse you again From all this information We're meant to determine Our final destination When nothing is certain So it's hard to trust our eyes When the truth gets laced with lies And it's hard to trust our hearts When they're tainted by the past You can't believe in everything One sounds as good as the next You know that something's going on But it's so complex We'll cover it all, you just need to relax And marvel at our undeniable facts We'll publish exhaustive reports as we go Except for the parts that you're not meant to know We'll mean what we say and we'll say what you do With slogans to help you believe that it's true And if you complain that it's not what we meant We'll give them the opposite meaning again From all this information We're meant to establish Our final destination And suffer the damage So it's hard to trust our eyes When the truth gets laced with lies And it's hard to trust our hearts When they're tainted by the past You can't believe in everything One sounds as good as the next You know that something's going on But it's so complex And we'll redefine our context From deep inside our complex 'Cos something's going on From all this information We're meant to determine Our final destination When nothing is certain So it's hard to trust our eyes When the truth gets laced with lies And it's hard to trust our hearts When they're tainted by the past You can't believe in everything One sounds as good as the next You know that something's going on But it's so complex We've still got a system we want you to use So cover your faces, we're lighting the fuse We've got all the data, we've stolen the facts You're losing control so we're taking it back We're going to decide how the world goes around Patrolling the skies and controlling the ground So here's to the power and the glory we found So why do you think it's so complex

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025

All my dreams are undone I'm losing my faith The battle was lost So why should I stay Now all that I've done can't hold me forever You deceived me with lies Deceived me with innocence Sentiment influence Plotting my own unconscious demise I followed you endlessly, faithfully Watched as you sold me a whole new world Said we could be home soon, home soon I, I won't give in this time I will not follow What my eyes can't see my heart can't feel Take me back to the other side Where I'm king of nothing but a smile This whole thing became part of me Told you I could win But the truth is so bitter to taste Poisoned apathy Watch the colours burn and fade away I, I won't give in this time I will not follow What my eyes can't see my heart can't feel Take me back to the other side Where I'm king of nothing but a smile 'Cos I, I won't give in this time I will not follow What my eyes can't see my heart can't feel Take me back to the other side Where I'm king of nothing

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

You stare at the embers You walk to the door You still don't remember What you're leaving it for Just know you've got to get away, far away Surrender the war, surrender the war You're kicking, you're screaming You're peaceful inside Converging contradictions With nowhere to hide Except your overflowing heart flowing dark As every pulse tears you apart Look who suffers now, look who suffers now Could you ever leave this life Do you think you'll always stay Are you found in all this light Are you lost along the way And you're just so over being under attack You're taken for granted so you're taking it back Is there a part of this you'll miss when it's gone Or does it conflict with who you've become You've cut yourself off now You're outside the wall You're independent, unrepentant Far from it all But was this all you ever hoped, ever dreamed Don't lose control, don't lose control Look who suffers now, look who suffers now Could you ever leave this life Do you think you'll always stay Are you found in all this light Are you lost along the way Look who suffers now Look who suffers now Look who suffers now Could you ever leave this life Do you think you'll always stay Are you found in all this light Are you lost along the way Could you ever leave this life Do you think you'll always stay Are you found in all this light Are you lost along the way Lost along the way

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

Untie me now, please show no mercy As you bring my body to the ground You'll see just who I am Leave my wounds, they have earned no pity Because I am not a saviour I wear no crown Why did you run Was the truth a lie The tear shed for another How could you walk away and sacrifice me Father you know I tried But I couldn't find the answers Even after all that I gave In my room no one cares Lost inside, so unaware Growing cold, no will to live Thoughts divide I'm such a mess from this Why did you run Was the truth a lie The tear shed for another How could you walk away and sacrifice me Mother you know I tried But I couldn't find the answers Even after all that we had Why did you run Was the truth a lie The tear shed for another How could you walk away and sacrifice me Lover you know I tried But I couldn't find the answers Even after all that we shared

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

I don't fall for theories Designed to change your views Created to fool you By people that rule you If only to hide the truth I don't fall for speeches Produced behind the lines By someone who's woven Some banners and slogans To conquer your hearts and minds One life, one try It's enough to keep on breathing One fight, one side But tell me who to trust Tell me who to trust Lost in a world where nothing's real Learning to trust in what I feel Getting worn down by this war of attrition This is my defence condition Want to be heard but I've got no voice Watched and observed but I've got no choice Twenty four seven 'cos I gave my permission This is my defence condition I don't fall for penance I don't think God's to blame And if he is there then I don't think he'd care for Us doing it in his name And it can't be random It's all too neatly done You don't make a heart grow Until there's a blood flow So where was it flowing from One truth, one proof Just enough to keep believing One voice, one choice But tell me who to trust Tell me who to trust Lost in a world where nothing's real Learning to trust in what I feel Getting worn down by this war of attrition This is my defence condition Want to be heard but I've got no voice Watched and observed but I've got no choice Twenty four seven 'cos I gave my permission This is my defence condition I don't fall for theories, I don't fall for theories Power corrupts and meaning dies Bend the truth with little white lies No one wants to be exposed So words are purged and cases closed Power corrupts and lines are crossed Wars are won but nothing is lost Every virtue bites the dust So how do you know who to trust Sometimes life is a battle There is no turning back And justice can be slow to dispatch so Lock all your windows And batten your hatches Sometimes lies are effective No one sees them attack But propaganda shows their offence so Cover your eyes now And raise your defenses DEFCON 2 and the threat is true DEFCON 1 and the damage is done DEFCON 2 and the threat is true DEFCON 1 and the damage is done These hollow days My thoughts remain unseen The world cannot be altered By a billboard or a meme No one proclaims Their imaginary views Unless they're all the same As the imaginary news Power corrupts and meaning dies Bend the truth with little white lies No one wants to be exposed So words are purged and cases closed Power corrupts and lines are crossed Wars are won but nothing is lost Every virtue bites the dust So how do you know who to trust Sometimes life is a battle There is no turning back And justice can be slow to dispatch so Lock all your windows And batten your hatches Sometimes lies are effective No one sees them attack But propaganda shows their offence so Cover your eyes now And raise your defences One life, one try It's enough to keep on breathing One fight, one side But tell me who to trust Tell me who to trust Lost in a world where nothing's real Learning to trust in what I feel Getting worn down by this war of attrition This is my defence condition Want to be heard but I've got no voice Watched and observed but I've got no choice Twenty four seven 'cos I gave my permission This is my defence condition DEFCON 2 and the threat is true This is my defence condition DEFCON 1 and the damage is done This is my defence condition DEFCON 2 and the threat is true This is my defence condition DECON1 and the damage is done This is my defence condition What you going to do when the meaning goes You're lying like thieves And you're not going to change me What you going to do when the feeling grows We're falling like leaves But you're not going to change me What you going to do when the demon knows You're lying like thieves And you're not going to change me What you going to do when the healing flows We're falling like leaves But you're not going to change me You're not God And you're never going to save me What you going to do when the meaning goes You're lying like thieves And you're not going to change me What you going to do when the feeling grows We're falling like leaves But you're not going to change me What you going to do when the demon knows You're lying like thieves And you're not going to change me What you going to do when the healing flows We're falling like leaves But you're not going to change me You're not God And you're never going to save me

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025