For the Journey

You've followed and you've led You've fought until you've bled You've sought and now you've fled So what you gonna do now? You've ushered in the rain Seen new life come again But doubting still remains So what you gonna do now? You're trying so hard Did you find what you're looking for? A glass roof or an open door? You're hurting yourself and everyone else Tell me who's gonna want to stand with the fire of a foolish man? In tune with yourself, but nobody else There is always bad to find So push it from your mind And let it all unwind Your watchtower on the moon won't help you see the view of all that's coming soon So what you gonna do now? And character's what glows What no one wants to know But still you choose to grow So what you gonna do now? You're trying so hard Did you find what you're looking for? A glass roof or an open door? You're hurting yourself and everyone else Tell me who's gonna want to stand with the fire of a foolish man? In tune with yourself, but nobody else There is always bad to find So push it from your mind And let it all unwind You're trying so hard Did you find what you're looking for? A glass roof or an open door? You're hurting yourself and everyone else Tell me who's gonna want to stand with the fire of a foolish man? In tune with yourself, but nobody else You're hurting yourself and everyone else In tune with yourself, but nobody else

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025

Mirror mirror, what do you see? A thousand faces staring back at me One with a grievance, one with a gun We'll count the paces in the morning sun One thing you can sign without a witness And that's forgiveness And I promise I've been trying to forgive you For the bad times that we lived through That would surely be a breakthrough To change the world That would change the world Mirror mirror, I don't want to look A dark reminder of the things I took One for the wrong thing, one for the right We'll count excuses 'til the evening light One thing can revoke the hardest sentence And that's repentance And I meant it I've been trying to forgive you For the bad times that we lived through That would surely be a breakthrough To change the world That would change the world Does the world spin too fast for you? Do you long to make it stop? But this you know that the journey is good And this you know that the mission is safe Well you've been slated and misunderstood But if you could take all the friction away That would change the world One thing can revoke the hardest sentence And that's repentance And I meant it I've been trying to forgive you For the bad times that we lived through That would surely be a breakthrough To change the world That would change the world Let me go Let me go Let me go Let me go

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025

The storm was high on Monday When someone found the box It promised hope and future Can't tell you what it cost To spare us from the northern wind As we walked our lonely track The box was found on Monday But I don't want to give it back “There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels…upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!” The water tastes so sweet tonight And the heat restores my soul Something doesn't feel so right But it's under my control A hunted little soul Feeding the machine We took their precious token So we can use it anywhere We marveled at its colors And how we're free to dream and dare Dream and dare The water's not so good tonight And I think I'll just be cold I can't afford the heat or light And the pleasure's growing old A hundred little souls Feeding the machine We took their precious token So we can use it anywhere We marveled at its colors And how we're free to dream and dare And with their precious token They know exactly where we've been They wondered at our dullness And now we're slaves to the machine And soon there came a time They wanted mind and soul And all I thought was mine Was out of my control A hundred million souls Lost in the machine We took their precious token So we can use it anywhere We marveled at its colors And how we're free to dream and dare And with their precious token They know exactly where we've been They wondered at our dullness And now we're slaves to the machine The storm was high on Monday When someone found the box It stole our hope and future Can't tell you what it cost It tore us like the northern wind Sold us down our lonely track The box was found on Monday But I don't know how to give it back

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

I talk intention I dream desire I walk by the thread of the wind And my thoughts are my own And my thoughts are my own It's a long road redemption I'm a long way from home And I'm brought down by the sound of the crowd And the voice is my own And the voice is my own If light is fading for me now I'll race the sundown No token word or broken vow Will hold me under Tonight the veil will not come down On another day of promises Promises turned to dust So pure the silence So true the sound I'm lost in the rumors and lies And the thoughts are my own And the thoughts are my own It's a dark road denial And there's so much I've known So I shout out for a voice in the crowd But I'm walking alone But I'm walking alone Don't understand just what I'm doing For what I want to do I don't If light is fading for me now I'll race the sundown No token word or broken vow Will hold me under Tonight the veil will not come down On another day of promises Promises turned to dust If light is fading for me now I'll race the sundown No token word or broken vow Will hold me under Tonight the veil will not come down On another day of promises Promises turned to dust If light is fading for me now I'll race the sundown No token word or broken vow Will hold me under Tonight the veil will not come down On another day of promises Promises turned to dust

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

Do you wander through the darkness Unaware of what you'll find Still you know to keep on going anyway In the strength of all the roots that grow with time Do you suffer through the sunlight Longing for a drop of rain Still you know to keep on going anyway In the knowledge that your time will come again Before your journey's end Hold on, keep yourself together There are better sights to see Hold on, this will all become a faded photograph Lost in your memory Was the frost too cold for comfort? Was the pruning too severe? Would the dead wood keep on growing or make a way For the length of all the shoots that must appear To help you out of here Hold on, keep yourself together There are better sights to see Hold on, this will all become a faded photograph Lost in your memory Just one more moment and all this will be gone And what was stolen will be returned Every day is a testament to all the things you've done And all you've overcome Hold on, keep yourself together There are better sights to see Hold on, this will all become a faded photograph Lost in your memory

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

There's a whisper on the wind That's how it all begins And I'm always tuning in Through the drama, through the din Though I'm standing in the middle This is not the end This is no alibi This is no change of season This is no last reply I find no sense or reason here I follow every word you said So tell me what you meant By autumn red There's an echo on the air Distorting what was there And it follows everywhere Like a shadow, like a stare Though I'm standing in the middle This is not the end This is no alibi This is no change of season This is no last reply I find no sense or reason here I follow every word you said So tell me what you meant By autumn red Sometimes I know you're looking at me Sometimes you find the greatest beauty Sometimes you see a blaze of glory Sometimes I know you're looking at me now I know you're looking at me now I know you're looking at me This is no alibi This is no change of season This is no last reply I find no sense or reason This is no alibi This is no change of season This is no last reply I find no sense or reason here I follow every word you said So tell me what you meant By autumn red

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

Welcome to the mystery show Welcome to the mystery show Forget the man who had a breakthrough And wants to tell of things to shake you But he's so nervous of indictment He stays at home and leaves the lights out And the more that you grow The less you're sure of what you know You want to understand This mortal master plan You want to travel down A road that can't be known You want to theorize With eloquence and alibis Then lose the evidence That goes against your own Welcome to the mystery show Welcome to the mystery show Forget the paranoid believer Who heard a noise on his receiver Instead of growing with the town folk He stays alone out on the back roads You want to understand This mortal master plan You want to travel down A road that can't be known You want to theorize With eloquence and alibis Then lose the evidence That goes against your own Forget the child who used to wonder If God's above and man is under The more you know you need to find Him The more your conscience tries to hide Him And the more that you grow The less you're sure of what you know You want to understand This mortal master plan You want to travel down A road that can't be known You want to theorize With eloquence and alibis Then lose the evidence That goes against your own So welcome You're so welcome Welcome to the mystery show Welcome to the mystery show Welcome to the mystery show Welcome to the mystery show

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

Awaken in me a warning, shake me from my sleep Render a breathless and deserving effect in me That I'll know, this I'll know Effortlessly I felt the shock wave that stirred the dead The damage plan of angels, a separatist's end This I'll know, this I'll know In accordance with the elements of the Earth I've witnessed this world around me and observed The landscape of the suffering heart reworked The incoherent and divisive have perceived The ever-changing scenes within a dream And its silence weighs more than can be seen Give me a sign, color my world This physical theater hurts Give me fire, light up my world This physical theater burns for you Dilate the failing hindsight beneath this siren sky Surrender the newborn's confessions and dialectic cries That we'll know, this we'll know Learn to tolerate the things you cannot change Be immersed and willing to re-arrange Put the better part of you on display I want to talk about the exercising of the will And witness all the joy our battles seem to kill All that promise unfulfilled "Instead of walking around all negatively, allowing that to affect your entire outlook on life, why not choose to live thankfully?" Give me a sign, color my world This physical theater hurts Give me a sign, color my world This physical theater hurts Give me fire, light up my world This physical theater burns for you

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

This burning had lost control And Gideon robbed my soul and so Here is the human joke I failed I failed I failed you Here in this troubled mind Where fortunes may turn the tide and so By clichés I'm paralyzed I failed I failed I failed I failed I failed you I failed you I wish I could I'd be the guardian of morality I should But now my heart must face reality So visited by inspiration Visited by indignation again Battling by the sword A fear of the spoken word and so Best grab your crown and turn I failed I failed I failed you So loathed to speak my name And grow wretched by the day and so It's better to die than to be enslaved I failed I failed I failed I failed I failed you I failed you I wish I could I'd be the guardian of morality I should But now my heart must face reality So visited by inspiration Visited by indignation again I wish I could I would eliminate this sense of longing Do I dare not drown in what I am becoming Promises have been rejected My beliefs have been fragmented again

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 26, 2025