Subsurface

Can we go on? Can we be strong? We've got a system, you're going to use it We call it freedom and you are free to choose it If you're not against it, you've got to be for it Neutral is dangerous, and you cannot ignore it Can we go on forcing our hand? Can we be strong 'til others understand? Can we go on to save our wounded land? Can we be wrong? We've got the money and we're going to spend it Peace is our mission, we'll murder to defend it Sooner or later you'll get the picture We're the creator and you were just created Devastation is where we're heading if we follow this illusion Escalation of all the hurting that is borne of our confusion Unrelenting as we persist in putting everyone beneath us Never ending until we understand our honesty deceives us There is still one truth on which we can depend We've started something we can never end We know although we try to justify the means The truth behind the end remains unseen And while we all assume we all agree We're giving up the freedom to be free Disillusion is always possible, but we've got propaganda Mass confusion is always better than the threat of understanding We'll deceive you, we've got so many ways to make you stand behind us If we need to we'll use them on ourselves to constantly remind us There is just one lie that we can still defend We've started something we can never end We know although we try to justify the means The truth behind the end remains unseen And while we all assume we all agree We're giving up the freedom to be free There is still one truth on which we can depend We've started something we can never end We know although we try to justify the means The truth behind the end remains unseen And while we all assume we all agree We're giving up the freedom to be free The freedom to be free The freedom to be free Can we go on forcing our hand? Can we be strong 'til others understand? Can we go on to save our wounded land? Can we be wrong?

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025

Where do you go? Where do you go for external forces? Your body wakes, but never waits to restore resources Do you believe in what you do or is it just for money? So if the world all does the same, no wonder things are funny Just when you thought that you were building on a rock You find you've dug yourself a hole And you'll be facing such a futuristic shock When ground control slips away from you Ground control slips away How can you face the future? Do you create and generate to build a land of plenty Or do you misappropriate until the world is empty? Do you despise and criticize with no absolution Or do you stop to analyze to find a new solution? Just when you thought that you were building on a rock You find you've dug yourself a hole And you'll be facing such a futuristic shock When ground control slips away from you Ground control slips away They're cutting up the world we know For reasons they're ashamed to show And all we love will have to go They're storming us without a war Extending force until we fall While we lie back and take it all And everything our fathers made And everything they fought to save Is trampled under this parade And nothing's going to stop them now Their policy will know no bounds As soon as they control the ground Under the flag of liberty you'll find corruption lurking It's our responsibility to keep the system working Just when you thought that you were building on a rock You find you've dug yourself a hole And you'll be facing such a futuristic shock When ground control slips away from you Ground control slips away from you Ground control slips away from you Ground control slips away

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

Lost in the haze so far away How can we get back home? Lost in the haze so far away Who's going to guide us home? I've struggled to get near it, to backwards engineer it But all I find is a smoke and mirrors game The recondite monopolize the airwaves 'Til all believe there is no other way And this is how we live our lives Our opium is televised 'Til finally they watch us fade away Our lifeless generation is going to the wall A languid demonstration of daze before a fall A preconceived condition imagined long ago But will we ever know all that lies below? They'll print it on the front page to synthesize an outrage But all we find is a decoy once again Duplicity and trickery surround us 'Til all believe there is no other way And this is how we fall asleep Their opium is running deep 'Til finally they watch us fade away Our lifeless generation is going to the wall A languid demonstration of daze before a fall A preconceived condition imagined long ago But will we ever know all that lies below? Waiting to play Are we the pawns in this game? Paving the way Watching the kings make their claim? Martyrs and spies Although we don't realize Falling away Under the watch of their eyes This is the way we've chosen to be This is the road that we go down As clear as the day, but still we don't see We'll only know when it's over Lost in the haze so far away How can we get back home? Lost in the haze so far away Who's going to guide us home? And this is how our nation dies Our opium has satisfied And finally they watch us fade away Our lifeless generation is going to the wall A languid demonstration of daze before a fall A preconceived condition imagined long ago But will we ever know all that lies below? Lost in the haze so far away How can we get back home? Lost in the haze so far away Who's going to guide us home?

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

There is a time for flying like an eagle There is a time for falling like a stone But if you stop dead Take a look around Maybe you'll watch the seasons flow And then you'll finally know As the atmosphere rolls away Though appearances stay the same You can't fly twice in the same patch of sky You won't find rest 'til you're ready to change There is a time for walking on the water There is a time for drifting out to sea But if you stop dead Take a look around One day you'll find you're back on land And then you'll understand As the atmosphere rolls away Though appearances stay the same You can't fly twice in the same patch of sky You won't find rest 'til you're ready to change One day you'll find you're back on land And then you'll understand As the atmosphere rolls away Though appearances stay the same You can't fly twice in the same patch of sky You won't find rest 'til you're ready to change It's over my head It's over my head It's over my head It's over my head It's over my head It's over my head But if you stop dead...

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

Can you give me a reason why you shone for a season Then you turned to deceiving? I don't believe that it's right You pretend you can hear us, but you won't come near us Now it's all got serious I don't believe that it's right We thought you'd do your best for future generations But all you left was a mounting debt I don't believe that it's right We thought your peace could flow like water through the nations But you shut down the fountainhead I don't believe that it's right Can you give an account now, as the truth's coming out now? It's the end of the countdown I don't believe that it's right Now we've lost all our patience with your forced liquidation Of our land of our nation I don't believe that it's right We thought you'd right the wrongs that others brought upon us But you sold off our right to choose I don't believe that it's right We thought you'd fight for us, but you just fought among us And you sold off your servitude I don't believe that it's right No more tries and no more chances No more lies to pass as answers No more smiles and false relations No more world indoctrination Sorry for being angry, sorry for being numb Sorry for all the dreaming I really should have done I thought that I was blameless, I thought that I was safe I thought that a happy ending would happen anyway I can't believe we never noticed I can't believe it took so long For us to turn around the future By standing up for what we all believed in all along It was there right before our eyes We were blind not to realize In the rush to be globalized we signed away our freedom We forgot how to criticize We were scared to be demonized As the truth was neutralized we lost the art of reason Shallow the crusader and shallow their crusade But deep the ideology that brings them into play Political correctness, a foil for our minds A false exoneration to cover up the crimes I can't believe we never noticed I can't believe it took so long For us to turn around the future By standing up for what we all believed in all along It was there right before our eyes We were blind not to realize In the rush to be globalized we signed away our freedom We forgot how to criticize We were scared to be demonized As the truth was neutralized we lost the art of reason It was there right before our eyes We were blind not to realize In the rush to be globalized we signed away our freedom We forgot how to criticize We were scared to be demonized As the truth was neutralized we lost the art of reason (I don't believe that it's right) Can you give me a reason why you shone for a season Then you turned to deceiving? I don't believe that it's right You pretend you can hear us, but you won't come near us Now it's all got serious I don't believe that it's right We thought you'd do your best for future generations But all you left was a mounting debt I don't believe that it's right We thought your peace could flow like water through the nations But you shut down the fountainhead I don't believe that it's right I don't believe that it's right I don't believe that it's right

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

I can't see in front of me, I feel blind to my sentence My assumed autonomy is all steeped in dependence I'm breaking inside I watch time delimiting, but I don't see the answers I know gain's diminishing, but I'm wasting my chances I'm breaking inside My head's above the water, but I just can't fight the tide 'Til the pressure subsides All you see reflects on me How can it be forever? All I do reflects on you Now do you feel the pressure? With all things permissible, I can't stem the pollution And no hand invisible can assure resolution I'm breaking inside My head cries out for stillness, but I just can't find the time 'Til the pressure subsides All you see reflects on me How can it be forever? All I do reflects on you Now do you feel the pressure? All I know will come and go You can't have it all together All you ask will come to pass Now do you feel the pressure? I'm breaking inside My head's above the water, but I just can't fight the tide 'Til the pressure subsides All you see reflects on me How can it be forever? All I do reflects on you Now do you feel the pressure? All I know will come and go You can't have it all together All you ask will come to pass Now do you feel the pressure?

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025

I'm looking for a reason why I see no shooting stars tonight Just a sign that everything's alright to quiet me, to quiet me Maybe all I hoped was wrong, maybe all I dreamed is gone Maybe I was stupid all along for trying it, for trying it But I believed in what you said I trusted in your summer Now the leaves are turning red And soon they'll all be coming down How can I go on If hope is what keeps me alive And I'm so uncertain? It seems the more I look for you, the more I fail to find the truth Maybe I'm affecting what I view with heavy veils and fairy tales Maybe my research was sound, but maybe I just fooled around All flags and footprints, but nothing further down to find you, to find you But I believed in what you said I trusted in your summer Now the leaves are turning red And soon they'll all be coming down How can I go on If hope is what keeps me alive And I'm so uncertain? I guess I learned the hard way or did I waste my time? I never met you half way, but I crossed that line And I believed in what you said I trusted in your summer Now the leaves are turning red And soon they'll all be coming down How can I go on If hope is what keeps me alive? Maybe someday I'll know why

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 26, 2025

I took the low road, I took the slow road I've seen enough to know that I can't see at all There's only static on my receiver You've got my frequency, but I don't hear you call Get away, get away, get away now No sense in wishing, no transmissions ever come this way Get away, get away, get away now Just premonitions that I can't explain I know I want you to know who I am Now I want you to know me I meditated, I medicated I made a promise but I broke it every day Annihilated, I violated All that was given me, I choked it all away Get away, get away, get away now No sense in wishing, no transmissions ever come this way Get away, get away, get away now Just premonitions that I can't explain I know I want you to know who I am Now I want you to know me How can I hear what I don't hear? How can I see what I don't see? How can I know what I don't know? How can I be this impossibility? I want you to know who I am I want you to know me I want you to know who I am (I am) I know I want you to know who I am Now I want you to know me I know I want you to know who I am Now I want you to know me It's growing colder, I'm growing older My summer's over and it's time to face the fall There's only static on my receiver I've got your frequency, but I won't make the call Get away, get away, get away now

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

I don't need allusion, I don't need blame I don't need collusion to help me find my way I could drown in your delusion and everything you say Fact is just a fusion of every shade of gray Truth is sublime, but talk is just a waste of time Describing the shadows that form our lives So you can take away the answers and they'll still return But when you throw away the questions, I'll only learn again So take away the evidence, but I'll still recall Until you throw away the memory and all that's left is you All that's left is you I don't need hypotheses and all that's assumed Flawless ideologies that decadence consumed And I am just the knowledge that found its way to you And now I've reached your zenith and everything was true Truth is sublime, but talk is just a waste of time Believing the shadows that form our lives So you can take away the answers and they'll still return But when you throw away the questions, I'll only learn again So take away the evidence, but I'll still recall Until you throw away the memory and all that's left is you All that you left behind lingers inside your mind All that you can't let go shows you the way back home Truth is sublime, but talk is just a waste of time Destroying the shadows that form our lives So you can take away the answers and they'll still return But when you throw away the questions, I'll only learn again So take away the evidence, but I'll still recall Until you throw away the memory All that you left behind lingers inside your mind All that you can't let go shows you the way back home And all that's left is you All that's left is you

What have I... What have I done, what is this mourning? The arc of the brightness blinds me What are these thoughts and cumbersome footsteps? The arc of the dream that binds me What have I been? This figure of light Island of gardens that feeds you What if I burn, swallowing doctrines Does painting this picture feed you? Brother, my child, my counsel Cynical fathers I see What color these memories might be What about me, what about me, what about me? What do I need? Only my conscience Forgiveness is all you gave me Vast is the wave, I am my demon Where is the dark that folds me? Why should I care piercing my cause? Bring on the fools that bind me so What if I drown? Water is yielding Interrogate my own sanity Brother, my child, my counsel Cynical fathers I see What color these memories might be What about me, what about me, what about me? What have I been? This figure of light Island of gardens that feeds you What if I burn, swallowing doctrines Does painting this picture feed you? Brother, my child, my counsel Cynical fathers I see What color these memories might be What about me, what about me, what about me? Brother, my child, my counsel Cynical fathers I see What color these memories might be What about me, what about me, what about me? What about me? What about me? What about me?

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025