Hour of the Nightingale

Light, blistering so bright Re-align my core Lenses open wide Coming into form The imprint of a life Too late you're calling out my name To raise me up out of my grave Alive in memory I'll stay If you shun these waters where I lay Night, curtains coming down Into the shade I stray losing all I've found To my own dismay My season has come to an end Too late you're calling out my name To raise me up out of my grave Alive in memory I'll stay If you shun these waters where I lay Leave me to rest Too drained to rise To try to detect Any light at the end of the tunnel... Too late...

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

See all the colours fading Out with the sun Season of sombre darkness Again, it has begun Cursed by recurring cycles Raised to be undone Lost is this cause you're mourning Its death stands at your door Break under the pressure forming Or embrace it to your core Behind closed eyes, see the signs No faith to hold on to Let seasons evolve through the night The all-waking eye Is your rising sun No truth to hold you Let peace enfold you, it's alright To rely on light From the eye of night The future stands veiled in opaque lace A figure without form That changes with every fear you face And every dawn No faith to hold on to...

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025

Reach through your mind, internal sky Endless glide into the I Soul encaged, trapped behind your eyes Until it’s saved, by sharing its light and darkness… Save my immortal Soul From its own chains From a fate worse than death Condemned to silence To turn away Implode and fade Days pass me by, carved out of time I transpire before my own eyes No decay can touch a fire But I choke my flame, in fear of shining too bright or too faintly… Save my immortal Soul From its own chains From a fate worse than death Condemned to silence To turn away Implode and fade We don’t become who we dream of If we don’t face our own demons If we shun what conceals us We go blind to that which frees us… if we shun Reach through your mind, internal sky Endless glide into the I

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025

A million things I want to say But I shield my face and turn away Swallowing my words, silenced by shame A million tears I want to cry But I shield my face and dry my eyes Swallowing my hurt, breaking inside Please stay here with me Just hold me while I bleed myself dry See straight into me Just look beyond the tears in my eyes A million things I wish you would say Even if I fall that you will stay And none of my flaws can turn you away Please stay here with me Just hold me while I bleed myself dry See straight into me Just look beyond the fear in my eyes Bridge like a circle around me Is the prison of this boundary I need a storm to break it down Shield your eyes from the fire light But please don’t turn away from my side I am not that, which I fight Every tear I cry Burns a way through my eyes Where I see through my lies Every tear I cry Makes trails in the ice Where I am warm inside

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025

Weep not for martyrs... Raise your head... Saline waters won't raise the dead Grief will haunt those who forget, that night is not the end Embrace this as a Nightingale in song In the darkest hour of shadows she belongs Her voice reflects the colours of dawn Raise not a fortress to protect from what the waters might reflect Grief will wash those who caress the night as though its theirs Embrace this as a Nightingale in song In the darkest hour of shadows she belongs Her voice reflects the colours of dawn There's an ocean of despair Where the road must end All souls must pass there for what is broken to mend On a island i will want for you to raise again... Embrace this as a Nightingale in song In the darkest hour of shadows she belongs Her voice reflects the colours of dawn It pierces like an arrow trough a storm...

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025

An eye in the night appears as Something awakens Into the silent sphere of Nothing created Mother of time she breathes Summons the autumn leaves Turning the wheel of history Constant Change is her name Into the void I breathe life as it swallows me sinking into the hollow Tree of Eternity as winter buries her seed Chorus. Time - another inevitable lie Taken in the undertow of life We gravitate to annihilate The coals of our fire Circles of Life and seasons Imprints of our achievements Carved in the aether and in The eyes of the one Who brings the night and the dawn Chorus. Time - another inevitable price Tides are my emotions Water my tears and ice Is time frozen Stored in the memory of a sigh Time - another Inevitable price Paid when the river of life In our veins runs dry The waking moments That pass before our eyes Are all we take to our graves.

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025

A piece of me in your eyes Reminds me of what's forgotten I need to get closer to the fire And feel my own reflection A piece of me needs to die A seed of the fatal kind No roots to grow and thrive Some things weren't meant to stay alive Aborted while still in mind You gave me a sword to pierce a lie Serrated edge for the demon inside A moment I'm torn between two tides But all I need I bear inside Fear is a self-destructing fire That burns what's dead and dry Tears clean the wound that's left behind When a shadow is forced into light You gave me a sword to pierce a lie Serrated edge for the demon inside A moment I'm torn between two tides But all I need I bear inside Broken Mirror Beauty divides Though it's an illusion It can cut like a knife Don't try to give me what I think I deserve It's mine to find You gave me a sword to pierce a lie Serrated edge for the demon inside A moment I'm torn between two tides But all I need I bear inside

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

Oh my love Will we make it through this night? Overshadowed by our minds Do we further entwine? Through the... Ocean... of deep and endless night Ocean... calling from inside No tomorrow Nowhere to hide Ocean of sorrow Just taken by the tide To be further aligned To the... Ocean... of deep and endless night Ocean... calling from inside

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

To know her is to see that nothing is as it seems She’ll show her true face when you’re stripped of all belief Sweet tyrant, laying out the course with what you need To send you through the veils of eternity Crack me open or I’ll go down On this sinking ship, don’t leave me to drown Still the water bears the sound Of my eternal plea, and all I found, and all I will She calls you with a mirage of what you want to see You fall into her arms as she shatters all your dreams Sweet violence, aimed to crack the shell from which you bleed And send you through the tree of eternity Crack me open or I’ll go down On this sinking ship, don’t leave me to drown Still the water bears the sound Of my eternal plea, and all I found, and all I will

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

A red sun on the horizon marks the hour of your call Somber is the one whose eyes are still veiled Watching your departure as mine watch you arrive... BIRD VERSE I. Your hands are tied Your mask applied The mark of shame you wear to all eyes No glimpse of light can touch your mind So black inside as you face your crime Mmm... Dreams are unable to come Mmm... with you on this journey that's just begun. BIRD VERSE II. Not a sigh As your noose is tied Is it pride, or are you frozen inside? Mmm... Fear is unable to come Mmm... with you on this journey that's just begun. How can I make peace with my path when life has come to this? Chased by the shadow of my past Eclipsed by what lies ahead As the last ray of hope is lost, fight and resistance Nothing remains to hold me to this existence If the song of the gallows bird is the messenger between worlds Deliver me from a bitter past So I may find rest at last Why? Hear the blackbird's song A fallen man's beacon The sunrise – paints your eyes Rays of light chase away the night The ships have come ashore Parting the storm Though the tide bears – all your nightmares Sails of white come to take you home As I bear you on board A circle is formed Horizon to horizon Life begins where a journey ends

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025