Deadweight

It's been two years since I spilled out my heart On a blank page Some seem to think that it's art But I'm just trying to fight my demons Always learning from my mistakes I'm still trying to make a difference Forever looking for my place Forgive me

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 21, 2026

Define me as a failure Only the shadow of a man I will suffer the judgement passed by those Who simply do not understand Who I am, the way I think The pain that sets in underneath And when I try to be myself it seems like The insecurity gets the worst of me Gets the worst of me The distance, it makes me sick But there's a new way that I'm coping with conviction And I don't expect you to understand it I can't leave these words unsaid 'Cause it's a product of the battle that's in my head And I can't pretend that it never haunts me The world will never be enough for me I'll tell you from the top, it's only skin deep I don't know what I believe But it's not the way it's supposed to be Over these past few years I admit that things have changed Dreams became reality but the pleasure became pain I've loved, I've lost, you wouldn't know what it cost After every sacrifice that I have made I'll take this to the grave You can be who you want to be But your nightmares live in the same dream Go be who you want to be The distance, it makes me sick But there's a new way that I'm coping with conviction And I don't expect you to understand it I can't leave these words unsaid 'Cause it's a product of the battle that's in my head And I can't pretend that it never haunts me I don't expect you to understand it And I can't pretend that it never haunts me

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 21, 2026

We all hide behind a mask A product of our own self destructive past We all ache for something deeper than the surface Searching for anything to break the name "worthless" Worthless If only we could see the damage we cause ourselves It often seems our best intentions pave the road to hell We do it to ourselves It's got me overwhelmed I've never fallen this far It's never been this dark Take me back to better days Before I was a slave to the choices that I have made There's gotta be a better way This can't stay Don't let me fade away, don't let me fade away Don't let me fade away, don't let me fade away I just can't make another day Don't let me fade away, don't let me fade away I've been torn down to nothing We all want to be set free Enslaved to emotions or someone We're ripping at the seams Can't seem to stop the bleeding Too blind to see the cycle repeats Feels like I'm made to fail You pick the coffin and I'll drive the nail You pick the coffin and I'll drive the nail Take me back to better days Before I was a slave to the choices that I have made There's gotta be a better way This can't stay Don't let me fade away, don't let me fade away Don't let me fade away, don't let me fade away I just can't make another day Don't let me fade away, don't let me fade away I've been torn down to nothing We all hide behind a mask We all want to be set free We all hide behind a mask (If you can hear this, if you can feel this) Don't let me fade away, don't let me fade away We all want to be set free (If you can hear this, if you can feel this) Don't let me fade away, don't let me fade away Give me a sign Tell me everything will be alright Give me a sign These idle hands adept for a crime

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 21, 2026

Leave me in the dark with a hole for a heart As low as I can get, burn the bridge, rip the stitch out Pick it up! I can't pretend like it's all part of the plan I can't hide it, blindsided I can't fight it, it's more than I can stand Broken But I guess you knew that it would be this way Loose ends Tie the knot and wait for your chance to run away I could never make you stay, you'll run away I'll always be your greatest mistake, so run away Just another game that you played, you'll run away Three years in the making But I guess we weren't worth saving We weren't worth saving Leave me in the dark with a hole for a heart As low as I can get, burn the bridge, rip the stitch out Guess I'll play dead It's all in my head To you I don't exist Call it bliss Rip the stitch out What? Bitter to the core Always want more Take what you can get But I'll bet that it's never enough Is it? Pull the knife out of my back Let it all fade to black Made it so clear I think we're done here Bitter to the core Always want more Take what you can get But I'll bet that it's never enough Is it? Pull the knife out of my back Let it all fade to black Made it so clear I think we're done here Leave me in the dark with a hole for a heart As low as I can get, burn the bridge, rip the stitch out Guess I'll play dead It's all in my head To you I don't exist Call it bliss Rip the stitch out Leave me in the dark with a hole for a heart As low as I can get, burn the bridge, rip the stitch out Guess I'll play dead It's all in my head To you I don't exist Call it bliss Rip the stitch out You were the light I could never see in myself I would've stood by you until the gates of hell

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 21, 2026

I buried the judgment... I covered my tracks! Soon to be forgotten... There’s a new life ahead! It was my hope that was fading... I was caught in a trap! It's the burden of failure... I carried on my back! Let's get this straight A lot has changed in the last year Thought I had everything together but watched it all disappear I put my faith in the wrong things When I woke up, it was gone, I gave up on me! Didn't even recognize myself Self-worth is not found in someone else Chase what you want, never give up! Salt the wound; all ties are cut And now I see, I was broken to be made a better me Had to learn to let it go and let it be Sometimes we’re too blind to see! Go! The hardest lessons that we learn Are the ones where knowledge must be earned It's what makes us human, it's what gets us through it Weighed down by the pressures of saving face This is a dark world, I’ll be your witness Witness And now I see, I was broken to be made a better me Had to learn to let it go and let it be Sometimes we’re too blind to see! Learn to let it go and let it be Learn to let it go and let it, be Learn to let it go and let it be Learn to let it go...

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 21, 2026

Deadweight Get up, get up Mirror mirror on the wall The man I see is at fault When did I become everything that I hate? Internally bound, I'll self-destruct Bleed out until I think I've had enough But it never is I swear it never is It's like I'm out of my mind Relapse, repeat, never the last time I can't take much more I've never been this low before Never been this low before Deadweight (All you do is) Break me (Leave me feeling) Empty (How I long to be set free) You're my own misery Deadweight (All you do is) Break me (Leave me feeling) Empty (How I long to be set free) You're my own misery Go! To be honest I've grown to love the pain So what's it worth when you can't sleep? Can't think You'll do whatever it takes to feel just the little things Trapped inside my head I'm hanging by your thread Deadweight (All you do is) Break me (Leave me feeling) Empty (How I long to be set free) You're my own misery Deadweight (All you do is) Break me (Leave me feeling) Empty (How I long to be set free) You're my own misery You and I are running out of time We can't coexist You took what was mine So you see, it's you or it's me Now I'm seeing red, yeah Why don't you just drop dead? Why don't you just drop dead? All you are is Deadweight (All you do is) Break me (Leave me feeling) Empty (How I long to be set free) You're my own misery Deadweight (All you do is) Break me (Leave me feeling) Empty (How I long to be set free) You're my own misery No longer part of me No longer part of me

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 21, 2026

I'm losing grip, I'm out of touch Too late to say I've had enough It's like every breath could be my last My demons won't stay in the past All alone On my own Pull me close, I feel the water reach around my neck Don't let go just show me that there's better days ahead Make me see I'm only half the person I should be Pull me close, set me free from this gravity I can't move forward and keep looking back Hindsight has left me where I'm at I tried to run but I couldn't see That you were right beside me All alone On my own Pull me close, I feel the water reach around my neck Don't let go just show me that there's better days ahead Make me see I'm only half the person I should be Pull me close, set me free from this gravity There is a light in the tunnel but it's distant On my own I don't think that I can fix this Set me free from this gravity Pull me close, I feel the water reach around my neck Don't let go just show me that there's better days ahead Make me see I'm only half the person I should be Pull me close, set me free from this gravity Pull me close, set me free from this gravity

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 21, 2026

I refuse to think your abandonment Has become the common place You needed to be set free You needed to be rid of me Running around in circles I am just trying to place the blame I thought we said forever I thought you felt the same Stuck in a frame, you remain my conscience We were broken Before we bent I can feel it now You're there but you're not I'm picking up what we've lost Lay me in the ground Just throw it away There's nothing more you can say I'd like to think that the love that we had Was different than the rest 'Cause I never felt that way I never would have second guessed But things are different now Being selfless let me down Never again will I let you in I'm not as strong as you think I'm tired, I'm weak Like an anchor tied to my feet You left me to sink You left me to sink Stuck in a frame, you remain my conscience We were broken Before we bent I can feel it now You're there but you're not I'm picking up what we've lost Lay me in the ground Just throw it away There's nothing more you can say I can feel it now (No turning back this time, I'll leave it all behind) Lay me in the ground (I can feel it now) I did everything I could to rise above I gave you all I had But it was never enough It was never enough Set free

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 21, 2026

To all the ones who have helped me along the way I owe a debt I could never repay Carried on the shoulders of strangers No room for doubt, led by faith, never failure You paved the way but to my dismay The great unknown could be an early grave On a long road with the end in our sights Tragedy takes it away like a thief in the night I pray it's not over Won't remain broken, I'm looking for closure I'm scared, didn't think it'd come with a cost That people would change, that lives could be lost I'm having nightmares where fate leaves us for dead Never imagined a price on our heads I woke up screaming I felt my heart sink in I miss the days when I felt indestructible, indestructible We're veering over lines that shake me every time I miss the days when I felt indestructible, indestructible It wasn't supposed to be like this I lived in a world where darkness didn't exist Mortality is a beautiful thing Embrace it, don't waste it You're the one who pulls the strings Heavy win, heavy loss I'm moving forward (Moving forward) No matter what the cost I woke up screaming I felt my heart sink in I miss the days when I felt indestructible, indestructible We're veering over lines that shake me every time I miss the days when I felt indestructible, indestructible Indestructible, indestructible I still carry you with me I woke up screaming I felt my heart sink in I miss the days when I felt indestructible, indestructible So write this on my stone if I don't make it home I tried my best but I'm not indestructible, indestructible Even through the darkest nights All hope is not lost All hope is not lost

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 21, 2026

Oh what a mess we've made To Hell with the love Just keep breeding the hate It doesn't matter what is true what is right or just Never sleep, never think, no, we'll never trust Outrage, fed up with the system Outbreak, everybody is a victim Enslaved and we think we're free But all I see is violence But I can't just sit and watch in silence I think it's time that we take back what we lost No matter the cost We're branded by disdain There's nothing to gain Go I'm not the one to be all political But it's a problem when everyone's hypocritical You can't lead if you can't admit you're wrong Our innocence is gone I can't read the headlines Another murder in the streets, he was only 9 God are you listening? 'Cause all I see is violence But I can't just sit and watch in silence I think it's time that we take back what we lost No matter the cost We're branded by disdain There's nothing to gain Think for yourself and nobody else We can't trust the lies we're fed Or we're all as good as dead All as good as dead Dead

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 21, 2026

I run away from everything that's good for me When every voice that you hear is the same one All you can think to do is run Make no mistake I'm everything I say I hate Hypocritical, lost individual, no longer worth your faith I know I can be better than this Masquerading has never done me justice I am what I am A boy not yet the man that I want to be Despite what I have led you to believe I'm nothing as I seem No ground beneath my feet I can't seem to get away from me This person in the mirror's not the same one that I want to be Is there more than what I see? Sometimes it's hard to let go When I don't know what lies in front of me Get away from me Death to self is much easier said than done Death to self is much easier said than done Pain is what has set me free I had to go through Hell to find what's best in me Still think I can be better than this Despite the weight that is my conscience Life was never fair but I am never broke beyond repair Still searching for any place that I can call my home And even though I'm lost I know I'm not alone I can't seem to get away from me This person in the mirror's not the same one that I want to be Is there more than what I see? Sometimes it's hard to let go When I don't know what lies in front of me If I could change myself I would But I don't know where to begin My grave is mine to dig My grave is mine to dig If I could change myself I would But I don't know where to begin

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 21, 2026

Let me tell you the saddest story Love lost, left broken and empty Put my heart in the hands of another Set a fire to the past and watched me burn Somehow I guess it's better this way Looking back, was it all just a mistake? Thought I could live in the arms of another But I guess I wasn't enough for her I wanna feel the love you can't live without The one that Johnny Cash wrote all his songs about But I gave it all away for no return Guess it's just another lesson that I'll never learn I've been putting myself through your Hell Holding on to things that don't even matter now You found your place in the arms of another But now I see it's just the way the Earth will turn I wanna feel the love you can't live without The one that Johnny Cash wrote all his songs about But I gave it all away for no return Guess it's just another lesson that I'll never learn Can't seem to fill the void that lives in my chest Thought I was what you need, but I'm just second best I'll never give it all away again I swear Don't even look for a heart, you'll find there's nothing there (I can't take it back) All the years that we spent together have come to an end (Regret is all I had) Not sure I would if I could do it all over again (I can't take it back) The memories, the pictures, I love you's will wither (Regret is all I had) But this is the last song I'll write about you Forget my name Forget my face It was all just empty space Deadweight; no longer part of me

Submitted by Nargaroth — Feb 21, 2026