Sleep at the Edge of the Earth
This track is instrumental.
After years of hiding in the dark A sound is heard and the shadow is pulled apart Just a whisper, just a fading song A prey to capture before its voice is gone I've scorched this land with the blood of my past So nothing left breathing is ever able to last I will drop all the riches I hold To seek the candle that lights in the winter's cold From the woods you crawled a life ago Here you swore you'd stay The mountain pass is marked with the very same stone But the leaves have fallen, the trail is overgrown I will forge ahead with the strength that I steal From a false remembrance, from a time that wasn't real Look back home before you go It will soon be lost And only when the last memory has burned Will I believe a lesson has been learned In the ashes I'll trace a map to guide me far Not knowing that life still flows Its soul becomes a scar And if we stand Choice laughs in our face So we will go And trust that something's changed So the last wound mends So the earth opens
Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 24, 2025
As I venture where the sound has led I rest my bones on the frosty earthen bed It numbs my eyes so I won't have to know I've not the strength to survive where you go But a shell still floats upon the wind When you breath my name Please look beyond me As you hang underneath
Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 24, 2025
For one moment I lower to the dusty earth And find the graves were dug while I looked to the sky But I will fill them back up with the wine I fed your soul I'd rather see you dead than watch you unfold Clench the wound to seal it shut Just bite the wound, it'll be enough But the one road that leads out of the woods Is watched by many birds They'll never let me hide From the shame of the truth That water tastes like the stale air And the grass is a bed of nails So I'll drink the dirt and forget My journey's doomed to fail It's always doomed to fail I'm forever doomed to fail Clench the wound to seal it shut Just bite the wound, it'll be enough A dying beast crawls beside my feet Begging for the end, for one last final sleep But I can only stare and watch it suffer Truth lies in the sharp edge of my blade But if I strike, the image of the savior fades And your memory of me becomes a name I will accept your pain As long as I cannot claim it for my own I'm much too weak to suck the poison from your blood I'll let it spill into the cup we both drink from So I follow hope and shadow Deeper and deeper into the forest Letting any doubt be cleansed by darkness
Before we go on, take a breath of air The stench of death is something we'll have to bear In a time of despair we take what we can The faintest echo, a craven's quivering hand The faintest echo, a coward's only friend A hopeless journey I'll follow until the end
Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 24, 2025
Countless years have come and gone And still we dig Into the ocean's skin for fire Skies collapse with ease And still we fly Cloaked by our united disguise See what I see Harness your need Fear what I fear As you near Stairs of trust descend For far too long Into the wild's heart, its mire Survival takes control We lose our will Want contorts to need As we feel death's chill I'll cry your name if you aim the arrow If your wrath unveils But I'll retreat if light shows your essence If your ire fails There's no escape from this cave of liars When they all feast inside my eyes Instead of tearing bard from dead oak I rip flesh from bone I could've drained the blood from our dreams But I take my own So if I paint the scene of a man truly lost In a spiraling web Will you forget that my hand only grasped One single thread? If you reach deep into the ground You will find the deceiver's crown unbound Drowning in the sea of dust and crooked thoughts You finally learn that it was not you for whom I fought A reflection lives inside your gentle heart Seek its gaze and watch as you pull yourself part We've reached the cusp of land and sea And I feel the world pour over me So I'll take the road to the stars And forget why I trekked so far Deep in the sea of my twisted ways You finally see my words set ablaze Burn every plea, burn through me I could live forever I could dream forever In the garden of fire I've grown so tired But I could fight forever And battle any weather In the garden of fire For now we will surrender to the fading sun We'll wake and we will find intention and action are one So don't despair if you can't find your mind For tonight we drink together from the goblet of time
Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 24, 2025
Take the fire And bend it into the shape of a child And let him sing What you've been trying to say for a while That there's nothing left No bodies to catch the heat of the flame There's nothing left And every word that's thrown becomes the same We made hammers To cave in the walls we chose to build I'll grasp them both Maybe you can honor the bearer of guilt But instead The white flag smothers the boy And shelters the lie You were only saved Cause you could not be destroyed One last time I'll Try to tame the beast without breaking skin But no solution Seems to ever let me in If I go on, I'll hold on With the weakest grip I can But neither warriors, nor humble words Can linger in this land
Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 24, 2025
There is a light at the edge of the sea That keeps on beckoning me The glow is not hard to miss When washed up against the abyss In the darkness it waits For man to unseal its gate Only the eyes are to blame For what's read by a candle's flame I swear that I'll take the grey skies in stride Just please keep the black from my side Blood of a shadow's heart Can never flow in the dark Close your eyes and you'll Always stay here Nothing to hide from or fear So bring me the shield, not the sword But bring me nothing I've adored Just bring me the means to preserve one body And I will ask for nothing more Await no fate Too late, too late So bring me the shield, not the sword Bring me a coward's last reward Cause if you grant me the power to fight this battle I will keep begging you for more We have harnessed the idea in our minds That the sky beyond the wood must be divine But wherever we tread our roots shall be planted And the tress will grow in little time Stars of the frozen night Don't guide my way, don't aid in my plight Let me for once adjust my eyes And let the days roll by Hide while you can They will see you Those with the wounds in their flesh They'll say "Hope is worth the mess" Don't make a sound They will hear you And bring down the fire from above That cruel flame, they'll light it And they'll call it love Maybe you'll find the strength after all Maybe we're not destined for the fall But all I ever saw Deep in the mirror of your eyes Was a candle lit just to fight the cold And a child born to forget the old But I swore to you I wouldn't live that way Let the pieces fall where they may Light at the edge of the sea Has taken control of me I grasp for all that I wish As it hovers above the abyss I know now that I'll never be void Of desire until I've destroyed Both the compass and the map So there will be no way to turn back To places where freedom prevails Where even darkness can fail I've come to see that I don't want that choice Take all I have, take my voice Sleep at the edge of the earth Far from the spring of life's Rebirth After the years spent in here I'm still not in the clear The realization draws near That all we will ever know is fear
Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 24, 2025
This track is instrumental.