The Withered Roots of Reality
Snow melts as winter gives way to spring The sun bursts through the mournful skies The dew like pearls on blades of grass The world turns over in its sleep And stirs awake I drag my shriveled body out of bed And peer out to the crowd below I shun the daylight and the morning air As I hide myself from the world The day is lost The world is regrowing, now my time comes due Old life must always give way to the new I shall relinquish my flesh to the earth And face the great wheel of rebirth This body is withered, wounded and spent The vultures will feast on my weakening flesh High on the plateau is where I transform And pray to be swiftly reborn Children stare at me with wide open mouths And call after me as I pass them by Silently I make my way to the mountain pass And prepare for the perilous climb No living soul sees me struggle uphill As I ascend past the vast reach of time Ice cold winds tear at my cloak and face As I climb up to that naked sky And as the dust falls on my open eyes And my frail body lies sprawled on the rocks The dreadful weight of the heavens crushes me And the firmament swallows me up
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 13, 2026
I recall ancient rites standing barefoot in the soil Fertile beings mocking me as my kettle starts to boil Soon I’ll be in the ground with my lungs full of dirt Waiting to be reborn through the green womb of the earth Student of the arts of man that have always passed me by For I can’t see, I can’t feel, I can only vainly try Who will guide me on this path, who will give me back my sight Light from darkness, day from night And, out of death, life I uncover the path that led me here Retracing my steps as I begin to see All is revealed to me when I depart this life And I am made whole again
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 13, 2026
I thought I had it all within my hands When the glass became obscured The walls heaved and fell away from me And I lay in pieces on the floor In the space between spaces Lies the world behind this world Reality shifts with a hideous lurch And the mind recoils in horror Through the kaleidoscope The aether welcomes me Floating away from home Into eternity As penance for my hubris my body was split from my soul I pass the threshold as I drift untethered through this endless void Clear this fog from my mind I was stumbling blind through life It all crumbled when the world Twisted of its axis As I drift to the light Fire burns me from inside And I lose myself as I Watch my face distorting Take my soul from on high Guide me through this endless night Please rejoin the parts of me That once made me human And tell me where I can find What’s left of the child inside Help me make it through it all My time is ending
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 13, 2026
This fortress has stood for ages Yet teetering and weak Held up by sycophants Who lack their own beliefs The gates are choked with ivy The hinges brittle with rust Rotting from the inside out With envy and mistrust On the bones of pilgrims This fortress was built Battlement upon battlement The sanctum of lost souls What becomes of the children? What becomes of the poor? What becomes of the beggars? Their bones have built thesе walls Caustic words like vomit From blackened throats spill Thе lord of lies and suspicion On his throne of filth On the bones of pilgrims This fortress was built Battlement upon battlement This sanctum of lost souls What becomes of the children? What becomes of the poor? What becomes of the beggars? Their souls live in these walls The walls of this living tomb Hold the bones of the damned Their stone faces smiling For they don’t know they are dead Entombed eternally In their castles up high Laughing silently In their palace of rot and grime The sky is falling Our bridges are burning The walls are crumbling And the fortress comes tumbling down The sky is falling Our bridges are burning The walls are crumbling And the fortress comes tumbling down
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 13, 2026
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Sprung from the womb upon this earth A wretched, misshapen being Stabbed in the side to replenish my blood And laid bare for all to see This I see in the halls of my mind As I return to where it all began I choke on dust and ancient grey cobwebs As my lantern lights my path Gone from God and from the world Cursed from birth and all existence Not dying, already dead and decayed For I am a ghost that calls itself a man Ghosts of family reach out to me to drag me below They whisper to me what I always feared and always havе known It follows me to wherevеr in life I may go This veil of darkness upon my ancestral home Save me! I set foot on the ancient grounds where I stood as a child Before the weight of reality descended upon me And just like mother called us for dinner I hear my ancestors calling me home Arms of ghostlike essence surround me I feel their spirits course through my soul No God in heaven answers my prayers I hear my ancestors calling me home Long dead faces swirl all around me I see their fates are entwined with my own No God in heaven answers my prayers I hear my ancestors calling me home Voices echo out through the ages Finding me anywhere I dare to roam No God in heaven answers my prayers I hear my ancestors calling me home I begin to see what’s wrong with me, this curse on my soul Always part of me, of what I’ve been, and what I’ll become And it follows me to wherever in life I may go This veil of darkness upon my ancestral home
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 13, 2026