On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax

Black engulfs the dying light As he falls on frail wings of vanity and wax Black engulfs the dying light As he falls on frail wings of vanity and wax (Black engulfs the dying light) Black engulfs the dying light As he falls on frail wings of vanity and wax (The dying light, the dying light; black engulfs, black engulfs) (Black engulfs the dying light) Black engulfs the dying light As he falls on frail wings of vanity and wax (The dying light, the dying light; black engulfs, black engulfs) (Black engulfs the dying light) Black engulfs the dying light As he falls on frail wings of vanity and wax (The dying light, the dying light; black engulfs, black engulfs) Icarus

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Feb 27, 2026

A touch of poison seals my fate (The dawn echoes) The sun (The night with) Himself (My glory) Honors me Once king of roses, now lord of gold Blessed with the gift of gilded touch The gods themselves envy my hand Fate wields its knife to cut the thread I curse the day my dream became my descent Suddenly, I long for you, my only love In my perfection, I have no want A folly as fatal as sin Yet eyes still glint with greed untold Has now become the end of me I curse the day my dream became my descent Suddenly, I long for you, my only love Have I not earned this (The gift of beauty within?) How selfish were the gods to Keep (Keep their riches from) my rightful treasure? I (Truly have become one of) them, my fatal flaw Oh yeah, I've got her Hook, line, and sinker, hook, line, and sinker Thanks to me, she's her own new necklace Thanks to me, she's her own new necklace Thanks to me, she's her own new necklace Now she's good as gold I curse the day my dream became my descent Suddenly, I long for you (I long for you), my only love I curse the day my dream became my descent Suddenly, I long for you, my only love Cut the thread

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Feb 27, 2026

She haunts me In dreams, I see her silhouette Dance across landscapes of Golden light and autumn In my dreams Her soft eyes see ( The things I'd give ) Through my tortured soul ( To prove myself to her ) Vanishing (To make her see) Any hope for (Fantasy) Jaded eyes awake As her selfish words rain from such Placid lips, still I kiss her silken flesh Frigid air leaves me breathless (Frigid air leaves me breathless) Foolish agony fills my lungs As I try to scream for her I confess, I scare myself Through the howling wind On my knees, I cry Listen to me I'm broken by her silence To a love unseen (Blood-soaked feathers rained down) My wingless angel, so broken falls Gracefully from the sky To waiting arms, to waiting arms Frigid air leaves me breathless (Frigid air leaves me breathless) Foolish agony fills my lungs As I try to scream for her I confess, I scare myself Scare myself Frigid air leaves me breathless (Frigid air leaves me breathless) Foolish agony fills my lungs As I try to scream for her I confess, I scare myself Through the howling wind On my knees, I cry Listen to me Such foolish agony fills my lungs as I try to scream for her Jaded eyes wake to the sounds of my voice as I scream for her In dreams, I've seen her silhouette dance across golden light And autumn, in my dreams Skies so burdened Let her go As cold rain falls So does she My desires wither Broken once more Her soft hands take She (One) haunts (So) me (Fair)

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Feb 27, 2026

This the oldest story in the book He desires the one thing he cannot have My darling queen, I lay myself at your feet (Teef ruoy ta flesym yal I ,neeuq gnilrad ym) And I shall stay the hands of fate Wind cries out, heaven boils above Voicing discontent to my sins I have found the way to trick the ferryman I have deceived the ancient gods Cold flesh lends to me its secrets Each day brings me closer to you For a price too high My tragic victory I shudder at what I have done (Darling queen, I lay at your feet) Chills take me as she wakes, throat gasps tainted breath I've reclaimed you, my stolen bride (Can your soul forgive) My crimes of passion? I would not close the casket I'm so consumed by your pain (Your pain) Faint screams echo through the night (The night) Cold flesh lends to me its secrets Each day brings me closer to you For a price too high My tragic victory I shudder at what I have done The pains of death can no longer haunt you (As the dawning sky brings forth one) As the dawning sky brings forth one (Forsaken thought) Death can not live, for I now dwell in the palace of decay (I shall stay) The hands of fate Night descends, sinews twitch My pale queen finally stands To taste silent lips Now cursed with her love Cold flesh lends to me its secrets Each day brings me closer to you For a price too high My tragic victory Cold flesh lends to me its secrets Each day brings me closer to you For a price too high My tragic victory I shudder at what I have done

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Feb 27, 2026

Eyes open to splattered blood Cold tile mocks me as I arise To find the knife is still in my back Shifting thoughts now, slow with venom Take me as I stagger, is this all we were worth? I've lost you for good without regret Your once gentle words are bleeding from my eyes Screams of terror now fill my every breath I know you'll rue the day You ever met me, I'll lay you down to sleep When sorrow will bury the blade hilt deep You know I would have died for you Now I'm forced to choose between A life of revenge or regret As I thirst for vengeance My heart struggles to come to grips Why would you leave me to die? Turn and walk away Alone, you stood so still As you watched me break, did it now kill you, too? What has led you to the dagger, my friend? You know I would have died for you Now I'm forced to choose between A life of revenge or regret As I thirst for vengeance My heart struggles to come to grips Why would you leave me to die? Turn and walk away (Turn and walk away; turn and walk away) My revenge is made so clear Midst cold tears left with the betrayed I'll see that you never forget this I will hunt you down like a dog Lies could never disguise What I saw behind me in you Remembering times we have shared My friend for life is gone Remembering times we have shared (We'll let the embers serve as the only memory) My friend for life is gone (Of last days, so long ago) Why would you leave me to die Turn and walk away? Why would you leave me to die After you had buried the dagger hilt deep? You're dead to me I would have died for you Now I'm forced to choose between A life of revenge or regret As I thirst for vengeance My heart struggles to come to grips Why would you leave me to die? You're dead to me

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Feb 27, 2026

Dearest love I hope this message finds you well As these endless thoughts drip from my soul Every single word secretly paints a fairytale Of when we will melt into one Eyes ( I am so scared ) forfeit sight to the pain ( So scared ) Cold scalpel's steel whispers tear at my very core As I cling to my memories of you ( I need you with me ) Were the last words that I wrote for you enough to tell you That in my death , the light that shone through my painful darkness Was a blinding (Blinding) vision of your eternal smile? It's me again Is it me, or am I wrong To be concerned (Concerned)? Will the beauty of your pen Ever cross my eyes again? Was this all a lie? Why? (Why?) Were the last words that I wrote for you enough to tell you That in my death, the light that shone through my painful darkness Was a blinding (Blinding) vision of your eternal smile? I don't know what happened (Make it stop, make this pounding in my head stop) Who would have thought my life would end up like this? (Fill my lungs with air) I never got the chance to see her face or to touch her hair (Give me one more day to make her dreams come true, she understands, right?) And now, it's too late (That I'm not coming back) I didn't mean to hurt her, not hurt her like this (She understands, right? That I'm not coming back) I can't feel my legs, I can't feel my legs, and I can't even cry (Make it stop, make the pounding stop) How could somebody die like this? (I'm not coming back, I'm not coming back) That one of the suns of my life would end up like this (I'm not coming back) If my words even reach you ( Even reach you ), I'll assume you don't care Never knew silence could cut so deep Or that you could twist the bladeNow I curse all of your beau tiful lies I love you and good bye Were the last words that I wrote for you enough to tell you That in my death, the light that shone through my painful darkness Was a blinding (Blinding) vision of your eternal smile? Steel whispers tear at my very core As I cling to my memories of you (I need you with me)

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Feb 27, 2026

You take my breath away But I'll never again taste your lips As fate keeps me locked away I must close my eyes to see your face Emptiness has darkened my eyes As I hopelessly beg for my life to end Tell me why My iron eyes tell the tale Heroes always pay in their blood I can be only this I see the fear growing in their lost eyes My purpose is so clear, I am the axe I am the axe And this is why I must not fear the end And when I'm gone, will you forget me? (Will you forget?) Pen wears its steady course across the page (Forget?) Resigned to its designs to take the hive Emptiness has darkened my eyes As I hopelessly beg for my life to end Tell me why Emptiness has darkened my eyes (I wish I could make you see, I wish I could make you see through the pain) As I hopelessly beg for my life to end (Through the end, I wish I could make you see the greater purpose that I have to serve) Tell me why (No one else will fight, no one else will fight, so I must) My iron eyes tell the tale Heroes always pay in their blood I can be only this I am the axe Fear has been lost to faith The darkest night has come before the end Of which we must prevail Amidst the pitch of steel, we shall arise I will destroy All those who oppose me My iron eyes tell the tale Heroes always pay in their blood I can be only this My iron eyes tell the tale Heroes always pay in their blood I can be only this I see the fear growing in there

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Feb 27, 2026

Take everything away from me Silent angel Apathy cries out from your lungs Indifference reeks of fiction (Reeks of fiction) Time will tell how Far you will go I can't see why you'd run and hide Excluding such complacence (Such complacence) As tears rain from Bloodshot eyes Take everything away from me Silent angel Leave me nothing to remind me of This time now lost The air now reeks with the presence Of your vile voice as your smile Masks the advance you keep I am not your trophy The air now reeks with the presence Of your vile voice as your smile (Takes) We are the advance I am not your trophy Please try to say more carefully That you no longer need me (You no longer need me) This back and forth Is killing me The only eyes you'll look into Are those in your reflection (Are those in your) You are the means To my end This conversation is over (Your) It's over (Truth is) A deception Meant to poison me Take everything away from me Silent angel Leave me nothing to remind me of This time now lost I can't seem to believe that you ever cared for me (As fragile whispers) I can't seem to believe that you ever cared for me (This conversation is over, your empty words now drift away as fragile whispers) I can't seem to believe that you ever cared for me (This conversation is over, your empty words now drift away as fragile whispers; I saw the day when the fire left your eyes, your tongue fell still, your treason is silence) Take everything away from me Silent angel Leave me nothing to remind me of This time now lost

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Feb 27, 2026

No one ever said that life was fair And I'm not saying that it should be So knowing that you are what you want to be And I'm not, comes as no surprise But don't expect me to be happy for you, and don't smile at me And tell me things will work out for me too I don't want your pity (I hate your pity) Taste your vanity and sweet bitterness As you hide behind your veil of My stolen hopes and lost dreams (I watched you steal my thoughts) You took them all (And had to see you smile) As you build your dreams on my shattered hopes I'll look back on a day once loved And fantasize for tragedy Swallow your pity Beg me to make this easier And listen as my hopeless cries (You) Suffer alone in emptiness I lust to see you swallowed by The mess that you left in your wake Disgust lies deep within your empty gaze Beg me to make this easier And listen as my hopeless cries Send stares (Send stares) into (Into) Your mea— (Your mean) —ningless (Eyes) My envy can't describe how I loathe you for having all the stars Leaving my eyes to marvel the sky, knowing it should be mine Yet it's you, I see wasting the dream that only I deserve I'll tear off your face to see your smile As you build your dreams on my shattered hopes I'll look back on a day once loved And fantasize for tragedy Swallow your pity Beg me to make this easier And listen as my hopeless cries Send stares (Send stares) into (Into) Your mea— (Your mean) —ningless eyes

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Feb 27, 2026

Set The horizon, now as dark as the crimes that brought them here Is filled with my impending dread My foolish actions will cost so many good men Achilles has come A thousand sails approaching Sent here in her name To reclaim the one I stole And destroy the walls of Troy Desire (Leaves me numb) to all the pain surrounding me (To all the pain surrounding me) Storms will arise to condemn me I will not die before her eyes It ends tonight Tragically, I now must accept the penance I have earned She is cursed and tonight, we die In the dawn of this, my end, I hold my sword true I must let her go A thousand sails approaching Sent here in her name To reclaim the one I stole And destroy the walls of Troy Desire (Leaves me numb) to all the pain surrounding me (To all the pain surrounding me) Storms will arise to condemn me I will not die before her eyes It ends tonight It ends tonight (It ends tonight, it ends tonight), I am alone Pain fills her eyes, I am alone Sacred and profane is our love in death (I cannot let them win, the blood of many spills; I must) Sacred and profane is our love in death (I cannot let them win, the blood of many spills; save my) Sacred and profane is our love in death (I cannot let them win, the blood of many spills; honor)

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Feb 27, 2026

Paralyzed by the beauty of those words That so delicately drip from this angel of untamed lust Suddenly, I fear the end of my solitude Once a warrior, poetic shrieks now own my soul Left behind to fight the ruthless pawns of Eris Hope will strike her down beneath the blade (She sings for him) Suffering unseen now will be left to burn in her stare But he no longer fights the torture of her voice (So long forgotten) I am lost in her stare Now made so clear as she extracts her painful toll A soul now echoes with the torture of the sirens (He is hers) Beautiful whispers leave one so fair Chain these hands (Of ageless struggle) Rid us of this (Beloved curse) An epic tale of deceit is given Life once more on silver lips so spiteful Her tongue screams for him Rid us of this (Beloved curse) Suffering unseen now will be left to burn in her stare But he no longer fights the torture of her voice (So long forgotten) I am lost in her stare Now made so clear as she extracts her painful toll A soul now echoes with the torture of the sirens (He is hers) Set loose so long ago by the foolish whim of Pandora Phantoms which shall forever prey on mankind's weakness The grains of time hold no bearing to those eyes (Bearing to those eyes, bearing to those eyes) In pale moonlight, she sang to the haunted sea (To the haunted sea, to the haunted sea) Vile notes seduce old Cerberus to slake unholy thirst Left behind to fight the ruthless pawns of Eris Hope will strike her down beneath the blade (She sings for him) Suffering unseen now will be left to burn in her stare But he no longer fights the torture of her voice (So long forgotten) I am lost in her stare Now made so clear as she extracts her painful toll A soul now echoes with the torture of the sirens (He is hers) With the torture of the sirens

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Feb 27, 2026

Our empire has fallen The columns came crashing Down faster that children could outrun the shadows Drunk with hysteria (Hysteria), the survivors are running for their lives As precious dreams erupt before their very eyes Tonight, it's over At long last, we will fall Ruins will fight in our stead My flesh is burning from the embers (But still, the brilliant tale of our utopia survives) Survives, tonight, her beautiful exterior may crash and burn to ash (But) The fight for her honor will rage on I hope I never see the end (I hope I never see the end) I hope I never have to live without her comfort But for now, she dies (Oh, Rome) So full of majesty, you're gone Wind chokes on the ashes as acrid smoke strangles the sun Their jealous arrows rain Hollow drums pound at the gates Breaking the din of screams Our feeble offerings to forgotten gods are left to rot In temples of their lust As they lay forth their plans to Destroy our pride, our home Tonight, it's over At long last, we will fall Ruins will fight in our stead My flesh is burning from the embers (But still, the brilliant tale of our utopia survives) Survives, tonight, her beautiful exterior may crash and burn to ash (But) The fight for her honor will rage on I hope I never see the end (I hope I'll never see the end) I hope I never have to live without her comfort But for now, she dies (Oh, Rome) So full of majesty, you're gone Beg the flames for our mercy, beg the flames for our mercy (These aged walls have seen too much To forget the past in the face of this final trial) Beg the flames for our mercy (These aged walls have seen too much; watch her crumble so true, as mayhem cuts her down To forget the past in the face of this final trial; let them have our treasure, her voice lives on) Beg the flames for our mercy (These aged walls have seen too much; watch her crumble so true, as mayhem cuts her down To forget the past in the face of this final trial; let them have our treasure, for her splendor lives on) (Let them take our city, for at long last, we will fall) At long last, we will fall At long last, we will fall At long last, we will fall At long last, we will fall

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Feb 27, 2026