Whitewashed Tomb

Your illusion of kindness The delusion that you've healed to move on Virtue signaling your reasons But avoidance is a symptom of the unresolved Unresolved Are you even aware of what is truly at play? (Are you even aware) Are you able to see (are you able to see) The parts of you that wither away? Can't you see, you're hiding from something Avoiding the hurt Avoiding the darkness of your heart The story within is forgery That does not match what those close to you see But the story on the outside Is painted elegantly so that you can hide You're a whitewashed tomb (A whitewashed tomb) I'd never want to be like you Can't you see, you're hiding from something Avoiding the hurt Avoiding the darkness of your heart Silently waiting while slowly decaying Uphold appearance while sorrow Sorrow awaits Sorrow awaits Coward You're a whitewashed tomb Coward I'd never want to be like you Redemption will never look the way you want it to And we will never be good enough to see your truth But how could vibrant life fit within your view? Encased in fools gold but full of doom I know who sits behind the curtain now My mirror image Can't you see, you're hiding from something Avoiding the hurt Avoiding the darkness, the darkness of your heart Darkness of your heart Sorrow awaits A whitewashed tomb

Submitted by Morgoth — Nov 08, 2025

We are the dead We are the, the outcast, the exiled, rejects We are the dead, dead, dead But we are not alone Closed in by walls of pain Then told to rehabilitate Bound by concrete with no outlet to recover Fed nothing but trash then declared to be unhealthy Stripped of all we had Then told to find our way out of this hell ourselves To function requires resistance And to thrive requires (requires) total defiance Locked away, buried underground Still finding hope when we're beaten down We are the dead We are the, the outcast, the exiled, rejects We are the dead, dead, dead But we are not alone To function requires resistance And to thrive requires total defiance Total defiance Though the design is for us to fall Deeper into darkness and lose it all There's a depth within humanity That I never knew while I was free Put in a shallow grave With a number to replace our name But no one checked if we're alive So from a common burial, we rise Locked away, buried underground Still finding hope when we're beaten down We are the dead We are the, the outcast, the exiled But we are not alone The outcast, the exiled But we are not alone

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Nov 08, 2025

Our secrets are what make us lonely When no one else knows the weight we carry All I see and all I know is pain All I see and all I know is All I see and all I know is pain All I see and all I know is Paralyzing fear prevents Into the unknown we must step The cave seems more like an abyss But inside is everything we've missed All our blindspots brought to light And every demon we've tried to fight What becomes of the pain That dwells so deep it can't be seen Who can show the path from shame To make you believe Believe you're not to blame So once again we want to run away Far from everything that we love Safe from facing all we're carrying The cave we fear to enter All I see and all I know is pain All I see and all I know is Going further into the abyss We uncover life's fullness Recovering what dwells in the deep The darkest corners no longer mystery Uncharted, unexplored Undiscovered, stranded in the void What becomes of the pain That dwells so deep it can't be seen Who can show the path from shame To make you believe Believe you're not to blame So once again we want to run away Far from everything that we love Safe from facing all we're carrying The cave we fear to enter Lay to rest the memories (memories) That hold you down Paralyzing fear prevents Into the unknown we must step The cave we fear to enter No one else knows Hidden like a ghost Our past torments (our past torments) Will bury us (will bury us) So once again we want to run away Far from everything that we love Safe from facing all we're carrying The cave we fear to enter Lay to rest the memories (memories) That hold you down Lay to rest the memories In the cave we fear to enter All I see and all I know is pain All I see and all I know is All I see and all I know is pain All I see and all I know is

Submitted by NecroLord — Nov 08, 2025

Release this burden Burden I'm far from perfect But what I gave you was a gift Expecting so little I never cared if you came or left Moving on No one will ever live in our shoes and No one will ever know the full truth so I choose to let the music itself Speak volumes about you Nothing but deadweight Seeing the world all expenses paid And now I've carried the weight I've carried the weight Of your burden long enough And I listened as you fabricate Till the truth just fades away But it's you that starts to fade So caught in the past A legacy you hardly built While here in reality I sadly witnessed your intellect wilt You hardly wrote a note Like a well dressed ghost That learned to feed off us As a virus to a host And now I've carried the weight Of your burden long enough And I listened as you fabricate Till the truth just fades away But it's you that starts to fade Fade away Fade away I've had this millstone around my neck Long enough Burden, deadweight, burden It's become clear that you are just deadweight That's been released to sink Release And now I've carried the weight I've carried the weight Of your burden long enough And I listened as you fabricate Till the truth just fades away But it's you that starts to fade It's become clear that you are just deadweight That's been released to sink Release Burden, deadweight, burden

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Nov 08, 2025