Guardians

Prey on ideals Feed on devotion Just to get a rise Trigger our emotions Deliver images That never should be shown Everything is done With manipulation Put that spin on it Get our feelings riding high Share that take of it Enrage the other side A quiet protest Forms a million Furious loud voices (Voices) They drown out what's important Drop the blindfold Your values are bought and sold These armies are clashing These people are listening They’re all forming our stories But are they worth our attention? Theories before proof Judgement before evidence No justification For your speculation Theories before proof Judgement before evidence This method's been broken Since its inception Silver linings Laced with agendas Your motives concealed by camouflage Maybe it's time We turn to our brother Settle our differences Believe in one another They want to breed division We chose to resist their mission We will bind this world we live in These armies are clashing These people are listening They’re all forming our stories But are they worth our attention? We can't see the facts They've been kidnapped We'll hunt them down, set them free from their traps Dig a little deeper Change what we inherited Power to the people Or power to the narrative? Dig a little deeper Change what we inherited Power to the people Or the narrative?

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 20, 2026

Are you walking through fire? You have a friend Are you stuck in a nightmare? My friend, you have a light to make it end Walking through fire You have a friend Stuck in a nightmare A light to make it end You have hope, you have us We can put it all back together You have hope We have trust in you Don't bury your ability Don't give up on your strength Regret makes you a marionette Holding the strings, not letting you forget Do not be weary Find a path through the night Do not be weary Your strength will give you sight All around are thieves Oppression their regime Look past your reflection In another's direction You have all you need from your imperfections You're the silent minority (Minority) The compliant authority (Authority), oh Anyone can rip others apart So reassemble the broken parts Walking through fire You have a friend Stuck in a nightmare A light to make it end Face tomorrow, face tomorrow Settle your yesterdays Your future, your future Is too bright to burn out Forget the things they want you to believe Forget the things they want you to become On your back are the injured They'll never determine your outcome Walking through fire You have a friend Stuck in a nightmare A light to make it end You're the hero who can show us Our tragedy is not tragic We are not alone, you are by our side Remind us how to fly

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 20, 2026

Take another look around There's so much lost to be found People everywhere are hurting Even though they're counted out There's so much lost to be found Passion in action is compassion (Compassion) Love is greater than what it's made of (It's made of) It will cost you Someone has to pay Give nothing And you'll waste your wealth away Someone has to pay Bloodied and battered, dying in the ditch Help nowhere to be found Take another look around There's so much lost to be found People everywhere are hurting Even though they're counted out There's so much lost to be found Their prayers to a god are spoken in vain His home is with the broken, he is the answer to their pain A faith so fragile they're told to never leave Scared they'll be seen for what they are Not what they've achieved A monster's legacy Ends the day he dies The man never forgotten Is the one who's crucified The treasure is in the tatters Not just another cog in the wheel Help those in need And you've said more than your words will ever say Divine design Will light the way Rise up Reach out Have pity, let the outcast in Rise up Reach out A stranger's face in a foreign place Rise up Reach out Shutting out the poor won't lead to a cure Who will rise up and reach out? Take another look around There's so much lost to be found People everywhere are hurting Even though they’re counted out There's so much lost to be found

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 20, 2026

Take care of the care taker Say these words before you meet your maker Take care of the care taker This catastrophe Has been years in the making They saw the advantage You were there for the taking Carry the guilt Of letting a loved one down (One down) We're all holding the burden Of watching you fall (You fall) This won't be your final curtain call Trusted they were safe in your hands Your oath be damned Just another hypocrite's plan Your oath be damned The lows feel like days The highs escape in minutes (Minutes) Go back to when everything was clear The act of waking up didn't instill fear This is a conflict you can conquer It’s just mind over matter The reality of the situation This may take some meditation You'll need some help to figure out this equation And find out why things aren't lining up inside Your internal clock isn't winding right The pressure is building It's more than you can take Take care of the care taker Say these words before you meet your maker Take care of the care taker This won't be how you are remembered It is a conflict you can conquer This won't be how you are remembered Rewrite the script and start over (Over) Start over (Over) Trusted they were safe in your hands Your oath be damned Just another hypocrite's plan Your oath be damned Your oath be damned (Your oath be damned) Carry the guilt Of letting a loved one down (One down) We're all holding the burden Of watching you fall

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 20, 2026

Back of the pack with the wind in our face Control and dictate our own pace We figured out how much we can take This is our chance (This is our chance) To break out Trials are the ties that bind They hold us together in the darkest of times Hardships can be used to harden our bonds We’ll learn from our grief, and carry on (Carry on) We won't be faithless We will be tenacious We’ll gain our strength From our failures We will gain strength From our failures We will gain strength From our failures Back of the pack with the wind in our face Control and dictate our own pace We figured out how much we can take This is our chance to break out Surround yourself With others who won't let you fall Don't pull away With no shoulder to lean on, you've got nothing at all Surround yourself With others who won't let you fall Don't pull away (Pull away) Our troubles, they can be endless They're surrounding us within a cave-in Completely covered before we can blink The harder we try the deeper we sink Our struggles, knuckles have been broken We've climbed from this collapse And we're ready to break out (We're ready to break out) (We're ready to break out) The code has been cracked And we're ready to break out (We're ready to break out) (We're ready to break out) (We're ready to break out) (We're ready to break out) (We're ready to break out) (We're ready to break out)

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 20, 2026

You have You have picked the wrong mark You tried You tried to pull an inside job You're a thief Of a different kind One who preys on those Fighting to stay alive Pull your hand back Or lose the sense of touch Remove it at the stump Pay homage to Medieval times We won't fall in line You couldn't hack it Convincing others That you would back them This isn't the real world If It was You'd be chewed up, spit out And left with fractures This bridge is burned Kicked us Kicked us when we were down You stole Everything we had to show for Your purpose is pointless We need We need to both move on Where do we draw the line Between helpful and hurtful? We'll come home with nothing So you think you are something? This process has made us stable, more capable Even though you always cut us down We're here to say we’re proud of what we've become It's time to bury the hatchet We won't bury it in your back We're not like you We won't bury it in your back We're not like you We won't bury it in your back

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 20, 2026

Stuck in the past The future is too open-ended (Too open-ended) I can't miss Something that never existed (Never existed) I'll keep persisting The outcomes don't always go my way I still can't cover them and make them gray The outcomes don't always go my way I will let decisions lie where they may When I blur the lines I don't have to focus Shrug my shoulders That's just how it goes, I guess Diving headfirst into indifference I'll take on everything over feeling anything Positive impacts are meaningless If I don't tolerate the pain of the negative Something I had to learn Was how to show care and concern You won't hear that your plea will never be I'm shaken to the core Paralyzed by reality I'll curl up Hide inside This is my shelter To escape in In here I disappear Where there is no fear Stuck in the past The future is too open-ended (Too open-ended) I can't miss Something that never existed (Never existed) I never thought I'd have it inside To decide what is right for myself Proof of this selfishness that won't leave Crushing until we can't breathe Its grip held firm Its grip held firm One day it lets go One day it lets go I need you to forgive me

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 20, 2026

Restart your heart Fill your lungs with this oxygen Restart your heart So you are filled with life again If we could turn back time Stop your decline Piece you back together Until you've been revived We have one more minute to hear your thoughts (To hear your thoughts) How did you remain so strong? So many questions left unanswered So many mysteries we'll never know Why do the graceful fall the hardest? Why do they leave the biggest impact? So many legends with no endings We'll never know What's it like to be the breeze? To be one with the air we all breathe? The chill that runs up our spines, across our necks And into the back of our minds? Gently passing through the room And haunting everyone who's ever known you (And what you've been through) They still feel the warmth of your embrace You may feel present, but you're not of this place You are the revenant Watching your own wake When your days are at an end You'll never understand Or fully comprehend Until it’s too late What's eternity like when you're the first to arrive? Take a look around There's no one by your side Will you seek solace in all that you know? Or will you wish that your blood still flowed? Restart your heart Fill your lungs with this oxygen Restart your heart So you are filled with life again If we could turn back time (Turn back time) Stop your decline Piece you back together Until you've been revived

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 20, 2026

When you forget who you are You don't just lose yourself You become like everyone else You become like everyone else We let our past put us down We know how to swim but soon we bury our head and drown A man living in hell Dying of thirst on his way to the well What's wrong with the world? There’s so much rage Two words, "I am," would begin a new age With the truth on our lips We see the change We see the change Coalesce Coalesce Without an end (Coalesce) There'd be no place to begin (Coalesce) Without an end (Coalesce) There'd be no place to begin (Coalesce) To begin Without a trial, you are convicted Pain seems to rain on the afflicted Here's to the rebels Here's to the rejects Here's to the ones who fight gravity You realize how wrong you are when you're 30,000 feet In the air, in the air This world we see is not flat or square In the air, in the air You realize how wrong you are when you're 30,000 feet In the air, in the air This world we see is not flat or square In the air, in the air (In the air, in the air) (In the air, in the air)

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 20, 2026