Ghostlights

[Aaron:] We've played our roles in our passion plays They've imposed on us right from the cradle No matter what you dream Beware of what you say Until the cogwheel's out of control To burst out of place No time to breathe Don't have no time to waste Bring on the night Seize every drop of life away Slice a tasty hour off from Or in a blink it will be gone A stranding future bring it on Mystery of a blood red rose Burning like raging fire When the day's been torn apart we'll leave it behind Mystery of a blood red rose Feasting on a blind desire Let the scent of poisonous flowers tempt me away A sweet temptation and a pure red rose While the hour don't wait for a blink to cram the past I'll get a move on No hesitation makes no one a better man I can't wait to finally know now What is gonna show now in Mystery of a blood red rose Burning like raging fire When the day's been torn apart we'll leave it behind Mystery of a blood red rose Future glowing on a pyre Let the scent of a poisonous rose tempt me away Boy, reach out for what is due Or you'll lap up what's left for you Throw ourselves into the waves And as the grinding wheel of time Is grinding out the chimes To echo in the night We're off into the moonshine Mystery of a blood red rose Burning like raging fire When the day's been torn apart we'll leave it behind Mystery of a blood red rose Future glowing on a pyre Let the scent of a poisonous rose tempt me away And I will waste no time tonight And I don't waste no time at all tonight

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 23, 2025

[Aaron:] I'm smothered by your lucid nothing I can't hear and touch and see But I feel it though I can't believe it Like master of the observation Coming up with an explanation There's no need making use of the spirit [Temptation:] Oh, we can give you answers you were dying to receive Keep on dreaming Keep on screaming, yeah You might be getting too much for your beating heart to take Your flesh is malice Prepare your chalice Light, breathe and sleep tight Will you defy intriguing ghost lights Seeing through all lies and foolish warnings [Aaron:] There ain't no return [Magician:] Never light the darkness It may burn your soul away As you'll be seeing What you thought you're dreaming, ah [Temptation:] Never open doors if you don't Dare to walk on through It may be your vault, now it's all your fault [Magician:] Light, you're off to the light Will you defy all evil ghost lights Tell the truth from decoration [Scientist:] Time, don't waste no time Prevail against the hands That tick your flesh away Now delve into your own reflection You know that's where I've been too There's nothing but a void out For the sanity of fools [Temptation:] Shine your light into the darkness And let the storm descend upon you Then I will make you mine Shine your light into the darkness Behold and let aurora fall upon you Oh, let the storm descend upon you [Aaron:] A journey to the other side Or just a tripping pleasure ride And I don't know but does it really matter? [Temptation:] Oh, I am he who's always been Who dares them though I can't be seen I'm illusion or truth? I'm confusion, yeah [Magician:] Light, bring me that light [Aaron:] I will bring uncertainty on a silver plate Like a mantle piece I will wipe out darkness Night, blessed is the night Till there's no time left to spill to save and kill To take and seize You just drift along Are they reflections of some crazy dream, oh Or maybe the backside of reality? [Magician:] Shine your light into the darkness And let the storm descend upon you Then I will make you mine Shine your light into the darkness Behold and let aurora fall upon you, yeah Let the storm descend upon you, hey [Scientist I:] You gotta pray your god ain't just a ghostlight You gotta pray you won't be falling down the wayside Let it carry you away Cut the gem until it's purified away The candle burning to the ground [Aaron:] I don't see nothing but addiction to the ride That kindles everything around [Magician:] For all the world will see it tower to the stars And all is melting into one [Scientist I:] We'll give them something to fall back on every time They're too strung out to run [Aaron:] Every moment, every heartbeat, every breath Leaves you one less to your last [Scientist I:] Still you cherish every second of the game Give me the future, you take the past, oh... [Magician:] What if God is just an image in the mind, oh... A reflection of the will, oh... [Scientist I:] And what's the matter with a lie You live in harmony with For a sucker for the thrill [Aaron:] I pray the lord ain't just a ghost light in my mind A reflection of the will Let the storm descend upon me Let aurora fall upon me [Temptation:] Let the fire fall upon him Let the fire purify him Never judge a thing you see It's only what your mortal eyes will want it to be Ah... bring it on, let the dark inhale the confusion Spit out a conclusion, yeah [Aaron:] Are they reflections or a memory Or just reflections in a crazy dream [Temptation:] Shine your light into the darkness And let the storm descend upon you [Magician:] And I will make you mine [Temptation:] Shine your light into the darkness [Scientist I:] Behold and let aurora fall upon you, oh [Magician:] Shine your light into the darkness [Temptation:] Into the darkness [Magician:] And let the storm descend upon you Then I will make you mine [Scientist I:] Shine your light into the darkness [Temptation:] Into the darkness [Magician:] Behold and let aurora fall upon you, oh... Let the storm descend upon you [Temptation:] Let the storm descend upon you Yeah, descend upon you, yeah

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 23, 2025

[Nightmare:] I can't count the days I've roamed A straying ghost light to wither on the vine A paling tale of days long gone I won't be until you close your eyes Sleep tight, someone's always by your side A thousand nights We've been calling your name Close your eyes but I won't go away We're there for you The cold embrace That you don't wanna feel Must not be… but you know it is real We're there for you Don't you waste your time and try To understand this figment of the lie Don't breathe the word to anyone By the time you'll phrase me I'll be gone Sweet dreams, see you in the twilight zone A thousand nights We've been calling your name Close your eyes but I won't go away We're there for you The cold embrace That you don't wanna feel Must not be… but you know it is real We're there for you [Aaron:] God I must contain my wayward fantasy And where do all those Wicked dreams come from Pictures in the dark They seem so eerily real tonight I pray my mind is wrong [Nightmare:] I'm the spark they refuse to conceive A thousand nights We've been calling your name Close your eyes but I won't go away We're there for you The cold embrace That you don't wanna feel Must not be… but you know it is real We're there for you

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 23, 2025

[Scientist II:] It ain't the far cry that it seemed In just a wink we'd come for you You may not feel it We are the light, the scorching heat We are the untold chosen few And now we've come for you We'll fit you like a velvet glove that's gonna choke their minds Affiliate yourself with what you can't defy Some below and few above We're gonna numb their minds [Scientist II:] Riot on the edge (hey!) [Aaron:] On the brink of insanity [Scientist II:] Riot on the edge You'll hear me screaming your name I am the angel of decay to seize you There'll be no thoughts to maintain I'm the seduction of decay [Aaron:] I hear their tales reverberate From shrouds of myth that only time would weave Bred in a den of lunacy Who can we trust? Who's next in line? The sacred drive to rationalize Commit ourselves another day to the lesser crime [Scientist II:] Choke on your own pace with candor [Aaron:] So pleasant in the quiet Vicegerents of the tide [Scientist II:] Riot on the edge (hey!) [Aaron:] On the brink of insanity (hey!) [Scientist II:] Riot on the edge You'll hear me screaming your name I am the angel of decay to seize you There'll be no thoughts to maintain I'm the seduction of decay Time contaminating space to reinfect and agonize anything around We are metabolite of dreams the chosen ones to sacrifice the wasteland-bound Oh, Euphoria is looming in the darkness Coincidence of opposites we are Once beautiful intentions [Scientist II:] Oh, we'll drag you over Oh, it's gonna drag you over [Aaron:] Oh, from the start we run away And don't seem to care what for Forever feels just like a blink after passing by Just fools don't know the prime's another state of decay [Scientist II:] Riot on the edge (hey!) [Aaron:] On the brink of insanity (hey!) [Scientist II:] Riot on the edge You'll hear me screaming your name I am the angel of decay to seize you There'll be no thoughts to maintain I'm the seduction of decay

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 23, 2025

[Mystic:] You're tossing and turning You think you're awake while you're trying to run Like in a nightmare Time loves your ego to death You're leaving the wheelwork To the ground of being you go on Defying temptation in the engine room that is our self, oh! [Aaron:] I feel a storm is looming with a shaking grumble I don't know if I'm right or wrong I don't know if I shall go on I don't know what I'll believe but I'm on my way [Mystic:] Minds fly free when the gates fly open Walk on through [Aaron:] Thunder and rain and the wind in my face [Mystic:] Ghost lights dance Will you heed the token? Glazing light [Aaron:] Blinding my eyes Get me out of this maze The world as we know it is beginning to shake I don't trust my eyes - are we all superstitious If we think what our hearts know is true Fireworks surround me wherever I go they tell me: always home Psychosomatic They'll name it the nature of God, oh! [Mystic:] Off to a new horizon Time is the key to unite with the all Time is gonna make you see Right from wrong eternally Don't let the noises devour you Minds fly free when the gates fly open Walk on through [Aaron:] Thunder and rain and the wind in my face [Mystic:] Ghost lights dance Will you heed the token? Glazing light [Aaron:] Blinding my eyes Get me out of this maze [Temptation:] And what if you're only a prism For the ghost lights that you wanna see And we're just reflections of your dreams [Aaron:] It's speaking to me It's yelling at me It's screaming to me, resonating with me And a thousand lights Are trying to make me see They call me home, they call me home They call me home, they call me home [Mystic:] Minds fly free when the gates fly open Walk on through [Aaron:] Thunder and rain and the wind in my face [Mystic:] Ghost lights dance Will you heed the token Glazing light [Aaron:] Blinding my eyes Get me out of this maze

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 23, 2025

[Eclipse:] You shed draconian love You shed draconian... You shed draconian love You shed draconian... Welcome to your way Seemingly endless as you take your wings The world through kaleidoscope eyes Until you unlearn what you keep inside [Aaron:] Those innocent eyes... Refracting the light for an innocent soul Till the cold around's not gonna wait its turn Wait its turn no more [Eclipse:] Tell me how should I embrace Like roses we'll wither on the vine [Aaron:] Why should I bide my time If it flies away sometime Where are you now, where are you now Leaving me down here, lost in the waves [Eclipse:] When will God explain this draconian love You shed draconian love, you shed draconian love [Aaron:] Where do I go, where are you now Selling me love through the fiery rain, angel [Eclipse:] When will you explain this draconian love It's all draconian love, it's all draconian Infiltrate us with mercy Bait us with sympathy Blind us with love We're lost in the clouds rolling by And in what some of us read Into what they feel [Aaron:] Like a grain of nothing I feel cast in the wind of enthean caprice Of an unbred cause, of an unborn will whatever that may mean [Eclipse:] Tell me how should I embrace like roses we'll wither on the vine [Aaron:] Tell me why should I bide my time if it flies away sometime Where are you now, where are you now Leaving me down here, lost in the waves [Eclipse:] When will God explain this draconian love You shed draconian love, you shed draconian love [Aaron:] Where do I go, where are you now Selling me love through fiery rain, angel [Eclipse:] When will you explain this draconian love It's all draconian love, it's all draconian [Aaron:] Aspiration and tears, heartache and fears [Eclipse:] Draconian love, you shed draconian love [Aaron:] Unrequited love - down on my knees [Eclipse:] Draconian love, it's all draconian Where are you now, where are you now Leaving me down here, lost in the waves Will you explain this draconian love [Both:] Where are you now, where are you now Leaving me down here lost in the waves When will God explain this draconian love [Eclipse:] You shed draconian love, you shed draconian love [Both:] Where do I go, where are you now Selling me love through fiery rain Will you explain this draconian love [Eclipse:] It's all draconian love, it's all draconian [Both:] Where are you now, where are you now Leaving me down here, lost in the waves When will God explain this draconian love [Eclipse:] You she draconian love, you shed draconian love [Both:] Where do I go, where are you now Selling me love through fiery rain...

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 23, 2025

[Aaron:] Who‘s the one who‘s stretching out his hand? Is it it or is it me that won‘t lose hold? Take on to the pendulum and sway Like a mistletoe I‘m clinging to the cold Yeah! [Watchmaker:] I am the trellis for those in need To twine around The rock of ages for those Who‘re meant to wander around I got no time for a break And we got no time to waste I‘ll save it up in the pace I‘ll quantify thoughts away that you don‘t need anyway Oh what a beautiful day... [Aaron:] Tic toc tic toc Someone's watching over me [Watchmaker:] Begging for a dance While your sands are running out Rigid and firm‘s what I hold in my hands Tick away time, I allot and I divide Master of the hands that guide you Run if you can while the war drum‘s ticking on Ancient of days, I‘m the shouldering pace I will make you mine, I allot and I divide Master of the hands that push you That‘s who I am The master of these hands I lead the horse to the water and I make it drink I‘m here to force precision just on everything [Aaron:] I feel your breath in my neck I feel you behind my back And as I‘m turning around There's just this frightening sound I feel it everywhere Oh I know that you‘re there... Tic toc tic toc Someone's watching over me Begging for a dance While your sands are running out Rigid and firm‘s what you hold in your hands Tick away time, you allot and you divide Master of the hands that guide you Run if you can while the war drum‘s ticking on Ancient of days: you‘re the shouldering pace [Watchmaker:] I will make you mine, I allot and I divide Master of the hands that push you [Aaron:] Angels fall Time's gonna winnow all Dying dreams Right from wrong Dwell in a run Turn the wheel Something‘s reaching out for me [Watchmaker:] Begging for a dance While your sands are running out Rigid and firm‘s what I hold in my hands Tick away time, I allot and I divide Master of the hands that guide you Run if you can while the war drum‘s ticking on Ancient of days, I‘m the shouldering pace I will make you mine, I allot and I divide Master of the hands that push you

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 23, 2025

[Muse:] From a frozen world will you take me over? All alone, sweet embrace Leave the place I can‘t abide no more [Aaron:] Take a look at ourselves Afraid to get closer Will the predetermination drive us to a distant shore? [Muse:] The tender velvet gown of destination left behind [Both:] I‘m wide awake I‘m on my way to evermore [Muse:] And I turn around to fading shores I'll sail on through this opening door [Both:] Wide awake onto the isle of evermore [Muse:] I'm dead to the world You blindfold my eyes while you're killing what I'm yearning for You just see what your eyes have been told to tell you Falling down to the ground how come you ask if what you feel is true? [Aaron:] I'm staring at the maze and let it paralyze me Watch it come alive And burn me out until I'm coming through The tender velvet gown of slumber Will leave me just breathing [Both:] Wide awake I‘m on my way to evermore [Muse:] And I turn around to fading shores I'll sail on through this opening door [Both:] Wide awake onto the isle of evermore I'm dead to the world You blindfold my eyes [Muse:] while you're killing what I'm yearning for What I'm yearning for... [Both:] Wide awake I‘m on my way to evermore [Aaron:] And I turn around to fading shores [Both:] I'll sail on through this opening door Wide awake onto the isle of evermore I'm dead to the world Blindfold my eyes While you're killing... [Muse:] What I'm yearning for

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 23, 2025

[Aaron:] A lot of good advice nobody‘s keeping for themselves If you‘re playing by the rules you‘ll be a trophy on a shelf Give in to the ordinary run of things like it is meant to be There‘s nothing left of me [Scientist I:] Praying for salvation, floating with the tide The very first temptation drags you to the other side You learn to walk and run You fly until you fall as far as I can see [Aaron:] The future ahead was not what it used to be [Scientist I:] Blessed was the darkness - veiling hypocrisy Babylon is burning, shining from afar Babylon is burning [Aaron:] From sunset to sunrise [Scientist I:] Babylon is burning and you‘re glowing like a fiery star And no one can tell if we've been for real Babylon is burning Oh, Babylon is burning They say it‘s coming by the night To engraft into the brain what a scientific tongue won‘t recall or even phrase? It‘s crawling up your spine to breed a wicked freak of nature We will be a new society [Aaron:] Headless congregation, a vortex needing more [Scientist I:] The road to good intentions is evil to the core [Aaron:] The devil and the deep blue sea are waiting Side by side for me The sweet scent of poison hazing the dread away This side of the moon I‘ll confess to... another day [Scientist I:] Babylon is burning, shining from afar [Aaron:] Babylon is burning From sunset to sunrise [Scientist I:] Babylon is burning and you‘re glowing like a fiery star And no one can tell if we've been for real, no! Ever since I can remember I've been shooting up that road with a dream I saw gold at the end of the rainbow I was given an idea of what life should be What life should be [Aaron:] Ain't there a light above the shadow Ain't there blood in the machine Ain't there flesh they'd been misleading Ain't there a longing soul within? [Scientist I:] I've seen believers on the wayside And I‘m afraid to say, I think just like you That failed to pretend They could cope with what they'd find When they didn't have a clue - just like you [Aaron:] Babylon is burning, shining from afar Babylon is burning From sunset to sunrise [Scientist I:] Babylon is burning and you‘re glowing like a fiery star And no one can tell if we've been for real, oh [Aaron:] Babylon is burning, shining from afar Babylon is burning From sunset to sunrise [Scientist I:] Babylon is burning and you‘re glowing like a fiery star And no one can tell if we've been for real

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 23, 2025

[Temptation:] Eternities ago I must have fallen Through my pride been perfect in my ways The morning star they fired down from heaven Oh, envy wrapped into a gown of grace [Aaron:] I hear the screams that echo from the darkness I swerve from dawn to dusk and off the edge [Temptation:] Oh, hear the creature crying in the distance Ah, buried in a symbol on a shelf I'll take you home tonight To the center of your soul I'll take you home tonight Fire and flesh and blood [Both:] Touching the flames tonight Touching the flames tonight, ah... [Aaron:] Morning star embrace me on these grounds Angel of light! [Temptation:] How will I forgive him who wouldn't forgive me who just valued the power How shall I live in peace with the one outshining me and then have me devoured [Aaron:] I'm feeling alive under these skies Bloodshot's the moon and scarlet's the night [Temptation:] I'll make you fume with fury and rage I'll make you see What you're made of tonight I'll take you home tonight To the center of your soul I'll take you home tonight Fire and flesh and blood [Both:] Touching the flames tonight Touching the flames tonight Touching the flames tonight [Temptation:] Touching the flames tonight

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 23, 2025

[Aaron:] Who's got the answer? Is this what I'm looking for? And who do I talk to? What do I have to explore? [Magician:] Attend to your god given duty You'll be taking your heaven by force How could you choose? With your head in the noose? With no time to lose? Oh! [Mystic:] High up in the open skies [Magician:] We'll chain the light We'll take the time from those it does to death, we're [Mystic:] High up in the open skies [Aaron:] We'll chain the light We'll take the time from those it does to death and I'll chain the light I'll bring it right down to illuminate unholy ways We will chain the light [Magician:] Too worn out to wonder We might not want to overextend them no more Our beautiful spook lights are all they will need All they will want to explore [Aaron:] And after it's all said and done We won't fear the transience no more 'Cause we don't realize Idle glance in our eyes Let precision prevail [Mystic:] High up in the open skies [Magician:] We'll chain the light We'll take the time from those it does to death, we're [Mystic:] High up in the open skies [Aaron:] We'll chain the light We'll take the time from those it does to death And I'll chain the light I'll bring it right down to illuminate unholy ways We'll chain the light [Mystic:] You look above to see inside yourself and find time standing still You see the world in different light You turn this moment into what you think it's ought to be Demystify the dark High up in the open skies [Magician:] We'll chain the light We'll take the time from those it does to death, we're [Mystic:] High up in the open skies [Aaron:] We'll chain the light We'll take the time from those it does to death And I'll chain the light I'll bring it right down to illuminate unholy ways

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 23, 2025

[Spirit:] A genuine soul to dwell on baleful grounds Glances wandering around In the darkness of the world Clouds have closed a ring around the sky While the old ones hear the chimes Through the darkness of the world Oh, a genuine man will realize He must fawn upon the times While he shouldn't waste a word Tender feet on stony ground See the young ones stray around Through the darkness of the world [Aaron:] Sacred heart will you usher me now For I'll carry the lantern your way For I'll bring us home [Spirit:] Dark is the night, scarlet the moon Sacred the light in the haze reflecting within [Aaron:] Blazing the trail, oh Be still my restless heart Obsidian's the sky Inward you look as you halt [Spirit:] Be still restless heart [Aaron:] I'm on my way [Spirit:] Under obsidian skies, yeah [Aaron:] Wake to the sound of passing time How could I quantify it In the darkness of the world? Wake to the shadow of a dream Nothing's what it seems As you brave the darkness of the world [Spirit:] Ghost lights and matter You'll know what is real Perception and fact - all the same Truth's what you feel, oh Dark is the night, scarlet the moon Sacred the light in the haze reflecting within [Aaron:] Blazing the trail, oh Be still my restless heart Obsidian's the sky Inward you look as you halt [Spirit:] Be still restless heart [Aaron:] I'm on my way Under obsidian skies [Spirit:] And the wind and the rain were shaking the pane Move onward along with the clouds And you're gazing in awe At the ghost lights above As if stars cut their way through the shroud On and on and on... oh [Spirit:] Moon shines Ghost lights Oh they reach out for you Blazing the trail under obsidian skies [Aaron:] Dark is the night, scarlet the moon Sacred the light in the haze reflecting within Blazing the trail, oh Be still my restless heart [Spirit:] Obsidian's the sky Inward you look as you halt Be still restless heart [Aaron:] I'm on my way Dark is the night, scarlet the moon Sacred the light in the haze reflecting within Blazing the trail, oh Be still my restless heart [Spirit:] Obsidian's the sky Inward you look as you halt Be still restless heart [Aaron:] I'm on my way

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 23, 2025

You see the sun touch the horizon You know the future awaits And yours hides in the darkness The stars are gonna line up in the night sky I see what some will deny As I follow the starkness Can you believe your eyes We'll make you rise to the occasion Follow your heart and run Seek shelter from the day Waiting for the moon The sound of falling angels calling you Strange and magic Hear us call your name Darkness shines a sweet deceleration down on you Wayward child wake up to the moon They wanna squeeze you in their picture from the outside they call your life a world of make-believe You're feeling pushed by a racing heartbeat Parameterizing the world They only see what they're told to see Child of the ocean floor No need of daylight that deceives you Don't let them wear you down Listen to the voice Waiting for the moon The sound of falling angels calling you Strange and magic Hear us call your name Darkness shines a sweet deceleration down on you Wayward child wake up to the moon Kind of buried alive You've been sacrificed They show you the key Till you love to agree A brave modern day This world is insane Waiting for the moon The sound of falling angels calling you Strange and magic Hear us call your name Darkness shines a sweet deceleration down on you Wayward child wake up to the moon Waiting for the moon The sound of falling angels calling you Strange and magic Hear us call your name Darkness shines a sweet deceleration down on you Wayward child wake up to the moon

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 23, 2025