The Inmost Light

You enter the play Heeding the call Like a baby you stain You emit and you crawl Rock the cradle, bound to sway You burn up the void Hedonic and free Against all the odds till the odds will agree You cry for the moon, an easy prey Wrap over fingers in your pie Trying to stir you inside When they give you hell Will you bid farewell to yourself And lose your mind? Walk onto the scene (That's) trying to choke your only dream Shining out the inmost light Tailored to needs You've got to obey Painting horizons and skies on blockades Affecting gravity To the senseful you seem to be making no sense Well, it doesn't seem senseful Yet it feels so intense and immense In our crazy little dream Now who's out of whose mind? When they give you hell Will you bid farewell to yourself And lose your mind? Walk onto the scene (That's) trying to choke your only dream Shining out the inmost light When they give you hell Will you bid farewell? (When they) give you hell Will you bid farewell to yourself And lose your mind? Walk onto the scene (That's) trying to choke your only dream Shining out the inmost light

Submitted by Pestilence — Nov 07, 2025

[Verse 1: Tobias Sammet] A sweet embrace in a distant dream Where did I take a wrong turn? From up close to far away A crowded room Yet a lonely cave Stare at those names In chalk hearts they had scrawled Before the rain Shivering afraid of the rain That might wash away The heart that I'd paint around a name And leave an empty spot inside my soul [Pre-Chorus: Tobias Sammet] And I won't contemplate it I'd have fought the devil to be The one that you need Now I'm giving myself I'm all his if he still wants me [Chorus: Tobias Sammet] He can take mе away I'm misplaced among the angels Savе me! I'm in need of you When real life bleeds through That frail veneer of reason Bleeding away Misplaced among the angels I'm in need of you When real life bleeds through The dark beneath the frail veneer of reason [Verse 2: Floor Jansen] A lonely night in a busy place Aren't we all reaching out through a veil Trying to scream yet unbearably mute Different worlds, same old moon We all seem to cry for in vain In a cold world too real for us to subdue [Pre-Chorus: Floor Jansen] Never been a stranger to pain We got to restrain Blessed is the night Mr. Moon, if you're out there [Chorus: Floor Jansen & Tobias Sammet] Take me away Misplaced among the angels Save me! I'm in need of you When real life bleeds through The frail veneer of beauty Bleeding away Misplaced among the angels I'm in need of you When real life bleeds through The dark beneath the frail veneer of beauty [Guitar Solo] [Pre-Chorus: Floor Jansen & Tobias Sammet] A sweet embrace, a dying dream Craving lit up by belief On the side of angels - dead in need [Chorus: Floor Jansen & Tobias Sammet] Take me away Misplaced among the angels Save me! I'm in need of you When real life bleeds through The frail veneer of reason Bleeding away Misplaced among the angels I'm in need of you When real life bleeds through The dark beneath the frail veneer of beauty [Outro: Tobias Sammet] Misplaced among the angels Misplaced among the angels Misplaced among the angels

Submitted by NecroGod — Nov 07, 2025

Twilight falls, ghostly the hands That reach out for you Through the mist of these alien lands Swallowed away on the road to forever Like a storm the wraith of advance Forced its will upon you Sacred yesterdays, lucid and vast For a blink of an eye it’s all coming together Like a relic of a long bygone time Moonflowers grow from the back of your mind Hold on - yeah Fire in the night I see ghosts, spectres light around me Vivid and stark, a blaze in the dark Fire in the night One by one - pictures gather round me Where those moonflowers used to grow Lost no more - spectres gather round here Vivid and stark, a blaze in the dark Night by night - stare into the black Where moonflowers used to grow As I walk through the mist Down the ruins of things that used to be Silent remnants of magical times A cabinet of curiosities Old companions and past Christmas ghosts Juvenile levity Sacred gatherings, pictures of days Swallowed away on the road to forever A covert society buried in time Once bent on survival Now kicked out of line Oh I hold on... A fire in the night I see ghosts - spectres light around me Vivid and stark, a blaze in the dark Fire in the night One by one - pictures gather round me Where those moonflowers used to grow Lost no more - spectres gather round here Vivid and stark, a blaze in the dark Night by night - stare into the black Where moonflowers used to grow And quite suddenly Just as if somebody slammed the door Halcyon days buried in halcyon lore As silence prevails Fragments come passing me by Slipping right through A crevice in time, oh Fire in the night I see ghosts - spectres light around me Vivid and stark, a blaze in the dark Fire in the night One by one - pictures gather round me Where those moonflowers used to grow Lost no more - spectres gather round here Vivid and stark, a blaze in the dark Night by night - stare into the black Where moonflowers used to grow

Submitted by BloodShrine — Nov 07, 2025

Oh yeah... Yeah The crack of thunder boding evil in the night Raging forks impale the dark skies That carry and rock what they're afraid to speak of Out to choke the light A godless name the storm bell cries The pestering, the blight Someone's got to bear the blame, you name the name The wicked rule the night Knocking up all disarray And there is hell to pay Fire! And yet we'll come for you again Try to close your eyes We'll show up anyway Fire! You know we'll return once again You can turn the page The image will remain We're in your dreams They ride the storm that they've brewed up in secrecy Speak in tongues, they curse and pray Spat maledictions, left them high in ecstasy You don't get a word they say The poison's got to flow You let it off, rechannelize, depressurize The wicked seed is sown To spawn disarray And there is hell to pay Fire! And yet we'll come for you again Try to close your eyes We'll show up anyway Fire! You know we'll return once again You can turn the page The image will remain We're in your dreams And in the boscage staring eyes Something hiding from the light The wicked rule the night Fire! By night we'll come for you again Try to close your eyes We'll haunt you anyway Fire! Be sure we'll return once again You can burn the page The image will remain We're in your dreams Oh yeah - Fire!

Submitted by NecroLord — Nov 07, 2025