Hope Against Hope
The darkness before the dawn The darkness before the dawn The darkness before the dawn It just goes on and on The darkness before the dawn The darkness before the dawn The darkness before the dawn It just goes on and on The darkness before the dawn The darkness before the dawn Thе darkness before thе dawn It just goes on and on The darkness before the dawn The darkness before the dawn The darkness before the dawn It just goes on and on on and on on and on On and on on and on on and on on and on And on and on and
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 03, 2026
On through fathomless absence, amnesia, despair The scent of death cheap in the air everywhere On through paradise poisoned, through paradise sold The hellbound plunge hellward ensanguined in gold Where souls sell for silver a price on each head But the wages of courage are irons or lead Until each is a jailer, a traitor to all And each one a captive imprisoned by all Power Power And yet still there are some who can only rebel For peace with our masters means war with ourselves Better war on the world, against all for all's sake Than with all against each all in thrall to the fray Assemble the wretched, the desperate, the maimed Heaven is empty, we march on its gates All my anguish I pledge, all my ardor I vow One with a why can endure any how Power Power I vow Whatever it takes to make the heart Break or overflow All we must endure, create and destroy All we must undergo All we must forsake All we must forgo All we must accept All we must overthrow Power You want power Like your fathers had You want power Watch the mirror fill with blood You want power That means you will submit Ascend the tower That conceals the pit Did you see the abyss? Prepare however you wish Hope is a perilous thing (It's dangerous to feel) You're afraid to catch it They fear you when you feel it Can you trust it? Because it's stronger than you, it's stronger than you Chance is a dangerous thing (It's dangerous to want) If you take it, it could save you or betray you Because it's stronger than you, it's stronger than you Power is a dangerous thing (It's dangerous, it's dangerous) You can't take it, it takes you It's stronger than you, stronger than you Power And my heart beats harder And my breath comes faster As we ride again Into disaster Power Power Power Power
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 03, 2026
You won't find us washing with the tides from crowd to faceless crowd Nor dreamless in the mills where years are ground to dust You won't find us between white walls, where the lights are always on While through a distant haze consuming fires rage You won't find us, we'll be gone Long, long gone, gone Long gone, gone, gone Are you out there sheltering a spark in the storm all alone? Or hoarding your damage? It seems it's all you have of your own Are you out there in sorrow, in longing, in desperate straits? Doing your time, waiting for a sign Some part of yourself already gone Long, long gone, gone Gone You won't find us Find us Find us
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 03, 2026
Will we breathe our last In concrete tombs Or rushing headlong Into glittering doom No doves or meadowlarks fly here And we are truly all alone As we bury the very earth Under her own bones Cutting into the crust To carve it into mine and thine like light arriving from a dead star Our dreams stillborn Are dreams still born? Above the carnage can you hear The broken music of the spheres Orbiting an abyss? Interred in chasms of the mind Where hell is somewhere overhead Get up, shake the dust from your limbs And make your way across the bones of the dead Carry on Over the bones of the dead Carry on Over the bones of the dead Over the bones of the dead Over the bones of the dead So you set out To flee this wretched place Last witness to a world now laid to waste Ride on, dark horse Where there is no road Burdened by the wreckage you bear within Abandon everything but hope Fly Restless seeker, broken heart Follow your star far beyond the walls Of this world we must depart But if you arrive You will reach the land you seek Not as a king, but as a refugee Like a secret message or a torch that's passed around Like a tidal wave or a tornado touching down Like vengeance, like a dream deferred, that festers, then explodes Every last lost child shall someday find her way back home And you will fight Also against yourself But don't lose heart Not one step backward on your path You will arrive Though you will reach the land you seek Not as a king, but as a refugee Not as a king, as a refugee Not as a king, as a refugee Not as a king, as a refugee Not as a king, as a refugee Carry on Over the bones of the dead Carry on Over the bones of the dead Carry on Over the bones of the dead Carry on Over the bones of the dead Carry on Over the bones of the dead Carry on Over the bones of the dead Carry on Over the bones of the dead Carry on
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 03, 2026
An expanse of ice and all hope in eclipse We are fireflies in darkness Embers in ashes, we sail On a tempest bereft Every newborn arrives upon a wave of blood To trade blows with a world she never chose A spark struck off steel To blink out in the dark, unknown Like cinders, we ascend Towards the stars overhead Buffeted from within By a seething, surging sea We yearn unquenchably Ten thousand milеs adrift, outcast I strike your memory like a match
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 03, 2026
We'll live, we'll live to see another day We'll live, we'll live to see another day We'll live, we'll live to see another day We'll live, we'll live to see All that we know will flicker and fade All that we hold will crumble away Statues and empires will tremble and fall Everything, everyone, all Hell, pour out your rivers Open up your gates Unseal all your horrors We'll live to see another day We'll live, we'll live to see another day We'll live, we'll live to see another day We'll live, we'll live to see another day We'll live, we'll live, we'll live We'll live, we'll live to see another day We'll live, we'll live to see another day We'll live, we'll live to see another day We'll live, we'll live to see The last birds flee the final sky The endlings breathe their final sigh Yet there is a light ashine beyond The furthest star Hell, throw wide your prisons Let fall your acid rain March out your armies We'll live to see another day Come, break across the world Come, break across the world In the shadow of their future It's midnight every hour of the day But like a seed in the dirt Like a root in the earth I am alive in my grave Like a ghost from the tomb Like a child from the womb Come what will, come what may We'll live to see another day
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 03, 2026
Hold me to this If I ever should give an inch I won't deserve who I was Hold me to this If I ever should miss a chance To give my all, I'll never know all we could be (We know what we are but not what we might be) Hold me to this Say your last words now It's later than you think Don't lock your tongue behind your teeth Inside your jaw for good Don't hope for redemption Don't wait for the moment, it's already gone Don't pray for salvation It's here, or else never at all within us Within us Hold me to this Dawn may never come but there will be A light in me Hold me through this Day may never break but break it must Inside of us Inside us If that's all the light we'll ever see If that's all the light there'll ever be Shine bright Shine bright Shine brightly If it's come to this, I'm prepared to fight Just give me some time to find the others But if there's no more time and I'm the last one left And there will be no respite for dreamers tonight Then I'm ready, I'm ready I'm ready, I'm ready I'm ready, I'm ready I'm ready I'm ready, I'm ready I'm ready, I'm ready I'm ready, I'm ready I'm ready Forward, forward, forward Into the fight Forward, forward, forward Into the fight Forward, forward, forward Into the fight Forward, forward, forward
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 03, 2026