Escape of the Phoenix

I am caught in the riddle I feel stuck in here I’m lost in the middle Between the lines I need escaping Maybe just for a little Because I’m right in the middle Of these new winds And new waves This storm gives And this storm takes So if I last through the night And I’m here tomorrow I might survive I might survive One after one We run blind Through the dark Just to write ourselves New stories Where we’re happy When we cry To show to all We’re too proud to fall Can’t we write ourselves New stories Where we lie? Where we lie? Where we lie? I have fought every battle My fields of blood on the inside Unarmed but I fly through the night And now I have to take sides I need escaping Oh, maybe just for a little Because I am right in the middle (Middle, middle of these) Newborn ways Where the lives won’t change And the many lives That the storm takes One after one We run blind Through the dark Just to write ourselves New stories Where we’re happy When we cry To show to all We’re too proud to fall Can’t we write ourselves New stories Where we lie? Where we lie? We lie These new waves Keep me fighting this battle (New ways) Where I’m trying not to drown Because I’m right in the middle (Of these new ways) You know what I’ve been through (New ways) And I never thought You’d watch us drown In our quicksand (New ways) In this quicksand Oh-oh, oh, oh Oh-oh, oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh One after one We run We’re running blind Through darkness We are our own saviors Deceivers We rise, we fall To be the greatest of all ‘Cause the writing Of new stories Has begun Has begun Has begun

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

Sometimes I wonder If I’m in this world on my own If I will ever know Your secret to wonders Because I’m I’m out here I’m out in the cold Outside all the doors You once closed Feels like I’ve been here forever Why should I keep on striving If you will never let me in? Why should I keep on trying when I’ll just end up back where I started? No gold at the end of the rainbow And no stars to guide my way And now I walk here alone Because we’re walking in circles I grew Where nothing could grow I grew in concrete In ashes, through cold A dandelion cipher I locked all the doors I could close Let illusions Keep out the cold I stayed here forever Why should I keep on striving If you will never let me in? Why should I keep on trying when I’ll just end up back where I started? No gold at the end of the rainbow And no stars to guide my way And now I walk here alone Because we’re walking in circles Why should I keep on striving If you will never let me in? Why should I keep on trying when I’ll just end up back where I started? No gold at the end of the rainbow No stars to light my way I walk here alone Because I’m walking in circles

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025

Sun sets the light’s in slow decay A search that never stop but change And all I ever had has now been washed away And even though I know my tide is coming I feel a need to stay right here Sun sets the light’s in slow decay I drown and now I drift away I’m at the river bottom Let the river flow Because I Never Never felt I found my way I feel like the… Like the inside’s my enemy Never Never felt I found my way out Never felt I found the way out Run all you can to prevent that your heaven’s falling And I can’t save your soul Your drowning and you drift away I feel my faithlessness has overthrown me Let river life run through your darkest days I’m at the river bottom So let the river flow Never I never felt I found my way I feel like the… Like the inside’s my enemy Never Never felt I found my way out Listen child you’ll grow older You will see and become a beholder 'Cause I have tried my hardest And can’t believe I don’t know Because I know all the hurting I / You’ll always faced this alone There is a path to be found and You’ve got to reach there on your own So many worlds to discover So many more than you’ll know You’ll finally leave this hurting To never more feel alone (I feel alone) And stand on top of all burdens A brand new world to know And soon you’re so much wiser and then you’re free To become A beholder Never…

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

Sun, where’s the sun? Why is it hiding for some? Sun, where’s the sun? The absence of light Seems like abstinence My sense of safety’s undone Got lost in winds too young Tore to sea unnoticed But forever present In my essence Forever Sense of salt forever Deeply carved into my essence Forever present There was a subtle call But it might have been too silent The need to feel desired It turned to inside blame And when the calls Were left unanswered My virtue fell in shame And I became a shadow And waited for the sun A non-believer Drifting further and further I was soon out of sight Leaving me to a fate I was shaped by the shadows In the absence of sun Never leaving the haze And if you never walked Among shadows Or never were held In the arms of solitude Then you never felt How cold it is In the absence of sun In the absence of sun In the absence of sun Sun, where’s the sun? Why is it hiding for some? Sun, where’s the sun? The lack of light Is my abstinence And my sense of safety’s undone Got lost in winds When I was young Tore to sea unnoticed But forever present In my essence Forever Drifting further and further I was soon out of sight Leaving me to a fate I was shaped by the shadows In the absence of sun Never leaving the haze And if you never walked Among shadows Or never were held In the arms of solitude Then you never felt How cold it is In the absence of sun The absence of sun The absence of sun

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

On a day when the world Was not awake I crossed the river And the waters of oblivion This day all heaven’s fell I want to fly, not resurrect Escape And land in the celestial Nightfall on my immortal soul I’m leaving for a new day As my ashes fall in the meridian The wings of wonder A new life arising Sacrificial arson From fire to carbon The ashes crowning A call to weakness Escape of the phoenix On this day the world Was not awake And I stood and had to watch While the heaven’s wept Its rivers Tried to fly, not resurrect Threw myself On the stake to burn And all the lives Where I lived and learned Nothing’s sacred in halos I’ll give this crown To the one who follows The wings of wonder A new life arising Sacrificial arson From fire to carbon The ashes crowning A call to weakness Escape of the phoenix From ashes to nothing Could heaven welcome a traitor? We are the sacred ashes Of her honor I’m reaching, I’m stretching To not fall from grace into oblivion The calling for freedom Escape of the phoenix The wings of wonder A new life arising Sacrificial arson From fire to carbon The ashes crowning A call to weakness Escape of the phoenix The wings of wonder A new life arising Sacrificial arson From fire to carbon The ashes crowning A call to weakness Escape of the phoenix

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

I fought since my youth I scraped the pain away I’ve come to a conclusion That there are no words to say Even though I’ve done all I could There are so many things I can’t do And one is to save you from you I offer me And all that’s true My peace within Might guide you through Your darkest times And your loneliest days But I can’t save you I can’t save you from you Because you didn’t climb at all And I didn’t want to fall But I never needed more Than your heart, that was all You never gave it up And I didn’t want to fight In a war on the inside So, I offered me And I saw it through My peace within I gave it all to you And in your darkest times Through your glorious days I gave it all to you But I can’t save you from you Because you didn’t climb at all And I didn’t want to fall But I never needed more Than your heart, that was all You never gave it up And I didn’t want to fight In a war on the inside I’m leaving you I’m leaving you From the dead lights Through the dark nights And the insights I cannot save you from you Oh-oh-ho Because you didn’t climb at all And I didn’t want to fall But I never needed more Than your heart, that was all I had to give you up I didn’t last the fight Because I knew I couldn’t save you from you

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

Got the world On my shoulders Feel its weight To the bone Got the world On these shoulders My within Is bare to the soul We are dead Senses fade Never blamed it on the layout To be leaden saints We have strayed To chaos Never knew there was a dark way in To be heaven sent Take this weight from my shoulders I can’t hold it much longer If you could see what I see Then maybe (maybe) You would understand Just a simple beholder I just wish you were older If you’d feel what I feel Then maybe (maybe) You would lend a helping hand But I’m on my own And I climb alone We are dead Senses fade Never blamed it on the layout To be leaden saints We have strayed To chaos Never knew there was a dark way in To be heaven sent Got the world On my shoulders Feel its weight To the bones How do I do this alone? We are dead Senses fade Never blamed it on the layout To be leaden saints We have strayed To chaos Never knew there was a dark way in To be heaven sent We are dead Keys and chains Oh-oh-oh To be heaven sent We’re afraid To repent Never knew there was a dark way in

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

I believed that the world Was not on my side And if I couldn’t feel it Was all just lies Oh-oh, yeah Had to have all that was true And all that I knew Right before my eyes And I never thought I could be someone new But I felt done I felt life could never change No, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh And it was dark So much darker than today So, I So, I Run Run I run I run Run Run I run I run I always felt I was the loneliest soldier And I always felt That I battled alone If I could just flee And close my eyes on it all Then tomorrow would come And it would be gone So that’s why I (Run) Run I run I run Run I run I run Run I wish someone had told me There is no way to outrun the pain I wish someone had showed me That there are some other ways But maybe I should have known this Maybe I’m the one to blame Maybe I was too convinced But I was done I felt life could never change No, dark So much darker than today So, I So, I Run Run I run I run Run Run I run That’s why I run When I look back I can’t believe How I thought that I (Run) Could shut the door on some things That I could never hide (I run) But I only kept running And that’s why I run (I run) Yeah-yeah (Run) Can’t believe I’ve been running For this long (I run) And I thought I could run Forever more (I run) These are the reasons Why I run