Disillusion

Come gather inside and pour yourself some wine Drink to our demise There's no obvious signs of impending light Teeth shine in the night One by one we disappear Come into the divide Your deliverance lies in decay of the mind It's the obvious time to embrace your design Your plaintive decline, your necessity to bleed Fill my head with notions Fill my head with notions of leaving alive I know it's a lie Fill my head with notions Fill my head with notions of leaving alive I know it's a lie So Drink what you like Try and unwind cause they're coming while you sleep

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

I guess this life is better than no life You can't defy the inescapable outline Ignorance relies on parasitical design So I try and better myself I try and better myself I cannot decide between the body and the mind And they obvious And they obviously disagree I guess this life is better than no life You obviously disagree I guess this life is better than no life You obviously disagree I keep spreading my speech like a plague Uncertainty to regulate the arrogance of self-provided truth I've seen the coming and the dawning of an age When every tongue will shamefully confess You never truly knew a single thing We will find it out We will find it out When the blood that's dripping from our hands Is swallowed by the broken ground We will find it out We will find it out When the blood that's dripping from our hands Is pouring from your open mouth I guess this life is better than no life You obviously disagree I guess this life is better than no life You obviously disagree I guess this life is better than no life You obvious You obviously disagree I guess this life is better than no life You obvious You obviously disagree

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

I think you read out of context Desecrating all the words that I had wrote Maybe you just hadn't noticed There's an urgency in every single tone I try and reason with my inability to gain control But we were born out of violence The infernal evidence of all we know Trade my wounded pride for some piece of mind And finally find some reckoning Trade my wounded pride for some piece of mind And find the time I lost I try and analyze the part I mean to overthrow I can't illuminate a darkness visible all of it's own I try and reconcile the thoughts that I have come to fear the most But we were born out of violence Suffocating on the first breath we took Trade my wounded pride for some piece of mind And finally find some reckoning Trade my wounded pride for some piece of mind And finally find some reckoning On the other side of the dark divide I trade my wounded pride for some piece of mind

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

Take what you want Leave me broken, leave me estranged Just tear me apart Still my devotion remains the same I bit my tongue For fear of igniting something I can't tame A perilous love Will be my undoing, nothing will remain What you want from me Is my everything What you want is a perfect endeavor What I want can't escape from me now What you want from me Is my everything What you want is subconsciously clever All I want are deliberate lies I try to escape from my mind But I've been tied with subliminal lines I try, try to retain what is mine And I just lie just to keep us alive Set me aside With a brazen integrity I can't obtain Leave my insides Tangled in knots that I can't rearrange I bit my tongue For fear of igniting something I can't tame A perilous love Will be my undoing, nothing will remain No time left to devote Madness follows a slippery slippery slope I try to escape from my mind But I've been tied with subliminal lines I try, try to retain what is mine And I just lie just to keep us alive

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

So did you care to speak your mind Cause I'd be more than obliged I've got a bone worth picking We'll take it all in calculated strides Little by little Down the path of folly Fueled by this overwhelming desire I need to be needed But I only need it when you're not being so needy All my efforts lie Lost in the line of time All my efforts lie Lost in the line of time It's the existential paradox of life That our survival relies on Our temporary nature of design And our failure to realize You'll never get it but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try I wanted peace of mind But progress thrives On opposition Caught in the paradox of life Where living is dying And I just want to live as if I were dying Try as you will but you're never gonna be what you want Always the insignificant mind of the brink of dissolve Too little too late, always one step behind It's the existential paradox of life That our survival relies on Our temporary nature of design And our failure to realize So take what you want at the expense of your demise

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

Caught inside of this nightmare I find There is only night no tunnels of light Umbilical ties mark the start of dependancy Gathering weakness in cradles of infancy There is no purpose for truth in this fallacy Stumble through life on the edge of insanity I find that time has crippled me internally I make my way like a wandering amputee No reciprocal law Where the ends meet the cost No reward for the cause Or the innocence lost All that's left are the flaws And their eternal gnaw Caught inside of this nightmare I find There's an endless divide between me and where I need to be Blood runs dry in a visible line It's the trail I devised and it leads me back to my defeat When I swallow my pride It eats it's way through my insides and out for all to see So I lie fabricating a smile Oh it's hollow and vile but I've learned it keeps your mind at ease Helplessly I watch as I am pulled in by the Effortless grip of a greater oblivion Time passes by and still I am pulled in by the Effortless grip of a greater oblivion Helplessly I watch as I am pulled in by the Effortless grip of a greater oblivion Time passes by and still I am pulled in by the Effortless grip of a greater oblivion (Oblivion) Helplessly I watch as I am pulled in by the Effortless grip of a greater oblivion (Come take my cup) Time passes by and still I am pulled in by the Effortless grip of a greater oblivion (Come drink my blood) Helplessly I watch as I am pulled in by the Effortless grip of a greater oblivion (End what I've become) Time passes by and still I am pulled in by the Effortless grip of a greater oblivion (Oblivion) Helplessly I watch as I am pulled in by the Effortless grip of a greater oblivion (Come take my cup) Time passes by and still I am pulled in by the Effortless grip of a greater oblivion (Come drink my blood) Helplessly I watch as I am pulled in by the Effortless grip of a greater oblivion (End what I've become) Time passes by and still I am pulled in by the Effortless grip of a greater oblivion Oblivion Oblivion Oblivion

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

This is the process elimination That I am soon to rediscover This is a broken communication That goes in one ear, and out your other This is a product of convention And I'm unable to come quietly This is an abscess of addiction And I am trying to- to plague it Well I forced my hands to cut it cut it cut it out It is a message, and if it's comin' This is a concept you couldn't stomach This is the final realization Of both the righteous and the weary This is a conscious illumination Of the resentment that I harbor It's a jaded observation Of the life that I am leading It's a curse you better believe-leave leave leave leave it behind My pain, my pain is just another excuse My pain, my pain is just another excuse for- I tend to always be the recluse My pain, my pain is just another excuse (x4) (I can't be alive) (?) This is a truthful combination Of the wisdom I've been afforded And you will break my concentration If you wanted, if you wanted This is a tempting alleviation Of circumstances that I've been given This is a hopeless disintegration Of the life that I've been living It's a curse you better believe-leave leave leave leave behind My pain, my pain is just another excuse My pain, my pain is just another excuse for- My tendency to always be the recluse My pain, my pain is just another excuse (x4) My pain, my pain!

Submitted by MetalElf — Feb 23, 2026

All I have return to me The quiet little symphony Of voices telling me I need To throw my hands up, throw my hands up All I want is symmetry Between what I have and what I need Just the blissful opportunity To turn my mind off, turn my mind off Who took my place Cause I don't recog- I don't recognize this face of mine Who took my place Cause I don't recog- I don't recognize this face of mine It's the disillusion Of the lie that I created It's my growing inability To give you everything you need It's measured in the weakness of my spine All I am is all you see The bastard son of human greed Trying to fill my endless needs But time runs out when time runs out All I am is all you see A slave to ideology A voice of reason always screaming Time runs out when time runs out All I am is all you see The bastard son of human greed Trying to fill my endless needs But time runs out when time runs out All I am is all you see A slave to ideology A voice of reason always screaming Time runs out when time runs out It's the disillusion Of the lie that I created It's my growing inability To give you everything you need It's measured by my weakness It's my growing inability To comprehend that human needs Are measured in the weakness of our spines

Submitted by MetalElf — Feb 23, 2026

There's a wickedness that's in my blood The precognition of what a terrible mess I'll become To my dismay I found that a tired tongue won't resonate Beyond the heresy that I impose But I couldn't kill a radiant thing I couldn't kill a radiant thing I couldn't kill a radiant thing, I know I couldn't kill a radiant thing Tear out my eyes Render me blind, blind, blind Deliverance lies In the absence of my my mind Take a breath Try and pretend you didn't hear a thing By design I am fated to rely on what I know To define the endless line of what I don't And does the application of your moral code alleviate The overwhelming fear of imminent death How could you take a radiant thing? How could you take a radiant thing? How could you take a radiant thing? If you wanna take a radiant thing Then come and get it Tear out my eyes Render me blind, blind, blind Deliverance lies In the absence of my my mind Tear out my eyes Render me blind, blind, blind Deliverance lies In the absence of my my my mind

Submitted by MetalElf — Feb 23, 2026

Was my radiance killed By the growing divide That logic instilled in an effort to find Some meaningful truth When only death is resolve And it's cold pursuit is the only purpose I know I try I will try to save us I try to make it I will try to save us I try I will try to save us I try to make it Despite my better judgment I try to make it I will try to save us I try to make it I will try to save us I try to make it I will try to save us I try to make it Despite my better judgment I try to make it I will try to save us I try to make it I will try to save us I try to make it I will try to save us I try to make it Despite my better judgment

Submitted by MetalElf — Feb 23, 2026