This Mortal Coil

Fear surrounds me I struggle not to yield Panic taking hold, rising in my chest Desperate, casting around Searching for a foothold as I'm falling away further each day Slipping into the black [CHORUS] In the path of the whirlwind No way back, no way home again Pain engulfs me, I shut it off and focus, but I'm helpless and left without an option I would choose Disbelief! I'd like to fill myself up with denial, but I just have to face I'm losing the race Slipping into the black [CHORUS x2] All alone when the walls come down See the light, die without a sound

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

"It was just my turn, I guess... I was in the path of the tornado." I can't believe my ears I can't believe my eyes The silent beast within Is this my time to die? Was it something that I did, or that I left undone? Did the hand of fate just strike me down? There's nowhere I can run As I'm told what I must do and what they'll do to me, I'm not sure that I can take this, but I have no choice Sprinting towards a cliff Closer to the edge Death itself gives chase and I can't find my voice Find my voice! [CHORUS] Everything's changed now, no matter the outcome It can't be the same again, there's no way to go back All I ever knew laid waste in an instant In the blink of an eye, life can pass you by Oh no, here it comes again! The wheel comes round to crush us underneath [CHORUS x2]

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

Pile the bodies higher Climb to the top so the world can see The depth of your sympathy worn as it is upon your sleeve Where's the true compassion in this vapid, sickly cult of worshiping celebrity? [CHORUS] There won't be any tickets to this funeral (The curtain is falling) There won't be any story in the news (Silenced) No voyeurs masquerading as mourners There won't be any tickets left for you Left for you! Struck with my mortality Dazed by the reality forced upon my eyes Dying from the time we're born, but few are prepared to be told it's time Tell my friends I fought Tell my friends I struggled, Tell my friends I gave it all I had! [CHORUS] A single one's a tragedy, a million a statistic, and now it's all come down to me (The funeral is about to begin!) A single one's a tragedy, a million a statistic, and now it's all come down to me (To me) [CHORUS] Left for you! (x3)

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

Lately when I sleep perchance to dream, I'm driven to the brink of madness by the things I've seen With perfect clarity I see from all the chapters of my life Faces staring at me, mocking me with laughter full of spite [CHORUS] Falling deeper into this sea of doubt My lungs are filling up and it seems there's no way out When I wake and I reflect on all I've dreamt, I can't shake the penetrating stares that haunt me with contempt I've been judged and been found wanting by a jury of my fears, and this feeling of such worthlessness is tearing me to pieces! [CHORUS] I never saw the thread as it was sewn Connecting all those faces I had known But somehow now they all respond in kind I'm struck down like a child and I'm afraid I'll lose my mind Please release me, I don't want to feel this anymore I'm terrified that this could be a glimpse of what's in store at Peter's gate I can't shake it! (x3) I've been judged and been found wanting And I'm worthless! (x4) [CHORUS] Drowning deeper within this pit of dreams The nightmares stay with me and I struggle not to scream!

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025

"Save your prayers. God is not here with us now. There is only the darkness here...and your death." I swear this room is empty, but I can hear the voice and eyes are crawling on me just like flies Calling into question every thought and choice Telling me that all I know is lies Dejected and disgusted, I'm inclined to give it up What's the use? Why go on? It all means nothing! [CHORUS] I'm starting to think I've been deceived and there's no reason to believe And all has failed, there's no relief The tempting whispered thoughts of the noonday devil! Am I beyond redemption, sick beyond repair? Is all this just a futile exercise? If everything's a failure, then it's more than I can bear to stumble on in search of some false pride Tear me down, juice me up Break my will and watch me fall Wear me out, let me go The flesh, the flesh is weak! [CHORUS] No! I refuse! No! I can do this! No! I will fortify my will into an iron tower! I'll put those thoughts out of my head I won't be given up for dead I'll focus on the road ahead Get behind me now! Faith deserts us all sometimes when demons infiltrate our minds, but I'm not gonna lose this time I'm going to break the back of the noonday devil!

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025

Reflection - A mirror held upon a life As the minutes turn to hours, hours blurring into days Attention to all the things we left undone, and all the words that we were too afraid to say, as each passing second slips away [CHORUS] Let it rain, wash away the poison The stains of past misdeeds subside Let the water bring life in a world of second chances No surrender to the plague inside Asking just to start anew, contemplating irony A body fed with venom, seeking life from death Searching, searching for the meaning Are the lessons learned unburdening? The struggle for one fortunate enough to have a chance Fortunate enough to start again [CHORUS] The road unfolds before us all, but where it leads, no one can see So walk without regret and without fear, but never lose your empathy I'm seeing what I can only hope is light ahead I'm standing with an ever-growing faith that now is not my time Oh, let it rain [CHORUS x2]

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025

We can find that we have wandered so far from the path, we can find that we've lost sight of all the things we really had. Now I've reached this destination but I wonder where I've come. Where's the goal that I once dreamed of at a time when I was young? As the earth gives way beneath my feet and I stumble blindly all alone through an isolated plane of fear, haunted by the dreams that I disowned. When the hourglass seems out of sand and nothingness seems close at hand you'll remember all you really had, and it brings things into focus. I can put aside the phantoms conjured by the sirens' songs, I can strive to find the meaning and learn I knew it all along. I can look back to the life I had and the things I wanted for myself, I can turn and try to walk the path and ignore the search for something else. But if all we have is just one try I want to live before I die. Does there have to be a reason why, would it bring things into focus? So if all I have is just one try, I have to live before I die I'm not sure I need a reason why just to bring things into focus But the hourglass seems out of sand and nothingness seems close at hand And I think of all I really had, and I want it back in focus

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

(We all dream...) This could be anything This could be everything Don't let a fantasy keep you from being free [CHORUS] We all dream of how things could be (Dream of how things could be) But the wise make peace with reality Girl, we're just wasting time Come and see what we find on the other side [CHORUS] We should devour life, suck the marrow from each day, but so many times we stand in our own way and make the perfect the enemy of the good Perfect! (x4) We all dream of how things could be (Dream of how things could be) But the wise will embrace the good (The ones embrace the good) We all dream of how things could be (Dream of how things could be) But the wise make peace with reality

The stresses of all these years Their toll is manifest Never felt, but now revealed as I'm put to the test This manufactured world of pain brings shock to the system that rearranges DNA into a code of death Evidence now introduced The provenance is clear Carelessness brings changes if one is cavalier If everything's in balance, our bodies respond, but challenges emerge as life goes on [CHORUS] Women cry as children become men, and all that I can do is try to set things right again Fear and doubt, confronted by our end But all that we can do is try to become whole again Witness the parallels between life and cells: under stress to divide Trying to conform to what might seem the norm has brought me here where I might die Where I might die [CHORUS] Women cry as children become men, and all that I can do is try to set things right again Fear and doubt, confronted by our end But all that we can do is try to become whole

Push the needle in my arm and give me poison I can take whatever comes, I will not bow This is just another battle in the war, and I will scratch and claw with everything I have And I won't pay the ferryman I won't be taken to the other side [CHORUS] (And you have to know) Your threats have all become so hollow (I am so much stronger now) Like strawmen falling apart (And I have the will) Birth has always been a terminal condition (To fight until the final beat of blood escapes my heart) I am steeled, spirit strong, with resolve in my heart Pull the marrow from my bones and then destroy it I can will myself to overcome this all Give me everything you've got: I defy you I will break you and will laugh as you go down And I will not go gently to the night [CHORUS] Death, where is your victory? I've struck you down The truth for all to see You tried to kill me, but I've killed you! I killed you! (x4) (And you have to know I am so much stronger now And I have the will to fight until the final beat of blood escapes my heart) (And you have to know) I am steeled, spirit strong (I am so much stronger now) I am steeled, spirit strong (And I have the will) I am steeled, spirit strong (To fight until I crush you) And I will crush you!

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

Emerging into the light A thousand empty pages left for me to write And I won't subjugate my dreams to mortality I won't live every day I have as if it was my last, but I'll live each to the full The poison stops, its work is done I'm half surprised that I'm still standing Returning now to the road that I was on before this happened Seems so long ago The pale horse skulks away, its rider empty-handed It's not about some gift of courage I only did what I was forced to My will to live was stronger than the will to die that I once had But that I have let go, never to return The preciousness of life The lesson that I've learned That I've learned, that you've learned, and that we all are learning still [CHORUS x2] (Where is your victory? Where is your sting? - x4) I've looked death in the eye, turned and walked away There's nothing left to fear I have stood in the path of the tornado, where life goes by in the blink of an eye (No tickets - x6) And they won't be selling tickets, tickets to my funeral I've dreamt them, I've dreamt them, the nightmares from the pit I have broken the back of the noonday devil (I've crushed the skull of the devil underneath my heel) (Let it rain - x2) Keep raining now (x6) I have brought my life in focus I've brought my life in focus I have brought my life in focus, and it's perfect enough for me (I won't waste it - x2) I will begin again (x3) (It's perfect enough for me - x3) (Let it rain - x4) I'm stronger than death (x16) (And the pale horse departs - x4)

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

The roses in the window box Have tilted to one side Everything about this house Was born to grow and die Oh it doesn't seem a year ago To this very day You said I'm sorry honey If I don't change the pace I can't face another day And love lies bleeding in my hand Oh it kills me to think of you with another man I was playing rock and roll and you were just a fan But my guitar couldn't hold you So I split the band Love lies bleeding in my hands I wonder if those changes Have left a scar on you Like all the burning hoops of fire That you and I passed through You're a bluebird on a telegraph line I hope you're happy now Well if the wind of change comes down your way girl You'll make it back somehow And love lies bleeding in my hand Oh it kills me to think of you with another man I was playing rock and roll and you were just a fan But my guitar couldn't hold you So I split the band Love lies bleeding in my hands And love lies bleeding in my hand Oh it kills me to think of you with another man I was playing rock and roll and you were just a fan But my guitar couldn't hold you So I split the band Love lies bleeding in my hands Wah-ooh-ooh-ooh Wah-ooh-ooh-ooh Oh, oh, oh, oh Love lies bleeding in my hands

Submitted by Morgoth — Feb 10, 2026

Jane, you say it's all over for you and me, girl There's a time for love and a time for letting it be, baby Jane you're playing a game called, hard to get by its real name Making believe that you just don't feel the same Oh Jane That's a game on me Jane, you're playing a game you never can win, girl You're staying away just so I'll ask you where you've been, baby Like a cat and a mouse (cat and a mouse) From door to door and house to house Don't you pretend you don't know what I'm talking about Were all those nights we spent together, hey hey Only because you didn't know better I gotta know Jane you're playing a game, you're playing a game, playing a game Oh Jane, you're playing a game of hide and go seek Jane, you're playing for fun but I play for keeps, yes I do (Jane, Jane, Jane) That's a game on me baby (Jane, Jane, Jane) So plain to see girl (Jane, Jane, Jane) Janey, Janey, Janey, Janey, Janey (Jane, Jane, Jane) Why you fooling with me, me, me oh (Jane, Jane, Jane) (Jane, Jane, Jane) (Jane, Jane, Jane) (Jane, Jane, Jane)

Submitted by Morgoth — Feb 10, 2026

It's not in the way that you hold me It's not in the way you say you care It's not in the way you've been treating my friends It's not in the way that you stayed till the end It's not in the way you look or the things that you say that you'll do Hold the line Love isn't always on time, whoa, whoa, whoa Hold the line Love isn't always on time, whoa, whoa, whoa It's not in the words that you told me, girl It's not in the way you say you're mine, ooh It's not in the way that you came back to me It's not in the way that your love set me free It's not in the way you look or the things that you say that you'll do Hold the line Love isn't always on time, whoa, whoa, whoa Hold the line Love isn't always on time, whoa, whoa, whoa It's not in the words that you told me It's not in the way you say you're mine, ooh It's not in the way that you came back to me It's not in the way that your love set me free It's not in the way you look or the things that you say that you'll do Hold the line Love isn't always on time, whoa, whoa, whoa Hold the line Love isn't always on time Love isn't always on time Hold the line Love isn't always on time Love isn't always, love isn't always on time Hold the line Love isn't always on time Love isn't always on time Love isn't always on time Love isn't always on time, whoa, whoa, whoa

Submitted by Morgoth — Feb 10, 2026

You've been tryin', very hard Now this time you've gone too far Your performance perfect In every way--perfect! I hear rumors all around Contracts and lawyers And champagne downtown Tell me what you think You want me to do I've been always fair with you Turning on me After all we've been through You want trouble then that's just The way it will be You're caught up in the power A blue magical maze Now the circle is broken In a spellbinding rage Better see if you're holdin' The wrong edge of the blade If it's sharp, if it cuts Enjoy yourself You're caught up in the power A blue magical maze Better see if you're holdin' The wrong edge of the blade Now the circle is broken In a spellbinding rage Better see if you're holdin' The wrong edge of the blade

Submitted by Morgoth — Feb 10, 2026

Oh it's been too many times and I can't go back Night bars, guitars, rundown motels like shacks What it mounts up to I don't want it at all Lost you and I want you today Misty green and blue Love to love to love you Misty green and blue Love to love to love you To be something, to be near you Don't say that you'll never know Love to love to love you Half the time it could seem funny The other half is just too sad This west bound moon's they rise and fall Lost you and I want you today Misty green and blue Love to love to love you Misty green and blue Love to love to love you To be something, to be near you I don't know where I'm goin' to I've tried and I need you to stay Yeah, yeah!

Submitted by Morgoth — Feb 10, 2026

So I ran faster But it caught me here Yes, my loyalties turned Like my ankle In the seventh grade Running after Billy Running after the rain These precious things Let them bleed, let them wash away These precious things Let them break their hold over me He said, you're really an ugly girl But I like the way you play And I died But I thanked him Can you believe that? Sick, sick Holding on to his picture Dressing up every day I want to smash the faces Of those beautiful boys Those Christian boys So you can make me come That doesn't make you Jesus These precious things Let them bleed, let them wash away These precious things Let them break their hold over me I remember, yes In my peach party dress No one dared No one cared to tell me Where the pretty girls are Those demigods With their nine inch nails And little fascist panties Tucked inside the heart of every nice girl These precious things Let them bleed, let them wash away These precious things Let them break, let them wash away These, these precious things Let them bleed now, let them wash away These, these precious things Let them break their hold over me Precious Precious

Submitted by Morgoth — Feb 10, 2026