Unseen

Wasn’t it supposed to get better? I thought I heard you say that: “One of these days you will get what’s coming” Baby, you don’t have a clue what it means to be Riding on the breaking point of destruction No rest for the ones who need it the most No peace for the weak and the poor In a position of opposition Endlessly grinding us down Ashes to ashes Dust to dust Some build for failure Some build for trust Fucked! Anxiety washes in it wants me to fail Putting me down A thousand ways to die But I ain’t giving up It’s not my time Though understanding may never come I’m not surprised We all buy into the circus Don’t we? How could anyone resist? How could anyone even exist? I need some way to breathe Some way to reach out and touch someone To feel – like I am even real? Ashes to ashes Dust to dust Some build for failure Some build for trust Celebrate this day So far so good Tick… Tick… Ticking away These strange lands In between Let’s pretend it’s all illusion And die reaching for the dream Ashes to ashes Dust to dust Some build for failure Some build for trust

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 25, 2025

You’ve got to move As if you need to know why!? Chow Mein don’t make up for Xmas But it will do Got money in your pocket Got places to go Don’t no-one know your name You’re on a roll As it flows, you might not know the motion Ain’t no ghost, there’s only love or nothing Boy have I have got a bone to pick Gratitude don’t weight much on my side of town Count your blessings And count ‘em well Fill your cub to the brim One day you’ll drink from a cup of tin Rain cold Rain hard Let It all fall apart As it flows, you might not know the motion Ain’t no ghost, there’s only love or nothing All you want, And if my hands can’t touch it it’s mine Soon you’ll be cold The flesh on your bones will fail to hold you All you kept secretly, Safely away from prying eyes must go Say, who are you fooling? The blade comes down As it flows, you might not know the motion Ain’t no ghost, there’s only love or nothing All you want, And if my hands can’t touch it it’s mine

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 25, 2025

They’ll get you when you’re young Teach you how to be a man (Stand up!) Romanticizing (Bigger and better!) But it’s never enough, is it? And you’re damned if you do And you’re damned if you don’t Let’s celebrate anyway What you do what you do What you do what you do What you do what you do What you do And do it for me too… Once you come to accept The vague sense of defeat Eating away inside You’re a pig in a pen waiting To face the knife Dead Dead Dead And you’re damned if you do And you’re damned if you don’t Let’s celebrate anyway What you do what you do What you do what you do What you do what you do What you do And do it for me too… We don’t need another hero Not another fool that you can drain and tear to shreds Oh strip him down Sell him back to that From which he came Ever so embarrassing Someone to connect the pieces Someone who will speak his mind Someone who will carry what we’re all afraid to really say How infuriating and obscene Apologetic in absurdum No-one wants to feel

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 25, 2025

You and I can’t get much closer In spite of what you want I’m done explaining I’m broke at best Non-existent. I lay me down to sleep And disappear Why is it you have a question For every single thing I do Why is it you say you love me Nothing’s ever good enough for you “What’s the matter now?” “Have another one of these…” “This will take the edge off…” And I never knew what it would be Decisions and decisions to be made They’ll tell you what you said and what you did To break from the futility and run You speak through comparison You speak in tongues You listen suspiciously for gaps my adaptation You have no magic touch Please stop trying Sucking me dry… And I never seemed to get it right It’s like a shadow hanging over me You were the first You were the last If there’s a god Release me from my past I lay me down to sleep And disappear

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 25, 2025

Curse the day that you were born Curse the god above for the sheer technicalities That will keep us apart (We will stay separated) Everything you say’s been said before By someone just like you and me It’s a comfort can’t you see Acting out your desperate solution Because no one understands (How could they ever understand?) Once upon a time when you were strong And you could see it clearly (Now everything you once believed is gone) Why does it all seem motionless? A parody of what we could have had I’m sick and tired of explanations (Still blinded) Find yourself another brick To act out your delusions Your fashion statement make-believe Won’t change a god damned thing at all Ain’t you got a better place? Somewhere where you could be who you truly are? Do you think anybody cares? (Anybody at all?) And if so would it matter? If you lost just a little bit Of this superficial claim to fame… Resting on a slab cast on The shaky graves of those who came before you (Oh! So hollow) Your name becomes a trademark Set solutions for the things you never knew (What do we ever know?) Why does it all seem motionless? A parody of what we could have had I’m sick and tired of explanations (Still blinded) Find yourself another brick To act out your delusions Ten years from now you’ll wonder why No-one was there to stop you… You’ve got his eye Are you ready for the next one? It is appropriate exercise And the correct way to ruin What trust we may have had As if you’re remote controlled As if you run automatic I… clay Mould me into something new (So) that I can finally be of use Why does it all seem motionless? A parody of what we could have had I’m sick and tired of explanations (Still blinded) Find yourself another brick To act out your delusions Ten years from now you’ll wonder why No-one was there to stop you…

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 25, 2025

Familiar as I may seem I wish I had never been here before The re-occurring pattern of dysfunctional The power and control It’s not as if I’m new to any of this But I wish there was a way To reach your inside And set you free And so it stays unseen Under the surface Right out of touch Right out of reach And so it stays unseen Until we shine the light of truthful loving trust It’s never going to change You were the one I was supposed to turn to When I need someone And I realize that I’m powerless But at least I’m not alone So turn your screws on any which way Cause I’m not playing along You carry this like a trophy When you could have been so strong But I am not the one to judge you anymore I promise you And so it stays unseen Under the surface Right out of touch Right out of reach And so it stays unseen Until we shine the light of truthful loving trust It’s never going to change

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 25, 2025

Easy now Don’t give yourself away Don’t let them know you’re breaking These are wolves and they carry no sympathies Don’t look down These are but minor details Hopefully they’ll keep you alive Don’t let them see you’re breaking Achieve to justify Pearls before swine No more hesitation No more slipping away No more waiting for a loving grace You will crawl Let’s not get personal You will serve an example to others A skull at the gates to mark who’s the king We learn from falling down A willingness grows from defeat To mock the ordinary punk And see if you still got it in you Did you cry? I wept like a child In final acceptance to my own mortality Fuck your pride, it will be your downfall Easy now Go lightly these are tricky times We don’t need much fuel to feed the fire No more hesitation No more slipping away No more waiting for a loving grace Easy now Go lightly these are tricky times We don’t need much fuel to feed the fire

These brief moments aren’t quite what I had in mind Why does everything have to disintegrate? I’m on fire most of the time So I’m grateful there’s peace to be found Truthfully, I could never quite get why you always seemed so prone to losing

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 25, 2025

It’s infected This city’s a wasteland Slow drone reality Figure head and scapegoats Holding back the punch line To exaggerate just right We’re collecting IOU’s and absent apologies The unspoken sense of betrayal lingers Can we get it right? When everything we know is so wrong Everything is expandable here Mannequins and advert placements We leave no mark No tasting impressions (For a next of kin) We decay We cower We remain silent victims We argue We justify our own demise Inner test market We suck up the fumes Meat, ones and bright ideas It’s all insane

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 25, 2025

I won’t be your alibi for disaster No more pathetic rehashes I’ve heard enough Predictable and self-pitying thing Escalate your prolonged suicide Poor thing You’re almost there! Come on! Come on Give this man a hand! Could we have, Could we have a standing ovation? And you can’t break it off It seems a fate worse than death You’re repeating the same mistakes again “I’ve been here before but I’ll try it again” Over and over and over and over again You’re just like everyone You’re just like them So in love with a monster And a precious lie But someone’s got to pay For each and every single fuck up Your fingernails don’t count For much it claws are what you’re looking for But you won’t need them where you’re going The only thing that keeps all this together Is a lucid dream You’re just like everyone You’re just like them Your fingernails don’t count For much it claws are what you’re looking for But you won’t need them where you’re going The only thing that keeps all this together Is a lucid dream You’re just like them

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 25, 2025

Come here… And knock on my door Step inside Rake off your folds And let it go No-one… Needs to know If you say so Five minutes more Oh, go slow Curiosity don’t do Much for me You won’t hear from me by morning All is well that ends well I don’t want more than a moment That’s all that I can take I don’t care who talks about us I don’t care what people say Give me… Something new Something to do Something true Something I can hold on to [Repeat chorus] If you want it You can have it I got more than I need Come and get it Keep it if you can No-one knows better what to do Simple arithmetic it’s true Now I feel fine, won’t nothing bring me down The truth is we all die

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 25, 2025

Love is stronger than all We can cry and pretend But we know there’s something real Some men say we’re from the first breath to the last You should carry your head high Cause I’m done Digging myself deeper Done looking for escape Done playing games Your validation’s not worth my time Everything must die You can’t shake it For all the pretty shameful games we played… The sweetness of debauchery Somehow left me cold & broken Somehow left me thinking of you Properly sedated, medicated, pliant and controlled Finger-likin’ hooker-tricks Won’t get you very far Out here things are becoming real Out here I found a way To break the fear I’m done digging myself deeper Done looking for escape Done playing games Your validation’s not worth my time

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 25, 2025