On the Eve of a Goodbye
24 hours left What was most difficult was the abruptness of it all... Seldom were the days that came unaccompanied by her smile and grace - yet there was something always below the surface. A fugitive glance or a transient look of...something. Was it distress? Anguish? Despair? Those instances were far too fast to ever pinpoint but there was always something quietly tragic in her smile...
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 14, 2026
Your spirit seems ever enlivened - but is there something else you protect? Your smile gleams gilded like sunlight - but is it just camouflaging you? Does the pain crescendo in ice cold climaxes that leave you with nothing at all Just broken within? My beguiling friend... All my questions you refuse to answer It seems that you're ignoring my voice You don’t have to maintain this facade You don't have to pretend You don't have to conceal all your regret But you just smile as if to say "How could you understand?" Knowing you won’t say it What is it that would sate your hunger The immortal insecurities that inhibit you from confession? The bedeviled drive? I don't know if you could even tell me But I'll be there if you're broken
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 14, 2026
Promises of tomorrow are the hammering nights of today Blankly I stare into the void Hints of dawn sleepily emerge Wars waged before my eyes When the darkness dissipates I will still be without any answers I can't save you... I'm too late... I wade drearily through the guilt and the shame In a myopic acceptance that there is not atonement Sleeplessness makes the morning so stark So frail, so callous Still I wait The day star crawls to its peak And all but sets me aflame Onе foot in front of the other And I dutifully wait You aren't coming I know that now Still I wait - for mеaning Meaning (that) was stolen And abandoned The sun never sets Over this failure And in that endless noon No one can forgive me What should I have said? The answers never come The answers refuse to come Lapsing too are those promises When the darkness dissipates I will still be without any answers I can't save you... I'm too late...
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 14, 2026
19 hours left I suppose it is now a banal axiom. But acknowledgment of my hypocrisy does not preclude my incessant need to understand you What is it that you hide with such agile deflections? The answers you give me seem all the more puzzling and draw down deeper into this labyrinth. Are your flippant remarks to push me back? Or just test my resolve? Please... What is it that you refuse to tell me?
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 14, 2026
The words come out in clouds of vagaries And yet still you sit Adrift in a sea, separate from me Maybe the lies have meaning I understand yet this baleful knowledge is of no comfort Curiously, I watch the flames rise with some sort of indifference No, it isn't that you hate me It's more unrest in your eyes Is there nothing that can even ease your pain? Can we endure more of this world? In my cheap arrogancе, I fashioned a reality Wherе I was someone, where my life mattered Where you were happier (Why am I still alive?) I understand that I don't understand Why am I still...?
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 14, 2026
As I come close She screams with caprice "It is so bleak beneath the blanket of sadness And where is dear brother Time? He abandons this place (You don't listen! No one listens to me!)" I think to myself 'How can you say something so Burning cold that casts me out?' The doors are closing The chains are locking Her eyes are barren Why won't she hear me? 'Please listen to me.' "No! I don't care what you have to say!" 'Fine, you'll hear not one more word from my lips.' The silence anchors us to this moment With furled brows and unforgiving eyes Crawling across deserts we had found each other A bond that felt as unshakable as the very Earth Now are we to abandon all we are? This prison in which you hold yourself captive Does not have to remain locked... Please let me in Tacit voice (confrontation) Implicit word (confrontation) It is there (confrontation) We embrace (you and I will never be the same)
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 14, 2026
I'm sorry. Always What a mistake it was to think That I could do anything that I wanted Repercussions. Retribution. Revelation Revealed Holding it inside, deceiving only myself And the guilt will swallow me Restitution seems far from real For I can never undo my horrid deeds How can I atone and make amends for everything now? How can I repair? Words can never make it right again The worst part is knowing that everything changed The broken heart I should have saved I'm sorry Always...
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 14, 2026
10 hours left Her inner turmoil gave way to a startling and uncharacteristic fit of rage in which reason seemed to all but abandon her. He was perplexed and alarmed fearing his every attempt to help her was fueling further ire. The hurtful words she said in anger were withdrawn soon after in an abashed whisper. Though the venom in words paled in comparison to the ridicule and invectives she would vomit forth at herself in solitude Whеn she was sure it was only her. And thе mirror at which to scream...
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 14, 2026
Thinly veiled and myopic (Lay down) Holding to your arrogance (and die) And why should I even care? (traitor) The sun doesn't rise over you (no more) Hold on let me steal your very last breath Here you come, cross on your back (martyr) Pour your tears into a tale (believe) But you cried wolf too many times (liar) No one to kiss you goodbye (alone) Beg for pity - no one around Beg for memory - no one to mourn Your death is poetry Like a cancer eats away (rotting) You corrupted evеrything (fading) Now ashen tears wash you away (laughing) Laid in the bеd that you made (dying) A light inside bleeds and envelopes me I'd say that I hate you but that would mean I felt something Apathy within me Blank faces of disregard will be your sole company Disconnected Days wasted...
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 14, 2026
I do not deserve- You were always so- ...but I cannot repay anyone Sleep now through the night By dawn, you'll forget We are on the eve of a goodbye A great deal of nothing is coming... ...and we'll soon- And soon we'll be - well...I don't know what we'll be All I know is that we won't be "we" anymore I just want to kill someone right now It might as well be me
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 14, 2026
2 hours left I know what I have to do... I can't-I just-... You won't understand. And that's ok You don't have to It just hurts. All the time. And I just need it to stop I've never deserved the life that I've been given Now it's time to give it up. And rest for a while
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 14, 2026
She abandons hope She finally chooses This is it This is the time This is her moment "Just like that. I'll be gone." The decision's made No turning back It will be quick and painless But it will be violent "So with a gasp And with a squeeze I will be gone Just nothingness "I wish you well, my friend My last breath will be with you." Steady the nerves now You can do this All you have to do is Pull down and fly "I told you to stay away But you wouldn't listen to me I won't let you keep me from Ending this life I give up and now it's time This decision is mine alone!" Take a deep brеath now It's almost over Inhale fire thеn Exhale light He sees it all unfold In a formless fluid of time And he pleads And he begs And he fearfully cries "What are you doing?! Please don't do this! Wait! Just listen to me! You don't have to do this... Please, no! Please, no...
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 14, 2026
Is it too late to ask why? (I thought you wouldn't understand...) Answers to questions that I'll never know (...I'm sorry.) Why make me an audience? Why extinguish a light not yet dim? Who I was fell lifeless on the ground next to you So how dare you run away? Certainly too late for a goodbye (I just had to get away.) I guess someone I know is now someone I knew (One day you'll forget...) I wish I were there with you I wish I could feel nothingness But you selfishly left me behind As if I don't deserve to diе... You left me all alone Do I lack thе strength to find my own escape? Why do you get to die While I have to go on? Why?
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 14, 2026
Time will not release me from here This keep where all now stands still Daylight grows stale through mute windows The solitude is stronger than gravity There's no more you Now it's just me Talking to ghosts Who give no reply Anguished sighs met with Defeated eyes You coward... Where did you go? Two roads diverged and I don't know If I can follow you I cannot do to another What you have now done to me
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 14, 2026
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