Ghosts From the Past

When that wind comes Who will you be and what will you do? When ill winds start to howl Will you stay and let it run you through? Me, I'll stay here waiting, lying very still Out of reach of your bitter breath and conspiring wills Don't wake me up please Tomorrow is too soon Don't flick the light switch Outside is too cruel I want to stay right here in the dark Beneath the grand façade Bottomless chasms and deep abysses There amongst ghouls form the past And dear familiar ghosts I built my house of bliss Don't wake me up please Tomorrow is too soon Don't flick the light switch Outside is too cruel I want to stay right here in the dark I want to lie right here in the dark In my house of bliss On my catafalque Right here in the dark

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

Please sit Will you break bread with me Or will the day see us as enemies? You seem distinctly familiar Have we met before As friends or foe or as lovers of yore? Like bearers of some stranger's curse Divided not by blood but by words Like bearers of some stranger's curse Divided not by blood but by words Like bearers of some stranger's curse Divided not by blood but by words Like bearers of some stranger's curse Divided not by blood but by words CHORUS Like bearers of some stranger's curse Divided not by blood but by words Like bearers of some stranger's curse Divided not by blood but by words Like bearers of some stranger's curse Divided not by blood but by words Like bearers of some stranger's curse Divided not by blood but by words In a past life as kin Dressed up in the same skin Bound together as twins In a past life as kin Or as similar poles set for opposite goals Or as similar poles set for opposite goals Please sit with me beneath the olive tree World goes by a roaring Please sit with me beneath the olive tree As the world goes by a roaring Please sit with me beneath the olive tree As the world goes by a roaring

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025

I stand before you naked and inadequate A vessel bound to rot Like so many have before me And yet more to come, beneath the turf my lot But first I offer you my love If you can make use of me still Pray earth will not consume me yet before, my friend I know you've heard my plea I have been proud, I have been envious and vile, and I have feasted greedily, Yet I offer you my love If you can make use of it still All flesh grows weak skin becomes bleak all joints will creak bones turn to dust each passing hurts bound to the earth a painful birth You and I are bound together, by a bond stretched through space and time And even if we never meet, in some way I am yours and you are mine I have been lost, I have been searching, not knowing what I hoped to find, and on the way I've seen such sights to take my eyes and leave me blind I saw wildfires raging, all seeming doomed For a brief moment there I saw you Then I knew nothing could break us knew nothing could really make us Snapping our bones would only shake us yet force could never, ever truly make us Wildfires raging, all seeming doomed For a brief moment there I saw you Bent yet unbroken beneath an unforgiving sky Defiant refusing to lie down and let the night take you These days it's all about old men and what they see when they look into the cheval glass Each eager to plan his last mass, and have the hereafter talk about how he went out with real class Man, you've got to know If you keep staring at the world through reflective brass what you try to see it will show that your own head is in the way of what you try to grasp, and your head's a long way up your ass

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025