The Towers of Avarice

Armed with the promise of salvation Countless monoliths rise Fires that feed their progress blackens the earth and the sky The masses that teem below them are drawn to the warmth of their lights Come to your future so bright The heaven you seek is in sight Just give all and lay at my feet The heaven you need is in me In their midnight it is savior It gives them faith In their midnight it is savior But it steals their souls They are all just seconds both in line and in time Moving forever towards boxes of pine (x3) Oh, innocent follower! You of feeble spirit and shallow heart Go as those before you did Even though they were torn apart All your gods in heaven cannot save you now It locks the door and takes the key and will not allow walking out It will sicken your will It will sicken your self It will take no mercy There's nothing else It will take your will It will take you all It will take a mystic to make it fall Shadow people Faces without names Go in willing Leaving in flames Cast into a manic mission Led into a blind decision Thrown into a dark submission They will become an omission (x2)

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025

Its progress has no limits and neither do the eyes of the subterranean cynic The one who must hide For all this time He has chosen a war path He will end its greed Feeling, beings, feeling Nothing He will set its limits His future has no home The snake is in the garden He goes on alone He's in its yesterdays, he's seen it rise Escaped by thinking twice, he lives so it must die He's the mystic, he's the one He the seasons, it's the sun He's the moon, you are its need He will make it bleed He's the moon, it is the sun He'll eclipse all that it's done He'll bring renewal through destruction He will make it see This is a warning of no compromise The arrogant will be made humble The ignorant will be made wise

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025

"In those passageways he passed his days, but believed his passive ways must end Knowing his time would soon run out, he took the role of the desperate man" Breathing silence conscious stripped and bare I know that what's inside them, I also share For within every coward lies a slave My prison is the darkness and theirs the need to be led And within every hour lies a day (Right!) This land I know, these people are my own And what remains hidden will soon be shown For beneath every tower lies its grave A one-man army fights an imaginary war Far within himself only he knows what for (Right!) Come now See how Drop, drop down and liquefy I'll give the world to you Drop, drop down to sanctify I promise only truth I'll give you more than eyes I'll give you more I'll give you more than your two eyes The truth, the truth, the truth On their knees, blessing light Come with me, rule the night Take the chance, ride the beast Join the famine or the feast They won't hear, they just stare They don't care They would never beat - beat - beat - beat down their walls Each tower in my sight - Broken Each tower in my way - Broken I'll turn these words to swords - Spoken Tonight

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

All I need now is some golden wings that I may fly But it drops down on me, that weight of time and the pain in their eyes I crawled along a cracked and narrow path I saw my reflection in some broken glass It was blood red, blood red, and it said (and it said) That the seasons change and then move on, and like yesterday, you have come and gone You have reached your end And you know that even though there's a summer, there is also a fall (The cold will stay, the warmth will leave) And to live is to sin, so this must be done For whatever you do, it's still evil to someone But it's killing me, it's killing me So I'm headed out to that road that winds forever and ever Still it drops down on me, that weight of time and the pain in their eyes Standing here on my freedom's shore There is nothing left, there is nothing more (Than to rise so high and then to fall) Some songs are prayers, and this one prays to be free for the moment, not a slave to the day To fade away Fade away Fade away

Two eyes flash in twilight, two thoughts in rhyme "Gravities' mine and I'm prepared" Two feet meet in rhythm, two hands did find the weak link the towers share Beneath their foundations a river's rage The dam that stands reveals its age From the cracks the water's flowing and makes a line directly toward the unknowing I can set a flood in motion, for the arrogant's plans are always built on sand And like the wind drives the rain, the subterranean will bring pain I can feel the surge of madness in mind I can hear the minions marching in time I can taste the breathe of freedom I am free, I am free, I am free We are free To arm the dissidents and the dispossessed I'll be there, I will be there To give back power and what it possessed I'll be there, I will be there To live our dreams, to not ask why We'll be there, we will be there To scale the mountain, to reign on high We'll be there, we will be there Relieve us now of misery The wheels are set in spin Moments now the end begins And here I'll make my stand To watch it fade away Fade away Fade away Water fills the waiting earth and washes it so clean Swept up in the rushing waves And now I feel what I mean And I fade away Fade away Fade away And I wash away Wash away Fade away It is starting There's no stopping All's collapsing What is happening? Cries to screams, screams to cries, cries to moans Flesh to steel, steel to flesh, concrete to bone Water bled, blue to red, blood to water Led to here, led to where? Led to slaughter Overwhelming sound Swaying breaking sound Wailing pounding sound Cracking crumbling sound Thought I could lose the thought that Brought me to the thought that Brought me here to this demise Thought I could lose the thought that Rules us all and believes that One must lose in order to find And though the storms inside me gave me strength to be a mighty river, I was still not the tide Thought he could free the world and so free himself But he was his own demise It is still, the daylight comes But nothing moves, not anyone Awake, my bent and broken ones, and come walk with me You all seem paralyzed Hollow bodies, sunken eyes But we have won, we are alive So come walk with me Walk with me, for I have healed your pain I touch the ground, my hand passes through But I feel the touch of all of you Letting go, I slip into the other side Sent away to a place I've never seen No fears or cares, here all's serene Where did I fly away? To where did I fly away? Millions of spirits have begun to gather in order to be reborn Millions of voices in unison chanting that I must lead them on I say "We must bring the oppressor here To seek solace by means of its end And we must redeem our own selves here We must be sure it has no life after death" (We will comfort you We will bring you peace We believe in you We will be released) And then we'll fly away to a better time What we'll find, we'll wait and see Is it machine or man? A man or machine? Every single one that suffered wants you They want you Strange how what I once needed, they seek today Death did not gain them freedom, so here they stayed From within and from without, revenge is ours, there is no doubt And in between that and this, our oppressor will taste the serpent's kiss

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025

The keeper of the kingdom now falls down, so down To the earth below, to a blinding glow To a sound A haunting sound It now can be seen, it was man not machine Just a man, only a man Amazed he survived, amazed to hear a sigh Is there someone else here? But where? NO! Feverish laughter breaks upon their lips The tortured from hereafter appear in his midst They dance whirling around him, a siren song his fate They begin singing softly, “Death to those who hate” "Death comes to those who hate" "How could you lead us on while you stayed on high? How could you lead us on to stay frozen in time?" "How could I lead them on to something they'd never find? Why did I lead them on to something that was only in mind?" And he fades away, fades away (x6) And he fades away

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025