My Silent Wake

On the mantelpiece stands a photograph Soldier and his bride One of many who had to leave To march, to fight, to die She will always remember you and the look in your eyes One of many who had to leave And they pushed you to the limit Fighting m...

Encroaching and swamped By decisions made resolute Time sails swiftly on leaving its wake Stolen are the fineries of life In never ending menial tasks Rushing between wake and sleep And neither fulfilled Service is not slavery When done in love What...

Bleak endless winter Curse this cold Never ending night of misery You are silent Will you save me in the end? Nobody can carry your burden Bowed low in the grip of disease Crestfallen, forsaken Please take this bitter cup from me Soul wasting sorro...

Shedding my old skin Looking down, deep within Falling, fading, all is changing There is no normality I can feel, I can taste Nothing Everything laid to waste Burning Marching backwards through the years Facing long forgotten fears Yearning, search...

As I lay down My aching flesh embraced the wasted ground The fading day retreats again The fearless night will follow Consuming life-like shadows There's nothing more to see The hollow world That lies beyond my reach Within the other sad souls dwell...

Cruel grey skies - Run for cover In her eyes see her lover Fear the falling rain as you shelter Your world drowned, lost forevermore Reaping a harvest of ruin Nothing remains Leave it behind as your ships sail away He has reaped where he did not sow...

It's coming to us all No matter where we run Here and now is all we have Let all be said, let all be done Every second closer I think I see the shadows approach No one knows the hour No one knows the day In one moment Death Becomes Us We trim the...

Dying from the fear of death Could this be my final breath Hold my head up to the light Darker now my fading sight Carried on the turning tide Further ever from your side I have felt the longing grow All my deeds lie wasted now I am longing to...

For years I was held in a suffocating grip I closed my eyes, I bit my lip I cried to you, too young, too weak to fly Afraid to move, Would I suffer if I tried? Does the sun still shine like in my dreams Does it light up the outside of the walls that enci...

The life you lived before is gone Led beyond the pale by the cruel and distant Sun Forever now beyond our reach Your features frozen in a callous mimickry Twilight sounds Outstretched hands Those you loved were the ones that watched you drown The li...

Crimson drops on the scarred white sand, Blood spilled in an unknown land. Contours of hills In the distance like bone Shrouded in mist they remind me of home. The singer forgiven for you loved his song, Choking on words that froze on your tongue. The...

See the shadows you leave behind As your final share of time Draws nearer Who is standing by your side Grieving as you cling to life Growing weaker So all these years come and pass us by Fallen leaves that feed the earth From which another tree grows...

Losing ground Numbed and bound Silent tears Burn these eyes Loved once, now despised Wake Face this day As hope recedes See this light Fading in time When do you No long try in vain? To reach out one more time Opened doors Closed again and aga...

At times it seems nobody knows, nobody cares The road I've walked, the weight I've borne The blood I've given the blood I've shed The graven years upon my face When all that is sure turns to dust in my hands I find myself in a place where no one stands...

As I feel the warming sun upon the earth I stand outside the gates of my birth Wise men know th answers, see them raise their stones i stand here alone Inside of the city gates, they gather round Too enthralled by their designs to hear the sound V...

Why run my friend? There's nowhere left to hide Why search the ruins? There's nothing left to find We live, we breathe But we are numb to life We grieve The tears have dried in our eyes And beauty - we pass it by Purity - cast aside We carry a crush...

Have mercy on me as I plead for forgiveness Observe with compassion, these tears of remorse I awoke in a prison enshrouded in darkness Out of my depth with my face to the floor Please reach out Rescue me Take my hand Do not forsake me With blood clean...

In the glow of the autumn sun We walk again in fallen leaves And as I draw you near I hear the sound of the bells from faraway Carried on the breeze Bringing with it all this yearning To be at peace again In the chill of the winter wind I walk...

Did you get a glimpse of how it's meant to be? As a child in a perfect world, lost within your dreams And did you wake one day to find you've lost it all? Take refuge in your memories Time keeps moving on Yesterday is lost forever Those precious d...

Another wasted night Running from a falling star Waking in the shadows Wondering who and where you are Longing for the morning Wishing you were far from here In another lifetime Where the lies and truth are clear Onwards we travel Always moving for...

We see the sin before the saint We see the curse before the blessing We shake the little that remains Until we are left with nothing Look beyond the flesh, look beyond the mind We see the freak before the person We see the scars before the healin...

I've been to the depths where they show you The meaning of sorrow I kept my life because I still needed tomorrow There is always something remaining In the back of my foolish mind To keep me searching the pathway For an answer that I left behind Don't...

Summer long gone Autumn passed on Winter Took away the fading light Now as I look upon the earth I cannot grieve As I wait for my rebirth For my reprieve Goodbye sweetness Bitter regress Darkness Bleeding through my waking hour Now as I look bey...

Shadows will fall soon on all we have loved Leaving forever We are swept away Lost on oceans of time Seems like some other heart beating When you look back on all we have lost As tears fall Are we just swept away Children running from time...

You hope one day to feel less of this confusion To find that lasting peace is more than an illusion But then you wake to face another revolution And as the world keeps turning You feel you're left behind Is there another world beyond this cold exis...

Do you hear me when I cry out? Do you see me in my darkest hour? And as I passed through the years Joy become tainted with sorrow So dark, the way I could no longer follow Where doubt and fear reside Killing dreams, casting beauty aside Can yo...

As the last autumn leaves are falling Blackened skies yield rain, has the sun disappeared? Another winter descends like dying hope Let me see through it all that you're still near Oh, Lord Never let me lose hope If I stumble in the shadow of sorrow Wi...

Come now to me From this hell you've seen Lost to the sea I have seen you grieve Your tears have torn Shot down in your wars Weather the storm I've lived through them all They bleed they fall So few hear my call I am the door I would ga...

Come now to me From this hell you've seen Lost to the sea I have seen you grieve Your tears have torn Shot down in your wars Weather the storm I've lived through them all The broken, the poor Have been given more They see the dawn As th...

Night falls swiftly upon this sullen earth Nothing lasts Tomorow all is gone Tomorow all is one Again All around I see rebirth, decay It cannot last Tomorow all is gone Tomorow all is one Again Nothing lasts Tomorow all is gone Time p...

I've seen the evil so many hands have done I've seen the beauty of the earth and of the setting sun And on my knees I've begged for battles to be won But when we bleed no more, what do we become? And when at last we breathe our final precious breath...

Where is your hand oh my love Lost in the mist I can't see Paths where we walked are no more And the light in your eyes has grown dim Oh, my love Light in your eyes has grown dim Once I could I could hear through the woods Your voice as you called out...

I ran with you through greenest meadows Entranced by you, (in) slow fading evening glow You led me through where purest waters flowed Remember you felt so safe in my arms Long, long ago So long ago But now let me take you back Through greenest meadows...

Too soon, you slipped away Those doors opened once again My friend I miss you so But you left something here below Today, through meadows of our minds We remember your dear life Goodbye - and though we weep Painless now you sleep Gathered her...

From the open fields they beckon us Tunnels As the rains fall down they cover us I knew my time had come to run where I had never run Without the warmth of the sun Circle of light to lead me on And the light at the end never gets any nearer Alone in a...

In this wilderness of thorns All you offer me Is a garland of tears And to suffer alone Bleeding my hope I am brought down All you promise me Is the agony to come My existence is crushed Dead since birth I fed on your hope, At your feast of comfort...

Grim lives lived out with bitterness and contempt Unforgiving, cold, half living, half dead Self appointed judges on thrones of clay Mocking those who reject their loathsome ways When I sense your cold embrace I reject your loathsome ways I see them ju...