Christian Death Metal Collective: IN DARKEST DREAMS

IN DARKEST DREAMS

BAND NAME: In Darkest Dreams

GENRE: Gothic Death Metal / Thrash Metal

STATUS: Split-up

LOCATION: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Lineup:

Ricky Puckett - Everything

Links:

ReverbNation

Discography:

The Vanishing (album, September 9, 2016, Independent) (Digital)

1. Despair 2:47

O LORD, God of my salvation, I have cried out to you day and night.

Now hear my prayer; listen to my cry.

For my life is full of troubles, and death draws near.

I have been dismissed as one who is dead, like a strong man with no strength left.

They have abandoned me to death, and I am as good as dead.

I am forgotten, cut off from your care.

You have thrust me down to the lowest pit, into the darkest depths.

Your anger lies heavy on me; wave after wave engulfs me.

You have caused my friends to loathe me; you have sent them all away.

I am in a trap with no way of escape.

My eyes are blinded by my tears.

Each day I beg for your help, O LORD; I lift my pleading hands to you for mercy.

Of what use to the dead are your miracles?

Do the dead get up and praise you?

Can those in the grave declare your unfailing love?

In the place of destruction, can they proclaim your faithfulness?

Can the darkness speak of your miracles?

Can anyone in the land of forgetfulness talk about your righteousness?

O LORD, I cry out to you.

I will keep pleading day by day.

O LORD, why do you reject me?

Why do you turn your face away from me?

I have been sickly and close to death since my youth.

I stand helpless and desperate before your terrors.

Your fierce anger overwhelms me.

Your terrors have cut me off.

They swirl around me like floodwaters all day long.

They have encircled me completely.

You have taken away my companions and loved ones; only darkness remains.

Each day I beg for your help, O LORD; I lift my pleading hands to you for mercy.

Only darkness remains...

2. The Vanishing 5:10

Don't leave me in despair

One more thought I cannot bear

To all the pain I feel inside

This season soon must end

Don't leave me in despair

One more thought I cannot bear...

No sign of hope

For the dream of better days

A fabled misconception

Reaching out to touch the sky

As ominous clouds darken

Reminding me of my failures

This world is a dying wasteland

Suffer - through the misery of this life

Torment - feel the pain it brings

Suffocate - from the crushing weight of this world

Broken - exquisitely empty

Getting lost within the madness, I taste death

I hear the screams behind the smile of treachery

Betrayed and tossed aside, insignificance confirmed

Left and abandoned, burned me down and walked away

The vanishing - betrayed and tossed aside

The vanishing - insignificance confirmed

The vanishing - left and abandoned

The vanishing - burned me down and walked away

No sign of hope

For the dream of better days

A fabled misconception

Reaching out to touch the sky

As ominous clouds darken

Reminding me of my failures

This world is a dying wasteland

Getting lost within the madness, I taste death

I hear the screams behind the smile of treachery

Betrayed and tossed aside, insignificance confirmed

Left and abandoned, burned me down and walked away

Suffer - through the misery of this life

Torment - feel the pain it brings

Suffocate - from the crushing weight of this world

Broken - exquisitely empty

3. Bleeding Out 3:45

Emptiness invades this accursed existence

As this darkness still pervades

Stripping life from life, leaving decay in its path

Behold the ruins of dashed hopes and shattered dreams

Bleeding out - hope is gone

End it all - watch it fall

No peace here - truth evades

Fade away - darkness abounds

Horror grips the heart when convictions burn in flames

Making room for madness to take hold

Feelings of a life, lived in vain, a nightmare brings

Wretched failure and futility

Bleeding out - hope is gone

End it all - watch it fall

No peace here - truth evades

Fade away - darkness abounds

I cannot live a lie

Yet the truth still evades

There is no peace here

Only pain and anguish

God if you do exist

Reveal yourself to me

I need some answers

And a new reality

See me fall

Watch it all

Fade away

End it all

See it all slip away

Bleeding out - hope is gone

End it all - watch it fall

No peace here - truth evades

Fade away - darkness abounds

4. Steal Kill Destroy 3:40

There is no love greater than he who

Lays down his life for a friend

The lesson fallen on deaf ears

With blade in hand the church betrays their own

Beware the Churchian, enemy in the midst

Seeking out those whom they can devour

Their aim - to steal, kill, destroy

The sheep have become the wolves

No sense of loyalty, faithfulness a joke

Their use of love and trust, pure manipulation

Devil in disguise - friendly fire - premeditated act

With sharpened claws, trusting companion, watch your back

Beware the Churchian, enemy in the midst

Seeking out those whom they can devour

Their aim - to steal, kill, destroy

The sheep have become the wolves

This is not the way it was meant to be

Doctrine of love turned to insanity

Denomination = Domination = Demonation

Love has been replaced with seeking selfish gain

5. End Game 4:03

I see the blood-stained scars so ornately carved in your arms

You tried to slit your wrists again, can't stop this pain in your heart

So difficult to breathe, to seek, to speak, to laugh and to feel

You can't stand one more night like this - you can't... you can't

All I am is empty

Pain like knives cut deep through my soul

All I am is empty

Break the skin, let death come in

So numb the feelings your emotions have been beating you down

Can't see past your own shame, left in the cold, hand to the flame

In the silence of darkness you've been left to wither away

But in the dark there is a light that can save and heal you today

All I am is empty

Pain like knives cut deep through my soul

All I am is empty

Break the skin, let death come in

Take this pain away today

I choose your way

Lord, this I pray

All I am is empty

Pain like knives cut deep through my soul

All I am is empty

Break the skin, let death come in

Let death come in...

6. A Midnight Star Falls 2:05

In the still darkness of dead shadows

These tears bleed

This heart cries

This body aches

And this soul dies... without you

7. Demon Seed 4:12

Slaughtered, broken, betrayed

Taken away from a life of their own

Oppressed and distressed

Fight for soul has taken its toll

Demonic presence - distorting all truth

Humanity, blinded by deceit

Exploiting, destroying human lives

We are the shadows - breathing down your neck again

We are deception - tempting you with every sin

We are the omens - calling you into the fire

We are your curse - enticing you with your desires

We're your destruction - leading you into decay

We are the wolves - stalking you, as you're the prey

We are the stain that taints the earth and brings destress

Unholy angels - bastardize his righteousness

Demon seed - fallen ones, your fate is sealed

Demon seed - turned from God, in flames, you burn

Demon seed - fallen ones, your fate is sealed

Demon seed - turned from God, in flames, you burn

You have no power - no authority - subject to

The will and restrictions of God, your time's limited

Your fate is sealed, the wrath of God shall be upon you

Burning like a furnace - we strip you of your right to be here

We bind you up, cast you out in the name of Christ

All hail the power and glory, praise be to the name of

The conquering Lion of Judah

We are the shadows - breathing down your neck again

We are deception - tempting you with every sin

We are the omens - calling you into the fire

We are your curse - enticing you with your desires

We're your destruction - leading you into decay

We are the wolves - stalking you, as you're the prey

We are the stain that taints the earth and brings destress

Unholy angels - bastardize his righteousness

Demon seed - fallen ones, your fate is sealed

Demon seed - turned from God, in flames, you burn

Demon seed - fallen ones, your fate is sealed

Demon seed - turned from God, in flames, you burn

8. Losing My Religion (R.E.M. cover) 4:38

Life, it's bigger

It's bigger than you

And you are not me

The lengths that I will go to

The distance in your eyes

Oh no, I've said too much

I set it up...

That's me in the corner

That's me in the spotlight

I'm losing my religion

Trying to keep up with you

And I don't know if I can do it

Oh no, I've said too much

I haven't said enough...

I thought that I heard you laughing

I thought that I heard you sing

I think I thought I saw you try

Every whisper

Of every waking hour

I'm choosing my confessions

Trying to keep an eye on you

Like a hurt, lost, and blinded fool

Oh no, I've said too much

I set it up...

Consider this

Consider this, the hint of the century

Consider this, the slip

That brought me to my knees, failed

What if all these fantasies come flailing around

And now I've said too much

I thought that I heard you laughing

I thought that I heard you sing

I think I thought I saw you try

But that was just a dream

That was just a dream...

That's me in the corner

That's me in the spotlight

I'm losing my religion

Trying to keep up with you

And I don't know if I can do it

Oh no, I've said too much

I haven't said enough...

I thought that I heard you laughing

I thought that I heard you sing

I think I thought I saw you try

But that was just a dream

Try, cry, why try

That was just a dream

Just a dream

Dream...

9. Cesspool 3:59

Save me, O God

For the floodwaters are up to my neck

Deeper and deeper, I sink into the mire

Can't find a foothold to stand on

I am in deep water

And the floods overwhelm me

The floods overwhelm

Overwhelm...

Despair grips me

As I struggle

To escape - escape the empty

Despair grips me

As I struggle

To escape - escape the empty

Suffocate - suffer my soul

Hopeless and helpless

I'm drowning in a cesspool

In a cesspool!

Lord God, set me free

Can't find a foothold to stand on

I am in deep water

Suffocate - suffer my soul

Father set me free, redeem, and deliver me

The floodwaters - up to my neck

Deeper and deeper - sinking into the mire

The floodwaters - up to my neck

Deeper and deeper - sinking into the mire

Suffocate - suffer my soul

Hopeless and helpless

I'm drowning in a cesspool

In a cesspool!

Despair grips me

As I struggle

To escape - escape the empty

Despair grips me

As I struggle

In this cesspool

Lord God, set me free

10. No Retreat 3:14

You shall inherit the judgement of wrath

I will not give you an inch of this land

Promise given to Isaac and his seed

Sons of Israel, declare...

I will not retreat!

I will bless you, and shall make your name great

I will bless those who bless you

And he who curses you

Shall also be cured

I - the Lord - have spoken!

To see the hate translate to repulsive action

You seal your fate, imminent destruction

The hand of God protects those who he calls His own

Almighty God - vindicate your holiness

The stage is set - final holocaust at hand

Bruised and beaten - history of persecution

O Israel - I will come to your defense

O Israel - I will avenge your blood they've shed

And the earth shall disclose her blood

And shall no more cover her slain

As we have heard so we have seen

In the city

Of the Lord of hosts

In the city of our God

God will establish it... forever

Sons of Israel, declare...

(I)

Sons of Israel - declare

(Will)

I will not - retreat

(Not)

Sons of Israel - declare

(Retreat)

I will not retreat

11. Five Year Winter (Zao cover) 2:59

Dear Tiffany

You've made me nauseous for the last time

Everything I've said to you, I will form into a spoke (to drive through my throat)

In order to stop my words

This time I'll put them

In the ground along with my memories

And my feelings...

I'll burn it down and walk away

Let the fire warm my back

I wish that you would say you hate me

That would make it so much easier

Burn it down and walk away

Burn it down!

Burn it down and walk away...

12. Death Is Dead 4:47

He was despised - and rejected

A man of sorrows - acquainted with

Most bitter grief - we turned our backs

On him and looked - the other way

When we went by

He was despised

And we did not care

No, we did not care

It was our weakness that he carried

It was our sorrows that crushed him

We thought his troubles were punishment

From God for his own sins

For God so loved the world

He gave his only son

That who believes in him

Would have eternal life

Death is dead

I - saw the Son of God - standing before men

I - saw them hand down - the sentence - crucifixion

He was beaten and whipped beyond - recognition

He was tormented - crown of thorns - brutalized

Bludgeoned - the spikes - drive the nails - into flesh

Bloodied - scarecrow - horror - all for you

Bludgeoned - the spikes - drive the nails - into flesh

Bloodied - scarecrow - horror - all for you

He was despised - and rejected

A man of sorrows - acquainted with

Most bitter grief - we turned our backs

On him and looked - the other way

When we went by

He was despised

And we did not care

No, we did not care

It was our weakness that he carried

It was our sorrows that crushed him

We thought his troubles were punishment

From God for his own sins

For God so loved the world

He gave his only son

That who believes in him

Would have eternal life

He was innocent - he was crucified

He was innocent - he was murdered

He was innocent - he was crucified

He was innocent - he was brutalized

He is risen - death is conquered

He is alive - death is devoured

He is risen - death is swallowed up

He is alive - death where is your sting?

Receive Him!

13. The Dreams Of Disillusionment And Pain 3:27

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (single, November 24, 2016, Independent) (Digital)

1. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel 5:05

O come, O come, Emmanuel

And ransom captive Israel

That mourns in lonely exile here

Until the Son of God appear

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel