{"id":3877,"date":"2026-04-19T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughmungus.art\/1\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2026-04-19T16:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:35:15","slug":"endless-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughmungus.art\/1\/endless-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Endless Black"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ruined cathedrals, blood-red moon, and a heart buried in eternal loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/hughmungus.art\/1\/wp-content\/plugins\/stream-tracker\/media.php?id=0132a36daf90c9fc4711b1bf93047ef3\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Endless Black (Gothic Rock) - Hugh Mungus\u2122<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hughmungus.art\/1\/endless-black-hugh-mungus\/\">Download MP3 ($1.00\/USD, Zip File)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-0e47273b wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the dead of night, I hear her voice fade away<br>Lost in shadows, where the light won't stay<br>Her beauty burned too bright, now it's gone from my sight<br>Empty rooms echo with the weight of endless night<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I chase the ghosts in every darkened hall<br>Whispers calling, but they never answer at all<br>Grief wraps around me like a funeral veil<br>Love turned to sorrow, and I'm trapped in this hell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, she's gone, taken far too soon<br>My heart's a tomb under a blood-red moon<br>No more laughter, just the silence screaming loud<br>Her memory cuts through me like a shroud<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friends gather close with their hollow words of peace<br>But they don't feel the storm that won't cease<br>I wander the streets where her footsteps used to fall<br>Now every corner screams she's never coming back at all<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, she's gone, ripped from my trembling hands<br>My soul's in pieces across these forsaken lands<br>No more dawn, just the darkness closing in<br>Her name echoes where the living end<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Angels envy what we held in our fragile days<br>Now I'm left with ruins in a perpetual haze<br>Prayers fall silent on these cold, marble floors<br>Forever haunted by the one I'll love no more<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, she's gone, vanished into the endless black<br>My world's a void I can't ever take back<br>No more light, only the pain that remains<br>Her spirit lingers in the pouring rain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She's never coming back at all.<br>Oh, no, she's never coming back at all.<br>Oh, no, no, she's never coming back at all.<br>She's never coming back at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a92026 Hugh Mungus<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruined cathedrals, blood-red moon, and a heart buried in eternal loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,17,15,29,30,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hard-rock","category-heavy-metal","category-music","category-post-metal","category-post-rock","category-rock"],"yoast_head":"<title>Endless Black - 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