Sibilant and macabreWalpurgis sauntered inSkies litten with five-pointed starsThe work of crafts surpassing sinAs She graced Her window ledge– An orphaned gypsy nymphThis issue of the forest’s bedSkin flushed with sipped absinthe –Her eyes revealed, as Brocken’s peakTried once concealing HellA snow white line of divine freaksIn riot, where they fell… The circus lurches in, […]
Tag Archives: Lyrics by Cradle Of Filth
Beauty Slept In Sodom
Death, spirit me awayMy anguished soul doth strainOn taut and twisted reinsYet, insatiate I still remainLike a proud, unfallen starThat dares thee from afarTo calm my thund’rous heartElse… rend it’s knots apartSo I may never sing Of jewelled skies o’er my stringsAnd love, a wanton thingCan plunge on burnt, black wingsTo hang amid the thornsIn […]
Haunted Shores
Herodias and I have led a phantom cavalcadeThrough veiled and pagan history where superstitions reignedAnd Christendom sought to pervet but poets of my nameSang of penumbral victories that sorcery had claimedThe Graal and mighty Caliburn as votive offeringsTo an England rearisen under vast majestic wings These are the shores whereto my soulBlood drenched and unredeemedShalt […]
Funeral In Carpathia (Be Quick Or Be Dead Version)
Candelabra snuffed prey – silhouette weddedNightfall take my handSeduce me with silky timbred limbsGrant me thy dark commandOver the peaks framing tapestriesOf thick forest, dusk has filledWith Lucifugous kisses enwreathed in mistCreeping like violations from the shadows to kill Lucretiais my love in veinWhen thy tears bleed sweeterThank the midsummer rain?Bewinged, infested belfriesToll o’er the […]
Funeral In Carpathia
Candelabra snuffed, prey silhouette weddedNightfall take my handSeduce me with silky timbred limbsGrant me thy dark commandOver the peaks framing tapestriesOf thick forest, dusk has filledWith Lucifugous kisses enwreathed in mistCreeping like violations from the shadowsTo kill LucretiaIs my love in veinWhen thy tears bleed sweeterThan the midsummer rain?Bewinged, infested belfriesToll o’er the sobbing throngA […]
Ebony Dressed For Sunset
"The Life of all Flesh Is The Blood" – Leviticus 17:14 "Those who Trespass against us, Beware the Shadows of Dusk" Unshadow thyselves childrenThe reign in flesh begins again… V empireFunereal majesty awake Cneajna wreathed in snakeDraconis talons rake… So haunted is my silent heartDreaming only of the moonWhen velvet darkness falls tonight The thirst […]
She Mourns A Lengthening Shadow
Hasten to the bridal bed –Underneath the grave ’tis spread:In darkness may our love be hid,Oblivion be our coverlid –We may rest, and nione forbid. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Queen Of Winter, Throned
IniquitousI share Carmilla’s maskA gaunt mephitic voyeurOn the black side of the glassPeering through the mirrorDeep dark and ominousConsorting themes, demons I weaveSubservience from thee to lost I am Corinthian lightSharp-eyed, impassive whoreBurn the asafoetidaand rank petriachorLure me panthered FaustiaWith cunt and veiled wombTo prowl thy inner sanctum wallsIn Tirgoviste to resumeControl Seduction, my obsessive […]