Lord of Misrule

The weather never changes Forgotten yesterdays At play in the aether Begotten in the haze All my children are as one Within Carterhaugh Listless they dream of demons unseen In their bacchanal (Chorus): They can't help but stay There's nothing out there for them anyway They can't help but stay Tam Lin, my love, has run away The Devil's Widow The Devil's Widow The Devil's Widow Diversions and pleasures The best in life, I say Not given for tomorrow Live only for today Dead eyes wander, shielded from The world; though it's too late Graze my fairest. All but the rarest: Tam Lin, the runaway (Chorus) You've gone and spoiled the happening You wish to cut me loose The things you say, you cannot mean It's not becoming you You used to be a shadow leaping Upon my walls You've split the scene and left your queen Within Carterhaugh The Devils Widow (x10)

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

This river runs uphill, without end And where it goes No one knows One simply cannot understand You said there are no dead ends Even so - it seems as though We've circled back here once again This river flows nowhere, so endlessly If there's a way (though who's to say?) Let this river meet the sea We've always been here And if we're never to reach the land The Loreley's command Keeps us all dreaming (Chorus): And we'll sleep in the deep of a curious sea Let them drown your soul in waves Take my hand, bid a last farewell to the land And here we'll stay In the deep we will be unseasonably Beyond the pale This river flows nowhere, so violently But it's the way, our only way And ever after we shall be And we'll go down, down, down, down, down Much further down than we have ever been (Chorus) x 2 If you ever want to see me again...

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025

How do the living raise the dead? Up from the depths There's much to say that's not been said Appeal of bells Ringing in time Like cutting knives A calling and a compromise Follow the chimes - do join us in the night (Chorus): In an echoing wood they sway In the costume of their day The dead and living dance together It's the time and it's the weather Common men, uncommon crimes Long since denied They're devils from the other side Well now, if you hear their song And feel compelled to stay We'll note the time, we'll note the day Follow the chimes - do join us in the night (Chorus) Rum and the devil's mob In a dance macabre And we've sent out invitations To late friends abroad (Chorus) x 2

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025

He's always known his time's at hand His rule is someone else's dreaming Abbot of the Saturnalia His entourage of imps and satyrs The lord and lady serve as waiters Offering curious wines It's four o'clock and getting on to dark There's a feast of fools in the back of beyond Master of life, master of revels Laughter - the custom at his table Till thirty days are up It's four o'clock and getting on to dark There's a feast of fools in the back of beyond In the night we exist Eat, make merry and get pissed It's four o'clock and getting on to dark There's a feast of fools in the back of beyond

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025

There's a horror in my soul That I want so very much to know I've learned the arts From the worst blackguards And now I'm living under the rose I want to free this devilry Hellhound running loose Hothouse phantoms thrill my mind If you only knew Oh yes, I know A place where evil grows Like monstrous orchids in thorny rows To rend and twist With horrid artifice Like Bacchus pursuing Amethyste I want to free this devilry Hellhound running loose Hothouse phantoms thrill my mind If you only knew There's a light on Half Moon Street In this house we often meet As my enemies grew bolder They moved in closer But I'm in league with something older And now it is time Alive with drugs and wine This world and all the rest I'll leave behind Their mysteries I've been told I've been brought deep into the fold Of a circle unspeakably old I want to free this devilry Hellhound running loose Hothouse phantoms thrill my mind If you only knew There's a light on Half Moon Street London house of witchery As my enemies grew bolder They moved in closer But I'm in league with something older

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

The stars, the stars are much maligned And hidden from the day At night a darkling fiend Upon our sleeping village preys It looms in From neighb'ring wood From thickets wan and grey And from the first We've known not rest A single day At night, at night, a crimson light Within the manor home It grows inside with naught to hide And takes on ghastly form As pale as death, its face a mask Of terrors dreamed in flame Valet and maid, they would not stay The lord has flown away He's flown away Oh, one by one Its menace spun Throughout this shadow bower Here I remain, though rent in twain Alone in my last hour The Weird, the Weird of Finistere Now here within my home I fell its stare And meet its glare Its shadow my own The Weird, the Weird of Finistere

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

Lay down now Lay down now Lay down in the garden of dreams Lay down now Lay down now You know nothing's as it seems In between night and the dawn I hear the call of an Orphie song Phantoms, phantoms To share this garden with me Every corner has its fill of oleander And each path that I see is shrouded in Hemlock leaves Oh so splendidly Lay down now Lay down now Lay down in the garden of dreams Lay down now Lay down now You know nothing's as it seems Every night I dance among flowers Rioting like maddened fauns And with the light of day, my garden melts away Every corner has its fill of oleander And each path that I see is shrouded in Hemlock leaves Oh so splendidly Eidolon Eidolon I'm slipping away True love in a hothouse grave Every night I dance among flowers Rioting like maddened fauns Phantoms, phantoms To share this garden with me Every corner has its fill of oleander And each path that I see is shrouded in Hemlock leaves Oh so splendidly Yes it's fine you see

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025

Tongues of fire tell of ancient ways Of long dead kings who ruled in pagan days They knocked before their burning gods Incandescent - worthy of our praise Long ago we lost our way Where's the thunder? Where's the light, you say? In the darkness we retire Let us light an endless fire Old Fires! Dying embers expire; but the feeling remains Burn bright, burn higher! Old Fires! I know you see their flames A regal sun once filled my days When a cold wind blew in and swept our fire away Without light how will I see you again? Or were you ever there to find? Long ago we lost our way Where's the thunder? Where's the light, you say? In the darkness we retire Let us light an endless fire Old Fires! Dying embers expire; but the feeling remains Burn bright, burn higher! Old Fires! I know you see their flames Long ago we lost our way Where's the thunder? Where's the light, you say? In the darkness we retire Let us light an endless fire Old Fires! Dying embers expire; but the feeling remains Burn bright, burn higher! Old Fires! I know you see their flames

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025

As the light of the day slowly fades away When our memories are all that remain Do we fly into the past or play our endgame? There's a case to be made, either way As the light of the day slowly fades away Let the coming night perform its shadow-play If there's anything you need, just ask Mephistopheles Always kind with a trick up his sleeve As the light of the day slowly fades away See the sky open like a shallow grave And everything it frees with a rattle and a wheeze In the end like so many fallen leaves

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025