Cradle of Filth
Album • 2016
This track is instrumental.
Weak midnight promises of love, were wept upon her grave and shunned by stars above. In mortal life lurks my dismay. An Angel stole my heart and Death took her away. She sleeps beyond the grace of God, a dreaming beauty. If wishes could only fray that bond, the dead would sing for me. Twelth moon arose with ghostly voice, a poet's serenade. Her name a whisper upon my lips and lo, Rorasa came! Fear me not my grieving king, funereal in breath. The secrets of the dark I know, and thus, we shall cheat Death. My promises wrought though despondence that night, have delivered me gifts from the grave. Rorasa enshadowed and eternal life, never a Devil so vain. The Angel is fallen, for I thought her lost, and no heaven would silence the pain. Teach me these secrets, the sensual frost, desire for warm blood again. Dark nature clasp my soul, around her throat mine arms enfold. To sleep, perchance to dream, and then to dusk and flesh ascend. The sun descends, magenta spirits fill the skies, and wreak erotic maladies where sex and Death abide. From writhing tides where gothick siren weave their song to shore. Through the ashes of the battlefields where ravens and angels war. As phantoms we have fled the basilisk of day, to rise as phoenix taloned, nightly taking prey. We rule like the red and risen moon upon the sea. The stars of judgement silent, for we share joyous eternity. Damnation! Salvation! Stigmata plague! The wine of Bacchus flows. Listen to the thunder rage! Deceivers dragged before their cross! I am he that vanquished Death and bore the sting of loss. What vulgar Christ will unprise my grasp? His temple, ruined, burns and sweet Rorasa laughs. [Guitar solo] I am enamoured and imparadised, to catch the fires dancing profanely in her eyes. I will crush them all if this holds thy delight. Rather dead forever than to lose her. Nymph-lascivious Aphrodite!
Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 23, 2025
Rise crepuscular Devildom voyeurs Rise towards the light Nascent aeons confer The noose of revelation Tightens 'pon misdeed And the serpent of truth Eats the nomad destiny Vast shadows gather In penumbral reign Blind masses bring the jury of chaos Poised to sodomise the human world back Supernal curtains hang tattered As others feast on the loss of command Vengeance climbs Babel's ivory tower Masturbated by a Cretan priestress Victory spent Breathe deep benighted scent Seething fever demons gnaw in me Like the tugging of my veins to feed From sweet flowing waters of divinity Milleniums turnde black.... Attack! Pour out our rages on those despised Vulgar religion of the skies Storm the citadels aloof upon the clouds Erasing jelousies beneath eternal shrouds Come lift thine eyes bedizened with delight The fifth epoch is ours! Artemis Spread the lust of the dark Fantasia Celebrate, renew the grave The infidel soon unmasks her face A crescent moon waxing forevermore Sharpened to skewer dawn.... I am as a plague born unto darkness The secret amour of an archangel's rape A casualty when my mother, possessed Cursed at the stake Attack! Pour out thy rages on those despised Vulgar religion of the skies Storm citadels aloof upon the clouds We're erasing jelousies beneath eternal shrouds Come lift thine eyes bedizened with delight The fifth epoch is ours! "The most asplendid sorcerers of Hades Darkly seized for me a throne And the upraised scythe so terribly scribed vengeance in Jesuit blood on stone From this ransacked celestial temple I hold the prophet's severed head unto all nations" Tremble before us Lords of the star-veiled red sepulchres Rushing deathwards, our Tartarean fires Kindle pandemonia to furnace the earth "Our voices are opened graves, Through which the never-dead escape" From deep abyssic dream Pursuing ascendancy.... The enemy has held three seasons Imparadised, whilst we writhed To psycho-dramas penned by aerial decree Now freed to plunder.... Heaven torn asunder
When the moonlight sleeps upon the waveless lake And the mists steal in with ease The children of the night may sing But I will call to thee "I will call to thee...." Encroaching evening skies die with such tragedy And the dead in their graves dwell on pleasures to be In deepes Styria where our legend still breathes Thou has murmured my name as the wind through the trees And I will come, as if in dream My languid, dark and lustrous Malaresian Queen, Of noble love fatale An eager guillotine Erishkigal, raven-haired Thy seduction haunts the castle in erotic despair I know thy scent by candlelight Immortal flesh I yearn to share Excite my greed on spattered sheets Dyed unearthly red as sobriety weeps Nocternity.... She shall come for me A black velvet painting sprung to elegant life Like a poignant Madonna perverted to night And I have ridden from the westerning light To expend my lust Tear away the funereal dress Know that I will escape from my death Surrendered to the splendour of her sharpened caress Lo! The pale moonlight Weaves a poetic spell of vital death and decline Of mist and moth and the hunger inside Kisses took to fever and the fever, demise "Through twilight, darkness and moonrise My scarlet tears will run As stolen blood and whispered love Of fantasies undone" Countess swathed in ebony And snow-white balletic grace Ruby lips procure the wish For dusk and her embrace Dusk and her embrace We shall flit through the shadows, Like a dream of (were)wolves in the snow Consumed with ardour A romance that ever unfolds Beneath the stars death bedevils me "Beneath the stars taste the death in me" Evil is a fiery wish to sever thin mortality The candlelight flickers Under the deadly nightshade Together insane Screaming through nails of pain Elizabeth My heart is thine Thy fragrant words Warm within like wine.... "Sexual dusk allure With asphodel eyes Moon-glancing maleficia Enflame the tides" And I will come, as if in dream My languid, dark and lustrous Malaresian Queen, Of noble love fatale An eager guillotine Erishkigal, raven-haired Thy seduction haunts the castle in erotic despair I know thy scent by candlelight Immortal flesh I yearn to share Excite my greed on spattered sheets Dyed unearthly red as sobriety weeps Nocternity, She shall come for me.... Unfurl thy limbs breathless succubus The full ebmossomed fog Imparts the night to us....
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 23, 2025
Evening minuetto in a castle by the sea A jewel more precious than the moon lowered Her mask to me. The sublimest creature the God of desire Would dream about making his Queen Drowning the air with Promethean Fire And my heart burned with dark poetry I fell in love with Her Scent and feline lure, And woodland eyes, that ushered in the impurest Erotic, laden fantasies amid this warm Autumn night I lulled her away from the rich masquerade And together we kissed in the bloodletting moonlight Oh Luna, what spell didst thou cast on me? Her icy kiss fervoured my neck Like whispering waves 'pon Acheron's beach. In a whirl of dark voices and statues That phantomed the dying trees. This debauched seducer in black, loved me.... In a pale azured dawn like Ligeia reborn I woke free of my sleep-sepulchre On the sea misted lawn where stone figures, forlorn Lamented the spectre of her Bewildered and weak, yet with passion replete I longed for the past overtures The curse of unrest and her lingered caress Seemed much more than my soul could endure.... I at once endeavoured to see her again Lest my heart came palsied Without even mouthing her name On a thin precipice over carnal abyss I danced like a blind acolyte Drunk on red wine, her dead lips on mine Suffused with the perfume of night For hours I scoured the castle grounds In vain for us to meet When storm clouds broke, ashened, fatigued I sought refuge in a cemeterty Sleep, usher dreams Taint to nightmares from a sunless nether Mistress of the dark I now know what thou art Screams haunt my sleep dragged from nightmares thou hast wed together Lamia and Lemures Spawned thee leche To snare my flesh Portrait of the Dead Countess Deep stained pain that I had dreamt Flaunted Death's cold punishment Leaving strength to seal this Wretched tom But poised nectar within my stirs Up feverous desire and morbid purpose to search Through cobwebbed drapery to where she swoons Goddess of the graveyard, of the tempest and moon In flawless fatal beauty her very visage compels Glimpses of a heaven where ghost company fell To mourning the loss of God in blackest velvet Enrobed in their downfall like a swift silhouette "Fleeting, enshadowed Thou art privy to my sin Secrets dead, wouldst thou inflict The cruel daylights upon my skin? Dost thou not want to worship me With crimson sacrifice So my cunt may twitch against thy kiss And weep with new-found life?" My realm in dusk Torn to her embrace Dark angels taste my tears And whisper haunting requiems Softly to mine ear Need-fires have lured abominations here.... Nocturnal pulse My veins spill forth their water Rent by lips I cherish most Awash on her perfidious shores Where drowning shadows o'er the stars Ebon's graves where lovers whore Seraphim and Nahemah "Nahemah" Pluck out mine eyes, hasten, attest Blind reason against thee, Enchantress For I must know, art thou not death? My heart echoes bloodless and incensed.... Doth temptation prowl the earth seducing the weak Did not the Queen of Heaven come as Devil to me? On that fatal Hallow's Eve when we fled company as the music swept around us in the crisp, fallen leaves Under horned Diana where her bloodline was sewn In a graveyard of Angels rent in cool marbled stone I am grieving the loss of life in sombre velvet Enrobed in Death's shadow like a swifter silhouette....
This track is instrumental.
Candelabra snuffed prey, silhouette wedded Nightfall, take my hand Seduce me with silky timbred limbs Grant me thy dark command Over the peaks framing tapestries Of thick forest, dusk has filled With Lucifugous kisses enwreathed in mist Creeping surreptitiously to kill Lucretia, I drain thy veins Thy tears are sweeter than the mountain rain Bewinged, infested belfries Toll o'er the sobbing throng A writhe of lethargic, terrored nudes Dance to my tortuous song I am He The crowned and conquering darkness Satan robed in ecumenical filth Livid Bacchus sustained by bridal echelons of sylph This wintry eve when the snow lies deep And jagged ramparts wed the moonlit skie I shrug off the shroud of preternatural sleep Enbroidered by these words Malaresia scribed.... "Beauty slept and angels wept For her immortal soul In this repose, these Devils chose To claim her for their very own" Carpathia ~ The dead shall speak of her In graveyard tongue where pack wolves run Blood red mist seeps across the sun Never leave me.... This wintry night when awed stars report Their absence from the heavenly brow Crippled seraph shalt cower in illustrious courts Whilsts the cloaked maelstrom resounds "How the storm it fulfills, My heart though unhealed Celestial knifes ebonied And wild woods thrill Yet far fiercer still, Her lustre encompassing me" Carpathia ~ Nature has long incurred The trees to weave the cold fog like thread Across the path the righteous tread I rule as Master here Where cruel winds impart my temper Love sank wounded when I, betrayed Saw Death etch cruelly, upon my lineage "Arise panthered Draconis And commit this world to thy ancient sovereignty" Erubescent veil descend Eclipse without an end And legacies blessed with darkness Forever more Supreme vampiric evil This wintry eve when the snow lies deep And jagged ramparts wed the moonlit skie I shrug off the shroud of preternatural sleep Enbroidered by these words Malaresia scribed.... "Beauty slept and angels wept For her immortal soul In this repose, these Devils chose To claim her for their very own" Carpathia ~ The dead still speak of her In graveyard tongue where wolve packs run Blood red mist sweeps across the sun Candelabra snuffed prey, silhouette wedded Nightfall, take my hand Seduce me with silky timbred limbs Grant me thy dark command Over the peaks framing tapestries Of thick forest, dusk has filled With Lucifugous kisses enwreathed in mist Creeping surreptitiously to kill
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 23, 2025
Death, spirit me away My anguished soul doth strain On taut and twisted reins Yet, insatiate I remain A proud, unfallen star That dares thee from afar To calm my thund'rous heart Yet rend it's knot apart So I may never sing Of red skies o'er my strings And love, a wanton thing Can plunge on burnt, black wings To hang amid the thorns Scarlet like velvet worn About the cloud-wracked moon Who wanes in solitude.... I am alone Thirsting for the dark That breathes beneath the stone What black witchcraft Shall cast me from thy dreams And what perverse world-strategy Will crawl with thee from sleep? "Rouse my disease And with cadent naked dance I shalt teach Thee wisdom of darkness From earth and red sea Lightbearing Samael Coalesce with me...." Twilight Through frosted gates Entwinning shadows of the snake By candlelight Thanateros rites Death seduced and chaos wakes Obsession grips, blindragon fever In throes of scythed orgasm, Eros dies And Saturn rapes faith's lovelorn Diva Upon a cyprean altar Stripped bare for sacrifice Virtue births a demon Pandora's box, unhinged, sets loose the night Winged Lilith born for want of Eden Fanning plumes of harlotry Like pearls before the desert swine In time, the oceans parts Storm as a Kraken Reborn Venus as thou art Feeding at my banquet Of Saturnalia. I call thee having wrestled The tides from lonely Diana "For thee Endymion, I forsake the cerements Of this star-flung tomb" Be-with-us, come Unveil the ancient flame Throw the cats our enemies Desire's menstrual strain Eastern Devil eyes A cruel erotic plague The Shekhina is in exile And the Israelites.... enslaved Midnight Jerusalem A tenebrous phantasy Revelates to men Their celestial walls crumble When walks the Xul Born to the scarlet whore in Babylon
Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 23, 2025
Herodias and I have led a phantom cavalcade Through veiled romantic history where superstitions reigned And Christendom sought to pervert, but poets of my name Sang of penumbral victories that sorcery had claimed The Graal and mighty Caliburn as votive offerings To an England rearisen under vast prophetic wings These are the shores where to my soul Blood-drenched and unredeemed Shalt seek solace in secrets told And tranquil as a dream From the woods Pendragon-born, I rose Arcturius A proud and mighty king robed in the chivalry of lust Death and fate undaunted me, I drew a throne divided Glorious the battles won Black Adraste provided Then treachery, a wingless beast, came crawling to my court And now I lie at cursed Camlann, from wounds a traitor wrought From wounds a traitor wrought.... I fear the Augean light is gutting Camelot How bittersweet my triumphs seem Now Autumnal dreams succumb to frost Morganna art thou near me? My strength wilts near a grave Cast my sword to the sylphid grasp Of the Naiad 'neath the silvered lake When waters stirred lay silent Mistress let the mists descend Thy tears cannot thaw Death's cold heart His sombre gaze defies legend More so than thine lest thy dew-lidded eyes Art for the Banshee's song. Or our souls entwined like vein upon The haunted shores of Avalon The haunted shores of Avalon I greet thee Dark Immortals On this isle 'neath the moon Why hast our kingdom fallen To the enemy so soon Let loose the hounds of darksome night To pillage, plague and burn As slumber lures me 'mongst the dead To scheme of my return Archaic ghostly echoes breathe like thunder of the storm A tempest fools miscall divine as they crouch awaiting dawn Their ignorance has forged for me over centuries a sword Burnished to flash like lightning on the precipice of war The wolves are dead in Albion whilst the passive flocks roam free Thus my penetrant spearhead shalt pierce these foul trespassing breeds These are the shores where to my soul Blood drenched and unredeemed Shalt seek solace in secrets told And tranquil as a dream "I have awoken from the past Lenghening the shadows Over England's bitter scars I prize wide the wounds Her soils whetted, drink Remember me as king When I cradle elder stars Like lovers in my arms Nestled vipers to my breast Venomed forces work these cards Of Devils and priestess.... Thus I shall rule anew Through sinews of a song Played upon a storm By the ghosts of Avalon And all in league will bow to me From death they shall ascend To whisper winds of war to stir The dark-one-thing in men The Principle '95 Black Metal masterplan...."
Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 23, 2025
This track is instrumental.
Evening minuetto in a castle by the sea A jewel more precious than the moon lowered Her mask to me. The sublimest creature the God of desire Would dream about making his Queen Drowning the air with Promethean Fire And my heart burned with dark poetry I fell in love with Her Scent and feline lure, And woodland eyes, that ushered in the impurest Erotic, laden fantasies amid this warm Autumn night I lulled her away from the rich masquerade And together we kissed in the bloodletting moonlight Oh Luna, what spell didst thou cast on me? Her icy kiss fervoured my neck Like whispering waves 'pon Acheron's beach. In a whirl of dark voices and statues That phantomed the dying trees. This debauched seducer in black, loved me.... In a pale azured dawn like Ligeia reborn I woke free of my sleep-sepulchre On the sea misted lawn where stone figures, forlorn Lamented the spectre of her Bewildered and weak, yet with passion replete I longed for the past overtures The curse of unrest and her lingered caress Seemed much more than my soul could endure.... I at once endeavoured to see her again Lest my heart came palsied Without even mouthing her name On a thin precipice over carnal abyss I danced like a blind acolyte Drunk on red wine, her dead lips on mine Suffused with the perfume of night For hours I scoured the castle grounds In vain for us to meet When storm clouds broke, ashened, fatigued I sought refuge in a cemeterty Sleep, usher dreams Taint to nightmares from a sunless nether Mistress of the dark I now know what thou art Screams haunt my sleep dragged from nightmares thou hast wed together Lamia and Lemures Spawned thee leche To snare my flesh Portrait of the Dead Countess Deep stained pain that I had dreamt Flaunted Death's cold punishment Leaving strength to seal this Wretched tom But poised nectar within my stirs Up feverous desire and morbid purpose to search Through cobwebbed drapery to where she swoons Goddess of the graveyard, of the tempest and moon In flawless fatal beauty her very visage compels Glimpses of a heaven where ghost company fell To mourning the loss of God in blackest velvet Enrobed in their downfall like a swift silhouette "Fleeting, enshadowed Thou art privy to my sin Secrets dead, wouldst thou inflict The cruel daylights upon my skin? Dost thou not want to worship me With crimson sacrifice So my cunt may twitch against thy kiss And weep with new-found life?" My realm in dusk Torn to her embrace Dark angels taste my tears And whisper haunting requiems Softly to mine ear Need-fires have lured abominations here.... Nocturnal pulse My veins spill forth their water Rent by lips I cherish most Awash on her perfidious shores Where drowning shadows o'er the stars Ebon's graves where lovers whore Seraphim and Nahemah "Nahemah" Pluck out mine eyes, hasten, attest Blind reason against thee, Enchantress For I must know, art thou not death? My heart echoes bloodless and incensed.... Doth temptation prowl the earth seducing the weak Did not the Queen of Heaven come as Devil to me? On that fatal Hallow's Eve when we fled company as the music swept around us in the crisp, fallen leaves Under horned Diana where her bloodline was sewn In a graveyard of Angels rent in cool marbled stone I am grieving the loss of life in sombre velvet Enrobed in Death's shadow like a swifter silhouette....
Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 23, 2025
Weak midnight promises of love, were wept upon her grave and shunned by stars above. In mortal life lurks my dismay. An Angel stole my heart and Death took her away. She sleeps beyond the grace of God, a dreaming beauty. If wishes could only fray that bond, the dead would sing for me. Twelth moon arose with ghostly voice, a poet's serenade. Her name a whisper upon my lips and lo, Rorasa came! Fear me not my grieving king, funereal in breath. The secrets of the dark I know, and thus, we shall cheat Death. My promises wrought though despondence that night, have delivered me gifts from the grave. Rorasa enshadowed and eternal life, never a Devil so vain. The Angel is fallen, for I thought her lost, and no heaven would silence the pain. Teach me these secrets, the sensual frost, desire for warm blood again. Dark nature clasp my soul, around her throat mine arms enfold. To sleep, perchance to dream, and then to dusk and flesh ascend. The sun descends, magenta spirits fill the skies, and wreak erotic maladies where sex and Death abide. From writhing tides where gothick siren weave their song to shore. Through the ashes of the battlefields where ravens and angels war. As phantoms we have fled the basilisk of day, to rise as phoenix taloned, nightly taking prey. We rule like the red and risen moon upon the sea. The stars of judgement silent, for we share joyous eternity. Damnation! Salvation! Stigmata plague! The wine of Bacchus flows. Listen to the thunder rage! Deceivers dragged before their cross! I am he that vanquished Death and bore the sting of loss. What vulgar Christ will unprise my grasp? His temple, ruined, burns and sweet Rorasa laughs. [Guitar solo] I am enamoured and imparadised, to catch the fires dancing profanely in her eyes. I will crush them all if this holds thy delight. Rather dead forever than to lose her. Nymph-lascivious Aphrodite!
Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 23, 2025
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