Cradle Of Filth - A Gothic Romance

[01:10.64] Evening minuetto in a castle by the sea [01:16.97] A jewel more radiant than the moon [01:21.02] Lowered Her mask to me [01:23.65] The sublimest creature the Gods, full of fire [01:28.02] Would marvel at making their Queen [01:31.85] Infusing the air with Her fragrant desire [01:37.92] And my heart reeled with grave poetry ... [01:40.55] From grace I fell in love with Her [01:45.24] Scent and feline lure [01:50.32] And jade woodland eyes that ushered in the impurest [01:54.77] Erotic, laden fantasies amid this warm Autumn night [02:02.14] She lulled me away from the rich masquerade [02:06.02] And together we clung in the bloodletting moonlight [02:10.66] Pearled luna, what spell didst thou cast on me? [02:18.22] Her icy kiss fervoured my neck [02:20.93] Like whispering waves 'pon Acheron's beach [02:26.53] In a whirl of sweet voices and statues [02:29.23] That phantomed the dying trees [02:33.79] This debauched seductress in black, took me ... [02:37.86] In a pale azured dawn like Ligeia reborn [02:56.29] I tore free of my sleep-sepulchre [02:58.57] On the sea misted lawn where stone figures, forlorn [03:05.16] Lamented the spectre of Her [03:07.43] Bewildered and weak, yet with passion replete [03:11.36] I hungered for past overtures [03:15.34] The curse of unrest and her ardent caress [03:19.52] Came much more than my soul could endure ... [03:22.78] I, at once, endeavoured to see Her again [03:34.17] Stirring from midnight's inertia [03:39.41] Knowing not even her name [03:45.03] On a thin precipice over carnal abyss [03:47.51] I danced like a blind acolyte [03:55.27] Drunk on red wine, her dead lips on mine [03:59.25] Suffused with the perfume of night [04:03.07] For hours I scoured the surrounding grounds [04:08.96] In vain that we might meet [04:11.23] When storm clouds broke, ashened, fatigued [04:17.13] I sought refuge in a cemeterty [04:22.45] Sleep, usher dreams [04:27.42] Taint to nightmares from a sunless nether [04:44.83] Mistress of the dark [04:49.03] I now know what thou art [04:56.64] Screams haunt my sleep [05:03.75] Dragged from nightmares thou hast wed together [05:06.03] Lamia and Lemures [05:07.96] Spawned thee leche [05:09.75] To snare my flesh [05:10.96] Portrait of the Dead Countess [05:12.46] Deep stained pain that I had dreamt [05:14.68] Flaunted demise, life's punishment [05:18.65] Leaving little strength to seal this wretched tomb ... [05:20.88] But poised nectar within my stirs [05:26.55] Up feverous desire and morbid purpose to search [05:31.02] Through cobwebbed drapery to where she swoons [05:33.62] Goddess of the graveyard, of the tempest and moon [05:42.08] In flawless fatal beauty her very visage compels [05:48.47] Glimpses of a heaven where ghost companies fell [05:48.54] To mourning the loss of god in blackest velvet [05:48.76] Enrobed in their downfall like a swift silhouette [05:48.94] Fleeting, enshadowed [05:49.05] Thou art privy to my sin [05:49.23] Secrets dead, wouldst thou inflict [05:49.36] The cruel daylights upon my skin? [05:49.52] Dost thou not want to worship me [05:49.66] With crimson sacrifice [05:49.83] So my cunt may twitch against thy kiss [05:49.95] And weep with new-found life? [05:50.23] Red roses for the Devil's Whore ... [05:50.44] Dark angels taste my tears [05:50.64] And whisper haunting requiems [05:50.82] Softly to mine ear [05:50.97] Need-fires have lured abominations here ... [05:51.14] Nocturnal pulse [05:51.25] My veins spill forth their waters [05:51.32] Rent by lips I cherish most [05:51.87] Awash on her perfidious shores [05:51.92] Where drowning umbra o'er the stars [05:52.28] Ebon's graves where lovers whore [05:52.43] Like seraphim and Nahemah [05:52.52] Pluck out mine eyes, hasten, attest [05:52.76] Blind reason against thee, Enchantress [05:52.86] For I must know, art thou not death? [05:53.00] My heart echoes bloodless and incensed ... [05:53.21] Doth temptation prowl night in vulvic revelry [05:53.42] Did not the Queen of Heaven come as Devil to me? [05:53.52] On that fatal Hallow's Eve when we fled company [05:53.73] As the music swept around us in the crisp, fated leaves [05:53.89] UNder horned Diana where her bloodline was sewn [05:54.06] In a graveyard of Angels rent in cool marbled stone [05:54.26] I am grieving the loss of life in sombre velvet [05:54.33] Enrobed in Death's shadow like a swifter [05:54.52] silhouette ... [05:54.86]