Interpret:

Cradle of Filth

Album:

Dusk And Her Embrace

Evening minuetto in a castle by the sea 
A jewel more radiant than the moon 
Lowered Her mask to me 
The sublimest creature the Gods, full of fire 
Would marvel at making their Queen 
Infusing the air with Her fragrant desire 
And my heart reeled with grave poetry.... 


From grace I fell in love with Her 
Scent and feline lure 
And jade woodland eyes that ushered in the impurest 
"Erotic, laden fantasies amid this warm Autumn night 
She lulled me away from the rich masquerade 
And together we clung in the bloodletting moonlight" 
Pearled 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 sweet voices and statues 
That phantomed the dying trees 
This debauched seductress in black, took me.... 


In a pale azured dawn like Ligeia reborn 
I tore 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 hungered for past overtures 
The curse of unrest and her ardent caress 
Came much more than my soul could endure.... 


I, at once endeavoured to see Her again 
Stirring from midnight's inertia 
Knowing not even 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 surrounding grounds 
In vain that we might 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 demise, life's punishment 
Leaving little strength to seal this wretched tomb.... 


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 companies 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?" 


Red roses for the Devil's whore.... 


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 waters 
Rent by lips I cherish most 


Awash on her perfidious shores 
Where drowning umbra o'er the stars 
Ebon's graves where lovers whore 
Like 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 night in vulvic revelry 
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, fated 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....