Interpret:

Cradle of Filth

Album:

Godspeed in the Devil's Thunder

The evening air laps thick about
The stagnant moat that Tiffuages claims
As dusk now slips away
Where taught to run, the rotten tongue
Of a hotter Götterdämerung
Has started licking like a flame


Whispers in the dismal mist
Are full of crystal promises


Black rites begun in earnest
Ignite Hell's hungry furnace


Behold the bold inauguration of the darkside
Demonic passions climbing
Ill-fated stars aligning


Tonight these sights are guaranteed to feed the master
The tide of blood is rising
His gifts will be providing


Unmasked, the phantom lord De Rais
Haunts the furthest tower
Wherein death has sucked the hour


There, throttled gasps tantamount for foreplay
And drooling razors next to come
Unspool red secrets from the young


The moon grinned full, the games were chaste
When the children first arrived
Now midnight shadows crawl apace
To darken council with their lives


Flesh and ecstasy as sport
Are immortal vices of the highest order
Wherein devilry holds sway
Behold blind walls where these cockatrice squalled
Their songs of Necronomicon
Spoke out of Gilles De Rais


Each murdered son, each frozen rose
Handpicked, was gently fed
To the sumptuous one in black and those
Whose lives where thrown in with the dead


The candles lit, the stage was set
As it was in sainted days
When censers swung and banners hung
On the Siege of Orleans on the painted Seine


Now the castle floats in the drifting fog
Torn from it's moorings
Like a shipwreck dredged from Hell
As innocents entreat a shiffing God
Their voices soaring
On a silver tide to heaven
On a knife edge as they fell


The blade would plunge in virulent arcs
Such wounds would stretch away
By the fireside, warmed to creative sparks
Of the monster Gilles De Rais


Gilded Gilles De Rais


Comets vomited
The restless bells of crime
Peeled black skin from broken bones
Of angels cut from the nicks of time


Festering faces with painted eyes
The prettiest kept to be thrust inside
Gaping necromantic from the mantle-side
Caked in kissed goodbyes


Days faded in decay
The stench of perfume lied
No horror in the glades of man
Was left for Barrom to provide


So unique was the beat of his poisoned heart
And it's sordid, morbid crack
No further atrocity could possibly surpass
Unrewarded, bored, he turned his burning back