Interpret:

Cradle of Filth

Album:

Dusk And Her Embrace

Death, spirit me away 
My anguished soul doth strain 
On taut and twisted reins 
Yet, insatiate I still remain 
Like a proud, unfalled star 
That dares thee from afar 
To calm my thund'rous heart 
Else, rend it's knots apart 
So I may never sing 


Of jewelled skies o'er my strings 
And love, a wanton thing 
Can plunge on burnt, black wings 
To hang amid the thorns 
In scarlet, like velvet worn 
About the clouded moon 
Who wanes in solitude.... 


I am alone 
Thirsting for the dark 
That lurks beneath marbled stone 
What black witchcraft 
Shalt prise thee from thy dreams 
And what perverse world-strategy 
Will wend it's way 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 pagan city gates 
Bred shadows play like twining 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 


The skies, they darken 
And the oceans part 


Storm forth indignant Kraken 
Reborn Venus as thou art 
Feasting 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 to shame 


Midnight 
Jerusalem 
A tenebrous phantasy 
Revelates to men 
Their celestial walls crumble 
When walks the Xul 
Born to the scarlet whore in Babylon 


The centuries of wait have all but gone 
Behold dark beauty stirs to conquer on and on 


Now worship Everything