Interpret:

Cradle of Filth

Album:

The Manticore and Other Horrors

Welcome with a stench of misadventure
 Libertine and sibling things a grim
 Slither forth through the gateway's hissing denture


 The moon, one up on the chateau battlements
 Gilds this torchlit drive to Shangri-la
 This solstice calls like the piper to rodentia
 Come join this hive of masqueraders


 This eve is pure and pagan
 Its teeth are in the past
 Dark royalties of ancient caste
 Feast in splendour


 For your vulgar delectation


 Decreed
 That hunger shall be sated by the dawn


 In marble ballrooms of delight
 The erotic and the wicked dance alike
 Virgin cunts aquiver at this foreplay for the spiteful


 The cellars smelt abrim
 With cracked wine and racked women
 Are spiced for even Marquis appetites
 Screams an aphrodisiac
 For the blackest ever nightfall


 Lords, heed the call


 Vast boudoirs here
 Are mastered by the minatory
 Walls plastered with the base relief
 Of baser glories


 Ma Cherie Debauchery
 Deflower of my life untie their bonds
 And push these fantasies
 To ever greater stories


 For your vulgar delectation


 Inhibit nothing, run free
 Loose sore cauteries before me
 Ripped, prolific scars
 Are titbits on which to feed


 The heathen hour strikes
 Wrong the rites, beasts ravage for your soul
 As lovely entrapment snaps her fingers
 Hell comes crawling


 This eve is pure and pagan
 Its teeth are in the past
 Let the cream of sinners learn at last


 For your vulgar delectation


 Decreed
 That hunger shall be sated by the dawn


 Dawn... burning, aghast


 With the judgment that we spend upon the evil
 We feed eternal hungriness
 Exceeding vile deeds that were freed in this cathedral


 For your vulgar delectation


 Decreed
 That horrors shall be waited on the ones
 Who crave sin's innovations