The Spawn of Love and War-Cradle of Filth

[00:24.20]Poets racking absinthed brains [00:26.82]Could never fully paint these nights [00:30.00]No martyr parting from his pain [00:32.97]Could utter words so erudite [00:35.96]As those she now divulged to me [00:38.79]In the throes of passions grip [00:41.95]Indulging latent fantasies [00:44.97]That ran forked tongues along the lip [00:49.26]Of fate's pudenda [00:51.57]The twisted snake's agenda [00:54.54]Now the world would bend [00:56.40]To her deadly legacy [00:59.80]Life's graveyard was waiting, such dizzying flight [01:02.73]From the convent at All Hallows Fair [01:05.94]Without contemplating, we fled through the night [01:08.64]Too blood-drunk and ******-sated to care [01:13.98]The Goddess had spoken [01:16.29]And awoken desire [01:18.53]It crackled in the air around us [01:20.96]A psychic force ******mmering like fire [01:24.00]And on her breasts, that old necklace [01:26.99]The one I snuck from the ****** Abbess [01:29.99]Whose dirty little secret, other than me [01:32.88]Now shone with bold intensity [01:36.15]Vast the power it possessed [01:39.54]The darkness brought to living flesh [01:53.89]This treasure was ancient, taken by force [01:56.83]From an elite caste of priests in Delphi [01:59.88]The Templars were patient, they stayed out the course [02:02.93]Then fleeced their Greek hosts in their sleep [02:07.29]That necklace traversed [02:09.50]Vile murders and miles worse [02:11.80]But what was a curse [02:14.41]To this perverse demoness? [02:18.00]Legend swore it was a gift of malice [02:20.76]For the maiden Harmonia [02:23.57]The illegitimate spawn of love and war [02:27.10]Jealousy made it gleam for her [02:29.94]For with it clasped, her looking glass [02:32.60]Was ever beautiful and young [02:35.76]But disaster choked her royal caste [02:39.02]And every throat on which it hung [02:41.98]There madness, death and horror clung [03:05.43]Immortalised in mortal guise [03:08.40]She was a sight for blighted eyes [03:13.31]A plague to gladly plagiarise [03:17.67]And spread like red excited kisses [03:22.50]She was more than me [03:24.10]More than words [03:25.66]Could fulfil in the parlance of the angels [03:29.41]She cast a spell on every cell [03:31.46]In my nobody [03:32.91]She gave me back my tongue [03:34.50]That she might run it on herself [03:37.55]She was Lilith, she was light [03:39.64]I was but a parasite [03:41.65]Beckoned to temptation [03:43.13]In her velvet overtones [03:44.94]Through frozen arches, dressed in white [03:46.93]She led me into paradise [03:48.89]Neath comets in ovation [03:50.65]Like the Queen of winter, throned.. [03:57.07]Pleasures archetypal [03:58.65]Then much rarer agonies [04:04.90]I was a sworn disciple [04:06.64]Of her whims and dark decrees [04:10.43]In Europe's hair [04:11.83]Her spies were everywhere [04:13.43]A sylph amongst the filthy rich and debonair [04:17.42]Her greater plan [04:18.94]All chaos and the fall of man [04:20.87]For as she fed dark appetites [04:22.84]She bred her children there [04:26.87][04:34.89]The spawn of love and war [04:28.90]Presiding over Hellfire clubs [04:30.93]Arch-masons and Agharta [04:36.96]She rode the beast, her legs apart [04:38.89]A blazing pyre starter [05:10.87]Life's playground elated, such dizzying sights [05:13.65]And sensations ignited her grin [05:16.89]As slaves celebrated her Satanic rites [05:19.89]We climbed up to heaven in sin [05:24.12]She came to me [05:25.82]As she will come to you [05:28.74]Intoxicating in her seduction [05:31.87]Her siren sway, devastating voodoo [05:46.85]Persistent, resistance is useless, fool [05:49.77]To this Goddess, in lust she's cruel [05:53.00]Beyond any measure, her pleasures will found [05:55.83]A perverted Eden on sacred ground [05:59.21]Vast the power I caressed [06:01.98]The darkness brought to vivid flesh [06:07.04]And in it she now rules a cowered universe