Bathory Aria-Cradle of Filth

[00:18.61]Snuffed tapers sighed [00:19.82]As Death left impressing [00:21.48]His crest of cold tears on the Countess [00:24.60] [00:24.82]Benighted like ill-fated Usher [00:28.68]The House of Bathory shrouded [00:31.12]'Neath grief's dark facade [00:34.63] [00:37.10]If only I could have wept [00:44.31]In mourning by Her side [00:51.07]I would have clasped Her so tight [00:54.99]Like storm-beached Aphrodite [00:57.36]Drowned on Kytherean tides [01:03.76] [01:05.38]And Kissed Her [01:07.85]For from Her alone [01:09.29]My lips would have known [01:11.53]Enigmas of shadowy vistas [01:17.23] [01:19.74]Where pleasures took flesh [01:22.43]And pain, remorseless [01:24.10]Came freezing the breath [01:25.39]Of raucous life hushed unto whispers [01:32.05] [01:34.16]Benighted. [01:36.27] [01:36.43]Inhaling the pale waning moonlight that crept [01:39.00]Through the crypt of Her Lord who so lucidly slept [01:44.30] [01:47.27]Benighted. [01:49.17] [01:49.53]Exhaling the wail of black widowhood's toll [01:52.87]Waxing eternal night entered Her soul [02:00.01] [02:02.33]Now haranguing grey skies [02:04.03]With revenge upon life [02:05.97]Gnathic and Sapphic [02:07.57]Needs begged gendercide [02:19.38] [02:24.71]Delusions of Grandier denounced the revolt [02:28.23]Of descrying cursed glass, disenchanted in vaults [02:31.66]Encircled by glyphs midst Her sin-sistered cult [02:36.09] [02:37.33]With hangman's abandon She plied spiritworlds [02:40.76]To Archangels in bondage [02:42.02]From light to night hurled [02:44.27]Cast down to the earth where torment would unfurl....... [02:49.71] [03:12.99]But soon, [03:14.36]Her tarot proved [03:15.83]Hybrid rumours spread like tumours [03:18.06]Would accrue [03:19.30]And blight Her stars [03:20.70]However scarred [03:22.28]To better bitter truths [03:23.76]Of cold bloodbaths [03:25.84] [03:25.99]As bodies rose [03:27.24]In rigid droves [03:28.85]To haunt Her from their [03:30.03]Shallow burials imposed [03:31.98]When wolves exhumed [03:33.69]Their carthen wombs [03:35.42]Where heavy frosts had laboured long [03:36.76]To bare their wounds [03:41.02] [03:42.08]To the depths of Her soul they pursued [03:44.88]Wielding their poison they flew [03:47.84]Like a murder of ravens in fugue [03:52.62] [04:04.30]And knowing their raptures [04:05.60]Would shatter Her dreams [04:07.50]She clawed blackened books for damnation's reprieve [04:10.88]Baneful cawed canons on amassed enemies [04:14.86] [04:15.15]So Hallow's Eve [04:16.50]As She received [04:18.16]Like Bellona to the ball [04:20.05]Those enemies [04:21.41]Fell-sisters heaved [04:23.01]Her torturies [04:24.75]Cross stained flagstones [04:26.11]To Her carriage reined to flee [04:29.31] [04:31.50]But She knew She must brave the night through [04:34.35]Though fear crept a deathshead o'er the moon [04:37.19]Like a murder of ravens in Fugue [04:55.52] [05:06.80]For each masked, jewelled gaze held dread purpose [05:10.16]Horror froze painted eyes to cold stares [05:14.32]And even Her dance [05:16.20]In the vast mirrors cast [05:18.36]Looked the ill of Her future [05:20.31]If fate feasted there.... [05:25.98] [05:37.96]In an age crucified by the nails of faith [05:41.74]When rank scarecrows of christ blighted lands [05:45.56]An aloof Countess born an obsidian wraith [05:49.40]Dared the abyss knowing well She was damned [06:01.88]Her life whispered grief like a funeral march [06:05.64]Twisted and yearning, obsessed an entranced [06:09.55]With those succumbing to cruelty [06:13.55]Crushed 'neath the gait of Her dance [06:16.94]A whirlwind of fire that swept through the briers [06:21.08]Of sweet rose Her thickets of black thorn had grasped... [06:37.06] [06:40.59]She demanded the Heavens and forever to glean [06:44.51]The elixir of Youth from the pure [06:48.15]Whilst Her lesbian fantasies [06:50.63]Reamed to extremes [06:52.31]O'er decades unleashed [06:54.12]Came for blood's silken cure [07:00.20] [07:03.04]But Her reign ended swiftly [07:04.64]For Dark Gods dreamt too deep [07:06.94]To heed Her pleas [07:09.60] [07:10.51]When Her gaolers were assailed [07:12.73]With condemnations from a priest [07:16.08]Who'd stammered rites [07:17.82]In the dead of night [07:19.43]For maidens staining winding sheets [07:23.11] [07:23.29]And She postured proud [07:25.08]When Her crimes were trowelled [07:26.73]And jezebelled to peasant lips [07:29.31]Though She smelt the fires [07:30.79]That licked limbs higher [07:32.55]To the tortured cunts of accomplices [07:37.07] [07:46.03]So ends this twisted fable's worth [07:50.71]And though spared the pyre's bite [07:56.14]By dint of nobled bloodlined birth [08:01.45]Her sins (crimes) garnered Her no respite [08:11.12] [08:21.42]Forever severed from the thrill of coming night [08:30.86]Where slow Death alone could grant Her flight [08:36.40] [08:36.58]"The Spirits have all but fled judgement [08:41.66]I rot, alone, insane, [08:46.96]Where the forest whispers puce laments for me [08:51.55]From amidst the pine and wreathed wolfsbane [08:57.37]Beyond these walls, wherein condemned [09:01.30]To the gloom of an austere tomb [09:03.91]I pace with feral madness sent [09:09.31]Through the pale beams of a guiltless moon [09:14.34]Who, bereft of necrologies, thus [09:18.23]Commands creation over the earth [09:23.29]Whilst I resign my lips to death [09:26.30]A slow cold kiss that chides rebirth [09:33.44]Though one last wish is bequathed by fate [09:38.89]My beauty shalt wilt, unseen [09:45.22]Save for twin black eyes that shalt come to take [09:50.81]My soul to peace or Hell for company" [09:55.94]To peace or hell for company [10:06.66]My soul to Hell for company [10:16.50]My soul to Hell for company