A Gothic Romance (Red Roses For The Devils's Wore)-Cradle of Filth

[01:08.00]Evening minuetto in a castle by the sea [01:15.50]A jewel more radiant than the moon [01:18.66]Lowered her mask to me [01:22.51]The sublimest creature the Gods, full of fire [01:26.52]Would marvel at making their Queen [01:30.57]Infusing the air with her fragrant desire [01:34.50]And my heart reeled with grave poetry [01:38.69]From grace, I fell in love with her [01:46.28]Scent and feline lure [01:49.12]And jade woodland eyes that ushered in the impurest [01:53.66]Erotic, laden fantasies amid this warm Autumn night [02:01.40]She lulled me away from the rich masquerade [02:05.37]And together we clung in the bloodletting moonlight [02:10.42]Pearled luna, what spell didst thou cast on me? [02:16.88]Her icy kiss fervoured my neck [02:20.28]Like whispering waves 'pon Acheron's beach [02:24.69]In a whirl of sweet voices and statues [02:27.63]That phantomed the dying trees [02:32.80]This debauched seductress in black, took me [02:42.89] [02:51.16]In a pale azured dawn, like Ligeia reborn [02:55.23]I tore free of my sleep-sepulchre [02:58.91]On the sea misted lawn where stone figures, forlorn [03:03.70]Lamented the spectre of Her [03:06.88]Bewildered and weak, yet with passion replete [03:10.88]I hungered for past overtures [03:14.73]The curse of unrest and her ardent caress [03:18.79]Came much more than my soul could endure [03:23.94] [03:30.88]I, at once, endeavoured to see her again [03:35.22]Stirring from midnight's inertia [03:37.56]Knowing not even her name [03:39.25]On a thin precipice over carnal abyss [03:41.54]I danced like a blind acolyte [03:43.67]Drunk on red wine, her dead lips on mine [03:45.68]Suffused with the perfume of night [03:51.40] [03:51.80]For hours I scoured the surrounding grounds [03:53.66]In vain that we might meet [03:55.54] [03:59.66]When storm clouds broke, ashened, fatigued [04:01.54]I sought refuge in a cemetery [04:03.83]Sleep, usher dreams [04:05.26]Taint to nightmares from a sunless nether [04:07.66]Mistress of the dark [04:09.47]I now know what thou art [04:11.47]Screams haunt my sleep [04:13.70]Dragged from nightmares thou hast wed together [04:15.66]Lamia and Lemures [04:17.69]Spawned thee leche [04:18.57]To snare my flesh [04:21.75]Portrait of the dead countess [04:24.90] [04:39.86]Deep stained pain that I had dreamt [04:43.71]Flaunted demise, life's punishment [04:47.62]Leaving little strength to seal this wretched tomb [04:55.90]But poised nectar within my stirs [04:57.54]Up feverous desire and morbid purpose to search [05:00.19]Through cobwebbed drapery to where she swoons [05:02.85]Goddess of the graveyard, of the tempest and moon [05:05.28]In flawless fatal beauty, her very visage compels [05:07.70]Glimpses of a heaven where ghost companies fell [05:10.10]To mourning the loss of god in blackest velvet [05:12.53]Enrobed in their downfall like a swift silhouette [05:15.45]Fleeting, enshadowed [05:17.10]Thou art privy to my sin [05:20.34]Secrets dead, wouldst thou inflict [05:22.86]The cruel daylights upon my skin? [05:25.55]Dost thou not want to worship me [05:27.89]With crimson sacrifice [05:30.78]So my cunt may twitch against thy kiss [05:33.41]And weep with new-found life? [05:35.84] [05:45.27]Red roses for the Devil's whore [05:57.55] [06:00.00]Dark angels taste my tears [06:02.85]And whisper haunting requiems [06:06.20]Softly to mine ear [06:08.77]Need-fires have lured abominations here [06:16.88]Nocturnal pulse [06:20.10]My veins spill forth their waters [06:23.50]Rent by lips I cherish most [06:33.38] [06:38.94]Awash on her perfidious shores [06:42.69]Where drowning umbra o'er the stars [06:45.90]Ebon's graves where lovers whore [06:48.98]Like seraphim and Nahemah [06:52.79] [06:55.22]Pluck out mine eyes, hasten, attest [07:01.49]Blind reason against thee, Enchantress [07:07.66]For I must know, art thou not death? [07:14.12]My heart echoes bloodless and incensed ... [07:24.15] [07:47.86]Doth temptation prowl night in vulvic revelry [07:50.46]Did not the Queen of Heaven come as Devil to me? [07:52.65]On that fatal Hallow's Eve when we fled company [07:55.90]As the music swept around us in the crisp, fated leaves [07:57.84]Under horned Diana where her bloodline was sewn [08:00.00]In a graveyard of Angels rent in cool marbled stone [08:02.29]I am grieving the loss of life in sombre velvet [08:04.85]Enrobed in Death's shadow like a swifter silhouette [08:08.30]