Thirteen Autumns and a Widow-Cradle of Filth

[00:00.000] 作词 : Cradle Of Faith, Dani [00:44.35]Spawned wanton like blight on an auspicious night [00:47.23]Her eyes betrayed spells of the moon's eerie light [00:50.23]A disquieting gaze forever ghosting far seas [00:51.49] [00:55.61]Bled white and dead, Her true mother was fed [00:58.74]To the ravenous wolves that the elements led [01:00.06] [01:08.29]From crag-jagged mountains that seemingly grew in unease [01:13.22]Through the maw of the woods, a black carriage was drawn [01:17.85]Flanked by barbed lightning that hissed of the storm [01:22.35]in crests of Carpathian [01:23.98]Bringing slaves to the sodomite for the new-born [01:25.54]On that eve when the Countess' own came deformed [01:27.66]A tragedy crept to the name Bathory [01:30.97]Elizabeth christened, no paler a rose [01:33.23] [01:42.04]Grew so dark as this sylph [01:45.16]None more cold in repose [01:47.85]Yet Her beauty spun webs [01:49.48]Round hearts a glance would betroth [01:51.85] [01:54.22]She feared the light [01:55.85]So when She fell like a sinner to vice [01:58.60] [01:59.16]Under austere, puritanical rule [02:00.79]She sacrificed... [02:02.04] [02:04.41]Mandragora like virgins to rats in the wall [02:06.47]But after whipangels licked prisoners, thralled [02:08.35] [02:10.85]Never were Her dreams so maniacally cruel [02:13.10] [02:14.04]possessed of such [02:15.62]For ravens winged Her nightly flights [02:19.30]Of erotica [02:20.68]Half spurned from the pulpit [02:22.61]Torments to occur [02:24.18]Half learnt from the cabal of demons [02:28.24]In Her [02:29.11]Her walk went to voodoo [02:30.87]To see Her own shadow adored [02:33.68] [02:34.37]At mass without flaw [02:35.87]Though inwards She abhored [02:37.36] [02:37.93]Not Her coven of suitors [02:39.68]But the stare of their Lord [02:41.68] [02:42.43]"I must avert mine eyes to hymns [02:44.68]For His gaze brings dogmas to my skin [02:49.30]He knows that I dreamt of carnal rites [02:51.99]With Him undead for three long nights" [02:54.55] [03:04.49]Elizabeth listened [03:05.30]No sermons intoned [03:06.30]Dragged such guilt to Her door [03:08.05]Tombed Her soul with such stone [03:09.62]For She swore the Priest sighed [03:11.30]When She knelt down to atone... [03:13.49] [03:15.37]She feared the light [03:17.68]So when She fell [03:19.80]Like a sinner to vice [03:21.30]Under austere, puritanical rule [03:22.93] [03:25.24]She sacrificed [03:26.68]Her decorum as chaste [03:28.24]To this wolf of the cloth [03:29.87]Pouncing to haunt [03:31.30]Her confessional box [03:33.55]Forgiveness would come [03:35.99] [03:37.36]When Her sins were washed off [03:39.62] [03:44.24]By rebaptism in white.... [03:51.74] [04:03.24]The looking glass cast Belladonna wreaths [04:06.87]'Pon the grave of Her innocence [04:09.05]Her hidden face spat murder [04:12.05]From a whisper to a scream [04:13.49]All sleep seemed cursed [04:14.55]In Faustian verse [04:15.49]But there in orgiastic Hell [04:16.99]No horrors were worse [04:18.05]Than the mirrored revelation [04:19.18]The She kissed the Devil's phallus [04:21.74]By Her own decree... [04:23.62] [04:27.99]So with windows flung wide to the menstrual sky [04:31.17]Solstice Eve She fled the castle in secret [04:34.37]A daughter of the storm, astride Her favourite nightmare [04:37.17]On winds without prayer [04:38.49] [04:39.37]Stigmata still wept between Her legs [04:42.12]A cold bloodedness which impressed new hatreds [04:44.80]She sought the Sorceress [04:46.55] [04:47.18]Through the snow and dank woods to the sodomite's lair [04:49.68]Nine twisted fates threw hewn bone die [04:58.36]For the throat of Elizabeth [05:00.30]Damnation won and urged the moon [05:02.80] [05:03.49]In soliloquy to gleam [05:05.36]Twixt the trees in shafts [05:07.30]To ghost a path [05:08.68]Past the howl of buggered nymphs [05:11.30]In the sodomite's grasp [05:12.49]To the forest's vulva [05:13.80]Where the witch scholared Her [05:16.36]In even darker themes [05:19.13] [05:28.00]"Amongst philtres and melissas [05:30.37]Midst the grease of strangled men [05:33.56]And eldritch truths, elder ill-omen [05:36.31]Elizabeth came to life again" [05:40.13] [06:06.69]And under lacerations of dawn She returned [06:11.88] [06:12.76]Like a flame unto a deathshead [06:15.76] [06:16.82]With a promise to burn [06:20.57]Secrets brooded as She rode [06:23.95]Through mist and marsh to where they showed [06:27.19]Her castle walls wherein the restless [06:30.89]Counted carrion crows [06:33.38]She awoke from a fable to mourning [06:36.45]Church bells wringing Her madly from sleep [06:40.51]Tolled by a priest, self castrated and hung [06:44.45]Like a crimson bat 'neath the belfry [06:47.20]The biblical prattled their mantras [06:49.57] [06:51.07]Hexes six-tripled their fees [06:53.82]But Elizabeth laughed, thirteen Autumns had passed [06:57.51]And She was a widow from god and His wrath, finally... [07:02.51]