Dusk and Her Embrace [Live]-Cradle of Filth

[00:36.26]When the sun has wept upon the waveless lake [00:40.70]And the mists steal in with ease [00:45.51]Covened wolves are their eerie dissonant napes [00:49.32]In adoration of the moon and thee [00:55.20] [00:58.57]"They call as I to thee...." [01:03.42] [01:20.73]And I will come, as if in dream [01:24.79]My languid, dark and lustrous Malaresian Queen [01:28.42]Of vengeful, ancient breed [01:30.80]Gilded with the pelts of many enemies [01:34.61]Erishkigal, raven-haired [01:35.97] [01:48.87]Thy seduction haunts the castle in erotic despair [01:59.50] [02:00.62]I can taste thy scent by candlelight [02:03.56]Legs of porcelain traced and laced to their lair [02:07.18]Appease the beast on spattered sheets [02:09.56]Dyed unearthly red as sobriety weeps [02:12.00]Nocternity.... [02:12.87] [02:15.93]She shall come for me [02:20.12]A black velvet painting sprung to elegant life [02:24.06]Like a poignant Madonna perverted to night [02:27.37] [02:32.68]And I have ridden from the westerning light [02:35.81]To expend my lust [02:38.87]Tear away the funereal dress [02:41.81]Know that I will escape from my death [02:45.99] [02:46.62]Surrendered to the splendour of her sharpened caress [02:50.87]Lo! The pale moonlight [02:53.18]Weaves a poetic spell of vital death and decline [02:57.81] [02:58.75]Of mist and moth and the hunger inside [03:04.25] [03:05.75]Kisses took to fever and the fever, demise [03:11.18]"Through twilight, darkness and moonrise [03:16.12]My scarlet tears will run [03:20.06]As stolen blood and whispered love [03:23.99] [03:44.67]Of fantasies undone" [03:49.55]Countess swathed in ebony [03:54.61]And snow-white balletic grace [03:58.86] [04:00.67]Rouge-filmed lips procure the wish [04:03.67]For lust and her disgrace [04:07.10]Dusk and her embrace [04:10.23]We shall flit through the shadows [04:12.36]Like a dream of wolves in the snow [04:17.92]Under deadly nightshade [04:19.55]Still warmed with the kill's afterglow [04:23.17] [04:24.92]Beneath the stars thy flesh bedevils me [04:27.36]the stars taste the death in [04:30.62]Bequeath to me thy fiery kiss [04:33.00]To sever thin mortality [04:34.38]Elizabeth [04:35.25]My heart is thine [04:36.81]Thy fragrant words Warm within like wine.... [04:38.62]"Let me come to thee [04:40.44]With eyes like Asphodel [04:41.63]Moon-glancing, loose desires free [04:43.25]To writhe under my spell" [04:45.94]Ereshkigal, raven-haired [04:46.37]Thy seduction haunts the castle in erotic despair [04:48.75]I know thy scent by candlelight [04:50.69]Immortal flesh I yearn to share [04:52.31]Appease the beast on spattered sheets [04:53.87]Dyed malefic red as sobriety weeps [04:55.50]Nocternity [04:55.75]She shall come for me.... [04:57.06]Unfurl thy limbs breathless succubus [04:58.37]How the full embosomed fog [05:00.18]Imparts the night to us.... [05:13.81] [05:29.15]