CRADLE OF FILTH - A Gothic Romance lyrics

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Death, spirit me away<br>My anguished soul doth strain<br>On taut and twisted reins<br>Yet, insatiate I still remain<br>Like a proud, unfalled star<br>That dares thee from afar<br>To calm my thund'rous heart<br>Else, rend it's knots apart<br>So I may never sing<br><br>Of jewelled skies o'er my strings<br>And love, a wanton thing<br>Can plunge on burnt, black wings<br>To hang amid the thorns<br>In scarlet, like velvet worn<br>About the clouded moon<br>Who wanes in solitude....<br><br>I am alone<br>Thirsting for the dark<br>That lurks beneath marbled stone<br>What black witchcraft<br>Shalt prise thee from thy dreams<br>And what perverse world-strategy<br>Will wend it's way with thee from sleep? <br><br>'rouse my disease<br>And with cadent naked dance I shalt teach<br>Thee wisdom of darkness<br>From earth and red sea<br><br>Lightbearing samael<br>Coalesce with me....'<br><br>Twilight<br>Through pagan city gates<br>Bred shadows play like twining snake<br>By candlelight<br>Thanateros rites<br>Death seduced and chaos wakes....<br><br>Obsession grips, blindragon fever<br>In throes of scythed orgasm, eros dies<br>And saturn rapes faith's lovelorn diva<br>Upon a cyprean altar, stripped bare for sacrifice<br>Virtue births a demon<br>Pandora's box, unhinged, sets loose the night<br>Winged lilith born for want of eden<br>Fanning plumes of harlotry<br>Like pearls before the desert swine<br><br>The skies, they darken<br>And the oceans part<br><br>Storm forth indignant kraken<br>Reborn venus as thou art<br>Feasting at my banquet<br>Of saturnalia<br><br>I call thee having wrestled<br>The tides from lonely diana<br><br>'for thee endymion<br>I forsake the cerements of this star-flung tomb'<br><br>Be-with-us come<br>Unveil the ancient flame<br>Throw the cats our enemies<br>Desire's menstrual strain<br>Eastern devil eyes<br>A cruel erotic plague<br>The shekhina is in exile<br>And the israelites enslaved to shame<br><br>Midnight<br>Jerusalem<br>A tenebrous phantasy<br>Revelates to men<br>Their celestial walls crumble<br>When walks the xul<br>Born to the scarlet whore in babylon<br><br>The centuries of wait have all but gone<br>Behold dark beauty stirs to conquer on and on<br><br>Now worship everything