CRADLE OF FILTH - Doberman Pharaoh lyrics

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To and fro, through freeze and thaws<br>From zenith to nadir<br>The universal tug of war<br>Saw lines drawn in the sands appear<br>Divisions of a promised land<br>And hell for those that dwelt<br>Beneath a pharaoh's granite hand<br>Where death wed something else<br><br>Millennia swam passed<br>Since the covened ark<br>Ran aground on ararat...<br><br>But anew, tempered shadows grew<br>Out of midian, strewing fear<br>Over verdant lawns, the resurgent storms<br>Led a desert son to sear<br><br>From the palace orchard I espied...<br>(where swooning trees and moonless beams vied<br>For the painted eye of the royal bride<br>Whose gliding curves were deified)<br>...beyond her grace where love would die<br>Wretched destiny arrive<br><br>Back and forth the prophet came<br>Riddled with a tongue of plagues<br>That would render might egypt lame<br>If the rage of God stayed unassuaged...<br>I listened with a heavy heart<br>But unveiled to the threats<br>This hebrew in a jackal's mask<br>Would dredge into effect<br><br>Thenceforth the nile reddened<br>S if set stretched his hand<br>To beset the damned<br><br>And bruised with flies<br>The skies grew leadened<br><br>But these miracles, feared<br>Were all but reared<br>By nature, whose law alone<br>Stood that revered<br><br>This hysteria passed, but still the mark<br>Of yahveh burned on in the dark<br><br>One final time, on the steps to the shrine<br>Of thoth, I twined with fate<br>Let my people go<br>Still my word is no<br>Then death shall be the deciding plague<br><br>Since the crimes divine I left behind<br>I'd warred with every tribe that plied<br>In holy vestament, but with time<br>Bored sore of clawing what was mine<br>I laid my bones and made my throne<br>With a view to paradise<br><br>Thenceforth the heavens deafened<br>As if great beasts<br>Were unleashed to feast on man<br><br>And with carrion span<br>Michael was weaponed<br><br>To descend with scorn<br>A dark reform<br>Through pi-ramses<br>Skinning mine and her firstborn<br><br>Thus suspiria passed each sacred mark<br>Of yahveh, bleeding in the dark<br><br>With nauseous dawn, a cry, forlorn<br>Unified from plazas deep<br>The prophet's curse<br>Far worse had worked<br>To wrest the war in me from sleep<br><br>Drowned in light, a downward light<br>Bathed the snaking exodus<br>Through the wilderness<br>As the aeons crept<br>Impressed with fresh bloodlust