CRADLE OF FILTH - Heaven Torn Asunder lyrics

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Evening minuetto in a castle by the sea<br>A jewel more radiant than the moon<br>Lowered her mask to me<br>The sublimest creature the gods, full of fire<br>Would marvel at making their queen<br>Infusing the air with her fragrant desire<br>And my heart reeled with grave poetry....<br><br>From grace I fell in love with her<br>Scent and feline lure<br>And jade woodland eyes that ushered in the impurest<br>'erotic, laden fantasies amid this warm autumn night<br>She lulled me away from the rich masquerade<br>And together we clung in the bloodletting moonlight'<br>Pearled luna, what spell didst thou cast on me? <br>Her icy kiss fervoured my neck<br>Like whispering waves 'pon acheron's beach<br>In a whirl of sweet voices and statues<br>That phantomed the dying trees<br>This debauched seductress in black, took me....<br><br>In a pale azured dawn like ligeia reborn<br>I tore free of my sleep - sepulchre<br>On the sea misted lawn where stone figures, forlorn<br>Lamented the spectre of her<br>Bewildered and weak, yet with passion replete<br>I hungered for past overtures<br>The curse of unrest and her ardent caress<br>Came much more than my soul could endure....<br><br>I, at once endeavoured to see her again<br>Stirring from midnight's inertia<br>Knowing not even her name<br>On a thin precipice over carnal abyss<br>I danced like a blind acolyte<br>Drunk on red wine, her dead lips on mine<br>Suffused with the perfume of night<br><br>For hours I scoured the surrounding grounds<br>In vain that we might meet<br>When storm clouds broke, ashened, fatigued<br>I sought refuge in a cemeterty<br><br>Sleep, usher dreams<br>Taint to nightmares from a sunless nether<br><br>Mistress of the dark<br>I now know what thou art<br><br>Screams haunt my sleep<br>Dragged from nightmares thou hast wed together<br><br>Lamia and lemures<br>Spawned thee leche<br>To snare my flesh<br><br>Portrait of the dead countess<br><br>Deep stained pain that I had dreamt<br>Flaunted demise, life's punishment<br>Leaving little strength to seal this wretched tomb....<br><br>But poised nectar within my stirs<br>Up feverous desire and morbid purpose to search<br>Through cobwebbed drapery to where she swoons<br>Goddess of the graveyard, of the tempest and moon<br>In flawless fatal beauty her very visage compels<br>Glimpses of a heaven where ghost companies fell<br>To mourning the loss of God in blackest velvet<br>Enrobed in their downfall like a swift silhouette<br><br>'fleeting, enshadowed<br>Thou art privy to my sin<br>Secrets dead, wouldst thou inflict<br>The cruel daylights upon my skin? <br>Dost thou not want to worship me<br>With crimson sacrifice<br>So my cunt may twitch against thy kiss<br>And weep with new-found life? '<br><br>Red roses for the devil's whore....<br><br>Dark angels taste my tears<br>And whisper haunting requiems<br>Softly to mine ear<br>Need-fires have lured abominations here....<br><br>Nocturnal pulse<br>My veins spill forth their waters<br>Rent by lips I cherish most<br><br>Awash on her perfidious shores<br>Where drowning umbra o'er the stars<br>Ebon's graves where lovers whore<br>Like seraphim and nahemah<br><br>'nahemah'<br><br>Pluck out mine eyes, hasten, attest<br>Blind reason against thee, enchantress<br>For I must know, art thou not death? <br>My heart echoes bloodless and incensed....<br><br>Doth temptation prowl night in vulvic revelry<br>Did not the queen of heaven come as devil to me? <br>On that fatal hallow's eve when we fled company<br>As the music swept around us in the crisp, fated leaves<br>Under horned diana where her bloodline was sewn<br>In a graveyard of angels rent in cool marbled stone<br>I am grieving the loss of life in sombre velvet<br>Enrobed in death's shadow like a swifter<br>Silhouette....