CRADLE OF FILTH - Mannequin lyrics

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Led to other worlds<br>By the girls she curled within<br>I took their skins to see her<br>Be my mannequin<br><br>Be my mannequin<br><br>I cannot remember<br>How it was that we first met<br>Curve of moon and haunted shore<br>The stars were not those heaven sent<br><br>Did we come together<br>At masked palatial balls<br>In silks and flesh and leather<br>Or did we come at all? <br>I dreamt a midnight castle<br>The eerie song of wolves<br>And eyes that danced with fire<br>As they have forever more<br><br>Our rites of sin<br>Have long fathered a hymn<br>To burden him<br>Whom by slip of after whim<br>At genesis<br>Dressed her like the wind<br>In autumn gowns<br>That pinned her down<br>To be my mannequin<br><br>Be my mannequin<br><br>Always poised on winter<br>But never would she break<br>My lovecraft and black witch heart<br>That pounded in her wake<br><br>We kissed on distant balconies<br>A law unto her own<br>Thirteenth dark commandment<br>Of figures pressed to stone<br>Turning cream with fantasies<br>That God alone would know<br>We graced vomitorium<br>With the sweet excess of rome<br><br>Flagrant in the past<br>Our names were deeply carved on the tree of life in long dead languages<br><br>Led to other worlds<br>By the girls she curled within<br>I took their skins to see her<br>Be my mannequin<br><br>Be my mannequin<br><br>I tongued the nuns at louviers<br>But not one word possessed<br>Her divine right, an archetype<br>For mortal goddesses...