CRADLE OF FILTH - Presents From The Poison-hearted lyrics

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Reigning at the feast of phantasia<br>Heightened pleasures were endeavoured to bow<br>Before my coronation and vocal aspirations<br>To rule this fool creation fallen 'neath me now<br><br>I knew deep eyes<br>Of a distant christ<br>Were scarred from afar under starry lustre<br><br>Sighting my recitals on the rites of vice<br>Perverting virtue<br>Enslaving grace<br>Behind the glittering mask of pride<br>Saving face finding thorns to pierce his side<br><br>Desire, the fire<br>Spread hell throughout my soul<br>And higher the wire<br>The more I sought control<br><br>Straining from the leash in exultation<br>Head to the wind to breathe with ravenous lungs<br>The global scent of fornication<br>A writhe of many vipers deciphering tongues<br><br>I whispered schemes to dreamers then<br>To pursue an eden<br>That screamed of me supreme again<br>As my world bloomed<br>So too the moon<br>Through adam to seth, enos, cainan<br>Mahalaleel and jared blew<br>Perverting virtue<br>Enslaving grace<br>Behind the slippery guise of lies<br>Saving face making waves to drown their faith<br><br>Messiahs, pariahs<br>Aeons reversed the two<br>This higher, their spires<br>The more cursed grew their roots<br>And suffering...<br><br>I swept cruel seas<br>On the galley of the shadow of death<br><br>A fist in the cunt of the spread horizon<br>A kiss for the sun risen red once dines on<br>The coast of menses<br><br>Discharged from celestial wombs<br>A first degree murder of ravens<br>Followed in fugue through the crack of doom<br><br>The goat of mendes<br>I set regime<br>In the galley of the shadow of death...<br><br>Angels in raiments<br>As pure as coal<br>Taking their payments<br>In tortured mortal souls<br>A bold direction<br>The abyss edge<br>But on cold reflection<br>One they warmed to nonetheless<br><br>As they preyed the paths of the righteous<br>Through the myth of thistled orchard floors<br>Bearing gifts of plenitude, for<br>The apples of the lord were rotten to the core<br><br>Temptation, my ambassador<br><br>Attila, hesiod, pharisees and nero<br>All begged of me for more<br><br>Down dark steps of history<br>I waged war with a heaven<br>I could not see...<br>Beyond my wildest fantasies<br><br>Throwing sixes over deadly sin<br>I traded whose who played to win<br>Skin for precious kin...<br>And that that wormed within<br><br>Staining the reams of revelation<br>Etching ever-afters in accursed verse<br>The limpid rags of resurrection<br>From papal parapets were to dirt dispersed<br>Desire, the flyers<br>Spread hell throughout their souls<br>And higher the fire<br>The more I held control