Cradle of Filth texter!

 

The Forest Whispers My Name

 

Black candles dance to an overture

But I am drawn past their flickering lure

To the breathing forest that surrounds the room

Where the vigilant trees push out of the womb

I sip the blood-red wine

My thoughts weigh heavy with the burden of time

From knowledge drunk from the fountain of life

From Chaos born out of love and the scythe

The forest beckons with her nocturnal call

To pull me close amid the baying of wolves

Where the bindings of christ are downtrodden with scorn

In the dank, odiferous earth

 

We embrace like two lovers at death

A monument to the trapping of breath

As restriction is bled from the veins in my neck

To drop roses on my marbled breast

I lust for the wind and the flurry of leaves

And the perfume of flesh on the murderous breeze

To learn from the dark and the voices between

 

This is my will...

 

The forest whispers my name...again and again

 

I walk the path

To the land of the Dark Immortals

Where the hungry ones will carry my soul

As the wild hunt careers through the boughs

 

Come to me, my Pale Enchantress

In the moon of the woods we kiss

 

Artemis be near me

In the arms of the ancient oak

Where daylight hangs by a lunar noose

And the horned, hidden one is re-invoked

 

The principle of Evil

Evolution has been recalled

Beneath the spread of a Magickal Aeon

I stand enthralled

...In the whispering forest

 

Lustmord and Wargasm

 

An Archangel in bondage

Bediademed, souled

With a murder of ravens

But no less Astarte to behold

Abandoned by Heaven

To the dead, dark and past

Cast Her dispersions

On life's brittle glass

 

And though Her eyes still held fire

As stonewalls caged the beast

'Gainst the lassitudes of Death

She fought but fell to greet

And midst lies in collusion

She was martyred to teach

That "Divinity and Lust

Are forever forbidden to meet"

But I swore that they would

Before the veil could part our embrace

Twixt Her cold, silent hips I kissed

And promised Christendom in flames

 

Gravid with madness

Like a feculent dirge

That obsesses the heart

I am covened by words

 

To avenge Her

Ebon splendour

And surrender

My soul to the dead to achieve

Prophecies of libidinous scourge

Horripilation braying o'er carious herds

 

Vexing nightmares

And their weak prayers

To a no one there

To hinder Her decree

 

To weed the world of their disease

 

As shadows unblind mine eyes to see

The meat that is their congregation

 

How they plead to the skies

But this is mere foreplay to war

 

Scar-riddled saffron eves bleed like the conjugal

Vestal daughters giving throat to the priest

A psychophant, the despoiler of faith

Now His skinless crucifixion feeds a winged diocese

 

For Her interred

I tore a battle banner from His hide

Splashed in red goetia

Hues of Hell and deicide

So came the night

Its obsidian light

Is a master whom disasters

Suck upon like concubines

And under black skirts

That whisper of delight

Darkseeds near fruition

Darked deeds to marry mine

 

"In Death's bed I have lain

Paying lip-service to shame

But for dreaming of thee I regain

A reason to seek life again"

 

Then we smite the divine

For our true nature is sin

To strip tender flesh from these swine

Like the lick of carnivorous winds

 

The breath of the storm that begins

By forcing its Herod tongue in

The womb of the holy virgin

To taste of immaculate sin

 

From temptation's peak we will see

The world unfurled at last

Now the wolves of time who stalk Mankind

Shall be as one in grim repast

 

Commemorating sickle moons

The pack are poised to reap

A scythe of white roses in bloom

Whose twisted thorns will keep

A crown upon a dead man

Daylights crucified in sleep

And lives that hide in scriptured lies

To the memories of a scream

 

And we shall dance amid the ruin

As Adam and Evil

Dizzy at the falling stars

That burn fiercer in throes of upheaval

 

If all must we damn for this moment

Then it shall be so

For our souls have crossed oceans of time

To clasp one another more tightly

Than Death could alone........

 

As Zyklon beats reign to make carrion crawl

The talons of lust rake a clarion call

To the lick of carnivorous winds

The lick of carnivorous winds

 

Blackmetal

 

Black is the night, metal we fight

Power amps set to explode.

Energy screams, magic and dreams

Satan records the first note.

We chime the bell, chaos and hell

Metal for maniacs pure.

Faster than steel, fortune on wheels

Brain haemorrhage is the cure.

 

For BLACK METAL

lay down your souls to the gods rock 'n roll

 

Freaking so wild, nobodys mild

Giving it all that you got.

Wild is so right, metal tonight

Faster than over the top.

Open the door, enter hell's core

Black is the code for tonight.

Atomic force, feel no remorse

Crank up the amps now its night

 

BLACK METAL

 

lay down your souls to the gods rock 'n roll

metal ten fold through the deadly black hole

riding hell's stallions bareback and free

taking our chances with raw energy

 

Come ride the night with us

Rock hard and fight

United my legions we stand

Freak hard and wild for us

Give up your soul

Live for the quest satan's band

 

Against the odds, black metal gods

Fight to achieve our goal

Casting a spell, leather and hell

Black metal gods rock 'n roll

Building up steam, nuclear screams

War-heads are ready to fight

Black leather hounds, faster than sound

Metal our purpose in life

 

BLACK METAL

 

lay down your souls to the gods rock 'n roll

 

BLACK METAL

 

Hallowed Be Thy Name

 

I'm waiting in my cold cell when the bell begins to chime

Reflecting on my past life and it doesn't have much time

Cos at 5 o'clock they take me to the Gallows Pole

The sands of time for me are running low

 

When the priest comes to read me the last rites

I take a look through the bars at the last sights

Of a world that has gone very wrong for me

 

Can it be there's some sort of error

Hard to stop the surmounting terror

Is it really the end not some crazy dream

 

Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming

It's not so easy to stop from screaming

But words escape me when I try to speak

Tears they flow but why am I crying

After all I am not afraid of dying

Don't believe that there is never an end

 

As the guards march me out to the courtyard

Someone calls from a cell "God be with you"

If there's a God then why has he let me die?

 

As I walk all my life drifts before me

And though the end is near I'm not sorry

Catch my soul cos it's willing to fly away

 

Mark my words please believe my soul lives on

Please don't worry now that I have gone

I've gone beyond to see the truth

 

When you know that your time is close at hand

maybe then you'll begin to understand

Life down there is just a strange illusion.

 

Hell Awaits

 

Existing on damnation's edge

The priest had never known

To witness such a violent show

Of power overthrown

 

Angels fighting aimlessly

Still dying by the sword

Our legions killing all in sight

To get the one called Lord

 

The Gates of Hell lie waiting as you see

There's no price to pay just follow me

I can take your lost soul from the grave

Jesus knows your soul can not be saved

 

Crucify the so called Lord

He soon shall fall to me

Your souls are damned your God has fell

To slave for me eternally

Hell awaits...

 

The Reaper guard's the darkened Gates

That Satan calls his home

Demons feed the furnace where

The Dead are free to roam

 

Lonely children of the night

There's seven ways to go

Each leading to the burning hole

The Lucifer controls

 

Priests of Hades seek the sacred star

Satan sees the answer lies not far

Zombies screaming souls cry out to you

Satanic laws prevail your life is through

 

Pray to the moon... when it is round

Death with you shall then abound

What you seek... for can't be found

In sea or sky or underground

 

Now I have you deep inside my everlasting grasp
The seven bloody Gates of Hell

Is where you'll live your last

 

Warriors from Hell's Domain

Will bring you to your Death

The flames of Hades burning strong

Your soul shall never rest

 

The Gates of Hell lie waiting as you see

There's no price to pay just follow me

I can take your lost soul from the grave

Jesus knows your soul can not be saved

 

Sacrifice the lives of all I know they

Soon shall die

Their souls are damned to rot in Hell

and keep the fire growing deep inside

Hell awaits...