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The Manticore and Other Horrors by Cradle of Filth - Album Lyrics & Tracks

Cradle of Filth2012 ReleasedMetalUnited Kingdom
Tracks: 13
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Duration: 1:02:28
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Label: Peaceville

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Complete Album Tracklist

1

The Unveiling of O

02:07
2

The Abhorrent

05:53
3

For Your Vulgar Delectation

04:46
4

Illicitus

05:24
5

Manticore

05:53
6

Frost on Her Pillow

04:12
7

Huge Onyx Wings Behind Despair

04:23
8

Pallid Reflection

05:34
9

Siding With the Titans

05:17
10

Succumb to This

04:43
11

Nightmares of an Ether Drinker

04:33
12

Death, the Great Adventure

06:18
13

Sinfonia

03:25
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The Manticore and Other Horrors Complete Lyrics

Manticore Lyrics

5 ContributorsManticore Lyrics"Write a story, Any story
But let it have dragons..."
 
O Gods of war
In the jungle corridor
I feel your haughty presence
Feasting the Manticore
 
She stalks the shadows, burning
The smoke is thick and reeks of blood
Her hunger an eternal yearning
 
Tantric, necromantic
A wank fantasy of faith
She religiously feeds
A feverous all man-eater
 
In the trees I see
Her eyes like slithering She Of Snakes
Monstrous this Chimera
In her beautiful anger
 
Screaming from the pulpit
Damnation's oratory
 
She is the whispering poisoned dart
And the breath of armageddon all around
The embodiment of evil in a body full of raptures
Anthropophagous
 
 
Manticora
 
Press the silent violin of frisson over horror
In my forced hand
Sphinx will sing her song and coloured in lullabies
Death endorsed invades our lands
 
Gigantic, pyromantic
A beast of naked flame
Panting blackened masses
From her opulant Godhead
 
Ill-barred are those tongues
Spread wings eclipse her frame
And in her deep crevasses
Kundalini vents unfed
 
In darkness
Her fastness threshed with fleshing teeth
She comes to masticate you whole
 
She is the bane of mothers
Grand Leveller of Maa Kali's Mardi Gras
What man would damn the world to summon her?
 
Be still
Pray silence lest she stoops to conquer
 
 
The Perverse acid queen
Ten thousand pillars in her heart
Uphold a cracked palace of frozen killers
And the mirror in her soul
Polished black for scrying nightmares
Bubbles with a lust
That yearns to burn again
 
Razor backed, She attacks
Empire's battle cat
A creature of the white devil's rule
Mythical and mystical
Provinces will recall
The swarm of refugees from her pall
 
Mimicking victims
With a voice of the choicest deadpanned in pain
Awful claws hold rapport
With the skins of mankind
 
She is the whispering poisoned dart
And the breath of armageddon all around
The embodiment of evil in a body full of raptures
 
A lick of fire on her lips
As silent as a will o wisp
She comes amongst you all, tigressive
Blazing in her pride
Hellraising horrors from the dark-side...
 
 
Manticore

Nightmares of an Ether Drinker Lyrics

6 ContributorsNightmares of an Ether Drinker LyricsBursting with madness the moon shall derange
The ether caresses my veins
Cursing the feverous reign
I taste the change
 
Lips curl, my grip starts to harden
Malestroms are loosed in the garden
 
Angels will whisper bane
Hidden meanings in the teachings of pain
Time warps with their kiss bestowed again
 
Go go go tidal vertigo
Back is an arrogant front
Truth is a lie, suicidal eyes
Plummet from the summit of this pissed-up...
 
Nightmare
 
Hellucinations, bare mountain night
Walpurgis is thirsting for souls
My coven is sloven
For blood still muds the knolls
 
Visions soar phantasmagorical
Collidescopic, whetting the oracle
 
 
Fast awake to make this dreamland obey
Forsaking others for the chasing of prey
I take another draught, fates spirit me away
 
Go go go wicked vertigo
Intoxication is a fur
Worn about stitched arctic shoulders
It sets this melancholy beast to purr
 
Lost in bliss, the mooring slips
 
Hyde is high and mighty
In veneration of his role
 
Dreams amass
Nightmares are rising
Dreams amass
Unsympathising
Dreams a massacre
 
I have left bereft the flesh
Sanctuary for the grail of woe
 
Now suddenly I see, I see, I see
Like innocent breath through a perfumed harem
A gash of lightning tearing ashen skies
Betray the scene
A deathless army, the greatest never been
Lurks frighteningly silent
Hanging on the fatal call for carnage
 
 
Come the awful sundering
The devilment is thundering
 
Fellow travellers tread careful
Hell awaits diethyl dreams
These lush pretense dimensions wean
 
Come the awful sundering
The devilment is thundering
 
Seeking ways back to our world
Eldritch curators scheme
Horrors rush upon us as we flee
 
I plunge on a comet, vomit the sea
Lunge upright to flames advancing on me
Dancing like Mardi Gras dark company
 
Dreams amass
Nightmares are rising
Dreams amass
Unsympathising
Dreams a massacre
 
I am riding high tonight
In celebration of my role
 
 
Dreams amass
Nightmares are rising
Dreams amass
Unsympathising
Dreams a massacre
 
I will leave relieved my flesh
Sanctuary for the grail of woe

Death, the Great Adventure Lyrics

5 ContributorsDeath, the Great Adventure LyricsSometimes red curtains fall
Before the act has headed for the wings
As on that night disaster crawled out from the stalls...
 
Suddenly the dark, the thickest Stygian dark
Pressing on all sides with vertigo
Running from the quickest in the sickest abyss
My spirit's lifted by an angel of woe
 
A dredged up dreadful past
Drags discordant thoughts my way
Unforgiven and driven to despair
I sense the mordant wraith Azazel
Standing there
 
Now the vision simmers
I spy a distant gleam
Racing ever closer
Through this persistent dream
 
And by its welcome glimmer
Writhing into sight
The brutish groping nightmares
That hide beside the light
 
Then a roar
And a voice like a pride of lions
Thunders from the maw
In a blackened mass
The creatures flee
Screaming bloody murder as
A shining gateway opens for me
 
 
Death, the great adventure
 
At the peril of my soul
I welcome death, the great avenger
 
Spared this awful realm
Where those who stalk the living haunt the murk
Untethered pleasures keep them tied to flawed
Humana
 
I'm floating upward still, to where the tunnel mouth reveals
Two Manitcores that ward an ebon door
I muster that resolve, as the luminance dissolves
And I am thrust headlong before their venomous jaws
I am in darkness again
But here accursedness is vastly deeper
 
Unforgiven and given to torment
I am nothing
Grotesque, grotesque, bereft of judgment
 
This abyss, a voice
Where stripped of all but Self
One must wish to be destroyed
To pass on somewhere else
 
 
Beyond this pit of wicked shouts
Madness and fallacies
Aeons I failed to rail my doubts
Before fear left love saving me
 
Then a roar
And a voice like the clash of Titans
Thunders from the maw
In a seething mass
The horrors flee
Screaming bloody murder as
A shrouded sky opens immensely
 
Listen!
What Eden shall arise
Abundant from the cliffs that stunt Hell's repundant cries?
 
A view of breathtaking beauty
Unveils, as the sun disperses
Perversities
 
Death, the great adventure
 
For the glory of my soul
I welcome death, the great avenger
 
 
The damaged man revies
With dawning truth, this morning suits
The world I left abruptly
In exaltation, I find myself alive
Near-death to steer a life long-led corruptly
 
The sweet silver chord that keeps me moored
I know that heaven sent her
 
From the cold to hold her face again
I rose from death, the great adventure