Cryptoriana: The Seductiveness of Decay
Cradle of Filth
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Exquisite Torments Await…
02 : 15
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Heartbreak and Seance
06 : 24
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Achingly Beautiful
07 : 02
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Wester Vespertine
07 : 24
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The Seductiveness of Decay
07 : 38
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Vengeful Spirit
06 : 00
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You Will Know the Lion by His Claw
07 : 22
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Death and the Maiden
08 : 48
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The Night at Catafalque Manor
07 : 31
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Alison Hell
05 : 01
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Track Lyrics
Achingly Beautiful Lyrics
[Intro]
Night
That fateful raven alighted
On the cusp of my bewitchment
[Verse 1]
The beast in the clouds had swallowed the moon
A silverback thundering across the cosmos
In silence, now stars followed her tune
Winking from existence on the brink of chaos
[Pre-Chorus]
I penned an open sonnet
To the pearly gates ablaze
As I gazed upon this angel
Intoxicating everything
[Chorus 1]
The ball became her court
Her presence there electrifying
Candelabra fought
To tear themselves away
[Chorus 2]
She was a flame, divine
My pathic call of duty, irrefutable
Her eyes, they paralyzed me, froze the flow of time
A glimpse so achingly beautiful
[Bridge]
Fleeing from the manor
In the manner of this crime
We sheltered from the pelting
Helter-skelter of the skies
In the Greek gazebo
Speaking tragedian rhyme
Death would never settle
For one petal at a time
He would pluck the fucker!
[Chorus 1]
Lo, this malleus eve
Is heaving to the pulse of souls
[Chorus 2]
She was the game, sublime
A knight takes queen in ruby, indisputable
Then her eyes, they paralyzed me for a second time
A glimpse so achingly beautiful
[Bridge 1]
Drinking in her flora
This Aurora to the storm
I was burning in the furnace
Of a love that went to war
With ravenous desire
Fires lit the heavens for
Caressing in the rainfall
A less painful metaphor
For this hunger...
[Bridge 2]
On marbled tomb
Breathless, cocooned
A long, red dress shrouds
Like Ophelia, this Goddess
Mourning, then crawls
Black velvet palled
To pass fervent lips
Betwixt her deliciousness
Miserere Mei Diva
Forgive me forever, my bride
But a gift was delivered, however perverse
On that night you exquisitely died
Seraphina rise...
Arcane perfection
Her legend was etched
...To queen demon revised
A fell resurrection
Unparalleled in this world or next
Awaken, forsaken
By others soon taken as prey
Now you shall stand in the grandeur of love
A wonderland in which to play
[Guitar Solos: Marek Å merda / Richard Shaw]
[Verse 2]
The beast in the clouds spat back the moon
And arrayed in a crown of glittering cobwebs
She slid to her feet like a prophet of doom
Born to immortal darkness
As mortality slipped away
[Chorus]
She was a flame, divine
My gnathic call of duty, irrefutable
Her eyes imparadised me with their wicked shine
A glimpse so achingly beautiful
Now she stirs the night
Just like the perfect Lorelei
As she spurs the dark horse
Foaming in my soul
[Outro]
Death is fleet, sweet, oft discreet
The beast in beauty's mask
Her skies, bediademed, complete
Now freed of days grown overcast
The Seductiveness of Decay Lyrics
[Guitar Solos: Richard Shaw / Marek Å merda]
Behind the grind of imperialistic overkill
Industrious teeth sank deep into the red map
Workhouses, grist for satanic treadmills
Spew offsprings back intact
In fact, far closer to collapse
And the pooling lamp of science in defiance of the Lord
Its hallowed tallow burning with discord
Is born of midnight trysts with resurrectionists
Body snatchers, child catchers
The Necropolis built on top of this
Is an Empire fit for ghouls
Is an empire fit for ghouls
Here, the age grows more unholier
Here, the age grows more unholier
Careered with fear
Beneath the veil of melancholia
Now the smokestacks darken skies
The caress of death is on the rise
Its choking breath romanticised
And dressed in chocked abomination
Aberration
A mourning nation cries