Damnation and a Day
Cradle of Filth
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A Bruise Upon the Silent Moon
02 : 03
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The Promise of Fever
05 : 56
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Hurt and Virtue
05 : 23
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An Enemy Led the Tempest
06 : 12
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Damned in Any Language (A Plague on Words)
01 : 57
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Better to Reign in Hell
06 : 11
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Serpent Tongue
05 : 10
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Carrion
04 : 42
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The Mordant Liquor of Tears
02 : 35
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Presents From the Poison-Hearted
06 : 19
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Doberman Pharaoh
06 : 02
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Babalon A.D. (So Glad for the Madness)
05 : 39
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A Scarlet Witch Lit the Season
01 : 33
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Mannequin
04 : 26
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Thank God for the Suffering
06 : 13
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The Smoke of Her Burning
05 : 00
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End of Daze
01 : 24
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Track Lyrics
Hurt and Virtue Lyrics
5 ContributorsHurt and Virtue LyricsDistant vistas
Swathed in the haze of the reddening sunset
Fell to whispers
'Neath the stars that marred descending skies
From the cusp of midnight mountains
Wending as a mist
Rebels truced with Feriluce
(In truth, few could resist)
Came praising this hellraising through
The sparse and marble clime
Where Virtue bathed, their ravenings made
Her fountains flood with vine
Lifted with the gift
Of their dark seductive songs
She drifted from the path
She was surely set upon
Courting chaos
Prized in the sight of the covering angel
Taught in ways of
Smothering another love other than God
Worshipped in each other's arms
Like spider eidolons
The moon conducted like a charm
Those strange arrangements on
And this is how they came to be
Dragged before the throne
Trough tongues that hung whilst theirs were run
On soft white throats and punctured moans
Though fated now than later
By his tutor that had been
He baited the Creator
With the future he had seen
Of Michael, psyched with jealousies
A reich by His side
And worming Man about to be
The apple of His eye
His children lost to free will
And the cost of beaten hearts
Like the nigt 'twixt vice and Virtue
When Her kiss became a scar
Seraph enemies
Why has my lord forsaken my judgement
Am I not free
As He to indulge my darkest fantasies?
From embittered lips
These words were slavered
Split on the whips
Of their witch hunt gathered
He sought Her gaze
Midst drowning crowds that howled in rage
"Blasphemer! Blasphemer!"
Though She was gone
Not lyriced to the song of their spirited throng
But ghosted back where She belonged
A grace embracing Michael
In a lace of tears that bleared Her pride
He swallowed, blood followed
Through with spit for all things divine
Through with spit for all things so fucking blind
His seal He tore
And to the floor
He threw his tie to Heaven
Signifying holy war
And watchful of this sign
A thousand flames, unauthorized
Left celestial posts
To coalesce and, unified
Return their fallen leader
As he turned one final time
And threw a glance
Like a downward lance
That stung like guilt in every mind
An Enemy Led the Tempest Lyrics
6 ContributorsAn Enemy Led the Tempest LyricsAs pride precedes downfall
So He took His place before the firewall
Of dissonant choirs whose faith in one
Was embraced in this wraith whose fate was hung
Between forgiveness and the damage done
An electric scent over drear decay
Lent a violent surge to their serenades
Through white glades as His winged parade
Bent to silhouette and to sharpen dull razors
Within vast skies unversed in starkness
His might grew
And blew light hues to gray...
And worse, a third of stars to darkness
Then thunder seethed
And wreathed in thickening night
A line was drawn midst wrong and right
And across the throats of thieves
As love fell choked, the tempest broke
From Heaven's farthest shore
Descending to eclipse all hope
Rependance might stay holy war
He would not heel nor fake a bow
Murmur curses to the wind
Enraged, he raved in Balrog howls
Upon the storm firstborn of sin
Incensed anew, rebellions tore
Like frenzied beasts of prey
Through temple doors...
Thrown cast before the midnight masses
And where once bliss reigned so serene
In sweeter glades
Now veins ran openly...
Like eyes that shied from kindred ashes
When suddenly
There shone a hideous light
And a voice like three insanities
Soared up in thistled speech...
Thou hast bred hate where there dwelt none
And for this grave mistake
How thou art fallen Morning Sun
The proud will be abased
He would not heel nor fake a bow
Murmur curses to the wind
And lo, the wrath of God swept down...
Thou art no more an angel filled
With light, but a leech to be abhorred
And thou shalt suffer My burning will...
Quoth this raven: Nevermore
Nevermore
And with these words like heavy stone
Cast against that gilded throne
With many legions still in tow
He turned his wings to flee
His eyes a picture of distaste
Drawn to tears and in their place
The damn of time and fates to face
Through all eternity...
I wept for him a deep red river
That ran like blood through scarred ravines
To sluice away the guilt that slithered
Like a serpent tongue to Eve
For once as I, in Heaven climbed
Too high for truth to truly see
My sunken mind, drunken and blind
Saw the lie: That fool was Me...
Alone and cold, face to the crack
Beyond dark gates with no way back
His crown of gold faded to black
Like a bruise upon the heart that lingers
With thrill-kill culture shock wave lengths
Of rope to hang high
Ten commandments by...
Snaked about his upraised fingers
Presents From the Poison-Hearted Lyrics
5 ContributorsPresents from the Poison-Hearted LyricsReigning at the feast of Phantasia
Heightened pleasures were endeavoured to bow
Before My coronation and vocal aspirations
To rule this fool creation fallen 'neath Me now
I knew deep eyes of a distant Christ
Were scarred from afar under starry lustre
Sighting my recitals on the rites of vice
Perverting Virtue, enslaving grace
Behind the glittering mask of pride
Saving face finding thorns to pierce his side
Desire, the fire
Spread hell throughout my soul
And higher the wire
The more I sought control
Straining from the leash in exultation
Head to the wind to breathe with ravenous lungs
The global scent of fornication
A writhe of many vipers deciphering tongues
I whispered schemes to dreamers then
To pursue an Eden
That screamed of me supreme again
As my world bloomed, so too the moon
Through Adam to Seth, Enos, Cainan
Mahalaleel and Jared blew
Perverting virtue, enslaving grace
Behind the slippery guise of lies
Saving face making waves to drown their faith
Messiahs, pariahs
Aeons reversed the two
Thus higher, their sprites
The more cursed grew their roots and suffering
I swept cruel seas
On the galley of the shadow of death
A fist in the cunt of the spread horizon
A kiss for the sun risen red once dined on
The coast of Menses
Discharged from celestial wombs
A first degree murder of ravens
Followed in fugue through the crack of doom
The Goat of Mendes
I set regime in the galley of the shadow of death
Angels in raiments as pure as coal
Taking their payments in tortured mortal souls
A bold direction, the abyss edge
But on cold reflection one they warmed to nonetheless
As they preyed the paths of the righteous one
Through the myth of thistled orchard floors
Bearing gifts of plenitude for
The apples of the Lord were rotten to the core
Temptation, my ambassador
Attila, Herod, Pharisees and Nero
All begged of Me for more
Down dark steps of history
I waged a war with a Heaven
I could not see beyond my wildest fantasies
Throwing sixes over deadly sin
I traded those who played to win
Skin for precious kin
And that that wormed within
And that that wormed within
Staining the reams of revelation
Etching ever-afters in accursed verse
The limpid rags of resurrection
From papal parapets were to dirt dispersed
Desire, the flyers
Spread Hell throughout their souls
And higher the fire
The more I held control
Thank God for the Suffering Lyrics
5 ContributorsThank God for the Suffering LyricsI, I still recall, the first fullmoon of May
‘Neath whose rays we lay together
And those bright nights on glassy waves
When we would glide lightly away
From the grain, for wicked flights of pleasure
Those visions fade like ghosts to life's parade
Though incisions once made Her so vivid
A scarlet whore with both heels in the door
Of a heaven severed from me, insipid
And midst the writhe of parapets
Where angels sigh, lonely she sits
Upon the lip only a slip
From whence I beg Her
That I would wish, her kiss a chrysalis
To break to make my fluttered heart amiss
And in those frozen moments won
From grief that creeps to wreathe the sun
In drapes inwove with deathshead wing
I thank God for the suffering
Love would have conquered all but for the Rapture
That ancient plan for my defeat
Denied Faith skies that would have set Her free
It seems again dreams wend to capture
Once dancing in a spotlit waltz
Through a shadowed dimension
Given to the rivers that bedizened Her eyes
The world drifted by in a lost momentum
With no divine intervention
Regardless that the author
Of sin was me and I
Lay chaste of hate in Faith's embrace
As Mortals warred with more besides
They warred with life itself
And in those frozen moments won
From grief that creeps to wreathe the sun
In drapes inwove with deathshead wing
I thank God for the suffering
And I thank God for the suffering
As still I burn for Her return
I would make my peace with everything
I, I still recall, the first full moon of May
Consigned to flames like secret letters
And midst the writhe of parapets
Where angels sigh, lonely she sits
Upon the lip only a slip from whence I beg Her
That I would wish, her kiss a chrysalis
To break to make my fluttered heart amiss
And in those frozen moments won
From grief that creeps to wreathe the sun
In drapes inwove with deathshead wing
I thank God for the suffering
Love would have conquered all
Were we not parted
Her splintered loss rekindles rage
The winter frost dwindles across my stage
Lit up once more to score finales started
Love would have conquered all
Love would have conquered
Hate, hate, hate, hate
Hate, hate, hate, hate
Hate, hate, hate, hate
Hate, hate, hate, hate
(Hate, hate, hate, hate)
(Hate, hate, hate, hate)
(Hate, hate, hate)
I thank God for the suffering
The Smoke of Her Burning Lyrics
6 ContributorsThe Smoke of Her Burning LyricsEarth and sea cower from my screams
As I climb into the skies
Atop sins towered heaven high for me
From whence I see no reason why
I should not smite with vengeance
And hurl thieves down from paradise
For storms before were as nothing more
Than a breeze next to this night
I am Methuselah of the Tribulation
The Moonchild come to harm
A riot of stars shaken from their station
The choking smoke of Jerusalem burning
Six vices become wrath
And though half-blind with ravening
Like Phineus now I see
The end declared from the beginning
Love won through my defeat
But now I fear I will never peer
On Her radiance again
I shall glimpse instead, the slurried red
Of faces pressed to bloodstained panes
Betrayed and played by God
Who alone but He
Scapegraced and goated me?
Now I wish to piss on His parade
Angels, clawed with burnished wings
Still loyal, kiss the seal
Bent on knees and harrowing
Promise overkill
Know that you shall die like whores
And the cries of your writhings shall rise
To please their Lord...
So before the sword
Side with me in slaughter
I am Methuselah of the Tribulation
The Moonchild come to harm
The spoken horns of desolation
Drink the pouring of my fury
Those darkened waters spur
The brink of war as my judge and jury
And rapist executioner
Our time is short, the horsemen ride
A foul-breathed chora howls, besides
Damnation and a day has passed
This divine right to genocide
Weld the gates to heaven shut
The abyss leers in hissing ruts
Unhilt the black grimoire of death
Inscribe all names that God has left
I lived the dreams of nymphs and men
But now the nightmares come again
Now the nightmares come again...
End of Daze Lyrics
5 ContributorsEnd of Daze LyricsAnd the Earth was without form and void
And darkness was upon the face of the deep...