Cradle Of Filth

From The Cradle To Enslave

From The Cradle To Enslave
Two thousand fattened years like maniacs
Have despoiled our common grave
Now what necrophagous Second Coming backs
From the cradle to enslave?
 
Sickle constellations 
Stud the velts that welt the sku
Whilst the Bitter winter moon
Prowls the clouds, dead,eyed
Like shifting parent flesh
Under silk matricide...
 
Watchful as she was upon Eden
Where every rose arbour and orchard she swept
hid the hissing of a serpent Libido
In an ancient tryst with catastrophe
Soon to be kept
 
Hear that hissing now on the breeze
As through the plundered groves of the carnal garden
A fres horror blows
But ten billion souls
Are blind to see the rotting wood for the trees
 
This is the theme to a better Armageddon
Nightchords rake the heavens
Pandaemonaeon
 
And what use are prayers to that īgodī?
As devils bay concenus for the space to piss
On your smouldering faith
And the the mouldering face
Of this world long a paradise lost
 
This is the end of everything
Hear the growing chora that a new dawn shall bring
 
Dance macabre īneath the tilt of the zodiac
Now brighter stars shall reflect on our fate
What sick activities will be freed when those lights burn black?
The darkside of the mirror always threw our malice back...
 
I see the serpentine in your eyes
The nature of the beast as revelations arrive
 
Our screams shall trail to Angels
For those damned in flames repay
All sinners lose their lot on Judgement Day
We should have cut our losses as at Calvary
But our hearts like heavy crosses held the vain belief
Salvation, like a promised nation
Gleamed a claim away...
 
This is the end of everything you have ever known
Buried like vanquished reason
Death in season
Driven like the drifting snow
 
Peace, a fragile lover, left us fantasising war
On our knees or another fuckerīs shore
Heiling new flesh
Read, then roared
To a crooked cross and a Holy Cause
What else be whipped to frenzy for?
 
This is the end of everything
Rear the tragedies
That the Seraphim shall sing
 
Old adversaries
Next of Eve
Now theyīre clawing back
I smell their cumming
As through webbed panes of meat
Led by hoary Death
They never left
Dreaming sodomies
To impress on human failure
When weīve bled upon our knees
 
Tablatures of gravel law
Shall see Gehennag paved
When empires fall
And nightmares crawl
From the cradle to enslave...
 
This is the end of everything



Of Dark Blood and F**king
Sister midnight comes blaspheming
Screaming in the keys of faith and fear
Unentweining our spines twists me to kneeling...
Spilling like the moonlight on her glistering rear
 
Defiled at heart
In this perfect hell
Under red leaves bleeding
Over sealed chatéau we fell
To demonocracy
Where neither Adam or Eve
Conceived of such iniquites
From pleasure or pain
Or the razorīs edge in between
 
Thou art my seventh heaven burning
Going down as with the sun...
 
Writhing like a river
fluids moves a torrent
Bound to please
On denierred knees
In any wicked way
That her whims may warrant
 
I hang on every verb
Every dirty word
Interred
In her pornoglossa...
 
Christlike, whipped and weak
Painted nails driven through the meek
Yet in obituary
My dreams still weep
Of dark blood and fucking thee
 
Thou art my seventh heaven burning
Going down as with the day
Baring lunar curvature
Like canvas for a lick of pain
 
Writhing like a viper
Deep inside her Eden
Forbidden to eat
I kiss leylines to her feet
Then baithing wrath
I steal a path
Back to the fruits of her womb
 
Back to the crack of her tomb...
 
Her roseate sliver
Quivers with snuff appeal
The torque of her hips
Lip-syncs me in for the kill
Tongue-tied, tightroped and spread like disease
I drain the cup of this Miss Sire
Her waters into wine for me
 
Thou art my seventh angel squirming
īNeath the forked tongue of the beast
Arching toward the fabled
Like a sculptured nymph seeking base relief
 
Whilst the world outside
(A wood of suicide)
Would die for this release
Our slow orgasmic fuses greet...
 
By night and by candle
At each otherīs throats
In a slick drift of red
Setting godīs teeth on edge
We were as wolves preying inside the fold
Of a slaughtered lamb throw
On a four poster bed...
 
Succulent, Succubus
 
Laid without rest
In the dead of the night
Succulent. Succubus
 
In thy arms
And thy wetness
On glossed lips I taste
Conspiracies, seccrecies, sorceries laced
With thick unguent rum
Black-rayed suns and Autumn
Always in season for our nightfall from grace
 
Gorge upon my seed
Starved Persephone
Succulent. Succubus. Succour me
 
That I might keep
Thee with me in Hades
Succulent. Succubus. Succour me



Death Comes Ripping
Turn the lights down low 
And bolt the door up 
Future is coming 
Future rising up 

Whoa 

Shotgun blast, a demon piece of lead 

With both eyes open 
I wait up for the kill 
Feel the evil 
Feel the heat as I blast you open 

Death comes ripping 
And it's going, death comes ripping 
You feel the heat as death comes ripping 
Rip your back out 
And death comes ripping out 

Flesh and blood 
Too weak for you 
Turning it over 
A little too late to penetrate 

Death comes ripping 
And it's going, death comes ripping 
You feel the heat as death comes ripping 
Rip your back out 
Death comes ripping 

And it's going, death comes ripping 
You feel the heat as death comes ripping 
Rip your back out 
Death comes ripping 
And I know that death comes ripping out 

Whoa 
Whoa 
Whoa 
Whoa 



Sleepless
And I often sigh 
I often wonder why 
I'm still here and I still cry 

And I often cry 
I often spill a tear 
Over those not here 
But still they are so near 

Please ease my burden 

And I still remember 
A memory and I weep 
In my broken sleep 
The scars they cut so deep 

Please ease my burden 
Please ease my pain 

Surely without war there would be no loss 
Hence no mourning, no grief, no pain, no misery 
No sleepless nights missing the dead ... Oh, no more 
No more war 



Funeral In Carpathia (Be Quick or Be Dead Version)
Candelabra snuffed prey - silhouette wedded 
Nightfall take my hand 
Seduce me with silky timbred limbs 
Grant me thy dark command 
Over the peaks framing tapestries 
Of thick forest, dusk has filled 
With Lucifugous kisses enwreathed in mist 
Creeping like violations from the shadows 
to kill 
  
Lucretia 
is my love in vein 
When thy tears bleed sweeter 
Thank the midsummer rain? 
Bewinged, infested belfries 
Toll o'er the sobbing throng 
A writhe of lethargic, terrored nudes 
Whipped and welted neath the barbed windsong.... 

(in saddean paradise 
Ancestral legacies linger on....) 
  
I am He 
The crowned and conquering darkness 
 Satan robed in ecumenical filth 
Livid Bacchus sustained by bridal echelons of sylph 

This wintry eve when the snow glistens deep 
And sharpened turrets wed the jewelless skies 
I shrug off the shroud of preternatural sleep 
Enbroided by these words Malaresia scribed.... 
  
"Beauty slept and angels wept 
For Her immortal soul 
In this response, all evil chose 
To claim her for their very own" 
  
Carpathia 
The pleasured dead speak of her 
In necromantic tongue 
When ambered daylights are done 
  
Masterbating in their graves 
On her zenith to come.... 
  
This catafalque night when awed stars report 
Their absence from the heavenly brow 
Crippled seraph shalt cower in illustrious courts 
Whilsts the cloaked maelstrom resounds throughout 

"How the storm it fulfills 
My heart though unhealed 
Celestial knifes ebonied 
And wild woods thrill 
Yet far fiercer still 
Her lustre eviscerates me" 
  
Carpathia 
Priapic lovers twist in concert with Her 
Covenants are struck, jagged lightning fellates 
The path towards the castle weary innocence takes 

I rule as Master here 
Where feral hordes impart my temper 
Love sank wounded when I, betrayed 
saw death etch cruelly, upon my lineage 
  
"Usher the spite seething Draconist 
And commit this world to thy ancient 
sovereignty" 
  
Erunescent veil descend 
Psalmed sunset thus portends 
And laid to rest, I now am blessed 
With this darkness.... Forever more 
  
Supreme Vampiric Evil 
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