Cradle of Filth

29 advanced vocabulary words across 26 songs.

invokeBlackest Magick In Practice

call forth; summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

Only darkest mirrors crack this curse

And I immersed, invoke the worst

Blackest magick put to practice

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nocturnalA Gothic Romance (Red Roses for the Devil's Whore)

active at night; belonging to or active during the night

Need fires have lured abominations here

Nocturnal pulse

My veins spill forth their waters

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inhibitFor Your Vulgar Delectation

restrict; to put down by force or authority

Be the conduit of screams forevermore

Embrace the uninhibited

In the face of the coming storm

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discernSaffron's Curse

distinguish; detect with the senses

The sun forsakes the rite to rise

And is the first to discern, that this angel's return

Is a vengeful call on grace

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marshalYou Will Know the Lion By His Claw

organize; a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff

The walls of blackish thorn have fallen batterfang and chaos

Quick to marshal, maul the fools

Who stand by shattered loss

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redolentYou Will Know the Lion By His Claw

odorous; serving to bring to mind

Through limitless whispering seas

Of redolent tropical plains

Whereupon mystery's blistery frieze

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parodyGilded C***

humorous imitation; a composition that imitates somebody’s style, usually in a humorous way

To hide bewitchment of the ugliest kind

In place of Eve a bitter parody hails

Daggers from the swagger of a sodomite's concubine (...bine... bine)

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sectBeneath the Howling Stars

religious order; a subdivision of a larger religious group

From court maidens, arboured

Who whispered in sects

Of suspicions abroad

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paragonBeneath the Howling Stars

perfection; an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept

Elizabeth, paragon of vice

Watches the sun set pyres alight

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avertThirteen Autumns and a Widow

avoid; prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening

Not her coven of suitors but the stare of their Lord

(I must avert mine eyes to hymns)

(For his gaze brings dogmas to my skin)

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codaThe Byronic Man

concluding section; the closing section of a musical composition

But laudanum and soda

Lord Numb coda

Merited a forest of inherited spite

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commemorateAmor E Morte

preserve in memory; mark by some ceremony or observation

Theirs was a chorus for raucous souls

Shifting shape and lifting napes to commemorate

Erotic stains, Amor e Morte

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precipitousAbsinthe With Faust

hurried; done with very great haste and without due deliberation

This precipitous weir (weir), to Hell's high gate

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conferHeaven Torn Asunder

discuss; have a conference in order to talk something over

Ascend to smother the light

Nascent aeons confer

Chaos is spat

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obsessLovesick for Mina

think about something constantly; haunt like a ghost; pursue

Oh Mina, obscener

Thoughts obsess my days

Oh Mina, obscener

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pristineThe Seductiveness Of Decay

clean; completely free from dirt or contamination

Evil dances under many guises

Pristine masks shadow terrible vices

Sins enhanced lucifer entices near

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distinctionSuffer Our Dominion

recognition; a discrimination between things as different and distinct

The end descends on all with no distinction

Omnicide, Theriocide the final curtain

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exemplifyWester Vespertine

be example; be characteristic of

Reddened skies underlined in purple

Exemplify cries, goodbyes are verbal

Bats carouse about the tree line

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etherealWester Vespertine

delicate; characterized by lightness and insubstantiality

Ethereal, the end of day enthralls

Voyeurs watching from the stalls

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terseYours Immortally

abrupt; brief and to the point; effectively cut short

Excite the terse miscarriage

Of first light that thirsts to slay

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boonSisters of the Mist

blessing; a desirable state

Her bruised naked carcass

Displayed for the boon

Of those who desired her fiery womb

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reticentEnglish Fire

restrained; temperamentally disinclined to talk

This is a waking for England

From it's reticent doze

This is a waking for England

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assertThe 13th Caesar

declare; state categorically

Tumultitudes, whom his strange retinue drew

To assert the 13th Caesar

The 13th Caesar (ichor kicked inside his veins)

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perennialDeath and the Maiden

enduring; lasting three seasons or more

Let this sticky situation spur on fertility

Come be my perennial queen

Never seen the sun

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cantankerousDarkness Incarnate

crabby; stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate

Rotten, venereal, cancerous, blue

The clotting of his heart to a rank cantankerous tune

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succulentOf Dark Blood And Fucking

juicy; a plant characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs

On a four poster bed

Succulent succubus laid without rest

In the dead of the night

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remorseful; feeling sorrow for wrongdoing

Committing their sins

Their penitent skins

To the harems of my mind

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solicitousHeartbreak and Seance

considerate; full of anxiety and concern

We were sovereign to nothing less

Than the map of our souls solicitous to reign

Together in a peace these wicked times disdain

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nurtureHow Many Tears to Nurture a Rose?

foster; help develop, help grow

Disguise the hurt with wine and fire

How many tears to nurture a rose?

How many thorns to tear us both into pieces?

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