Cradle of Filth

obsession; excessive intolerance of opposing views

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There is no fanaticism as virile as faith

To the blind his words are clear

permeable; able to absorb fluids

Finds her there, entranced to cross

To breach death's porous border

And reach where breath affords no quarter

filthy; morally degraded

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I led a sordid Borgia on

I read the Urilia text

trickery; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

She was born, born in a burial gown

Now she moves with a predator's guile

Beyond the firelit circle of life

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

convoluted; highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

Would be brutally honest

Tortuous one, taboos undone

A glittering star on a sea of myriad waves

slander; evil or harmful in nature or influence

Her power was growing

Every hour malign

The truth, Lilith's kingdom

exaggerated cartoon; represent in or produce a caricature of

On the throne of paradise

My soul was caricature, rest assured

It hobbled cold and lame

moral story; a short moral story (often with animal characters)

I'm chaos international

The writing on the wall, a Lazarus is parable

A dark and sullen lullaby

prompt; give an incentive for action

Venom dripping from the mouth of madness

Incites the rites of war

Prepare the heights of Empire for the agonising fall

treacherous; tending to betray

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Awash on her perfidious shores

Where drowning umbra o'er the stars

active at night; belonging to or active during the night

Need fires have lured abominations here

Nocturnal pulse

My veins spill forth their waters

shackle; restrain with fetters

I swept her from the abyss of another dementia

Freeing her soul from the fetters of fate

To take the reins of pleasure

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

melt or fuse; extract (metals) by heating

And jezebelled to peasant lips

Though She smelt the fires

That licked limbs higher

dilate; become wider

Blood-red, yet still unfed

Lips distend ending time to falter

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seriousness; the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol

Appease the beast on spattered sheets

Dyed unearthly red as sobriety weeps

Nocternity

soothe; cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

Legs of porcelain traced and laced to their lair

Appease the beast on spattered sheets

Dyed unearthly red as sobriety weeps

retract; formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure

Tail tucked between her legs

Circled prey, recant and beg

To me alone, this powder keg

hardworking; characterized by hard work and perseverance

Rifles and fire shall not repel

Industrious machinations rent asunder

No miring me in traps well-laid

widespread; unrestrained and violent

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Heraldic, rampant, battle-scarred

Damnatio ad bestias

profitable; producing a sizeable profit

Purring, the sweet-tempered soughing

Of lucrative savannah winds,

Stirs the great flotsam of clouds that vowing to usher the evening in

force back; cause to move back by force or influence

Under the spell

Rifles and fire shall not repel

Industrious machinations rent asunder

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

odorous; serving to bring to mind

Through limitless whispering seas

Of redolent tropical plains

Whereupon mystery's blistery frieze

glare; look at with a fixed gaze

And below you, will I see you tonight

Glower from your tower built of ivory and spite?

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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)

solidify; become gelatinous

Fellated Satan

Screams congeal in clotted pearl

As he unfurls from aching hibernation

unwilling; unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom

Whose cold breasts have held us in scar pillories

But now the sun is loath to come

The crescent moon is

praise; praise, glorify, or honor

To retake what once was lost

To exalt our throne above the stars of God

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scholarly; having or showing profound knowledge

To the shore from the moon and by her grace

Came that erudite stranger

That fucker

undeniable; not open to question; obviously true

She was the game, sublime

A Knight takes Queen in ruby, Indisputable

Then her eyes, they paralyzed me for a second time

splendor; the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand

Awaken, forsaken, by others so taken as prey

Now you shall stand in the grandeur of love

A wonderland in which to play

religious order; a subdivision of a larger religious group

From court maidens, arboured

Who whispered in sects

Of suspicions abroad

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

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Elizabeth, paragon of vice

Watches the sun set pyres alight

servanthood; state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment

Climbing from the noose

Of time in divine servitude

And thus a strange new melody

distant; remote in manner

Desires burning in palatial glades

And virtues once aloof, now worming beneath us

Shalt see their children, pleasuring as slaves

swearing; blasphemous language (expressing disrespect for God or for something sacred)

Fulfilling destiny, the promised fever

Bedizens eyes paralysed with blasphemy

Written in flesh across the howling ether

stark; severely simple

So when She fell like a sinner to vice

Under austere, puritanical rule

She sacrificed Mandragora like virgins to rats in the wall

propriety; propriety in manners and conduct

She sacrificed

Her decorum as chaste

To this wolf of the cloth

monologue; speech you make to yourself

Damnation won and urged the moon

In soliloquy to gleam

Twixt the trees in shafts to ghost a path

encouraging; auguring favorable circumstances and good luck

Spawned wanton like blight on an auspicious night

Her eyes betrayed spells of the moon's eerie light

fixed belief; a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof

(I must avert mine eyes to hymns)

(For his gaze brings dogmas to my skin)

(He knows that I dreamt of carnal rites)

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)

deserted; a person without a home, job, or property

With prophets and losses and dead men from crosses

My fate is a preview of derelict Hell

Midian

gap; a gap between cloud masses

And in their dance, in trance I've prised wide

Slick rifts twist obsidian thighs

Hymeneal gates to darker sides

rowdy; unpleasantly loud and harsh

And how our brothers sang (Amor e Morte)

Theirs was a chorus for raucous souls

Shifting shape and lifting napes to commemorate

brutal; resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

Never were those gates of pearl so rubbed to their cusp

Never were the worlds above so bitten with the bestial

Seraphim fell like guillotines

hate; find repugnant

Or the moon without the comfort of the stars

I am loathe to know it that a man without a soul

Is nothing but a split canopic jar

concluding section; the closing section of a musical composition

But laudanum and soda

Lord Numb coda

Merited a forest of inherited spite

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

lacking interest; lacking zest or vivacity

Unthinkable to dredge through this

Listless and lonely winter

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hurried; done with very great haste and without due deliberation

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

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soothe; cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

Will their "god" of bridled love

Assuage our rule from planes above

Or shrink in fear from Chaos roused for war?

rebellion; organized opposition to authority

Burn the shrines of fettered sheep

Spearhead the insurrection

Of a world that seeks no end

discuss; have a conference in order to talk something over

Ascend to smother the light

Nascent aeons confer

Chaos is spat

lethargic; lacking spirit or liveliness

Morganna art thou near me?

Languid, I wend my path to grave

Cast my sword to the sulphyd grasp

reckless; invulnerable to fear or intimidation

From the woods Pendragon-born, I rose Arcturius

A proud, audacious king mantled in the

Vehemence of lust

out of date; so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

To scheme of my return

Archaic ghostly echoes breathe like thunders of the

Storm

profane; violate the sacred character of a place or language

Their world will never take me

They will never desecrate my soul

The stars I have grasped

stinking; offensively malodorous

Omens of corruption from within the church

A fetid, dank oasis still clung to fool rebirth

Alone as a stone cold altar

vilification; abusive language used to express blame or bitter deep-seated ill will

Remission from despair through a holocaust of sin

In a tongue hilted in invective rectums

Over signs and seals the sorceress prayed

criticism; deliver a harangue to; address forcefully

Cumming heavy roses all the way to Hell

As sudden thunder's grue harangue

Announced two pincered worlds

secret; conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods

With the stench of necrophiled graves

To these clandestines

Who shrank from glimpsing horror

commit; perform an act, usually with a negative connotation

And bore his prey away

In talons itching to perpetrate

The nausea of eternal rape

appease; cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

Forever or whenever seas recall

This Aphrodite from my embrace for as Mars whom her lips placate

I tore these shores with wars of hatred

disappear slowly; to cause to separate and go in different directions

When nothing in one's power

Can dissipate the great forlorn

Shadows of fire that haunt me

think about something constantly; haunt like a ghost; pursue

Oh Mina, obscener

Thoughts obsess my days

Oh Mina, obscener

humiliate; practice self-denial of one’s body and appetites

With shared disdain

For those I chose to mortify

Their cries

give off; generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids

Hidden lusts will break the gates and swarm

As love secretes the thrill for war

The virgin raped shall seek to whore

opposing; (usually followed by `to’) strongly opposed

Frights are writing better chapter and verse

Intoxication hearts are not averse

To circus freaks and black waxworks

conflict; be different from one another

And the pooling lamp of science in defiance of the lord

Its hallowed tallow burning with discord

Is born of midnight trysts with resurrectionists

keep down; put down by force or intimidation

With a poison welling inside her

That subdues and loots her prey

A web to tarry souls compelling them to

clean; completely free from dirt or contamination

Evil dances under many guises

Pristine masks shadow terrible vices

Sins enhanced lucifer entices near

rot; ripen and generate pus

Eastern at birth, now she westers the vespertine

Festers and shines there

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troubled; characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination

Drunk off the wine of her mass fornication

She sits astride turbulent seas

Her poisoned cunt harbor to deep fascination

recognition; a discrimination between things as different and distinct

The end descends on all with no distinction

Omnicide, Theriocide the final curtain

happy; lacking or showing a lack of due concern

To drive the painted nails home

And let man's blithe desires roam about the city lit to please

The pretty bits this August eve

be example; be characteristic of

Reddened skies underlined in purple

Exemplify cries, goodbyes are verbal

Bats carouse about the tree line

delicate; characterized by lightness and insubstantiality

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Ethereal, the end of day enthralls

Voyeurs watching from the stalls

corruption; moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

Thinking of plots where

Everything rings with the sting of depravity

As thou have seen I have not always danced on the edge of the world

confirm; establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

Thin walls would crumble

Horrors would corroborate from dogstar lairs

For in the dead of the night

suggestion; at or on or to the masthead or upper rigging of a ship

Her laughter

Shalt sound aloft their future graves

Heavens above

abrupt; brief and to the point; effectively cut short

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Excite the terse miscarriage

Of first light that thirsts to slay

praise; praise, glorify, or honor

I fall feigning greater escapology

But drugs do nothing but extol

The here and now

crack; break into fissures or fine cracks

I scream out her name

Clarissa, I miss her death's fissure remains

She hangs in the courtyard

drive away; force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings

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The coven dispel with the first rites of dawn

Sated they fade, now benign

blessing; a desirable state

Her bruised naked carcass

Displayed for the boon

Of those who desired her fiery womb

restrained; temperamentally disinclined to talk

This is a waking for England

From it's reticent doze

This is a waking for England

declare; state categorically

Tumultitudes, whom his strange retinue drew

To assert the 13th Caesar

The 13th Caesar (ichor kicked inside his veins)

tasteless; lacking taste or flavor or tang

With both heels in the door

Of a heaven severed from me, insipid

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enduring; lasting three seasons or more

Let this sticky situation spur on fertility

Come be my perennial queen

Never seen the sun

related to hell; characteristic of or resembling Hell

The ballad changed it's melody

Shunning the sun for infernal gloom

I felt joy in deep misery

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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whirlpool; a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)

Heedless and headlong

Possessed by the gathering maelstrom

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cause; call forth

Host for his regalities

A toast I thus engender

But now in a forest of glasses raised

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

excite; catch fire

Rushing deathwards, our Tartarean fires

Kindle pandemonia to furnace the earth

'Our voices are opened graves

delinquent; failing in what duty requires

Wide, we slay the infidel

Remiss our way to Hell

Pay well the wishing well

low-point; an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything

To and fro, through freeze and thaws

From zenith to nadir

The universal tug of war

green; characterized by abundance of verdure

Out of Midian, strewing fear

Over verdant lawns, the resurgent storms

Led a desert son to sear

forgiveness; good weather with comfortable temperatures

"We shall show no mercy to heathen such as thee

Who stand accused and have refused the Church's clemency

Your wicked acts are endless through the crimes we cannot name

unorthodoxy; any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position

You stand before this court

Accused of heresy and witchcraft

How do you plead? (Not guilty!)

irreligious; characterized by profanity or cursing

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A poetess in night's profane station

Threading lies like silver seas

troublemaker; a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning

Wishing in contempt of love

The righteous came to burn our forest with hissing firebrands

For though we serve the gentle curves

blend; mix together different elements

Lightbearing Samael

Coalesce with me

Twilight

stubbornly resistant; marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict

Shalt prise thee from thy dreams

And what perverse world-strategy

Will wend it's way with thee from sleep?

diminish; grow smaller

About the clouded moon

Who wanes in solitude

I am alone

organized; characterized by method and orderliness

In slight hands beauty weeps

Conquest's deep methodical screwing

Hurt repeatedly

lament; a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

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Dirge Inferno

As it is written, damn it

remorseful; feeling sorrow for wrongdoing

Committing their sins

Their penitent skins

To the harems of my mind

lacking energy; deficient in alertness or activity

Toll o'er the sobbing throng

A writhe of lethargic, terrored nudes

Whipped and welted 'neath the barbed windsong...

foreshadow; indicate by signs

Erubescent veil descend

Psalmed sunset thus portends

And laid to rest, I now am blessed

give; transmit (knowledge or skills)

I rule as Master here

Where feral hordes impart my temper

Love sank wounded when I, betrayed

hinder; hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

Hissed at heaven, evanescent

He was there to thwart the burning of his Faust

The gates were prised, the phantom horses

ugly; unpleasant to look at

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Soon nightly, unsightly

Offerings were made on a vulgar altar

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

soaked; wet through and through; thoroughly wet

Under overstocked tables

As the world outside grew sodden and mauled

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kiss-up; a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

On a plume of craven wings

Trafficking with sycophants

Sharing his cup

fear; a feeling of alarm or dread

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The air was sick with trepidation

Despair and desperation

disgrace; cause to be distrusted or disbelieved

To fashion fete to gallow scenes

Sprits rising to discredit rebirth

In the Samhain mist

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?