Cradle of Filth
29 advanced vocabulary words across 26 songs.
call forth; summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
Hear this moment →Only darkest mirrors crack this curse
And I immersed, invoke the worst
Blackest magick put to practice
active at night; belonging to or active during the night
Hear this moment →Need fires have lured abominations here
Nocturnal pulse
My veins spill forth their waters
restrict; to put down by force or authority
Hear this moment →Be the conduit of screams forevermore
Embrace the uninhibited
In the face of the coming storm
distinguish; detect with the senses
Hear this moment →The sun forsakes the rite to rise
And is the first to discern, that this angel's return
Is a vengeful call on grace
organize; a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff
Hear this moment →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
Hear this moment →Through limitless whispering seas
Of redolent tropical plains
Whereupon mystery's blistery frieze
humorous imitation; a composition that imitates somebody’s style, usually in a humorous way
Hear this moment →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)
religious order; a subdivision of a larger religious group
Hear this moment →From court maidens, arboured
Who whispered in sects
Of suspicions abroad
perfection; an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept
Hear this moment →♪
Elizabeth, paragon of vice
Watches the sun set pyres alight
avoid; prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
Hear this moment →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)
concluding section; the closing section of a musical composition
Hear this moment →But laudanum and soda
Lord Numb coda
Merited a forest of inherited spite
preserve in memory; mark by some ceremony or observation
Hear this moment →Theirs was a chorus for raucous souls
Shifting shape and lifting napes to commemorate
Erotic stains, Amor e Morte
hurried; done with very great haste and without due deliberation
Hear this moment →♪
This precipitous weir (weir), to Hell's high gate
♪
discuss; have a conference in order to talk something over
Hear this moment →Ascend to smother the light
Nascent aeons confer
Chaos is spat
think about something constantly; haunt like a ghost; pursue
Hear this moment →Oh Mina, obscener
Thoughts obsess my days
Oh Mina, obscener
clean; completely free from dirt or contamination
Hear this moment →Evil dances under many guises
Pristine masks shadow terrible vices
Sins enhanced lucifer entices near
recognition; a discrimination between things as different and distinct
Hear this moment →The end descends on all with no distinction
Omnicide, Theriocide the final curtain
be example; be characteristic of
Hear this moment →Reddened skies underlined in purple
Exemplify cries, goodbyes are verbal
Bats carouse about the tree line
delicate; characterized by lightness and insubstantiality
Hear this moment →♪
Ethereal, the end of day enthralls
Voyeurs watching from the stalls
abrupt; brief and to the point; effectively cut short
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Excite the terse miscarriage
Of first light that thirsts to slay
blessing; a desirable state
Hear this moment →Her bruised naked carcass
Displayed for the boon
Of those who desired her fiery womb
restrained; temperamentally disinclined to talk
Hear this moment →This is a waking for England
From it's reticent doze
This is a waking for England
declare; state categorically
Hear this moment →Tumultitudes, whom his strange retinue drew
To assert the 13th Caesar
The 13th Caesar (ichor kicked inside his veins)
enduring; lasting three seasons or more
Hear this moment →Let this sticky situation spur on fertility
Come be my perennial queen
Never seen the sun
crabby; stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
Hear this moment →Rotten, venereal, cancerous, blue
The clotting of his heart to a rank cantankerous tune
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juicy; a plant characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs
Hear this moment →On a four poster bed
Succulent succubus laid without rest
In the dead of the night
remorseful; feeling sorrow for wrongdoing
Hear this moment →Committing their sins
Their penitent skins
To the harems of my mind
considerate; full of anxiety and concern
Hear this moment →We were sovereign to nothing less
Than the map of our souls solicitous to reign
Together in a peace these wicked times disdain
foster; help develop, help grow
Hear this moment →Disguise the hurt with wine and fire
How many tears to nurture a rose?
How many thorns to tear us both into pieces?