Beauty Slept In Sodom Lyrics by Cradle Of Filth

Beauty Slept In Sodom Lyrics

    Death, spirit me away
    My anguished soul doth strain
    On taut and twisted reins
    Yet, insatiate I still remain
    Like a proud, unfallen star
    That dares thee from afar
    To calm my thund'rous heart
    Else... rend it's knots apart
    So I may never sing

    Of jewelled skies o'er my strings
    And love, a wanton thing
    Can plunge on burnt, black wings
    To hang amid the thorns
    In scarlet, like velvet worn
    About the clouded moon
    Who wanes in solitude...

    I am alone
    Thirsting for the dark
    That lurks beneath marbled stone
    What black witchcraft
    Shalt prise thee from thy dreams
    And what perverse world-strategy
    Will wend it's way with thee from sleep?

    "Rouse my disease
    And with cadent naked dance I shalt teach
    Thee wisdom of darkness
    From earth and red sea
    Lightbearing Samael
    Coalesce with me..."

    Twilight
    Through pagan city gates
    Bred shadows play like twining snake
    By candlelight
    Thanateros rites
    Death seduced and chaos wakes...

    Obsession grips, blindragon fever
    In throes of scythed orgasm, Eros dies
    And Saturn rapes faith's lovelorn Diva
    Upon a cyprean altar, stripped bare for sacrifice
    Virtue births a demon
    Pandora's box, unhinged, sets loose the night
    Winged lilith born for want of Eden
    Fanning plumes of harlotry
    Like pearls before the desert swine

    The skies, they darken
    And the oceans part
    Storm forth indignant Kraken
    Reborn Venus as thou art
    Feasting at my banquet
    Of Saturnalia
    I call thee having wrestled
    The tides from lonely Diana

    "For thee Endymion
    I forsake the cerements of this star-flung tomb"

    Be-with-us come
    Unveil the ancient flame
    Throw the cats our enemies
    Desire's menstrual stain
    Eastern Devil eyes
    A cruel erotic plague
    The Shekhina is in exile
    And the Israelites enslaved to shame

    Midnight
    Jerusalem
    A tenebrous phantasy
    Revelates to men
    Their celestial walls crumble
    When walks the Xul
    Born to the scarlet whore in Babylon

    The centuries of wait have all but gone
    Behold dark beauty stirs to conquer on and on

    Now worship Everything.


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