Cradle of Filth - Desire In Violent Overture lyrics

Artist: Cradle of Filth

Album: Cruelty and the Beast

Song: Desire in Violent Overture

Tabbed by: HopE

Nights came trailing ghost concertos

Heartstrings a score of skeletal reaper bows

Playing torture chamber music allegretto

Conducting over throes thrashed to crescendo

Skinless the dark shall scream

Hoarse her symphonies

Deathmasked as the moon

That had lifted her dreams

And frowned on the winding steps down

To where the vulgar strayed

Taunting sick her tender prey

She glided in her bridal gown

How sleep the pure

Desire in violent overture

An emanation of phantom madness

The Countess beheld in shroud

By girls bereft of future vows

Soon to wed in white the frosted ground

Brning like a brand on the countenance of god

A yearning took her hand to his seraphim, bound

Deep red hissed the cat whips

On the whim of ill-will

Whilst she entranced, nonchalant, abliss

Flayed further songs of overkill

How weep the pure

Desire in violent overture

In a crescent-whine cellar of crushed roses

Pooled blood and broken dolls

A torchlit shadow theatre souled

With the echoed cries of lives she stole

Killing time

She struck the hours dead

In her control

Thus menopaused

Her clock of hacked out cunts

Began to toll

"13 chimes of ancient strain

I conjure forth with dirge

That fills the void with timbred pain

To fulfil my sexual urge."

Frights came wailing from the darkside

Haunting lipless mouths a fugue of arcane diatribes

Velvet, their voices coffined her in slumber

Bespattered and appeased

As pregnant skies outside bore thunder

How sleep the pure

Desire in violent overture

As when high winds

Attune whipped trees

Her savage nature pitched

Would once again conduct the pleas

Of those she loved to agonies

As if it were the first time everynight

That she carved her seal...

In the flesh of life