Cradle of Filth Lyrics

The Fate Of The World On Our Shoulders (Instrumental) Existential Terror Necromantic Fantasies Crawling King Chaos Here Comes A Candle... (...

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Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus Pulvis Et Umbra Meaningless Is this all there is A flicker of life in a bl...

Lovecraft the day Bend it to Wyrd ways Life wends, a masquerade Where nothing is forever Save the grave And our desire burning Look about us...

Ravaged are the heavens Seven angels are deployed The seals delivered To return us to the void And waiting on the cusp of many dusks of man ...

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Drunk off the wine of her mass fornication She sits astride turbulent seas Her poisoned cunt harbor to deep fascination Nations in thrall to...

I look back on the books of my life I've written so well Father I fell Farther I fell For coveted girls and the sins that follow them I ...

Bloodstains, not rose petals lie on the path To the gluttonous bed of the whore For she, who is Satan, the waiting bloodbath Is preparing he...

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Our time together ends The sadness is over I tried my best to make amends But my heart grew cold and black I have knelt before your altar Re...

The ability to sustain life on earth is shrinking In perfect unison with rising population Soon, half of all species will be lost to climate...

Us, dark, invincible Us, dark, invincible Seize the night Before the fevers take flight Cicadas drown out delight In this horny cornucopia T...

Witching hourglasses Bleed the hissing sands of time As this story, gory, a catharsis Leads toward the quite sublime We have such sights to ...

I have basked like a phantom in shadow Haunting gauntest opera eaves As the cast was aware of nothing more in the air Than the whisper of sn...

Exquisite Torments Await Heartbreak And Seance Achingly Beautiful Wester Vespertine The Seductiveness Of Decay Vengeful Spirit You Will Know...

Abandon hope all ye who enter here For herein lies the path to sadness The poetry of woe set midst the sweet lament of fear Carouses in fant...

Before the war, this grave darksome pall Pressed upon the face of England We were sovereign to nothing less Than the map of our souls solici...

Night, that fateful raven alighted on the cusp of my bewitchment The beast in the clouds had swallowed the moon A silverback thundering acro...

Today was spent in languor Drifting through the fold As midsummer vent its clamour In cobbled streets a thousandfold I bore cruelty from the...

Silked like a ghost in infinite splendour The moon illumes like a madness vendor Lycaning hosts to a coarse surrender Frightening most lest ...

A storm to break steeples is nigh I feel it in my deviant pathology The autumn leaves no longer sigh But instead hiss a virulent cacophony S...

Purring, the sweet-tempered soughing Of lucrative savannah winds, Stirs the great flotsam of clouds that vowing to usher the evening in Affe...

I spy the spreading fear That crawls wormlike beneath This ageing mask of time That grasps to call itself belief So down here in the Valley ...

Lighting forked like a bifurcate tongue Flickers on this wicked little pandemonium Theatrical, the courted orchestra ripples The tumult of t...

(originally by Annihilator) Alice, isn't it frightening? Alice, aren't you scared? Alice, isn't it wonderful? Living life afraid...

Light the torch, cite debauch Excite the tortured heart The forest whispers Graves undulate and part Let's get this ritual started Under...

She will wring from you All the secrets you keep locked Away in sadness And she will play Where dark pathways of the mind Stumble blindly in...

Bedight, this pre-aestival Festival drew darkly near And our delight at its festival Was a roar to rival loosed Fenrir Let the Hellish ...

This night is chilled by ghosts And the woods are full of werewolves My heart is pounding with the stars I feel the darkness rising I...

Cracked Mirrors scatter reflection Beauty falls from Her state of perfection Good grace has fled this dream While the Cats away The Rats...

I wish upon a star And think of all the things I should have asked Instead, I let the moment pass And now I'm bleeding On her faded...

Breastfed red dementias Familiar with their suckled hostess Unhinge her bridle scold A quest for misadventure Wrests her glare of buckle...

(Death darkens all Right wing of the garden triptych Left marks The Fall The middle ground apocalyptic) Why slay the grim inevitable A...

Accompanied by bloodshed Neath the Reaper's sallow craw In league with fallen angels Came a wolf unto my door A portrait of perfect...

Aching floorboards spoke my name In the belly of the beast to foreign shores In tune with tides that whispered fame And fortune for our h...

I sing desolation On the breath of centuries Bringing annihilation Slaughter courses through my enemies I was not always so cold Once ...

Welcome with a stench of misadventure Libertine and sibling things a grim Slither forth through the gateway's hissing denture The mo...

Forlornucopial the wealth of misery And favoured haunts of sorrow hold no lure Deep swathes of gloom that once cocooned me in dark livery...

Write a story. Any story. But let it have dragons... O Gods of war In the jungle corridor I feel your haughty presence feasting the Man...