Cradle of Filth Lyrics

Mother's milk has soured My life's a bolted door And from it runs a trail of vagrant gore My wounds are open flowers Fragrant gi...

My number is 11, as all their numbers who are of us. My colour is black to the blind, but the blue & gold are seen of the seeing. Also...

Oh dear God It is midnight in the labyrinth The night is set to taint the painted halls Moonlight is our cue The candelabra flicker at ...

I have come from the freezing seas From the warmth of foreign coals Through the dismal fog of insecurities To a cloud-enshrouded noble go...

[Narrator:] "When light no longer rose to kiss me, I swore to tear Heaven asunder As flights of fallen angels wished me Godspeed on...

Eclipsing violent centuries Like a dark scar over France Enter the nascent Gilles de Rais A warrior and a scholar He fought for Joan Of ...

[Narration by Doug Bradley:] Her penultimate sighs Called softy on the kindling wind Her saintly eyes filling with tears, lifting with tr...

[Narration by Doug Bradley:] Oh, how my rampant desire Ripped from the presence of God Now hungered like a beast For the knowledge of ev...

[Narration:] "God can deny nothing to a De Rais And should He ever There is always the Devil"

Here sat Babylon Fattened by the purses of the worst and wrong Where the decadent tastes of Hell grew strong Like a curse upon This trag...

[Narration:] "I conjure you Barron, Satan, Beelzebub By the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit By the Virgin Mary and all the saint...

[Narration:] "So potent was the star under which I was born That I have done no one in the world has done Nor can ever do" Pr...

[Narration:] "Sometimes I beheaded them with daggers, with poniards, with knives Sometimes I suspended them in my room from a pole ...

"Something thicker than despair Rides upon the midnight air The smell of blood, the taste of prey We spy you hiding Gilles de Rais...

Awaking in a sweat Forsaking pleasure for regret Another night of blight had slowly passed The morning skies once fresh and bright Darke...

"This is the moment I go to God" Burning like derision on the prism of night Still squirming from the sermon, those determined ...

"I have told you the truth and everything as it happened" "All the evil that I could do has been accomplished I am redeema...

"No human power can stop the will of heaven from being asserted." Worming through the mark Of Ezekiel and Mark Through the cha...

(originally by Celtic Frost) Years of plead, behind the walls Chambers and vaults, Scenes of fright Unspoken Words, in pain and dread 1...

Polluting the honesty of Christ with poisoned wine Laced with lines from the end of time From the herald and the bugler High voltage bol...

Wishing in contempt of love The righteous came to burn our forest With hissing firebrands For though we serve the gentle curves Of our s...

So i shall conjure thee demons of the netherworld Where will you be they tense for warfare? What will you see with your innocence there? ...

"Her penultimate sighs called softy on the kindling winds Her saintly eyes filling with tears living with truth and then a golden fla...

When Joan was burnt He knew malevolence At the heart of all A cold and jagged abyss bled of sense The throne he earned Through God'...

Carrion my name For those who choose to mouth the curse A tragic serenade With Judas in my stride The gothic halls of shame Where statu...

Dusk and her embrace When the sun has swept upon the waveless lake And the mists steal in with ease Covened wolves arc their eerie disso...

"Carrion my name For those who choose to mouth the curse A tragic serenade With Judas in my stride The Gothic halls of shame Where...

"I will give to drink without cost, From the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes will inherit all this... And I will be hi...

As lonely as a poet on the wall of Jericho Or the moon without the comfort of the stars I am loathe to know it that a man without a soul ...

The needle in the eye of the hurricane The poison in the font The nail in the coffin of the profane I am the lot Maniacal the fire Tha...

We rise with the sun in the underworld We suffer from a graveless name We prise wide lids And wounds with lips curled Over teeth that ha...

One might see in Mina My disease But it was She who has infected me For all eternity... As the sun slips the tearaway stars Into the s...

I'm chaos international The writing on the wall A Lazarus in parable A dark and sullen lullaby Whispered softly as you die Promisi...

One dark afternoon Like a shadow I flew Through the rain that fell sick with lament To this house of incest For when we undressed Blas...

With the snow fallen thick And bonfires alit And shooting stars portents of rips I ascended to spur A mere glimpse of murmur From her p...

(originally by Heaven 17) I've never been closer I've tried to understand That certain feeling Called by another sound But it...

They see me there Their eyes are everywhere Sniffing at the linen for the dirt I feel their burning stare That hate will later flare An...

(originally by Samhain) eins zwei drei vier Formulae ueteres exorsismorum et excommunicationum Strigas et fictos lupinam credere Me...

Wishing in contempt of love The righteous came to burn our forest With hissing firebrands For though we serve the gentle curves Of our s...

(originally by Shakespears Sister) If this world is wearing thin And you're thinking of escape I'll go anywhere with you Just w...

Polluting the honesty of Christ with poisoned wine Laced with lines from the end of time From the herald and the bugler High voltage bol...

Glory and praise to thee in all the steeps Of Heaven where thou didst reign, and in the deeps Of Hell where fallen thy dream, silently. ...

Your misery is worn as a veil To hide bewitchment of the ugliest kind In place of eve a bitter parody hails Daggers from the swagger Of ...

Tonight is the night The empowering wind that draws breath from despite Roars 'neath my wings as I soar with the end in sight Choirs...

Foul snake despair Where once you darkened gardens Another coils there Where twice you sliced all hope from me And left these present sc...

Pour the emerald wine Into crystal glasses We will touch the divine Through kisses catharsis Let us pitch to the seven-year itch Of th...

Evanescent like the scent of decay I was fading from the race When in despair, my darkest days Ran amok and forged her face From the fai...