Cradle of Filth Lyrics

Here forms a knotted sorrow The vivid grasp of fading faces Storm clouds plot to follow... I wander despondent, a curse on the grave He...

Where nature's russet beauty grew the roses of Utopia The stench of vented corpses floats abroad These killing fields will yield to ne...

Succumb to this slicker genesis The serpentine wish of a decandent stranger This fixed insistence From a twisted out-of-mind He is scu...

Bursting with madness the moon shall derange The ether caresses my veins Cursing the feverous reign I taste the change Lips curl, my gr...

Sometimes red curtains fall Before the act has headed for the wings As on that night disaster crawled out from the stalls... Suddenly th...

So, I've got a clean copy of the tape Here now and um, Well look I should warn you that This could really scare you. This is the le...

Governed by the moon She's a bold headmistress I am lycanthropic Too evolved to miss this Opportunity to taste The pausing lamb By...

Forgive me Father, I have sinned Darkness put her painted claws in me again Her vision drowns like service wine Whispered kisses so divin...

Church bells resounded like judgement day As they were making love In the rainswept graveyard She fucked him hard, silhouetted by flame ...

At the very start There were whispers in the dark And for all the world to see There was witchcraft at its heart And on the autumn air ...

Forgive me Father, I have sinned Forgive me Father, I have sinned Darkness put her painted claws in me again Her vision drowns like serv...

Poets racking absinthed brains Could never fully paint these nights No martyr parting from his pain Could utter words so erudite As thos...

I am She Lilith Mistress of the dark Of Sheba First offender And succour to demons Whose sweet seductions and wicked rites Lead all t...

The Feast of Fools, 1308 As January slipped into the grip of winter A leather leash tightened round the throat of fate Amidst the flock,...

The world was her cloister, the abbess Duboir In the convent at All Hallows fair A pearl in an oyster she shone like a star Augmenting he...

She slept in ecstasy In hands that fanned her wildest fantasies Freed from Christ's frigid regime And rigid nails... She was first ...

At the very start There were whispers in the dark And for all the world to see There was witchcraft at its heart And on the autumn air ...

On the night all mirrors fell silent And the clocks struck accord with the rain A storm swept in with such violence The dead rose to comp...

Church bells resounded like judgement day As they were making love In the rainswept graveyard She fucked him hard, silhouetted by flame ...

Poets racking absinthed brains Could never fully paint these nights No martyr parting from his pain Could utter words so erudite As thos...

Where does the madness end? How far down do the rungs expire In smoke and burning heat? In depravity and sin? In her shocking retinue ...

Forgive me Father, I have sinned Darkness put her painted claws in me again Her vision drowns like service wine Whispered kisses so divin...

"All mirrors lead to my palace My exotic pleasure temple Wherein my court is both gracious and insatiable Pure and obscene For wher...

"Kill a man and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are a God." [Jean Rosta...

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 ...