Cradle of Filth Lyrics

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...

Facedown I sprawl in the forest's cathedral Where she lies in thrall To a slippery coffin I first saw her grin in this graven lair ...

Bloated with disease A psychophantic grease that clings Like a shroud thrown over me A coat of gloden fleas And by their gleam The shad...

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...