Cradle of Filth Lyrics

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...

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...