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from My Dying Bride - Meisterwerk 2 (2001)
Pour yourself into me
Our time approaches so near, that I sigh What danger in such an adorer? We dance and the music dies We carry them all away As we glide through their lost eyes You lift me above myself With the ghostly lake on your mind Arise from your slumber in my arms Your beauty took the strength from me In the meadows of heaven, we run through the stars Romantic in our tastes, we are without excuse We burn in our lust, we die in our eyes And drown in our arms |
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from My Dying Bride - Meisterwerk 2 (2001)
Looking across the way, she yells out loud
Got no time today, I'm still stuck in this crowd Pushing them from my face, she isn't far behind I'll win this human race if I obey the signs Throw my hands in the air I'm fucking mad, no one cares I'd kill them all without a thought Take a bow when I get caught She's closer now, just a throw away I cannot slow, I cannot stay She screams to me, one last chance I stumble 'round and catch a glance |
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from My Dying Bride - Meisterwerk 2 (2001)
Burdens of grief that weigh against me
Aid my tired eyes in their search for pitch Your kinds heart now pines For whom the gods love dies young Wrapped and confounded in a thousand fears The sadness I present, smiles with tears Where once I'd loved now lied forlorn beauty And wars abhorred by mothers No man lives so poor as he was born We don't remember pure sensations Gaze peacefully into the past I am dust , and to dust I shall return Belial, Mephisto, both shall burn me up Devour my sad whimperings The cutting whip is mine to feel No symphony in mind to colour my dreams Poena damni Sorrow everywhere Please pray for me When deep sleep falls on men Father hold me I am yours to bear Ad te In the play which he has written for the world Night is the mother of sleep Old age is a malady of which one dies Augury of a better age Sages as far as the beard Their wounds smelled so sweetly Temptation, the father of my lust Chalcedony shines like the new born Stricken I'd raise my dripping limbs Splendid was the innocentcs fall Laugh to scorn would our foe Amid wars laws are silent Drop by drop in sleep upon the heart Falls the labrious memory of pain In the rich upheavel of vast choirs Death shall flee from me Misericordium et judicium Adhoest pavimento AD te levavi ocolus meos Verba mea auribus |
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from My Dying Bride - Meisterwerk 2 (2001)
A cruel sleep 'cross our land
All withered and dying As the fall, the victims They're dying a sad death In our land, we lay down And suffer again A dark girl'cross our land Is pacing. Is preying And with her, a fever A marching black fever No eyes see. No features Just black form, suffering You have her sympathy You have her tears She tries only to take All your fears The pain she feels When she drinks your soul Is hers to suffer It is her toll Believe me, she's helpless When she curses our land When she swallows light It's not her hand Poison awaits when you kiss her Her heart cries out for you, for me Untold misery is hers to serve out for eternity Out cold. Mankind will stay forevermore if she gets her way She can't help it. It's her curse To sing your pain in her own verse She is the dark The nightmares you hide The pain you feel The suffering inside Though she was like you Through her dark past But now, the conqueror Her choirs vast Oh, please forgive her As mankind dies As angels weep And heaven cries |
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from My Dying Bride - Meisterwerk 2 (2001)
What is it you hope for, even though you are dying?
And even though life is closing your tiny eyes Why did I leave them all? I should be with them to die in the same place The pain I think, should go on forever, for always But no, not mine, not now, my life now begins Call me what you will, but I'll die for no man, at all My limbs and the life that spreads from them Cross my path and you'll suffer like no man before, at all What I hunger for, is the trial of God For just two winters only did we live for My God, what have you become? dear, dear Lord We could have changed the world, had you been here with me Right now, held you in my arms, in my arms, my love Jesus wept so man could live forever on earth, in peace But my tears, they fall for you, only you |
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from My Dying Bride - Meisterwerk 2 (2001)
Your bloodied body is what I cling to.
In powerful rain, they laid down their heads to die. Let your dark, thirsty eyes drink deep the sights of me. It's sad that, in our blindness, we gather thorns for flowers. Your river holds a feast of danger. The suffering you have had to bear. I'd die for that moment one more time. The loved one falls below your ideals. Pleasure too safely enjoyed lacks zest. The brave lick their sickening lips. Rigid, handsome and a poet. A king in his passionate castle. Where now? Feed me! Hold me! Save me! Save yourself! Where now? Which way? Dear god, show me. Take your own. Struggle free! Arise! You're Ruined! Stand down! Your kin, piled thick around you. Save yourself! |
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from My Dying Bride - Meisterwerk 2 (2001)
Some velvet morning when I’m straight
I’m gonna open up your gate And maybe tell you ’bout Phaedra And how she gave me life And how she made it end Some velvet morning when I’m straight Some velvet morning when I’m straight I’m gonna open up your gate And maybe tell you ’bout Phaedra And how she gave me life and how she made it end Some velvet morning when I’m straight Flowers are the things we knew Secrets are the things we grew Learn from us very much Look at us, but do not touch Phaedra is my name Some velvet morning when I’m straight I’m gonna open up your gate And maybe tell you ’bout Phaedra And how she gave me life And how she made it end Some velvet morning when I’m straight |
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from My Dying Bride - Meisterwerk 2 (2001)
Can't anybody see? you've got a war to fight
Never found our way, regardless of what they say How can it feel this wrong? From this moment, how can it feel this wrong? Storm in the morning light, I feel No more can I say, frozen to myself I got nobody on my side and surely that ain't right And surely that ain't right Can't anybody see? you've got a war to fight Never found our way, regardless of what they say How can it feel this wrong? From this moment, how can it feel this wrong? Can't anybody see? you've got a war to fight Never found our way, regardless of what they say How can it feel this wrong? From this moment, how can it feel this wrong? |
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from My Dying Bride - For Lies Is Sire (2009)
The ruin of your face
Pours down like lead tears As you sit by my side Confess to me your fears Drink deep the wreck of me My body is a funeral I fail to find comfort In your pale cold eyes Worn loosely about me You hang there dying off me Deep in the misery Of my long arms. Weeping I cradle your tired head This moment for the keeping Her hand raised from the shadows in silence Like a dying victim of a biblical plague A strange mix of innocence and horror Gushed from her red rimmed and swollen eyes Resentment conquers sympathy and I turn my back Her burning stare. Like minute blazing suns Roars into the back of my head And I simply move away I will sing you this song of All my pain. So listen Great roaring. Tears pouring Down unto me from my lover The winter in your soul Has frozen me forever. |
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from My Dying Bride - For Lies Is Sire (2009)
Our great god lies naked next to me
I witnessed death in his beauty I feel him when he breathes, as we fall and I clasp him to me as we fall Shouldering your sadness unto me The great caldera moon to the east The annihilation from your eyes Flowing deep into me from your eyes You wallow in your suffering and swim in your senseless grief The shadow of your body Is cast upon only me Goodnight my love, goodnight. I fall upon your body Fall with me into my frozen flesh My hungry death You tremble before me and swallow my dying breath Caress me, undress me, forget me As winter comes Your pale skin, crystal eyes I will weep forever, oh my god why? As fire fell upon great Alexandria Our arms were close around us Forever gods turned away Give the word and down comes beautiful rain glorious pain Armies of salvation laid to waste The host lifts its desire from it's face In a memory from a past life leaps the beast Devouring all around, the colossal feast |
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from My Dying Bride - For Lies Is Sire (2009)
Before it lies
The story of invoking joy Endless love Given to me through a dream A following from above I couldn't help myself God walks by my side Within my limbs burns hate Believe me how I cry The tremble of my hands Blinded by my tears But I stand heroic The holy words I heed With glory and blazing eyes I rise into bloody skies Myself a storm, ravaging The wrath of God, down I bring With mercenary's smile I rise up from the shade As the king of all souls The pounding of my wings Tearing through the night Death's taking his toll The searing heat Burning eyes Fury and fire A forest gone Torn victims The lies I sire My work is done and I leave none The passion in my dying worth The grief I leave is meaningless The lies within these ancient words |
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from My Dying Bride - For Lies Is Sire (2009)
Is there anything left
Left of me to save My life is like a carnival My body a sunken grave It's what I have to do To distance me from you Lays a suffering inside And my veins are showing through A man becoming child Are you happy with your cries With haunted looks of fear I stab the wing from your side My mind a fractured ruin The crushing of my soul It is time to spread my wings To fill this empty hope It has now begun The force fed sun beneath Will conquer all before And bring me to my victory I've seen them before Down from the fall And now standing tall I've seen this I have been this And now I am my own man No more misery Look outside and see What are you waiting for? Pick yourself up Get up off the floor |
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from My Dying Bride - For Lies Is Sire (2009)
A boy so young upon the gallows
Gazing down like a saint From the church of children's cries He awaited one Anticipates Issued from her mouth A further request The sons of Adam Put to death A voice is heard Echoes from the hollow soul A golden word Wrapped in books of skin and blood From harmony lives a vision of your guilt And treachery smiles, oh so very sweet The last whisper from a dying heart Lifts away through the night Chased by angels falling through the sky As the snow, oh what a sight This closing river takes all away Daughters of Eve slowly fade (fade away) Given a word, and the movement will begin If it's unheard, the message must be sent So slowly now, like the early morning bloom And this is how the perishing will come |
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from My Dying Bride - For Lies Is Sire (2009)
She already knows how this will all end
The wounds of memory she tends Ghost and strangers She flees her own grief Forever running Haunted, she sleeps In shadows she lays all alone Remembering her lover gone Through forests she walks every day Through winter storms, every day She looks through dark eyes Over her shoulder She already knows when it will find her I'm coming, keep running Tormenting you! Hastily do you flee I'm coming! I'm coming! My dear, I'm here All shadow and sorrow I have thee, finally Embracing you! Young lover, it's over together and never! |
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from My Dying Bride - For Lies Is Sire (2009)
With your baronial motif
Mankind at your feet and your opulent guests With whom you do jest The whisper of your blood The call to those you loved Who lay down for you For you to run them through Carelessly dressed I grovel highness Beneath your stars and your moon and your feminine doom Beneath the shiver of your sea and the gold that you bleed On the wings of your charm A promise of great harm The light within us fades As we shy away from day The passion of her bite and the glory of her sight In a hive of open lore We await the call to war In an issue of drying blood Lies the victim of our love Regale me with lies and punish me outright The crisis of my empire The volume of your desire Your enfolding dark Your beauty and your mark I give you my veins As we lay down in pain I couldn't help the things we did No matter where or how I hid We live for every single night Victorious in every fight |
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from My Dying Bride - For Lies Is Sire (2009)
One evening of sober grey
She alone did not laugh As I walk the devil's path Without your moon and your sin I could not find my way Though I fight and I fear I will never ever pray In a tower he sits Aged with despair His anger was poison and fire and pain Torrents of tears Echo his dark reign The great beast of religion Sears me Thy chaste breast, a ruin Thy silent mind, closing in His son, rampant and gorged with blood His face - behold horror Armed with eyes of terror Taking - shows no mercy Each one of us |
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from My Dying Bride - For Lies Is Sire (2009)
A coldness pouring out of me
Come hither to me, as I preach to thee So wake up, as I preach to thee If I can't conquer the atlas of your body Then help me lord Reach for me I raise my arms up to thee I love you with the tears of all my sorry life Thy sunrise gushes into me like burning gold In moonlight I see yourself Naked, for me to hold You have a eulogy for the world to see Up there with the stars, for mankind to see I was cynical I was beautiful The deep secrets in my eyes There was something there That made me aware A drop of passion in your eyes Where she lays free There's a portrait there That looks just like me In great Babylon Right down by the sea Fear keeps on coming on Take me far from this dark Enslave all for the world End this now, close us down There's a portrait |
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from My Dying Bride - Bring Me Victory [ep] (2009)
Is there anything left
Left of me to save My life is like a carnival My body a sunken grave It's what I have to do To distance me from you Lays a suffering inside And my veins are showing through A man becoming child Are you happy with your cries With haunted looks of fear I stab the wing from your side My mind a fractured ruin The crushing of my soul It is time to spread my wings To fill this empty hope It has now begun The force fed sun beneath Will conquer all before And bring me to my victory I've seen them before Down from the fall And now standing tall I've seen this I have been this And now I am my own man No more misery Look outside and see What are you waiting for? Pick yourself up Get up off the floor |
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from My Dying Bride - Bring Me Victory [ep] (2009)
Take the Linton falls water so white
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme From cold it's bed then up to the sky And then she'll be a true love of mine Ask for angels a chariot to make Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme White swan feathers black and the wings of the night She will breathe the true love of mine Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme Remember me to one who lives there For once she was a true love of mine Have her make me a cambric shirt Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme Without no seam nor fine needle work And then she'll be a true love of mine Tell her to weave it in a sycamore wood lane Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme And gather it all with a basket of flowers And the she'll be a true love of mine Dear, when thou has finished thy task Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme Come to me, my hand for to ask For thou then art a true love of mine |
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from My Dying Bride - Bring Me Victory [ep] (2009)
I've been lonely
And I have been blind And I... I've learned nothing So my hands are firmly tied To the sinking leadweight of failure I've worked hard all my life Money slips through my hands My face in the mirror tells me It's no surprise that I'm Pushing the stone up the hill of failure They tempt me with violence They punish me with ideals And they crush me with an image of my life That's nothing but unreal Except on the goddamned slaveship of failure I'll drown here trying To get up for some air But each time I think I breathe I'm laid on with a double share of the punishing burden of failure I don't deserve to be down here But I'll never leave And I've learned one thing You can't escape the beast In the null and void pit of failure When I get my hands on some money I'll kiss it's green skin And I'll ask it's dirty face ""Where have you been?"" ""I am the fuel that fires the engine of failure."" I'll be old and broken down I'll forget who and where I am I'll be senile or forgotten But I'll remember and understand You can't bank your hard-earned money on failure I saw my father crying I saw my mother break her hand On a wall that wouldn't weep But that certainly held in The mechanical moans of a dying man that was a failure My back hurts when I bend Because I carry a load My brain hurts me like a knife-hole Because I've yet to be shown How to pull myself out from The sucking quicksand of failure Some people live in hell Many bastards succeed But I. I've learned nothing I can't even elegantly bleed Out the poison blood of failure |
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from My Dying Bride - Bring Me Victory [ep] (2009)
Burdens of grief that weigh against me
Aid my tired eyes in their search for pitch Your kinds heart now pines For whom the gods love dies young Wrapped and confounded in a thousand fears The sadness I present, smiles with tears Where once I'd loved now lied forlorn beauty And wars abhorred by mothers No man lives so poor as he was born We don't remember pure sensations Gaze peacefully into the past I am dust, and to dust I shall return Belial, Mephisto, both shall burn me up Devour my sad whimperings The cutting whip is mine to feel No symphony in mind to colour my dreams Poena damni Sorrow everywhere Please pray for me When deep sleep falls on men Father hold me I am yours to bear Ad te In the play which he has written for the world Night is the mother of sleep Old age is a malady of which one dies Augury of a better age Sages as far as the beard Their wounds smelled so sweetly Temptation, the father of my lust Chalcedony shines like the new born Stricken I'd raise my dripping limbs Splendid was the innocents fall Laugh to scorn would our foe Amid wars laws are silent Drop by drop in sleep upon the heart Falls the labrious memory of pain In the rich upheaval of vast choirs Death shall flee from me Misericordium et judicium Adhoest pavimento AD te levavi ocolus meos Verba mea auribus |
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from My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings (2006)
The weary creak of my bones
Exhausted voice, deathly tones Arms of lead, skin drawn tight No long a princely sight Face is gaunt, pale and thin Bent and grey and full of sin Pass to me Wine and song For I'll be Soon long gone Cast me down, upon the dust My dry bones remain tombless From my life, a rose is grown Rains they come. The winds Blow Winter haunts me Nowhere to flee Take me back. Young was I Within her arms we could fly Grey am I, and all alone I feel like I'm far from home Grace has fled here But He is so near In shadows lie My hopes of life Black wings fold me In their symphony Long the winter nights are Grace is so far Leaves they fall in time Drifting down in time Darkness comes, right on time Descend upon me Wings from above Goodbye to lie Farewell my loves. |
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from My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings (2006)
Lover put a knife in my hand
Lay down right there, that's my command Do as I say in this blood play Claw at my skin, I'll let you win Caress your flesh. Burns like fire Rosy, sweet breath, and your desire Your skin is all I want to take from you Your mind is naught unto me, I'll leave behind Bound together The darkest embrace Bound forever We will be chaste I paw at you golden flesh Golden breast I sail on your, on your sea Of ecstasy. God, I want you. Just be mine Because you haunt me all the time Your pain, it talks to me Your pain, it really talks to me Your pain, it talks to me and I heed it well My hands, your neck, they greet each well in a loving hell This hold we have can't last because it's killing me Farewell my love. Please walk away and take away my pain. |
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from My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings (2006)
A Serpent it came to me
Right before my eyes I looked to God way above me He looked down at my lies I said "oh Lord please help me I am on my knees" "Your path is yours" he told me "Yours to reap" A mighty wind did pull me Tore at my face My flesh is raped at his hand I am the world's disgrace The Heaven opened above me And down Gods tears came Lashing away at my skin My stinking, rotten frame I though I'd fought the demons that roamed above me I thought I'd slew their blood red hands Their hearts still beat with all the hatred for me Their mark still burns into my very soul And I walk with them. They're shadowing my soul. |
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from My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings (2006)
In fiery flight we would leave
this hall The Holy house, House of God will fall To death they go with music and song But our dread simply must go on I feel our need to feed goes on For our greed, watch them bleeding on This hour's ours, with open arms go on Crowned with thorns and pain was he Raised our hands and slew him utterly Crimson waves of the tears of war This is what we were put here for Eden falls, Mercy for life I hear their calls Stood and watched them die Heaven crawls. Wings burn on high Beauty falls. Beg unto me why? Fold thy raven wings 'Tis our duty, darkness brings If this day be our last Our victims await For they are vast In fiery death we will crawl away Content we lived for each and every day Black and burned with a stench of decay. |
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from My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings (2006)
Denial of our shadow side
Will often cause it to rise up Against us That he does not need to die Allows his mind to soar To fly What if love's intolerable pain never leaves? What will your life's mark leave upon this world? What now, will my dark craft do with your body now? We walk as Gods together through a fiery dawn What if you love someone you know you shouldn't love? What will your dying father's last words to you be? What now, the painting of young lovers is complete? What if love's intolerable pain never leaves us? So we dash our bleeding hearts on the rocks of loneliness? And cry unto the lords above who turn away in haste? From the heart Heart of snow Comes the ice It's crushing blow From the soul Whose love is sound Comes the cold It's frozen ground. |
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from My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings (2006)
Your name will walk the years
of shame Your hands, my face, the look, the taste To gaze how fondly on thy beautiful face To fold thee in my great arms, my dark embrace In my arms I comforted her, and she looked up at me Weep did she and tried to escape. My mind she did read I held her face in my hands and winked my eye Whispering into her ear "now you're mine" Her eyes, her cries, my thoughts, she dies Walk away, she can try, and if she does, she dies. |
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from My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings (2006)
An unfortunate journey
Through a bleak sea of loneliness I carved through the waves of grief In a black vastness of self doubt I have never felt so alone So pitiful and wretched and low I'm tried by a terrible wind The misery and the pains blow Fill my vast sails of ruin Steer me toward a bleak end A horizon of purples and reds The still waters of my welcome end The clouds of grey come overhead A storm will hunt me down And rip the guts out of my body That I would surely drown The unforgiving wind searches And lashes me like a whip The self-pity overwhelms me My heart sinks like a ship Thrashing out at torment and pain The maddened sea engulfs me I let myself be swallowed up The magnificent weight upon me Deeper I go, deeper down Didn't think it could get any blacker The cold bites, the pressure builds I think I no longer matter Can't tell if my eyes are open or closed The grieving waters swallow The pain I'm in through my life of sin The Devil will doubtless follow Loneliness is agony For those of you who know A war of grief and sadness rages Through mind, body and soul When lovers die and friendships fade When kin all lie forgotten The gates of agony spew forth Your memories, stinking and rotten So deep now I feel so numb I'm ravaged by utter loss The guilt, the grief, the astounding pain My body, they all will wash I hope I ne'er return to life Oh, Christ just let me go Let death devour my Simple soul Lest my misery grow I quietly leave. A lonely sight Relieved of all my guilt To join a wall of deepest Hell The Devil himself has built. |
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from My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings (2006)
Everyone knows her.
knows her name. Deadly Siren, that's her game They want to be near her. Playing her game Get to know her. What's her name? She strides among us with a burning fire. Her victims endless, piling higher And I run along with them, the heaving mass, fighting anyone to get past I want her fire, her burning fire, her dark caress, her red hot kiss I want desire, her roaring fire, from milk white breast to raven tress I want her nights, morning light, her endless days, amazing grace I'm on her trail every single day Ahead, she glides, I stumble blindly in her wake I witnessed lovers torn by her. Teary maidens killing her You'll never be lovers when she's in town because in her eyes, we all drown Broken-hearted, we leap to God, and die like lovers everyone forgot I tremble when she passes by. Lord make her mine or let me die She looked at me. Her eyes! her eyes! They drew me in. Her sin! Her lies! I see my final night Glory, what a sight! The blood, the wine, the roses And me all snowy white Her hands on me, it's ecstasy. It's Heavenly, it's God I see I risk a kiss. One kiss One kiss! I knew from then my life had died Hold me now my father Now my days are done I would do it all again Because she was the one Torment me you fucking bastard! I'll seek you once I rise Look behind. I will slay your worthless blackened soul. |
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from My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours (2001)
Mother will you take me down?
I have become so afraid Mother please, please take me down I am sorry, your boy is not brave Child just hold on. Night will soon be gone Sleep if you can. But watch your father's hand We do not want you. No-body loves you Father of the dark. Tonight will greet you God in heaven, can you hear me Help me Oh Lord. They're coming for me Mother warned me. Father scorned me Oh my God No. Now I hear him I claim your life on this night within sight of your own God The silence, the waiting then the pain Oh child, sleep will be here soon Your life has only ever been shame And so young boy, my hand brings doom Child, won't you awake. Father has gone Child, please come awake. Please my tiny son |
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from My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours (2001)
The chosen one glows like the sun
Pure of heart, wide in eye Sweet she sings, sings her hymns Golden girl dances by He is filth. Scum of God Black as night. Mute and sick Sent by the Lord. The boy his sword To reap the gold. To use the stick He watches her from his side in the blood Waiting for the holy call for her blood Every moon she comes close to her Lord Sick with suffering. The stench and filth of him Death all around him. The flies, the dogs, the din King of death and pain. Ruler of the slain All in Gods name. Creatures for the maim I'll come for you soon for my God is my want Your eyes. Your face. An angel for the world to see My God is my want Sickle in hand. Over her I stand Fear and love. Red and tears I see My God is my want. My God is my want My God is my want. My fucking God is my want There he lay for his God. A final time The silent one. Fallen son. A final night |
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from My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours (2001)
Before I go down
Cleave to me Kiss and drown Weave your web of lies Catch the drifters by Bring me love songs Sing me black tunes Read me kind words Of sun and moon Love me freely Open up to me Feel me closely Say you love me The wind brings them in To your den of sin Caught by your divine spell Locked within your wishing well Ice as eyes lured my soul Look of lust froze me cold Many lies holds your body A true feast for all to see Men will fall to her song Women too, won't last long |
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from My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours (2001)
You're mine when you're bleeding
Divine to the end Bid adieu to your breathing No more pretence I will witness your leaving With tears in my eyes But not for your sleeping Just when you arise The girl you take in you Will now cease to be And the woman within you At last can be free Passions and crime. Your lover and mine Deep came the need. And sweet was her bleed Through purity and through light And the grace of the night We sing and we dance To our black heart romance Hair fall of black. Eyes don't look back Pale skin and cold. Lying in her fold She came, she saw, she took anything she liked My eyes burned with her horror They fell, they screamed, they wept but they died From hands of the abhorrer We are hers when we are bleeding The love that we feel Amourous when she is feeding My heart shen can steal |
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from My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours (2001)
Walk with, with me. I'll be your Shadow God
For now, just now. Give your life to me Your hope, your hope. I feel its steady hand Your heart, your fear. Take off and flee Trust me, just me. I'll catch you if you fall My arms run deep. Run unto my call I'll lead you into danger And all that troubles man I'll lead you far from hunger Just take my frozen hand You'll want the world to praise you And gather at your feet You'll want my blinding light And my searing heat I will lift you above their crying world Into your heart comes the love of fear You vanity, your sanctity Your kindless heart Your reverance. Your ignorance Your black uncaring eyes No sumpathy for humanity. Bleak horror The genocide, the parasites The kingdom of the ghost At one with fear Careless if you fall Beneath the earth Your heart may feel the call Can't let your mind be tainted By the praying men Divinity burns in thunder Over again Eventide. By your side All things because of you Fantasize. At my side. The lonely, the few God above. Lord and love. It's fools love heart of fire. Lord and liar don't falter |
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from My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours (2001)
Weeping with you. Arms around them
Flowing with you. Without your men Keeping with you. Feeling their shiver Drowning with you. Deep in this river Tired and lonely. Sitting and staring Weak and filthy. No longer caring Wasting to nothing. The rubble of you Hoping for something. Poison where love grew People. Feel her mind She is broken People. Fill your eyes Her body is broken Leave me be, with my memories I can still see all the lovers of me I still know those feelings You're still mine, my lover I watch over you Goodbye my lover No sorrow. Please, no tears Holy and fallen. Watch yourself die Fade and wither. Long lost the fight Tremble to sleep. Her man long gone Years, and still weeps. Never forgotten |
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from My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours (2001)
Your soul is my desire. Desire I can't control
Be still my aching heart. Each beat you have stole Your mind calls to me. Calls me closer to you Be calm my aching heart. The ache drives me to you Your eyes. The depth I see. So deep The tears you cry will devour me A flower to behold Don't run. Don't blow away Breathless to my eyes So bright. Never to fade Calmness and mystery Entwines and captivates me Delicate to the touch From what I could see I only wanted to get you close to me To feel the love inside of me You turned away from me You looked the other way You didn't see my tears for you I only wanted to take you in my arms, And lay you down here with me You tried to turn and flee from my side You tore out the heart of me If only you had stayed. What may have been? We could have been beautiful Could have walked the earth, flown into the skies, Swam the deepest of the seas But you couldn't see anything in me You strayed too far from my path Maybe now you'll see everything in me I'm sorry it had to be this way Your eyes. Your smile No more laughter again We were something No more. Nothing to me Now I walk alone, naked to the bone My heart has fled far from me Until another day I find the one, Who looks beyond the eyes in me |
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from My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours (2001)
Oh beautiful earth
For too long you have been silent Touch me once again The dark ground lies cold Et gelidus hoc voluntas firmamentum Hark Yes it is I The fever of mankind Urges whorish as ever I am the new Christ Silence yourself Nunquam You are powerless here Pityful one Pity me not Give back the sun Souls will mourn In this unending season of darkness Beware, ravaged one Mine is the might If you're feeble, turn away No dagger glints in my hand Technique is secret Liar She have herself to me Please leave I think I'll close my eyes now The first sunshine was mine Look for me among the flowers Sleeping with the earth My Dying Bride The pity I fashion Through a rain of tears A tragic opus Immeasurable loss Tearful I rest Bask in my growing sorrow The females is such exquisite hell Lay my obscure hands upon you Macabre, erotica, passion Even in death, beauty is with you I extol you with loud praise You will grace my procession Why shouldn't I indulge In my own desires? Bare your breasts to slow kisses Away bastard dog Nunquam Down from your throne Nunquam A dagger glints in my hand Am I afraid? You'll perish alone Ha Pray to me Blasphemy Cry on me Die on me Let me out Let me out! Let me out!!! Suffer in your nakedness Before your dark art The filth and the stench of you I cry for you Is hell in itself Your reign is over now The sunlight will return To this once petrified earth Ego deicere tu pereant Make me faint with unending kisses My passions have all returned Warm my trembling hands We're scope for the tragedians I can see from your smile You're not here for the sunset |
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from My Dying Bride - The Light At The End Of The World (1999)
A cruel sleep 'cross our land
All withered and dying As the fall, the victims They're dying a sad death In our land, we lay down And suffer again A dark girl'cross our land Is pacing. Is preying And with her, a fever A marching black fever No eyes see. No features Just black form, suffering You have her sympathy You have her tears She tries only to take All your fears The pain she feels When she drinks your soul Is hers to suffer It is her toll Believe me, she's helpless When she curses our land When she swallows light It's not her hand Poison awaits when you kiss her Her heart cries out for you, for me Untold misery is hers to serve out for eternity Out cold. Mankind will stay forevermore if she gets her way She can't help it. It's her curse To sing your pain in her own verse She is the dark The nightmares you hide The pain you feel The suffering inside Though she was like you Through her dark past But now, the conqueror Her choirs vast Oh, please forgive her As mankind dies As angels weep And heaven cries |
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from My Dying Bride - The Light At The End Of The World (1999)
All are welcome here
To the Eden Feast Enter if you will This is Edenbeast Faces stay hidden Behind their dark masks In arms they enter The Great Hall of Sin Eden, calls again For sick minds. For me Inside there. All laid bare Take your pick. Devour now Lust clawing at your feet Desires for you to greet Every woman a handsome treat Young seed for you to reap Anyone that you desire Leave your faith at the door Any pleasures you require Lay all around, upon the floor Some call this blasphemy And try to end it all They question our sanity And preach Christliars' call "Seat yourself young man Do you see them feed? As the feast goes on, Do you feel their greed?" It's my fear that tears me down But this night we'll have no tears I want you. Beautiful gown Take my hand. We'll have no tears Kiss me deep. I want you now In my arms, we'll have no fears Inside there. All laid bare Take your pick. Devour now When you've had your fill Of poisonous flesh Leave this place of sin And watch your back for death |
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from My Dying Bride - The Light At The End Of The World (1999)
I clasp her dying body to bloody mine
The essential nature of her was so fine With torn garments she lays in my arms Womanly graces laid bare No dignity Cast aside like nothing at all Torn was she Shot down and strewn on wasteland In her prime Opened up for the world to see Oh, the love of mine No more tears for me now Lose all fears for me now Should I seek revenge or let it lie? Should I find the one and let him die? I wonder what you would do If it were you One black, furious midnight Through howling rain I descended right upon him My weeping prey Kissing him as his life ended In the rain Sweet was my revenge A life for life I feel no remorse The night he died I wonder what you would do If it was you? |
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from My Dying Bride - The Light At The End Of The World (1999)
An isle, a bright shining isle
Stands forever, alone in the sea Of rock and of sand and grass And shale, the isle bereft of trees. - Small. A speck in the wide blue Sea. 'Tis the last of all the land. A dweller upon our lonesome Isle, the last, lonely man? - By the Gods he is there to Never leave, to remain all his Life. His punishment for Evermore, to attend the Eternal light. The lighthouse, tall and brilliant White, which stands at the end Of the world. Protecting ships And sailors too, from rock they Could be hurled Yet nothing comes and nothing Goes 'sept the bright blue sea. Which stretches near and far Away, 't is all our man can see. Though, one day, up high on Rock, a bird did perch and cry. An albatross, he shot a glance, And wondered deeply, why? Could it be a watcher sent? A curse sent from the Gods, Who sits and cries and stares at him, The life that they have robbed. Each year it comes to watch Over him, the creature from above. Not a curse but a reminder of The woman that he loved. - Oh weary night, under stars, He'd lay and gaze. Up towards the moon and stars. The suns dying haze. Time and again, Orion's light Filled our man with joy. Within the belt, he'd see his love, Remembering her voice - The twinkle from the stars above bled peace into his heart As long as she looks down on him he knows they'll never part One day good, one day bad The madness, the heat, the sun, Out to sea, he spies upon land. His beloved Albion. Cliffs of white and trees of green Children run and play, 'My home land' he cries and weeps, Why so far away? Eyes sore and red. Filled with tears, He runs towards the sea. To risk his life, a worthy cause, For home he would be. Into the sea, deep and blue, The waters wash him clean. Awake. He screams. Cold with sweat. And Albion a dream. - Such is life upon the isle, Of torment and woe. One day good. One day bad. And some days, even hope. The light at the end of the world Burns bright for mile and mile Yet tends the man, its golden glow, In misery all the while? For fifty years he stands and waits, Atop the light, alone. Looking down upon his isle The Gods have made his home - The watcher at the end of the world Through misery does defile. Remembers back to that single night And allows a tiny smile. (His sacrifice was not so great, He insists upon the world. Again he would crime, Again he would pay, For one moment with the girl) Her hair, long and black it shone, The dark, beauty of her eyes, Olive skin and warm embrace, Her memory never dies. 'Twas years ago, he Remembers clear The life they once did live. Endless love and lust for life, They promised each would give. Alas, such love and laughter too, Was short as panting breath For one dark night, her soul Was kissed By the shade of death. (Agony, like none before, Was suffered by our man.) Who tends the light now Burning bright On the very last of land. (Anger raged and misery too Like nothing ever before.) He cursed the Gods and man And life, And at his heart he tore. - A deity felt sympathy And threw our man a light 'Your woman you may see again, For a single night. - But think hard and well young man, There is a price to pay: To tend the light at the end of The world Is where you must stay. Away from man and life and love. Alone you will be. On a tiny isle. A bright shining isle In the middle of the sea.' - 'I'll tend the light, for one more night With the woman whom I love', Screamed the man, with tearful eyes, To the deity above. And so it was that very night His lover did return. To his arms and to their bed, Together they did turn. In deepest love and lust and passion Entwined they did fall. Lost within each other's arms They danced (in lover's ball). - - Long was the night filled with love. For them the world was done. Awoke he did to brightest light, His woman and life had gone. To his feet he leapt. To the sea he looked. To the lighthouse on the stone. The price is paid and from now on He lives forever alone. Fifty years have passed since then And not a soul has he seen. But his woman lives with him still In every single dream. 'Tis sad to hear how young love has died To know that, alone, someone has cried. But memories are ours to keep. To live them again, in our sleep.- |
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from My Dying Bride - The Light At The End Of The World (1999)
Over me. Cover me.
Deep inside THE FEVER SEA. Lame from my mothers womb Born a cripple and sick. Under a red moon. My hands bleed. Feet red raw. I'm a broken man who dreamt the great war. The fear of life swallows me. Takes me through THE FEVER SEA. They crawl to me. Cry for me. I'll drown them all in THE FEVER SEA. The feast flows on forever. Devour me until never. Fill them all with horror. Let them sleep with terror. Who calls me now, then turns away? Who takes the night, and brings day? Lame from my fathers hand. Born to heal. Heal in every land. I will never get out. I even prayed unto his house. The cold feel of my skin. I try to lose but alwys win. Lame from my own hand. Believe me I've tried. Tried to make a stand. |
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from My Dying Bride - The Light At The End Of The World (1999)
Enter the Ghost Lake.
The waters whisper Of something brooding. No way out of here. Slow smouldering, Slow rain(ing) heat. Lapping at your skin Pulling you down again. I wish that I could Fan back to life The dying embers Of my long lost passion. Descending deeper. With black as my light. With twist and turn. All men will be tried in life. We look for light to call. The call to save us all. Lest we fall to our knees. The death, we kiss his feet. Oh, sacred mother come. For our fate is done. In blindness do we run Always backwards. The care of many Was lost in my hands. The sickness came in Floods of torment and woe. My withered body. Aching and bone tired. My christ who art lord. Hold me down again. Knee bent and head held low. Eyes closed against my foe. In prayer I sing on low. Answers to my last call. Oh, sacred father come. For it is you who's done. In blindness do we (signs "you will") run. And be sure not to fall. Oh, christ, what have I done? Ill fortune now will come. Fire raining from the sun. All virtue swept away. In floods of blackest death. The ghost will take my breath. My sins I will forget. I am nothing again. Exit the Ghost Lake. the waters silent. What now has risen? No man stands alone. The world is changing. 'Tis misery who Leads our way now. Holding man down. |
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from My Dying Bride - The Light At The End Of The World (1999)
You know they lied.
To us they lied. Remember them? The final words. All these years. All these fears. Remember them? Ancient words. We'll take it from you when we like. You will suffer for nothing in your own home. Will you help me fight them off? They are killing me. Help me with my broken heart. The endless dark. Will you keep them far from me? Oh, the misery. I need a friend to lay upon. To be my sun. Oh, lord help me with my pain. I'm dead again. Beliefs have taken me to my end. Beliefs have taken me down again. The words I have followed, took me down again. The lies that I have read over again. Leaves are falling words from the earth. Spoken in silence. Never heard. |
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from My Dying Bride - The Light At The End Of The World (1999)
Time wears out affections.
I hope to be missed. Your presence on my wing. Arise from my sickness. My hopes, eclipsed by failures. Dismal moments fall on me. A terrible sobbing Echoed through my own house. The lightening gets frightening. Oh, cover me. Memories of her sadden me. (are killing me) Believe me. The suffering. The agony. My young love taken from me, Too early. Beware! I will seek you. Find you. Vengeance is mine. Wherever you hide You know I will find. Your face! I see, I won't forget. I'll be right there. Preying on you in every dream. You will never leave me again. By your red hand. You left me here to suffer and die. Eyes black. Cold face. Your stare burned me. The sears will be with me, Until my last day. My grip on you grows tight. I will choke you until I hear your last fucking breath. Into your eyes I'll smile. I'll cry. And when you are gone No-one alive will grief for you. |
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from My Dying Bride - The Light At The End Of The World (1999)
Come to me
Comfort me Take my hand In your arms In your eyes I will be Forever yours Bring me down To your bed To your dreams Take my life Take everything Through those meadows Of heaven Where we ran forevermore I wish, oh, how I wish again With you. Oh, to be with you So lay me down Close to you Hold me now my lover I kiss your tears My sweet one And kiss again, my love |
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from My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans (1993)
Pour yourself into me
Our time approaches so near, that I sigh What danger in such an adorer? We dance and the music dies We carry them all away As we glide through their lost eyes You lift me above myself With the ghostly lake on your mind Arise from your slumber in my arms Your beauty took the strength from me In the meadows of heaven, we run through the stars Romantic in our tastes, we are without excuse We burn in our lust, we die in our eyes And drown in our arms |
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from My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans (1993)
Your bloodied body is what I cling to.
In powerful rain, they laid down their heads to die. Let your dark, thirsty eyes drink deep the sights of me. It's sad that, in our blindness, we gather thorns for flowers. Your river holds a feast of danger. The suffering you have had to bear. I'd die for that moment one more time. The loved one falls below your ideals. Pleasure too safely enjoyed lacks zest. The brave lick their sickening lips. Rigid, handsome and a poet. A king in his passionate castle. Where now? Feed me! Hold me! Save me! Save yourself! Where now? Which way? Dear god, show me. Take your own. Struggle free! Arise! You're Ruined! Stand down! Your kin, piled thick around you. Save yourself! |
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from My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans (1993)
The very deepest of your wishes.
Climb up high, take my hand. Tread carefully through these sickening angels. Look at your god. Look at the way he stands. The uterine murderess dies herself. Let me show you all my pain. Sardonyx lays waste to your eyes and leaves you blind. Gone is the day. They that did feed, delicately. Feed on me. The call has come, from bird and beast. Insect and serpent, and all that lives in the sea. And cities of fire, rip through me. My life a widower sad. On your knees, smell your disease. If i live you will be sorry. I have a thousand forms. Uninjured by your tongue. I'm working to ensnare you. Couple your name with cruelty. The mother of dying children. My hatred is unnumbered. It rises in my breast. We've lived with our suffering. But now...? |
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from My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans (1993)
I've seen them.
So dark. Black. And yet fine. The flower they carry had once been mine. Get away from me, man of stories. Robe of lies. Stay far from me. I lie to myself (it's not hurting). I need help, but not from you or yor father. No! Jesus Christ. Who's my saviour? Lose myself in gods death. No! I can't bear all this pain. I had watched the snow all day. Falling. It never lets up. All day falling. I lifted my voice and wept out loud, "So this is life?". |
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from My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans (1993)
See the light and feel my warm desire, run through my veins like the evening sun.
It will live but no eyes will see it. I'll bless your name before I die. No person in everything can shine, yet shine you did, for the world to see. All a man hath will he give for life? For life that's lost bleeds all over me. I'd fallen before but it never hurt like this. Don't leave me here to crawl through the mire. I'm without fault before the throne of god. Take from me the crown of sympathy. What do you think you'll see? What do you think there will be? Sit down! Did you see the sun? What will we become? Great ones? The mouths that dare not speak his name, behold them, raised, complete and fine. The battle for our lives is oh, so brief. Take my hand and please walk with me. When I was young the sun did burn my face. I let its love and warmth wash over me. The melting voice of many, in the hush of night. Whispering tongues can poison my honest truth. Come dress me with your body, and comfort me. I dreamt of a dead child in my sleep. I wear a terrible mark in my head. My clean, white bed. It calls to me. I must lie down. And I want you to lay with me, in sympathy. No sad "adieus" on a balcony. For one last time, just walk with me. At the beautiful gate of the temple, we must be saved. For deadened, icy pain, covers all the earth. |
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from My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans (1993)
So little of what we observe, is the girl herself.
Elaborate, scented coiffers. Adieu d'amour. Vast is the heirs ballroom. Let the rich give you presents. Heaven pours from her throat, as she sings and as she dances. The fumes of rich swine, honeyglazed and dripping, playing in the air. My mouth eager and wishing. But I return to this nightingale. Her hair all fiery red. Deep it is and wild. My weakness will be fed. Boys whipped on the alter of diana, sometimes until they died. The cunning wily merchant, and his four crippled horses. Tales told in warlike manner. The storyteller by the fire. While musing deeply on this sight, the songster stirred my desire. You are sweet and fine to listen to. Long tresses about her neck. Yet much is false. This mighty evening, I've seen no face. This is crushing me. My quill it aches. Turn loose the swans that drew my poets craft. I'll dwell in desolate cities. You burned my wings. I leave this ode, splendid victorious through the carnage. I wanted to touch them all. I wanted to touch them all. |
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from My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans (1993)
Thy every look and every grace
So charm, whenever I view thee Till death overtake me, in the chase Still will my hopes pursue thee Then when my tedious hours have past Be this my last blessing given Low at thy feet to breathe my last And die in sight of Heaven |
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from My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans (1993)
Il en coute A qui vous reclame
Medecins du corps et de l'ame O temps! O moeurs! J'ai beau crier Tout le monde se fait payer |
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from My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans (1993)
You, who stand there now
I will not tell you not to cry Without fail my purpose Will be fulfilled I can crown you a God And I'll suffer for your sins Bound so tightly, pain is everything Far from kindness. I am your king Believe you're in Hell, but your's is Heaven Cry to die. You'll love me forever On a pale, teary cheek Tears cascade to your feet Whipped to the floor once again Laughing and lashing you away Burning pain scars through your skin But it's 'more' you cry, for you are a sinner We suffer in love, but you love to suffer Your misery is your majesty Though your skin may burn and your wounds, bleed The only real ache is between your legs You've learned well, through your Hell Your pain was nothing. You longed for more. Your shameful Heaven is full of devils Just like me. Just for you |
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from My Dying Bride - Like Gods Of The Sun (1996)
I live for your fond caresses
Songs you sing to me Gather me up into your arms I need no-one just you You fill me up with dark thoughts of you The Devil talks to me when you're touching me My lust it burns, deep inside of you Together we are as one We live our lives in passion Full up with thirst I drink your Light and beauty for always Open your arms hold me closely Never let me fall Wrapped up in you. Comforting me I could die here You fill me up with dark thoughts of you The Devil talks to me, when you're touching me My lust it burns, deep inside of you Paradise pales compared to you We burn like Gods of the Sun Never will we be alone Our world will change for no-one And as our live are closing We lie close and hear nothing |
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from My Dying Bride - Like Gods Of The Sun (1996)
I hide myself away in the dark
I can't find my way in this hole This twisted life is so cruel I'm so sick I need to find her soul to save me I remember the King And his Queen I shall never forget No finer woman had lay before me Dark and filled with beauty All it took was one lonely kiss Her lips, swollen and red Smothered all over me I felt faint and without control And with great thirst, I drank deeply She gave to her lust and ecstacy We kissed just once her life dripped down on me Even now, in life's closing does she still shine Woman of mine you'll never close your eyes So I hide myself away in the dark And death she bathes with me, in my heart They'll never see what I've seen They cannot know, who I've been The things I've done, they torture me But I need them, for they are me Lust in me, you'll dream of me, life In pitch night I'll be there watching you |
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from My Dying Bride - Like Gods Of The Sun (1996)
Falling, drowning, deeper and forever
Choking, sinking, deeper into this ocean Screaming, crying for someone to save me Reaching, hoping, calling to no-one My only sin Was to kill a man Deep was my pain But I'd do the same again Beat it out, out of me, cut me up and watch me bleed Strike me down, cast me out throw me into the ocean's mouth My only prayer Was to a God Who I don't believe But all the same, I'm on my knees Beat it out, out of me, cut me up and watch me bleed Strike me down, cast me out Throw me into the Devil's mouth Bleeding, weeping, calling to no-one Pleading, alimghty, why can't you hear me My only sin Was to kill a man Deep was my pain But I'd do the sam again Beat it out, out of me, cut me up and watch me bleed Strike me down, cast me out Throw me into my own mouth Take me away To a better place Far from anyone By myself and leave a gun Beat it out, out of me, cut me up and watch me bleed Strike me down, cast me out Throw me into my Saviour's mouth |
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from My Dying Bride - Like Gods Of The Sun (1996)
Open me
And drink up my scarlet Kiss me deep Kiss me deep and love me forever more Bloody love Bloody love inside of you Swallow me Thank God, there's nothing I can do Come with me my friend, come and see the end And let me swallow up your pain Leave the village lights, step into the night Open your mouth to my bloody rain And at your second birth, we will slay the earth And stalk mankind 'til Heaven burns Just lay down for me, naked for me to see It's just one kiss, that's all I need Take me down Down to the bloody shore Dig me deep, dig me deep And leave me forever more Lay me down Down with all of them And forget me Like you forgot the rest of them |
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from My Dying Bride - Like Gods Of The Sun (1996)
Sickness often, often attends me. I'm ruled by pain
Tortured memories burning my brain. Oh make it end Killed for nothing. Killed by no-one. I was just a boy Weak and lonely, cold and bloody. Give me a hand Cared by many, but I know none. My life has gone Rage and anger tearing through me. Who's God will pay? Made me fight for you. Made me die for you You and your sick God. You hope to be loved We're all swept away, so you can have your day On blooded knees for you. Heaven calls to you But I won't die without Without your heart In my hand |
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from My Dying Bride - Like Gods Of The Sun (1996)
I will be here for you
All I want is you When I see your face All the Angels are shamed Lay with me beauty Feel me close to you Take my hand to you Touch you softly. Your warm skin Cover me with you Over me under you Pull me in to you As one we lay entwined All I ever wanted I have, I need never wish again You are heaven sent |
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from My Dying Bride - Like Gods Of The Sun (1996)
The sun will die,
On us tonight. The days are gone, For everyone. The holy cry Forever night What have we done? Who killed the sun? We will be on our knees The time has come Thy will be done Holy men pray Return the day For our souls How can we fight, This endless night? Oh, lord Jesus, Will you save us? |
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from My Dying Bride - Like Gods Of The Sun (1996)
I need him
To wash me of my sin To take me from this place To heal me of my wounds I need him To clean your mark off me To wipe you from my eyes To strike you from my heart I need him I know, not what, I do or say But I, do what, I say and believe You need him To take you from this place To heal you from your wounds You need him To clean my mark off you To wipe me from your eyes To strike me from your heart You need him You are, nothing to me, anymore I hope, I mean, nothing to you I want a place to hide, somewhere far from your side There is no stopping you, there's nothing you won't do You're killing for your God, the stench that you have trod The world is black to you, until you slay me too I'm wasted under you, I meant nothing at all Thank God I wasted you, no longer will I fall I will live again your grasp on me has gone your downfall and your end At last my peace has come Before I end let me tell you Never lay down for anyone at all |
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from My Dying Bride - Like Gods Of The Sun (1996)
As I draw up my breath,
And silver fills my eyes. I kiss her still, For she will never rise. On my weak body, Lays her dying hand. Through those meadows of Heaven, Where we ran. Like a thief in the night, The wind blows so light. It wars with my tears, That won't dry for many years. "Loves golden arrow At her should have fled, And not Deaths ebon dart To strike her dead." |
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from My Dying Bride - Like Gods Of The Sun (1996)
Falling, drowning, deeper and forever
Choking, sinking, deeper into this ocean Screaming, crying for someone to save me Reaching, hoping, calling to no-one My only sin Was to kill a man Deep was my pain But I'd do the same again Beat it out, out of me, cut me up and watch me bleed Strike me down, cast me out throw me into the ocean's mouth My only prayer Was to a God Who I don't believe But all the same, I'm on my knees Beat it out, out of me, cut me up and watch me bleed Strike me down, cast me out Throw me into the Devil's mouth Bleeding, weeping, calling to no-one Pleading, alimghty, why can't you hear me My only sin Was to kill a man Deep was my pain But I'd do the sam again Beat it out, out of me, cut me up and watch me bleed Strike me down, cast me out Throw me into my own mouth Take me away To a better place Far from anyone By myself and leave a gun Beat it out, out of me, cut me up and watch me bleed Strike me down, cast me out Throw me into my Saviour's mouth |
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from My Dying Bride - Like Gods Of The Sun (1996)
The sun will die,
On us tonight. The days are gone, For everyone. The holy cry Forever night What have we done? Who killed the sun? We will be on our knees The time has come Thy will be done Holy men pray Return the day For our souls How can we fight, This endless night? Oh, lord Jesus, Will you save us? |
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from My Dying Bride - The Voice Of The Wretched [live] (2002)
A cruel sleep 'cross our land
All withered and dying As the fall, the victims They're dying a sad death In our land, we lay down And suffer again A dark girl'cross our land Is pacing. Is preying And with her, a fever A marching black fever No eyes see. No features Just black form, suffering You have her sympathy You have her tears She tries only to take All your fears The pain she feels When she drinks your soul Is hers to suffer It is her toll Believe me, she's helpless When she curses our land When she swallows light It's not her hand Poison awaits when you kiss her Her heart cries out for you, for me Untold misery is hers to serve out for eternity Out cold. Mankind will stay forevermore if she gets her way She can't help it. It's her curse To sing your pain in her own verse She is the dark The nightmares you hide The pain you feel The suffering inside Though she was like you Through her dark past But now, the conqueror Her choirs vast Oh, please forgive her As mankind dies As angels weep And heaven cries |
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from My Dying Bride - The Voice Of The Wretched [live] (2002)
So little of what we observe, is the girl herself.
Elaborate, scented coiffers. Adieu d'amour. Vast is the heirs ballroom. Let the rich give you presents. Heaven pours from her throat, as she sings and as she dances. The fumes of rich swine, honeyglazed and dripping, playing in the air. My mouth eager and wishing. But I return to this nightingale. Her hair all fiery red. Deep it is and wild. My weakness will be fed. Boys whipped on the alter of diana, sometimes until they died. The cunning wily merchant, and his four crippled horses. Tales told in warlike manner. The storyteller by the fire. While musing deeply on this sight, the songster stirred my desire. You are sweet and fine to listen to. Long tresses about her neck. Yet much is false. This mighty evening, I've seen no face. This is crushing me. My quill it aches. Turn loose the swans that drew my poets craft. I'll dwell in desolate cities. You burned my wings. I leave this ode, splendid victorious through the carnage. I wanted to touch them all. I wanted to touch them all. |
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from My Dying Bride - The Voice Of The Wretched [live] (2002)
You can't expect to see him and survive
You'll swallow his tongue of thorns His mouth, dripping with flies In his glorious kingdom of fire But I believe he wept I will make them all lie down Down where hope lies dying With lust, you're kicking mankind to death We live and die without hope You tramp us down in a river of death As I stand here now, my heart is black I don't want to die a lonely man This is a weary hour This is a weary hour |
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from My Dying Bride - The Voice Of The Wretched [live] (2002)
I've seen them.
So dark. Black. And yet fine. The flower they carry had once been mine. Get away from me, man of stories. Robe of lies. Stay far from me. I lie to myself (it's not hurting). I need help, but not from you or yor father. No! Jesus Christ. Who's my saviour? Lose myself in gods death. No! I can't bear all this pain. I had watched the snow all day. Falling. It never lets up. All day falling. I lifted my voice and wept out loud, "So this is life?". |
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from My Dying Bride - The Voice Of The Wretched [live] (2002)
Walk with, with me. I'll be your Shadow God
For now, just now. Give your life to me Your hope, your hope. I feel its steady hand Your heart, your fear. Take off and flee Trust me, just me. I'll catch you if you fall My arms run deep. Run unto my call I'll lead you into danger And all that troubles man I'll lead you far from hunger Just take my frozen hand You'll want the world to praise you And gather at your feet You'll want my blinding light And my searing heat I will lift you above their crying world Into your heart comes the love of fear You vanity, your sanctity Your kindless heart Your reverance. Your ignorance Your black uncaring eyes No sumpathy for humanity. Bleak horror The genocide, the parasites The kingdom of the ghost At one with fear Careless if you fall Beneath the earth Your heart may feel the call Can't let your mind be tainted By the praying men Divinity burns in thunder Over again Eventide. By your side All things because of you Fantasize. At my side. The lonely, the few God above. Lord and love. It's fools love heart of fire. Lord and liar don't falter |
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from My Dying Bride - The Voice Of The Wretched [live] (2002)
I need to see a sign
Will you take me away? They come. They go. Will you stay here? I need to see a sign You need me Who wants more? I need him Find my way Be there now Feel them Be my call You sing the songs Of one hundred nights Bring them to me Because I know I'm right and I will Take them all away Never to be seen again I'll take them to the sea Leave it all to me because I'm Feverish, devilish and irrelevant You need me I want you I need, I need, I need Are you there with me Be there now Feel me now All my world |
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from My Dying Bride - The Voice Of The Wretched [live] (2002)
a kiss to remember
Open me And drink up my scarlet Kiss me deep Kiss me deep and love me forever more Bloody love Bloody love inside of you Swallow me Thank God, there's nothing I can do Come with me my friend, come and see the end And let me swallow up your pain Leave the village lights, step into the night Open your mouth to my bloody rain And at your second birth, we will slay the earth And stalk mankind 'til Heaven burns Just lay down for me, naked for me to see It's just one kiss, that's all I need Take me down Down to the bloody shore Dig me deep, dig me deep And leave me forever more Lay me down Down with all of them And forget me Like you forgot the rest of them |
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from My Dying Bride - The Voice Of The Wretched [live] (2002)
Your bloodied body is what I cling to.
In powerful rain, they laid down their heads to die. Let your dark, thirsty eyes drink deep the sights of me. It's sad that, in our blindness, we gather thorns for flowers. Your river holds a feast of danger. The suffering you have had to bear. I'd die for that moment one more time. The loved one falls below your ideals. Pleasure too safely enjoyed lacks zest. The brave lick their sickening lips. Rigid, handsome and a poet. A king in his passionate castle. Where now? Feed me! Hold me! Save me! Save yourself! Where now? Which way? Dear god, show me. Take your own. Struggle free! Arise! You're Ruined! Stand down! Your kin, piled thick around you. Save yourself! |
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from My Dying Bride - The Voice Of The Wretched [live] (2002)
Over me. Cover me.
Deep inside THE FEVER SEA. Lame from my mothers womb Born a cripple and sick. Under a red moon. My hands bleed. Feet red raw. I'm a broken man who dreamt the great war. The fear of life swallows me. Takes me through THE FEVER SEA. They crawl to me. Cry for me. I'll drown them all in THE FEVER SEA. The feast flows on forever. Devour me until never. Fill them all with horror. Let them sleep with terror. Who calls me now, then turns away? Who takes the night, and brings day? Lame from my fathers hand. Born to heal. Heal in every land. I will never get out. I even prayed unto his house. The cold feel of my skin. I try to lose but alwys win. Lame from my own hand. Believe me I've tried. Tried to make a stand. |
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from My Dying Bride - The Voice Of The Wretched [live] (2002)
The destroying genius of idols
Will shroud the world with utter lies Dance the cobbles, his abode named Dis Portraits have spoken their masters distress Icons with kisses, tell me who have seen this Failing Enochian tapestries Depict the prince of fallen virtues In almost poetic rhapsody Masterbate to the sound of the knell The Patchetic stench of dying children Perhaps our fall is certain Limbs entwined in absolute contoursion Please put off your veil Your heart is blameless And I shudder for knowing it A hot May makes a fat churchyard And Lychfowel breed in chaotic frenzy Her cry was the saddest of all earths sounds Trauma bites hard the hearts of Kin Swept away by a moments sadness They say rage is a brief madness By way of the beloveds farewell Give back to nature what we first did take And monuments would slowly fill The agendas' of Kings and Queens In silence our faces bleed The holy voice torn away by the gale Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you Love is a game where both players cheat Gone is the tale of Hero and Leander Women are angels yet wedlock's the devil To have and to hold but death no longer parts Harlots and sluts, whores of our world Expose their stinking vaginas' Many who have no will of their own Hold their souls towards the sinister bloom Are you rich oh lord of vanity As you peddle your wears of cruelty Dressed up so you look the part So blind, it's ignorance you wear Quite brutal beyond belief Sores that weep their septic tears Dragged out through war torn lifetimes And death shall feast on us all The mills of God grind slowly The adorable light of that which is most divine The fascination of her shape With mansions of awe and splendour Elegant in simplicity So at last your faith rewards you Through fields enriched with pastel shade And fragrant lavenders soft to smell You laugh and drink wine of no great age Nature does scent the farthest shores Face to face your angelic host All hopes in you imperishably kept Is God your wish and all your dreams If your body is frail then yes by all means Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you |
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from My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River (1995)
You can't expect to see him and survive
You'll swallow his tongue of thorns His mouth, dripping with flies In his glorious kingdom of fire But I believe he wept I will make them all lie down Down where hope lies dying With lust, you're kicking mankind to death We live and die without hope You tramp us down in a river of death As I stand here now, my heart is black I don't want to die a lonely man This is a weary hour This is a weary hour |
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from My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River (1995)
Take your own
Sick with fever And cry out loud to God Your sorry own Will be piled upon me That I can't see My God I've cried for earth More than once But rivers still run With reddest tears Be lost in me And I'll never need to ask Who wants me? Who wants Me? Be mine tonight. The sight of your light I'll breathe in you. I'm a fool, just for you I'm in pain And I don't know why Under heavy rain From darkest skies We're in pain The two of us And I no longer know Which way to go Open wide. Let me see Your bleeding heart cries for me Look straight up. Look at the sun This song's for her. Her requiem Open wide. Let me see A poisoned soul in agony Self pity strangles me I'm lashed by grief And I'm killing me Don't fear. My fire is enough For both of us |
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from My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River (1995)
Lie beside me on the grass
They're fighting for me thee mistress of beauty, thine eyes do shine Can we run forever? Does nightfall shine? Angel of mercy, carry me away Those black dogs tear at me They hunger for the life of me So lie beside me, neath the earth Lost forever from the earth Descending downwards. Is this our re-birth? Can you feel it? His cruelty glows This teribble journey, oh, that no-one knows Down Around here, I am Ruler of Kings Here Everywhere I Am Heard The Voice of me Enters you Now you're mine |
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from My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River (1995)
The field of blood I'd left
They mean nothing to you That war left scars on me Without you now, I'm free I'd found out what you'd done to me, girl I hate with as much passion as I love And so now, your time's come, for me girl The end. Your end. And my birth Walk away. Laughing away Remember you always, and wonder why? I'll suffer in your sea Your ocean bleeds into me I'll fall through your endless sky But never, ever cry Wounded by your cruelty Yes, I'll suffer in your sea The fields of blood I'd left They mean nothing to you That war left scars on me Without you now, I'm free |
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from My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River (1995)
What is it you hope for, even though you are dying?
And even though life is closing your tiny eyes Why did I leave them all? I should be with them to die in the same place The pain I think, should go on forever, for always But no, not mine, not now, my life now begins Call me what you will, but I'll die for no man, at all My limbs and the life that spreads from them Cross my path and you'll suffer like no man before, at all What I hunger for, is the trial of God For just two winters only did we live for My God, what have you become? dear, dear Lord We could have changed the world, had you been here with me Right now, held you in my arms, in my arms, my love Jesus wept so man could live forever on earth, in peace But my tears, they fall for you, only you |
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from My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River (1995)
You, who stand there now
I will not tell you not to cry Without fail my purpose Will be fulfilled I can crown you a God And I'll suffer for your sins Bound so tightly, pain is everything Far from kindness. I am your king Believe you're in Hell, but your's is Heaven Cry to die. You'll love me forever On a pale, teary cheek Tears cascade to your feet Whipped to the floor once again Laughing and lashing you away Burning pain scars through your skin But it's 'more' you cry, for you are a sinner We suffer in love, but you love to suffer Your misery is your majesty Though your skin may burn and your wounds, bleed The only real ache is between your legs You've learned well, through your Hell Your pain was nothing. You longed for more. Your shameful Heaven is full of devils Just like me. Just for you |
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from My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River (1995)
In soothe I lend a gracious ear
Your sobbing, somehow sexual Come to my bosom. The help I bring Is all my pleasure you lonely, dear thing Oh, cruel love, when held by you My sanity does fly You lie there mourning with looks of desire 'T is beauty when you cry Drink my grieving love Desire and wine go well Sleep, I'll watch over you Relief? Time will tell Secrecy fosters passion You stay untouched I know you are alone With peace I care much |
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from My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River (1995)
Your bloodied body is what I cling to.
In powerful rain, they laid down their heads to die. Let your dark, thirsty eyes drink deep the sights of me. It's sad that, in our blindness, we gather thorns for flowers. Your river holds a feast of danger. The suffering you have had to bear. I'd die for that moment one more time. The loved one falls below your ideals. Pleasure too safely enjoyed lacks zest. The brave lick their sickening lips. Rigid, handsome and a poet. A king in his passionate castle. Where now? Feed me! Hold me! Save me! Save yourself! Where now? Which way? Dear god, show me. Take your own. Struggle free! Arise! You're Ruined! Stand down! Your kin, piled thick around you. Save yourself! |
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from My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River (1995)
The field of blood I'd left
They mean nothing to you That war left scars on me Without you now, I'm free I'd found out what you'd done to me, girl I hate with as much passion as I love And so now, your time's come, for me girl The end. Your end. And my birth Walk away. Laughing away Remember you always, and wonder why? I'll suffer in your sea Your ocean bleeds into me I'll fall through your endless sky But never, ever cry Wounded by your cruelty Yes, I'll suffer in your sea The fields of blood I'd left They mean nothing to you That war left scars on me Without you now, I'm free |
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from My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River (1995)
Read to me
Make your words as pictures Reveal to me The forever people Names become more More than words In foreign tongue Universal doctrine Remember each one Named even this day We'll never forget Like it or not Their beloved is theirs And they are his Praise the Lord? Hail the King? This to me A figure of tragedy They are trivial They are forgettable A sombre tale Of mankinds hope Show me its truth And with joy I will follow |
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from My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light (2004)
Loathsome I've become.
Acreature so undome. Wretched and broken. Cannot find my faith. Any God will do. Nothing said is new Nothing said is true. Fly away my hope. The embrace of shade holds me dear. Eats me away. Loose the dogs of disgrace upon me. I have no faith. Raise the poor outcast I have become. I am undone. Calm is the air. Still is the sea. The valley of death keeps calling me. Rest my eyes from the world. This dying place, it's so absurd. Oh, Christ above, whom I love. Lost to me. My snow white dove. Make this day like the night. Song of darkness. Words of light. Pulling down my heart. I won't forget my lovers heart. With utter loathing and scorn, I was somehow born. Strewn in black decay. None shall I obey. The wreckage of my flesh. The nakedness of my death. |
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from My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light (2004)
I know no shame
The empire of my desire Gathers you into my fire I hope you fall. Hope you call, My filthy name. It makes you crawl On you knees, with all your pleas. Lay down there, look up at me. Are you alive my dear,and breathing? Are you diseased my dear,and bleeding? I'll lift you high my dear, I'll have you dreaming. 'Tis time to say farewell, to your pleading. Poor devils as thou art. A ruin at my feet. Go drop your little life, and welcome up my sleep. So briefly at my side. So simple in defeat. No more lies utter from you. From mine eyes I must take you. No longer wise. Nothing is new. Tears for my trembling faith. You shall not die unsung. Goodbye my dear, you wicked thing. I have no tears, beautiful thing. No silver pail to catch them in. So ends this tale you did not win. |
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from My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light (2004)
So vile men's torment was truly a pleasure
A plain that would change mankind for ever more Catherine Blake slept fitfully in the summer night. In the heat. She murmured gently and moved smoothly, this way and that. Oh, the beauty. Her luscious eyes, delicate fingers, clawed at her sodden bed. Catherine smiled. Took a fabulous breath of summer air and tasted death. Die Erorians' visit had been successful rewarding. With night of female screams of whimpers, lustful dreams. Night followed rampant night of delicate soft gasps. The ultimate attack on Heaven and it's glories. Seduce them as they slept, oblivious to their midnight tryst. The seed of doom was planted. Phantom raped in their dreams. The sad ones take their own lives. Slay their men night after night. Catherine Blake dreamt of a horror. Of passion too and of terror. Over her silent breast, shadows swept, shades caressed. Motherhood was destroyed by the seed and laid to waste. A great rift was born. Men and the world were torn. The daggers went in deep, vile and sickening. Women swept awat all infancy from their wombs. And still the Lord God remained silent, no utterance, no movement, no tears. The earth became red. The cutting machines of man. Disgust and hatred for the lives of woman. The butchery, the savagery,did spill unto themselves. A chorus of agony from Heaven and Rain poured In a colossus of angels tears. The creature of all sins. The lord of the bleakest abode. Did wonder at the silence. What did the Almighty know? All Hell did fill with the screaming souls of dead men. The mighty army of God did stand and wait, Hoping our lord would unleash them all. The great fiery pit. Hordes ripped apart. Chaos ensued, screaming from the dark. Observing his darkened child, in the miserable corners of earth The great heart of God will heal up the earth. The Lord watched as his beloved slipped silently Back into the darkness below. |
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from My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light (2004)
Where are you now my love?
My sweet one. Where have you gone my love? I'm so alone. I only think of you. And it drives me down. I only dream of you. I'll come to you. Take my hand. Hold me again. Please take my hand Please hold me now my love. Where are you now, oh my sweet love. |
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from My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light (2004)
I cannot turn my life unto you.
A storm of ebony hair. A hail of wickedness. Handsome as a God. Wild and shameless. Given the prize of beauty. Image of wretchedness. Divine like no other. Kiss the poison breast. Flamed like the sun. Lives made undone. Words soft as snow. Souls claimed and won. An opiate drugged haze. Beds of shapeless dust. Cries all night. Dreams of my filthy lust. Lair of hopelessness. Mires of sorrow. Never fails. Our lives are borrowed. Hold fast my soul. She waits for me in my dreams. Every night misery brings. Haunts my day. Haunts my wake. Oh, my lord can't you feel her grow, inside of me. Tearing my mind. For once my lord please help me Believe in you. She claims the day in her name. Over you and over me. We dare to be ourselves. Next to her and all her war. She comes our way and takes the day, From my hands, it is her way. The milk of woman fill up my Branching veins and lonely heart. Trembling children she adores, and gives flight to her art. When April sheds her fitful rain, Glory be, we may live again. Truly my hope will perish within her. Truly as always I cannot forgive her. Cruelly she keeps me near to her. Forever to this day. |
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from My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light (2004)
Under the darkened, ancient oak
Gentle in the night's breeze I stop and stare, rest a while With hands upon my knees Through jaded leaves, bush and scrub I spy my journey's end Black it looms, silent gloom The castle called Avend On I trot, past forest eyes Past horrors of the night Through the dark, I see a sign A gentle glowing light Upon reaching the castle I ascend the ivy Towards the golden window My heart pounds, my breath is rushed As I fight both brick and branch The ledge is mine and over I sweep Silent like the falling snow Quiet, I slip across the polished floor Tonight, I will dine with chance The Blue Lotus, a legend, I thought a myth Old poems and stories gone A beauty of unimaginable lust Both men's hearts, and Gods, were won Skin like milk, an angel's face They say her smile could kill Her hair the blackest of all black Stories I thought though, still So there she lay sleeping upon the bed Half covered by fantastic silks Her breast I see, moves with her dreams A sight I will always recall A single candle that showed me the way Through forest, river and hills Glows upon that lovely skin Shadows dancing around the walls Closer I creep, toward my prize The Blue Lotus lies before me Her lips are full, red as blood Moist as they invite me Stoop I did to kiss those lips In that glowing room When suddenly, she did awake, Her eyes filled with doom From silks, her hands were round my neck Escape there was no hope A brief flash of teeth is all I saw And gone was my throat Her blood lust deep, she swallowed me Red was all I saw She drank her fill and watched me fall Gently to the floor A league away my death is found By locals who tens this land Who lay me down in shallow earth A single lotus placed in my hand |
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from My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light (2004)
Come from where you hide.
(So I may) unchain my tempest. None will stop my tide. (And you will) tremble at my unrest. Find you I will (And take you) up into your Heaven. Commeth soon the kill. (For I have taken) kings and feeble men. And my fury stand ready. I bring all your plans to nought. My bleak heart beats steady. 'Tis you whom I have sought. Feasting myself sick, On your pathetic sins. Wound for me to lick. The work of slaughter begins. In my face see your killer. You can wish me away. In your face I still see her. No more shall you betray. In her face (she) saw her killer. Thou shalt not pray. |
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from My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light (2004)
Your unbreathing sleep.
Our dreamless bed, Is mine to keep. In my dark eyes and frozen arms, Nothing lives 'cept my harm. Now you're worn with years. Years and sorrows. Like saint with arrows. Once again it die with a humble sigh. Calm this tide, tide of sorrow. He leads me away and I follow. Sighs and then slumbers, Wakes and sighs again. Opens up the eyes, Sees the ghost again. Our dying love, it prays in vain to live, And pleads for help, I simply cannot give. My devoted love takes tiny backward Steps away. Loneliness aplenty spread before me. |
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from My Dying Bride - Deeper Down [single] (2006)
An unfortunate journey
Through a bleak sea of loneliness I carved through the waves of grief In a black vastness of self doubt I have never felt so alone So pitiful and wretched and low I'm tried by a terrible wind The misery and the pains blow Fill my vast sails of ruin Steer me toward a bleak end A horizon of purples and reds The still waters of my welcome end The clouds of grey come overhead A storm will hunt me down And rip the guts out of my body That I would surely drown The unforgiving wind searches And lashes me like a whip The self-pity overwhelms me My heart sinks like a ship Thrashing out at torment and pain The maddened sea engulfs me I let myself be swallowed up The magnificent weight upon me Deeper I go, deeper down Didn't think it could get any blacker The cold bites, the pressure builds I think I no longer matter Can't tell if my eyes are open or closed The grieving waters swallow The pain I'm in through my life of sin The Devil will doubtless follow Loneliness is agony For those of you who know A war of grief and sadness rages Through mind, body and soul When lovers die and friendships fade When kin all lie forgotten The gates of agony spew forth Your memories, stinking and rotten So deep now I feel so numb I'm ravaged by utter loss The guilt, the grief, the astounding pain My body, they all will wash I hope I ne'er return to life Oh, Christ just let me go Let death devour my Simple soul Lest my misery grow I quietly leave. A lonely sight Relieved of all my guilt To join a wall of deepest Hell The Devil himself has built. |
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from My Dying Bride - Deeper Down [single] (2006)
An unfortunate journey
Through a bleak sea of loneliness I carved through the waves of grief In a black vastness of self doubt I have never felt so alone So pitiful and wretched and low I'm tried by a terrible wind The misery and the pains blow Fill my vast sails of ruin Steer me toward a bleak end A horizon of purples and reds The still waters of my welcome end The clouds of grey come overhead A storm will hunt me down And rip the guts out of my body That I would surely drown The unforgiving wind searches And lashes me like a whip The self-pity overwhelms me My heart sinks like a ship Thrashing out at torment and pain The maddened sea engulfs me I let myself be swallowed up The magnificent weight upon me Deeper I go, deeper down Didn't think it could get any blacker The cold bites, the pressure builds I think I no longer matter Can't tell if my eyes are open or closed The grieving waters swallow The pain I'm in through my life of sin The Devil will doubtless follow Loneliness is agony For those of you who know A war of grief and sadness rages Through mind, body and soul When lovers die and friendships fade When kin all lie forgotten The gates of agony spew forth Your memories, stinking and rotten So deep now I feel so numb I'm ravaged by utter loss The guilt, the grief, the astounding pain My body, they all will wash I hope I ne'er return to life Oh, Christ just let me go Let death devour my Simple soul Lest my misery grow I quietly leave. A lonely sight Relieved of all my guilt To join a wall of deepest Hell The Devil himself has built. |
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