Cradle of filth

"The Byronic Man"

As lonely as a poet on the wall of Jericho

Or the moon without the comfort of the stars
I am loathe to know it that a man without a soul
Is nothing but a split canopic jar

I proved it, improved it

Drove a sonnet right through it
And in this state of bliss
Evil kissed with wet lips
Pen-filled fingertips
Which drew me, for through me
Illuminati usually pissed
But with words of some hurts worth
I threw a party that extended God's list

Exciting new flames that my fame would claim for me

Reciting back the almanac of travesties

They call me bad

Mad Caliban with manner
Dangerous to know
A passing fad
Taught in all debauch
In excess and in canto

Grown wild this child

Whole harems defiled
Faustina's and Mina's
Lady Libertine and her sisters between her

What spread of lies arise when lovers die

Which circle of hell is mine when I arrive?

They call me bad

Mad Caliban with manners
Dangerous to know
A passing fad
Taught in all debauch
Crow against the virgin snow
 Grown colder, my shoulder
Like a boulder beside her
And bolder, not wiser
My dark seed took up root inside he
That mouldered, where older

Beddings would hold a passionate sigh

But laudanum and soda
Lord Numb coda
Merited a forest of inherited spite

Fleeing grief for foreign maps

I still played vampire aristocrat
Unloading my gun in hot, promiscuous laps

Then shooting swans in a gondola

I tripped my foot on a fallen star
And there's nothing like a mouthful of Venetian tar
To let you know just who you fucking are

[Ville:]
The patron saint of heartache
You can't see my world is falling
The world is falling down
The patron saint of heartache
Can't see the world is falling
My world is falling down

[Dani and Ville:]

Ever after, can they hear my laughter?
The patron saint of heartache
Never craft a better bed of disaster...
The patron saint of heartache

They call me bad

Made Caliban with manners
Dangerous to know
A passing fad
Taught in all debauch
In excess and in canto

They call me bad

Mad Caliban with manners
Dangerous to know
A passing fad
 Whereupon I tell them
To go fuck their mothers
As so...
On my grave

Lillith immaculate

Church bells resounded like judgement day

As they were making love

In the rainswept graveyard

She fucked him hard, silhouetted by flame

A monsoon Tigress set upon prey

Fall for the love of me

Crawl for the love of me

Drool for the love of my virulent sway

I grow more master the faster the days

Lilith Immaculate

This delectable reaper

Her eyes were profound

Drawing him in deeper

Until he was drowned

Hurled on the shore

Of the world underground...

Lilith Immaculate

Mortal kind, a morbid wine

For this dark moon goddess

And freed to stretch her claws

This beautiful whore

Would be brutally honest

Tortuous one, taboos undone

A glittering star on a sea of myriad waves

And a thickening mist, a seductress

Leading lovesick hearts astray

Lilith

In the throes of orgasm, she bucked and he broke

At the height of the storm, the chaos they'd smote

Burning behind her in arabesque smoke

Framed a vision transformed as she sucked from his throat

Victoria smiled, her now golden eyes

Possessed a regal bearing

Of omnipotent power

From wet lips to her smouldering thighs

Her beauty perfected and her will agonised

Fall for the love of me

Crawl for the love of me

Drool for the love of my virulent sway

I grow more the master the faster the days

Lilith Immaculate
With dread single purpose

Her mind told him stay

She strode through the fire

Desire aflame

She murdered the nuns

In such horrible ways...

Lilith Immaculate

"That night we lay entwined on hay

Inside a soldier's barn

Her panting breath an opiate

As in her bolder grasp

I caught the scent of desert sands

The Holy lands, the fall of reason

But only when I smelt the blood

Did I fear her colder hand"

"I am darkness, I am sin

The Queen of lust invited in

Reborn at last to cast my

Fecund shadow on this world,

You shall worship me, enslaved

For many lovers shall I crave

And in return, I'll gladly pave

Your psycho path with pearls

For I have been grating

And waiting so long to find

The most perfect hostess close to me

Whose thin-ice troubled mind

Was like a cracked, black ornate mirror

To slip right through in time

When at last I wore Harmonia's necklace

The cursed twin serpents mine"

Tortuous one, debauchery won

The attention of Emperors, Princes and Tsars

For the toll of her kiss, no soul could dismiss

The advance of her throne from afar

This English rose with traits of those

Who graced the harems of the East

Adorned with thorns, she raised the horns

And scarlet hems to wasted priests

Fall for the love of me

Crawl for the love of me

Drool for the love of my virulent sway

I grow more master the faster the days

Lilith Immaculate

This delectable reaper

Her eyes were profound

They drew him in deeper

Until he was drowned

Hurled on the shore

Of the world underground...

Lilith Immaculate

Fall for the love of me

Crawl for the love of me

Drool for the love of my virulent sway

I grow more master the faster the days

Lilith Immaculate

The flutes and sweet wine

Of her voice anodyne

Her power was growing

Every hour malign

The truth, Lilith's kingdom

Drew closer with time