Tytuł: All hope in eclipse

• Wykonawca: Cradle Of Filth
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A thousand nights once succoured Me
   In the shadow of Miss Anne Thropy
   Sat gargoyle-limbed amid My licking flame
  
   A cruel tongue at work in Her secret vaults
   Sent Rebellion's embers into revolt
   The comming of extinction
   Synched to whimpers of my name...
   Legion I arose, a flood of inhumanity
   An acid reign to purify the world
   The Asp at Pharaoh's breast
   The Atom split under duress
   A sniper at the gates of spattered pearl
  
   My heart, torn apart, left a rifled grave...
   Save for an unfurled flag of hate
   To enthral a mindless zombie race
  
   All heil, all heil, all heil the serpentine's gift
   All heil, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse
  
   Black bibles I incribed,
   The words "Damnation through design"
   Seemed a bitter truth far better for the lie
   For as hope was felled by reason
   Forlorn became the season
   And Death was swift to swallow on the hells of life
  
   Lowered souls, growing cold, tentered easy prey
   When heaven's flock, a fair game, dropped
   I bored of war with God with greater thrones to claim...
  
   All heil, all heil, all heil the Libertine's wish
   All heil, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse
  
   (There was not a prayer left in this wretched world)
  
   Then between the past and the ravening dark
   A sly Messiah came
   In the thick of treaty with obligatory greed
   She stole the soul hate had sold away
  
   An ancient chil blew down the centuries
   That night atonement's eyes
   Lit a burning man in Me
  
   When love lay bleeding
   And Fates sate feeding
   From wounds gored 'neath
   Those cherubic wings
   She of kindred light
   Gladly sacrificed
   Eternity
   Just to be
   With Me
  
   As the moon whose silvered fingers play
   On words and dreams too cursed for day
   She led my hand to lands I'd not accrued
   Where the Faun Dawn bathed Her golden hair
   And faith renewed, leapt joyous there
   I praised their worth, then planned their conquest too...
  
   All heil, all heil, all heil the serpentine's gift
   All heil, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse
  
   All heil, all heil, all heil the Libertine's wish
   All heil, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse
   ...and ignorance is truly bliss.