BORN OF THORNS

New Horizon

TOWARDS A NEW HORIZON
O winter stars - so bright Thy features - most beautiful My angel, my goddess, the full Moon and thy radiant light Lead us on our aspiring flight Through falling snow and mournful Scenes, past cold and delightful Sceneries in the darkest night To escape the preconceptions Of man and yet again fail on that Alas! We hasten our evolution's Pace and nature, whereat They forsake us, the creations Of starbound love in human format Ah! Thou art less than divine The stars of the northern sky My angel, a constellation, thy Guidance falls into a decline Still so luminous, but stars shine Brightest before they die We elude the confines of man and thereby Reach for the one we enshrine Finally, as the centuries have pass We have grown out of thorns to realize That every course leads to an impasse Even in a system of this size 'Twas an error to try to surpass mankind or e'er attempt to arise On the edge of humanity and a new frontier We perceive that nothing has chang'd Alas! All the luminaries derang'd From what we saw from our hemisphere 'Twas a failure to adhere To thee! For years on end we rang'd Along darkness and thus became estrang'd Lo! The distort'd visage! O the fear Of being left here on a backward-land My angel, our universe! As before We voyage in darkness and Cold, through falling snow or Fallen stars in the grand Solitude - now and for evermore Peccath (2002)

TOWARDS A NEW HORIZON

O winter stars - so bright
Thy features - most beautiful

My angel, my goddess, the full
Moon and thy radiant light
Lead us on our aspiring flight
Through falling snow and mournful
Scenes, past cold and delightful
Sceneries in the darkest night

To escape the preconceptions
Of man and yet again fail on that

Alas! We hasten our evolution's
Pace and nature, whereat
They forsake us, the creations
Of starbound love in human format

Ah! Thou art less than divine
The stars of the northern sky

My angel, a constellation, thy
Guidance falls into a decline
Still so luminous, but stars shine
Brightest before they die

We elude the confines of man and thereby
Reach for the one we enshrine

Finally, as the centuries have pass
We have grown out of thorns to realize
That every course leads to an impasse
Even in a system of this size
'Twas an error to try to surpass
mankind or e'er attempt to arise

On the edge of humanity and a new frontier
We perceive that nothing has chang'd

Alas! All the luminaries derang'd
From what we saw from our hemisphere
'Twas a failure to adhere
To thee! For years on end we rang'd
Along darkness and thus became estrang'd

Lo! The distort'd visage! O the fear
Of being left here on a backward-land

My angel, our universe! As before
We voyage in darkness and
Cold, through falling snow or
Fallen stars in the grand
Solitude - now and for evermore

Peccath (2002)

DEVILTRESS
Together in solitude As the evening pass by and twilight ravish Unforgettable dreams (that brought me relish) At dawn all gone and dreams will perish We are born of thorns Our Empyrean's lorn Your extravagant carnal desire Burst into rapture and fire That burns my innermost ere we expire I know you'd take me even higher Voluptuous Deviltress Advocatus diaboli I follow with carelessness She leads me to my zenith I sense this nothingness Cold touch upon my skin I know you'd take me even higher You fucking liar Again you appear From the black cloak of night Veiled in ravishing dark, Nocturnal array so tight That licks your starclad thighs Revealing newborn light Weaponless against thee seductress, Yet mind's fulfilled with fight Led by vindictive horns I'll take no more scorn Of you, whore Voluptuous Deviltress Advocatus diaboli I sense this nothingness Cold touch upon my skin Patrik (2003)

DEVILTRESS

Together in solitude
As the evening pass by and twilight ravish
Unforgettable dreams (that brought me relish)
At dawn all gone and dreams will perish

We are born of thorns
Our Empyrean's lorn

Your extravagant carnal desire
Burst into rapture and fire
That burns my innermost ere we expire
I know you'd take me even higher

Voluptuous Deviltress
Advocatus diaboli
I follow with carelessness
She leads me to my zenith

I sense this nothingness
Cold touch upon my skin
I know you'd take me even higher
You fucking liar

Again you appear
From the black cloak of night
Veiled in ravishing dark,
Nocturnal array so tight
That licks your starclad thighs
Revealing newborn light
Weaponless against thee seductress,
Yet mind's fulfilled with fight

Led by vindictive horns
I'll take no more scorn
Of you, whore

Voluptuous Deviltress
Advocatus diaboli
I sense this nothingness
Cold touch upon my skin

Patrik (2003)

STARNATION'S LOSS
Interstellar collapse Left only coma behind Antenatal Injustice Brought me back to life And so she danced under anthracite skies Unconscious of carniwhorish eyes... Those crestfallen travesties Tried to umpire her empire It was the genesis of nemesis, From pride they succumbed to tyranny For long did she thrive amongst them True fiends of whole mankind She was only a woman, lovelorn Suffering from forlorn love ...That sought her for the seditious lies Onslaught filled with antagonistic cries (repeat) Apocalypse scale genocide She stood appall by my side Gates to hell blazing open wide Calling the name of my bride She crested that night libeler’s lexicon in her hand She swept down a third of the stars of heaven Like the Beast with seven diadems Paragon of benevolence betoken forthcoming darkness Apocalypse scale genocide She stood appall by my side Gates to hell blazing open wide Calling the name of my bride And so she danced under anthracite skies Intrigue no longer stayed underground Patrik (2003)

STARNATION'S LOSS

Interstellar collapse
Left only coma behind
Antenatal Injustice
Brought me back to life

And so she danced under anthracite skies
Unconscious of carniwhorish eyes...

Those crestfallen travesties
Tried to umpire her empire
It was the genesis of nemesis,
From pride they succumbed to tyranny

For long did she thrive amongst them
True fiends of whole mankind
She was only a woman, lovelorn
Suffering from forlorn love

...That sought her for the seditious lies
Onslaught filled with antagonistic cries
(repeat)

Apocalypse scale genocide
She stood appall by my side
Gates to hell blazing open wide
Calling the name of my bride

She crested that night libeler’s lexicon in her hand
She swept down a third of the stars of heaven
Like the Beast with seven diadems
Paragon of benevolence betoken forthcoming darkness

Apocalypse scale genocide
She stood appall by my side
Gates to hell blazing open wide
Calling the name of my bride

And so she danced under anthracite skies
Intrigue no longer stayed underground

Patrik (2003)

The Encounter of Light and Dark

THE ENCOUNTER
The scene was set past myriad of centuries Pale eclipsed moonlight evoken terrors Illumination dividing shadows from the heavenly lights It breeds the name of this lustrous sight First arrived the beauty of night An eager temptress whoring for souls Alas… This encounter Whenever wicked lusts conquered love They were hers Now noticed her the prince of light And opened his golden lips To speak the words of a bidding welcome (But hark) the child of darkness Was too beautiful for the prince to watch And instead of light Sung the voice of darkness Who art thou Thou I have never seen Thy brightness burns my eyes Alas… This encounter Whenever wicked lusts conquered love They were hers One vanity less Your lunacy rose to climax Ruby tiara on her tress stood ablaze Like the blood in the moonlight He wished to question But still no words fell forth Twilight, ubiquitous, Andromeda… Reveal who thou really art Who art thou Thou I have never seen Thy brightness burns my eyes Hearst thou not me Thou shalt answer when I speak to thee One vanity less Your lunacy rose to climax Who art thou Thou I have never seen Thy brightness burns my eyes Alas… This encounter Whenever wicked lusts conquered love They were hers Reveal… …Unconceal Who thou really art Patrik, Simo (1998-1999)

THE ENCOUNTER

The scene was set past myriad of centuries
Pale eclipsed moonlight evoken terrors
Illumination dividing shadows from the heavenly lights
It breeds the name of this lustrous sight

First arrived the beauty of night
An eager temptress whoring for souls

Alas…
This encounter
Whenever wicked lusts conquered love
They were hers

Now noticed her the prince of light
And opened his golden lips
To speak the words of a bidding welcome
(But hark) the child of darkness
Was too beautiful for the prince to watch
And instead of light
Sung the voice of darkness

Who art thou
Thou I have never seen
Thy brightness burns my eyes

Alas…
This encounter
Whenever wicked lusts conquered love
They were hers

One vanity less
Your lunacy rose to climax

Ruby tiara on her tress stood ablaze
Like the blood in the moonlight
He wished to question
But still no words fell forth

Twilight, ubiquitous, Andromeda…
Reveal who thou really art

Who art thou
Thou I have never seen
Thy brightness burns my eyes
Hearst thou not me
Thou shalt answer when I speak to thee

One vanity less
Your lunacy rose to climax

Who art thou
Thou I have never seen
Thy brightness burns my eyes

Alas…
This encounter
Whenever wicked lusts conquered love
They were hers

Reveal…
…Unconceal
Who thou really art

Patrik, Simo (1998-1999)

OF LIGHT
For his was the grandeur of higher heavens, Of golden mornings, virgin snowfields, Which no unpure blood should stain Nor shall everlasting undying ones (never enter) He was the one, who guarded the edges of the divine lights For they seeked every wicked damnation, Dragged before their torment and vanquished… Torn… For their veins were rent by lycantrophic beasts Asunder… The All-might redeemer Aspersed by its fallen servants Absent feeling of feeble is ubiquitous the Redeemers All-Might shall never arise His aura of winter made hell repel The evil and the sinner, met opaque revival Thou art the bearer of unworthy prophesy, Rise thy glance over the nocturnal welkin Thou wert born for thirst of seduction The arts of obsession embrace thy thoughts The evil emerges from the hollow Cum to ravish thee two serpents (embraced as) one guiltet Eve She is the raven, which delays the crater And thus may not drink for turned to betrayer He becomes the serpent thirst for fertilization Lurk within stars for concealed temptation The borders of faith itself shall never be crossed For they seeked every wicked damnation, Dragged before their torment and vanquished… Dragged before their torment and vanquished… For their veins were rent by lycantrophic beasts Absent feeling of feeble is ubiquitous the Redeemers All-Might shall never arise His aura of winter made hell repel The evil and the sinner, met opaque revival Thou art the bearer of unworthy prophesy, Rise thy glance over the nocturnal welkin Thou wert born for thirst of seduction The arts of obsession embrace thy thoughts Ariadne obtained a gift: one thousand jewels Gleaming in the night sky Divine Corona Borealis reflects The sign of eternal matrimony Patrik, Simo (2000-2001)

OF LIGHT

For his was the grandeur of higher heavens,
Of golden mornings, virgin snowfields,
Which no unpure blood should stain
Nor shall everlasting undying ones (never enter)

He was the one, who guarded the edges of the divine lights
For they seeked every wicked damnation,
Dragged before their torment and vanquished…

Torn…
For their veins were rent by lycantrophic beasts
Asunder…
The All-might redeemer
Aspersed by its fallen servants

Absent feeling of feeble is ubiquitous
the Redeemers All-Might shall never arise
His aura of winter made hell repel
The evil and the sinner, met opaque revival

Thou art the bearer of unworthy prophesy,
Rise thy glance over the nocturnal welkin
Thou wert born for thirst of seduction
The arts of obsession embrace thy thoughts

The evil emerges from the hollow
Cum to ravish thee
two serpents (embraced as) one guiltet Eve

She is the raven, which delays the crater
And thus may not drink for turned to betrayer
He becomes the serpent thirst for fertilization
Lurk within stars for concealed temptation

The borders of faith itself shall never be crossed
For they seeked every wicked damnation,
Dragged before their torment and vanquished…

Dragged before their torment and vanquished…
For their veins were rent by lycantrophic beasts

Absent feeling of feeble is ubiquitous
the Redeemers All-Might shall never arise
His aura of winter made hell repel
The evil and the sinner, met opaque revival

Thou art the bearer of unworthy prophesy,
Rise thy glance over the nocturnal welkin
Thou wert born for thirst of seduction
The arts of obsession embrace thy thoughts

Ariadne obtained a gift: one thousand jewels
Gleaming in the night sky
Divine Corona Borealis reflects
The sign of eternal matrimony

Patrik, Simo (2000-2001)

AND DARK
Behold the troops have gathered From the realms of shadows The cries of war declare a diatribe Breathing madness of the black Midnight dreams These deathwished leagioners are marching forth And a mourning veil fell across the fields Where light once kissed the ground Now grows the wine of thorns Blades were raised towards The shrine that they despise At dusk will be revealed What real dark is like North wind is waving the flags Bearing the mark of the monarchy Time has come for confortation Bright is the kingdom of light Abhorent is its luminosity With a curse these shadows bless this sight Beneath a soothy mist the divine glow eclipsed The gates were crumbling as the holy Flame was extinct The scene is running rampart A Theater of brutal ravaging Unknown is the sense of purity Nocturnal celebration She found her widing, this virgin icon of innocence Kneeled to beg for mercy, in vain Tore down her holy gown, laid her on the frostly ground The feast of flesh had just begun Casting weak white spells of light Was no good for defence One by one they vanished Trough the spirals of oblivion The plan of redvision proceeds And the hunger for dominance grows The wicked ways of darkness lead To the joys of eternal woe Torn down his feeble idols The principles of weak inquisitors For they know not the ferals Kept within the untold secrets Tapio (2001)

AND DARK

Behold the troops have gathered
From the realms of shadows
The cries of war declare a diatribe
Breathing madness of the black
Midnight dreams
These deathwished leagioners are marching forth

And a mourning veil fell across the fields
Where light once kissed the ground
Now grows the wine of thorns

Blades were raised towards
The shrine that they despise
At dusk will be revealed
What real dark is like

North wind is waving the flags
Bearing the mark of the monarchy
Time has come for confortation
Bright is the kingdom of light
Abhorent is its luminosity
With a curse these shadows bless this sight

Beneath a soothy mist the divine glow eclipsed
The gates were crumbling as the holy
Flame was extinct

The scene is running rampart
A Theater of brutal ravaging
Unknown is the sense of purity
Nocturnal celebration

She found her widing, this virgin icon of innocence
Kneeled to beg for mercy, in vain
Tore down her holy gown, laid her on the frostly ground
The feast of flesh had just begun

Casting weak white spells of light
Was no good for defence
One by one they vanished
Trough the spirals of oblivion
The plan of redvision proceeds
And the hunger for dominance grows

The wicked ways of darkness lead
To the joys of eternal woe

Torn down his feeble idols
The principles of weak inquisitors
For they know not the ferals
Kept within the untold secrets

Tapio (2001)

Covered in Filth - A Tribute to Cradle of Filth

TO EVE THE ART OF WITCHCRAFT
© Dani Filth, Cradle of Filth CRAWL IN AWFUL STEALTH TO ME FOREVER A VOYEUR I'VE BEEN NOCTURNAL GODDESS OF THE MOON SO SHE COMES, UNSEEN THUS (UZZA AND AZEL) SPEAK THE BURNING SEED, IS THRUST IN EVE AND YEARNING KEEPS ME, CAPTIVE OF DESIRE MAKE ME AS A FLOWER THAT GROWS FOREVER IN YOUR THRONE THAT I MIGHT POLLINATE THE WORLD WITH DARKNESS AS YOUR OWN EMBRACE ME IN SPELLBINDING EYES THE FIRE OF LIFE THAT NEVER DIES TEAR DEEPER THROUGH MY PAPER WOUNDS AND NEVER LEAVE INSIDE LOVE SHALL CONSUME AND BATHE THE LADY WHOM I WORSHIP AND RIDE THEREFORE SHE WILL GREET ME AS A SERPENT IN HER DARK, SECRET EDEN AND I WILL ALWAYS WANT FOR HER WITCHCRAFT IS DESIRE... (DESIRE...) MY SOUL IS POISONED FROM WITHIN... I CRAWL WITH LANGUID GUILT TO THEE FOREVER FLUSHED IN SIN LAMIA, LATRIA I GIVE MY SOUL IS POISONED FROM WITHIN WISDOM BREEDS, FECUNDITY AND HER CUNT SHE FEEDS, TO FULFILL HER DESIRE TO EVE I CUM... SEVENFOLD MY PASSION WROUGHT TO RANSACK EDEN, AND TO TASTE THE WHORE I CLING BEYOND HER SABLED COURT SHE IS A GATEWAY, TO THAT DARKNESS LOST (NOW DREAM...) OH, THE FEVERED NEED FOR HER WHEN GREED AND LUST ARE SHARPENED IN THAT ONE DESIRE THAT ALL-CONSUMING FIRE REVEAL TO ME YOUR MYSTERIES, WITCH THE TREE IS PLUNDERED BUT I HAVE THE SEED TO BE SOWN IN THEE Dani Filth

TO EVE THE ART OF WITCHCRAFT

© Dani Filth, Cradle of Filth

CRAWL IN AWFUL STEALTH TO ME
FOREVER A VOYEUR I'VE BEEN
NOCTURNAL GODDESS OF THE MOON
SO SHE COMES, UNSEEN

THUS (UZZA AND AZEL) SPEAK

THE BURNING SEED, IS THRUST IN EVE
AND YEARNING KEEPS ME, CAPTIVE OF DESIRE

MAKE ME AS A FLOWER THAT GROWS
FOREVER IN YOUR THRONE
THAT I MIGHT POLLINATE THE WORLD
WITH DARKNESS AS YOUR OWN
EMBRACE ME IN SPELLBINDING EYES
THE FIRE OF LIFE THAT NEVER DIES
TEAR DEEPER THROUGH MY PAPER WOUNDS
AND NEVER LEAVE INSIDE

LOVE SHALL CONSUME AND BATHE THE LADY
WHOM I WORSHIP AND RIDE THEREFORE
SHE WILL GREET ME AS A SERPENT
IN HER DARK, SECRET EDEN
AND I WILL ALWAYS WANT
FOR HER WITCHCRAFT IS
DESIRE... (DESIRE...)
MY SOUL IS POISONED FROM WITHIN...

I CRAWL WITH LANGUID GUILT TO THEE
FOREVER FLUSHED IN SIN
LAMIA, LATRIA I GIVE
MY SOUL IS POISONED FROM WITHIN

WISDOM BREEDS, FECUNDITY
AND HER CUNT SHE FEEDS, TO FULFILL HER DESIRE

TO EVE I CUM...

SEVENFOLD MY PASSION WROUGHT
TO RANSACK EDEN, AND TO TASTE THE WHORE
I CLING BEYOND HER SABLED COURT
SHE IS A GATEWAY, TO THAT DARKNESS LOST

(NOW DREAM...)

OH, THE FEVERED NEED FOR HER
WHEN GREED AND LUST ARE SHARPENED IN THAT ONE DESIRE
THAT ALL-CONSUMING FIRE
REVEAL TO ME YOUR MYSTERIES, WITCH
THE TREE IS PLUNDERED BUT I HAVE THE SEED
TO BE SOWN IN THEE

Dani Filth