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Snuffed tapers sighed |
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As Death left impressing |
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His crest of cold tears on the Countess |
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Benighted like ill-fated Usher |
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The House of Bathory shrouded |
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'Neath grief's dark facade |
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If only I could have wept |
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In mourning by Her side |
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I would have clasped Her so tight |
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Like storm-beached Aphrodite |
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Drowned on Kytherean tides |
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And Kissed Her |
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For from Her alone |
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My lips would have known |
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Enigmas of shadowy vistas |
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Where pleasures took flesh |
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And pain, remorseless |
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Came freezing the breath |
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Of raucous life hushed unto whispers |
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Benighted. |
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Inhaling the pale waning moonlight that crept |
| [01:39.00] |
Through the crypt of Her Lord who so lucidly slept |
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Benighted. |
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Exhaling the wail of black widowhood's toll |
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Waxing eternal night entered Her soul |
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Now haranguing grey skies |
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With revenge upon life |
| [02:05.97] |
Gnathic and Sapphic |
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Needs begged gendercide |
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Delusions of Grandier denounced the revolt |
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Of descrying cursed glass, disenchanted in vaults |
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Encircled by glyphs midst Her sin-sistered cult |
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With hangman's abandon She plied spiritworlds |
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To Archangels in bondage |
| [02:42.02] |
From light to night hurled |
| [02:44.27] |
Cast down to the earth where torment would unfurl....... |
| [02:49.71] |
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But soon, |
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Her tarot proved |
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Hybrid rumours spread like tumours |
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Would accrue |
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And blight Her stars |
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However scarred |
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To better bitter truths |
| [03:23.76] |
Of cold bloodbaths |
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As bodies rose |
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In rigid droves |
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To haunt Her from their |
| [03:30.03] |
Shallow burials imposed |
| [03:31.98] |
When wolves exhumed |
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Their carthen wombs |
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Where heavy frosts had laboured long |
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To bare their wounds |
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To the depths of Her soul they pursued |
| [03:44.88] |
Wielding their poison they flew |
| [03:47.84] |
Like a murder of ravens in fugue |
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And knowing their raptures |
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Would shatter Her dreams |
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She clawed blackened books for damnation's reprieve |
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Baneful cawed canons on amassed enemies |
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So Hallow's Eve |
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As She received |
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Like Bellona to the ball |
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Those enemies |
| [04:21.41] |
Fell-sisters heaved |
| [04:23.01] |
Her torturies |
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Cross stained flagstones |
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To Her carriage reined to flee |
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But She knew She must brave the night through |
| [04:34.35] |
Though fear crept a deathshead o'er the moon |
| [04:37.19] |
Like a murder of ravens in Fugue |
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For each masked, jewelled gaze held dread purpose |
| [05:10.16] |
Horror froze painted eyes to cold stares |
| [05:14.32] |
And even Her dance |
| [05:16.20] |
In the vast mirrors cast |
| [05:18.36] |
Looked the ill of Her future |
| [05:20.31] |
If fate feasted there.... |
| [05:25.98] |
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In an age crucified by the nails of faith |
| [05:41.74] |
When rank scarecrows of christ blighted lands |
| [05:45.56] |
An aloof Countess born an obsidian wraith |
| [05:49.40] |
Dared the abyss knowing well She was damned |
| [06:01.88] |
Her life whispered grief like a funeral march |
| [06:05.64] |
Twisted and yearning, obsessed an entranced |
| [06:09.55] |
With those succumbing to cruelty |
| [06:13.55] |
Crushed 'neath the gait of Her dance |
| [06:16.94] |
A whirlwind of fire that swept through the briers |
| [06:21.08] |
Of sweet rose Her thickets of black thorn had grasped... |
| [06:37.06] |
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She demanded the Heavens and forever to glean |
| [06:44.51] |
The elixir of Youth from the pure |
| [06:48.15] |
Whilst Her lesbian fantasies |
| [06:50.63] |
Reamed to extremes |
| [06:52.31] |
O'er decades unleashed |
| [06:54.12] |
Came for blood's silken cure |
| [07:00.20] |
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| [07:03.04] |
But Her reign ended swiftly |
| [07:04.64] |
For Dark Gods dreamt too deep |
| [07:06.94] |
To heed Her pleas |
| [07:09.60] |
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| [07:10.51] |
When Her gaolers were assailed |
| [07:12.73] |
With condemnations from a priest |
| [07:16.08] |
Who'd stammered rites |
| [07:17.82] |
In the dead of night |
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For maidens staining winding sheets |
| [07:23.11] |
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And She postured proud |
| [07:25.08] |
When Her crimes were trowelled |
| [07:26.73] |
And jezebelled to peasant lips |
| [07:29.31] |
Though She smelt the fires |
| [07:30.79] |
That licked limbs higher |
| [07:32.55] |
To the tortured cunts of accomplices |
| [07:37.07] |
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| [07:46.03] |
So ends this twisted fable's worth |
| [07:50.71] |
And though spared the pyre's bite |
| [07:56.14] |
By dint of nobled bloodlined birth |
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Her sins (crimes) garnered Her no respite |
| [08:11.12] |
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| [08:21.42] |
Forever severed from the thrill of coming night |
| [08:30.86] |
Where slow Death alone could grant Her flight |
| [08:36.40] |
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| [08:36.58] |
"The Spirits have all but fled judgement |
| [08:41.66] |
I rot, alone, insane, |
| [08:46.96] |
Where the forest whispers puce laments for me |
| [08:51.55] |
From amidst the pine and wreathed wolfsbane |
| [08:57.37] |
Beyond these walls, wherein condemned |
| [09:01.30] |
To the gloom of an austere tomb |
| [09:03.91] |
I pace with feral madness sent |
| [09:09.31] |
Through the pale beams of a guiltless moon |
| [09:14.34] |
Who, bereft of necrologies, thus |
| [09:18.23] |
Commands creation over the earth |
| [09:23.29] |
Whilst I resign my lips to death |
| [09:26.30] |
A slow cold kiss that chides rebirth |
| [09:33.44] |
Though one last wish is bequathed by fate |
| [09:38.89] |
My beauty shalt wilt, unseen |
| [09:45.22] |
Save for twin black eyes that shalt come to take |
| [09:50.81] |
My soul to peace or Hell for company" |
| [09:55.94] |
To peace or hell for company |
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My soul to Hell for company |
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My soul to Hell for company |
