Beneath The Howling Stars Lyric Cradle of Filth LOVECRAFT AND WITCH HEARTS

Midwinter wrongs the rites of Spring
Her spinal chill rakes the
earth
Whilst pensive souls at zero sing
Woebetidings of rebirth
Under
cold stares of Mars maligned
Near-suicides cross their hearts
And unborns
writhe in tepid brine
For something wicked this way starts

Beneath the
howling stars

Elizabeth, paragon of vice
Watches the sun set pyres
alight
As Bane and Tyranny, Her Dobermans sleep
Like spellbound paramours
at Her feet

A chatter of bells without
Raise hellhounds, teeth on
edge
From sleighs hastened through snow lit red
Guests espied from the
garret ledge

Great gloomy mirror tell Her face
She will outblind them
all
That heavenly bodies would fall from grace
To possess such a lustrous
pall

For beauty is always Cruel...
For beauty is always...

(Let
destiny in chains commence...
Damnation under Gods seeking
recompense
Enslaving to the whims of this mistress)

As the dance
ensued
Elizabeth's mood
Tempered by the craft of a vitreous moon
In
slick black iciness it grew
To consume
The wench Her tower
tombed
Tending to Her costume
Bore the brunt of the storm
When the
needle askewed
She has Her dogs maul the bitch's wrists through
Restored
to jaded bliss
This evisceratrix
Descended to the ball
With painted
blood upon Her lips
Passing like a comet so white
As to eclipse
The
waltz wound down, transfixed

Devoid of all breath in the air
Even
Death paled to compare
To the taint of Her splendour
So rare and
engendered
'Pon the awed throng gathered
There...

Beneath the
howling stars

She danced so macabre
Men entranced divined from Her
gait
That this angel stepped from a pedestal
Had won remission from
fate
By alighting to darker spheres
Delighting in held sway
For She was
not unlike the Goddess
To whom the wolves bayed

"Whilst envy glanced
daggers
From court maidens, arboured
Who whispered in sects
Of
suspicions abroad
That Elizabeth bewitched
See how even now the whore
casts
Her spells upon the Black Count
Whom Her reddened lips hold
fast"

Tongue unto tongue
Swept on tides without care
For the
harpies who rallied
Their maledict glares
A halo of ravens tousled Her
hair
Chandeliers a tiara
For passions ensnared

"Phantasies
sexed
When their eyes, moonstruck met
Their friction wore a way
Through
the sea of foreplay
Lovers at first bite
She an Eve tempted to
lay
Gasping at rafters
Flesh pressed in ballet"

But caprice,
honours leashed
She absconded the feast
To prowl wonderland
Beasts in
hand from the Keep
Of Feudal dilemma
Well mantled in furs
Through
cullis to watch
Dogstars howl at the earth

On this violent
night
Unholy night
Winds lashed their limbs together
As the ether vent
its wintry spite

She wished His kiss on Her frozen landscapes
To
excite the bleak advance
From castle bowers
Wherein small hours
The
Devil never came by chance
A lone charm tied to Her inner thigh
Sent lusts
nova as hooves trod
Cobbled streets where lowlives fleet
Were flung to a
wayward god

Midwinter wrongs the rites of Spring
Her spinal chill
rakes the earth
Whilst pensive souls at zero sing
Woebetidings of
rebirth
Under cold stares of Mars maligned
Near-suicides cross their
hearts
And unborns writhe in tepid brine
For something wicked this way
starts

Beneath the howling stars

Pounding upon the pauper
ridge
Earshot of a hunched beldame
Elizabeth teased, would He dare to
please
Such elderly loins enflamed?
To this He feigned a grim
disdain
Playing to Her slayful eye
But the hag replied...

"This
girl that chides
Will soon be as plagued with age as I"

Her consort
laughed a plume of icy breath
For Elizabeth's grace could raise
A flag of
truce in burning heaven
Or the dead from early graves
Yet still She
seethed
This proud Snow Queen
Embittered with the cursed retort
And
because He sought Her loves onslaught
He gutted the crone for
sport

Soon in full moon fever they were wed
Lycanthropic in the
conjugal bed
Littered with aphrodisiacs
To tease dynastic union
And
beget them further maniacs

Elizabeth
Free reigned, now a
Countess
Outwielded and outwore
Her title like a favoured dress
Whilst
Her errant Lord
Whose seasons savoured war
Stormed black to fell the
infidel
Her embers, tempered, roared.

 

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