Cradle Of Filth - Beauty Slept In Sodom Lyrics
Herodias and I have led a phantom cavalcadeThrough veiled and pagan history where superstitions reignedAnd christendom sought to pervert, but poets of my nameSang of penumbral victories that sorcery had claimedThe graal and mighty caliburn as votive offeringsTo an england rearisen under vast majestic wingsThese are the shores whereto my soulBlood drenched and unredeemedShalt seek solace in secrets toldThrough the whispers of a dreamFrom the woods pendragon-born, I rose arcturiusA proud, audacious king mantled in theVehemence of lustDeath and destiny undaunted me, I drew a throne dividedIn awe of the glorious battles won, my dark goddess providedThen treachery, a wingless beast, came crawling to my courtAnd now I lie at cursed camlann, from wounds a traitor wroughtI fear the augean lightIs sweeping through camelotHow bittersweet my triumphs seem,Now autumnal leaves succumb to frostMorganna art thou near me?Languid, I wend my path to graveCast my sword to the sulphyd graspOf the naiad neath the silvered lakeWhen waters stirred lay silentMistress let the mists descendThy tears cannot thaw deaths cold heartHis sombre gaze defies legendMore so than thine, else thy dew-lidded eyesArt for the banshees songOr our souls entwined like vein uponThe haunted shores of avalonThe haunted shores of avalonBury me in velvet dreamLest I unduly wakeAnd seek to reconcile my thirstWith the cowardly tailors of my fateUnleash mastiffs of snarling nightTo overthrow, plague and burnAs slumber lures me mongst the deadTo scheme of my returnArchaic ghostly echoes breathe like thunder of the stormA tempest fools miscall divine as they crouch awaiting dawnTheir ignorance has forged for me overCenturies a swordBurnished to flash like lightning on the precipice of warThe wolves are dead in albion whilst thePassive flocks roam freeThis my penetrant spearhead shalt pierce these foul,Trespassing breeds
