| Cradle of Filth – Dusk And Her Embrace Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is about Elizabeth Bathory and her lover, the protagonist. The protagonist absolutely loves her. But he wants not only her love, he wants also the eternal live that only she can give him, because she is a vampire and by biting him he becomes one, too. An interesting line is "Warm within like wine". Wine in Dani's texts often symbolise blood, and blood obviously symbolises life (looks at the V Empire booklet: "Blood is the life of all flesh"). Her words are like wine, they're full of (eternal) life. Hence this song shows three aspects of love: The "real" love, the sexual love and the eternal love. The result of these three things put together is the absolute love. There is no better love if one loves the person's soul, the person's flesh (sex) and the love is eternal. This utopic love is what everybody tries to achieve without success, because time and death will always be stronger than love. |
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| Cradle of Filth – Tonight In Flames Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The first verse, spoken at the beginning, is a quotation from the Bible. Revelations 21:6-7: I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son. |
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| Cradle of Filth – Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Orchids symbolise perfection, and spots on it sometimes represent the blood of Christ. The blood of Christ is of course equal to life ("Life is the blood of all flesh", Lev 17:34; booklet of V Empire). Therefore she uses the blood of other people to get life, to achieve the eternal youth: She is a vampire, maybe even something like the reincarnation of Lilith. Now in "Cruetly brought thee orchids" cruelty could be the devil. She makes a pact with him, she gives him her soul and he brings her beauty and youth (orchids). Then "From the bowels of the abyss" would mean hell. |
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| Cradle of Filth – Gabrielle Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's the first CoF song i've ever listened to and it's still one of my favorites. Love the whole Nymphetamine album. Look at these two lines: "Hilt your dripping fangs that range Skywards to rend apart" In the Bible and in many pictures Gabriel is the archangel which has a sword. So the theory with the feminization is quite possible. For him she's perfect, and he's not the only one who thinks that ("whose beauty fostered poets"). Perhaps one should also consider the concept of the album. For me Nymphetamine represents the sexual love to a woman, it makes you feel good, but unlike "real" love, it never gives you a real satisfaction and you always need more. Like a drug (Nymph=attractive woman, amphetamyne=drug)? Well, these are just thoughts, perhaps it's all rubbish... Also because English is not my native language so it's not easy for me to understand everything. |
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| Children of Bodom – You're Better Off Dead Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think that it was written by Alexi... Read the HCDR booklet: "All lyrics written by A. Laiho except "Chokehold (Chocked'n'Loaded)" by H.T. Blacksmith". |
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