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A Gothic Romance (Red Roses for the Devil's Whore) Lyrics
Evening minuetto in a castle by the sea
A jewel more radiant than the moon
Lowered Her mask to me
The sublimest creature the Gods, full of fire
Would marvel at making their Queen
Infusing the air with Her fragrant desire
And my heart reeled with grave poetry....
From grace I fell in love with Her
Scent and feline lure
And jade woodland eyes that ushered in the impurest
"Erotic, laden fantasies amid this warm Autumn night
She lulled me away from the rich masquerade
And together we clung in the bloodletting moonlight"
Pearled luna, what spell didst thou cast on me?
Her icy kiss fervoured my neck
Like whispering waves 'pon Acheron's beach
In a whirl of sweet voices and statues
That phantomed the dying trees
This debauched seductress in black, took me....
In a pale azured dawn like Ligeia reborn
I tore free of my sleep - sepulchre
On the sea misted lawn where stone figures, forlorn
Lamented the spectre of Her
Bewildered and weak, yet with passion replete
I hungered for past overtures
The curse of unrest and her ardent caress
Came much more than my soul could endure....
I, at once endeavoured to see Her again
Stirring from midnight's inertia
Knowing not even her name
On a thin precipice over carnal abyss
I danced like a blind acolyte
Drunk on red wine, her dead lips on mine
Suffused with the perfume of night
For hours I scoured the surrounding grounds
In vain that we might meet
When storm clouds broke, ashened, fatigued
I sought refuge in a cemeterty
Sleep, usher dreams
Taint to nightmares from a sunless nether
Mistress of the dark
I now know what thou art
Screams haunt my sleep
Dragged from nightmares thou hast wed together
Lamia and Lemures
Spawned thee leche
To snare my flesh
Portrait of the Dead Countess
Deep stained pain that I had dreamt
Flaunted demise, life's punishment
Leaving little strength to seal this wretched tomb....
But poised nectar within my stirs
Up feverous desire and morbid purpose to search
Through cobwebbed drapery to where she swoons
Goddess of the graveyard, of the tempest and moon
In flawless fatal beauty her very visage compels
Glimpses of a heaven where ghost companies fell
To mourning the loss of god in blackest velvet
Enrobed in their downfall like a swift silhouette
"Fleeting, enshadowed
Thou art privy to my sin
Secrets dead, wouldst thou inflict
The cruel daylights upon my skin?
Dost thou not want to worship me
With crimson sacrifice
So my cunt may twitch against thy kiss
And weep with new-found life?"
Red roses for the Devil's whore....
Dark angels taste my tears
And whisper haunting requiems
Softly to mine ear
Need-fires have lured abominations here....
Nocturnal pulse
My veins spill forth their waters
Rent by lips I cherish most
Awash on her perfidious shores
Where drowning umbra o'er the stars
Ebon's graves where lovers whore
Like seraphim and Nahemah
"Nahemah"
Pluck out mine eyes, hasten, attest
Blind reason against thee, Enchantress
For I must know, art thou not death?
My heart echoes bloodless and incensed....
Doth temptation prowl night in vulvic revelry
Did not the Queen of Heaven come as Devil to me?
On that fatal Hallow's Eve when we fled company
As the music swept around us in the crisp, fated leaves
Under horned Diana where her bloodline was sewn
In a graveyard of Angels rent in cool marbled stone
I am grieving the loss of life in sombre velvet
Enrobed in Death's shadow like a swifter
silhouette....
A jewel more radiant than the moon
Lowered Her mask to me
The sublimest creature the Gods, full of fire
Would marvel at making their Queen
Infusing the air with Her fragrant desire
And my heart reeled with grave poetry....
Scent and feline lure
And jade woodland eyes that ushered in the impurest
"Erotic, laden fantasies amid this warm Autumn night
She lulled me away from the rich masquerade
And together we clung in the bloodletting moonlight"
Pearled luna, what spell didst thou cast on me?
Her icy kiss fervoured my neck
Like whispering waves 'pon Acheron's beach
In a whirl of sweet voices and statues
That phantomed the dying trees
This debauched seductress in black, took me....
I tore free of my sleep - sepulchre
On the sea misted lawn where stone figures, forlorn
Lamented the spectre of Her
Bewildered and weak, yet with passion replete
I hungered for past overtures
The curse of unrest and her ardent caress
Came much more than my soul could endure....
Stirring from midnight's inertia
Knowing not even her name
On a thin precipice over carnal abyss
I danced like a blind acolyte
Drunk on red wine, her dead lips on mine
Suffused with the perfume of night
In vain that we might meet
When storm clouds broke, ashened, fatigued
I sought refuge in a cemeterty
Taint to nightmares from a sunless nether
I now know what thou art
Dragged from nightmares thou hast wed together
Spawned thee leche
To snare my flesh
Flaunted demise, life's punishment
Leaving little strength to seal this wretched tomb....
Up feverous desire and morbid purpose to search
Through cobwebbed drapery to where she swoons
Goddess of the graveyard, of the tempest and moon
In flawless fatal beauty her very visage compels
Glimpses of a heaven where ghost companies fell
To mourning the loss of god in blackest velvet
Enrobed in their downfall like a swift silhouette
Thou art privy to my sin
Secrets dead, wouldst thou inflict
The cruel daylights upon my skin?
Dost thou not want to worship me
With crimson sacrifice
So my cunt may twitch against thy kiss
And weep with new-found life?"
And whisper haunting requiems
Softly to mine ear
Need-fires have lured abominations here....
My veins spill forth their waters
Rent by lips I cherish most
Where drowning umbra o'er the stars
Ebon's graves where lovers whore
Like seraphim and Nahemah
Blind reason against thee, Enchantress
For I must know, art thou not death?
My heart echoes bloodless and incensed....
Did not the Queen of Heaven come as Devil to me?
On that fatal Hallow's Eve when we fled company
As the music swept around us in the crisp, fated leaves
Under horned Diana where her bloodline was sewn
In a graveyard of Angels rent in cool marbled stone
I am grieving the loss of life in sombre velvet
Enrobed in Death's shadow like a swifter
silhouette....
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The story in the song has never been totally clear to me, the end of it anyway. So this guy meets this bewitching woman at a masquerade ball, they go out in the woods and ... "cling together in the bloodletting moonlight"... then he wakes up in a sepulchre and goes to find her and ... I guess she's a vampire, and then something happens to him, his soul is lost forever, something like that.
Amazing story. Love Cradle.
I think she has made him into a vampise and the song ends with him realising it.
Love the song, the instrumental arrangments, the vocals, the lyrics, the story, and the band.
I believe it's about a guy who meets a girl at the ball, they fuck in the forest, she's a vampire, and he gets killed by her.
well, i absolutely think that this is an awesome song!! but though, it has a meaning...the original song is named "A Gothic Romance (Red Roses for the Devil's Whore)"...i'm not into denmonology already, but there is a name for the devil's whore, who actually exsist in denmonology, her name is Lilith...so, basicly i think that this song is for her, but i'll find out more bout this...kinks
I do think this song is about Lillith... Now, I don't know too much about Lillith, so if I'm wrong, correct me... Apparently she was created as the "first woman," but ended up an evil wench... Ok, so... In this song, She comes across as beautiful and elegant while she's luring in this man... While he's under her spell, he wishes for them to be alone, so they leave together. After she basically gives herself to him, she turns on him, in return for the passionate sex, I believe she wants him to sell the Devil his soul. I'm not too sure on that.. I would imagine since it's called "Red Roses for the Devil's Whore", that's what she wants... Anyway, he doesn't want to give his soul, and she keeps trying to reason with him, so he'll give the ultimate sacrifice. This song is all about manipulation and betrayal.
I think these are the most beautiful dark lyrics ever written in my opinion. I think Devil's whore is just a nickname for a vampire, and instead of having sex with people they kill for him (the Devil). So, along with what others said he meets a beautiful woman, she turns out to be a vampire... It's not 100% clear if they fuck in the forest, but they obviously do something, and it IS clear that she bites him and drinks his blood, which is of course very sexy to this guy and could be LIKE sex to them. After their first meeting he must find her again, and when he does she takes more of his "red roses" aka blood. And I'm not quite sure if he's turned into a vampire or just dies. Because "grieving the loss of life" could be his mortal life and he's now a vampire. But it could be that she just killed him.
I love this song. I think that instead of having sex in the forest, the devil's whore (which as kandy says is a nickname for a vampire) drinks his blood.
"Dost thou not want to worship me With crimson sacrifice"
its a morbid, vampiric love story, very beautifully written, very poetic, very fantasy based.
this is a wonderful song.....the best song for CoF........but i want to ask something...whose is the girl in the song??.........i guess she's elizebth......and what is the meaning of the word 'Nahemah'.....can anyone tell me what is the full meaning of this song.....anyway i love it very much T_____T
@ahmed1995 Nahemah is also known as Naamah in Genesis 4:22-23 whom is Lamech's daughter from Zillah. In Hebrew the word is pleasant. And I believe that she is described as an angel of prostitution, a succubus, demon. And she is known as the mother of divination also. And how she had become a demon, I not too sure. But I'm only making this as an assumption, but succubi collected the semen of the men they slept with, which incubi then would use to impregnate women. So, I'm guessing she was seduced by an incubus. Because if it was an evil...
@ahmed1995 Nahemah is also known as Naamah in Genesis 4:22-23 whom is Lamech's daughter from Zillah. In Hebrew the word is pleasant. And I believe that she is described as an angel of prostitution, a succubus, demon. And she is known as the mother of divination also. And how she had become a demon, I not too sure. But I'm only making this as an assumption, but succubi collected the semen of the men they slept with, which incubi then would use to impregnate women. So, I'm guessing she was seduced by an incubus. Because if it was an evil spirit it would have to first take the form of a human in order to make her to become a demon. And that's just what I'm assuming.
This is one of my absolute favorite CoF songs... I love CoF lyrics... most of them are so poetic.