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The needle in the eye of the hurricane
The poison in the font
The nail in the coffin of the profane
I am the lot
Manical the fire
That weaves inside my soul
When dripping tongues of hate, envenomed, roll
Like carpet bombs in vast bazaars
My blood runs with the beasts
Though no crescent, cross
Or wandering star
Shalt witness my defeat
Born of jackal in the Vatican
To a loathsome flock
I have crept behind the drapes
And a wizard there is not
Just a white flag blackened by
Singing weapons that have led
A faith that soon dominions over
Desert kingdoms of the dead
I smell the fleur du malcontent
The hellish stench
Of Judas in the dozens
Bouquets of greed and twisted law
Handmaidens of the holy war
Bring on a thousand roses more
I am the thorn
Tangled are the thickets
That spare the virgin heart
From the waking grasp of rapists in the dark
Mountaineers that strive so far
For a Heaven grown from reach
That love herself is fabled
To be missing from their peaks
Save in one sole tower
Where the presence of a rod
Stays the sleeping beauty
From the prying fingers of the mob
I smell the fleur du malcontent
The hellish stench
Of Judas in the dozens
Bouquets of greed and twisted law
Handmaidens of the holy war
Bring on a thousand roses more
I am the thorn
I am the thorn
I am the Spear of Longinus
The sword of Damocles
Kali up in arms, a bleeding sinus
The hammer of the gods in the prophet’s teeth
Saint Disgustus, President evil
Great white hopes of a shark-eyed people
Lights of the world now flicker and die
Impaled in the race, in the paling face
Where forked tongues pricked the skies
Choking on these words as I slither to their ear
As lightning strikes their blinded minds
I am not the hand of god…
I am the thorn
Territorial thieves
Ever stealing thunder for religious causes
I will bring you all down to your knees…
And fuck you over
Bouquets of greed and twisted law
Handmaidens of the holy war
Bring on a thousand roses more
I am the thorn
I am the thorn
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danis interview: oh fuck.well my internet isnt working. some1 get the meaning and type it. go to www.cradleoffilth.com and look for the album explained. thanks
It is about god sending his right hand man, "The thorn" or the angel of death to the pharaoh back in the old days and basically setting his foot down some shit like that
it basically says i am death encarnate, so dont fuck with me!
i think Dani is sayng he will not go to religion "My blood runs with the beasts
Though no crescent, cross
Or wandering star" and he is saying he is the thorn. spear,sword in the side of Religion... not sure... also Jesus had a crown of thorns on when he was crucified... some connection? idk...
OK i can't believe anyones attacked this song yet! Im not quite sure on the MEANING, but there are clearly a lot of references to religion and such..
First off.. Thorn. the crown they put on jesus befor he was crucified was made of thorns as a form of torture."I am the Spear of Longinus " im not sure who Longinus was, but Jesus was stabbed by a spear before dying. "Born of jackal in the Vatican To a loathsome flock" - OBVIOUS.
So instead of analysing this to death... cause im lazy atm.. just think
ANTI-CHRIST.
Also, Fleur Du Malcontent - Baudelaire poem. Not clear on the reference ause I haven't read that one.
Longinus refers to St. Longinus who was the centurion that pierced the side of Christ with his spear so that explains:
Longinus refers to St. Longinus who was the centurion that pierced the side of Christ with his spear so that explains:
"I am the the spear of Longunus."
"I am the the spear of Longunus."
Now the sword of Damocles as the story goes is
Now the sword of Damocles as the story goes is
The Damocles of the anecdote was an excessively flattering courtier in the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse, a fourth century BC tyrant of Syracuse. Damocles exclaimed that, as a great man of power and authority, Dionysius was truly fortunate. Dionysius offered to switch places with him for a day, so he could taste first hand that fortune. In the...
The Damocles of the anecdote was an excessively flattering courtier in the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse, a fourth century BC tyrant of Syracuse. Damocles exclaimed that, as a great man of power and authority, Dionysius was truly fortunate. Dionysius offered to switch places with him for a day, so he could taste first hand that fortune. In the evening a banquet was held where Damocles very much enjoyed being waited upon like a king. Only at the end of the meal did he look up and notice a sharpened sword hanging directly above his head by a single horse-hair. Immediately, he lost all taste for the fine foods and beautiful boys and asked leave of the tyrant, saying he no longer wanted to be so fortunate.
Dionysius had successfully conveyed a sense of the constant fear in which the great man lives. Cicero uses this story as the last in a series of contrasting examples for reaching the conclusion he had been moving towards in this fifth Disputation, in which the theme is that virtue is sufficient for living a happy life. Cicero asks
"Does not Dionysius seem to have made it sufficiently clear that there can be nothing happy for the person over whom some fear always looms?"
The Sword of Damocles is frequently used in allusion to this tale, epitomizing the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power. More generally, it is used to denote the sense of foreboding engendered by a precarious situation, especially one in which the onset of tragedy is restrained only by a delicate trigger or chance. Shakespeare's Henry IV expands on this theme: "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"; compare the Hellenistic and Roman imagery connected with the insecurity offered by Tyche and Fortuna.
Woodcut images of the Sword of Damocles as an emblem appear in sixteenth and seventeenth-century European books of devices, with moralizing couplets or quatrains, with the import METVS EST PLENA TYRANNIS, "The tyrant is filled with fear"– as it is the tyrant's place to sit daily under the sword. In Wenceslas Hollar's Emblemata Nova (London, no date), a small vignette shows Damocles under a canopy of state, at the festive table, with Dionysius seated nearby; the etching, with its clear political moral, was later used by Thomas Hobbes to illustrate his Philosophicall Rudiments concerning Government and Society (London 1651).
ALL HAIL LORD SATAN AND HIS EPPILEPTIC MONKEY!!!!
"and god looks down and says; well, this is pretty fucked up =/" AHAHA I LOVE THAT GUY !
just to answer Sea Of Faces90. "I am the spear of Longinus" St Longinus is the Roman guy who jabbed his spear into Jesus to check if he was dead when he was on the cross. The catholics called him a saint for stabbing Jesus. talk about a fucked up religion. anyway. i love dani's word play. "born of jackal to the vatican" an obvious reference to the movie The Omen. "I crept behind the drapes and a wizard there is not" again, a reference to the movie the Wizard Of Oz. His word play is fucking amazing. "Saint disgustus president evil, great white hopes of a shark eyed people" Fucking genius
The closest thing to a title track on the album concerns itself with a livid God, who has seen the multitude of religious wars and causes given over to his many names and has sent his right hand, The Thorn, an avenging angel of death, to mete out a collective punishment, in a way to remind all of his total dominion. If the concept of an all-encompassing God is to be believed, then why should it not be also believed that his Will could turn grim and 'old testament' on the self-professed prophets who war in his name? 'I Am The Thorn' is a song about global retribution and the dire consequences that waging wars in the name of religion and territory engenders.
-from cradleoffilth.com/descriptions.html
i believe its calling all religions false i am death incarnate here to bring ruin to the false prophets and make way for a real religion
also he is calling religion incredibly dangerous as history proves and i dont believe hes trying to say hes the anit-christ but that is how religion would see him for speaking such "blasphemy"
dani filth is one ofthe few remaining poets in this world and i mean his ability for adept wordplay and he has a very defined sense of focus something many would be writers have trouble with over time and cradle just seems to get better the longer they go on unlike many bands