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When Joan was burnt
He knew malevolence
At the heart of all
A cold and jagged abyss bled of sense
The throne he earned
Through God's benevolence
Started his own fall
Clothing ragged dogma in his own magnificence
Here the stench, the gold events
The bold inventions of the will
Luxuries and splendours past the ken of mortal men
Every wanton bent desire went fulfilled
A Daemon sat upon the top of the world
Like a Herod over Genesis
They sang hosannas as his banners unfurled
Kissing terrors with paralysis
His brash canvas insulted the view
moving heaven and earth to please the
Tumultitudes, whom his strange retinue drew
To assert the thirteenth Caesar
The thirteenth Caesar
Ichor kicked inside his veins
The thirteenth Caesar
War was licked, for shame
The thirteenth Caesar
Sicker, but just as vain
The thirteenth Caesar
Gilles De Rais
When Joan was burnt
He knew malevolence
At the heart of all
He swore henceforth he would serve evil alone
Here the stench, the gold events
The insurrection of his will
Theatre and feasts past the ken of mortal men
Every wanton bent desire went fulfilled
A Daemon sat upon the top of the world
Like a Herod over genesis
They sang hosannas as his banners unfurled
Striking terror intro menaces
Suetonius and Ovid
Filled the moonstruck dreams
With the purple of Rome
His Venus of arena-blood was dead
And he was storming home
He knew malevolence
At the heart of all
A cold and jagged abyss bled of sense
The throne he earned
Through God's benevolence
Started his own fall
Clothing ragged dogma in his own magnificence
The bold inventions of the will
Luxuries and splendours past the ken of mortal men
Every wanton bent desire went fulfilled
Like a Herod over Genesis
They sang hosannas as his banners unfurled
Kissing terrors with paralysis
moving heaven and earth to please the
Tumultitudes, whom his strange retinue drew
To assert the thirteenth Caesar
Ichor kicked inside his veins
The thirteenth Caesar
War was licked, for shame
The thirteenth Caesar
Sicker, but just as vain
The thirteenth Caesar
Gilles De Rais
He knew malevolence
At the heart of all
He swore henceforth he would serve evil alone
The insurrection of his will
Theatre and feasts past the ken of mortal men
Every wanton bent desire went fulfilled
Like a Herod over genesis
They sang hosannas as his banners unfurled
Striking terror intro menaces
Filled the moonstruck dreams
With the purple of Rome
And he was storming home
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In his confession (extracted under the threat of torture) Gilles de Rais claimed that he had been corrupted by reading about the vices of the Roman emperors - Caligula, Nero, Tiberius & that mob - in a book called 'The Twelve Caesars' by Suetonius. So here he becomes the 13th Caesar. Ichor is the blood of the gods - the Roman emperors were deified but only, I believe, on their death.
morbid pretty much got it right. that plus the first few lines are referring to how he went mad at the death of Joan of Arc. this song is great
Can somebody tell me what "tumultitudes" means?
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Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder Talk About Life And Crimes Of Gilles De Rais......Dani Talk About Charecters With A very poetic way........like Cruelty And The Beast Album Which Talk About Elizebth Bathory...........But Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder IS the best album For CoF.........fucking awesome band
Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder Talk About Life And Crimes Of Gilles De Rais......Dani Talk About Charecters With A very poetic way........like Cruelty And The Beast Album Which Talk About Elizebth Bathory...........But Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder IS the best album For CoF.........fucking awesome band