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From The Cradle To Enslave Lyrics
Two thousand fattened years like maniacs
Have despoiled our common grave
Now what necrophagous Second Coming backs
From the cradle to enslave?
Sickle constellations
Stud the belts that welt the sky
Whilst the bitter winter moon
Prowls the cloud, dead-eyed
Like shifting parent flesh
Under silk matricide...
Watchful as she was upon Eden
Where every rose arbour and orchard she swept
Hid the hissing of a serpent Libido
In an ancient tryst with catastrophe
Soon the be kept
Hear that hissing now on the breeze
As through the plundered groves of the carnal garden
A fresh horror blows but ten billion souls
Are blind to see the rotting wood for the trees
This is the theme to a better Armageddon
Nightchords rake the heavens
PAN DAEMON AEAON
And what use are prayers to that god?
As devils bay concensus for the space to piss
On your smouldering faith
And the mouldering face
Of this world long a paradise lost
This is the end of everything
Hear the growing chora that a new dawn shall bring
Danse macabre 'neath the tilt of the zodiac
Now brighter stars shall reflect on our fate
What sick nativities will be freed when those lights burn black?
The darkside of the mirror always threw our malice back...
I see the serpentine in your eyes
The nature of the beast as revelations arrive
Our screams shall trail to Angels
For those damned in flames repay
All sinners lose their lot on Judgement Day
We should have cut our looses as at Calvary
But our hearts like heavy crosses held the vain belief
Salvation, like a promised nation
Gleamed a claim away...
This is the end of everything you have ever known
Buried like vanquished reason
Death is season
Drive like the drifting snow
Peace, a fragile lover, left us fantasising war
On our knees or another f**ker's shore
Heiling new flesh
Read, then roared
To a crooked cross and a Holy Cause
What else be whipped to frenzy for?
This is the end of everything
Rear the tragedies
That the Seraphim shall sing
Old adversaries
Next to Eve
Now they're clawing back
I smell their cumming
As through webbed panes of meat
Led by hoary Death
They never left
Dreaming sodomies
To impress on human failure
When we've bled upon our knees
Tablatures of gravel law
Shall see Gehennah paved
When empires fall
And nightmares crawl
From the cradle to enslave....
This is the end of everything
Have despoiled our common grave
Now what necrophagous Second Coming backs
From the cradle to enslave?
Stud the belts that welt the sky
Whilst the bitter winter moon
Prowls the cloud, dead-eyed
Like shifting parent flesh
Under silk matricide...
Where every rose arbour and orchard she swept
Hid the hissing of a serpent Libido
In an ancient tryst with catastrophe
Soon the be kept
As through the plundered groves of the carnal garden
A fresh horror blows but ten billion souls
Are blind to see the rotting wood for the trees
Nightchords rake the heavens
PAN DAEMON AEAON
As devils bay concensus for the space to piss
On your smouldering faith
And the mouldering face
Of this world long a paradise lost
Hear the growing chora that a new dawn shall bring
Now brighter stars shall reflect on our fate
What sick nativities will be freed when those lights burn black?
The darkside of the mirror always threw our malice back...
The nature of the beast as revelations arrive
For those damned in flames repay
All sinners lose their lot on Judgement Day
We should have cut our looses as at Calvary
But our hearts like heavy crosses held the vain belief
Salvation, like a promised nation
Gleamed a claim away...
Buried like vanquished reason
Death is season
Drive like the drifting snow
Peace, a fragile lover, left us fantasising war
On our knees or another f**ker's shore
Heiling new flesh
Read, then roared
To a crooked cross and a Holy Cause
What else be whipped to frenzy for?
Rear the tragedies
That the Seraphim shall sing
Next to Eve
Now they're clawing back
I smell their cumming
As through webbed panes of meat
Led by hoary Death
They never left
Dreaming sodomies
To impress on human failure
When we've bled upon our knees
Shall see Gehennah paved
When empires fall
And nightmares crawl
From the cradle to enslave....
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I think this is a totall clasic, one of the best song ever! I think Motionlessandwhite about the meaning of the song. WOW Dani filth is one helluva writer, just imagine if he was alive back in the day of shakespear, he would have totally shadowed shakespear, Dani is a genious.
if he was alive in the days of shakessphere hed be hung for sure
Ahh this song is a COF epic, it's a shame the rest of the EP doesn't hold up half as well. This song is mainly about end of the millenium tensions, among other things. Fucked up video as well, heh.
this has to be one of the best cradle songs ever. dani filth is god!!! the video is amazin as well!!
this song is kick ass... no other band would compare to cradle of filth... awesome live too
This is the only song by cradle of filth that I like. Has anyone seen Cradle of fear? Don't bother, it's piss poor. As for being better than Shakespear, have you been smoking crack?
This song kicks so much ass, the video is like porn. You get to see boobs and Dani with no make-up. Yum. I get that it has to do with religion. Maybe I'm just an idiot.
It's about the devil, the garden of Eden and the end of the world. It borrows a lot of imagery from Paradise lost by John Milton.
cradle of filth's lyrics are pure genius
The video clip for this song is great.A bit disturbing, but great.Especially the bit with the chiks and the violin/wrist thing.Crazy.