I Sleep With The Emperor Lyrics

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Cover art for I Sleep With The Emperor lyrics by Virgin Black

I shivered, in the warmth of their god: Their(not the singers) god, is warm, but makes the singer shiver, terrified, perhaps.. So

His body will cradle his brides: She seeks for more human, more real warmth, naked in silk in the romance filled mansion, with someone called the emperor

Mortality ebbs from me: this seems open to interpretation, perhaps whoever she's in the mansion with isn't just a human being after all.. some say jesus is the second tree of paradise, the one that gives eternal life.. or is it satan..

The pendulum sings, twelve times it rings, I sleep with the emperor: Who ever the emperor is.. Twelve strokes of the clock.. Midnight, and/or a Hard condemnation/judgement.

My Interpretation