Prey - Cradle Of Filth

Nightfall, in thrall

I call her beauty to me

Whose ebon-lidded eyes excite

Shadows to wander through me

Whose kiss glittered with sleep

Is a thief come after dark

To steal away the leaden wreaths

From my cemetery heart

Thrilled to see the light

Bruise-reddened, silhouetting

Murder sites

As dusk attends her son’s blood wedding

Spilt across the skies

In reefs of omen

Licking flames and pagan rites

The night awaits with baited thighs

Start this artist darkness

Yearning now to start this

Burning as an artist

Turning on the darkness

Dizzy looking up with pervertigo

A sewer deity of recrement

World below

I’ll make you pray

I spy with wicked lips

The cream of mortal kind

Committing their sins

Their penitent skins

To the harems of my mind

Prey

Thrilled to breathe tonight

The sultry air of graces

Passed in flight

Like birds of May with playful faces

Fills me with delight

Their crystal skirts

Spun from stars, worn tight

Wink of fists in wishful places

Start this artist darkness

Yearning now to start this

Burning as an artist

Turning on the darkness

Dizzy looking up with pervertigo

A sewer deity of recrement

World below

I’ll make you pray

My whims like smoke in summertime

Writhe atop the blooms

Committing their thin

White Catholic limbs

To the cloister in my room

You see I need

To feed my dreams to order

To be agreed

With the beast in me

That bleeds their borders

Prey

Nightfall, in thrall

I call her beauty to me

Whose ebon-lidded eyes excite

Shadows to wander through me

Whose kiss glittered with sleep

Is a thief come after dark

To steal away the leaden wreaths

From my cemetery heart