A Gothic Romance

Lyrics

Evening minuetto in a castle by the sea A jewel more precious than the moon Lowered Her mask to me The sublimest creature the God of desire Would dream about making his Queen Drowning the air with Promethean Fire And my heart burned with dark poetry I fell in love with Her Scent and feline lure And woodland eyes that ushered in the impurest Erotic, laden fantasies amid this warm Autumn night I lulled her away from the rich masquerade And together we kissed in the bloodletting moonlight Oh Luna, what spell didst thou cast on me? Her icy kiss fervoured my neck Like whispering waves 'pon Acheron's breath In a whirl of dark voices and statues That phantomed the dying trees This debauched seducer in black, loved me.... In a pale azured dawn like Ligeia reborn I woke free of my sleep-sepulchre On the sea misted lawn where stone figures, forlorn Lamented the spectre of Her Bewildered and weak, yet with passion replete I longed for the past overture The curse of unrest and her lingered caress Seemed much more than my soul could endure.... I at once endeavoured to see Her again Lest my heart came palsied Without even mouthing her name On a thin precipice over carnal abyss I danced like a blind acolyte Drunk on red wine, her dead lips on mine Suffused with the perfume of night For hours I scoured the castle grounds In vain for us to meet When storm clouds broke, ashened, fatigued I sought refuge in a cemetery Sleep, usher dreams Taint to nightmares from a sunless nether Mistress of the dark I now know what thou art Screams haunt my sleep Dragged from nightmares thou hast wed together Lamia and Lemures Spawned thee leche To snare my flesh Portrait of the Dead Countess Deep stained pain that I had dreamt Flaunted Death's cold punishment Leaving strength to seal this Wretched tomb.... But poisoned nectar within me stirs Up feverous desire and morbid purpose to search Through cobwebbed drapery to where she swoons Goddess of the graveyard, of the tempest and moon In flawless fatal beauty her very visage compels Glimpses of a heaven where ghost company fell To mourning the death of God in blackest velvet Enrobed in their downfall like a swift silhouette "Fleeting, enshadowed Thou art privy to my sin Secrets dead, wouldst thou inflict The cruel daylights upon my skin? Dost thou not want to worship me With crimson sacrifice So my cunt may twitch upon thy kiss And weep with new-found life?" My realm in dusk Torn to her embrace Dark angels taste my tears And whisper haunting requiems Softly to mine ear Need-fires have lured abominations here.... Nocturnal pulse My veins spill forth their waters Rent by my lips I cherish most Awash on her perfidious shored Where drowning shadows o'er the stars Ebon's graves where lovers whore Seraphim and Nahemah "Nahemah" Pluck out mine eyes, hasten, attest Blind reason against thee, Enchantress For I must know, art thou not death? My heart echos bloodless and incensed.... Doth temptation prowl the earth seducing the weak Did not the Queen of Heaven come a Devil to me? On that fatal Hallow's Eve when we fled company As the music swept around us in the crisp, fallen leaves Under Horned Diana where her bloodline was sewn In a graveyard of Angels rent in cool marbled stone I am grieving the loss of life in sombre velvet Erobed in Death's shadow like a swifter silhouette....