When Misery Was A Stranger

Lyrics

[Intro: Dani Filth] Cantankerous the seas, her verses cursed with this disease The long-awaited written in our veins That this golden age of wonder is undone before the thunder Of another tyrant smitten with his gains [Verse 1: Dani Filth] Decadence shall dance upon the dead And the zealots of modernity Deafening, confirming that the heavenly are burning With The Screaming Of The Valkyries [Pre-Chorus: Dani Filth] Plagued with regret Lest we forget Deep beguile, degenerate bile Ashing of the deeds as armageddon smiles [Chorus: Dani Filth & Zoë Marie Federoff] Where torment holds court And dreams are for naught The present is fraught With all-besieging danger But we recall Love, not the cruel Held peacable rule When misery was a stranger [Post-Chorus: Zoë Marie Federoff, Zoë Marie Federoff & Dani Filth] Oh to those times Irretrievable crimes No reason or rhyme When misery was a stranger [Verse 2: Dani Filth] Clinging to the past I see tomorrow sat aghast Upon a raw epiphany Singing of the path leading to this final gasp As missiles score their symphonies How did despotic days turn to horror and decay Beneath these eyes of vanity? Now a war engulfs the face of a crazed Inhuman race Fed on bred insanities [Pre-Chorus: Dani Filth] Death to the false Red flags we repulse Unreconciled, the truth exiled Peace on earth, no mercy mild [Chorus: Dani Filth & Zoë Marie Federoff] Where torment holds court And dreams are for naught The present is fraught With all-besieging danger But we recall Love, not the cruel Held peacable rule When misery was a stranger [Post-Chorus: Zoë Marie Federoff, Zoë Marie Federoff & Dani Filth, Dani Filth] Oh to those times Irretrievable crimes No reason or rhyme When misery was a stranger When misery was all but lost [Guitar Solo] [Verse 3: Dani Filth] Now sticky ichor trickles down the window, not a little And feathers drift from sick and frightened skies Vast figures shift behind the roaring storm clouds, undivine Highlighted by the lightning strikes on high [Bridge: Dani Filth] A heavy sorrow like a shroud, descends A winding sheet The wind lashes Poisoned tongues of our defeat (our defeat) Long poisoned tongues of our defeat [Verse 4: Dani Filth] A darkness comes to fester The dying sunset westers Then a flash like a thousand summers blaze And the pain is pressed to stay [Outro]