Bathory Aria (eyes That Witnessed Madness) Lyrics - Cradle Of Filth

In an age crucified by the nails of faith 

When rank scarecrows of christ blighted lands 

An aloof Countess born an obsidian wraith 

Dared the abyss knowing well She was damned 

Her life whispered grief like a funeral march 

Twisted and yearning, obsessed an entranced 

With those succumbing to cruelty 

Crushed 'neath the gait of Her dance 

A whirlwind of fire that swept through the briers 

Of sweet rose Her thickets of black thorn had grasped... 

She demanded the Heavens and forever to glean 

The elixir of Youth from the pure 

Whilst Her lesbian fantasies 

Reamed to extremes 

O'er decades unleashed 

Came for blood's silken cure 

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But Her reign ended swiftly 

For Dark Gods dreamt too deep 

To heed Her pleas 

When Her gaolers were assailed 

With condemnations from a priest 

Who'd stammered rites 

In the dead of night 

For maidens staining winding sheets 

And She postured proud 

When Her crimes were trowelled 

And jezebelled to peasant lips 

Though She smelt the fires 

That licked limbs higher 

To the tortured cunts of accomplices 

So ends this twisted fable's worth 

And though spared the pyre's bite 

By dint of nobled bloodlined birth 

Her sins [crimes] garnered Her no respite 

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Forever severed from the thrill of coming night 

Where slow Death alone could grant Her flight 

"The Spirits have all but fled judgement 

I rot, alone, insane, 

Where the forest whispers puce laments for me 

From amidst the pine and wreathed wolfsbane 

Beyond these walls, wherein condemned 

To the gloom of an austere tomb 

I pace with feral madness sent 

Through the pale beams of a guiltless moon 

Who, bereft of necrologies, thus 

Commands creation over the earth 

Whilst I resign my lips to death 

A slow cold kiss that chides rebirth 

Though one last wish is bequathed by fate 

My beauty shalt wilt, unseen 

Save for twin black eyes that shalt come to take 

My soul to peace or Hell for company" 

My soul to Hell for company