Harlot On A Pedestal Lyrics - Darkly Darkly Venus Aversa - Cradle Of Filth

Where does the madness end? 

How far down do the rungs expire 

In smoke and burning heat? 

In depravity and sin? 

In her shocking retinue 

I saw the worst 

Desire run amok amongst you 

And in her boudoir too 

The endless nights embedded 

In her beautiful cocoon 

Turning black and blue and jaded 

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Kneelin' at her feet 

My heart atrophied at her ravishing form 

The ultimate test 

Her cult obsessed 

With this body of the Goddess reborn 

When she first laid me to rest 

I saw such sights of wickedness 

From this harlot on a pedestal 

This scarlet Woman scorned 

I glimpsed desertion, the bluster of shame 

The tribes of the moon. their luster improved 

A morbid aversion to the limpid domain 

Of Eden and Adam her dark temper moved 

I witnessed reverie then 

Perverse resurgence, souls on fire 

Blood and seed spilt for centuries 

For this imperious bitch 

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In her shocking retinue 

I saw the worst 

Desire run amok amongst you 

A gnawer of taboo 

Dread appetites were threaded 

Right throughout the mortal zoo 

Her immortality now hungered 

I remember, in Thebes 

Enthroned with cat-skinned girls 

Her long dark hair braided with pearls 

A red gown split revealed her thighs 

As full lips rose to feline eyes 

Egyptian black outlined each lid 

It's clear who owned the pyramid 

Temptress Lilith 

Her beauty stirred me more than words 

Could ever paint, her bible hurt 

Tempered Lilith 

Hissing in the dark 

Pissing on my heart 

I was missing every part of Victoria 

Victoria 

I found them hypnotic, the years of display 

Of court life and parties, political bite 

Narcotic, erotic, her bleary soirees 

Left daylight a dream in the scheme of the night 

The scheme of the night 

But I grew uneasy, she wanted the earth 

For now she was spinning her sins 

Breeding fell children and hiding her worth 

Before the new orders disorder begins 

Feeding from the weak 

Savaged on their feet by her ravaging lust 

Evening-dressed 

This young Countess 

Led lovers astray under cover of dusk 

When she took them to her breast 

They passed last rites, deliciousness 

Swept into their every pore 

This matriarch of darkness bored 

Harlot on a pedestal 

The night orchestral 

Harlot on a pedestal 

Never vestal