Текст (слова) песни: Cradle Of Filth - II. Paradise Lost: Better to Reign in Hell

Heart in hand passed clasp of pain
In dark lowland that set bad blood in veins
Burning, like penal fires roused to strain
The jagged-toothed skyline braced with crosses

The golden dawn
Lay lost to mist where
Emboldened thorns
Made their bed with toppled stones

He closed His eyes
Sunken to dream there
Of crow-black skies
And a great white empty throne
Horror stalked the bilious fogs
That balked his visions

He licked the spittle from the cheeks of the wry
And drifted back to when His stung its target
The sneer of Michael on a glorious high
Of angel dust and Virtue by his side

Drowning in the past
That downfall seemed like yesterday
Though blurred moons passed
As enemies in high places laughed

Moved to mirrors cracked with heavy lines
He rose snowblind, through shifting sands of time
Erased the trace and taste of bitter wines
The grapes of wrath grew fat on the vine

She came to Him
A little whip of tantrums
Thrashed on velvet skins
That lines Her wishbone Henge

Her name was Sin
A warming spurt of mantras
Splashed on occult tongues
That whispered sweet revenge

For the shame of their crawl from grace
Cold and hollow as the grave

And for a rape and ruinous scourge
Spared for souls that shared Gods worship
For now their throats coated notes with dirge
That poured from parapets to the pits below

Drowning in the past
A wretched scream like yesterday
Died at last
With the rising of the revenant dark

All sharpened claws and blunt discharge

"I shall bow no more to the dogs of the Lord
Tearing at my carcass heart
I shall fall to my knees only at the keyholes
Of Virtue slipping into bondage masks...
Freewill made me better to reign in hell"

And with new wings
Unfurled and spoken
He took to things
That would desecrate the world

The seduction of both woman and man
For a bastard masterplan

Drowning out the past
Fool Fates unwound cruel yesterdays
beneath the stars
That staggered from the blast
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All Hope in Eclipse
Amor E Morte
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As Deep As Any Burial
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At The Gates Of Midian
Bathory Aria: Benighted Like Usher / A Murder Of Ravens In Fugue / Eyes That Witnessed Madness
Beauty Slept in Sodom
Beneath The Howling Stars
Benefth the Howling Stars
Black Metal (Venom cover)
Born in a Burial Gown
Born In A Burial Gown (The Polished Coffin Mix)
Coffin Fodder
Creatures That Kissed In Cold Mirrors
Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids
Cruelty Brought thee Orchids
Cthulhu Dawn
Dawn of Eternity
Death Comes Ripping
Death Magick For Adepts
Desire In Violent Overture
Dinner at Deviant`s Palace
Dusk and Her Embrace
Ebony Dressed For Sunset
English Fire
Filthy Little Secret
For Those Who Died (Return to the Sabbat mix)
From The Cradle To Enslave
From the Cradle to Enslave
From The Cradle To Enslave (Under Martian Rule Mix)
Funeral in Carpathia
Funeral In Carpathia
Funeral in Carpathia (Be Quick or be Dead version)
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Gilded Cunt
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Hallowed Be Thy Name (Shallow Be My Grave/Iron Maiden)
Haunted Shores
Heaven Torn Asunder
Hell Awaits
Her Ghost In The Fog
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I. Fantasia Down: A Bruise Upon the Silent Moon
I. Fantasia Down: A Promise of Fever
I. Fantasia Down: An Enemy Led the Tempest
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II. Paradise Lost: Better to Reign in Hell
II. Paradise Lost: Carrion
II. Paradise Lost: Damned in Any Language (A Plague On Words)
II. Paradise Lost: Serpent Tongue
III. Sewer Side Up: Babalon A.D. (So Glad For The Madness)
III. Sewer Side Up: Doberman Pharaoh
III. Sewer Side Up: Presents from the Poison Heart
IV. The Scented Garden: End of Daze
IV. The Scented Garden: Mannequin
IV. The Scented Garden: Thank God for the Suffering
IV. The Scented Garden: The Smoke of Her Burning
Lord Abortion
Lustmord And Wargasm (The Lick Of Carnivorous Winds)
Lustmord And Wargasm (The Relicking of Cadaverous Wounds)
Lustmord And Wargasm (The Relicking Of Cadaverous Wounds)
Malice Through the Looking Glass
Malice through thу Looking Glass
Medusa And Hemlock
Mother Of Abominations
Nemesis
No Time to Cry
No Time To Cry (Sisters Of No Mercy Mix)
Nocturnal Supremacy
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Nymphetamine (Overdose)
Nymphetamine Fix
Of Dark Blood And Fucking
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Of Mist And Midnight Skies
Queen Of Winter Throned
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Saffron`s Curse
Satanic Mantra
Satyriasis (Intro)
Scorched Earth Erotica
Scorched Earth Erotica (Original Demo Version)
She Mourns a Lengthening Shadow
Sleepless
Sodomy & Lust (Sodom cover)
Sodomy and Lust
Suicide and Other Comforts
Summer Dying Fast
Swansong For A Raven
Tearing The Veil From Grace
The Black Goddess Rises
The Black Goddess Rises (Version II)
The Black Goddess Rises II
The Fire Still Burns
The Forest Whispers My Name
The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh
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