Swansong For A Raven (Album Version)

Song	Swansong For A Raven (Album Version)
Artist	Cradle of Filth
Album	Nymphetamine

Lyrics

[01:04.07]	Forgive the day’s
[01:05.74]	Last serenades
[01:07.78]	Her skies they bruise like Nordic women
[01:09.70]	Deep crimson stains
[01:12.13]	That Death would claim
[01:13.95]	His robes of office swim in
[01:18.88]	As would I
[01:20.01]	For his dark eye
[01:21.45]	Has fixed, a basilisk, a scythe
[01:25.54]	On charred remains
[01:28.55]	With shared disdain
[01:29.61]	For those I chose to mortify
[01:34.31]	Their cries have paralysed
[01:36.30]	And the smoke has choked these vistas
[01:39.77]	But still I lie, though tears have died
[01:44.45]	On the grave of my Clarissa
[01:48.67]	A verse for her whispered to the earth
[01:56.99]	A lover’s curse is a see-through coffin
[01:58.79]	Praises her curves so oft concurred
[02:00.70]	Though she was
[02:01.94]	No Snow White on the night she died
[02:06.15]	Her shadower’s boon when the moon glazed over
[02:09.15]	Lipped with blood and secrets pried
[02:23.68]	For on and in they spread her wide
[02:26.17]	That seraph bride
[02:28.50]	The Devil’s pride
[02:30.18]	Shalt soon avenge with swift reprise
[02:34.01]	But they would writhe
[02:35.46]	For my dark eye
[02:38.52]	Bewitched, was fixed like Mordecai’s
[02:41.75]	On Esther’s reign
[02:43.17]	And in this vein
[02:44.09]	I saw their lust still stain her thighs
[02:49.86]	Their cries have paralysed
[02:52.03]	And the smoke has choked these vistas
[02:57.48]	But still I lie, though tears have died
[03:00.30]	On the grave of my Clarissa
[03:10.56]	Beneath these trees where the mist enwreathes
[03:12.34]	Her spirit flees, seeing chains of torches
[03:14.44]	A fleeting kiss stirring leaves of poetry
[03:17.99]	I was no dark knight, breaking men like ice
[03:21.56]	I was like a lycanthrope until the moon glazed over
[03:25.31]	Lipped with blood and last goodbyes
[04:01.44]	Now I dream
[04:04.52]	Enwrapt in pure clouds of the sweetest oblivion
[04:08.18]	Where beauty streams
[04:12.17]	Freed from the teeth of those beasts that had come
[04:16.31]	To tear out her spells
[04:19.21]	In red lettered cells
[04:21.92]	Wherein even the crown Prince of Hell
[04:25.02]	Come out of his arrogant shell
[04:28.77]	Would falter to better
[04:46.43]	But her face soon dispels
[04:48.52]	And as black feathers fell
[04:50.47]	From heaven’s smoke
[04:52.72]	So I woke to insanity
[04:54.77]	Her exquisite corpse
[04:57.42]	Found fit for their sport
[04:58.37]	Of course
[05:00.33]	Would burn on the morrow with me
[05:09.63]	And there on this night
[05:22.67]	Strung up in my sight
[05:24.08]	Naked she sways
[05:25.84]	Displayed for their vulgar delight
[05:29.27]	I scream through my bars at the stars
[05:33.51]	That for these crimes of mine solace me
[05:39.60]	I will fear not the flames
[05:41.35]	That to passion are tame
[05:43.36]	Not nearly the same searing pain
[05:44.87]	I pray
[05:46.46]	As held sway upon losing her
[05:52.81]	Nor the mettle of roars
[05:54.83]	That will settle like ashes and scores
[05:56.67]	As with our ghosts in the fog
[05:59.89]	When we both turn no more

Pinyin

[01:04.07]	Forgive the day' s
[01:05.74]	Last serenades
[01:07.78]	Her skies they bruise like Nordic women
[01:09.70]	Deep crimson stains
[01:12.13]	That Death would claim
[01:13.95]	His robes of office swim in
[01:18.88]	As would I
[01:20.01]	For his dark eye
[01:21.45]	Has fixed, a basilisk, a scythe
[01:25.54]	On charred remains
[01:28.55]	With shared disdain
[01:29.61]	For those I chose to mortify
[01:34.31]	Their cries have paralysed
[01:36.30]	And the smoke has choked these vistas
[01:39.77]	But still I lie, though tears have died
[01:44.45]	On the grave of my Clarissa
[01:48.67]	A verse for her whispered to the earth
[01:56.99]	A lover' s curse is a seethrough coffin
[01:58.79]	Praises her curves so oft concurred
[02:00.70]	Though she was
[02:01.94]	No Snow White on the night she died
[02:06.15]	Her shadower' s boon when the moon glazed over
[02:09.15]	Lipped with blood and secrets pried
[02:23.68]	For on and in they spread her wide
[02:26.17]	That seraph bride
[02:28.50]	The Devil' s pride
[02:30.18]	Shalt soon avenge with swift reprise
[02:34.01]	But they would writhe
[02:35.46]	For my dark eye
[02:38.52]	Bewitched, was fixed like Mordecai' s
[02:41.75]	On Esther' s reign
[02:43.17]	And in this vein
[02:44.09]	I saw their lust still stain her thighs
[02:49.86]	Their cries have paralysed
[02:52.03]	And the smoke has choked these vistas
[02:57.48]	But still I lie, though tears have died
[03:00.30]	On the grave of my Clarissa
[03:10.56]	Beneath these trees where the mist enwreathes
[03:12.34]	Her spirit flees, seeing chains of torches
[03:14.44]	A fleeting kiss stirring leaves of poetry
[03:17.99]	I was no dark knight, breaking men like ice
[03:21.56]	I was like a lycanthrope until the moon glazed over
[03:25.31]	Lipped with blood and last goodbyes
[04:01.44]	Now I dream
[04:04.52]	Enwrapt in pure clouds of the sweetest oblivion
[04:08.18]	Where beauty streams
[04:12.17]	Freed from the teeth of those beasts that had come
[04:16.31]	To tear out her spells
[04:19.21]	In red lettered cells
[04:21.92]	Wherein even the crown Prince of Hell
[04:25.02]	Come out of his arrogant shell
[04:28.77]	Would falter to better
[04:46.43]	But her face soon dispels
[04:48.52]	And as black feathers fell
[04:50.47]	From heaven' s smoke
[04:52.72]	So I woke to insanity
[04:54.77]	Her exquisite corpse
[04:57.42]	Found fit for their sport
[04:58.37]	Of course
[05:00.33]	Would burn on the morrow with me
[05:09.63]	And there on this night
[05:22.67]	Strung up in my sight
[05:24.08]	Naked she sways
[05:25.84]	Displayed for their vulgar delight
[05:29.27]	I scream through my bars at the stars
[05:33.51]	That for these crimes of mine solace me
[05:39.60]	I will fear not the flames
[05:41.35]	That to passion are tame
[05:43.36]	Not nearly the same searing pain
[05:44.87]	I pray
[05:46.46]	As held sway upon losing her
[05:52.81]	Nor the mettle of roars
[05:54.83]	That will settle like ashes and scores
[05:56.67]	As with our ghosts in the fog
[05:59.89]	When we both turn no more