[00:18.61]Snuffed tapers sighed
[00:19.82]As Death left impressing
[00:21.48]His crest of cold tears on the Countess
[00:24.60]
[00:24.82]Benighted like ill-fated Usher
[00:28.68]The House of Bathory shrouded
[00:31.12]'Neath grief's dark facade
[00:34.63]
[00:37.10]If only I could have wept
[00:44.31]In mourning by Her side
[00:51.07]I would have clasped Her so tight
[00:54.99]Like storm-beached Aphrodite
[00:57.36]Drowned on Kytherean tides
[01:03.76]
[01:05.38]And Kissed Her
[01:07.85]For from Her alone
[01:09.29]My lips would have known
[01:11.53]Enigmas of shadowy vistas
[01:17.23]
[01:19.74]Where pleasures took flesh
[01:22.43]And pain, remorseless
[01:24.10]Came freezing the breath
[01:25.39]Of raucous life hushed unto whispers
[01:32.05]
[01:34.16]Benighted.
[01:36.27]
[01:36.43]Inhaling the pale waning moonlight that crept
[01:39.00]Through the crypt of Her Lord who so lucidly slept
[01:44.30]
[01:47.27]Benighted.
[01:49.17]
[01:49.53]Exhaling the wail of black widowhood's toll
[01:52.87]Waxing eternal night entered Her soul
[02:00.01]
[02:02.33]Now haranguing grey skies
[02:04.03]With revenge upon life
[02:05.97]Gnathic and Sapphic
[02:07.57]Needs begged gendercide
[02:19.38]
[02:24.71]Delusions of Grandier denounced the revolt
[02:28.23]Of descrying cursed glass, disenchanted in vaults
[02:31.66]Encircled by glyphs midst Her sin-sistered cult
[02:36.09]
[02:37.33]With hangman's abandon She plied spiritworlds
[02:40.76]To Archangels in bondage
[02:42.02]From light to night hurled
[02:44.27]Cast down to the earth where torment would unfurl.......
[02:49.71]
[03:12.99]But soon,
[03:14.36]Her tarot proved
[03:15.83]Hybrid rumours spread like tumours
[03:18.06]Would accrue
[03:19.30]And blight Her stars
[03:20.70]However scarred
[03:22.28]To better bitter truths
[03:23.76]Of cold bloodbaths
[03:25.84]
[03:25.99]As bodies rose
[03:27.24]In rigid droves
[03:28.85]To haunt Her from their
[03:30.03]Shallow burials imposed
[03:31.98]When wolves exhumed
[03:33.69]Their carthen wombs
[03:35.42]Where heavy frosts had laboured long
[03:36.76]To bare their wounds
[03:41.02]
[03:42.08]To the depths of Her soul they pursued
[03:44.88]Wielding their poison they flew
[03:47.84]Like a murder of ravens in fugue
[03:52.62]
[04:04.30]And knowing their raptures
[04:05.60]Would shatter Her dreams
[04:07.50]She clawed blackened books for damnation's reprieve
[04:10.88]Baneful cawed canons on amassed enemies
[04:14.86]
[04:15.15]So Hallow's Eve
[04:16.50]As She received
[04:18.16]Like Bellona to the ball
[04:20.05]Those enemies
[04:21.41]Fell-sisters heaved
[04:23.01]Her torturies
[04:24.75]Cross stained flagstones
[04:26.11]To Her carriage reined to flee
[04:29.31]
[04:31.50]But She knew She must brave the night through
[04:34.35]Though fear crept a deathshead o'er the moon
[04:37.19]Like a murder of ravens in Fugue
[04:55.52]
[05:06.80]For each masked, jewelled gaze held dread purpose
[05:10.16]Horror froze painted eyes to cold stares
[05:14.32]And even Her dance
[05:16.20]In the vast mirrors cast
[05:18.36]Looked the ill of Her future
[05:20.31]If fate feasted there....
[05:25.98]
[05:37.96]In an age crucified by the nails of faith
[05:41.74]When rank scarecrows of christ blighted lands
[05:45.56]An aloof Countess born an obsidian wraith
[05:49.40]Dared the abyss knowing well She was damned
[06:01.88]Her life whispered grief like a funeral march
[06:05.64]Twisted and yearning, obsessed an entranced
[06:09.55]With those succumbing to cruelty
[06:13.55]Crushed 'neath the gait of Her dance
[06:16.94]A whirlwind of fire that swept through the briers
[06:21.08]Of sweet rose Her thickets of black thorn had grasped...
[06:37.06]
[06:40.59]She demanded the Heavens and forever to glean
[06:44.51]The elixir of Youth from the pure
[06:48.15]Whilst Her lesbian fantasies
[06:50.63]Reamed to extremes
[06:52.31]O'er decades unleashed
[06:54.12]Came for blood's silken cure
[07:00.20]
[07:03.04]But Her reign ended swiftly
[07:04.64]For Dark Gods dreamt too deep
[07:06.94]To heed Her pleas
[07:09.60]
[07:10.51]When Her gaolers were assailed
[07:12.73]With condemnations from a priest
[07:16.08]Who'd stammered rites
[07:17.82]In the dead of night
[07:19.43]For maidens staining winding sheets
[07:23.11]
[07:23.29]And She postured proud
[07:25.08]When Her crimes were trowelled
[07:26.73]And jezebelled to peasant lips
[07:29.31]Though She smelt the fires
[07:30.79]That licked limbs higher
[07:32.55]To the tortured cunts of accomplices
[07:37.07]
[07:46.03]So ends this twisted fable's worth
[07:50.71]And though spared the pyre's bite
[07:56.14]By dint of nobled bloodlined birth
[08:01.45]Her sins (crimes) garnered Her no respite
[08:11.12]
[08:21.42]Forever severed from the thrill of coming night
[08:30.86]Where slow Death alone could grant Her flight
[08:36.40]
[08:36.58]"The Spirits have all but fled judgement
[08:41.66]I rot, alone, insane,
[08:46.96]Where the forest whispers puce laments for me
[08:51.55]From amidst the pine and wreathed wolfsbane
[08:57.37]Beyond these walls, wherein condemned
[09:01.30]To the gloom of an austere tomb
[09:03.91]I pace with feral madness sent
[09:09.31]Through the pale beams of a guiltless moon
[09:14.34]Who, bereft of necrologies, thus
[09:18.23]Commands creation over the earth
[09:23.29]Whilst I resign my lips to death
[09:26.30]A slow cold kiss that chides rebirth
[09:33.44]Though one last wish is bequathed by fate
[09:38.89]My beauty shalt wilt, unseen
[09:45.22]Save for twin black eyes that shalt come to take
[09:50.81]My soul to peace or Hell for company"
[09:55.94]To peace or hell for company
[10:06.66]My soul to Hell for company
[10:16.50]My soul to Hell for company