[01:08.00]Evening minuetto in a castle by the sea
[01:15.50]A jewel more radiant than the moon
[01:18.66]Lowered her mask to me
[01:22.51]The sublimest creature the Gods, full of fire
[01:26.52]Would marvel at making their Queen
[01:30.57]Infusing the air with her fragrant desire
[01:34.50]And my heart reeled with grave poetry
[01:38.69]From grace, I fell in love with her
[01:46.28]Scent and feline lure
[01:49.12]And jade woodland eyes that ushered in the impurest
[01:53.66]Erotic, laden fantasies amid this warm Autumn night
[02:01.40]She lulled me away from the rich masquerade
[02:05.37]And together we clung in the bloodletting moonlight
[02:10.42]Pearled luna, what spell didst thou cast on me?
[02:16.88]Her icy kiss fervoured my neck
[02:20.28]Like whispering waves 'pon Acheron's beach
[02:24.69]In a whirl of sweet voices and statues
[02:27.63]That phantomed the dying trees
[02:32.80]This debauched seductress in black, took me
[02:42.89]
[02:51.16]In a pale azured dawn, like Ligeia reborn
[02:55.23]I tore free of my sleep-sepulchre
[02:58.91]On the sea misted lawn where stone figures, forlorn
[03:03.70]Lamented the spectre of Her
[03:06.88]Bewildered and weak, yet with passion replete
[03:10.88]I hungered for past overtures
[03:14.73]The curse of unrest and her ardent caress
[03:18.79]Came much more than my soul could endure
[03:23.94]
[03:30.88]I, at once, endeavoured to see her again
[03:35.22]Stirring from midnight's inertia
[03:37.56]Knowing not even her name
[03:39.25]On a thin precipice over carnal abyss
[03:41.54]I danced like a blind acolyte
[03:43.67]Drunk on red wine, her dead lips on mine
[03:45.68]Suffused with the perfume of night
[03:51.40]
[03:51.80]For hours I scoured the surrounding grounds
[03:53.66]In vain that we might meet
[03:55.54]
[03:59.66]When storm clouds broke, ashened, fatigued
[04:01.54]I sought refuge in a cemetery
[04:03.83]Sleep, usher dreams
[04:05.26]Taint to nightmares from a sunless nether
[04:07.66]Mistress of the dark
[04:09.47]I now know what thou art
[04:11.47]Screams haunt my sleep
[04:13.70]Dragged from nightmares thou hast wed together
[04:15.66]Lamia and Lemures
[04:17.69]Spawned thee leche
[04:18.57]To snare my flesh
[04:21.75]Portrait of the dead countess
[04:24.90]
[04:39.86]Deep stained pain that I had dreamt
[04:43.71]Flaunted demise, life's punishment
[04:47.62]Leaving little strength to seal this wretched tomb
[04:55.90]But poised nectar within my stirs
[04:57.54]Up feverous desire and morbid purpose to search
[05:00.19]Through cobwebbed drapery to where she swoons
[05:02.85]Goddess of the graveyard, of the tempest and moon
[05:05.28]In flawless fatal beauty, her very visage compels
[05:07.70]Glimpses of a heaven where ghost companies fell
[05:10.10]To mourning the loss of god in blackest velvet
[05:12.53]Enrobed in their downfall like a swift silhouette
[05:15.45]Fleeting, enshadowed
[05:17.10]Thou art privy to my sin
[05:20.34]Secrets dead, wouldst thou inflict
[05:22.86]The cruel daylights upon my skin?
[05:25.55]Dost thou not want to worship me
[05:27.89]With crimson sacrifice
[05:30.78]So my cunt may twitch against thy kiss
[05:33.41]And weep with new-found life?
[05:35.84]
[05:45.27]Red roses for the Devil's whore
[05:57.55]
[06:00.00]Dark angels taste my tears
[06:02.85]And whisper haunting requiems
[06:06.20]Softly to mine ear
[06:08.77]Need-fires have lured abominations here
[06:16.88]Nocturnal pulse
[06:20.10]My veins spill forth their waters
[06:23.50]Rent by lips I cherish most
[06:33.38]
[06:38.94]Awash on her perfidious shores
[06:42.69]Where drowning umbra o'er the stars
[06:45.90]Ebon's graves where lovers whore
[06:48.98]Like seraphim and Nahemah
[06:52.79]
[06:55.22]Pluck out mine eyes, hasten, attest
[07:01.49]Blind reason against thee, Enchantress
[07:07.66]For I must know, art thou not death?
[07:14.12]My heart echoes bloodless and incensed ...
[07:24.15]
[07:47.86]Doth temptation prowl night in vulvic revelry
[07:50.46]Did not the Queen of Heaven come as Devil to me?
[07:52.65]On that fatal Hallow's Eve when we fled company
[07:55.90]As the music swept around us in the crisp, fated leaves
[07:57.84]Under horned Diana where her bloodline was sewn
[08:00.00]In a graveyard of Angels rent in cool marbled stone
[08:02.29]I am grieving the loss of life in sombre velvet
[08:04.85]Enrobed in Death's shadow like a swifter silhouette
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