Babalon A.D. lyrics

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Artist: Cradle Of Filth
Album: Damnation And A Day

Lyrics

I bled on a pivotal stretch
Like a clockwork christ
Bears sore stigmata, bored

And as I threw job, I drove
Myself to a martyred wretch
To see if I drew pity
Or pretty litanies from the lord

So the plot sickened
With the coming of days
Ill millennia thickened
With the claret I sprayed
And though they saw red
I left a dirty white stain
A splintered knot in the grain
On eden's marital aid

So glad for the madness(x2)

I walked the walls naked to the moon
In sodom and babylon
And through rich whores and corridors
Of the vatican
I led a sordid borgia on

I read the urilia text
So that mortals wormed
As livebait for the dead

And as I broke hope, I choked
Another pope with manna peel
Dictating to desade
In the dark entrails of the bastille
And as he wrote, I smote
A royal blow to the heads of france
And in the city of eden
I saw others, fallen, dance

I was an incurable
Necromantic old fool
A phagadaena that crawled
Drooling over the past
A rabid wolf in a shawl
A razor's edge to the rule
That the stars overall
Were never destined to last

So glad for the madness(x2)

I furnaced dreams, a poet, foe of sleep
Turning sermons with the smell
On witchfinder fingers
Where bad memories lingered
Burning, as when dante
Was freed to map hell

I sired schemes and the means
To catch sight of the seams
And the factories inbetween..

And midst the lips and the curls
Of this cunt of a world
In glimpses I would see
A nymph with eyes for me

Eyes of fire that set all life aflame
Lights that surpassed art
In sight , that no intense device of pain
Could prise their secrets from my heart

I knew not her name
Though her kiss was the same
Without a whisper of shame
As either virtue or sin's
And pressed to her curve
I felt my destiny swerve
From damnation reserved
To a permanent spin..

So glad for the madness(x2)

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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