Pallid Reflection - Cradle Of Filth

Here forms a knotted sorrow

The vivid grasp of fading faces

Storm clouds plot to follow…

I wander despondent, a curse on the grave

Her hair in my locket, a lock of nightshade

And there in my pocket, I nurse the charade

Her ring is awaiting her back

I watch her from shadows, pariah by day

I sleep in dark belfries and cellars away

From the ungiving living, their neurotic plague

Has turned her, as I to the black

«Faster beats the drum of dark arcanum»

Marie

I turned a deaf ear to heaven

When the evil eye accompanied me

You’ll see

I am no further needed in the mirror

By my pallid reflection

I thrust so perversely, the worst is this crave

For sweet scarlet blood from a harlot parade

Of dutiful victims I beautifully take

With delicious malicious intent

A gift from a goddess who toyed with her game

The price of my night’s infidelity paid

At the altar of her never faltering blade

Of infernal nocturnal descent

«Faster beats the heart of dark arcanum»

So I walk the moonlit quarters

Like a driven beast of prey

A catalyst for madness, slaughter

Given the leash to play

I’m detritus to my chosen

A ghost for all her days

Thus is Cocytus frozen

From those loved and left betrayed

Dream-dappled streams of sunshine

Dread fogs shall dissipate

As red skies descend on graveyard floors

Where the dead exhilarate

«My heart is gone

Taken by a nightmare bourgeois creature

Now you belong

To your sick womenagerie…»

N, n, no, no

I’m not the reason for this bleeding

N, n, no, no

My past is fast leaving me

Aghast in purgatory

Marie

I turned a deaf ear to heaven

When the evil eye accompanied me

You’ll see

I am no longer greeted in the mirror

By my pallid reflection

So I stalk the moonlit quarters

Like a driven beast of prey

A catalyst for madness, slaughter

Given the season

I taste the true nature

Of this secret caste

This devil undone

Soars free at last…