The Abhorrent - Cradle Of Filth

I sing desolation

On the breath of centuries

Bringing annihilation

Slaughter courses through my enemies

I was not always so cold

Once upon a crime in times of favour

I had lived a God amongst the bold

Like a true poetic saviour

But my people were dissolved

By the flames of righteous strangers

My name blackened ten thousandfold

Death grew to know me…

As the abhorrent

Stricken from the light

As dividing curses poured

I was hiding in the thickening mire

Biding for my war

I’m climbing up the years to get you

From a dark abyssic scheme

Lovecraftian, part-Martian

To the beast I used to be

My laureates of gold are sold

Horns spear the reddened sea

And by my transformed hand be sure

The Heavens hear your final pleas

Tonight this world is burning

To a fulsome serenade

Arch nemesis, I’m the genesis

Of a raging plague about to break

Blue eyes rolled headlong to black

When the darkness drew me to her caresses

I was not always so cold

Once upon a crime in times of old

I had lived a God amongst the folds

Of creeping epic failure

But my people were dissolved

By the flames of righteous strangers

My name blackened and deeds annulled

They grew to know me…

As the abhorrent

I’m a cemetery and a garden

Ripe with near-putrefied life

A phallus beginning to harden

On the philosophy of a prurient knife

I hear the dead begin to cry

Hostis Humanis Generis

My favourite leaden lullaby

On sacred eve I’ve asked for sacrifice

Mere moments of atonement

For your despise

A stren believer

That the great deceiver

Is your precious God

Whose preachers saw me demonised

Now, the sun it sets

On your nascent best of days

Time to rise

Gorgon, Calibos and Cain

Titans unrepentant

Lord Lucifer insane

If I am the Devil

I shall honour my spiteful name

Tonight this world is burning

To a fulsome serenade

Arch nemesis, the best of this

Destructive wickedness is on its way

I’m climbing up the years to get you

From a dark abyssic scheme

Lovecraftian, part-Martian

To the beast I used to be

My laureates of gold are sold

Horns spear the reddened sea

And by my transformed hand be sure

The Heavens hear your final screams

The abhorrent