[ti:Babalon A.D.]
[ar:Cradle of Filth]
[al:Babalon a.D.]
[by:lrc.d4321.com]
[00:00.740] Babalon A.D.
[00:41.910] I bled on a pivotal stretch
[00:44.030] Like a clockwork Christ
[00:45.430] Bears sore stigmata, bored
[00:48.490] And as I threw Job, I drove
[00:51.160] Myself to a martyred wretch
[00:54.290] To see if I drew pity
[00:56.730] Or pretty litanies from the Lord
[01:00.240] So the plot sickened
[01:01.630] With the coming of days
[01:02.950] Ill millennia thickened
[01:04.390] With the claret I sprayed
[01:06.360] And though they saw red
[01:07.610] I left a dirty white stain
[01:08.840] A splintered knot in the grain
[01:10.420] On Eden’s marital aid
[01:16.670] So glad for the madness(x2)
[01:36.070] I walked the walls naked to the moon
[01:38.710] In Sodom and Babylon
[01:41.970] And through rich whores and corridors
[01:43.820] Of the Vatican
[01:45.740] I led a sordid Borgia on
[01:53.170] I read the Urilia text
[01:55.170] So that mortals wormed
[01:56.820] As livebait for the dead
[01:59.930] And as I broke hope, I choked
[02:02.750] Another Pope with manna peel
[02:05.640] Dictating to DeSade
[02:07.290] In the dark entrails of the Bastille
[02:12.260] And as He wrote, I smote
[02:14.530] A royal blow to the heads of France
[02:18.360] And in the sheen of guillotines
[02:20.680] I saw others, fallen, dance
[02:47.390] I was an incurable
[02:48.640] Necromantic old fool
[02:50.200] A phagadaena that crawled
[02:51.860] Drooling over the past
[02:53.460] A rabid wolf in a shawl
[02:54.590] A razor’s edge to the rule
[02:56.190] That the stars overall
[02:57.620] Were never destined to last
[03:03.860] So glad for the madness(x2)
[03:23.410] I furnaced dreams, a poet, foe of sleep
[03:26.280] Turning sermons with the smell
[03:29.230] On Witchfinder fingers
[03:30.680] Where bad memories lingered
[03:32.230] Burning, as when Dante
[03:33.790] Was freed to map Hell
[03:40.940] I sired schemes and the means
[03:42.630] To catch sight of the seams
[03:44.140] And the vagaries inbetween...
[04:00.030] And midst the lips and the curls
[04:02.340] Of this cunt of a world
[04:07.290] In glimpses I would see
[04:09.640] A nymph with eyes for me
[04:23.730] Eyes of fire that set all life aflame
[04:25.880] Lights that surpassed art
[04:28.980] In sight , that no intense device of pain
[04:31.810] Could prise their secrets from my heart
[04:37.100] I knew not Her name
[04:38.270] Though her kiss was the same
[04:39.560] Without a whisper of shame
[04:40.940] As either Virtue or Sin’s
[04:42.900] And pressed to Her Curve
[04:44.100] I felt my destiny swerve
[04:45.530] From damnation reserved
[04:47.110] To a permanent grin...
[04:53.500] So glad for the madness(x2)