beneath the howling stars

• cradle of filth - cruelty and the beast albümünün hikayenin kendine düşen bölümünü çok güzel anlatan şarkısı.
  
  midwinter wrongs the rites of spring
  her spinal chill rakes the earth
  whilst pensive souls at zero sing
  woebetidings of rebirth
  under cold stares of mars maligned
  near-suicides cross their hearts
  and unborns writhe in tepid brine
  for something wicked this way starts
  
  beneath the howling stars
  
  elizabeth, paragon of vice
  watches the sun set pyres alight
  as bane and tyranny, her dobermans sleep
  like spellbound paramours at her feet
  
  a chatter of bells without
  raise hellhounds, teeth on edge
  from sleighs hastened through snow lit red
  guests espied from the garret ledge
  
  great gloomy mirror tell her face
  she will outblind them all
  that heavenly bodies would fall from grace
  to possess such a lustrous pall
  
  for beauty is always cruel...
  
  (let destiny in chains commence...
  damnation under gods seeking recompense
  enslaving to the whims of this mistress)
  
  as the dance ensued
  elizabeth's mood
  tempered by the craft of a vitreous moon
  in slick black iciness it grew
  to consume
  the wench her tower tombed
  tending to her costume
  bore the brunt of the storm
  when the needle askewed
  she has her dogs maul the bitch's wrists through
  restored to jaded bliss
  this evisceratrix
  descended to the ball
  with painted blood upon her lips
  passing like a comet so white
  as to eclipse
  the waltz wound down, transfixed
  
  devoid of all breath in the air
  even death paled to compare
  to the taint of her splendour
  so rare and engendered
  'pon the awed throng gathered
  there...
  
  beneath the howling stars
  
  she danced so macabre
  men entranced divined from her gait
  that this angel stepped from a pedestal
  had won remission from fate
  by alighting to darker spheres
  delighting in held sway
  for she was not unlike the goddess
  to whom the wolves bayed
  
  "whilst envy glanced daggers
  from court maidens, arboured
  who whispered in sects
  of suspicions abroad
  that elizabeth bewitched
  see how even now the whore casts
  her spells upon the black count
  whom her reddened lips hold fast"
  
  tongue unto tongue
  swept on tides without care
  for the harpies who rallied
  their maledict glares
  a halo of ravens tousled her hair
  chandeliers a tiara
  for passions ensnared
  phantasies sexed
  when their eyes, moonstruck met
  their friction wore a way
  through the sea of foreplay
  lovers at first bite
  she an eve tempted to lay
  gasping at rafters
  flesh pressed in ballet
  but caprice, honours leashed
  she absconded the feast
  to prowl wonderland
  beasts in hand from the keep
  of feudal dilemma
  well mantled in furs
  through cullis to watch
  dogstars howl at the earth
  
  on this violent night
  unholy night
  winds lashed their limbs together
  as the ether vent its wintry spite
  
  she wished his kiss on her frozen landscapes
  to excite the bleak advance
  from castle bowers
  wherein small hours
  the devil never came by chance
  a lone charm tied to her inner thigh
  sent lusts nova as hooves trod
  cobbled streets where lowlives fleet
  were flung to a wayward god
  
  midwinter wrongs the rites of spring
  her spinal chill rakes the earth
  whilst pensive souls at zero sing
  woebetidings of rebirth
  under cold stares of mars maligned
  near-suicides cross their hearts
  and unborns writhe in tepid brine
  for something wicked this way starts
  
  beneath the howling stars
  
  pounding upon the pauper ridge
  earshot of a hunched beldame
  elizabeth teased, would he dare to please
  such elderly loins enflamed?
  to this he feigned a grim disdain
  playing to her slayful eye
  but the hag replied...
  "this girl that chides
  will soon be as plagued with age as i"
  her consort laughed a plume of icy breath
  for elizabeth's grace could raise
  a flag of truce in burning heaven
  or the dead from early graves
  yet still she seethed
  this proud snow queen
  embittered with the cursed retort
  and because he sought her loves onslaught
  he gutted the crone for sport
  
  soon in full moon fever they were wed
  lycanthropic in the conjugal bed
  littered with aphrodisiacs
  to tease dynastic union
  and beget them further maniacs
  
  elizabeth
  free reigned, now a countess
  outwielded and outwore
  her title like a favoured dress
  whilst her errant lord
  whose seasons savoured war
  stormed black to fell the infidel
  her embers, tempered, roared.
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