Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids

Lyrics

Maleficent in dusky rose
 Gathered satin lapped her breasts
 Like blood upon the snow
 A tourniquet of Topaz
 Glistened at (her throat)
 Awakening, pulled from the tomb
 Her spirit freed eclipsed the moon
 She outshone as a fallen star
 A regal ornament from a far-flung nebular
 Her likeness hung in the black gallery
 Commanding unease
 Demanding of Death to breathe
 Midst the whirl and daylight fauna
 Of society at court
 Elizabeth bedazzled, her presence sought applause
 Though her torch-lit shadow
 Thrown upon damp cellar walls
 Greeted nothing but despair
 13 winter solstices had shown
 Her path, that the dark
 Had marked its dominion
 Spaying the confessor
 Whose caresses she'd known
 As whipcord in the House of Dog
 Her cold cunt meat on holy bone
 Raped of faith, she now embraced
 The narcissistic unrest frozen on the mirror's face
 With this disdain, inside these veins
 Highborn wanton that she was
 She sought to keep what age would claim
 Her soul was sold and for this toll
 Reeking pyres ever smouldered
 On the whims of one so in control
 Elizabeth, mysterious
 Cruelty brought thee orchids
 From the bowels of the abyss
 Once upon atrocity when midwitches stifled cries
 And carved abortive runes in reddened wombs
 Exhumed by scrying eyes
 Madness came upon her
 Like an amourous lover's seed
 Lifesblood splashed upon her skin
 And to Her dead reflection
 'Twas as if Her pallor gleamed
 Like an Angel's warmed by candles
 Where erotic stains had cleaved
 So demons dragged this libertine
 Lusts screaming for release
 Upon the flesh of maidens preened
 Exacting obeisance
 Her gaze held a séance
 Of spirits too trapped under glass to commune
 A sleeter mistress than Luna
 Whose threats to consume Her
 Met with torments giving vent to Her swoon
 Flat on Her back
 Pack-prey for the reams
 Of verses and curses
 That haunted Her dreams
 Midnightmare chimed
 13 in Her mind
 A disciple of scars
 Ridden split-thighed
 By the father of lies
 An ovation of wolves
 Blushed the skies as they writhed
 But Heaven is never forever
 She came, a spent storm
 From the clouds
 Leaving serpents in office
 Inside every gate
 To lick righteous holes
 Blinding Lords to the fate
 Of virgins forced naked
 To defile on rent knees
 Hacked and racked backwards
 Menses choking their pleas
 More, whore, more
 Twitching make me wet with thee
 Carcass rub me raw
 And to her dead reflection
 'Twas as if her pallor gleamed
 Like an Angel's warmed by candles
 Where erotic stains had cleaved
 Demons dragged this libertine
 Lusts screaming for release
 Upon the flesh of maidens preened
 As canvas for caprice
 Cruelty and the beast
 Cruelty and the beast
 Cruelty and the beast
 Yeah, eegahh
 Raped of faith, she now embraced
 The narcissistic unrest frozen on the mirror's face
 With this disdain, inside these veins
 Highborn wanton that she was
 She sought to keep what age would claim
 Her soul was sold and for this toll
 Pyres ever smouldered
 Whims of one so in control
 Elizabeth, mysterious
 Cruelty brought thee orchids
 From the bowels of thee
 From the bowels of thee abyss

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Duration
07:46
Tempo
133 BPM

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