We wish to live deliciously
We wish to live deliciously

Velvet incantations, standing ovations from the stalls
The torturous stage is a bountiful harvest
To which we stay in thrall

We wish to live deliciously
In this garden of delights
We wish to live deliciously
Enraptured, bedight
We wish to live deliciously
In this sea of paradise
We wish to live deliciously
Enchanted (Enchanted)

Greatest expectations, enemy nations, all shall fall
To the latest gage, a v¿nery future
Wher¿in peace remains the rule

Behold the golden dawn
Our world reborn to a sworn horizon
As from the grip of winter's siege
We prise ourselves to rise again
To live...
To live deliciously

We desire, we tire fate
We raise poetic spires
To clearly overcompensate

Bespoken 'neath erotic stars
Each to their own psychotic caste

We wish to live deliciously
In this garden of delights
We wish to live deliciously
Enraptured, bedight
We wish to live deliciously
In this sea of paradise
We wish to live deliciously
Enchanted, free to every vice

Behold the golden dawn
Our world reborn to a sworn horizon
As from the grip of winter's siege
We prise ourselves to rise again
To live...
To live deliciously

We expire, best never wait
Lest these ecstatic fires burn as dreams evaporate

Just one stretch above the tar
So run amok and thunder far
In lust and utter bliss embark

We wish to live deliciously
In this garden of delights
We wish to live deliciously
Enraptured, bedight
We wish to live deliciously
In this sea of paradise
We wish to live deliciously
Enchanted, free to every vice

Forget redemption for the time is rife
To face the day and empower the night
To revel disheveled in the chaos of life
Embracing the playful and the slayful knife
So brace for the slayful and the playful knife
				

Demagoguery
The hissing in the garden
Wishing God's defeat

Stalking the parameters of waiting prey
We come like the break of day
A litany of death about to play
Its fatal hand here
Clawed to the hilt, sordid, best beware
Our swords will fill the air
With a morbid poetry born of despair
Under our rule

Black trees scratch red the fleeing sunset
Mist clings tight to Elysian fields
Now we hatch plans ripe for upset
Enflame belfries, time to be revealed

Diabology
No apology for a world upon her broken knees
Diabology
Spreading the disease
Demons freed to spree and torture by decree
Of our demagoguery

Nightmare-fueled, bejeweled in scars
Beneath the frozen stars
Children of the dark, of the craft we are
Deliciously grotesque
Severe puzzle boxes bursting to be solved
Not by any church absolved
Firebrands thirsting to be involved
In their ascent

Thick thorns adorn a twisted halo
For the fools and cruelly vain
As cathedrals soar, our sisters lay low
For the war-cry to roar back again

Diabology
No apology for a world upon her broken knees
Diabology
Spreading the disease
Demons freed to spree and torture by decree
Of our demagoguery

What started as a whisper
In the shadows of the night
Has sharpened to a painful blister
On the weathered heel of life
And now our voices like a knife
Carve out our vicious plan
And set our hooks in the hearts of man

The moon writhes in her orbit
And doused in blood she stirs
The tides to rise and deep inside
Her womb her daughters purr
Tonight the skies are spiteful
The gates are wearing thin
And through accruing torments shod
Our hated reign begins again

Poisonous these words of power
Uttered back
Engage the fatal mechanism
And with that
This virus
Inside us
Desires to be free

Devotees whipped into a frenzy
Of intoxication in celebration of sin
Enchantment answers and dancers envy
Puppet masters faster pulling the strings

Diabology
No apology for a world upon her broken knees
Diabology
Spreading the disease
Demons freed to spree and torture by decree
Of our demagoguery
				

Gargoyle-stanced at the edge of night
The blushing skies
Set their silhouettes to dreadful sight
On a flush of gushing brides

Three witches, leeches, feral bitches
Predatory-eyed
Huntress maidens, dresses laden
With the gifts of thy demise

With the dark
They come, exotic creatures
Drifting past
The distraction of thy screams
And as they start
To come, erotic preachers
The Trinity of Shadows
Turn to black these Gothic dreams

Nymphs, Moirai, Erinyes
Nymphs, Moirai, Fates

Neath great beauty and seductive charm
These masks belie
Lethal intent, pent corruptive harm
All ties to laughter cast aside

Three graces, faces kept in stasis
On the crest of dawn
Once crept to eaves they slept content
By the restless dusk reborn

With the dark
They come, exotic creatures
Drifting past
The distraction of thy screams
And as they start
To cum, erotic preachers
The Trinity of Shadows
Turn to black these Gothic dreams

Deep Gothic dreams

Death undone
The twine of life unwound
In lament configurations

Snuff the sun
Their time is nigh, untied
To moral aspirations
And execration
Just the need to feed

These pale Messalinas
Full-reddened, dripping-lipped
Tease the frailties of Venus
With their necrotic grip

Nymphs, Moirai, Erinyes
Nymphs, Moirai, Fates

Nymphs, Moirai, Erinyes
Nymphs, Moirai, Fates

Angels of the fog and the rot of leaves
Slaves to none but the Count of three
The Shade supreme

Three sisters, whispers, moonlit vistas
Sirens undisguised
Huntress maidens, dressed laden
With the gifts for thy demise

With the dark
They come, exotic creatures
Drifting past
The distraction of thy screams
And as they start
To cum, erotic preachers
The Trinity of Shadows
Turn to black these Gothic dreams

The Trinity of Shadows
Turn to black these Gothic dreams
				

Do not weep
I will drift to hauntless sleep

Lay my weary head prostrate before the awning
Spread my crow black sails
Against the sunset
Dressed to part the veil
A led parade of shades upon Death's dawning

Non Omnis Moriar
Not all of me shall die
For I shall leave my heart with thee
Before I kiss thy precious lips goodbye

Until we're borne
Together in the evermore
My darling
One final time
I will take this hand in mine
Drowning in brown eyes
That ghost the jewelled shoreline

Fate adorn me
Do not mourn me
For I wait beyond the gates of slumber
In my Avalon
In our Avalon
Strength to carry on
Before the great penumbra
Here

Plant a tree
Deep upon my silent grave

Think of me in spring's embrace, when sadness lingers
Feeding earthen grails
Fresh roots I nurture
And blessed with life's rebirth
I take the sacred ring from winter's finger

Non Omnis Moriar
Not all of me shall die
Cast off all trace of doubt in me
Before I kiss thy precious lips goodbye

Until we're borne
Together in the evermore
My darling
One final time
I will take this hand in mine
Drowning in brown eyes
That ghost the jewelled shoreline

Fate adorn me
Do not mourn me
For I wait beyond the gates of slumber
In my Avalon
In our Avalon
Strength to carry on
Before the great penumbra
Here

I have not gone, life's majestic song
Swims on the wind that stirs autumnal leaves here
Come dry thy tears, my hand is near
These sterling years
Have forged a bond
That still, that still lives on

That still lives on
That still
That still lives on
				

Plucked from the grave on a moonless midnight
Sucking on staves, she was noted for fight
Intoxicated, I fell in love
With this curse and a cure for my rabid dementia

Let thy light white hellebore
Share thy phosphorous resolve
Thriving in the dark like a rife fantasy
Writhing in the ardour of this toxicity

Whet my soul white hellebore
Let our coming nights involve
Misting up the panes with thy gift to me
This twist of witchcraft with insanity petition

White hellebore

White hellebore

Snatched from the womb, pathogenic of face
Whereon innocence is petalled like a star in disgrace
Fatal perfection, I fell for thee
Poisoned by a beauty that exceeded exultation

I crave thy light white hellebore
Spare thy phosphorous resolve
A hallucinogen running loose again
A sliver of magic in this batshit winter

Whet my soul white hellebore
Let our coming nights involve
Burning with lust in the seasonal bend
To returning dusk and the ruts of springtime

Her bite is suffered more keenly for
Lying concealed in a field of winter roses
Who could ever have known the score?
The bitter neath the sweet
The bittersweet necrosis

The deep erotic wounds she bore

Empire downer
Madness drowner
A seasoned crown
The reason blackened nights surround her

I crave thy light, white hellebore
Thy phosphorous resolve
I fucking well miss this paralysis
The stopping of my heart with the slightest whisper

Whet my soul white hellebore
Let our coming nights absolve
A feverous kiss neither of us wish
To end unfed, but mend upsets
And send regret to the mendless nevermore

White hellebore

The Sabat calls
On lofted horns from ancient groves
That blossom full
Since frosted morns fell comatose

White Hellebore
White Hellebore

And I too will lovelorn, die
At the foot of the world she brings to life
				

My greatest misadventure
Was my greatest test of all
Shipwrecked upon your verdant acres
In deep sirenic thrall

Near-drowned you found me and in time
Against the tide you saved this life

With eerie grace, impassive demeanour
Uncharted space, the place that had seen her
An island in the grip of the sea
My rock, a weapon, soon a beacon of peace

You are my Nautilus
The scourge of the abyss
Anchored in the universe
Adrift in utter bliss
You pave the way to heaven
You part the seismic waves
Amidst the depths of dark despair, you light the way
Immoral compass, come what may

The latest of adventures
Was the greatest of my fall
Unfathomable, the best endeavours
Saw my gravitas lose its all

Lose its all

I swam in shark-infested eyes
Deep pools of sin, death stars arrived

You are my Nautilus
The scourge of the abyss
Anchored in the universe
Adrift in utter bliss
You pave the way to heaven
You part the seismic waves
Amidst the depths of dark despair
You light the way
Immoral compass, come what may

Immoral compass, come what may...

To true north
Hyperborean estuaries
Once on from the bled horizon
Set the tethered Kraken free

When forlorn gales agitate the bed muck
Into swirls of fantasies
Storms above regale, and thunderstruck
Hurl away our enemies

Leagues ahead
Twenty thousand hissing in our wake
Together fed
Our war machine accelerates

Fates bow before me

Fates bow before me
In your embrace
Fates bow before me

Fates bow before me
In you encased
Fates bow before me

Fates bow before me
The world is braced
Fates bow before me

From sunken spires of Dunwich horror
To sleepy R'yleh
And deep aquatic gyres
To the lakes beneath the earth

Near-drowned you found me and in time
Against the tide you saved this life

Against the tide you braved this life

You are my Nautilus
The scourge of the abyss
Anchored in the universe
Adrift in utter bliss
You pave the way to heaven
You part the seismic waves
Amidst the depths of dark despair
You light the way
Immoral compass, come what may

Come what may...
Come what may...
				

Kindred may I introduce
Upon the mortal fools
The evil that has shaken loose
From bondage to now rule

She walks at dusk to tragic serenades
As the river shivers at her passing darkness

Tonight it ends, the sun
Bleeds out across the fields
The last of summer bends, undone
By the seed of winter's build

She comes with malignant perfection
Mass erection
Temples praise the brazen goddess

On All Hallows Eve
Free the demons from my soul untethered
Prise wide the rifts All Hallows Eve
Be the conduit of dreams forever

Autumn leaves lay tribute, thunder peals
As her voice uncurls in the clifftop beacons
I break the gates of chaos neath my heels
Bad shadows dance, stray daylights weaken

As above and so below
The haunted angels sing
A love rekindled for the crows
The flaunted death of everything

She is a scar with a wicker tiara
Inamorata
Fire-starter, hills ablaze

On All Hallows Eve
Free the demons from my soul, untethered
Accept these gifts my pallid Queen
Be the conduit of screams forever more

Embrace the uninhibited
In the face of the coming storm

A precipice
On the abyss
Lean o'er to kiss
The things given to rue

Danse macabre
A grand bizarre
Now the veil parts
For fates to slither through

She comes with malignant perfection
Mass erection
Temples praise the brazen goddess

On All Hallows Eve
Free the demons from my soul, untethered
Prise wide the rifts on All Hallows Eve
Be the conduit of dreams forever

On All Hallows Eve
Be the conduit of screams forever more
				

Rich tapestries of anguish
Painted lilac by the moon
Liche motes of dust carouse about
Their silent, violent scenes of doom

This perilous fort perched on a crag
In forested mountain gloom
Flickers with light, the candles drag
Midnight will be here soon

By their eerie glow
The windows leer on a vast horizon
The fallen snow
Below is lying still
My soul burns cold
Wolves advance on the frozen courtyard
Their yearning fold
Cry out for blood to spill

I walk these jagged battlements
That call to foreign shores

Majestic in death
I grieve no stolen breath
Just whet eternal appetites
With the squirming
Of all life-affirming flesh

Hunger must be fed

Evening has come undressed
And blessed with her delicacies
I now confess, I am possessed

The night runs cavalcade
Fast past this masquerade
Whispered wings and twisted veins
Amidst the pain

And the mist it hangs
With the kiss of dying

Buried in the throats of prey
Fog-ridden, eyes aflame
We shun the light of day
Exalt
Ex Sanguine Draculae

Ex Sanguine Draculae

Not a phantom haunting graves
I'm a curse supreme
Imperious to all save for my brides
Those most beauteous of graces
Furies, gorgon sisters three
I feel the weight of ages
In their unreflective eyes

Siren wiles beguile
All sin and mystery
Born sworn selenophiles
To high tidal, never idle lunacies

Drink deep and we shall see

Our thirst is quenched,
The furnace yearns
The dark unfurls its charms
Midnight ignites, the sight' returns
The world curls
In our outstretched palms

Sharply nailed

Beasts obeisant, spells so ancient
Feast lycanthropy
These gifts persist where devils kiss
Where angels fear to dare the bliss
And love and death clasp tight indeterminably

Murder in these veins seeking sweet gestation
Peace and sanctity in the passage of evil

Thus by the crack of doom
The fiery dawn that splits the heavens
Towards the tomb
We creep sated and free
I am the warring Mars
Allayed by Venus in the velvet cosmos
The whoring stars
Stray again this eve for me

I sleep beneath the castle
Governed by my coven's keep
Majestic in death
I grieve no stolen breath
Just whet eternal appetites
With the squirming
Of all life-affirming flesh

Hunger must be fed

The night runs cavalcade
Fast past this masquerade
Whispered wings and twisted veins
Amidst the pain

And the mist it hangs
With the kiss of dying

Buried in the throats of prey
Fog-ridden, eyes aflame
We shun the light of day
Exalt
Ex Sanguine Draculae

Ex Sanguine Draculae
Ex Sanguine Draculae
				

Cantankerous the seas,
Her verses cursed with this disease
The long-awaited written in our veins
That this golden age of wonder is undone
Before the thunder
Of another tyrant smitten with his gains

Decadence shall dance upon the dead
And the zealots of modernity
Deafening, confirming that the heavenly are burning
With the screaming of the Valkyries

Plagued with regret
Lest we forget

Deep beguile, degenerate bile
Ashing of the deeds as Armageddon smiles

Where torment holds court
And dreams are for naught
The present is fraught
With all-besieging danger

But we recall
Love, not the cruel
Held peaceable rule
When misery was a stranger

Oh to those times
Irretrievable crimes
No reason or rhyme
When misery was a stranger

Clinging to the past I see tomorrow sat aghast
Upon a raw epiphany
Singing of the path leading to this final gasp
As missiles score their symphonies

How did despotic days turn to horror and decay
Beneath these eyes of vanity?
Now a war engulfs the face of a crazed inhuman race
Fed on bred insanities

Death to the false
Red flags we repulse

Unreconciled, the truth exiled
Peace on earth, no mercy mild

Where torment holds court
And dreams are for naught
The present is fraught
With all-besieging danger

But we recall
Love, not the cruel
Held peaceable rule
When misery was a stranger

Oh to those times
Irretrievable crimes
No reason or rhyme
When misery was a stranger

When misery was all but lost

Now sticky ichor trickles down the window, not a little
And feathers drift from sick and frightened skies
Vast figures shift behind the roaring storm clouds, undivine
Highlighted by the lightning strikes on high

A heavy sorrow like a shroud, descends
A winding sheet

The wind lashes
Poisoned tongues of our defeat

Long poisoned tongues of our defeat

A darkness comes to fester
The dying sunset westers
Then a flash like a thousand summers blaze
And the pain is pressed to stay