She brought the Night hidden in her sad Wolf eyes
The perfume of a twilight, her strongest scent
Half Wolf, Half female - what a strange wedding
Mother Nature has offered us to see...

Her mask lays lost in a fatal dawn
Closed were the eyes of the Sun. He sleeps.
And in the name of Her Father.
She will kill. My child kills.

You nightly birth. A requiem God can't forget.
For your life is just a celebration of his death
Without his thorns in her heart. She wears a shadow as face.
A werewolf masquerade. In her eyes the wolfshade.

She brought the Night and by the night was brought
We are but children of the powers she had set free
Strange are the ways of the wolfhearted...
				

The cold nights have awakened Me
The soft winds to undress Me
The nails of two witches hav touched Me
Their caress cuts like the sharpest ice

Yes it is their way, this so mysterious way
of welcoming Me, welcoming Me
Their way to remember
Distant nights of Passion and Doom
Where, naked, have I bathed in velvet waters
Witnessed by an accomplice smile inside an innocent Moon

Serene were the beings who guided Me
Empty were the hands which undresses Me
To carve strange symbols unknown to Me
but lay so dearly inside of Me

This is my way, this so mysterious way
of welcoming She, welcoming She
My way to remember
Distant nights of Passion and Doom
Where we both wore flesh crowns to defy
The skies in their blue and so vague tyranny

We are mute villains
drinking of Love as insolent Vampires
Valsing through stars and skies
at that and all to come Winter nights

Like neophyte ravens in the strangest nest
Charmed by the wilderness of this strange host
Drawing naivety with our blood and semen
Ritually engraved in our hearts and chests
Marks of a pain, signs of a love crime
That will forever and never last

It is our way, this so mysterious way of loving
of welcoming thee, welcoming thee
Our way to remember
Forever lost nights of Passion and Doom
Remembrance served in cups .of sorrow and pride
For all the eternities we'll still cry
For having lost amidst the stars our bride
Untouchable in her smile, inside the great Silver Eye
Every night she is condemned to shine
				

You've no mother to feed you
or to lick your so deep wounds
nor Earth where to lay your timid crown
You've suffered by your father
and even the Moon lies to you
When she shines...

The seduction of an altar
Is a weakness in her movements of Death
It is a mere vanity of Woman
to delay her midnight ride
Suicide... Midnight ride...

Beautiful dagger you may now leave your case
Wild red tears at the lady's hand
Kissed were her breasts with your sharpened face
Given is now what Love had taken
death and Love, they together danced

Yes, the flames did smile to her
Invited her to their fiery peace
To a funebre dance around a bonfire
Where all Women are naked and alone
Immolating their pride
May they forever ride. Far, in a midnight crime.
Midnight Ride, Suicide, Midnight Ride...
				

[Instrumental]
				

Trebraruna filha da Dor
Guerreira sagrada, Deusa do Amor
Trebraruna teu leito semente
Acolhe-nos agora num muy doce abraço
Trebraruna és Vida és Morte
da Lua és filha, dos Lobos consorte
Trebraruna pagão é teu ventre
Ansiado refugio de quem ainda te sente
Viva!

Trebraruna és tu quem nos gera
Alimento teu seio d'Amor e de Guerra
Trebraruna a tua voz é
a melodia mais doce da nossa Terra
Trebraruna nós tuas crianças
Beijamos teus olhos cerrados com fervor
Trebraruna cantamos para ti
Somos teu eterno, fiel trovador
				

Vampiria, you are my destiny
My only Love and true destiny
Vampiria...

You're a beast, evil one
Above your head lays a Star
In your heart is buried the jewel
of a Serpent who wished to die
your red long tongue has her poison
And you will spread it as you breed
In a Unique transylvanian dream
Conceiving the creed of all creeds

Vampiria, fly Vampiria

In your eye burn, defying
All those who in silence sleep
In a city once named Desire
Dreaming with the entombed dear

The lady has fallen in a blossom
Spread far away by undesirable winds
To females conspiring in gloom
Hiding your pearls from the pigs

So open your arms!
They were shaped as wings
A serenade of revenge draw on your lips

The sombre hill you're staying in
Is now defined
And your Star had start to shine

Depart now on your bright wings
The world envy
The skies have always seduced you
Precious Queen
and you know your time has come
To fly away with Me, so far...
				

Queen of all my sleepless nights
For whose beauty I, Faun
have played my pipes, with heart
Queen in white silk, skin like milk
Horns of Faun, lips of dawn
You are now honoured you with my presence
As I'm honoured by your sight
I crown your perfection
The predator in your breast, I devour

Tempted is now my light body

From where it burns spirals of exotic scents
Rose, sandal, jasmine, all kinds of incense
Aged fragrances only dreamed of once
Dragons do dream far beyond the sense
We make love in the dusty throne
of a Modern Sodoma

"Come to Me, step further into my nakedness
Caress me in your breasts of Fire"

"Breed my flame, have no fear or weakness
I welcome you in my hole of desire"

"Have me now, Prince, have me here"
Your beg still whispers in my ear

Daylight has broken into a strange nostalgia
Night tired candles seem like two lovers
Melt in a embrace of conspiracy
Between us there is this strange chemistry
but would you die for me?
would you die for what I've longed to be?

"Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a
dissolute imagination of the like which has never been seen,
atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell
and kill me again or take me as I am,
for I shall not change."
(De Sade)

"Breed of a nameless force, origin of our Sin
We are as large as Gods, we are their tragedy
We are the four arms of the solar Cross
Lightning in incredulous faces the flames of Uthopy"

Would you die for this?
				

Mother Tongue speaks to Me
In the strongest way I've ever seen
I know that she sees in Me
Her proudest child, her purest breed

She speaks to Me in colours
That I can't really understand
I only know that they are ours
And to those I'll proudly bend

For I am your only child
And you my dearest mystery
From an ancient throne I defy the world
To kneel before the Power within.

For I am your only child
And you my dearest mystery
World can't you see it?
Am I alone in my belief?

Virando costas ao mundo
Orgulhosamente sós
Glória antiga, volta a nós!

ALMA MATER!

Breaking waves announce my Bride
It is the only way the Sea could sing
Legends of Lusitanian pride
He sings the words I cannot spring

At the Moon Mountain six wolves cry
Your lost glory we'll regain or die

For I am her only child
And she is my dearest mystery
Pagan Gods in conspiracy
For the sword of Tyranny

Mother Tongue has spoke to thee
In the strongest way they've ever seen
World can't you see?
I am not alone in my belief.

ALMA MATER!

Virando costas ao Mundo
Orgulhosamente sós
Gloria Antiga, volta a nos!

ALMA MATER!

Mother Tongue has spoke to Me
In the strongest way I've ever seen
I know that she sees in Me
Her proudest child, her purest breed

She speaks to Me in colours
I can't really understand
I only know that they are ours
and to those I'll proudly bend

For I am her only child
And she is my dearest mystery
From an ancient throne I defy the world
To kneel before the powers within.

For I am her only child
And she is my dearest tragedy
World can't you see it?
I am not alone in my belief.

Virando costas ao Mundo
Orgulhosamente sós

ALMA MATER!
				

[Instrumental]
				

[The short Portuguese piece at the end of the song is actually a quote from one of the most famous and at the same enigmatic poets of Portuguese literature, Fernando Pessoa, whose works are abundantly translated into several languages from Czech to English itself. Anyway to make a long story short one of the most interesting aspects of this poet was that we used different personalities each one creating a peculiar kind of writing and a very particular universe of interpretation and artistic creation. I have chosen my favorite split on Pessoa's on the "person" of his heteronyms Alvaro de Campos who was more directed into a kind of urban, grey, depressive poetry. As I wanted to write a song about the creative power of the drug named opium, so evident in a lot of literature that is within my range of interest, I have collected inspiration from a particular poem named "Opicrio" that narrates a boat trip to the Orient in a very, very strange perspective indeed. So the actual thing translated might sound like this (I remark once again all the loss of power that translation carries with it):]

["Therefore I take opium. It is a medicine.]
[I am a convalescent of the Moment.]
[I live in the ground floor of Thought]
[and seeing life goes by grows me tedious."]

Opium, desire or will?
Inspiration bound from an elegant seed
Subversion, through smoke I foresee
Erotic motions of lesser gods in ecstasy

Opium, bring me forth another dream
Spawn worlds of flesh and red,
little jewels of atrocity
Opium, I sleep in debauchery
And burn with you
when you burn in Me

Opium, we fantasize
as we fuse with your root
You are a strange flower,
we are your strangest fruit

Opium, it burns in me and you
Opium, it burns for me and for you

"E por isso eu tomo ópio, é um remédio
Sou um convalescente do momento,
Moro no rés-do-chão do pensamento
E ver passar a vida faz-me tédio."
				

Awake... for all is dying, even the dead

We are our Past failing to come back

All of us visionaires
with a rope around our neck
				

Your honey on coil burns,
As tears drop from your grand dead womb

Undesired, I fell into your being
Releasing shapes inside of you
Only seen in your wildest dreams
I am the impossibility
of your long-kept chastily
I am your offence and you can't wait
To have me inside of you and taste...

Eternity

Revolving around me,
in desire, you burn
As blood drops
from your new-awakened womb

Undesired, and thrown away from your belief
I am the one whom you
were taught to renounce
In your virginal fear
The sweat, the hands, the sleepless nights
And the violence of the silent sighs
All of them gather in me
Take my hand and taste eternity
Take my hand and find a new god
				

In each of your failures
I saw my victory
And each time you fall
A knife tattoos a smile
On my lips
You are now empty of life
And we are drunk with death

Raw models
Ruin & Misery

I can offer you a hand
To help you hold the dagger
A perfect jewel for
Our perfect end

And as we lay, we kissed
Fingers wet with poison
Thinking to each one
There is beauty in death

Raw models
Ruin & Misery

Allow me to doubt
We were lovers who could really share
The only love between us
Was hate

Without hope we could not fear
And silently we disappeared
Hand in hand, we took our lives
And together stopped being
Raw models on a novel of Ruin & Misery
				

Forever young in a ground so cold
The splendor of your death still fresh to behold

In your neck an open wound
To spawn life into your Love
And to feed the creatures of our world

We have tasted from the poisoned gift of love
Which condemned us to forever fly alone

We have experienced an aged potion
The wine of life which stole us light
May we gather again and be as one
And to forever relish in the twin joys

As we taste from the poisoned gift of love

Forever young in a ground so cold
The splendour of your dance still there to behold

Our legend is a sin in tongues
To eternal sleep, to trance we belong
We are now but an empty glance
Palid is your state of grace

To eternal sleep we belong
Feeling the rapture of the world
Beneath the violence of this curse
From the poisoned gift of love

Once I asked you to fly
Tonight I recreate the vow:
Do not fail to love Me as I have failed to die
With you...
				

Perverse: the religion of pain
In each detail a world,
I know you hide something...
				

I remember her as a child

Raven...on and on with her raven claws
Carving...on and on with her raven claws

How she lusts when she remembers
The night of her first blow
She always wanted to know
How far could she really go

Inflamed, a dead-end room
Seduce to consume
Nightsilence...Vampire...Empire
Statues with open wounds

The flavour of poison and moon
Still maturing on her blood
She is not your occasional affair, no!
But eternal love, drop by drop...

Raven...on and on with her raven claws
Carving...on and on with her raven claws

How daylight hurts when moonlight bites
She juggles with her invisible knife
A black bird senses danger and flies
Gives peace to a tall figure in the dark

Little silhouette snakes find
a warm nest behind the door
And whip-tongues and skins
of sisters now gone.

Bodyprints cover the velvet floor
Which grows red and red
They know she will hunt and hurt tonight
And they crown her Queen of the Dead.

Raven...on and on with her raven claws
Raping...on and on with her raven claws

Will she weep for them or whip them once again?
				

As madmen, some hung head down
From a long dead tree
Some discuss, all at once
For no one to hear

Variations on emptiness
Great themes on vain glory

And as some go feral in strange performances
Dressing customs that are metaphors
Of your disease
Hungry eyes are looking for Me...Mephisto

Laughing, I feed you
With meaningless games, tricks and philosophies
Whose answers you would die for
In your hunger to believe

How it does amuse Me
And makes Me wonder
For how long that it was Mine
Because now it does really inflame Me

As if ignorance was my secret desire...Mephisto

I am an angel who dresses in red
Riding above you, etching fire rings
I have learned to fly
Don't you remember?
While you still have not come down
From your long-dead tree

I can teach you wonders if you give me your soul
Marvels and wild dreams can be yours
I can teach you how iron turns to gold
And how life can grow so old

But I am a demon who dresses in red
And I do not hope you will understand...Mephisto
				

Look Me in the eyes and drown...

"Everyone considered the man in the blue jacket
as the most beautiful human being they have ever seen:
nuns saw on him the Messiah in flesh;
Satan's adorers the lustrous Prince of Darkness;
philosophers the Supreme Being;
young females an enchanted prince;
Men an ideal reflection of themselves."

Patrick Suskind: The Perfume ("Story Of An Assassin")

Look Me in the eyes and drown...

I am your vulture, your immoral sculpture
Mirrorman, who understands
I am you, I know you
Your fantasy and reality
I wait for you to welcome you in my dreamworld
My water-eyes

Look Me in the eyes
Touch me in the eyes and dream...
				

[The Narrated verses are nothing particularly worth of explaining in depth, they are just some of the many metaphors of Moonspell's lyrics so right to the point:]

[1st Portuguese verse:]
We are wolf memories
that tear the skin apart
Wolves that once were men
and shall be them again

[2nd Portuguese verse:]
We are wolf memories
that tear the skin apart
Wolves that once were men
and shall be them again
or perhaps memories of men
who insist of not tearing for to be wolves
but that never shall be them again...

Somos memórias de lobos que rasgam a pele
Lobos que foram homens
e o tornarão a ser

They awake for flesh
Choose pain as a path
Refuse a light
To blind you and me

Full Moon Madness,
We are as one and congregate
Full Moon Madness
We rise again to procreate

Somos memórias de lobos que rasgam a pele
Lobos que foram homens e o tornarão a ser
ou talvez memórias de homens.
que insistem em não rasgar a pele
Homens que procuram ser lobos
mas que jamais o tornarão a ser...

They awake for flesh
Choose pain as a path
Refuse a light
To blind you and me

Full Moon Madness,
We are as one and congregate
Full Moon Madness
We rise again to procreate to seal our fate

Irreverence was cast out from the sky
And eternity lost its sex forever
And under the same heaven they voted to emptiness
They still celebrate under a Full Moon Madness...

They awake for flesh
Choose pain as a path
Refuse a light to blind you and me

Irreverence was cast out from the sky
And eternity lost its sex forever
And under the same heaven they voted to emptiness
We still celebrate under a Full Moon Madness...
				

Breathe in,
Breathe out,
You reached the top of the chain
Inhale
Exhale
You made it 'til the end of day

Every man's a sinner
Every man's a liar
Life's a slow procession into the fire

Carry the weight or crush under it
Carry the weight or crush

Every man's a sinner in the name of the father
History's repeating into the fire

Carry the weight or crush under it
Carry the weight or crush

We started wanting to be ourselves until we are no more

Breathe in,
Breathe out,
You reached the top of the chain
Inhale
Exhale
You made it 'til the end of day

Every man is a leader
Every man is a martyr
Every man is in trouble caught in your fire

Carry the weight or crush under it
Carry the weight or crush

We started wanting to be ourselves, to live our lives
We went too far perhaps beyond control until we are no more

[3x]
Breathe in,
Breathe out,
You reached the top of the chain
Inhale
Exhale
You made it 'til the end of day
				

In each other's arms
At each other's throats
In the time out of mind
We buried our love
No moon to guide us tonight
No light to see us through

Let's pray for the waters to come
Let's pray
I pray, time stops, while you rot
I pray, time stops

Before the lights go out
Before our time is gone
A taste of your lips
Before we go extinct

Without control
The ark took sail
To the far beyond
Through the limits of time
No moon to guide us
Just the star of death
To lead our way

Let's pray for the waters to come
Let's pray
I pray, time stops, while you rot
I pray, time stops

Before the lights go out
Before our time is gone
A taste of your lips
Before we go extinct
				

Two white feathers sewn on the angel black
Be mine just for another thousand nights
Or leave me to rot to the gods of the sun
Just for a thousand lives
Two white feathers sewn to the the angel's back

In Medusalem

Drive a needle through the camel's eye
The heart is a ticking time bomb
Ready to explode
Or leave me to smoke with the assassins tonight
Together we ride
Two white feathers sewn to the the angel's back

To Medusalem

It's the land of honey
The land of pain
The city falls under its weight
The golden sands were painted red
And we shall free you from your chains

Two white feathers sewn on the angel black
Just open the gates, let there be light!
Or leave me to be with Morgana tonight
To the land of Cain, come together, we'll ride
Two more feathers sewn to the the angel's back

To Medusalem

It's the land of honey
The land of pain
The city falls under its weight
The golden sands were painted red
And we shall free you from your chains

To Medusalem

It's the land of honey
The land of pain
The city falls under its weight
The golden sands were painted red
And we shall free you

It's the land of honey, the land of pain
The city walls give in to faith
The golden sands were painted red
And we shall free you from your chains
				

You're thinking down for Judgement Day
What took to the skies, what took you away?
Tears run fast, and so did blood
But nothing can break through your eyes, break through your eyes

We're always close, but are we ever there?
What came from the skies to take you away
Our children grew, left us behind
But no-one should pay such a price

Just another day and it's all the same
In this world of the next
You bring me down and I resurrect
In this world of the next

Watch the storm, its eye above
Watch our world die...
				

Let me guide you to where it's silent
Across the limit of survivors guilt
The crowds are waiting, the sigh was taken by the burning sun
We're moving on the straight line into depths unknown

My curse is to love you
Until we see the last of us
Our chance of surrender
Nothing but eternity

My curse is to love you
Until we see the last of us
Our chance of surrender
Before we find our destiny

Let me touch you where's forbidden
And test the limits of your sanctity

The crowd's suspending they have sweet making for the lust of gods
The fire burns as if there's no tomorrow, no tomorrow

You know, my heart will fail
You know, my back will break
And again and again
It will hurt just for you to reveal my pain

My curse is to love you
Until we see the last of us
Our chance of surrender
Nothing but eternity

My curse is to love you
Until we see the last of us
Our chance of surrender
Before we find our destiny

Black magic, unconditional love
Black magic unconditional
Black magic, unconditional lust
Black magic irresistable
				

The quick spider weaving
Keeping the web alive and well
Like the black widow male
Just another victim
To a love so rare

I saw no light in your eyes
I know that others have tried

I thought I was the one!
But you turned me into stone!
And when you look back at people
You turn them into dust

I count the snakes in your hair
Growing stronger with every breath
I will be the one who waits
Picking up the pieces until
You come again

I saw no light in your eyes
I know that others have tried
I heard your tears sold like gold
One more of your lies unfold

I thought I was the one!
But you turned me into stone!
And when you look back at people
You turn them into dust

Malignia

I thought was the one!
Thought was the one
Thought was the one
				

Through the light and the thunder
When it's night and day
Darkness take my hand now
Take me anywhere

I could take shelter
I could pretend
I could run against it
Wouldn't stop
Wouldn't stop the wind

Oh it's time!
To pick up a rose
From the mouth of the dragon
Oh it's time!
To bring you down from your tower
Start a chain reaction

Oh it's time!
Time to lay her down
Ashes to ashes
Oh it's time! Oh it's time!
Time to cover the world in Funeral Bloom

Through the age of light
Aquarius
When it's night and day
Follow the blind man
Through the fire
They always know their way

I could take cover
No use for protection!
I could smash your other cheek
Blood out in the wind

Oh it's time!
Time to lay her down
Ashes to ashes
Oh it's time! Oh it's time!
Time to cover the world in Funeral Bloom

Oh it's time!
Time to lay her down
Ashes to ashes
Now it's time! Yeah it's time!
No other colors but Funeral Bloom

We rise, we fall
Without control
We crash and burn
So damn our souls
I show you no remorse
ERGO SUM PECCATORE

For he was a good man
A supplicant
(And) disaster was his god
Now devoid of earthly lust
I command him to the skies
Where everyone is just
And everything will be fine
Where everyone is just
And everything will be fine

Now it's time!
Time to lay her down
Ashes to ashes
Oh it's time!
Time to cover the world in Funeral Bloom

Oh it's time! Oh it's time!
Time to lay her down
Ashes to ashes
Now it's time! Yeah it's time!
No choice of color but Funeral Bloom

We rise, we fall
Without control
We crash and burn
So damn our souls
I show you no remorse
I'm but a sinner, a liar
A man who lost his course
ERGO SUM PECCATORE
				

[Verse]
Can’t you see that the curtain has fallen between us?
And that the statues of leavers keep smashing on the burning foy
A sense that is growing behind, the martyr’s dying peek
Our live has no meaning, the world forgot about me

[Chorus]
We’re dying, we’ve fallen, we’re calmly disappearing
We’re trying, defining, our sense of right and wrong
It’s a dying breed, it’s a thing from the past
We’re a dying breed

[Verse 2]
Can’t you see that the magic is over, I see it ever started
And how the music we listen keeps fading, she’s lost control
The new tribes they gather around the Earth’s dying core
The new waves are waving, no place for me anymore

[Chorus]
We’re dying, we’ve fallen, we’re calmly disappearing
We’re trying, defining, our sense of right and wrong
It’s a dying breed, it’s a thing from the past
We’re a dying breed

[Guitar solo]

[Chorus]
We’re dying, we’ve fallen, we’re calmly disappearing
We’re trying, defining, our sense of right and wrong
We’re dying, escaping, still falling, disappearing
We’re trying, defining, our place in the natural order
As a dying breed, just a dying breed
We’re a dying breed, we’re a thing from the past
We’re a dying breed, just a dying breed
Just a dying breed!
				

Oh, my son too young to understand that life is dark sometimes
There is just not enough light
And you, you broke me everyday, but I fought you back
I think I could die in the next room without you noticing

Where do we go, where do we go from here and where do we go?
Where do we go, where do we go from here, what happened to us?

Gotta breathe in, gotta breathe out
Up on your feet, gotta think twice
The future is dark, the future is vile
Without you there's no tomorrow

We, we die alone, but we live without
And yes, it hurts me so to realize that death won't do us
Won't do us part, but something
Something else might

Where do we go, where do we go from here and where do we go?
Where do we go, where do we go from here, what happened to us?

Gotta breathe in, gotta breathe out
Up on your feet, gotta think twice
The future is dark, the future is vile
Without you there's no tomorrow
Gotta breathe in, gotta breathe out
Up on your feet, gotta think twice
The future is dark, it’s all that we’ve got
Without you there's no tomorrow