She is a Fire - Cradle of Filth

I've been through the desert and I've been 'cross the sea I've been walking through the mountains I've wandered through the trees for her I have been trying to find her, wanna give what I've got She lit a fire and now, she's in my every thought Where, could that girl have gone Where, I've wandered far Where, could that girl have gone She left no trail, but I cannot fail, I will find her She lit a fire, and now she's in my every thought She lit a fire, and now she's in my every thought Where, could that girl have gone Where, I've wandered far Where, could that girl have gone She left no trace but I know her face, I will find her When last I saw her, she was dancing all alone Perhaps my chance was then, I'll never know I'll search the world until there's no place left to go And if she leaves it, I will follow, yeah, I will follow She lit a fire, and now she's in my every thought She lit a fire, and now she's in my every thought I've been through the desert and I've been 'cross the sea I've been walking through the mountains I've wandered through the trees for her I have been trying to find her, want to give what I got She lit a fire, and now she's in my every thought

But on the other hand she's all they have She's a diamond in their dull, gray lives And that's the hardest kind of stone, it usually survives And when you think about it, can you recall The last time they loved anyone at all? She's not a bauble you can brush aside She's been out doing what we just talked about Example, gave us back our businesses, got the English out And when you think about it, well, why not do One or two of the things we promised to? But on the other hand she's slowing down She's lost a little of that magic drive But I would not advise those critics present to derive Any satisfaction from her fading star She's the one who's kept us where we are She's the one who's kept you where you are

Lead to the river, midsummer, I waved A V of black swans on with hope to the grave All through Red September with skies fire-paved I begged you appear like a thorn for the holy ones Cold was my soul, untold was the pain I faced when you left me a rose in the rain So I swore to the razor that never enchained Would your dark nails of faith be pushed through my veins again Bared on your tomb, I'm a prayer for your loneliness And would you ever soon come above unto me? For once upon a time from the binds of your loneliness I could always find the right slot for your sacred key Six feet deep is the incision in my heart, that barless prison Discolors all with tunnel vision, sunsetter, nymphetamine Sick and weak from my condition, this lust is vampyric addiction To her alone in full submission, none better, nymphetamine Nymphetamine, nymphetamine Nymphetamine girl Nymphetamine, nymphetamine My nymphetamine girl Wracked with your charm, I am circled like prey Back in the forest where whispers persuade More sugar trails, more white lady laid Than pillars of salt Fold to my arms hold their mesmeric sway And dance out to the moon as we did in those golden days Christening stars, I remember the way We were needle and spoon mislaid in the burning hay Bared on your tomb, I'm a prayer for your loneliness And would you ever soon come above unto me? For once upon a time from the bind of your holiness I could always find the right slot for your sacred key Six feet deep is the incision in my heart, that barless prison Discolors all with tunnel vision, sunsetter, nymphetamine Sick and weak from my condition, this lust is vampyric addiction To her alone in full submission, none better, nymphetamine Sunsetter, nymphetamine (Nymphetamine) None better, nymphetamine Nymphetamine, nymphetamine Nymphetamine girl Nymphetamine, nymphetamine My nymphetamine girl

Evanescent like the scent of decay I was fading from the race When in despair, my darkest days ran amok and forged her face From the fairest of handmaidens to a slick perverted wraith Nymphetamine Heaving midst narcissus on a maledict blanket of stars She was all three wishes Sex, sex, sex A lover hung on her deathrow, I was hooked on her disease Highly strung like Cupid's bow whose arrows hungered meat And the blinding flare of passion In the shade of narrow streets Where their poison never rationed, all the tips they left in me Two tracks Bric-a-brac Something passed between us like a bad crack Upward-lit I'd met another kind Of rat In fact with every Rome inside me licked and ransacked She haunted at the corners of my mind In black Cataracts Wouldn't whitewash away her filthy smoke stack She burnt me like a furnace For my future suicide Lead to the river Midsummer, I waved A V of black swans on with hope to the grave All through Red September With skies fire-paved I begged you appear like a thorn for the holy ones Cold was my soul, untold was the pain I faced when you left me a rose in the rain So I swore to the razor That never enchained would your dark nails of faith Be pushed through my veins again Bared on your tomb I'm a prayer for your loneliness And would you ever soon come above unto me? For once upon a time from the binds of your lowliness I could always find the right slot for your sacred key Six feet deep is the incision In my heart, that barless prison Discolours all with tunnel vision Sunsetter Nymphetamine Sick and weak from my condition This lust, this vampyric addiction To her alone in full submission None better Nymphetamine Nymphetamine, nymphetamine Nymphetamine girl Nymphetamine, nymphetamine My nymphetamine girl Wracked with your charm I am circled like prey Back in the forest where whispers persuade More sugar trails more white lady laid Than pillars of salt Fold to my arms hold their mesmeric sway And dance out to the moon as we did in those golden days Christening stars I remember the way We were needle and spoon mislaid in the burning hay Bared on your tomb I'm a prayer for your loneliness And would you ever soon come above unto me? For once upon a time from the bind of your holiness I could always find the right slot for your sacred key Six feet deep is the incision In my heart, that barless prison Discolours all with tunnel vision Sunsetter Nymphetamine Sick and weak from my condition This lust, this vampyric addiction To her alone in full submission None better Nymphetamine Sunsetter Nymphetamine (nymphetamine) None better Nymphetamine Two tracks Bric-a-brac Something passed between us like a bad crack Upward-lit I'd met another kind Of rat In fact with every Rome inside me licked and ransacked She haunted at the corners of my mind In black Cataracts Wouldn't whitewash away her filthy smoke stack She burnt me like a furnace For my future suicide

Pulvis et umbra sumus Pulvis et umbra sumus Pulvis et umbra sumus Pulvis et umbra Meaningless is this all there is A flicker of life in a black forever? Shine a light on the bowels of Heaven Dark futures howl in her grip Frightening new constellations, headlong Press their scowls on Orion's lip Our earth is strangled From within and soon without Existential terror Four Horsemen our pall bearers Riding nightmares of purebred belief In the coming apocalypse Existential terror Furies spit on grave endeavours The world is a slippery reef Encircled by beasts of the sea 'neath an eclipse! Pulvis et umbra sumus Pulvis et umbra sumus Pulvis et umbra sumus Pulvis et umbra The more we know, all the more we quiver On our knees before prophecies Just begun or being sung for countless centuries Psalms carved deep into our psyches Our earth, newfangled Abrim with sin and fully undevout Existential terror Four Horsemen our pall bearers Riding nightmares of purebred belief In the coming apocalypse Existential terror Bleak winds blow storm-crow scarers The world is a slippery reef Encircled by beasts of the wing 'neath an eclipse A gnawing fear of death Of the great beyond Of the lessening bells of midnights left To dwell upon what the hell went wrong A perverse, reverse Pentecost Mass cataclysm, all is lost Accursed music of the spheres Ascends to score a bitter ending, here! Existential terror Pestilential errors fly In the face of planetary strife Existential terror Four Horsemen our pall bearers Riding nightmares of purebred belief In it's extermination! Decide, eyes scour blazing skies Time to embrace the inevitable We are all going to fucking die! Pulvis et umbra sumus Nothing but nothing remains Pulvis et umbra sumus Pulvis et umbra sumus Nothing but nothing remains Pulvis et umbra sumus Again Pulvis et umbra sumus Nothing but nothing remains Pulvis et umbra sumus

I'm waiting in my cold cell When the bell begins to chime Reflecting on my past life And it doesn't have much time 'Cause at 5 o'clock they take me to the gallows pole The sands of time for me are running low Motherfuckers Running low When the priest comes to read me the last rites Take a look through the bars at the last sights Of a world that has gone very wrong for me Can it be that there's some sort of error? Hard to stop the surmounting terror Is it really the end, not some crazy dream? Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming It's not easy to stop from screaming But words escape me when I try to speak Tears they flow, but why am I crying? After all, I'm not afraid of dying Don't I believe that there never is an end? As the guards march me out to the courtyard Somebody cries from a cell, "God be with you" If there's a god, then why has he let me go? As I walk, my life drifts before me And though the end is near, I'm not sorry Catch my soul, it's willing to fly away Mark my words, believe my soul lives on Don't worry now that I have gone I've gone beyond to seek the truth So when you know that your time is close at hand Maybe then you'll begin to understand Life down here is just a strange illusion Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh Hallowed be thy name Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh Hallowed be thy name

One dark afternoon Like a shadow I flew Through the rain that fell sick with lament To this house of incest For when we undressed Blasphemies against Venus were rent Though a sister removed Her white body approved The parade of my heavenly quests Yet, all tongues are not true Some are forked or askew Like an uncivil serpent's at best For ousted from Eden I fausted all reason In mouth like Saint Peter Pan To haunt fairy groves And hot virgin coves Where in the promiscuous swam I elected lovers and rejected others Mathistrisses that don't give a damn But for those that still do My deep interest grew The rise of the true pentagram!

"The Moon, she hangs like a cruel portrait Soft winds whisper the bidding of trees As this tragedy starts with a shattered glass heart And the Midnightmare trampling of dreams But oh, no tears please Fear and pain may accompany Death But it is desire that shepherds it's certainty As We shall see..." She was divinity's creature That kissed in cold mirrors A Queen of Snow Far beyond compare Lips attuned to symmetry Sought Her everywhere Dark liqoured eyes An Arabian nightmare She shone on watercolours Of my pondlife as pearl Until those who couldn't have Her Cut Her free of this World That fateful Eve when The trees stank of sunset and camphor Their lanterns chased phantoms and threw An imquisitive glance, like the shadows they cast On my love picking rue by the light of the moon Putting reason to flight Or to death as their way They crept through woods mesmerized By the taffeta Ley Of Her hips that held sway Over all they surveyed Save a mist on the rise A deadly blessing to hide Her ghost in the fog They raped left Five men of God ...Her ghost in the fog Dawn discovered Her there Beneath the Cedar's stare Silk dress torn, Her raven hair Flown to gown Her beauty bared Was starred with frost, I knew Her lost I wept 'til tears crept back to prayer She'd sworn Me vows in fragrant blood "Never to part Lest jealous Heaven stole our hearts" Then this I screamed "Come back to Me I was born in love with thee So why should fate stand inbetween?" And as I drowned Her gentle curves With dreams unsaid and final words I espied a gleam trodden to earth The Church bell tower key The village mourned her by the by For She'd been a witch Their Men had longed to try And I broke under Christ seeking guilty signs My tortured soul on ice A Queen of snow Far beyond compare Lips attuned to symmetry Sought Her everywhere Trappistine eyes An Arabian nightmare She was Ersulie possessed Of a milky white skin My porcelain Yin A graceful Angel of Sin And so for Her The breeze stank of sunset and camphor My lantern chased Her phantom and blew Their Chapel ablaze and all locked in to a pain Best reserved for judgement that their bible construed Putting reason to flight Or to flame unashamed I swept form cries Mesmerized By the taffeta Ley Or Her hips that held sway Over all those at bay Save a mist on the rise A final blessing to hide Her ghost in the fog And I embraced Where lovers rot ...Her ghost in the fog .Her ghost in the fog