Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic lyrics
Tracks 03. Walk Without Limbs
04. Of Your Beauty 05. Drink The Midnight Hymn 06. Museum Of Iscariot 07. Lamenting Kiss 09. I Sleep With The Emperor 10. A Poet's Tears Of Porcelain 03. Walk Without Limbs
Walk Without Limbs
Shei masa fum de ma Walk without limbs Shei masa fum de ma Walk through my soul 04. Of Your Beauty
Of Your Beauty
Wearing robes of solemnity My senses stand erect This moment I am solitary As you watch me, eyeless Observe a brutal face I need silence, I need to be alone Look at me My bony fingers wrapped in rags I am pursued and love is withered My eyes will see, if my spirit lives The wind shouts its commands The earth has stopped my ears I dare not raise my hand To hold the stones around my throat I have heard of your beauty And would sacrifice my days These midnight wanderings And vain laments Pour upon me A sympathetic glance My splendour has gone you will find me face down let those days pass in sorrowful procession Among leafless groves May a leaf unfold I cry with rage To be remembered with pity Let the leaves unfold Where dead leaves have rotted Ask me what I suffer Years of fruitless clinging to enfeebled arms That wave of benevolent salute I have heard of your beauty Pursue me, beckon me to cast the stones from my throat in the earth's dark entrails My glazed eyes close forever My my eyes will see If my spirit lives 05. Drink The Midnight Hymn
Drink The Midnight Hymn
Under a serene sky Earth covers your gentle form in verdant fields Soul is reft from bodies To my head I raise A wreath of white flowers And cry "Unhappiness" My mournful valediction I drink deep into your soul Killed with hate You died with love The cry of my heart The cry of my soul Dreamless sleeper Your face, the grave will change Your blood poured liked your saviour's I drink the midnight hymn 06. Museum Of Iscariot
Museum Of Iscariot
Jesus lies dying in my bed Companions since birth... in this stagnant dingy haunt he never really lived. Last night I beat him as he would not leave My insane eyes stare at him as his welted body bleeds Frequently I rape him as I know nothing else He curls up like a fetus and paints his face with sadness Now a fragment of remorse has etched I bandage his wounds, I kiss the face of Jesus Christ but he is dead What can I do? You have forsaked me, called yourself messiah, expected me to follow But now he is dead and his prophecies with him I will bury him not as insult to your face as I stare at his corpse one detail disturbs me His cold stark finger points where I have not been... From my house, a cage of rotten wood I stumble forth to lay beneath the bush withered bones groan, I cultivate as the soil and I grow closer The sun receives an empty gaze it mourns it knows my life is gone No more to offer but my flesh to this soil and a single tear marks my final prayer a rosebud sits in the palm of your hand as I end this flower it blossoms 07. Lamenting Kiss
Lamenting Kiss
A child was born in silence And winter rose to clothe itself With a voice of one who weeps I curse this memory You held the hand of hope With glory's wreath And deceiver's promise The vows your lips have sworn Tomorrow wear decay Stifled sobs Bow to cold laughter The breeze is speechless As the dust drinks the dew A child-like hope With fear betrothed Never ceases to kiss my feet This is my final lamenting kiss I have spun my last thread My dreams have broke My jewels are tarnished The wailings of the heart Are with the unborn Dreams of poetry It is cold within My knotted hand strikes A tuneless chord The noise of tongues In my darkened labyrinth Prophesies are withered To a face careworn Why have I forsaken you? The dove so long imprisoned Sour remembrance Of a day never born My retreating steps Are clothed in shadows Laden in black A man foresworn Heaven wept For the wounds that bled Tears more bitter than blood Vex my soul I am thrown on your mercies Yet my heart is still hardened Weep for me, my god, weep for me Sooth my grief Through my artless prayers My tears burden your aching soul I held hope's hand But let her forsake me May I be faithful to hold onto yours To my god of darkness my sombre romantic 09. I Sleep With The Emperor
I Sleep With The Emperor
I shivered in the warmth of their god Yet this mansion is haunted by romance His servants heal my scars Anointing me with oil I am naked and silk on this eve His body will cradle his bride's in frailty as I await his kiss mortality ebbs from me The pendulum sings Twelve times it rings I sleep with the emperor 10. A Poet's Tears Of Porcelain
A Poet's Tears Of Porcellan
As tears again bedew my cheek To your knees I cling Oh merciful one Show me your glory Was I not bruised? Have you not healed? They dance to silence But your song I hear Holy lord, fathomless god tears flow But the water is sweet Holy lord, fathomless god I fall as one dead With quivering lips Blessed be, priest and friend All Heavens bow In admiration Fathomless depth Measureless height Great is your holiness |