All Hope In Eclipse - Cradle Of Filth

All hope in eclipse

A thousand nights one succored me

In the shadow of miss anne thropy-

Sat gargoyle-limbed amid my licking flame

A cruel tongue at work in her secret vaults

Sent rebellion’s embers into revolt

The coming of extinction

Synched to whimpers of my name…

Legion I arose, a flood of inhumanity

An acid reign to purify the world

The asp at pharoah’s breast

The atom split under duress

A sniper at the gates of spattered pearl

My heart, torn apart, left a rifled grave…

Save for an unfurled flag of hate

To enthrall a mindless zombie race

All heil, all heil, all heil the serpentine’s gift

All heil, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse

Black bibles I inscribed

The words «damnation throughout design»

Seemed a bitter truth far better for the lie

For as hope was felled by reason

Forlorn became the season

And death was swift to swallow on the heels of life

Loered souls, growing cold, tendered easy prey

When heaven’s flock, a fair game, dropped

I bored of war with god with greater thrones to

Claim…

All heil, all heil, all heil the libertine’s wish

All heil, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse

(There was not a prayer left in this wretched world)

Then between the past and the ravening dark

A sly messiah came

In the thick of treaty with obligatory greed

She stole the soul hate had sold away

An ancient chill blew down the centuries

That night atonement’s eyes

Lit a burning man in me

When love lay bleeding

And fates safe feeding

From wounds gored 'neath

Those cherubic wings

She of kindred light

Gladly sacrificed

Eternity

Just to be

With me

As the moon who’s silvered fingers play

On words and dreams too cursed for day

She led my hand to lands I’d not accrued

Where the faun dawn bathed her golden hair

And faith renewed, leapt joyous there

I praised their worth, then planned their conquest

Too…

All heil, all heil, all heil the serpentine’s gift

All heil, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse

All heil, all heil, all heil the libertine’s wish

All heil, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse

… And ignorance is truly bliss