The 13th Caesar - Cradle Of Filth

Oh how my rampant desire

Ripped from the presence of God

Now hunger like a beast

For the knowledge of evil

When Joan was burnt

He knew malevolence

At the heart of all

A cold and jagged abyss bled of sense

The throne he earned

Through God’s benevolence

Started his own fall

Clothing ragged dogma in his own magnificence

Here the stench, the gold events

The bold inventions of the will

Luxuries and splendors past the ken of mortal men

Every wanton bent desire went fulfilled

A Daemon sat upon the top of the world

Like a Herod over Genesis

They sang hosannas as his banners unfurled

Kissing terrors with paralysis

His brash canvas insulted the view

Moving heaven and earth to please the

Tumultitudes, whom his strange retinue drew

To assert the thirteenth Caesar

The thirteenth Caesar

Ichor kicked inside his veins

The thirteenth Caesar

War was licked, for shame

The thirteenth Caesar

Sicker, but just as vain

The thirteenth Caesar

Gilles De Rais

When Joan was burnt

He knew malevolence

At the heart of all

He swore henceforth he would serve evil alone

Here the stench, the gold events

The insurrection of his will

Theatre and feasts past the ken of mortal men

Every wanton bent desire went fulfilled

A Daemon sat upon the top of the world

Like a Herod over Genesis

Devils sang hosannas as his banners unfurled

Striking terror into menaces

The thirteenth Caesar

Ichor kicked inside his veins

The thirteenth Caesar

War was licked, for shame

The thirteenth Caesar

Sicker, but just as vain

The thirteenth Caesar

Gilles De Rais

Suetonius and Ovid

Filled his moonstruck dreams

With the purple of Rome

His Venus of arena-blood was dead

And he was storming home

The thirteenth Caesar

Ichor kicked inside his veins

The thirteenth Caesar

War was licked, for shame

The thirteenth Caesar

Sicker, but just as vain

The thirteenth Caesar

Gilles De Rais

The thirteenth Caesar

Ichor kicked inside his veins

The thirteenth Caesar

War was licked, for shame

The thirteenth Caesar

Sicker, but just as vain

The thirteenth Caesar

Gilles De Rais