Pallid Reflection Songtext
von Cradle of Filth

Here forms a knotted sorrow
The vivid grasp of fading faces
Storm clouds plot to follow...

I wander despondent, a curse on the grave
Her hair in my locket, a lock of nightshade
And there in my pocket, I nurse the charade
Her ring is awaiting her back
I watch her from shadows, pariah by day
I sleep in dark belfries and cellars away
From the ungiving living, their neurotic plague
Has turned her as I to the black

[Faster beats the drum of dark arcanum]

Marie
I turned a deaf ear to heaven
When the evil eye accompanied me

You′ll see
I am no further needed in the mirror
By my pallid reflection


I thirst so perversely, the worst is this crave
For sweet scarlet blood from a harlot parade
Of dutiful victims I beautifully take
With delicious malicious intent
A gift from a goddess who toyed with her game
The price of my night's infidelity paid
At the alter of her never faltering blade
Of infernal nocturnal descent

[Faster beats the heart of dark arcanum]

So I walk the moonlit quarters
Like a driven beast of prey
A catalyst for madness, slaughter
Given the leash to play

I′m detritus to my chosen
A ghost for all her days
Thus is Cocytus frozen
From those loved and left betrayed

Dream-dappled streams of sunshine
Dread fog shall dissipate
As red skies descend on graveyard floors
Where the dead exhilarate

[My heart is goneTaken by a nigtmare bourgeois creatureNow you belongTo your sick womanagerie]

N, n, no, no
I'm not the reason for this bleeding
N, n, no, no
My past is fast leaving me
Aghast in purgatory


[Faster beats the drum of dark arcanum]

Marie
I turned a deaf ear to heaven
When the evil eye accompanied me

You'll see
I am no longer greeted in the mirror
By my pallid reflection

So I stalk the moonlit quarters
Like a driven beast of prey
A catalyst for madness, slaughter
Given the season

I taste the true nature
Of this secret caste
This devil undone
Soars free at last...