Spawned wanton like blight on an auspicious night
Her eyes betrayed spells of the moon's eerie light
A disquieting gaze forever ghosting far seas
Bled white and dead, Her true mother was fed
To the ravenous wolves that the elements led
From crag-jagged mountains that seemingly grew in unease

Through the maw of the woods, a black carriage was drawn
Flanked by barbed lightning that hissed of the storm
(Gilded in crests of Carpathian breed)
Bringing slaves to the sodomite for the new-born
On that eve when the Countess' own came deformed
A tragedy crept to the name Bathory

Elizabeth christened, no paler a rose
Grew so dark as this sylph
None more cold in repose
Yet Her beauty spun webs
Round hearts a glance would betroth

She feared the light
So when She fell like a sinner to vice
Under austere, puritanical rule
She sacrificed........
Mandragora like virgins to rats in the wall
But after whipangels licked prisoners, thralled
Never were Her dreams so maniacally cruel
(And possessed of such delights)
For ravens winged Her nightly flights
Of erotica
Half spurned from the pulpit
Torments to occur
Half learnt from the cabal of demons
In Her
Her walk went to voodoo
To see Her own shadow adored
At mass without flaw
Though inwards She abhored
Not Her coven of suitors
But the stare of their Lord

"I must avert mine eyes to hymns
For His gaze brings dogmas to my skin
He knows that I dreamt of carnal rites
With Him undead for three long nights"

Elizabeth listened
No sermons intoned
Dragged such guilt to Her door
Tombed Her soul with such stone
For She swore the Priest sighed
When She knelt down to atone......

She feared the light
So when She fell
Like sinner to vice
Under austere, puritanical rule
She sacrificed
Her decorum as chaste
To this wolf of the cloth
Pouncing to haunt
Her confessional box
Forgiveness would come
When Her sins were washed off
By rebaptism in white...........

The looking glass cast Belladonna wreaths
'Pon the grave of Her innocence
Her hidden face spat murder
From a whisper to a scream
All sleep seemed cursed
In Faustian verse
But there in orgiastic Hell
No horrors were worse
Than the mirrored revelation
The She kissed the Devil's phallus
By Her own decree........

So with windows flung wide to the menstrual sky
Solstice Eve She fled the castle in secret
A daughter of the storm, astride Her favourite nightmare
On winds without prayer
Stigmata still wept between Her legs
A cold bloodedness which impressed new hatreds
She sought the Sorceress
Through the snow and dank woods to the sodomite's lair

Nine twisted fates threw hewn bone die
For the throat of Elizabeth
Damnation won and urged the moon
In soliloquy to gleam
Twixt the trees in shafts
To ghost a path
Past the howl of buggered nymphs
In the sodomite's grasp
To the forest's vulva
Where the witch scholared Her
In even darker themes

Amongst philtres and melissas
Midst the grease of strangled men
And eldritch truths, elder ill-omen
Elizabeth came to life again

And under lacerations of dawn She returned
Like a flame unto a deathshead
With a promise to burn
Secrets brooded as She rode
Through mist and marsh to where they showed
Her castle walls wherein the restless
Counted carrion crows

She awoke from a fable to mourning
Church bells wringing Her madly from sleep
Tolled by a priest, self castrated and hung
Like a crimson bat 'neath the belfry
The biblical prattled their mantras
Hexes six-tripled their fees
But Elizabeth laughed, thirteen Autumns had passed
And She was a widow from god and His wrath, finally....................



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    General Comment:Well i think cradle of filth is an amazing band. The person up the top odviously doesnt know good music when he hears it. If its that bad why did you go onto their song lyrics? Dani filths vocals are amazing in this song. And just the words he uses to describe everything are just mind blowing. He could possible be one of the most talented artists ever. Well thats just my opinion...
    Flag JadeJealousyon October 30, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:It takes SKILL to scream like Dani does. If you tried to do it without actually training or learning how to do it you would blast your voice box and rip it to shreds in a day. This is specialised work!
    And the lyrics are beautiful. The last verse made the song from amazing to mind bogglingly magical!
    So not only is Dani a very skilled vocalist, but if he ever stops singing and writes a book of poetry then I'm going to be one of the first people to get it!
    Flag SugarBruiseson January 11, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:ok ok children lets not make fun of that little cunt vipkit or whatever the fuck his name is he cant help that hes a stupid cock loveing asslick thats not his fault hahaha who the fuck am i kiddig make fun him its a hobbby anyways the song is about bathory in fact the whole damn albulm is it all makes a refrance to "a dark countess" anyways this song is the start of her decent into evil vile acts of sex
    Flag cruelportraiton November 19, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:hey make sure cradle reads my journal, hey cradle read it....butt faces.
    Flag vladlockeon November 03, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I am not sure if I am correct in assuming this, but I think that this song makes mention briefly of Elizabeth Bathory's illegitimate child who was born deformed. I have read that she gave birth to six children and I have read that she gave birth to four children during her life time and I am told that one of them was dreadfully deformed. Also, I see references in here regarding the women she consulted and who taught her the ways of sorcery and dark rights. The Bathory was actually filled with vile persons and numerous cases of perversion, Satanic worship and psychosis. I may be wrong on this, but I believe she may have been related to Vlad the Impaler. I also see hints at the fact that Countess Bathory engaged in lesbian sexual activity despite being married and aside from the fact that she once disappeared for a period with a male consort. This song definitely mentions the torture of virgin beauties and their deaths which she inflicted upon them in order to drink of and bathe in their blood so as to retain her own physical appearance. It discusses the way she entombed the bodies beneath her castle. Very beautifully written song about a truly monstrous and horrid yet fascinating woman.
    Flag devilslittlesisteron November 29, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Whoever is accusing CoF of being "fake", you're damn right. But lemme ask you this: would you rather listen to a fantastically OTT and hugely entertaining, tongue-in cheek band, or the so-called "true" Norwegian po-faced black metallers who are too busy trying to convert you to their satanic beliefs instead of having a good time and getting everyone in on the joke? I quote from Metal Hammer magazine, ""Dani Filth is an entertainer, and if that's not grim or necro enough for you, then tough shit."
    Flag i_am_the_lawon October 02, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:To be fair, most 'facts' on the life of Erzsebet Bathory are, to some degree, speculation. It has been argued that many of her crimes were exaggerated, even completely fictionalised, by the accusers at her trial and hundreds of authors and historians since then.
    Her family tree was littered with inbreeding, which may have led to psychosis. the sadism of many of her ancestors doesn't put Erzsebet in a favourable light either.
    But, to whatever degree she committed these supposed atrocities, Dani has undoubtedly forged his own interpretation of her history.
    He just took a character he was obsessed with, and wrote a beautiful story of her fall from the light.
    In conclusion, I think this song is about how cool Erzsebet Bathory was.
    Flag Wackuson October 02, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:I just want to clear everything up, Elizabeth DID bathe in blood and it was proven as well and Elizabeth was NEVER raped at any point in her life. Pick up a fucking book about her her and read. no where does it say she was raped at any point in her life. And Elizabeth started killing people before her husband died. She simply dove into it more after her husband died because when he would return she couldn't have bodies everywhere, so when he died she could kill as mnay people as she wanted....goddamn you peopl are such dumbfucks
    Flag Bloodveilon August 10, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:This whole album is about Elisabeth Bathory and this song is the first of the album (after the instrumental intro). This is about how Elisabeth Bathory was raped at 13 years old, which made her a "widow from God". She departed the christian faith to become one of the most prolific killers in History.

    THis songs depicts the period from birth to the 13 year old rape.
    Flag rkcon July 28, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Just to inform: Bathory NEVER took blood-baths. That's a legend. Check out various websites and books to find out more.
    Flag PGWFRon May 31, 2006   Link

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