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Howitzer glare and spitfire blade
Wooed by Dresden serenades
Her soundtrack now a bombing raid
Bored of vaudeville
God was six days sober
On the night she was born
To the glistening star of a bible class
An icon now in religious porn
She was Alice through the gloryhole
An ejaculate misconception
Disney-esque, the high priestess
Of greed and deepest dark deception
All best-to-bury whims
For Miss Libertina Grimm
She, that little red riding crop
Brer Werewolf at her stocking tops
Beneath the tightened leather strop
on the Basque of houndervilles
At the stroke of midnight come
She polished verse and curses
In a poisonous pen dipped in omen
To her surgeon full of general curses
In the hand of morgue redeemers
Though the dead always pleased her more
Squatting in their coffins
Flirting curtsies to the thirteenth floor?
Tip your hats
For sweet Libertina Grimm
Fantasy and candy stores
Snow white and the seven straws
Smoke and mirrors on all fours…
Libertina Grimm
Her brothers grim, her sisters through
The final dance will be the cue
She amputates to fit the shoe
Libertina Grimm
Libertina Grimm
Mystery kindled in a blackened room
Nine candles lit to improve the gloom
She see the dark as she feels her womb
Full of little secrets
They haunt her heart, those precious few
Those Count Lestats and Betty Blues
Those tortured souls just like me and you
Full of hidden secrets
No, don’t go
Don’t you leave me here
So alone
Libertina
No, don’t you go
Don’t you leave me here
So alone
Where the dead are free to roam
Wooed by Dresden serenades
Her soundtrack now a bombing raid
Bored of vaudeville
God was six days sober
On the night she was born
To the glistening star of a bible class
An icon now in religious porn
She was Alice through the gloryhole
An ejaculate misconception
Disney-esque, the high priestess
Of greed and deepest dark deception
All best-to-bury whims
For Miss Libertina Grimm
She, that little red riding crop
Brer Werewolf at her stocking tops
Beneath the tightened leather strop
on the Basque of houndervilles
At the stroke of midnight come
She polished verse and curses
In a poisonous pen dipped in omen
To her surgeon full of general curses
In the hand of morgue redeemers
Though the dead always pleased her more
Squatting in their coffins
Flirting curtsies to the thirteenth floor?
Tip your hats
For sweet Libertina Grimm
Fantasy and candy stores
Snow white and the seven straws
Smoke and mirrors on all fours…
Libertina Grimm
Her brothers grim, her sisters through
The final dance will be the cue
She amputates to fit the shoe
Libertina Grimm
Libertina Grimm
Mystery kindled in a blackened room
Nine candles lit to improve the gloom
She see the dark as she feels her womb
Full of little secrets
They haunt her heart, those precious few
Those Count Lestats and Betty Blues
Those tortured souls just like me and you
Full of hidden secrets
No, don’t go
Don’t you leave me here
So alone
Libertina
No, don’t you go
Don’t you leave me here
So alone
Where the dead are free to roam
Lyrics submitted by cradleoffilth1
Track duration: 05:51
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1. "Brer Werewolf at her stocking tops". "Brer" means "brother" as in the old fable "Brer Rabbit" "Brother Rabbit". So... Brer Werewolf... at her stocking tops "Brer", the 'male essense' at her stocking tops. Also, what do werewolves do? They change. They TRANSform.
2. "...To her surgeon full of general curses". Often times transsexualism requires surgery.
3. "Her brothers grim, her sisters through The final dance will be the cue She amputates to fit the shoe
Libertina Grimm". Why even meantion "brothers, sisters" i.e. - male/female dichotomy? And finally the biggest tip off is the lyric "she amputates to fit the shoe". Its a metaphor. What shoe is SHE trying to fit? Being the shoe of "An ejaculate misconception Disney-esque, the high priestess". She is amputating something to fit the shoe of her role the song describes. What she is amputating is her "brother grim" to become a "sister through".
Really pretty obvious. Think about it.
Eden Astarte
4. "Libertina". Female version of a "Libertine". One who is at liberty. One who liberates themselves from all convents, social, spiritual, etc.
5. "Smoke and mirrors on all fours". She is "smoke and mirrors" - that is her femaleness, is an illusion. The illusion is realized when she is on "all fours" - when are women found on all fours...? hence during that situation it is clear that the illusion is all "smoke and mirrors".
6. "She sees the dark as she feels her womb". Her womb is "dark" as it is barren. It bears no light - no life.
Eden Astarte
She is a gluttonous Miss Muffet, the fairy-tale girl who ate the big bad wolf, the beauty who slept with one eye on the coming talent.
Libertine Grimm is every goth girl's coven mistress.
-from cradleoffilth.com/descriptions.html
Alot of disney/fairy tale puns in here.
But what stood out the most for me were the cinderella references. "At the stroke of midnight come"
"The final dance will be the cue, She amputates to fit the shoe"
I remember in one version of cinderella I heard when I was little is that one of the step sisters cut off her big toe or part of her foot in order to fit into cinderella's shoe. Thus the "amputated" reference.