Cradle of Filth – Scorched Earth Erotica

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Sunset, expect
This to be your last with Our vast return
As Death is set
At three sixes where hill-beacons burn

Darkness, undress
Your descending skirts yield a thirsting altar
Blood-red, yet still unfed
Lips distend ending, time to falter

Welcome arms wide and crucified...
The slaughter

Lightening freezes seven
Outtakes from the rape of the world
Sins expelled from Heaven
Now befoul from the bowels of Hell

Where the tragic in theory and practice fell

Last prayers, hang in the air
Each unto their own rag and bonemeal saviours
Strung where crippled vultures dare
Golgotha
Coughs another cross to grave God's failure

Once the forests spired
Nurtured in Nature'heart
Now dreat cedars feed the pyres
Need-fires lit for greater harm
As Her children toy with razors

Sightless and deeply scarred
And the moon arose to phase Her
Cracks a grin so wide it hides the stars

And lights Our path
Back through the shattered glass

(We come like drumming thunder
Tides enwreathed in scum and plunder
Kraken-teethed to tear asunder
All those too blind to see...)

Where the tragic in theory and practice meet

Deranged, uncaged
We rage like a plague through this age of greed
Sowers of discord, growing wars to reap
A terrible crop to beat a vicious retreat

Scroched Earth, rebirth
Disintered in the writhe of the lone survivor
Whose worth is worse than the curse
Of Sardonicus choking on his own saliva

Who shares the last laugh now
Dead wedded fates fulfil their vows ?
Foot in mounth of sacred cows
Facedown in dust and poisoned ground...

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Lyrics submitted by screwi

Track duration: 04:55

"Scorched Earth Erotica [Nasty Version]" as written by Paul James Allender, Dani Davey, Robin Mark Eaglestone, Adrian Paul Erlandsson, Gianpiero Guiseppe Piras, Martin F. Powell

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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    Song Meaning:I always thought that this song meant damnation e.g a nuclear holocaust or disease for example the end verse line "foot in mouth of sacred cows" meant to me foot and mouth disease a disease that infects farm live stock and can be passed onto humans if the infect animal is consumed. The nuclear holocaust thory is the intro line "sunset expect this to be your last.." and at the end of that verse the words "beacons burn!" then "darkness" which came after that.
    Flag Danidirton May 30, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:you can hear the () part if you go to like youtube and watch Scorched Earth Erotica Demo(n) version
    Flag JustinGaffneyon December 31, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:This song is awesome. After the pile of Vomit called Midian, I was excited to see Cradle of Filth to get back to (what I had hoped at the time) was awesome music. This is one of the Best Cradle Songs (Aside from Ebony and Lustmord and Wargasm), and the last great song they ever wrote.

    Too bad it gets no attention.
    Flag arsis_of_osirison September 24, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Seems to be about a Rapist or etc.

    Sardonicus is a facial spasm. Your mouth falls open and your eyebrows go up, then choking? Sounds like the character is giving someone a blowjob.

    "Your descending skirt yields a thirsting altar!"
    That's self explanitory
    Flag James Sixxon March 26, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:indeed. sardonicus is when your mouth is stretched out and your eyebrows are pulled upwards. It's kinda scary really, and when you think about the way the mouth is positioned, it makes sense that someone might choke on saliva.
    Flag Real Raamison November 10, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:to nemoseiya: u probably only have the song from the bitter suites to succubi cd, its not in the song on that cd, only on the version from the live bait for the dead cd (the second, extra cd) dani whispers it at 2:24 gd luck finding it

    xxx GREAT SONG btw ;)
    Flag ErzsebethBathoryon August 25, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I think this song basically means the up coming when the end of days returns and the devil dominating the world if he won I'm not a satanist but i think its a kool song by c.o.f
    Flag slimdudeon April 30, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I think this is about a rape-murderer who goes on a vicious spree before succumbing to a disease (STD?) and forced to hide away from the world. And Dani says terminus, you can quite clearly hear the 't' the first few times he says it.

    note: sardonicus is a facial spasm.
    Flag Username.is.takenon March 23, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:dani is the fucking man in this video. cool in every way.
    Flag The Boon March 22, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:aw! my first COF song.
    Flag InsatiableDickon February 01, 2007   Link

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