Moonspell - Irreligious

MOONSPELL

IRRELIGIOUS (1996)

  1. Perverse... Almost Religious
  2. Opium
  3. Awake
  4. For A Taste Of Eternity
  5. Ruin And Misery
  6. A Poisoned Gift
  7. Subversion
  8. Raven Claws
  9. Mephisto
10. Herr Spiegelman
11. Full Moon Madness

MOONSPELL

IRRELIGIOUS

1. PERVERSE... ALMOST RELIGIOUS
Instrumental

2. OPIUM

Opium, desire or will?
Inspiration bound from an elegant seed
Subversion, through smoke I foresee
Erotic motions of lesser gods in ecstasy

Opium, bring me forth another dream
Spawn worlds of flesh and red
Little jewels of atrocity
Opium, I sleep in debauchery
And burn with you
When you burn in me

Opium, we fantasize
As we fuse with your root
You are a strange flower
We are your strangest fruit

Opium, it burns in me and you
Opium, it burns for me and for you

"Por isso eu tomo pio é um remédio
Sou um convalescente do Momento
Moro no rés do chão do Pensamento
E ver passar a vida faz-me tédio".

3. AWAKE

Awake... all is dying, even the dead

We are our past failing, to come back

Awake

All of us visionaries
With a rope around our neck

Awake
Awake... all is dying

Awake
Awake... all is dying
Even the dead

We are our past failing, to come back
All of us visionaries
With a rope around our neck

Awake
Awake... all is dying

Awake
Awake... all is dying

All of us visionaries.

4. FOR A TASTE OF ETERNITY

A taste of eternity
A taste of eternity
A taste of

Your honey on coil burns
As tears drop from your grand dead womb

Undesired, I fell into your being
Releasing shapes inside of you
Seen in your wildest dreams
I am the impossibility
Of your long-kept chastity
I am your offence and you can't wait
To have me inside of you and taste

A taste
Eternity
A taste of eternity
A taste

Revolving around me
In desire, you burn
As blood drops
From your new-awakened womb

Undesired, and thrown away from your belief
I am the one you were taught to renounce
In your virginal fear
The sweat, the hands, the sleepless nights
And the violence of the silent sighs
All of them gather in me
Take my hand and taste

Take my hand
And taste eternity
And take my hand and find a new God.

5. RUIN AND MISERY

In each of your failures
I saw my victory
And each time you fall
A knife tattoos a smile
On my lips
You're now empty of life
And I am drunk with death

Raw models
Ruin and misery

Raw models
Ruin and misery

Raw models
Ruin and misery

Raw models
Ruin and misery

I can offer you a hand
To help you to hold the dagger
A perfect jewel for
Our perfect end

And as we lay, we kissed
Fingers wet with poison
Thinking to each one
There is beauty in death

Raw models
Ruin and misery

Raw models
Ruin and misery

Allow me to doubt
We were lovers who could really share
The only love between us
Was hate

Without hope we could not fear
And silent we disappeared
Hand in hand, we took our lives
And together stopped being

Raw models
Raw models

Raw models on a novel of ruin and misery
Raw models
Raw models of ruin and misery
Raw models
Raw models of ruin and misery
Raw models
Raw models of ruin and misery.

6. A POISONED GIFT

Forever young in a ground so cold
The splendor of your death still fresh to behold

In your neck an open wound
To spawn life into our love
And to feed the creatures of our world
And to feed the creatures of our world

As we taste from the poisoned gift of love
Which condemned me to forever fly alone

As we taste from the poisoned gift of love
As we taste from the poisoned gift of love

We have tasted an aged potion
The wine of life which stole us light
May we gather again and might again be as one
And to forever relish in the twin joys

As we taste from the poisoned gift of love
As we taste from the poisoned gift of love

Forever young in a ground so cold
The splendour of your dance still there to behold

Our legend is a sin in tongues
To eternal sleep, to trance we belong
We are now but an empty glance
Pallid is your state of grace

To eternal sleep we belong
Feeling the rapture of the world
Beneath the violence of this curse
From the poisoned gift of love
Once I asked you to fly
Tonight I recreate the vow:
"Do not fail to love me as I have failed to die
With you".

7. SUBVERSION

Perverse: the religion of pain
In each detail a world
I know you're hiding something.

8. RAVEN CLAWS

I remember her as a child

Raven
Raven
On and on with her raven claws
Carving
Carving
On and on with her raven claws

How she lusts when she remembers
The night of her first blow
She always wanted to know
How far could she really go

Inflamed, a dead-end room
Seduce to consume
Nightsilence, vampire, empire
Statues with open wounds

The flavour of poison and moon
Still maturing on her blood
She is not your occasional affair, no!
But eternal love, drop by drop

Raven
Raven
On and on with her raven claws
Carving
Carving
On and on with her raven claws

Daylight hurts when moonlight bites
She stakes with invisible knife
Black bird senses danger and flies
Gives peace to tall figure in dark

Little silhouette snakes
Find a warm nest behind the door
And whip-tongues and skins
Of sisters now gone

Bodyprints cover the velvet floor
Which grows red and red
They know she will hunt and hurt tonight
And they crown her queen of the dead

Raven
Raven
On and on with her raven claws
Raping
Raping
On and on with her raven claws

Will she weep for them or whip them once again?
Will she weep for them or whip them once again?

Raven, raven, raven

Craving, craving, craving, craving.

9. MEPHISTO

As madmen, some hung head down
From a long dead tree
Some discuss, all at once
For no one to hear

Variations on emptiness
Great themes on vain glory

Variations on emptiness
Great themes on vain glory

And as some go feral in strange performances
Dressing customs that are metaphors
Of your disease
Hungry eyes are looking for me

Mephisto
Mephisto
Mephisto

Laughing, I feed you
With this games, tricks and philosophies
Whose answers you would die for
In your hunger to believe

It does amuse me
And makes me wonder
For how long that it was mine
Because now it does really inflame me
As if ignorance was my secret desire

Mephisto

I am an angel who dresses in red
Riding above you, etching fire rings
I have learned to fly
Don't you remember?
While you still have not come down
From your long-dead tree

I can teach you wonders
If you give me your soul
Marvels and wild dreams
They can be yours
I can teach you how
Iron turns to gold
And how life
Can grow so old

But I am a demon who dresses in red
Mephisto
But I am a demon who dresses in red
Mephisto
But I am a demon who dresses in red
Mephisto

And I do not hope you will understand
Mephisto.

10. HERR SPIEGELMAN

Look me in the eyes and drown

"Everyone considered the man in the blue jacket
As the most beautiful human being they ever saw"

Look me in the eyes
Look me in the eyes and drown

"Nuns saw on him the Messiah in flesh
Satan's adorers the prince of darkness
Philosophers the supreme being
Young females an enchanted prince
Men an ideal reflection of themselves
Of themselves
Men an ideal reflection of themselves
Of themselves"
Patrick Süskind: The Perfume ("Story Of An Assassin")

Look me in the eyes
Look me in the eyes

I am the vulture, immoral sculpture
Mirrorman, who understands
I know you, I am you
Your fantasy, reality
I wait for you to welcome you in my dreamworld
My water-eyes
I wait for you to welcome you in my dreamworld
My water-eyes

Look me in the eyes
Look me in the eyes
Look me
Look me
Look me
Look me in the eyes
Touch me in the eyes and dream.

11. FULL MOON MADNESS

Somos memórias de lobos
Que rasgam a pele
Lobos que foram homens
E o tornarão a ser

They awake for flesh
Choose pain as path
Refuse a light
To blind you and me

Full moon madness
We are as one and congregate
Full moon madness
We rise again to procreate

Somos memórias de lobos
Que rasgam a pele
Lobos que foram homens
E o tornarão a ser
Ou talvez memórias de homens
Que insistem em não rasgar a pele
Homens que procuram ser lobos
Mas que jamais o tornarão a ser

They awake for flesh
Choose pain as path
Refuse a light
To blind you and me

Full moon madness
We are as one and congregate
Full moon madness
We rise again to procreate to seal our fate

Irreverence was cast out from the sky
And eternity lost its sex forever
And under the same heaven they vote to emptiness
They still celebrate under a full moon madness

They awake for flesh
Choose pain as path
Refuse a light
To blind you and me

Irreverence was cast out from the sky
And eternity lost its sex forever
And under the same heaven they vote to emptiness
We still celebrate under a full moon madness.

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