My Dying Bride - Meisterwerk I

MY DYING BRIDE

MEISTERWERK I

  1. Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium
  2. The Crown Of Sympathy
  3. The Grief Of Age
  4. A Kiss To Remember
  5. Grace Unhearing
  6. For You
  7. Unreleased Bitterness
  8. Sear Me III
      Bonus Video Track
  9. The Cry Of Mankind

MY DYING BRIDE

MEISTERWERK I

1. SYMPHONAIRE INFERNUS ET SPERA EMPYRIUM

The destroying genius of idols
Will shroud the world with utter lies
Dance the cobbles, his abode named Dis
Portraits have spoken their masters distress
Icons with kisses, tell me who have seen this
Failing Enochian tapestries
Depict the prince of fallen virtues
In almost poetic rhapsody
Masturbate to the sound of the knell
The pathetic stench of dying children
Perhaps our fall is certain
Limbs entwined in absolute contortion

Please put off your hat
Your heart is blameless
And I shudder for knowing it

A hot May makes a fat churchyard
And lychfowel breed in chaotic frenzy
Her cry was the saddest of all earths sounds
Trauma bites hard the hearts of Kin
Swept away by a moments sadness
They say rage is a brief madness
By way of the beloveds farewell
Give back to nature what we first took
And monuments would slowly fill
The agendas' of Kings and Queens
In silence our faces bleed
The holy voice torn away by the gale

Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

Love is a game where both players cheat
Gone is the tale of Hero and Leander
Women are angels yet wedlock's the devil
To have and to hold but death no longer parts
Harlots and sluts, whores of our world
Expose their stinking vaginas'
Many who have no will of their own
Hold their souls towards the sinister bloom
Are you rich oh lord of vanity
As you peddle your wears of cruelty
Dressed up so you look the part
So blind, it's ignorance you wear

Quite brutal beyond belief
Sores that weep their septic tears
Dragged out through war torn lifetimes
And death shall feast on us all
The mills of God grind slowly
The adorable light of that which is most divine

The fascination of her shape
With mansions of awe and splendour
Elegant in simplicity
So at last your faith rewards you
Through fields enriched with pastel shade
And fragrant lavenders soft to smell
You laugh and drink wine of no great age
Nature does scent the farthest shores
Face to face your angelic host
All hopes in you imperishably kept
Is God your wish and all your dreams
If your body is frail then yes by all means

Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you.

2. THE CROWN OF SYMPATHY

See the light and feel my warm desire
Run through your veins like the evening sun
It will live but no eyes will see it
I'll bless your name before I die
No person in everything can shine
Yet shine you did for the world to see
All a man hath will he give for life?
Life that's lost bleeds all over me

Fallen before but it never hurt like this
Don't leave me here to crawl through the mire
I'm without fault before the throne of God
Take from me the crown of sympathy

What do you think you'll see?
What do you think there'll be?
Sit down!
Did you see the sun?
What will we become?
Great ones?

The mouths that dare not speak his name
Behold them, raised, complete and fine
The battles for our lives are oh so brief
Take my hand and please walk with me

When I was young the sun did burn my face
I let its love and warmth wash over me

The melting voice of many in the hush of night
Whispering tongues can poison my honest truth
Come dress me with your body and comfort me

I dreamt of a dead child in my sleep
I wear a terrible mark in my head

My clean, white bed
It calls to me
I must lie down, down, down
And I want you to lay with me in sympathy
Here, here

No sad adieu's on a balcony
For one last time, just walk with me
At the beautiful gate of the temple
We must be saved, saved
For deadened, icy pain covers all the earth
Cold, cold

What do you think you'll see?
What do you think there'll be?
Sit down!
Did you see the sun?
What will we become?
Great ones?

3. THE GRIEF OF AGE

The terror of being
Left alone
Never leaves me
Unspeakable woes
Gather me
Up forever
To your breast
Morbid weather

Watch this face
Still a child
Eyes red raw
Aching and tired
Issue your
Delicate voice
Sing through me
Men are twice boys

Childrens waking fears
Of the supernatural
Choke their simple thoughts
Crush our simple minds
I feel sometimes
A hell within myself

The terror of
The piled earth
Hiding me
Will end this man forever.

4. A KISS TO REMEMBER

Open me
And drink up my scarlet
Kiss me deep
Kiss me deep and love me forever more
Bloody love
Bloody love inside of you
Swallow me
Thank God, there's nothing I can do

Come with me my friend, come and see the end
And let me swallow up your pain
Leave the village lights, step into the night
Open your mouth to my bloody rain
And at your second birth, we will slay the earth
And stalk mankind 'til heaven burns
Just lay down for me, naked for me to see
It's just one kiss, that's all I need

Take me down
Down to the bloody shore
Dig me deep, dig me deep
And leave me forever more
Lay me down
Down with all of them
And forget me
Like you forgot the rest of them.

5. GRACE UNHEARING

Falling, drowning, deeper and forever
Choking, sinking, deeper into this ocean

Screaming, crying for someone to save me
Reaching, hoping, calling to no-one

My only sin
Was to kill a man
Deep was my pain
But I'd do the same again

Beat it out, out of me, cut me up and watch me bleed
Strike me down, cast me out
Throw me into the ocean's mouth

My only prayer
Was to a God
Who I don't believe
But all the same, I'm on my knees

My only sin
Was to kill a man
Deep was my pain
But I'd do the same again

Beat it out, out of me, cut me up and watch me bleed
Strike me down, cast me out
Throw me into the ocean's mouth

My only prayer
Was to a dying God
Who I don't believe
But all the same, I'm on my knees

Beat it out, out of me, cut me up and watch me bleed
Strike me down

Take me away
To a better place
Far from anyone
By myself and leave a gun

Beat it out, out of me, cut me up and watch me bleed
Strike me down, cast me out
Throw me into my saviour's mouth.

6. FOR YOU

I will be here for you
All I want is you
When I see your face
All the angels are shamed

Lay with me, beauty
Feel me close to you
Take my hand to you
Touch you softly
Your warm skin

Cover me with you
Over me, under you
Pull me in to you
As one we lay entwined

All I ever wanted
I have, I never wish again
You are heaven sent

All I ever wanted
You are
You are heaven sent.

7. UNRELEASED BITTERNESS

Adorn magnificent costume
For I come to judge the world
Be with me here in my dark place
Let yours be mine
Cut me and I do not bleed
Heat is my body
The poor and simple fools
Equal under my presence
Lift up your head

Blessed in the womb that bare thee
Feed us with knowledge
Release us from atrocities
And shades of sinister figures
Bare witness to this orgy of glory
Groping at my naked privacy
Unleashing pure bitterness
And I did bleed over them

Hindered by savage plague
Offspring wasting away

Christ, where is your mercy?
Do listen to me pray?
Cast upon us a pitying eye
The baptism is such as is
Of riper years
Am I blind? Who are you?

He died that you might live
And lived only to cleanse you
From sin's polluting stain.

8. SEAR ME III

Come to me
Comfort me
Take my hand

In your arms
In your eyes
I will be
Forever yours
Bring me down
To your bed
To your dreams

Take my life
Take everything
Through those meadows
Of heaven
Where we ran forevermore
I wish, oh, how I wish again
With you
Oh, to be with you

So lay me down
Close to you
Hold me now, my lover
I kiss your tears
My sweet one
And kiss again, my love.

Video Bonus Track

9. THE CRY OF MANKIND

You can't expect to see him and survive
You'll swallow his tongue of thorns
His mouth, dripping with flies
In his glorious kingdom of fire
But I believe he wept

I will make them all lie down

Down where hope lies dying
With lust, you're kicking mankind to death
We live and die without hope
You tramp us down in a river of death
As I stand here now, my heart is black
I don't want to die a lonely man
This is a weary hour
This is a weary hour.

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