Cradle Of Filth - Existence Is Futile
Original Version Digipack Version Box set Version 1. The Fate of the World on Our Shoulders 1:37 1. The Fate of the World on Our Shoulders 1:37 1. The Fate of the World on Our Shoulders 1:37 2. Existential Terror 6:17 2. Existential Terror 6:17 2. Existential Terror 6:17 3. Necromantic Fantasies 5:40 3. Necromantic Fantasies 5:40 3. Necromantic Fantasies 5:40 4. Crawling King Chaos 5:27 4. Crawling King Chaos 5:27 4. Crawling King Chaos 5:27 5. Here Comes a Candle... (Infernal Lullaby) 1:28 5. Here Comes a Candle... (Infernal Lullaby) 1:28 5. Here Comes a Candle... (Infernal Lullaby) 1:28 6. Black Smoke Curling from the Lips of War 5:21 6. Black Smoke Curling from the Lips of War 5:21 6. Black Smoke Curling from the Lips of War 5:21 7. Discourse Between a Man and His Soul 5:30 7. Discourse Between a Man and His Soul 5:30 7. Discourse Between a Man and His Soul 5:30 8. The Dying of the Embers 6:08 8. The Dying of the Embers 6:08 8. The Dying of the Embers 6:08 9. Ashen Mortality 1:50 9. Ashen Mortality 1:50 9. Ashen Mortality 1:50 10. How Many Tears to Nurture a Rose? 4:34 10. How Many Tears to Nurture a Rose? 4:34 10. How Many Tears to Nurture a Rose? 4:34 11. Suffer Our Dominion 6:22 11. Suffer Our Dominion 6:22 11. Suffer Our Dominion 6:22 12. Us, Dark, Invincible 6:26 12. Us, Dark, Invincible 6:26 12. Us, Dark, Invincible 6:26 13. Sisters of the Mist 7:14 13. Sisters of the Mist 7:14 14. Unleash the Hellion 6:23 14. Unleash the Hellion 6:23 total time 56:40 total time 70:17 total time 70:17
1. The Fate Of The World On Our Shoulders [Instrumental] 2. Existential Terror Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus Pulvis Et Umbra Meaningless Is this all there is A flicker of life in a black forever? Shine a light on the bowels of Heaven Dark futures howl in her grip Frightening new constellations, headlong Press their scowls on Orion's lip Our earth is strangled From within and soon without Existential terror Four Horsemen our pall bearers Riding nightmares of purebred belief In the coming apocalypse Existential terror Furies spit on grave endeavours The world is a slippery reef Encircled by beasts of the sea 'Neath an eclipse Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus Pulvis Et Umbra The more we know, all the more we quiver On our knees before prophecies Just begun or being sung for countless centuries Psalms carved deep into our psyches Our earth, newfangled Abrim with sin and fully undevout Existential terror Four Horsemen our pall bearers Riding nightmares of purebred belief In the coming apocalypse Existential terror Bleak winds blow storm-crow scarers The world is a slippery reef Encircled by beasts of the wing 'Neath an eclipse A gnawing fear of death Of the great beyond Of the lessening bells of midnights left To dwell upon what the hell went wrong A perverse, reverse Pentecost Mass cataclysm, all is lost Accursed music of the spheres Ascends to score a bitter ending here Existential terror Pestilential errors fly In the face of planetary strife Existential terror Four Horsemen our pall bearers Riding nightmares of purebred belief In our extermination Decide Eyes scour blazing skies Time to embrace the inevitable We are all going to fucking die Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus Nothing but nothing remains Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus Nothing but nothing remains Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus Again Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus Nothing but nothing remains Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus 3. Necromantic Fantasies Lovecraft the day Bend it to Wyrd ways Life wends, a masquerade Where nothing is forever Save the grave And our desire burning Look about us now, unbowed The world is furled in tragedy And outed from the madding crowd Hurdles bless our destiny When the moon is full And the wolves howl in the forest Would you take my hand And lead us both on our dark adventure? Would we share our dreams Those necromantic fantasies? So could we ever be Apart, when our hearts align like thunder? Do what thou wilt Never got their guilt Death purrs with a sombre lilt Precious hours As sylph and Filth Are built on borrowed time So let us fly Twin spirits joined as one inside As countless devils hone damnation We shall revel in our own salvation Before we die Before high judgement comes crashing nigh Let's seat our fates together On the throne of paradise My soul was caricature, rest assured It hobbled cold and lame Then across my defenses of frost You came, eyes full of flame So when the stars spill out And the nights are filled with terror Will you whisper truth Right us from their human error? Would we share our dreams Those necromantic fantasies? So could we ever be Apart, when our hearts align like thunder? Love conquers all, love conquered me It put the Magdalen on her knees So breathe the magic in the air Tragic tastes sit everywhere As heavens fix their wrathful eye On man licking the planet dry Of leavened tears, lets you and I just spread our wings... When the moon is full And the wolves howl in the forest Would you take my hand And lead us both on our final voyage? Would we share our dreams Those necromantic fantasies? Really, could we ever be Apart, when our hearts lie six feet under? 4. Crawling King Chaos Ravaged are the heavens Seven angels are deployed The seals delivered To return us to the void And waiting on the cusp of many dusks of man He watches as the masses seek a fake salvation As He breeds annihilation Now death is law Venom dripping from the mouth of madness Incites the rites of war Prepare the heights of Empire for the agonising fall The beast is rising Enwreathed in flame The soundtrack bleeds insanity His theme, the screaming End Of Days Come Crawling King Chaos, come Sing his name in rapture, wormwood bitter, spat in tongues Of ancient Pandemonia for the ghosts all shall become Returning to the churning of primordial seas The Order Of Disorder restored through tribulation Through this bred annihilation The whole world is his church now A seismic paradigm shift to chaos Apophis Reach dark office Apophis Seize the Goddess Apophis Reach dark office Apophis Seize the Goddess Apophis Reach dark office Apophis Be the prophet's propaganda The beast is rising A cancer at the core Of everything accelerating To Death's apathetic maw The beast is rising Underlit by gore Stone tablets crack, humanity Is doomed to looming horror score Scatter brittle insects, fate is heard In the necrotic birth Of the terminus plague Satan has fallen Midst dark waters of the Earth Come Crawling King Chaos, come Mountains heave great murmurs Fires raze the forests black As billions flee the horsemen Creation, wounded, staggers back To expire in the mire, wiped from all of time It will be eternally that we never existed By this bred annihilation Apophis Reach dark office Apophis Seize the Goddess Apophis Reach dark office Apophis Seize the Goddess Apophis Reach dark office Apophis Be the prophet's propaganda The beast has risen Behind the sun The least unleashed is Armageddon For everything and everyone The beast has risen Tearing wide the door For our burning footprint On a cindered world, sinning no more A cindered world, sinning no more 5. Here Comes A Candle... (Infernal Lullaby) [Instrumental] 6. Black Smoke Curling From The Lips Of War Drunk off the wine of her mass fornication She sits astride turbulent seas Her poisoned cunt harbor to deep fascination Nations in thrall to the Great Harlot Babylon She is desire Free, swathed in dark ecstasies She will not tire Bathe in her fire, the Great Harlot Babylon I have loved her stars too deliciously To be fearful of the consequences Judgements, hellbent On vengeful wing Descend to swell her cemeteries Her orchids unfurl as bureaucracy moulders Sweet opiates further the dream The fate of the world on her silk-caressed shoulders Scarlet this woman, the Great Harlot Babylon She breeds acceptance Of greed and hypocrisy Decreed is the sentence Her prophetic downfall Unheeded by everyone I have drunk of her fruits too viciously To turn my face from her desecration From foreign shores come the claws to rend her To burn it all, this opulent splendor And cast her down in naked surrender Back to the spurn of the fall The sins of the earth have spread out her vines Eastern at birth, now she westers the vespertine Festers and shines there The scent of her fragrances hung like a noose Upon Eden's forbidden tree The Mother Of Exile, beguiling and loose Tongued like a serpent, the Great Harlot Babylon She is desire Free, swathed in grave liberties She will not tire Bathe in her fire, the Great Harlot Babylon Her putrescence blazes, deep mystery Babylon And though the skies In tumult, agonise She still swaggers in the shadow Of the towers aimed at God Black smoke curling from the lips of warfare Black smoke curling from the lips of war See, false cathedral She feeds this evil Regime with the fecal So flee from her, people For freed, the primeval Will bleed her steeples dry in every way Idolatress, Ishtar, mistress Shalt suffer a painful, shameful death Her soul disgorged And then be left with nothingness 7. Discourse Between A Man And His Soul I look back on the books of my life I've written so well Father I fell Farther I fell For coveted girls and the sins that follow them I have loved and laughed enough for half a battalion of foes But nobody knows of my inner demeanour but thee Nightmares Slink in their dark lairs Thinking of plots where Everything rings with the sting of depravity As thou have seen I have not always danced on the edge of the world I have oft lost my mind In labyrinths, blind And broken my bread with the flies I just don't want to die Without thee by my side Sated and beautiful I will struggle with keys at the gate Never a saint, far from decency's grace True to my heart Bearing off-the-chart latitudes Father I fell Farther I fell A reckless Rakehell with misdeeds that still honour me I see now that beauty held me mesmerised under a spell Father I fell Farther I fell Down slick mythic wells Where emptiness swallowed me I have lived and gasped enough For more than ten thousand shadows But nobody knows of my innermost demons but thee Nightmares Slink in their dark lairs Eyes are aflame there Waiting to sink their despicable teeth into me As thou have seen I have not always danced on the edge of the world I have succoured and fought Like a fucker for naught But the right to be left to my dreams Finally soul I am free Joyously thralled to recalled memories of yore So before I pass I must see thee if only once more Oh my beautiful friend I will love thee until the end is nigh And in time I'll find thee in my arms on the vast other side Father I fell I look back on the books of my life I've written so well Father I fell Farther I fell, a reckless Rakehell With misdeeds that still honour me I see now that beauty held me mesmerised under a spell Father I fell Farther I fell, down slick mythic wells Where emptiness swallowed me 8. The Dying Of The Embers Bloodstains, not rose petals lie on the path To the gluttonous bed of the whore For she, who is Satan, the waiting bloodbath Is preparing her nation's for war For war! Anthropogenic Dark angels wring The fabric of life free of tears Choking black fronds From the censers they bring Encircle as Apocalypse nears Midnight is the phase Seismic second waves End of final days near Sorrowed Holocene Blackened back to clean Like Man has never been here Nothing but burnt Skies ever learnt The fate of that terrible game It is not this stirred circus Strength that deserts us Fires that hurt us But the dying of the embers That murders all hope for the flame For the ghost of humanity to rise once again Unsympathetic judgement descends Nine billion souls under heel Storm-clouds ablaze, razors slice through the ends Of the Earth, with insatiable zeal Midnight is the phase Seismic second waves End of final days near Sorrowed Holocene Blackened back to clean Like Man has never been here Nothing but burnt skies ever learnt The fate of that terrible game It is not this stirred circus Strength that deserts us Fires that hurt us, that brings on the pain Nothing but burnt Skies ever learnt The fate of that terrible game It is not this stirred circus Strength that deserts us Fires that hurt us But the dying of the embers That murders all hope for the flame Our lengthening reach went astray Ignoring the laws of our brittle existence, the universe clawed And tore it away Life is a dream In an endless charade Armageddon deadens (Armageddon deadens) (Armageddon deadens, Armageddon deadens) History warned us but we chose to pray We murdered all hope for the flame For the ghost of humanity to rise once again Nothing but burnt Skies ever learnt The fate of that terrible game It is not this stirred circus Strength that deserts us Fires that hurt us, that brings on the pain Nothing but burnt Skies ever learnt The fate of that terrible game It is not this stirred circus Strength that deserts us Fires that hurt us But the dying of the embers That murders all hope for the flame 9. Ashen Mortality [Instrumental] 10. How Many Tears To Nurture A Rose? Our time together ends The sadness is over I tried my best to make amends But my heart grew cold and black I have knelt before your altar Read the missives from your psalters In many ways, I was bound to falter You gave me nothing back Religious fervour got us no further The Goddess silent to the zealots that serve her Veneration, masturbation Icons of deceit built on fluidic foundations I'd have offered you the world from an elven spire These thoughts shall not prevail For in our time, the ships had set sail Disguise the hurt with wine and fire How many tears to nurture a rose? How many thorns to tear us both into pieces? The night, the night grew chill And in its arms, I fantasized And fell into her darksome eyes I woke upon the sand The madness was over I tried my best to understand But my mind, bewitched, was gone I had crawled within her garden Seen the things that would make a soul harden Saints and sinners all begging her pardon I had hung upon her cross The taste of bliss turned to venomous piss Now the graven angels sing of loss I'd have offered you the world from an elven spire These thoughts shall not prevail For in our time, the ships had set sail Disguise the hurt with wine and fire How many tears to nurture a rose? How many thorns to tear us both into pieces? Faith bled away from the shore that day Nothing but the whispers of the vista at play Advanced, answered my Lonely prayers, my spent libations Thunder coming with a pent frustration You could have been my esteemed salvation And we'd have had it all If you'd only stepped from your pedestal I'd have offered you the world from an elven spire These thoughts shall not prevail For in our time, the ships had set sail Disguise the hurt with wine and fire How many tears to nurture a rose? How many thorns to tear us both into pieces? 11. Suffer Our Dominion The ability to sustain life on earth is shrinking In perfect unison with rising population Soon, half of all species will be lost to climate change And ecological collapse due to human activity Thus we either reduce our race voluntarily Or nature will do it for us And she will be fucking brutal A grave infection killing its beautiful host Destroying precious habitats Acidifying seas, raising the ghost Exhausting resources Retaking Eden back Inhumankind now drives mass extinction No escape from an enemy of billions Pity the poor creatures that suffer our dominion Nowhere left to live unhindered The Angel of Death slips through the creaking eaves Everywhere we touch polluted Greed sits across the table, suited Welting Mother Gaia like a rash Bow to our domination Last belts of nature 'neath the lash We need to bleed To devour all creation Feed the masters Vast abattoirs existing for our prey Breeding disaster Naive consumption Forefront of the coming plagues The end descends on all with no distinction Omnicide, Theriocide the final curtain Cataclysm close to midnight, that is certain Inhumankind now drives mass extinction No escape from an enemy of billions Pity the poor creatures that suffer our dominion Suffer our dominion We are currently consuming natural resources At almost twice the rate the planet can renew them Thus to restore the balance, nature will retaliate But it will be no subtle pruning of our luxuries It will be a cruel and merciless catastrophe on a global scale And without doubt It will be the end of life as we know it A simple fact, vast errors weigh Thus Terra acts to curb our play A coffin for the world handmade to measure From forests' twisted treasures Now lost to frost forever The end has come Jungles culled, sold on or cindered The Angel of Death slips through the burning leaves Everywhere we touch polluted Trees of wisdom long since rooted Inhumankind now drives mass extinction No escape from an enemy of billions Pity the poor creatures that suffer our dominion No escape from an enemy of billions Pity the poor fuckers that suffer our dominion No escape, no escape, no escape, no escape, no escape, no escape (So pity the poor creatures that suffer our dominion) 12. Us, Dark, Invincible Us, dark, invincible Us, dark, invincible Seize the night Before the fevers take flight Cicadas drown out delight In this horny cornucopia The stars are alight We have desires in sight Dark immortals, bedight In the throes of lycanthropia Drink deep when dusk descends The moon-kissed air That succours... Us, dark, invincible Us, dark, invincible We know our sins appall Us, dark, invincible Us, dark, invincible We know our sins appall We, the children of The Fall Dripping with gall The gothic-scarred principle Our balustrades standing tall Us, dark, invincible Freeze the day Let our nocturnal foray Keep Aurora at bay From this candlelit utopia As orchestras play Nightmares speak of the way We're painting over the grey In a dripping red sinopia Bursting with flame Seasoned teeth, never tame We're first in whispered disdain Icons for their nyctophobia We suitor ill winds Incalculable sins The face of vanity grins At our human race ectopia Drink deep when dusk descends The moon-kissed air That succours... Us, dark, invincible Us, dark, invincible We know our sins appall Us, dark, invincible Us, dark, invincible We know our sins appall We, the children of the fall Dripping with gall The gothic-scarred principle Our balustrades standing tall Us, dark, invincible Us, dark, invincible What fires die In the hearts of those awry? And what mad embers arise In the veins of the insatiable? What dreams might fly Through the mist and midnight skies When our cold souls fantasise On the warmth of walls now scaleable? Never Never will we break the vows We took when we swore to the dark Never will the shadows bow On the house of our ancient caste Never Never will their rule renew For when the Day Of Reckoning is over I'll bring their severed heads to you 13. Sisters Of The Mist Witching hourglasses Bleed the hissing sands of time As this story, gory, a catharsis Leads toward the quite sublime We have such sights to show you Enslaved from the start She captured my heart I recall our lips trembled a whisper apart And when she died I cried to darkened orders Fell fiends of the abyss (Beware their kiss) Sisters of the mist Through split lips of torture I scream out her name Clarissa, I miss her Death's fissure remains She hangs in the courtyard Neath a cold, callous moon Her bruised naked carcass Displayed for the boon Of those who desired her Fiery womb If tomorrow we burn Tonight we will seal their doom Enslaved from the start She captured my heart I recall our lips trembled a whisper apart So when she died I cried in darkened corners Fell fiends of the abyss (Beware their kiss) Sisters of the mist As guards drunkenly slept, fog crept from dank woods Slithering, slathering, beasts understood That starved, vengeful spirits of similar fates Had answered the prayers I left at their cemetery gates From the scarred side of midnight Monstrosities came Clarissa, I wished For hellfire to rain These vehement women Lithe Stygian shades Tore through the murk Like a forest of razorblades Fating, castrating Each soul to be taken And freed from my cell On reaching the gallows Enshadowed, I fell Witching hourglasses Bleed the hissing sands within As the net of retribution passes Leaving nothing breathing in its skin A waste of good suffering The coven dispel with the first rites of dawn Sated they fade, now benign I cut down my bride and cry out, forlorn Cradling her spent body to mine Then for one rent moment A miracle spurred from the pain Death lends her back to my fervent embrace Three final words as she slips to oblivion Enslaved from the start She captured my heart I recall our lips trembled a whisper apart And when she died I cried on darkened shores Despisal, reprisal for holy fists (Beware their Mephistory) Sisters of the mist Sisters of the mist Now the sun rises on streets steeped in blood I stagger her corpse to the lake The feared Water Wyrds creature up from the mud To take us to depths far away from the stake As the cold waves enclose, I shall falter no more Nothing is ghosting me back to the shore And though I have knelt at this altar before Death will unite us, our nights will be glorious Together, victorious And legendary, even in hell 14. Unleash The Hellion I have basked like a phantom in shadow Haunting gauntest opera eaves As the cast was aware of nothing more in the air Than the whisper of snow on the Autumnal breeze As the ignorant waltzed The ballad changed it's melody Shunning the sun for infernal gloom I felt joy in deep misery But fate's found me out by the plight of the moon Blazing a path that laughed at my own ill-ease Drown despair with molten deeds Fell the beast before it feeds Master the sacred Blast the horns that razed cities Tell the grating world upon its knees That I am free This tethered Hellcat is unleashed Unwinding, sore Grinding to the core This fucking Hellion is unleashed The feeling is back like a Pharaonic curse The scent of fresh blood to a ravenous thirst Lazarus risen, brought back from the dead Realisation, this seasoning dread Adrift in the cosmos, naked and rife We breed without meaning Gifted with fleeting life Drown despair with molten deeds Fell the beast before it feeds Master the sacred Blast the horns that razed cities Tell the grating world upon its knees That I am free The gates of the mind splinter open wide On rusted hinges, must infringes Senses thrust to override Explode upon reality, I thought long-lost, I failed to see The forest for the trees My fire had fled and died I now behold a dawn adorned with majesty To never dare embrace it would be a travesty A seething Chaotopia, a bedlam time story For, if this is the end I want my wretched scars to breathe Now sinkholes spit me back The shades retreat like scattered dogs As the earth is ablaze with the end of days I watch the palaces burn along with gods Portals of thought have delivered me From the brink of a stinking abyss Wherein the view was of pain and askew With an apathy born of crisis Existential, for our place in the spheres Gleamed meaningless, I must confide I suffered, a fool at the mercy of fear For what good was living when dying inside? Drown despair with molten deeds Fell the beast before it feeds Master the sacred Blast the horns that razed cities Tell the grating world upon its knees That I am free This tethered Hellcat is unleashed Unwinding, sore Grinding to the core This fucking Hellion is upon them Lyrics in plain text format