My Dying Bride
			Macabre Cabaret

1. Macabre Cabaret

Gold blood drawn from my chest
A gift from my cold breast

From the house of ashes I
Took my leave to be here now

With black wings high
Ashes spread wide

I fed on shadows from your
Broken heart and your dry well
I became a beast lost in
legends of your old soul

My soft white hands felt
The pulse of her neck
Her soul flows out like a river
Ashes spread wide

Her sweet music crying softly
Into the night from a lonely soul
How do I earn such love as hers?
I am deprived of her gentle throne

I am tall with wreaths of triumph
I ate away all her modesty
I bind her here one thousand times
And wait beastly until her life chimes

With black wings I raise her up to my lips
Her body and mine fulfil the eclipse


2. A Secret Kiss

I once held a secret hand
And the women cried
Will you please hold us?
Then left

She once took a secret kiss
From the poor boys lips
As a last request

Awake! Wide awake!
Awake! Wide awake!

Holy special child
Could not even smile
Holy special child
Could not even smile

I once heard a tolling bell
And the women cried
Can you please save us?

Awake! Wide awake!
Awake! Wide awake!

He once wrote down holy words
In a golden book
That may save us all
Then left

Awake! Wide awake!
Awake! Wide awake!


3. A Purse of Gold and Stars

Your summer breathes aloud
Your prayer was overheard
Your love letters were full
of severe words
The language of dreams
The offerings of your shrine
Am I what you seem?
Well, just pour the wine.

I bring back to you
Only the things I owe
I built a pure white castle
For you to grow
The clothes you wore
You dropped them one by one
The duty of lovers
Has now begun
A mouth drawn to a mouth
And I don't ask when
I ended up as your lover
Wrapped inside your skin
I enter the labyrinth
Of moonlit skin
I've worn out my heart
That you now live in