The Dreadful Hours
Original Version Promo Version 1. The dreadful hours 9:23 2. The raven and the rose 8:13 3. Le figlie della tempesta 10:08 4. Black heart romance 5:24 5. A cruel taste of winter 7:36 6. My hope, the destroyer 6:45 7. The deepest of all hearts 8:56 8. The return to the beautiful 14:24 1. The Dreadful Hours (early mix) 9:31 total time 70:49 total time 9:31
The Dreadful Hours Mother will you take me down? I have become so afraid Mother please, please take me down Sorry, your boy is not brave Child just hold on. Night will soon be gone Sleep if you can. But watch your father's hand We do not want you. No-body loves you Father of the dark. Tonight will greet you God in heaven, can you hear me Help me Oh Lord. They're coming for me Mother warned me. Father scorned me Oh my God No. Now I hear him I claim your life on this night within sight of your own God The silence, the waiting then the pain Oh child, sleep will be here soon Your life has only ever been shame And so young boy, my hand brings doom Child, won't you awake. Father has gone Child, please come awake. Please my tiny son The Raven and the Rose The chosen one glows like the sun Pure of heart, wide in eye Sweet she sings, sings her hymns Golden girl dances by He is filth. Scum of God Black as night. Mute and sick Sent by the Lord. The boy his sword To reap the gold. To use the stick He watches her from his side in the blood Waiting for the holy call for her blood Every moon she comes close to her Lord Sick with suffering. The stench and filth of him Death all around him. The flies, the dogs, the din King of death and pain. Ruler of the slain All in Gods name. Creatures for the maim I'll come for you soon for my God is my want Your eyes. Your face. An angel for the world to see My God is my want Sickle in hand. Over her I stand Fear and love. Red and tears I see My God is my want. My God is my want My God is my want. My fucking God is my want There he lay for his God. A final time The silent one. Fallen son. A final night Le Figlie della Tempesta Before I go down Cleave to me Kiss and drown Weave your web of lies Catch the drifters by The wind brings them in To your den of sin Caught by your divine spell Locked within your wishing well Ice as eyes lured my soul Look of lust froze me cold Many lies holds your body A true feast for all to see Men will fall to her song Women too, won't last long Black Heart Romance You're mine when you're bleeding Divine to the end Bid adieu to your breathing No more pretence I will witness your leaving With tears in my eyes But not for your sleeping Just when you arise The girl you take in you Will now cease to be And the woman within you At last can be free Passions and crime. Your lover and mine Deep came the need. And sweet was her bleed Through purity and through light And the grace of the night We sing and we dance To our black heart romance Hair fall of black. Eyes don't look back Pale skin and cold. Lying in her fold She came, she saw, she took anything she liked My eyes burned with her horror They fell, they screamed, they wept but they died From hands of the abhorrer We are hers when we are bleeding The love that we feel Amourous when she is feeding My heart shen can steal A Cruel Taste of Winter Walk with, with me. I'll be your Shadow God For now, just now. Give your life to me Your hope, your hope. I feel its steady hand Your heart, your fear. Take off and flee Trust me, just me. I'll catch you if you fall My arms run deep. Run unto my call I'll lead you into danger And all that troubles man I'll lead you far from hunger Just take my frozen hand You'll want the world to praise you And gather at your feet You'll want my blinding light And my searing heat I will lift you above their crying world Into your heart comes the love of fear You vanity, your sanctity Your kindless heart Your reverance. Your ignorance Your black uncaring eyes No sumpathy for humanity. Bleak horror The genocide, the parasites The kingdom of the ghost At one with fear Careless if you fall Beneath the earth Your heart may feel the call Can't let your mind be tainted By the praying men Divinity burns in thunder Over again Eventide. By your side All things because of you Fantasize. At my side. The lonely, the few God above. Lord and love. It's fools love heart of fire. Lord and liar don't falter My Hope the Destroyer Weeping with you. Arms around them Flowing with you. Without your men Keeping with you. Feeling their shiver Drowning with you. Deep in this river Tired and lonely. Sitting and staring Weak and filthy. No longer caring Wasting to nothing. The rubble of you Hoping for something. Poison where love grew People. Feel her mind She is broken People. Fill your eyes Her body is broken Leave me be, with my memories I can still see all the lovers of me I still know those feelings You're still mine, my lover I watch over you Goodbye my lover No sorrow. Please, no tears Holy and fallen. Watch yourself die Fade and wither. Long lost the fight Tremble to sleep. Her man long gone Years, and still weeps. Never forgotten The Deepest of all Hearts Your soul is my desire. Desire I can't control Be still my aching heart. Each beat you have stole Your mind calls to me. Calls me closer to you Be calm my aching heart. The ache drives me to you Your eyes. The depth I see. So deep The tears you cry will devour me A flower to behold Don't run. Don't blow away Breathless to my eyes So bright. Never to fade Calmness and mystery Entwines and captivates me Delicate to the touch From what I could see I only wanted to get you close to me To feel the love inside of me You turned away from me You looked the other way You didn't see my tears for you I only wanted to take you in my arms, And lay you down here with me You tried to turn and flee from my side You tore out the heart of me If only you had stayed. What may have been? We could have been beautiful Could have walked the earth, flown into the skies, Swam the deepest of the seas But you couldn't see anything in me You strayed too far from my path Maybe now you'll see everything in me I'm sorry it had to be this way Your eyes. Your smile No more laughter again We were something No more. Nothing to me Now I walk alone. Naked to the bone My heart has fled far from me Until another day. I find the one, Who looks beyond the eyes in me The Return To The Beautiful The Silence Oh beautiful earth For too long you have been silent Touch me once again The dark ground lies cold Et gelidus hoc voluntas firmamentum Hark Yes it is I The fever of mankind Urges whorish as ever I am the new Christ Silence yourself Nunquam You are powerless here Pityful one Pity me not Give back the sun Souls will mourn In this unending season of darkness Beware, ravaged one Mine is the might If you're feeble, turn away No dagger glints in my hand Technique is secret Liar She have herself to me The Sadness Please leave I think I'll close my eyes now The first sunshine was mine Look for me among the flowers Sleeping with the earth My Dying Bride The pity I fashion Through a rain of tears A tragic opus Immeasurable loss Tearful I rest Bask in my growing sorrow The Lust The females is such exquisite hell Lay my obscure hands upon you Macabre, erotica, passion Even in death, beauty is with you I extol you with loud praise You will grace my procession Why shouldn't I indulge In my own desires? Bare your breasts to slow kisses The Battle Away bastard dog Nunquam Down from your throne Nunquam A dagger glints in my hand Am I afraid? You'll perish alone Ha Pray to me Blasphemy Cry on me Die on me Let me out Let me out! Let me out!!! Suffer in your nakedness Before your dark art The filth and the stench of you I cry for you Is hell in itself Your reign is over now The sunlight will return To this once petrified earth Ego deicere tu pereant The Return Make me faint with unending kisses My passions have all returned Warm my trembling hands We're scope for the tragedians I can see from your smile You're not here for the sunset Lyrics in plain text format	Line up Adrian - Bass Shaun - Drums Aaron - Vocals Hamish - Guitar Andrew - Guitar Artwork Info Recorded at Academy Studios 2001 Engineered by Mags Produced by Mags and Andrew Craighan Keyboards by Johnny Maudlin of Bal-Sagoth Except "A Cruel Taste of Winter" by Yasmin Ahmed All songs by My Dying Bride www.mydyingbride.org Artwork by Aaron Stainthorpe www.aarq.co.uk In memory of Darren Dickinson Review Usually when listening to a new My Dying Bride album first I hate it, then I have to listen to it some more, and then I get completely addicted to it. This album wasn't so, I think the style here is so similar to The Light... that there was nothing I had to get used to, I just liked it from the first time I heard it. I guess I'm also a bit disappointed by this, that there are no big surprises style-wise, just more of the same. Though after quite some listens I did discover more and more beautiful things in it. Well, the title track is just great, the "filie..." song is quite unlike anything they've ever done and after some months "The deepest of all hearts" also sounds better everytime I hear it. "Then return to the beautiful" is of course a remake of "The return of the beautiful" from their debut album. It sounds a bit different, not better nor worse, but I do think it's a shame they didn't make it differ more from the original, like the two "Sear Me" remakes. Ah well, still it's just another masterpiece of the gods of doom... Rating: 8 out of 10