Cradle of Filth- Absinthe With Faust
Pour the emerald wine Into crystal glasses We will touch the divine Through kissed catharsis Let us pitch to the seven-year itch Of the ultra-decadent To a tainted world and the painted girls That our fantasies spent Tripping through boudoirs laced with opiate themes Sipping the bizarre, tasting copious dreams A toast to those most sacrilegious of days Where for every whim won One soon repays We touched the stars That now laugh from afar At we, the damned The damned The damned The damned We have spent our time Drenched in opulent splendour But when midnight chimes Will gilded souls surrender? Let us drink on the giddying brink Of pools of excrement All manner of shit for the glamour and glitz Mephistopheles lent I remember the night as if it were engraved A bright marble bridge stretched across dark waves To the shore from the moon and by Her grace Came that erudite stranger That fucker He was a predator, creditor cold Our blood was young on the yellowing scroll And all that glittered was not gold But we wanted everything And for it all lost our souls Come my friend, to fate let’s raise Two finger shots at this our last soiree For tomorrow I fear Swoops all too deadly near This precipitous weir to Hell’s high gate We touched the stars That now laugh from afar At we, the damned The damned The damned The damned He was a predator, creditor cold Our blood was young on the yellowing scroll And all that glittered was not gold But we wanted everything And for it all lost our …
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This is probably the best contender for my favorite COD song, mostly due to that GORGEOUS keyboard line. It gives me chills everytime, and admittedly brought me to tears once when I really got lost in the void of it’s sheer beauty. The rest of the song is much the same way, however.
Shit, this entire album is amazing anyhow, so whatever I guess.
I WISH THIS SONG WOULD NEVER END…
Lol good music, but old cradle takes the cake. Long Live Cradle.
yehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
trpp bll sta kanzoneeee!!
ahhhh… Absinthe.. a drink of the archfiends
@TomPage14 Lol, that’s my favorite part too
@JesseIsASquirrel well if he/she did they wouldn’t be posting retarded youtube comments like
this song is just soooooooo insane and totally great !!!!
@howaboutno3 Because you OBVIOUSLY know YOUR ROLE and SHUT YOUR MOUTH, right?
Cradle of Filth should know their roles and shut their mouths.
IF YA SMELLLLLLLLLLL
my favourite bit of the song is 0:00 to 5:16
fuh kin sup ha ! a lak dis fra china !
Hmmm… Absinthe…
One of my favs by them! <3
4:49 – 5:16 awesome rythm, love this part
epic
great song
@mesteren666
youtube old Rotting Christ.
@azrael754
Just take Dani Filth’s pedals away.
@Arctic2
Agreed,
This is my entrance muwsic when I come to the ring. I love this song. Me and my tag partner use another song off this album as our tage team entrance music
@normajean77 Really beauti screeeem!
2:57 to 3:10 isss so beautifuuul
Such a wonderful song…