Midnight Shadows Crawl to Darken Counsel with Life

Sometimes I beheaded them, with daggers, with poignards, with knives

Sometimes I suspended them in my room from a pole, or by a hook and cords and strangled them

And when they were languishing, I committed with them the evils of the flesh

The evening air laps thick about

The stagnant moat that Tiffuages claims

As dusk now slips away

Where taught to run, the rotten tongue

Of a hotter Götterdämerung

Has started licking like a flame

Whispers in the dismal mist

Are full of crystal promises

Black rites begun in earnest

Ignite Hell's hungry furnace

Behold the bold inauguration of the dark side

Demonic passions climbing

Ill-fated stars aligning

Tonight these sights are guaranteed to feed the master

The tide of blood is rising

His gifts will be providing

Unmasked, the phantom lord de Rais

Haunts the furthest tower

Wherein death has sucked the hour

There, throttled gasps are tantamount to foreplay

And drooling razors next to come

Unspool red secrets from the young

The moon grinned full, the games were chaste

When the children first arrived

Now midnight shadows crawl apace

To darken council with their lives

Flesh and ecstasy as sport

Are immortal vices of the highest order

Wherein devilry holds sway

Behold blind walls where these cockatrice squalled

Their songs of Necronomicon

Spoke out of Gilles de Rais

Behold the bold inauguration of the dark side

Demonic passions climbing

Ill-fated stars aligning

Tonight these sights are guaranteed to feed the master

The tide of blood is rising

His gifts will be providing

Unmasked, the phantom lord de Rais

Haunts the furthest tower

Wherein death has sucked the hour

There, throttled gasps are tantamount to foreplay

And drooling razors next to come

Unspool red secrets from the young