Pallid Reflection

Here forms a knotted sorrow The vivid grasp of fading faces Storm clouds plot to follow... I wander despondent, a curse on the grave Her hair in my locket, a lock of nightshade And there in my pocket, I nurse the charade Her ring is awaiting her back I watch her from shadows, pariah by day I sleep in dark belfries and cellars away From the ungiving living, their neurotic plague Has turned her, as I to the black "Faster beats the drum of dark arcanum" Marie I turned a deaf ear to heaven When the evil eye accompanied me You'll see I am no further needed in the mirror By my pallid reflection I thrust so perversely, the worst is this crave For sweet scarlet blood from a harlot parade Of dutiful victims I beautifully take With delicious malicious intent A gift from a goddess who toyed with her game The price of my night's infidelity paid At the altar of her never faltering blade Of infernal nocturnal descent "Faster beats the heart of dark arcanum" So I walk the moonlit quarters Like a driven beast of prey A catalyst for madness, slaughter Given the leash to play I'm detritus to my chosen A ghost for all her days Thus is Cocytus frozen From those loved and left betrayed Dream-dappled streams of sunshine Dread fogs shall dissipate As red skies descend on graveyard floors Where the dead exhilarate "My heart is gone Taken by a nightmare bourgeois creature Now you belong To your sick womenagerie..." N, n, no, no I'm not the reason for this bleeding N, n, no, no My past is fast leaving me Aghast in purgatory "Faster beats the heart of dark arcanum" Marie I turned a deaf ear to heaven When the evil eye accompanied me You'll see I am no longer greeted in the mirror By my pallid reflection So I stalk the moonlit quarters Like a driven beast of prey A catalyst for madness, slaughter Given the season I taste the true nature Of this secret caste This devil undone Soars free at last...