Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth - Death, The Great Adventure lyrics
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being Sometimes red curtains fall Before the act has headed for the wings As on that night disaster crawled out from the stalls... Suddenly the dark, the thickest Stygian dark Pressing on all sides with vertigo Running from the quickest in the sickest abyss My spirit’s lifted by an angel of woe A dredged up dreadful past Drags discordant thoughts my way Unforgiven and driven to despair I sense the mordant wraith Azazel Standing there Now the vision simmers I spy a distant gleam Racing ever closer Through this persistent dream And by it's welcome glimmer Writhing into sight The brutish groping nightmares That hide beside the light Then a roar And a voice like a pride of lions Thunders from the maw In a blackened mass The creatures flee Screaming bloody murder as A shining gateway opens for me Death, the great adventure At the peril of my soul I welcome death, the great avenger Spared this awful realm Where those who stalk the living haunt the murk Untethered pleasures keep them tied to flawed Human I'm floating upwards still, to where the tunnel mouth reveals Two manticores that ward an ebon door I must lean resolve as the luminance dissolves And I am thrust headlong into the venomous jaws I am in darkness again But here accursedness is vastly deeper Unforgiven and given to torment I am nothing Grotesque, grotesque, bereft of judgement This abyss, a void Where stripped of all but self One must wish to be destroyed To pass on somewhere else Beyond this pit of wicked shouts Of madness and fallacies Aeons I failed to rail my doubts Before fear left love saving me Then a roar And a voice like a clash of titans Thunders from the maw In a seething mass The horrors flee Screaming bloody murder as A shrouded sky opens immensely Listen! What Eden shall arise Abundant from the cliffs that stunt hell’s Redundant cries? A view of breathtaking beauty Unveils, as the sun dispenses perversities Death, death, the great adventure For the glory of my soul I welcome death, the great avenger The damaged man revives With dawning truth, this morning suits The world I left abruptly In exaltation, I find myself alive Near—death to steer a long life led corruptly The sweet silver chord that keeps me moored I know that heaven sent her From the cold to hold her face again I rose from death, the great adventure