My Dying Bride

Hold up the sun Oh, lord hold up the sun Shine it on me Glory, shine it on me Here comes the sun Oh God here comes the sun Climbing on me Dear Lord climbing on me Stabat mater dolorosa, Justa crucem lacrimosa Dum pendebit filius. O quam tristis et af

You're mine when you're bleeding 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 withi

The destroying genius of idols Will shroud the world with utter lies Dance the cobbles, his abode named Dis Portraits have spoken their masters distress Icons with kisses, tell me who have seen this Failing Enochian tapestries Depict the prince of fa

Awful man, Debris of bad home, A killer and apathic Loathsome I've become. Acreature so undome. Wretched and broken. Cannot find my faith. Any God will do. Nothing said is new Nothing said is true. Fly away my hope. The embrace of shade holds me dear

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

In fiery flight we would leave this hall The Holy house, House of God will fall To death they go with music and song But our dread simply must go on I feel our need to feed goes on For our greed, watch them bleeding on This hour's ours, with open arm

I know no shame The empire of my desire Gathers you into my fire I hope you fall. Hope you call, My filthy name. It makes you crawl On you knees, with all your pleas. Lay down there, look up at me. Are you alive my dear,and breathing? Are you disease

Pour yourself into me, Our time approaches so near, that I sigh. What danger in such an adorer? We dance and the music dies. We carry them all away, as we glide through their lost eyes. You lift me above myself, with the ghostly lake of your mind. Ar

I've seen them. so dark. Black. And yet fine. The flower they carry had once been mine. Get away from me, man of stories. Robe of lies. Stay far from me. I lie to myself (it's not hurting). I need help, but not from you or your father. No! Jesus Chri

Is there anything left Left of me to save My life is like a carnival My body a sunken grave It's what I have to do To distance me from you Lays a suffering inside And my veins are showing through A man becoming child Are you happy with your cries Wit

A boy so young, upon the gallows Gazes down like a saint From a church of children's cries The Awaited One anticipates Issued from her mouth a further request The Sons of Adam put to death A voice is heard Echoes from a hollow soul A golden word Wrap

An unfortunate journey Through a bleak sea of loneliness I carved through the waves of grief In a black vastness of self doubt I have never felt so alone So pitiful and wretched and low I'm tried by a terrible wind The misery and the pains blow Fill

Our great god lies naked next to me I witnessed death in his beauty I feel him when he breathes, as we fall and I clasp him to me as we fall Shouldering your sadness unto me The great caldera moon to the east The annihilation from your eyes Flowing d

The weary creak of my bones Exhausted voice, deathly tones Arms of lead, skin drawn tight No long a princely sight Face is gaunt, pale & thin Bent and grey and full of sin Pass to me Wine and song For i'll be Soon long gone Cast me down, upon the dus

Take my hand In your arms In your eyes I will be Forever yours Bring me down To your bed To your dreams Take my life Take everything Through those meadows Of heaven Where we ran forevermore I wish, oh, how I wish again With you. Oh, to be with you So

You, who stand there now I will not tell you not to cry Without fail my purpose Will be fulfilled I can crown you a God And You'll suffer for your sins Bound so tightly, pain is everything Far from kindness. I am your king Believe you're in Hell, but

Falling Drowning Deeper And forever Choking Sinking Deeper Into this ocean Screaming Crying For someone To save me Reaching Hoping Calling To no-one My only sin Was to kill a man Deep was my pain But I'd do the same again Beat it out Out of me Cut me

A darkness stole me away One evening of sober grey She alone did not laugh As I walk the Devil's path Without your moon and your sun I could not find my way Though I fight and I fear I will never ever pray In a tower he sits Aged with despair His ang

See the light and feel my warm desire, run through my veins like the evening sun. It will live but no eyes will see it. I'll bless your name before I die. No person in everything can shine, yet shine you did, for the world to see. All a man hath will

So vile men's torment was truly a pleasure A plain that would change mankind for ever more Catherine Blake slept fitfully in the summer night. In the heat. She murmured gently and moved smoothly, this way and that. Oh, the beauty. Her luscious eyes,