Cradle Of Filth - Manticore Lyrics






Write a story. Any story.
But let it have dragons...

O Gods of war
In the jungle corridor
I feel your haughty presence feasting the Manticore

She stalks the shadows, burning
The smoke is thick and reaks of blood
Her hunger an eternal yearning

Tantric, necromantic, a wank fantasy of faith
She religiously feeds
A feverous all man-eater
In the trees I see her eyes like slithering she of snakes
Monstrous this chimera
In her beautiful anger

Screaming from the pulpit
Damnation's oratory
She is the whispering poisoned dart
And the breath of Armageddon all around
The embodiment of evil in a body full of raptures
Anthropophagous

Manticora

Press the silent violin of frisson over horror
In my forced hand
Sphinx will sing her song and coloured in lullabies
Death endorsed invades our lands

Gigantic, pyromantic
A beast of naked flame
Panting blackened masses from her opulent Godhead
Ill-barbed are those tongues spread wings eclipse her frame
And in her deep crevasses Kundalini vents unfed

In darkness
Her fastness threshed with fleshing teeth
She comes to masticate you whole

She is the bane of mothers
Grand leveller of Maa Kali's Mardi Gras
What man would damn the world to summon her?

Be still
Pray silence lest she stoops to conquer

The perverse acid queen
Ten thousand pillars in her heart
Uphold a cracked palace of frozen killers
And the mirror in her soul
Polished black for scrying nightmares
Bubbles with a lust
That yearns to burn again

Razor backed, she attacks
Empire's battle cat
A creature of the white devil's rule
Mythical and mystical
Provinces will recall the swarm of refugees from her pall

Mimicking victims
With a voice of the choicest deadpanned in pain
Awful claws hold rapport with the skins of mankind

She is the whispering poisoned dart
And the breath of Armageddon all around
The embodiment of evil in a valley full of raptors

A lick of fire on her lips as silent as a will o wisp
She comes amongst you all, tigressive
Blazing in her pride hellraising horrors from the dark-side...

Manticore





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  1. P.... T....

    Everyone blames Paul for this bad era of CoF, but for me it’s Dani. His lyrics are so uninspired, a massive downfall from his previous work.

  2. M.... ....

    Poetic as always.

  3. B.... D....

    pws einai etsi re malakes

  4. 9.... ....

    really, evermore darkly not available on amazon.com?

  5. h.... a....

    i waiting your performance in indonesia my uncle filth
    i'm come from medan,indonesia...

  6. D.... D....

    such talent..shame their all goin to hell.

    D.... D....

    Hell is far more better than heaven that is ruled by a tyrannical vengeful gary stu in the skies.

  7. L.... d....

    Excellent music CRADLE OF FILTH!

  8. I.... J....

    increible cancion de cradle of filth

  9. M.... Z....

    Remember the shadowed blight...the Manticore

  10. m.... w....

    02:30 ... dany or dani's eyes :D ?!!!

  11. F.... M....

    Le meilleur morceaux de Cradle of Filth !

  12. P.... S....

    I wonder if this song is just one big 'EV Nova' reference.

  13. s.... ....

    Hmm, any story? I got one. Once upon a time in the land of Equestria, two hellish abominations ruled, one scorching the land in blistering heat, the other covering the land in blackness where no light shone through. Eventually, the two came into a power struggle, causing a war where blood ran in rivers as high as a horse's stomach. Fire rained from the sky, the seas boiled, the earth shook, and pools of crimson seeped into the ground as their armies clashed. When the bloodshed ended, the ruler of the night had been locked away in the moon, and the searing goddess of the sun ruled the land with a clutch as iron as the blades of her army. The end.

    s.... ....

    Hmmm B+
    Make it longer with more imagery & you got yourself an A , mister

    s.... ....

    @sephiroth8261 lolol shit that's good it needs spike in it hes a dragon

    s.... ....

    @Lauren Ross needs more Satan

    s.... ....

    @sephiroth8261 Its like behemoth vs leviathan or something

    s.... ....

    +sephiroth8261 awesome story

  14. g.... f....

    This album is totalfuckindestroyermasterpiece!

  15. D.... M....

    @Astarova Jasmine, No. All the people that dislike this album are just the whining "Oh my god cradle got bad after dusk." Swine.

  16. S.... ....

    i like this song so much, but not whole album tho

  17. B.... ....

    Are you kidding me? You ever heard of Godspeed on devils thunder or DDVA? If you have and you still thinks the same you are deaf man.

  18. M.... V....

    Absolutely f*king stunning album, they cannot ever dissapoint me. CoF for eternity ~\m/ ';..;' \m/~

  19. B.... ....

    Every albums sounds like Thornography ever since that shit got released

  20. D.... C....

    write a story any story...... BUT LET IT HAVE DRAGONS!!!! awesome way to start

  21. S.... R....

    omg me too, the lead riff is orgasmic in this part

  22. D.... M....

    Great song.

  23. B.... C....

    everytime i hear that i think of skyrim, ever played skyrim while blasting CoF? its orgasmic

  24. B.... C....

    I hope they had cake.

  25. A.... K....

    His high screams are laughable.

    A.... K....

    He sounds like a chicken with emphysema.

    A.... K....

    fuck you..... Jesus is a cunt! Cradle of Filth lives on Forever!

  26. P.... C....

    Lol ahahahahaha that was nice one :P

  27. E.... C....

    omg so gothic only its not

  28. K.... K....

    Cradle is starting to have their old style of music again. even though dani might not be able to scream like he used to. Still this album was one of their albums i truly enjoyed for quite a while.

  29. P.... ....

    You're Christ? :O
    damn
    Welcome back
    How was heaven?

  30. P.... ....

    0:00 - 5:53 Favorite Part <3

  31. P.... ....

    NO
    I preordered the album, and I wasn't disappointed one second! I LOVE THIS! \m/

  32. A.... J....

    Am I the only one who loves this album?

  33. O.... ....

    Wow humans in this world suck they cant even deal with a single manticore :p

  34. m.... ....

    write a story, any story, BUT LET IT HAVE DRAGONS!!!!!!

  35. J.... S....

    >:) ahhh i wish they made a movie/musical with metal, dude that be something i would pay to see :D and thank you

  36. G.... ....

    SPEAK THE TRUTH BROTHER!!!!!!!!!! Let the Ark Angels light be with you my good sir

  37. T.... ....

    "You're my friends if you do what I command you"? Lol,that sounds friendly...That's not friendship that's slavery.

  38. s.... ....

    I'll say this for jesus...he's dead.

  39. M.... B....

    Where the fuck is Daniels lyrics on this. Sounds like a shitty corporate hand over

  40. p.... ....

    Awesome

  41. F.... Y....

    I'm not saying it's a bad song, but nothing recent has the same feel as Nymphetamine, much less Bathory Aria. Those songs you can come back and listen to over and over again. This and their latest offerings is more a one time listen kind of thing.

  42. G.... M....

    Jesus said "So it will be at the end of the age,the angels will come forth and take out the wicked from among the righteous,and will throw them into the furnace of fire,in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."Matthew 13:49-50.Jesus also said "You are my friends if you do what I command you." John 15:14. Jesus taught that the only way to be saved is to choose him as your Lord and Master, repent and believe that he died for the sins of his people on the cross see John 14:6.

  43. M.... F....

    Nice to meet you, Jesus.

  44. J.... S....

    I applaud change but this is horrible.

    It's injustice.

  45. J.... S....

    horrible. horrible. horrible song.

  46. T.... ....

    listened to all albums growing up seen them change. I've changed stopped listening to them ten years ago came back out of curiosity and i am very impressed. They will forever be my favorite band now its time to catch up i missed ten years worth of masterpieces. Wish me luck! \m/ !!! Like they say, like a bottle of fine wine, only gets better with age!

  47. S.... ....

    Always worst ...
    The best was the first album ...
    But now they r shit on album and live

  48. F.... ....

    I think all their albums are fkn great but I really enjoy going back and listen to their earliest albums, also to see how far along they've come. Also I love the fact that each of their albums tell a story or many stories for that matter. I think they are original and they never seize to amaze me. Enough said.

  49. B.... C....

    0:37 "but let it have dragons"

    Skyrim. NOW.

  50. L.... S....

    christian * :D

  51. S.... D....

    OMG PEOPLE JESUS LIKES CRADLE OF FILTH

  52. c.... ....

    are you afraid j. bieber?

  53. Y.... H....

    Hmmm...

  54. G.... G....

    3:50 - 4:16 Favorite Part <3

  55. X.... ....

    They never fail to at least impress me. I love this new album. All you idiots complaining about the "change" need to stop. Every one of their major releases are completely different with different style and techniques. Listen to cruelty and the beast, then damnation and a day, nymphetemine, midian etc. and tell me that they don't sound different. Good bands don't need to stagnate and recycle the same fucking album over and over because that's just as much of a sell out as going "mainstream"

  56. C.... B....

    Brazilian rockers love Cradle and Dani! Awesome !!!!!!!!Great Black Metal always!!!!!!!!

  57. L.... S....

    I'm Christ, but I like them! \m/

  58. s.... ....

    Think it's time for some vocal cord surgery Dani. Love cradle and love this album but holy shit his voice is spent.

  59. m.... p....

    great album!

  60. D.... R....

    You are an idiot.

  61. F.... A....

    I love the lyrics but I have to say that the song sucks .... the old song were better

  62. s.... 8....

    where does he get the lyrics out of unreal

  63. T.... O....

    okay, seriously? quit complaining about his voice, with just Cradle Dani's been screaming at least 20yrs, that tends to do a bit to the voice does it not? at least the music is still really well put together and sounds good. go listen to the other bands i listened to growing up. while not bad, they aren't even this good anymore. slipknot, and linkin park being two big ones

  64. A.... ....

    Goooooooood :)

  65. N.... S....

    def fuck u cof forever

  66. A.... L....

    i know all their stuf... i love cradle of filth that much that i have a tattoo of them but as a fan i dislike 4 album from them and that would b Nymphetamine, Thornography, Godspeed and Darkly but i still like some songs from those albums but the albums before those are the best.. that's the cradle of filth i know... and this new album i think is very good.. and yeah is true thats good their alwasy doing something different but i just don't like it lol.. but i still love them no matter what.

  67. H.... ....

    2 words for u...fuck you
    have nice day

  68. T.... ....

    Why do all I see on here is people complaining about bands new stuff. I admit my first cradle album Darkly and I love that album but I also love cradle old stuff along with the new album.

  69. T.... ....

    TELL THEM FUCKERS HOW IT IS.

  70. K.... D....

    Yep, agree agree. So many bands out there stay the boring sounding way forever screw that, give me the bands that mix it up, go from sound to sound,there the talented ones,anyone could play the same shit sound 10 albums in a row.

  71. g.... g....

    i read that it was crap the new album but is good not their best buut preety good

  72. O.... C....

    The only COF album was V Empire. The rest are pop.
    =

  73. W.... L....

    Assuming Dani wrote the lyrics about his wife :)

  74. M.... S....

    I love EVERY, and I repeat EVERY album of COF [including Nymphetamine and Thornography which have a brilliant direction in my opinion] but Darkly, it's the worst album has ever been released. After listening to Manticore a few times, I gotta say it's a great album, back with the melodies and diversifying and not like Darkly, all about double bass and screaming like stupid. The thing is, Dani needs to rest a bit because his voice can't take it anymore.

  75. s.... ....

    Hmmm honestly. I haven't really seen Cradle change since their first album. But yeah, every album is unique.

  76. N.... ....

    Beautiful addition

  77. J.... S....

    hahah the so called facts you people come up with to point out cradle of filth sucks is pure opinions and lacks proof thereof. You don't like cradle of filth now because they have changed, and those afraid to change are crushed by it and left behind. Cradle of Filth is one of the best bands out there, each album is new, unique and the embodiment of art itself. i enjoy every album they have done, Shut up and come up with a more logical way to say the reason why you don't like cradle of filth

  78. T.... ....

    10/10 troll!

  79. d.... ....

    that s better !

  80. N.... 2....

    Immanifest. next big thing in symphonic black metal

  81. d.... ....

    Dimmu sucks ! now Cradle too !
    sorry !

  82. A.... L....

    cradle of filth died after Godspeed?? i don't think so.. i would say they died after Damnation... but this album kick ass.. i like it more than the last 2 albums or i would say than the last 4 albums after Damnation.. and his voice is understandable coz he's getting old and he's been screaming for many years so that's normal... they just don't wanna make music like they used to..

  83. J.... G....

    I just realised that the real problem with their latest songs are the melodies of the vocals! They re almost in the same range like they re in a hurry completing the album!and i didn't compare it with midian stuff or cruelty or even succubi! just listen to a random song from nymphetamine, let's say absinthe with faust... even with godspeed which i don't prefer, let's say death of love... pity guys! let's hope rest of songs be better!

  84. C.... G....

    J'adore ! C'est vraiment du bon Cradle comme j'aime !! J'ai encore plus hate de les voir en concert en Belgique ou en France !! Ca va donner !!

  85. n.... ....

    this song is badass..!! thinking about buying the album

  86. T.... ....

    Finally somebody who finds Venus Aversa great! I love that album, it's my favourite too!

  87. a.... w....

    see you soon in Cracow!

  88. W.... L....

    They're the only "official" members currently

  89. F.... P....

    Venus Aversa is by far, my favourite album... funny.

  90. M.... S....

    COF died after Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder, or it's just the voice of Danny..

  91. a.... ....

    looks promising

  92. A.... M....

    Probably not Cradle's best but also everything they put out is enjoyable im looking foward to the album regardless

  93. C.... ....

    Fucking love it !!

  94. D.... ....

    LOVE IT. NUFF' SAID.

  95. Z.... K....

    Good song there but they have done better. But hey, this one is still good

  96. m.... ....

    I don't know, for me CoF is now really shitty.

  97. C.... P....

    CAN NOT FUCKING WAAAAIT!!!....but i guess i have to......