Cradle Of Filth - The Forest Whispers My Name Lyrics






Black candles dance to an overture
But I am drawn past their flickering lure
To the breathing forest that surrounds the room
Where the vigilant trees push out of the womb

I sip the blood-red wine
My thoughts weigh heavy with the burden of time
From knowledge drunk from the fountain of life
From Chaos born out of love and the scythe
The forest beckons with her nocturnal call
To pull me close amid the baying of wolves
Where the bindings of Christ are down-trodden with scorn
In the dark, odiferous earth

We embrace like two lovers at death
A monument to the trapping of breath
As restriction is bled from the veins of my neck
To drop roses on my marbled breast
I lust for the wind and the flurry of leaves
And the perfume of flesh on the murderous breeze
To learn from the dark and the voices between

This is my will...

The forest whispers my name... again and again

When the moon is full
We shall assemble to adore
The potent spirit of your Queen,
My mother great Diana.
She who fain would learn all sorcery
Yet has not won its deepest secrets,
Then my mother will
Teach her, in truth
All things as yet unknown

I walk the path
To the land of the Dark Immortals
Where the hungry ones will carry my soul
As the wild hunt careers through the boughs

Come to me, my Pale Enchantress
In the moon of the woods we kiss

Artemis be near me
In the arms of the ancient oak
Where daylight hangs by a lunar noose
And the horned, hidden one is re-invoked

The principle of Evil
Evolution has been recalled
Beneath the spread of a Magickal Aeon
I stand enthralled
...In the whispering forest

"Pale, beyond porch and portal,
Crowned with leaves, she stands,
Who gathers all things mortal,
With cold immortal hands,
Her languid lips are sweeter,
Than love's who fears to greet her,
To men that mix and meet her,
From many times and lands."

[A.C. Swinburne]





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  1. B.... G....

    BEFORE CRADLE WENT ALL FULL COMERCIAL

  2. M.... B....

    Holy hell! I own the original UK shipped version of this album and it doesn't even sound this good.. who told them to increase everything?

  3. O.... A....

    This is Brilliant.🇬🇧🤘

  4. A.... H....

    This version here gets my blood pumping like no other!
    Principle of Evil Made Flesh was awesome but Vempyre rocks hard🤘🏻
    This is my will.



    Vamp girl on the Principle.. cover reminds me of the one on Type o Negative Bloody Kisses.

  5. M.... M....

    2020 Like 🇲🇾

  6. M.... Z....

    One of the best of cof

  7. M.... R....

    THIS SHIT'S SO FUCKN FAKE AND LAME! LMAO! Guitar's aint that bad, but common, who the fuck can actually say these vocals are cool? wtf?? oooook

  8. M.... f....

    Yeah, I agree. That intro is amazing! One of the best I've ever heard

  9. E.... ....

    Remember buying this on release on a par with the top black metal albums ..in my top 5 :)

  10. J.... D....

    Saw them in the 90's at Harpos in Detroit and my buddy somehow got Robin to come hang with us for a bit before the show. Good times.

    Another thing, back in maybe '96 in my town a bunch of us threw an "anti-talent show" party the same night our HS had the talent show and my buddy Kevin had this band called "Cathedral of Darkness" that played a cover of this at the party. All I remember was being young, high as a kite and into metal. Great memories!

  11. n.... ....

    Get some!!!

  12. 9.... ....

    esa no es la original

  13. I.... ....

    One of the best!

  14. K.... P....

    still love this shit

  15. J.... W....

    Cradle of filth is grossly under rated. Every. Track. On every album. Is. masterwork.

    J.... W....

    really this sux

  16. C.... 6....

    787 Mirror. Lesbian vampires. Yummy.

  17. �.... �....

    my favourite

  18. J.... B....

    i love this fuckin song

  19. S.... i....

    they were less digital..and sounds way more human=more vampiric emotions!!❄🔱👂

  20. S.... i....

    ♠🔱Great vampiric Rawness.🔱♠

  21. Y.... ....

    Lyrics?

  22. D.... S....

    When you move from bands like HIM to Cradle. It's such an amazing contrast, they both pertain to the same subject material, but one is calm where the other is extreme.

    D.... S....

    Dylan Smith did you come from the year 2004 to visit us

    D.... S....

    @Sean Reardon bahahaha! Next he will ask if we've heard of this new band called Dissection?

  23. O.... X....

    CRITICAL ALERT THIS MUSIC DOES NOT BELONG TO ORCHARD MUSIC

  24. M.... K....

    My favourite band.

  25. K.... K....

    TRADITION PROGENY: LICK MY SCEPTRE

  26. R.... H....

    This song was one of my fav jams back in my high school days.

  27. T.... ....

    fuck yea. That cover is awesome also.

  28. 9.... ....

    i order evermore darkly on amazon canada and it's been over a month that i wait for it, and i still don't know the date i will receive the album

    9.... ....

    Call em..hay...sorry

    9.... ....

    999alex9991 did you ever receive it?

  29. A.... S....

    Squueek!!

  30. I.... K....

    The holy masrer of desaster

  31. O.... ....

    Funny how all the fanboy kiddies here did not even realize that this is actually not the album version of the song.

    O.... ....

    Well, who actually cares? I've been listening to cradle for 15 years and if kids are getting into THIS nowaday more power to them. Better than that rap nonsense going on

    O.... ....

    I've been listening to Cradle for a while too, honestly the best version of this song is the live version. This is pretty brutal, but it's too guttural in some areas of the song.

    O.... ....

    94live the best \m/ \m/

  32. V.... L....

    My mate Kev introduced me to this band in about 95. They've been my favourite band for over 2 decades.

  33. C.... P....

    STUNNING TRACK one of the best of all

    C.... P....

    Un ascète Antithéiste païen of all time...

  34. S.... N....

    fuck yeah, 1994 is the best.

  35. R.... S....

    the Intro is fuken Killer shiiiiiiit damn

  36. K.... ....

    I wish i had instrumental.

  37. D.... J....

    the intro is amazing

  38. D.... D....

    cradle live in Nottingham best performance ever. especially this song.

    D.... D....

    I was there :D

    D.... D....

    Winnefelt UK really? Damn!!

  39. �.... Z....

    Vempire version.. :)

    �.... Z....

    The best drum,

  40. A.... H....

    I disagree, i think that last 2 albums have been fantastic, brilliant pieces of musicianship too, the orchestration especially has been fantastic , they have changed their style as they have got better at playing and creating in my opinion of course :-)

  41. A.... V....

    Vempire-Cruelty imo. midian had some good songs but the older albums didnt have one bad song on them. as for there new stuff. just a joke

  42. S.... ....

    Yeah, this is the Vempire version of the song, not the Principle of Evil Made Flesh version.

    S.... ....

    Szaam do you know how can I find the original version?

    S.... ....

    I thought so too

    S.... ....

    AKA the better version ;D

  43. L.... F....

    ME ENCANTA LA VOZ QE HACE !!!!!

  44. J.... M....

    This isnt the principle of evil made flesh version of the forest wispers my name, its the EP vempire/dark fairytales verson wich are two complely different songs , think you need to re-get your cradle album out. I was looking for the correct version of this song as am listening to the album right now dissapointed that this wasnt the correct song :(

  45. h.... ....

    this is vempire

  46. s.... ....

    @oldscorpion13 No man.First version in this one...From Principle...Vampire arrived lately.

  47. 3.... ....

    @deathmetaldave1134
    the priciple of evil made flesh- best metal album ever writen

  48. E.... F....

    this version is not from 1993... so bad!

  49. c.... ....

    Used to get twisted after school listening to this just before work (the time clock was calling my name, I called the workplace the 'forest'). To be a kid again...

  50. K.... ....

    good quality for a Principle of evil made flesh album, this is from V Empire

  51. 3.... ....

    princaple is the best album ever, but i prefere this version of forest whispers my name

  52. D.... ....

    this is the Vempire´s version dude !!

  53. B.... ....

    @satanhell2000 Definitely.

  54. b.... ....

    @satanhell2000 actually theres a band that sounds like Cradle Of Filth. check out Lamia Antitheus I promise if you like Old Cradle you will fall in love with this band. Don't spam me till you check it out or else you will be missing out.

  55. K.... Z....

    @satanhell2000 fucking truth

  56. D.... C....

    Cradle of filth is gods the best

  57. S.... V....

    Hey, this one is the Vempire version...
    Anyway, I love this song, it's the best from the whole album!

  58. T.... B....

    @moses2622 yes it is the vempire version

  59. m.... ....

    this is the Vempire version of this song

  60. s.... ....

    no the vampire album is really long like 10 minutes and this album came out before vampire so i think the original version of this song is longer but im going to get this album in a few days to see whats really up with this song.

  61. F.... J....

    How can I enjoy what sucks?

  62. M.... ....

    One of my favorite songs...

  63. s.... ....

    It's funny, my buddy just gave me Thorn and.....eh. It's not black.
    I saw them back in Feb this year and, yo, they still fucking rule. They played Dusk and her embrace and Cruelty brought thee orchids. It was fucking metal, new or old, and they're still my favorite band. So fuck yeah, Cradle fucking rules.

  64. j.... c....

    decided to get into them
    from their home town.. ipswich
    and never really gave them a chance

    so far thumbs up :D

  65. c.... ....

    REQUEST!

  66. s.... ....

    that is not the version from the first album

  67. S.... ....

    Best fucking metal album.

  68. s.... ....

    this version sounds better.