Better To Reign In Hell Lyrics - Damnation And A Day - Cradle Of Filth

Better to reign in hell 

Heart in hand passed to the clasp of pain 

In a dark lowland that set bad blood in veins 

Burning, like penal fires roused to strain 

The jagged-toothed skyline braced with crosses 

The golden dawn 

Lay lost to mist where 

Emboldened thorns 

Made their bed with toppled stones 

He closed his eyes 

Sunken to dream there of crow-black skies 

And a great white empty throne 

Horror stalked the bilious fogs that balked his visions 

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He licked the spittle from the cheeks of the wry 

And drifted back to when his stung its target 

The sneer of Michael on a glorious high 

Of angel dust and virtue by his side 

Better to reign in hell 

Drowning in the past 

That downfall seemed like yesterday 

Though blurred moons passed 

As enemies in high places laughed 

Moved to mirrors cracked with heavy lines 

He rose snow blind, through shifting sands of time 

Erased the trace and taste of bitter wines 

The grapes of wrath grew fat on the vine 

She came to him 

A little whip of tantrums 

Thrashed on velvet skins 

That lines her wishbone henge 

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Her name was sin, a warming spurt of mantras 

Splashed on occult tongues that whispered sweet revenge 

For the shame of their crawl from grace 

Cold and hollow as the grave 

And for a rape and ruinous scourge 

Spared for souls that shared God's worship 

For now their throats coated notes with dirge 

That poured from parapets to the pits below 

Better to reign in hell 

Drowning in the past 

A wretched scream like yesterday 

Died at last with the rising of the revenant dark 

All sharpened claws and blunt discharge 

I shall bow no more to the dogs of the Lord 

Tearing at my carcass heart 

I shall fall to my knees only at the keyholes 

Of virtue slipping into bondage masks 

Freewill made me better to reign in hell 

And with new wings unfurled and spoken 

He took to things that would desecrate the world 

The seduction of both woman and man 

For a bastard master plan 

Better to reign in hell 

Drowning out the past 

Fool fates unwound cruel yesterdays 

Beneath the stars 

That staggered from the blast