Born In A Burial Gown

Album: Bitter Suites To Succubi (2001)
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  • Sibilant and macabre
    Walpurgis sauntered in
    Skies litten with five-pointed stars
    The work of crafts surpassing sin
    As She graced Her window ledge
    An orphaned gypsy nymph
    This issue of the forest's bed
    Skin flushed with sipped absinthe
    Her eyes revealed, as Brocken's peak
    Tried once concealing Hell
    A snow white line of divine freaks
    In riot, where they fell

    The circus lurches in, a ring of promised delight
    For seven days and seven festival nights
    What wicked wonders lie within the confines
    Of the panther's den

    She watches from a maypole, on the rip of Her tongue
    The restless spirit of Christmas to come
    A Gretel sick of merely sucking Her thumb
    Than gingerbread men

    Spawned scorned, abhorred by the aerial
    She was the light of the world going down
    War-torn, forlorn and malarial
    She was found
    Born in a burial gown

    Unloosed, the chain of Her god-given cross
    Seduced, now pagan ribbons swathe Her repose
    In a carnival of souls sold and similarly lost

    Too many decades misfit and mislaid
    In innocence, a tender legend of prey
    Parades Her second coming, now they're running afraid

    Spawned scorned, abhorred by the aerial
    She was the light of the world going down
    War-torn, forlorn and malarial
    She was found
    Born in a burial gown

    Now She moves with a predator's guile
    Beyond the fire lit circle of life
    She soothes your cold heart for a while
    Then matches its beat, syncing in with a knife
    She wrestles Her dreams with a delicate case
    Espied by Her cross on the wall
    And should She awake, through embrace or mistake
    She would take Jesus
    Bless foot forward and all

    Sibilant and at last
    The circus crawled away
    With another lover in its arms
    Dancing on Her grave Writer/s: ADRIAN PAUL ERLANDSSON, DANI DAVEY, GIANPIERO GUISEPPE PIRAS, MARTIN F. POWELL, PAUL JAMES ALLENDER, ROBIN MARK EAGLESTONE
    Publisher: Peermusic Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

  • Ginnie from Modesto, CaDinner at Deviants Palace is the Lords Prayer backwards read by Paul Allender's son
  • Danni from Bremen, OhNo, if you play Dinner At The Deviant backwards it plays the Lords Prayer in a little girls voice :]
  • Michael from San Antonio, TxWow, now I know what I'm listening to. And to that guy Michael, I believe you're thinking of "Dinner at Deviant's Palace".
  • Michael from Seattle, WaIf you play this song backwards, it reads The Lord's Prayer.
  • Dan from Appleton, Wino this song is about love and rainbows and cute lil puppy and more love =)
  • Loki from Wurtsboro, Nysorry but i forgot how to edit so i'm gonna add and comment..
    the actual meaning is as such..prolly not entirely correct but damn closer

    This song is about the coming of an apocalyptic woman((kind of like the antichrit) it is her second coming she comes on walpurgis night((a pagan sabbat)) She is coming to start the war of good and evil.She is a dark goddess. Born in a burial gown is simply saying she was not orn unto gods life she was already dead because to be dead is to be out of gods light.((it also means she was summoned from death also double meanings here ppl) The ending "now she moves with a predators guile" is her basically goin to hell and waiting for the sacrifice to bring her forht to defeat christ
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