Something thicker than despairRides upon the midnight airThe smell of blood, the taste of preyWe spy you hiding Gilles de RaisUnder August swelter after banquet and soiréeWhen spiced wine and song have further heated veinsTo the ninth degree as tenacula hold another body in their swayGilles retires from the grasping fires that will ashen the remainsDarkness incarnateDemons in his semen that once clung about the throatsOf children dragged from cellars to his roomsNow permeate the castle, all who sleep dream of the goatThat dark, eclectic harbinger of doomNightingales sang of tragedyWhispers were made for blasphemyVain, insane, this brute aloofDrew tainted veils over naked truthThe stairs ran helter skelter, his bedchamber besiegedBy phantoms who sheltered in it's furs, remorseThey sought to overwhelm him like a lantern of diseaseThat shone on rotten faces of those murdered out in forceDarkness incarnateFleeing ghosts so indisposed to his Satanic loveOf children dragged from cellars to his feastHe rose, the carnal wind opposed to those that sat aboveTearing out into the forest like a beastThe night wind sang of tragedyWhispers were made for blasphemyVain, insane, this brute aloofDrew tainted sails over naked truthMadness clouded everything like a lycanthropic shroudAnd through it's ghastly lineaments he sawThe trees become obscenities, semen drip from every boughAs if he rooted nature like a whoreDryads tongued under skirts of leavesSurrendering branches that slenderly pleasedThe mocking orifices and the forest on her kneesThen once besotted, knotted trunks now grewRotten, venereal, cancerous blueThe clotting of his heart to a rank cantankerous tuneDeath is only a matter of a little painBeneath the sallow moonlight in a wonderland of painGilles fled back to the castle terrified and drainedHe sought his deep red velvet bed and the sleep it preordainedTo exhausted, forced into the dead, the creep of nightmares came againSadness clouded everything like a lycanthropic shroudAnd through it's ghastly lineaments he sawHundreds of slain children, some came crawling disemboweledTo where he stretched out howling on all foursCorpses tore at his legs and kneesAs he clawed to the cross, begging reprieveFrom a Lord that soared above the awful sceneHe sobbed and wept, no voice was leftTo scream, the dream was not drubbed yetHe heard the horrors hiss beside him, Herod you'll regretWho hears the tears of nightfall?Who steers the spears so spiteful?Who hears the tears of nightfall?Who steers the spears so spiteful?Who hears the tears of nightfall?Who steers the spears so spiteful?Who hears the tears of nightfall?Who steers the spears so spiteful?Who hears the tears of nightfall?Who steers the spears so spiteful?Who hears the tears of nightfall?Who steers the spears so spiteful?Who hears the tears of nightfall?Who steers the spears so spiteful?Who hears the tears of nightfall?Who steers the spears so spiteful?Who hears the tears of nightfall?Who steers the spears so spiteful?Who hears the tears of nightfall?Who steers the spears so spiteful?Oh, my dearest angels go pray to God for me
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