PRAYER FOR CLEANSING LYRICS

1. A Dozen Black Roses

2. Feinbhas A Ghabhail

Suffocate in water graves
As I stare in disbelief, blood drains from open wrists
A silent prayer, concentrate on death's sweet kiss
For the pain is far too great and the love is far too late
To keep breath upon my lips

A World of flowers dead, a world of truth unsaid
Too many days alone
The Moonlight shines below, a sign to let me know
My soul is not my own

And dreams of happiness and dreams of all I wished
Together died in the depths of your abyss

To worry does no good for a death not understood
This life should not have been
The rain in endless fall, a cry to one and all,
Is death from suffering a sin?

A whisper in my ear takes hold my deepest fear
The tomb beckons my name
For once the cut is made, a slice of cold steel blade
Air and ground feel not the same

Words torment, inscribed in sin, actions are brisk, bring final end
Water turns red, turns life to dust, dust is nothing, darkness left
Mourners in black, laugh at the wake, treason of love, dead heart now aches
Solace....alone....forever

3. Winter's Gloom

4. A Dead Soul Born

Walk through nature's dwelling
Hide from obscure trees listening
Winter brings gloom, brings remnants of our shadows
Twilight casts shadows on those who espouse their fate

Ice pricks necks like knives, leaving shards of cadaverous skin
Tears spout from my eyes, shunned from mankind's den

Gathering sunlight, gathering night's frigid air

Sharpen wood to impale myself, no more will words torment
Floating downward, sleep eternal

Born from wombs of cruelty
Leaves escape to be alone
Rope suffocates short breaths
An angel screams to take me home

Try to find solace in heavenly stars, under skies above
Submerge beneath the cold river's tongue
My soul died a martyr for pain
Golden rays of soft yellow light
Accentuate the harsh, stinging rain

Snow starts to fall
My tears start to freeze
Nature brings forth her cold winter's breeze
My heart has been shunned, I fail to care
Nary are those whose dreams I do share

Waking from eternal slumber
To find my wrists slit open
Demons chase me behind the sun
Dreaming from another's body
My life eradicated
My nightmares have just begun

5. Sonnet

Where can I turn for comfort? Where do the cold days end?
Where has the sunshine gone? Where do our two hearts blend?
Where has love gone and hidden? Where must I go to find?
The more I shun romance, the more love is defined

Indulge me
Pick a dozen black roses
Lay them at my feet
Buried in Golgotha
Amongst the dead's elite

Blink one more time and Eden will be gone
Buried in red hair of fire
Drunk on eyes of azure blue

Serenade the gothic queen, for her burial is at noon
Put aside amorous thoughts, ancient chivalry is doomed

Smile one more time and my angel will be gone
Screams - 400 years gone by
Tears - I kiss her when she lies

Soaking in a bath of blood, inviting is such naked flesh
What do temptations convey? Flowers grow in disarray

The world engulfed in darkness, one glance brings years of gloom
I only cry when she smiles, I have cried much too soon
My lady doth await me, her eyes reflect the sun
Her wicked sins provoke me, my love has come undone

Enthrall me
Your scowl makes me smile
Eden's leaves cover me, If only for a little while
A rose petal for each tear
A drop of dew for each year
Consolation for your death will be an eternity left alone
Do not perish tonight, do not kill what has not grown

6. Violent Waves

Wind howls at me, I shun this beast
Waves crash on shores, I invite this feast
As bloods seeps through my hollow eyes
A poetic night, our souls did die

Water invades her lungs, what thought doth this compel?
Darkness, a cherished dream, seizes living cells
Love can't suffice for death, love can't forbid our tears
Sharing one pulse won't help for it hastens fears

Compensate for her endearing breaths
Far too late to save her from the clefts
Fluctuate to thoughts of following
Terse debate of hell soon swallowing

Sickened by morbid confessions of voices of those who've drowned at sea

The sun has been lost, this time it won't be found
Daughters of pious men, your harvest doth now abound
Bend to your calloused knees and recite a hearty prayer
Speaking your structured words, I see your faith's not there

Heavens expose my pale dead ghost
Lightning illuminates my bride on the coast
Thunder whispers madness into my ears
Hell penetrates the sadness I fear

Weep for my dring bride
Escape from the wounds I hide

I tumble into darkness, enrapture me
No more mercy, just let me sink

7. Destiny Of Culture

A notion of devine right
One life the pinnacle of all
A vision of perfection
By way of noble bloodlined birth
Whispers of self-justification
Provide constant assurance of authority

Continuance with burnt offering
Sacrifice to the altar of bloodlust, Culture
The essence of innocence flawed by corruption
An angel in thine own eyes - a devil in thine own right
A bloodfed atrocity hailed as the paradigm of civility

Which is the savage beast?
Is it instinct? Death as a necessity of survival?
Rather a simple act of domination
Murderous pride in development as beauty dies

Tears soak the tainted soil
Cried to germinate a hope for the growth of compassion
Violence becoming a salve for the effects of...violence
How does it end?
Does our lofty vision fade into earth?

A fall from grace, from our seeming seraphic stature?
Or do we rebuild? A new foundation for the future

Our choice fast approaches
Acceleration to a possible apocalyptic end
With hope of emergence of humanistic inner beauty
I prepare for the assured destiny of culture

8. Chalice Of Repentance

Springtime of sorrow, make love last until the heart is dead
Frost on cracked glass, bleaching purity
Ride angels' wings into heaven, naked flesh a sick sight
Vomit into hair of sweat, feed myself on the lust of humanity
Devour orgasms of blood

Singing an ode of selfishness
Into a sea, putrid recognizance
A stench of sex so strong, taste it on my tongue
Sweet poison caressing taste buds until death

Decay - corrode from the inside out
Rot, melt away - the coating of security

Now and forever, burns numbers in my head
Cum to my senses, turn back the clock thrice

Realization of desperation
Suffer virgin flesh, suffer loneliness
Together rode the wings of demons right into hell

9. Bael Na Mblath (Mouth Of Flowers)

Moonlight shines upon the gallows of men stretched by their necks
By British crown they suffer so, swinging in the winter air
Centuries of terror follow centuries of blood

The red ride through the countryside bringing forceful rule
Mothers bury sons and daughters, into Irish soil they rot

In the realm of summer stars, patriots do march
Saint Patrick sheds a tear for martyrs who will die
Red eyes gleam, white lips twitch, the devil draws a smile nearby
Fog dresses corpses at night, and dusk brings safe escape
Slaves of wind from northern land drive angels from their homes
A pilgrimage of stars leads right to hell's own gates

Followed by demons' shadows, our homeland isn't safe
Tyranny the bitter friend to those with evil in their souls
Prisoners will not make amends, for bloodshed is fate,
As coffins line cobbled streets the bastards still watch o'er
No savior comes to aid the saints the funerals still proceed
Black clouds mark the end of English rule, of English law

The queen has shut her eyes to the torment of common man
The queen will have a pauper's grave for stealing Irish land
Apparitions rise up from the mist and apperar on Easter morn
From the sea the dead arise and to the castle they storm
Hail Mary full of grace, rebel hearts have won today
Heaven's doors swing open wide as terrorists enter free

10. Sleep Eternal

PRAYER FOR CLEANSING LYRICS