Come, mortal, fold into these arms once more
And let your trembling flesh surrender down
This heart, ancient, accursed, unquiet drum
Thunders through veins like war-drums in the bone
It beats for you alone, it bleeds for you alone
A crimson hymn no living ear should know
It is the drum that shatters graves at midnight
It is the song the damned intone below
Once I cradled the rarest rose of Eden
Whose petals dared to open against the dark
But winter’s cruelest breath, more pitiless than God
Frosted the bloom and tore my blossom apart
O loneliness that gnaws the marrow clean
O hopelessness that carves the centuries deep
Across the blackened vault of time I hunt
And find no love more monstrous than the one I keep
Blood, O blood, O blood, O blood
Blood, O blood, O blood, O blood
Still falls the rain like silver knives (still falls the rain)
Blood, O blood, O blood, O blood
Blood, O blood, O blood, O blood
Still falls the everlasting night
Blood, O blood, O blood, O blood
Blood, O blood, O blood, O blood
Be mine through every death (be mine forever)
Blood, O blood, O blood, O blood, O blood, O blood
Blood, O blood, O blood, O blood, O blood, O blood
Let me alone become your final shelter
The only shield between your pulse and dawn
Now heaven’s floor lies cracked and weeping stars
Gold flames that mock the ruin I’ve become
They blaze for you, they sear for you, they curse me
Each spark a judgment I can never flee
Come, press your living throat against my mouth again
And let me drink the life that sets this spirit free
Come, come into these arms that death itself has kissed
And drown forever in the rapture of my kiss