Absinthe with Faust Lyrics
Band | |
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Album | Nymphetamine(2004) |
Type | Album (Studio full-length) |
Genres | Gothic Metal, Symphonic Black Metal |
Labels | Roadrunner Records |
Ranked | #94 for 2004 , #3,737 all-time |
Album rating : 79.3 / 100
Votes : 40
Votes : 40
5. Absinthe with Faust (5:14)
Pour the emerald wine
Into crystal glasses
We will touch the divine
Through kissed catharsis
Let us pitch to the seven-year itch
Of the ultra-decadent
To a tainted world and the painted girls
That our fantasies spent
Tripping through boudoirs laced with opium themes
Sipping the bizarre, tasting copious dreams
A toast to those most sacrilegious of days
Where for every whim won
One soon repays
We touched the stars
That now laugh from afar
At we, the damned
The damned
The damned
The damned
We have spent our time
Drenched in opulent splendour
But when midnight chimes
Will gilded souls surrender?
Let us drink on the giddying brink
Of pools of excrement
All manner of shit for the glamour and glitz
Mephistopheles lent
I remember the night as if it were engraved
A bright marble bridge stretched across dark waves
To the shore from the moon and by Her grace
Came that erudite stranger
That fucker
He was a predator, creditor cold
Our blood was young on the yellowing scrolls
And all that glittered was not gold
But we wanted everything
And for it all lost our souls
Come my friend, to fate let's raise
Two finger shots at this our last soiree
For tomorrow I fear
Swoops all too deadly near
This precipitous weir to Hell's high gate
We touched the stars
That now laugh from afar
At we, the damned
The damned
The damned
The damned
He was a preditor, creditor cold
Our blood was young on the yellowing scrolls
And all that glittered was not gold
But we wanted everything
And for it all lost our souls
Our souls
Into crystal glasses
We will touch the divine
Through kissed catharsis
Let us pitch to the seven-year itch
Of the ultra-decadent
To a tainted world and the painted girls
That our fantasies spent
Tripping through boudoirs laced with opium themes
Sipping the bizarre, tasting copious dreams
A toast to those most sacrilegious of days
Where for every whim won
One soon repays
We touched the stars
That now laugh from afar
At we, the damned
The damned
The damned
The damned
We have spent our time
Drenched in opulent splendour
But when midnight chimes
Will gilded souls surrender?
Let us drink on the giddying brink
Of pools of excrement
All manner of shit for the glamour and glitz
Mephistopheles lent
I remember the night as if it were engraved
A bright marble bridge stretched across dark waves
To the shore from the moon and by Her grace
Came that erudite stranger
That fucker
He was a predator, creditor cold
Our blood was young on the yellowing scrolls
And all that glittered was not gold
But we wanted everything
And for it all lost our souls
Come my friend, to fate let's raise
Two finger shots at this our last soiree
For tomorrow I fear
Swoops all too deadly near
This precipitous weir to Hell's high gate
We touched the stars
That now laugh from afar
At we, the damned
The damned
The damned
The damned
He was a preditor, creditor cold
Our blood was young on the yellowing scrolls
And all that glittered was not gold
But we wanted everything
And for it all lost our souls
Our souls
Nymphetamine - Lyrics
Nymphetamine - Album Credits
Members
- Dani Filth : Vocals
- Paul Allender : Guitars
- James McIlroy : Guitars
- Martin Powell : Keyboards, Guitars, Arrangements
- Dave Pybus : Bass
- Adrian Erlandsson : Drums
Additional musicians
- Rob Caggiano : Guitars
- Sarah Jezebel Deva : Vocals
- Liv Kristine : Vocals (tracks 6, 14)
- Doug Bradley : Narration (tracks 1, 12)
Other staff
- Dan Turner : Producer, Engineer
- Rob Caggiano : Producer
- Colin Richardson : Mixing Engineer
- Steve Carter : Engineer
- Will Bartle : Engineer
- U.E. Nastasi : Mastering Engineer
- Alexander Krull : Engineer (track 6)
- Matt Lombard : Artwork, Illustration
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