An Ode to Woe
1. To remain tombless 7:43 2. My hope, the destroyer 5:45 3. For you 6:41 4. The blue lotus 6:34 5. Like gods of the sun 5:21 6. Catherine blake 6:18 7. The cry of mankind 6:08 8. The whore, the cook & the mother 5:42 9. Thy raven wings 5:22 10. The snow in my hands 7:10 11. She is the dark 7:59 12. The dreadful hours 7:28 --- DVD disk --- 1. To remain tombless 7:57 2. My hope, the destroyer 6:05 3. For you 7:05 4. The blue lotus 6:39 5. Like gods of the sun 5:40 6. Catherine blake 6:38 7. The cry of mankind 6:08 8. The whore, the cook & the mother 5:40 9. Thy raven wings 5:31 10. The snow in my hands 7:12 11. She is the dark 9:41 12. The dreadful hours 7:14 13. The forever people 4:08 total time 2:44:35
To Remain Tombless The weary creak of my bones Exhausted voice, deathly tones Arms of lead, skin drawn tight No long a princely sight Face is gaunt, pale and thin Bent and grey and full of sin Pass to me Wine and song For I'll be Soon long gone Cast me down, upon the dust My dry bones remain tombless From my life, a rose is grown Rains they come. The winds Blow Winter haunts me Nowhere to flee Take me back. Young was I Within her arms we could fly Grey am I, and all alone I feel like I'm far from home Grace has fled here But He is so near In shadows lie My hopes of life Black wings fold me In their symphony Long the winter nights are Grace is so far Leaves they fall in time Drifting down in time Darkness comes, right on time Desend upon me Wings from above Goodbye to lie Farewell my loves. My Hope, the Destroyer Weeping with you. Arms around them Flowing with you. Without your men Keeping with you. Feeling their shiver Drowning with you. Deep in this river Tired and lonely. Sitting and staring Weak and filthy. No longer caring Wasting to nothing. The rubble of you Hoping for something. Poison where love grew People. Feel her mind She is broken People. Fill your eyes Her body is broken Leave me be, with my memories I can still see all the lovers of me I still know those feelings You're still mine, my lover I watch over you Goodbye my lover No sorrow. Please, no tears Holy and fallen. Watch yourself die Fade and wither. Long lost the fight Tremble to sleep. Her man long gone Years, and still weeps. Never forgotten For You I will be here for you All I want is you When I see your face All the Angels are shamed Lay with me beauty Feel me close to you Take my hand to you Touch you softly. Your warm skin Cover me with you Over me under you Pull me in to you As one we lay entwined All I ever wanted I have, I need never wish again You are heaven sent The Blue Lotus Under the darkened, Ancient oak Gentle in the nights breeze I stop and stare, rest a while With hands upon my knees Through jades leaves, bush and scrub I spy my journeys end Black it looms, silent gloom The castle called Avend On I trot, past forest eyes Past horrors of the night Through the dark, I see a sign A gently glowing light Upon reaching the castle I ascend the ivy Towards the golden window My heart pounds and my breath is rushed As I fight both brick and branch The ledge is mine and over I sweep Silent like the falling snow Quiet, I slip across the polished floow Tonight, I will dine with chance The Blue Lotus, a legend, I thought a myth Old poems and stories gone A beauty of unimaginable lust Both men's hearts, and Gods, were won Skin like milk, an angels face They say her smile could kill Her hair the blackest of all black Stories I thought though, still So there she lay, sleeping upon the bed Half covered by fantastic silks Her breast I see, moves with her dreams A sight I will always recall A single candle that showed me the way Through forest, river and hills Glows upon that lovely skin Shadows dancing around the walls Closer I creep, toward my prize The Blue Lotus lies before me Her lips are full, red as blood Moist as they invite me Stoop I did to kiss those lips In that glowing room When suddenly, she did awake, Her eyes filled with doom From silks, her hands wer round my neck Escape there was no hope A brief flash of teeth is all that I saw And gone was my throat Her bloodlust deep, she swallowed me Red was all I saw She drank her fill and watched me fall Gently to the floor A league away my death is found By locals who tend this land Who lay me down in shallow earth A single Lotus placed in my hand. Like gods of the sun I live for your fond caresses Songs you sing to me Gather me up into your arms I need no-one just you You fill me up with dark thoughts of you The Devil talks to me when you're touching me My lust it burns, deep inside of you Together we are as one We live our lives in passion Full up with thirst I drink your Light and beauty for always Open your arms hold me closely Never let me fall Wrapped up in you. Comforting me I could die here You fill me up with dark thoughts of you The Devil talks to me, when you're touching me My lust it burns, deep inside of you Paradise pales compared to you We burn like Gods of the Sun Never will we be alone Our world will change for no-one And as our live are closing We lie close and hear nothing Catherine blake So vile mens' torment was truly a pleasure A plan that would change mankind for ever more Catherine Blake slept fitfully in the summer night. In the heat. she murmured gently and moved smoothly, this way and that. Oh, the beauty. Her luscious eyes, delicate fingers, clawed at her sodden bed. Catherine smiled. Took a fabulous breath of summer air and tasted death. Die Erorians' visit had been succesful, rewarding. with nights of female screams of whimpers, lustful dreams. Night followed rampant night of delicate soft gasps. The ultimate attack on all Heaven and it's glories. Seduce them as they slept, oblivous to their midnight tryst. The seed of doom was platned. Phantom raped in their dreams. The sad ones take their own lives. Slay their men night after night. Catherine Blake dreamt of a horror. Of passion too, and of terror. Over her silent breast, shadows swept, shades caressed. Motherhood was destroyed by the seed and laid to waste. A great rift was born. Man and the world were torn. The daggers went in dep, vile and sickening. Women swept away all infancy from their wombs. And still the Lord God remained silent. No utterance, no movement, no tears. The earth became red. The cutting machines of man. Disgust and hatred for the lives of woman. The butchery, the savagery, did spill unto themselves. A chorus of agony from Heaven and rain poured In a colossus of angels tears. The creature of all sins. The lord of the bleakest abode. Did wonder at the silence. What did the Almighty know? All Hell did fill with the screaming souls of dead men. The mighty army of God did stand and wait. Hoping our lord would unleash them all. the great firy pit. Hordes ripped apart. Chaos ensued, screaming from the dark. Observing his darkened child, in the miserable corners of earth The great heart of God will heal up the earth. The Lord watched as his beloved slipped silently Back into the darkness below. The Cry of Mankind You can't expect to see him and survive You'll swallow his tongue of thorns His mouth, dripping with flies In his glorious kingdom of fire But I believe he wept I will make them all lie down Down where hope lies dying With lust, you're kicking mankind to death We live and die without hope You tramp us down in a river of death As I stand here now, my heart is black I don't want to die a lonely man This is a weary hour This is a weary hour The Whore, the cook and the mother Tell me that I'm a sinner Lay me down again I need a doft flesh bed My lust must be fed Lay your hands on me Lay your perfect hands on me You know exactly what I want So open wide Take me now I'm yours Lay me down again Your heart rips through me Your hands rip my skin Deep inside your love You're screaming for me again My seed is passed to you We are now one To you. I'll only give it to you (But only if you're there) Only you. There's no-one else for me (Until something better comes) Be mine. Be mine forever more (Until I'm fucking sick of you) How old are you? Tell me what you remember about your first few birthdays How tall was your mother? I said, how tall was your mother? What colour was her favourite dress? Did you have any pers when you where a child? You see a woman stripping on a television in a shop window. Do you stay and see what happens or do you continue walking? If a blind man drops some money in the street Do you pick it up and return it to him or do you keep it for yourself? You're driving in your car when suddenly a cat runs out right in front of you and you accidentally hit it. You're in no hurry to get anywhere and the poor animal is screaming in pain but you don't bother to stop and help it. How do you feel? Thy raven wings In fiery flight we would leave this hall The Holy house, House of God will fall To death they go with music and song But our dread simply must go on I feel our need to feed goes on For our greed, watch them bleeding on This hour's ours, with open arms go on Crowned with thorns and pain was he Raised our hands and slew him utterly Crimson waves of the tears of war This is what we were put here for Eden falls, Mercy for life I hear their calls Stood and watched them die Heaven crawls. Wings burn on high Beauty falls. Beg unto me why? Fold thy raven wings 'Tis our duty, darkness brings If this day be our last Our victims await For they are vast In fiery death we will crawl away Content we lived for each and every day Black and burned with a stench of decay. The Snow in My Hands I've seen them. so dark. Black. And yet fine. The flower they carry had once been mine. Get away from me, man of stories. Robe of lies. Stay far from me. I lie to myself (it's not hurting). I need help, but not from you or yor father. No! Jesus Christ. Who's my saviour? Lose myself in gods death. No! I can't bear all this pain. I had watched the snow all day. Falling. It never lets up. All day falling. I lifted my voice and wept out loud, "So this is life?" She is the Dark A cruel sleep 'cross our land All withered and dying As the fall, the victims They're dying a sad death In our land, we lay down And suffer again A dark girl'cross our land Is pacing. Is preying And with her, a fever A marching black fever No eyes see. No features Just black form, suffering You have her sympathy You have her tears She tries only to take All your fears The pain she feels When she drinks your soul Is hers to suffer It is her toll Believe me, she's helpless When she curses our land When she swallows light It's not her hand Poison awaits when you kiss her Her heart cries out for you, for me Untold misery is hers to serve out for eternity Out cold. Mankind will stay forevermore if she gets her way She can't help it. It's her curse To sing your pain in her own verse She is the dark The nightmares you hide The pain you feel The suffering inside Though she was like you Through her dark past But now, the conqueror Her choirs vast Oh, please forgive her As mankind dies As angels weep And heaven cries The Dreadful Hours Mother will you take me down? I have become so afraid Mother please, please take me down Sorry, your boy is not brave Child just hold on. Night will soon be gone Sleep if you can. But watch your father's hand We do not want you. No-body loves you Father of the dark. Tonight will greet you God in heaven, can you hear me Help me Oh Lord. They're coming for me Mother warned me. Father scorned me Oh my God No. Now I hear him I claim your life on this night within sight of your own God The silence, the waiting then the pain Oh child, sleep will be here soon Your life has only ever been shame And so young boy, my hand brings doom Child, won't you awake. Father has gone Child, please come awake. Please my tiny son The Forever People Read to me Make your words as pictures Reveal to me The forever people Names become more More than words In foreign tongue Universal doctrine Remember each one Named even this day We'll never forget Like it or not Their beloved is theirs And they are his Praise the Lord? Hail the King? This to me A figure of tragedy They are trivial They are forgettable A sombre tale Of mankinds hope Show me its truth And with joy I will follow Lyrics in plain text format	Line up Info My Dying Bride - An Ode to Woe - Live CD / DVD 2 Disc Set A night of classic doom captured at the legendary Paradiso in Amsterdam Includes the classics 'The Cry Of Mankind', 'Like Gods Of The Sun' & 'The Blue Lotus' "Masters of all things dark & haunting... The absolute Kings of Doom" Kerrang! www.peaceville.com www.mydyingbride.org (p) 2008 Peaceville Records (c) 2008 Peaceville Records Peaceville is a Snapper Music label Made in Germany - Artwork: www.darkwaveart.co.uk Review I know I'm probably quite spoiled to be able to say I attended the concert where this was recorded as well. (the Paradiso is less than 10km from my house) - So for people who are not able to go to one of their concerts so easily this is a great option to see one of My Dying Bride's majestic live performances. Also this is a nice release to see the new member Lena in action. Despite all that, if you're keeping count this is the third live cd and third live dvd My Dying Bride have released, and with the previous live dvd released a mere three years ago, one can't help but get the feeling Peaceville is trying to sell as much compilations and live albums as possible. While the quality of the recordings are excellent, there's not much here we haven't seen before. If you're interested in a live dvd, I'd rather recommend getting Sinamorata or For Darkest Eyes. If you have those already, I think you can safely skip this one actually... Rating: 7 out of 10