Cradle Of Filth - Better To Reign In Hell Lyrics






Better to reign in hell
Better to reign in hell

Heart in hand passed clasp of pain
In dark lowland that set bad blood in veins
Burning, like penal fires roused to strain
The jagged-toothed skyline braced with crosses

The golden dawn
Lay lost to mist where
Emboldened thorns
Made their bed with toppled stones

He closed His eyes
Sunken to dream there
Of crow-black skies
And a great white empty throne
Horror stalked the bilious fogs
That balked his visions

He licked the spittle from the cheeks of the wry
And drifted back to when His stung its target
The sneer of Michael on a glorious high
Of angel dust and Virtue by his side

Drowning in the past
That downfall seemed like yesterday
Though blurred moons passed
As enemies in high places laughed

Moved to mirrors cracked with heavy lines
He rose snowblind, through shifting sands of time
Erased the trace and taste of bitter wines
The grapes of wrath grew fat on the vine

She came to Him
A little whip of tantrums
Thrashed on velvet skins
That lines Her wishbone Henge

Her name was Sin
A warming spurt of mantras
Splashed on occult tongues
That whispered sweet revenge

For the shame of their crawl from grace
Cold and hollow as the grave

And for a rape and ruinous scourge
Spared for souls that shared God's worship
For now their throats coated notes with dirge
That poured from parapets to the pits below

Drowning in the past
A wretched scream like yesterday
Died at last
With the rising of the revenant dark

All sharpened claws and blunt discharge

"I shall bow no more to the dogs of the Lord
Tearing at my carcass heart
I shall fall to my knees only at the keyholes
Of Virtue slipping into bondage masks...
Freewill made me better to reign in hell"

And with new wings
Unfurled and spoken
He took to things
That would desecrate the world

The seduction of both woman and man
For a bastard masterplan

Drowning out the past
Fool Fates unwound cruel yesterdays
beneath the stars
That staggered from the blast





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  1. B.... V....

    Is this song remake of "Babylon AD" or the other way?

  2. A.... F....

    My all-time favorite Cradle song and album.

  3. A.... H....

    I love this song but the album cover gives me bad memories. My stepdad was very abusive and he had a shirt with this album cover on it, and that's all he wore. ( he is very uncleanly) love the song though.

    A.... H....

    Need to introduce the man to gospel

    A.... H....

    I have the shirt and I'm not like that. You can come stay with me.

  4. C.... ....

    I never got much into CoF. But this song is simply fucking amazing.

  5. g.... g....

    angel is like human, it would not tolerate slavery, Lucifer is the 1st but not last

  6. �.... �....

    Where is the better terrain again?

  7. A.... C....

    Most people cannot hit high octave that he can with his voice you have to have a wide vocal range to be able to hit high pitch death screens

  8. R.... S....

    Cant get this album on Spotify. =(

    R.... S....

    Robert Strunk I feel your pain. I can’t get it on iTunes either. T_T

    R.... S....

    Right. It annoys me everytime

    R.... S....

    I feel this so much. My CoF playlist feels incomplete without this album on Spotify. Can't even find their cover of Venom's Black Metal on there either.

  9. J.... H....

    R.I.P Cradle of Filth 🤘😖

  10. A.... L....

    Deserves a video

  11. I.... N....

    Your mom gay

  12. M.... H....

    This album just disappeared from the face of the Earth. Can't find it anywhere!

    M.... H....

    Same. I regret ever losing it, because this is easily some of their best and most creative work

    M.... H....

    Amazon and their website and infinity of others u can find it there!

  13. B.... ....

    good OLD CoF! ='( Fuck the new Shit! Over 10 Years....and then the new Songs >=(

  14. H.... A....

    Such an incredible song! Even to this very day. Wow.

  15. E.... O....

    banda fodastica

  16. C.... 6....

    Better to reign in HELLLLLLLLLLL

  17. G.... h....

    Dani
    A tiny man with a great voice

  18. J.... w....

    Ohh I love that shit.

  19. G.... h....

    Filthtastic

  20. w.... ....

    KILLER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  21. g.... v....

    they have great stage presence

  22. K.... M....

    Not Their best but pretty good!

    K.... M....

    @Justin Helm Their worst album to me would have to be Thornography

    K.... M....

    +Kristian Moore they've all been pretty shitty sense mannequin. Everything before that was amazing

    K.... M....

    @Justin Helm Yeah but now there getting old and wrinkled now a days.

    K.... M....

    +Kristian Moore there is no they're. There's been over 30 different band members. Cradle has been dead for years

    K.... M....

    Thornography had some great songs though, but Dusk and Her embrace will forever be my favourite, it was the first album of theirs I heard and the poetry of the lyrics had me hooked ever since.

  23. I.... B....

    The seduction of both woman and man
    For a bastard masterplan

  24. L.... B....

    I adore this album...