Virgin Black Lyrics

Album: Unknown

Beloved Lyrics

How many times will I look at you?

 Allured by the scent of your death

 And the savage priests, to a suffering soul

 Exult in a strangled song

 I am soothed from anger into sorrow

 As they knot their wreaths against my limbs

 Help me understand the stench in my mind

 Why do they impair our vision?

 Can anyone taste my blood?

 I have clung, quivering, with bruised flesh

 Christendom rise and dress yourself

 What delicious tears you've made me shed

 Beloved, how many times I look at you

 With suspended breath, and unguarded heart?

 Like a cradled child you hold me

 (With hysterical affection, to console this loss)

 Beloved

 Their semblance of love curses your beauty

 In the blindness of my distress

 In your dense black eyes

 I see your silent grief