Seraphic Deviltry Lyrics

The song Seraphic Deviltry is performed by Theatre of Tragedy in the album named Velvet Darkness They Fear in the year 1997 .



Whether He the quaint savant's power doth hold I know not,
Albeit aetat a thousand stars' birth He is -
Quoth I that for reasons to me oblivious
August of a granditude of servants is He held,
And by plastic consonantry e'en more servants to the host added are -
Pelf they are, dare I say!
Maugre His diurnal seraphic deviltry
I say that deviltry - 'tis forsooth deviltry! -
Mind not this in scintillating shades clad is;
To claim the glore is He suffer'd.
"Grant me the fallings", quoth He, "the fatter the better!",
And died they of starvation;
They are not slaughtering their fatlings;
They are slaughtering themselves.
Sith I at time of yester the questions durst ask,
And dare I say this burden weightful was,
Wrack of His machine-like motion was I named,
Tho' blind and fond the jesters rebuilt
The machine alike - yet whetted a dight are its edges...



Theatre of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear

Aug 1997

  1. Velvet Darkness They Fear
  2. Fair and 'Guiling Copesmate Death
  3. Bring Forth ye Shadow
  4. Seraphic Deviltry
  5. And When He Falleth
  6. Der Tanz der Schatten
  7. Black as the Devil Painteth
  8. On Whom the Moon Doth Shine
  9. The Masquerader and Phoenix

Seraphic Deviltry