Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids Chords by Cradle Of Filth

[Intro]
Dm Bb F Dm Bb F D7 Bb
■  ■  ■ ■  ■  ■ ■  ■ 


[Solo]
F D7 Bb F Dm7 E7 Dm7 E7
■ ■  ■  ■ ■   ■  ■   ■ 
Dm7 E E7 Dm Bb Dm7 E7
■   ■ ■  ■  ■  ■   ■ 


[Verse]
Dm            Gm    Bb  
Maleficent in dusky rose
         Gm               Bb     
Gathered satin lapped her breasts
     Dm                 
Like blood upon the snow
  Bb            Gm   
A tourniquet of Topaz
Gm          
Glistened at


[Chorus]
Dm                            
Awakening pulled from the tomb
Bb                            Gm7 
Her spirit freed eclipsed the moon
Dm                           
She outshone as a fallen star
        Bb                       Cm      Bb
A regal ornament from a farflung nebular ■ 
Dm  D Dm                            Bb      Dm
Her ■ ■  likeness hung in the black gallery ■ 
Am               
Commanding unease
Am                           
Demanding of Death to breathe


[Solo]
Dm D7 D Bb Cm Dm
■  ■  ■ ■  ■  ■ 
D Bb Cm
■ ■  ■ 


[Verse]
          Dm        Dm7      D7   
Midst the whirl and daylight fauna
   Dm7     D7      
Of society at court
D                       Bb              Cm      
Elizabeth bedazzled her presence sought applause
Dm                        
Though her torchlit shadow
D                            
Thrown upon damp cellar walls
D                          
Greeted nothing but despair
Bb              Cm                    
Thirteen winter ■  solstices had shown
              Gm      
Her path that the dark
               Gm      
Had marked its dominion
Eb          F        
Spaying the confessor
Cm                        
Whose caresses she'd known
                   Gm          
As whipcord in the House of Dog
                   Eb          
Her cold cunt meat on holy bone


[Chorus]
F        Dm            D7      
Raped of faith she now embraced
                               Bb              D7  
The narcissistic unrest frozen on the mirror's face
                  Dm                
With this disdain inside these veins
D                           
Highborn wanton that she was
Bb                      Cm        Dm   
She sought to keep what age would claim
    Dm                             
Her soul was sold and for this toll
D                            
Reeking pyres ever smouldered
       Bb           Cm    Dm     
On the whims of one so in control
D7        Dm        
Elizabeth mysterious
        Dm                  
Cruelty brought thee orchids
                       Bb   
From the bowels of the abyss
          Cm       D7   Eb Gm         Eb              
Once upon atrocity when ■  midwitches ■  stifled cries


[Verse]
Eb                                         
And carved abortive runes in reddened wombs
        Eb             
Exhumed by scrying eyes
        Eb           
Madness came upon her
                 Bb          
Like an amourous lover's seed
           Eb                    
Lifesblood splashed upon her skin
    Eb                    
And to Her dead reflection
                       Gm     
'twas as if Her pallor gleamed
                          Eb     
Like an Angel's warmed by candles
             Eb                
Where erotic stains had cleaved
   Gm                  Dsus4     Dm Eb Bb
So demons dragged this libertine ■  ■  ■ 
Bb                         
Lusts screaming for release


[Chorus]
Cm Eb Ab Fm Gm
■  ■  ■  ■  ■ 


[Verse]
Cm                               
Upon the flesh of maidens preened
         Cm       
Exacting obeisance
         Cm           
Her gaze held a séance
   Cm                                        
Of spirits too trapped under glass to commune
          Ab                
A sleeter mistress than Luna
                 Ab         
Whose threats to consume Her
Fm                               Gm  Cm   
Met with torments giving vent to Her swoon


[Chorus]
Ab                 
■  Flat on Her back
Ab                    
Packprey for the reams
Fm                  
Of verses and curses
Bb                     
That haunted Her dreams
Cm                 
Midnightmare chimed
         Cm         
Thirteen in Her mind
              Eb   
A disciple of scars
Ab                 
Ridden splitthighed
              Ab     
By the father of lies
   Fm               
An ovation of wolves
            Bb            Cm        
Blushed the skies as they ■  writhed
Ab                         
But Heaven is never forever
           Fm         
She came a spent storm
         Bb     Dm
From the clouds ■ 
Dm                        
Leaving serpents in office


[Bridge]
       Eb        
Inside every gate
Dm                     
To lick righteous holes
               Eb         
Blinding Lords to the fate
   Dm                  
Of virgins forced naked
          Dm           
To defile on rent knees
       Dm                  
Hacked and racked backwards
       Eb            Dm       D7
Menses choking their ■  pleas ■ 


[Verse]
D    D7        
More whore more
D7                             
Twitching make me wet with thee
D7                
Carcass rub me raw


[Solo]
Eb Gm Eb Bb
■  ■  ■  ■ 


[Chorus]
    Eb                    
And to her dead reflection
         Eb                   
'twas as if her pallor gleamed
     Gm                          
Like an Angel's warmed by candles
                        Eb     
Where erotic stains had cleaved
                    Eb       
Demons dragged this libertine
      Eb                   
Lusts screaming for release
Dsus4 Dm                   Eb     
Upon  the flesh of maidens preened
              Eb     
As canvas for caprice
Bb                   
Cruelty and the beast
        D7  D F     Dm    D7
Cruelty and ■ ■ the beast ■ 
Dm      Cm  Dm  D7   
Cruelty and the beast
D Bb Cm Dm7 Dm D
■ ■  ■  ■   ■  ■


[Solo]
D          
Yeah eegahh
Cm Gm Eb F Cm Gm
■  ■  ■  ■ ■  ■ 


[Chorus]
F     Dm       Bb              
Raped of faith she now embraced
A7                                                 
The narcissistic unrest frozen on the mirror's face
Dm                Bb                   
With this disdain ■  inside these veins
A7                          
Highborn wanton that she was
                                  Dm   
She sought to keep what age would claim
                  Bb               
Her soul was sold and for this toll
D                    
Pyres ever smouldered
Bb              Cm        
Whims of one so in control
Dm7       Cm        
Elizabeth mysterious
A7              Dm          
Cruelty brought thee orchids
         Bb        Cm   Dm
From the bowels of thee ■ 


[Outro]
Gm F          D         Am   Bb    Cm D
■  ■ From the bowels of thee abyss ■  ■


[End]