Awaking in a sweat
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Forsaking pleasures for regret
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Another night of blight had slowly passed
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The morning skies once fresh and bright
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Darkened down no near twilight
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Once could smell the end of days were coming fast
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Gilles wandered as in purgatory
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Beyond the grave of his estate
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Neither Heaven, Hell, nor peasantry
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Were present, save projected hatred
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He knew suspicion, he felt derision
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And grief like a sharpened stake
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Pierce his heart, and now the start
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Of his unknitting began to take
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Vain, glorious, a Lord, devout?
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He thought his soul exempt
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From guilt and doubt, there's no way out
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Ten leagues beneath contempt
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Awaking in a sweat
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Forsaking pleasure for regret
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His choired chapel sighed with his laments
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As accusations reached a roar
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Investigations breached the door
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He put up nothing save his favours in defense
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The Church stirred in it's Roman lair
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The grease had long been spent
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Now all tongues spat at Tiffauges there
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Ten leagues
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Ten leagues beneath contempt
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[Narration by Doug Bradley]:
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"Alas, I was happier
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In the enjoyment of tortures
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Tears, fright, and blood
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than in any other pleasure"
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Just one falter
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One misplaced deed
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And Gilles would be undone
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As he teetered on the verge of defeat
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Profaning God's altar
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Bursting in on evening Mass
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He threatened there to crucify the priest
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Drunk on fiery wine
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With the storm lashing behind
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He then threw this Philistine
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To his foulest dungeon
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And money owed or not
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The Priest released or left to rot
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His blatant sacrilege begot
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A war machine of papal Rome
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They came for him in mourning splendour
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With the blessing of the Saints
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His fawning grin in sweet surrender
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A lesson in enforced restraint
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He knew suspicion, he felt derision
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And fear like a sharpened stake
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Pierce his heart, and now the start
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Of his unknitting began to take
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He thought courts bought with golden crowns
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Rich Bishops he could tempt
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But traitor's gate was sought and found
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Ten leagues beneath contempt
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Ten leagues beneath contempt
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Ten leagues
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Ten leagues beneath contempt
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Ten leagues
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Ten leagues
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Ten leagues beneath contempt
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Ten Leagues Beneath Contempt
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Cradle Of Filth |