From the Dead

It suits me well, this modern world
The righteous find depraved
For one who’s lived three centuries
A stranger to the grave
The years roll by, and rules that I
Was taught to honor and revere
In this new age of telling all
Seem threats exempt of fear
I’ve read in recent times the claims
That literature has made
The image of my kind is just
A comic book charade
They demonized this thing that I became
The truth is lost, the clichés still remain
And from the dead there springs a tale that must be told
And epic life connected
Through a single thread of gold
And how from death into damnation I was hurled
It’s time this vampire shared his story with the world!

Beautiful Boy

And now he's gone,
The only light that ever shone within these walls,
That made my life worth living,
The single thing that ever brought me any joy at all.
My beautiful boy, I've closed the door and let him go, my beautiful boy.

The echo of his voice, the memory of his rough-and-tumble youth
Are all I have to cling to.
Now I've cut the ties that bind and turned him loose, my beautiful boy.
My beautiful boy, I've set him on the wind and pray for him, my beautiful boy.

Surrendering to emptiness, I look around and all that's left
Is life without the one thing I adore.
But should the truth be told, I would have offered up my soul to see him go.
My beautiful, beautiful boy.

He'll never know the tears I held back as my heart was breaking,
The pain that only mothers know.
The sacrifice of seeing all you ever loved forsaken.
My beautiful boy, may God's love go with you, my beautiful boy.

Surrendering to emptiness, I look around
Is life without the one thing I adore.
But I'll bear no regret.
I would have saved my dying breath to set him free.
My beautiful, beautiful boy.

My beautiful, beautiful boy.

Listen to me, let me speak, upon these works of art.
I've dwelt within that fabled city. It's architecture fills my heart.
Let me tell you, I have seen where great ideas are born.
Illuminating all the darkness in the corners of the world.
Ask of me, I will tell you, let your conscience be your guide.
It's nothing but a hellhole here while Paris waits, a virgin bride.

Is it true? Were you once a pupil of the great Mozart.
It's true. But I was hopeless then, clumsy as a horse and cart.
Could it be I dreamt so long to act upon the stage and sing.
The footlights smoking at my feet while curtains rise like velvet wings.

Come with me. Let me show you the opera and the comedy.
The lamplit corner where the girls are raven haired and fancy free.
We'd play the dashing rogues and infiltrate the grand salon.
And walk in wonder through the Louvre, across the Seine to the Sorbonne.
In cafes we would feed our heads with absynthe and philosophy.
Engage the students of Voltaire and curse the aristocracy.

In Paris the bells of Notre Dame ring out
In Paris we'd raise up our voices and shout.
We'll not rest til the ramparts of that city stand before us bright and clear.
Penniless in Paris is better than the life we're leading here.

In Paris we'd search for fame.
In Paris we'd be born again.
As though the streets are paved with gold, in Paris we'd put our trust.
Paris, she was made for us. Paris, she was made for us.
In Paris we could liberate our souls.

I've heard that there's infernal noise,
The stench and cockroach out to rob
The hungry crowds that fill the street.
Their anarchy consumes the mob.
We'd rent a room above the din somewhere along the Boulevard.
And find employment on the stage, the unwashed mass in disregard.
And bright you'd shine, a brand new star. And you would play your violin.
We'll take the city by the throat and revel in it's glorious sin.

In Paris the bells of Notre Dame ring out
In paris we'd raise up our voices and shout.
We'll not rest til the ramparts of that city stand before us bright and clear.
Penniless in Paris is better than the life we're leading here.
In Paris we'd search for fame.
In Paris we'd be born again.
As though the streets are paved with gold, in Paris we'll put our trust.
For Paris, she was made for us. Paris, she was made for us.
In Paris we will liberate our souls.

The Thirst

How can this be?
This devil leaves
And God abandons me
I’m left here looking
At these flames
But who could set me free?
The vessel that I used to be
Is tainted now and ripped apart
Bathed in madness by the fiend
Who’s robbed me of my human heart

To contemplate
This crimson hell
Is more than I can stand
Did I sin so
To see my fate
Offered up by hell’s own hand?
My skin that once was golden brown
Is cold and white as winter snow
These evil points that pierce my gums
These lacquered nails that seem to glow

But wait, did I invite this fate,
This invitation from the damned?
This introduction to the dark
Was never in my mortal plan
And if indeed this cruel joke
Was somehow in my destiny
Should I embrace its wicked ways
And haunt the night for what I need?

To die in such a way
And simply to be born again
A thing of terrifying strength
A bringer of bewitching pain
And blood become the drug I need
Will blood fulfill the thirst in me?
The thirst that sends them to their graves
The thirst for that which I will crave

My life is gone
But I live on
Dead, but still alive
Lost to those
Who loved me once
A demon now inside
For here I am a thing of darkness
Thrown from this ungodly swoon
Immortal from a savage kiss
Kept from my eventual doom

But I did not invite this fate
This invitation from the damned
This introduction to the dark
Was never in my mortal plan
And if indeed this cruel joke
Was somehow in my destiny
Then I’ll embrace its wicked ways
And haunt the night for what I need

To die in such a way
And simply to be born again
A thing of terrifying strength
A bringer of bewitching pain
And blood become the drug I need
Let blood fulfill the thirst in me
The thirst that sends them to their graves
The thirst for that which I now crave

This thirst
This thirst is strong
It overpowers
All right and wrong
The thirst
I feel it coming on
The thirst
I feel it coming on
The thirst
I feel it coming on!

Right Before My Eyes

How luminous he looks to me
So radient and glorious
One savage kiss is all he needs
To change a life and make this night victorious
What princes of the moon we'ed be
Two blazing beacons in the dark
Desire drives me to take him now
No force on earth will ever tear him from my heart

But why do I go back and forth?
What is this doubt that clouds my thoughts?
Don't waste the chance and let the night pass by
He's mine to take
He's right before my eyes

And so my conscience speaks to me
Of selfish myths and consequence
The danger that from death I'd make
A stolen soul no longer blessed with innocence
And such a kingdom could be ours
A wondrous world beyond compare
Would his bright fire not wish it so?
Surely he'd agree this gift is one that should be shared

But why do I go back and forth?
What is this doubt that clouds my thoughts?
Don't waste the chance and let the night pass by
He's mine to take
He's right before my eyes

Everything I really need
Is standing here in front of me
The one thing that my heart should not deny
Is out of reach
But right before my eyes
Is out of reach
But right before my eyes
Right before my eyes

Make Me As You Are

I cannot hide what I've become
It's clear a mother knows her son
Even though your sight grows dim, you see the pallor of my skin
The blood red eyes sunk in my face
You feel the chill in my embrace
The gothic legend of your youth stands here tonight as God's own truth

And from that truth I feel no fear
Two kinds of death are present here
Mine's the age-old act of dying
But yours is like the phoenix rising
Your mother's frail and feeble husk will soon be nothing more than dust
So let's not dwell on wasted years
My time is short, my choice is clear
Make me as you are, tear the hands off clocks that tick away my final hours
I want to rage against the light and leave the sun behind
I want to feel the power of everlasting youth inside
Take me, give me new life
And we'll live beneath the stars
Together and forever, I beg you
Make me as you are

This cursed gift with which I live
I know not if it's mine to give
I'm still a fledgling in this frame
I've only killed when hunger reigned
The risk is mine and if we fail
I'll shake the devil by his tail.
Oh blessed thoughts of sweet release
from nagging nurse, and hovering priest.

Make me as you are, tear the wings of angels that would lift me from your heart
I want to dance beneath the moon and slip into the dark
I want to feel the night awaken when I leave my mark
Take me, give me new life
And we'll live beneath the stars
Together and forever, I beg you
Make me, make me,
Make me as you are,
Tear the hands off clocks that tick away my/your final hours
We'll rage against the light and leave the sun behind
And feel the power of everlasting youth inside
Take me, give me new life
And we'll live beneath the stars
Together and forever,
I beg you
Make me as you are.

To Live Like This

Just look at you, who do you think you are?
To flaunt our laws with your rash ways,
To mock our rules with disregard,
Your presence there is poison in our veins,
Your human traits sour our belief,
Your arrogance should be your shame.

We were born the devil’s darkest,
And shun your forms of gaudiness,
While you parade among the living,
We haunt the solemn world of death!

Just look at me, well, I say look at you.
They hug these walls like half starved rats, a filthy cowering vermin crew!
Where is it written? Who said to live like this?
Show me the face of such a fool,
Who’d trade this gift for p00p and pee-pee.

From one who'd drink his mother’s blood
And quests to be some harlequin,
I’d rather feel this fine rich silk
than rags and tatters on my skin.

Beware this smooth tongued libertine
He’ll share with you his grand demise,
His logic crumbles like a corpse
No god or monster rules your lives.

Trust in me, there is no need, for anyone
To live like this, and not believe
The night holds more than darkness and the stars,
Don’t fear the world out there, because of who you are,
Just free yourselves and you will see
There is no need to live like this,
No need!

You act so bold, as if you have the right
To challenge us, this ancient coven
Disapproving of our cursed life

I stand here now, new truth before your eyes,
I’ve danced within the church of god,
Seen operas sung and still survive.

What’s to fear on hallowed ground,
Cold stone angels bound to good,
A crucifix is nothing more
Just a dead man on two pieces of wood,

Your self imposed archaic ways are
Simply lies to bind your will,
Above this wretched crypt you live in
Shine forms of light that cannot kill.

And so indeed there is no need
For anyone to live like this and not believe
The night holds more than darkness and the stars
Don’t fear the world out there, because of who we are
We’ll free ourselves and we will see
There is no need to.

For so many years, we’ve shared this path together
Kindred spirits in search of history
For you, the Holy Grail is where we come from
But it’s a different road I crave these days for me

You dwell so on the dawn of our creation
In search of ghosts from our mythology
For now, the wonders that the world can offer
Mean more to me than ancient family trees

To hear the waves pound the timbers of a schooner
Fighting up the coastline of Cape Horn
To travel in the shadows of the longboats
To where the giants of the Arctic Ice were born

The dangers of the deep, dark Congo River
Where the crocodile hunts and the python strikes
To watch another predator in action
Could rejuvenate some meaning in your life

The thrill to hunt in such exotic places
I can almost taste those beauties in Siam
The brown-skinned boys of Mikonos and Rangoon
The shy Chinese behind their painted fans

My need to go is hard to fight
I want to gaze upon this world
Just like the Northern Lights
And of all the things about you
That I’m going to miss
Is the bond we formed together
Through this Crimson Kiss
My son so dear, the world’s out there
Mystery calls and I can’t resist
But you and I have memories
Bound together by the Crimson Kiss

I did not give you the Dark Gift so you could turn and walk away from me.

I gave you the gift of life knowing that someday you would walk away from me!

The wellspring of my strength unrestricted
There’s so little I could fail to endure
I could face a trek across the Himalayas
Survive the freezing mists of Scottish moors

My need to go is hard to fight
I want to gaze upon this world
Just like the Northern Lights
But of all the things about you
That I’m going to miss
Is the bond we’ve formed together
Through this Crimson Kiss
My son so dear, the world’s out there
Mystery calls and I can’t resist
But you and I have memories
Bound together by the Crimson Kiss

My son so dear, the world’s out there
Mystery calls and I can’t resist
But you and I have memories
Bound together by the Crimson Kiss!