| | English Fire Lyrics Artist(Band):Cradle Of Filth
Seven seas writhe for me From Orient gates to R’lyeh Abydos to Thessaly And Sirens sing from stern But now I cease to play For I yearn to return To woodland ferns Where Herne and his wild huntress lay Now the tidal are turning Spurning the darkness The great purgations of distinguished tours Are but stills in time To the thrill that I’m Once more Heading to the bedding Of her English shores The wind bickered in Satanic mill sails Eyes flickered in deep thickets of trees And mists clung tight in panic to vales When Brigantia spoke her soul to me From Imbolg to Bealtaine Lughnasadh to Samhain feasts I heard her lament as season’s blent Together a chimerical beast Now the tidal are turning Churning in darkness The celebrations of extinguished wars Are but stills in time To the chill that climbs Once more Dreading the red weddings On her English shores Gone are the rustic summers of my youth Cruel winter cut their sacred throats With polished scythes that reap worldwide Pitch black skies and forest smoke And the hosts that I saw there Drones of carrion law Drove the ghosts of my forbears To rove and rally once more One of her sons from the vast far-flung Come home to rebuild The rampant line of the Leonine Risen over pestilent fields Now the tidal are turning Burning in darkness The salivation of her hungry sword Shalt spill like wine From the hills to chines That pour Spreading her beheadings On these English shores For the hosts that I saw there Drones of carrion law Drove the ghosts of my forbears To rove and rally once more This is a waking for England From it’s reticent doze This is a waking for England Lest hope and glory are regarded as foes If you find some error in English Fire Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Thanks to gingersnapshs2@hotmail.co.uk for submitting the lyrics. Review about English Fire You're crazy... | Reviewer: ??? | 5/7/09 This song has absolutly nothing to do with England. this song is about a little egg that sat upon a wall. when he fell off no one could put him back together not even with elmer's glue. so they then cooked him over a fire that an englishman had built.Hence the name,"English Fire" my take on english fire | Reviewer: beau | 2/8/09 english fire is a song about briton mythology before christianity took hold and strangled these beliefs to death. (roughly 100 A.D. through to around 500 A.D) it mentions samhain feasts (a feast to honour the dead, happens anually) Herne (the hunter god of briton religion) and various other traits of paganistic religion What got me to love Cradle of Filth | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/19/08 When i was watching a movie i hear the opening piano cause my sister had her labtop open and this band playing and i was so in love with the lyrics and beat that i was bugging her to put it on my i pod. song | Reviewer: darknymphett | 7/24/08 i love this song, and i researched some of the names and terms to get a better idea of what it's about R'lyeh: a sunken city located deep under the Pacific Ocean where the godlike being Cthulhu is buried. appeared in the story, "The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P Lovecraft Abydos: one of the most ancient cities of Upper Egypt. "The hill of the symbol or reliquary" in which the sacred head of Osiris was preserved. Thessaly: Greek city, appears in Homer's Odyssey. Herne: in English mythology, Herne the Hunter is an equestrian ghost associated with Windsor Forest and Great Park in the English county of Berkshire Brigantia: a Celtic goddess Imbolg: one of the four principal festivals of the Irish calendar, celebrated among Gaelic peoples and some other Celtic cultures either at the beginning of February or at the first local signs of Spring. Bealtaine: the Gaelic name for either the month of May or the festival that takes place on the first day of May. Lughnasadh: a Gaelic holiday traditionally associated with the first of August. Samhain: the word for November in the Gaelic languages. also a festival marking the end of the summer season and the end of the harvest. Leonine: of, characteristic of, or like a lion (probably having to do with the symbol of englad being a lion) Meaning | Reviewer: Arokk | 4/7/08 Herne is an Anglo-Celtic god of the hunt. The song is about a return to the glory days of Pagan England. It has nothing to do with beheadings or the like. If you are going to spout about something, do your research...or at least read the lyrics. Meaning | Reviewer: Darren | 11/14/07 Its a lamentful song about the medieval days of England. The persona wants England to return to the days of witch hunts, mysticism and beheadings. "This is a waking for England From it’s reticent doze This is a waking for England Lest hope and glory are regarded as foes" Herne was a ghost (similar to the headless horseman) that was rumoured to inhabit the medieval forests of Windsor. In essence? Dani thinks present England sucks and beheadings are good. English Fire | Reviewer: Angela Paranoia | 8/22/07 "For I yearn to return To woodland ferns Where Herne and his wild huntress lay" That part explains how he longs to come back to England. The vocabulary is very medieval. Err. It was a pretty vague description what I just said. But it's pretty blunt. yeah | Reviewer: Mulysa | 7/20/07 good question. everyone who explained it is right though, it's about a man returning to england whenever it was in turmoil to see a woman I'm sure. Aw well, very good song though cheers to Dani Filth and another amazing work of art. I think that the song is about: | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/1/07 a man who is returning to england in a time of turmoil. i think that the song is about... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/31/07 it is a poetic song about england in the middle ages, when monsters were feared and wars were made without thought. It is about carnage and slaugther. WTF IS is about? Ask danny filth. Review By Pages: 1 2 Review the song English Fire The area is only for review, if you want to submit the lyrics or the corrections of the lyrics, please click the link at the end of the lyrics.  Download "Cradle Of Filth" Music | |
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