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Everything But The Ghoul

by Byronic Sex & Exile

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1.
Stage Fright 02:38
2.
Lyrics: No sleep in the house of shadows No time to cry when the house of shadows fall Rooms to play in the house of shadows Nowhere to pray when the house of shadows fall Faces cry in the house of shadows All hopes die when the house of shadows fall Beneath the stones in the house of shadows Buried hopes & bones when the house of shadows fall In the house of shadows All the damned rise when the house of shadows fall No mercy shown in the house of shadows No one to call when the house of shadows fall Can't hide in the house of shadows Where secrets lie when the house of shadows fall She roams the halls in the house of shadows Forevermore 'til the house of shadows fall Secrets kept in the house of shadows Truths buried there when the house of shadows fall Paintings sigh in the house of shadows All the walls burn as the house of shadows fall In the house of shadows All the damned rise when the house of shadows fall No mercy shown in the house of shadows No one to call when the house of shadows fall...
3.
Lyrics: A candle burning bright A castle in the night A lady cast in fright The villain's fortress tight Two lovers locked in lust A secret sordid touch The breaking of the trust As the torture chamber rusts Music in the depths The spider weaves it's web And there with bated breath The long black hair of death Discovery with hate For them there's no escape And evil never waits… When madness rules the night Hatred burns so bright Shadows cut the light And passion wins the fight Blood spilled on the chains The lady screams again But evil casts a curse And vengeance will be hers As thunder cuts the skies The dead will rise tonight Evil casts a curse But vengeance will be… The hero takes the bait For one night he will wait In a house of shame With restless souls in pain His passion it will yearn Her beauty it will burn But blood will yet run cold For beauty has no soul Screaming from the depths The spider weaves its web And there with bated breath The long black hair of death Discovery with hate For them there's no escape And evil never waits… When madness rules the night Hatred burns so bright The shadows cut the light And passion wins the fight Blood spilled on the chains The lady screams again But evil casts a curse And vengeance will be hers As thunder cuts the skies The dead will rise tonight Evil casts a curse But vengeance will be hers When madness rules the night Hatred burns so bright But evil casts a curse And vengeance will be hers...
4.
Lyrics: For every line set beneath every eye, grave is in the heart Every smile from a twilight surprise, grave is in the heart For all the hearts of sullen sublime, grave is in the heart Just remember your time is every time, grave is in the heart For every dawn in a moorland sky, grave is in the heart For all the warmth every friendship provides, grave is in the heart For every child who is dreaming of pride, grave is in the heart For every victim and every suicide, grave is in the heart With every kiss our love multiplies, grave is in the heart Whisky sunsets, dawn with red wine, grave is in the heart Beating drums and guitars chime, grave is in the heart The only glory is living to survive, grave is in the heart For all the ones with tears in their eyes, grave is in the heart There'll come to a time when our dust will rise, grave is in the heart Look to the sun as the raven flies, grave is in the heart Just remember that hope never dies, grave is in the heart .
5.
Lyrics: When the night comes Wind blows and dark hums Circles of time show Thoughts caught and sweat grows When the night comes Eyes bulge and pulse drums Rooms shrinks, prayers hail Floors creaks and skin pales Two souls in firefight Stronger than twilight Desperate and mourning In dreams she is calling... When the night comes Heart stunned and blood crawls Fear drives from night shade Drums beat from love's grave Two souls in firefight Stronger than twilight Desperate and mourning In dreams she is calling... Fading to ground cold Walking to threshold Harness and dust Magic and light, lost Two souls in firefight Stronger than twilight Desperate and mourning In dreams she is calling...
6.
Lyrics: In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace— Radiant palace—reared its head. In the monarch Thought’s dominion, It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair! Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow (This—all this—was in the olden Time long ago) And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A wingèd odor went away. Wanderers in that happy valley, Through two luminous windows, saw Spirits moving musically To a lute’s well-tunèd law, Round about a throne where, sitting, Porphyrogene! In state his glory well befitting, The ruler of the realm was seen.
7.
Ghost Story 05:55
Lyrics: saw a ghost So beautiful my blood it froze A dress of silver in repose A jagged scar across her throat She floats Above the boards, above the world Her blackened eyes burning stones The depths of hell her only throne Her skin the deepest vein of porcelain Her lips the bloodied edge of discipline Her hair fiery shades of everything Her hard countenance demanding She herself Is a haunted house A vacant lens where ghouls gaze out No hope within, no home without She spoke a wordless power over the air Pulsating shards of magnet flares No language need to understand A leather whip within her hand Her skin the deepest vein of porcelain Her lips the bloodied edge of discipline Her hair the velvet black of witch and sin She, demanding lust, my everything
8.
Lyrics: All the cities cry For a dawn that does not end But the graveyards are full Of irreplaceable men All my love and hopes Dust across the tombstone world All my dreams in vain Lost in the void of the tombstone world A child can rot Waiting for the flood to stop Deluge or bullets Or decay are all we've got One more heart, Broke on the wheel of the tombstone world Yesterday forgot More cement for the tombstone world All the banners fly On the deathmarch in the tombstone world Triumphs and tatters Forgotten in the tombstone world All my love and hopes Just dust across the tombstone world All my dreams in vain Lost in the void of the tombstone world
9.
Monster Man 06:02
Lyrics: I, a monument To apply the passions that I spent I, a revenant No secret sigh or repent And I, back from the dead A crown of dust upon my head Take my vampire hand I'll be your faded ham, monster man And I, was all the rage Held Yorick skulls on every stage And I, stayed the same Set my stone to every change I fought, with all my might Against all stakes and all tides Take my cobwebbed bones from the sand I'll be your comeback plan, monster man You, the only show The only pride that I know You, beyond the sights Your mirage bathed in twilight Pour the brandy glass Call any favour that you ask Embrace my velvet sham I'm your encore stand, monster man
10.
Lyrics: And all with pearl and ruby glowing Was the fair palace door, Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing And sparkling evermore, A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty Was but to sing, In voices of surpassing beauty, The wit and wisdom of their king. But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch’s high estate; (Ah, let us mourn!—for never morrow Shall dawn upon him, desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed. And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms that move fantastically To a discordant melody; While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever, And laugh—but smile no more.
11.
Lyrics: In her dead room the lady sits The silk of death across her wrists A fragrance hangs of sweet decay A boy who brings the light of day Give me one kiss to start the night Give me new songs to start my heart Give me new love to bring me home With this flower I'll soon be gone Her cards can tell what words can't say A life not lived jas lost it's way A child whose gifts and burden stay Whose beauty's cold and bleeds away Give me one kiss to start the night Give me new songs to start my heart Give me new love to bring me home With this flower I'll soon be gone
12.
Lyrics: What I'm thinking of is between me and God The ecstasy of destruction, the agony of loss All roads lead to victory, everything you're dreaming of The agony of the undertow, The kiss of the firebrand lies The kiss of the firebrand burns The kiss of the firebrand bites The kiss of the firebrand stings The kiss of the firebrand lies Wild work for expert hands down in this underworld No place to hide beneath a flag unfurled We don't know where we're going, no transport made to last Going nowhere fast The kiss of the firebrand lies The kiss of the firebrand burns The kiss of the firebrand bites The kiss of the firebrand stings The kiss of the firebrand lies
13.
Lyrics: I stand all alone here With the sting of silence in my ears Maybe some shyness in old tears The snap of cold pride that I hear Here comes the night, the cold moonlight Makes their blades gleam, hard and bright… I'll be alright, I'll win the fight Just as soon as I put on my stage clothes Something about all this warpaint And all the flowers I acquaint Reminds me of nods that I fainted, well I never did say I'm a saint… Here comes the night, the cold moonlight Makes their blades gleam, hard and bright… I'll be alright, I'll win the fight Just as soon as I put on my stage clothes…
14.
Hearse Road 08:08
Lyrics: On the hearse road, the cortege it rolls With feathers black as stone, the horses shine like coal The brass it howls and calls, a single drum it tolls And where the hearse road goes, no one ever knows Like actors on the stage, we take our public place Preparing with due grace, our marks set out with tape We get to make our stand, we get to make our case But when the curtain falls we know there's no escape Hearse road... Away from everyone, our houses full to brim Of souvenirs and tins that make our everything The walls so black and stained, the bruising from our pain One day the door will close, we won't go home again Our ghosts at home do play, whilst reason is away Tormenting us in sleep, our nightmares on repeat All those broken hearts, never will depart Our souls haunted will stay, never to get away Hearse road... So on the road we go, through the night we drive For while we're still alive there's reason to survive Remember as you feel the turning of the wheel That it's only the bleeding that proves that you are real…

credits

released October 31, 2023

“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.” - Angela Carter

Produced, composed and performed by Byronic Sex & Exile

Recorded in Leeds, April-October 2023
'The Haunted Palace' by Edgar Allan Poe
Backing vocals on 'Hearse Road' by Diamanda

Cover photo by Neil Chapman
Whitby Abbey photo by James Howard
Additional design & artwork by Derek Anthony Williams
Live photo by Gary Quarmby
Mastered by Dark Creation Mastering

Dedicated to Margaret, Jez, Ana, and Chris

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