santuario di sangue

with your baronial motif

mankind at your feet

and your opulent guests

with whom you do test

the whisper of your blood

the call to those you loved

who lay down for you

for you to run them through

carelessly dressed

i grovel highness

beneath your stars and your moon

and your feminine doom

beneath the shiver of your sea

and the gold that you bleed

on the wings of your charm

a promise of great harm

the light within us fades

as we shy away from day

the passion of her bite

and the glory of her sight

in a hive of open lore

we await the call to war

in an issue of drying blood

lies the victim of our love

regale me with lies

and punish me outright

the crisis of my empire

the volume of your desire

your enfolding dark

your beauty and your mark

i give you my veins

as we lay down in pain

i couldn't help the things we did

no matter where or how i hid

we live for every single night

victorious in every fight