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Violets and Scream
00:28
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Naughty Victor stole Violet's heart
and then left her for dead
but Violet was naughty too
and stole Victor's head
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Ghouls Night In
00:50
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Passion fruit and nectarines
What his hair smelled of
As his head lay in my lap
His body lay elsewhere
But let's not get in to that
Over his dead body
Would he give me his heart
A little begrudging
But a heart is a heart
So now cheap plastic roses
Hold back the pain
Red lips and nails
I won't see him again
And on paper they declared it
HOME INVASION
However
I feel "surprise reunion"
Has a far more romantic ring to it
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Insanitorium
00:23
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I collect personalities
Like a child collects pebbles
So lock me away
Keep me safe inside
But I'm not inside
Outside of my mind
With my pebbles
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Too Goth To Moth
00:32
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Little Lisa led a lonely life
None would come and play
So ripping legs off insects
Was how she'd spend her day
The winged drove her crazy
Their blood with glee she'd spill
But they avenged their dead one night
While Lisa slept quite still
Crawling up her nose
And nesting in her ears
Gnawing on her eyeballs
Fluttering on her tears
Spinning web around her
A mummy like white shell
A warning to the wicked
Never squish our skulls again
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Perciviliforticus
00:10
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You have a stupid name I wouldn't take if we were wed
But that won't be an issue because you are long dead
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Hauntessori
00:48
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Children are the cruellest creatures
I have heard them say
but crueller are the adults
who try to stop our play
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Tea Parlour Gothic
00:32
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Your cup doesn't match that saucer
My cushion crowds this couch
But paired we're perfection
Your lips match my mouth
Rose petal tea bags
Can be used twice
Unlike love's stars
Which fall once in life
The morbidest morbid macabre misery
Forever and ever
You
And
Me
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Captive Audience
00:32
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What can I say?
you always wanted something to strap on
well these straps come with buckles
bouncing your head off walls
blood on your knuckles
oh how they'll wish you well
once you're safe inside the cell
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Crypt Crawler
00:33
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Vampire vampire
where have you been?
"In Buckingham Palace
draining the queen,
her butler, the servants
and maids in pantry,
then dining on peasants
in White Chapel unclean
and when I am done
to home I return
glut on blood
neath the bones of the Earth."
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Dinky Und Diddums
00:44
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Dinky und Diddums
a mother's worst dream
golden haired cherubs
fed on her screams
clawed out the womb
tiny hands, tiny toofs,
Satan afears twin evil three foot two
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Fangs For Nothing
00:15
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You held me down
and butchered me
under the guise of cleaning teeth
you drilled, damned,
and stole from me,
then tossed me bleeding,
into the street
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Impostoria
00:42
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What were my deeds
unforgiveable?
why this curse,
miserable?
I live a life unliveable,
each day more invisible
but
as I fade
I am replaced
Oh
it's rotten
it's noxious
and wearing my face
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Leech
00:35
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My dear!
They said
beware the ghouls
that live under your bed
but I think I have enough to fear
from the ones inside my head
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Never By Night
00:54
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if i were to cross your path
there's no shadow of doubt in my mind
that you wouldn't be opposed to pausing
for a moment
or two
before carrying on your way
if I
were to cross your path
I am under no sad delusion
that you would seek to cross mine
therefore I think it best
i find an alternative route of travel
keep to main roads
and traverse only by day
Never By Night
where wayward stars misguide lost fools and their lonely feet
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The Willies
00:26
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In our water closest
in the dead of night
something weird is waiting
to give our guests a fright
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Luna Lost
00:28
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Her love and cherry blossoms
a masterpiece carved
on my heart
but both withered
to unsightly scars
and she thanked me for digging
my grave by her tomb
but wings I will grow
and take flight by the moon
Luna
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waiting for he to return from sea
has made a skeleton out o me
so with my shadow I pretend
his love has come to haunt again
and yea my heart still beats
though none could ever tell
so beware of throwing pennies
down my wishing well
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Ectoplasmagoria
00:58
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it's so hard to be alive
when everyone else is dead
so I converse with the voices in my head
compared to you they make more sense
and you no longer remember that I exist
yet you are the reason that I do
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Garden Parting
00:34
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what time did love's bells toll for me?
time of death or time for tea?
mark my words and cross my lips
he'll break my heart with his kiss
now I'm at the bottom of a river
I threw myself off our bridge
before you burnt it
I sent a letter
you could have saved me if you read it
but apparently there are far more interesting tales to read
on a Sunday night in summer
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Saucer of Tears
00:40
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He wouldn't watch the cherry blossoms
dropping from our tree
so I watched his blood
dripping in my tea
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Venus de Vilo Dublin, Ireland
The Voice of Horror: Venus de Vilo is an Irish based theatrical musician specialising in the vaudeville, macabre and bloody side of dark horror music and art.
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