'EVERYTHING BUT THE GHOUL'
All lyrics by Byronic Sex & Exle


HOUSE OF SHADOWS
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

NIGHTMARE CASTLE
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

GRAVE IS IN THE HEART
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

ECTOPLASMIC DREAMS
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...

GHOST STORY
I 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

TOMBSTONE WORLD
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


MONSTER MAN
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

THE LADY IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE
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


KISS OF THE FIREBRAND
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

STAGE CLOTHES
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…


HEARSE ROAD
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…