The Ultimate Vampire Resource and Directory

I Am Stretched on Your Grave

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------



I am stretched on your grave

And I'll lie here forever.

If your hands were in mine,

I'd be sure they would not sever.

My apple tree, my brightness,

It's time we were together,

For I smell of the earth

And I'm worn by the weather.



When my family think

That am safely in my bed

Oh from morn until night

I am stretched out at your head.

Calling out into the earth

With tears hot and wild

For the loss of a girl

That I loved as a child.







Do you remember the night

The night when we were lost

In the shade of the black-thorn

And the touch of the frost

And thanks be to Jesus

We did all that was right

And your maidenhead still

Is your pillar of light.







Oh, the priests and the friars

They approach me in dread,

Oh for I love you still

Oh, my life, and you are dead.

I still will be your shelter

Through rain and through storm

And with you in your cold grave,

I cannot sleep warm.







(Repeat first verse)



Note : Dead Can Dance and Sinead O' Connor have also done songs using these lyrics, both turned out great.

Death Will Be My Bride

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------



Woke up this morning

Set off down the road

Left behind me all those years

Searching for a common soul

I’ve been looking for a thousand

And one distractions

To empty my mind

Of thoughts of loneliness

I’ve been looking for someone

To take away my frustrations

But all I find is a sea of emptiness



Death will be my bride

Death will be my bride



Three hours from sundown

I’m still on the road

With those voices in my head

Ringing down the years

For the wind whispers my name

And the leaves they lend a helping hand

If I don’t reach you by this time tomorrow

I’ll be stone cold dead in the ground



Death will be my bride

Death will be my bride