Moonspell - Love Crimes / Alma Mater

Love Crimes

The cold nights have awakened me
The soft winds to undress me
The nails of two witches hav touched me
Their caress cuts like the sharpest ice

Yes it is their way, this so mysterious way
Of welcoming me, welcoming me
Their way to remember
Distant nights of passion and doom
Where, naked, have I bathed in velvet waters
Witnessed by an accomplice smile inside an innocent moon

Serene were the beings who guided me
Empty were the hands which undresses me
To carve strange symbols unknown to me
But lay so dearly inside of me

This is my way, this so mysterious way
Of welcoming she, welcoming she
My way to remember
Distant nights of passion and doom
Where, naked, have I bathed in velvet waters
Witnessed by an accomplice smile inside an innocent moon

Serene were the beings who guided me
Empty were the hands which undresses me
To carve strange symbols unknown to me
But lay so dearly inside of me

This is my way, this so mysterious way
Of welcoming she, welcoming she
My way to remember
Distant nights of passion and doom
Where we both wore flesh crowns to defy
The skies in their blue and so vague tyranny

We are mute villains
Drinking of love as insolent vampires
Valsing through stars and skies
At that and all to come winter nights

Like neophyte ravens in the strangest nest
Charmed by the wilderness of this strange host
Drawing naivety with our blood and semen
Ritually engraved in our hearts and chests
Marks of a pain, signs of a love crime
That will forever and never last

It is our way, this so mysterious way of loving
Of welcoming thee, welcoming thee
Our way to remember
Forever lost nights of passion and doom
Remembrance served in cups of sorrow and pride
For all the eternities we'll still cry
For having lost amidst the stars our bride
Untouchable in her smile, inside the great silver eye
Every night she is condemned to shine

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Alma Mater

Mother Tongue speaks to Me
In the strongest way I've ever seen
I know that she sees in Me
Her proudest child, her purest breed

She speaks to Me in colours
That I can't really understand
I only know that they are ours
And to those I'll proudly bend

For I am your only child
And you my dearest mystery
From an ancient throne I defy the world
To kneel before the Power within.

For I am your only child
And you my dearest mystery
World can't you see it?
Am I alone in my belief?

Virando costas ao Mundo
Orgulhosamente sós
Glória Antiga, volta a nós!

Alma mater!

Breaking waves announce my Bride
It is the only way the Sea could sing
Legends of Lusitanian pride
He sings the words I cannot spring

At the Moon Mountain six wolves cry
Your lost glory we'll regain or die

For I am her only child
And she is my dearest mystery
Pagan Gods in conspiracy
For the sword of Tyranny

Mother Tongue has spoke to thee
In the strongest way they've ever seen
World can't you see ?
I am not alone in my belief.

Alma mater!

Virando costas ao Mundo
Orgulhosamente sós
Glória Antiga, volta a nós!

Alma mater!

Mother Tongue has spoke to Me
In the strongest way I've ever seen
I know that she sees in Me
Her proudest child, her purest breed

She speaks to Me in colours
I can't really understand
I only know that they are ours
and to those I'll proudly bend

For I am her only child
And she is my dearest mystery
From an ancient throne I defy the world
To kneel before the powers within.

For I am her only child
And she is my dearest tragedy
World can't you see it?
I am not alone in my belief.

Virando costas ao Mundo
Orgulhosamente sós

💀 Wolfheart (1995)