for my love I declare war

Lyrics

[Verse 1 - delicate piano, mournful violin, whisper-soft female vocal, sparse cello beneath]
I wore midnight like a veil of lace
With a crown of ash on my lovely face
But the world took you from my trembling hands
And left me alone in these barren lands

I called your name through the catacombs
Through broken stone and hollow bones
Now every candle in the chapel bends
To the grief that never, never ends

[Pre-Chorus - strings rising, light guitar picking in the distance, vocals tightening with pain]
And I heard the silence answer back
In the blood-red sky, in the endless black
If love is a grave, then let it bloom
I will not rest in this poisoned tomb

[Chorus - swelling violins, heavy cello, fuller drums, gothic metal guitars enter, fierce but melodic female vocals]
With the crimson eclipse, I bring death tonight
I’ll tear down heaven, I’ll drown out light
No one is safe from my wrath, my cry
I rise with the damned as the world goes by
For my lost love, I will reign in flame
The living will kneel and remember your name
I command the dead, I command the pain
An unwielding army in my heart remains

[Verse 2 - darker guitars, pounding toms, dramatic cello stabs, voice growing colder and stronger]
From the crypts below to the graves unsealed
I woke every shadow that death concealed
Bone by bone, they answered my vow
With hollow eyes, they bow to me now

The moon turned red when I spoke your fate
And the gates of the world began to shake
I am the sorrow they could not bury
I am the curse, and I am the fury

[Pre-Chorus - violins climbing higher, drums building, vocals edged with rage]
You were my light in the ruin and rot
The only peace that this world forgot
So let the churches ring and the towers fall
I will avenge you against them all

[Chorus - full heavy metal surge, layered harmonies, crashing cymbals, soaring lead vocals]
With the crimson eclipse, I bring death tonight
I’ll tear down heaven, I’ll drown out light
No one is safe from my wrath, my cry
I rise with the damned as the world goes by
For my lost love, I will reign in flame
The living will kneel and remember your name
I command the dead, I command the pain
An unwielding army in my heart remains

[Bridge - stripped piano and cello, then sudden orchestral swell, trembling to explosive rage]
If I must become the monster they fear
Then let my mourning sharpen into spear
I loved you once, I love you still
And every heartbeat bends to my will

So rise, my dead, from the blackened earth
Bring me the weight of my sacred curse
I am the widow of a broken dawn
And I will not stop till they’re all gone

[Final Chorus - maximum intensity, thunderous drums, blazing guitars, choirs and violins in battle cry]
With the crimson eclipse, I bring death tonight
I’ll tear down heaven, I’ll drown out light
No one is safe from my wrath, my cry
I rise with the damned as the world goes by
For my lost love, I will burn their name
The living will fall in my blackened reign
I command the dead, I command the pain
An unwielding army—now nothing remains

[Outro - fading cello, distant piano, echoing female vocal, cold reverb]
Sleep in the shadow of my endless vow
I am the dark you cannot escape now
For love, for loss, for the one I’ve lost
I’ll wear this crown of death at any cost