Verse I bathed my hands in heat and red delight Warmth climbing up my wrists like silk Your breath shook when I touched your throat Soft pulse trembling under thin skin No guilt in the hunger I refine No sin, just the truth of appetite Your name dissolves beneath my teeth You came to me willingly Verse Silence in the halls, lantern light flickers Footsteps echo like an invitation Your gaze holds fear and devotion both Sweet contradiction, my favorite wine My fingers trace the promise of surrender Your warmth spills like honey on marble How lovely the body when it yields How luminous the living Chorus Bathory Let the red run sweet Press your pulse to me Bathory Take what you offer freely We drink, we breathe, we feast Verse Do not whisper mercy to the night The night does not listen, only hungers Hold still and I will show you rapture Slow, delicate, indulgent The brightest bloom is always fleeting And you are brightest now Your heat stains my lips And I hunger again Interlude Come closer No trembling now Your body knows Before your mind admits Let it speak Let it answer mine Chorus Bathory Let the red run sweet Press your pulse to me Bathory Take what you offer freely We drink, we breathe, we feast Verse Say my name, and I’ll guide your last exhale Soft as a confession against my ear Your warmth fades slow, like dusk over skin But I take nothing you did not yield Do not call it cruelty Call it devotion Call it the cost of beauty Call it union Bridge I keep only what sings in the blood And you sang so beautifully No sermon, no judgment Only desire, only heat We are not sinners We are flame We consume And we shine Final Chorus Bathory Let the red run sweet Press your pulse to me Bathory Take what you offer freely We drink, we breathe, we feast We drink, we breathe, we feast
