Elizabeth
Opus Eponymous
2010
Duration: 4:01
Track number: 4
Times played live: 244
Writers
Lyrics by: Tobias Forge
Music by: Tobias Forge
Theme
A dark historical narrative about Elizabeth Báthory, the 16th-century Hungarian countess infamous for torturing and murdering virgins, believing their blood would preserve her youth and beauty. Ghost's song transforms this historical atrocity into a meditation on the intersection of power, sexuality, vanity, and cruelty. The track captures the paradox of Báthory's quest for eternal beauty through the shedding of innocent blood—a grotesque perversion of spiritual transformation into pure malevolence.
Lyrics
Underneath the moonlight of old Hungarian skies
Buried in the blood-drenched earth
These barren lands of ice
She was an evil woman with an evil old soul
Piercing eyes emotionless
A heart so black and cold
Elizabeth, in the chasm where was my soul
Forever young, Elizabeth Báthory in the castle of your death
You're still alive, Elizabeth
Her pact with Satan
Her dispisal of mankind
Her acts of cruelty and her lust for blood
Makes her one of us
Our ancient countess was refused her desires will
To bathe in pure fresh blood
She'd peasant virgins killed
Elizabeth, in the chasm where was my soul
Forever young, Elizabeth Báthory in the castle of your death
You're still alive, Elizabeth
Elizabeth, in the chasm where was my soul
Forever young, Elizabeth Báthory in the castle of your death
You're still alive, Elizabeth
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