Cradle Of Filth: Nymphetamine Meaning
Nymphetamine Lyrics
Midsummer, I waved
A "V" of black swans
On with hope to the grave
And though Red September
With skies fire-paved
I begged you appear
Like a thorn for the holy ones
Cold was my soul
Untold was the pain
I faced when...
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Wikipedia says: The title is a portmanteau of "nymphomania" and "amphetamine", and Dani Filth explained the track itself as referring to "a drug-like addiction to the woman in question, with her insidious vampire qualities literally bringing her lover back from the brink of the spiritual grave, only to bury him further on the strength of a whim. The album is written in the style of Edgar Allan Poe's works, and leaves one thinking that, despite the character's inner agonies, he is really a welcome submissive who readily enjoys the terrible highs and lows of his relationship with this alluring and filthy, depreciative succubus."
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The song is about two people who loved each other, but one dies leaving the other heartbroken. The girl that loves him prays upon his grave but he has abandoned his religion. Notice how in the song she says holiness and sacred key. In the chorus he says six feet deep is this incision, six feet under a term for being dead, in my heart that bar-less prison. and nymphetamine, if you look up nymph on google it shows that it is a sex addiction. Etamine is a drug which you take through injection. watch the video on youtube watch from 40 seconds to 1 minute 20 seconds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dW6aNAZGTM Near the end it says we were like needle and spoon, a common way of taking injected drugs is heating it up with a lighter on a spoon.
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to take this song at the (fix) version or the Deva remix is to ignore half of the song:
Evanescent like the scent of decay
I was fading from the race
When in despair, my darkest days
Ran amok and forged her face
From the fairest of handmaidens to
A slick perverted wraith
Nymphetamine
Heaving midst narcissus
On a maledict blanket of stars
She was all three wishes
Sex, sex, sex
A lover hung on her death row
I was hooked on her disease
Highly strung like Cupid's bow
Whose arrows hungered meat
And the blinding flare of passion
In the shade of narrow streets
Where their poison never rationed
All the tips they left in me
Two tracks
Bric-a-brac
Something passed between us
Like a bad crack
Upward-lit
I'd met another kind
Of rat
In fact
With every Rome inside me
Licked and ransacked
She haunted at the corners of my mind
In black
Cataracts
Wouldn't whitewash away
Her filthy smoke stack
She burnt me like a furnace
For my future suicide
Taking this portion of the lyrics with the second half of the song, it paints a different picture. It would almost seem like he created this woman in his mind based on someone he met previously. And as such, he fantasized about her.
But he fell for this invented vision of her and it was not like the person really was. He made his desire for her known and was snubbed. -
The song is obviously about a beautiful girl who left him. "Cold was my soul, untold was the pain, I faced when you left me, a rose in the rain."
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This song is one of my favorites from cradle of filth. As I was listening to the song and after reading the lyrics, I believe that this is about a guy who is so addicted with his girl and been longing for her forever. Longing for the things they do from their past. This of course involves love and lust.
NYMPH is his goddess (referring to his girl) and AMPHETAMINE is his drugs. He is addicted to his girl like his addiction to drugs.
Sad is that he can no longer have the taste of his DRUGS because the NYMPH he's been longing for is six feet under the ground. -
nymphomaniac (person who is "addicted" to sex) + amphetamine (a highly addictive drug) = nymphetamine.
Basically he is addicted to sex with a particular girl in question. Maybe a variable.. she only wanted sex and moved on to someone else, being that she loves sex so much? Just a thought -
No nothing to do with nymphos people....Though a nymph is simply referencing a beautiful woman. He is speaking of being addicted to her like a drug....mainly through sex...This lust, this vampiric addiction...Bared on your tomb, I'm a prayer for your loneliness...She's offering herself, mocking him and taunting him to take one more taste...seeing her like that weakens him and he has to have one more taste, can think of nothing else "tunnel vision" After words, her vampiric ways drain him and weaken him, and the cycle begins again....
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So, I think and this is just my opinion, that it's about a man and woman who very much want to be together... under the wrong circumstances. The man wants to break it off because it's wrong but he can't. He's addicted to her, to her beauty, and probably to the sex.
she still wants him, but she's like a siren. She'll lead him to his death (literally or metaphorically)either that or she's hurt him once already.
but this verse.
"cold was my soul
and untold was the pain
i faced when you left me
a rose in the rain
so I swore to the razor
that never enchained
would your dark nails of faith
be pushed through my veins again"
means that she left him once and he doesn't want to get into it again.
and the chorus
"six feet deep is this incision
in my hear that barless prison"(he's hurt, emotionally)
"discolours all with tunnel vision
sunsetter"(she makes being together sound really great, but he knows it won't)
etc... I don't have to interpret the whole song. you get it. -
The interpretation of this song can vary; the catalyst of course is whether you choose to interpret Nymphetamine Fix or Nymphetamine (Overdose). Either way, the subject of this song is the addiction to a Nymphomaniac.
While Nymphs are widely considered the metaphor upon which this song is written, I would disagree. It’s likely a play on words, Dani Filth’s lyrics have always been astoundingly poetic with a masterfully deft understanding of the English language, and as with any linguist the bending, alternate, and assumed ways words may be used are fondly used. The title likely has a dual meaning, suggesting the beauty of a fictional Nymph by title but with the lust of a “nympho”. Assuming we’re going to dissect the whole of Nymphetmine, I’ll do this based upon the lyrics of (Overdose).
The song begins with a description of anguish, “…When in despair, my darkest days/ Ran amok and forged her face…” Stating blatantly his deprivation of joy in life until it led him to this woman. The next line states, “From the fairest of handmaidens to/ A slick perverted wrath.” This is the first indication of the songs reference to a nymphomaniac rather than a Nymph. He describes this woman to at first glance be a beautiful creature when he discovers her sexual appetite. The second indication of this is “She was all three wishes:/ Sex, sex, sex” again, he is not describing a mere mythical creature.
He later describes himself as, “Hooked on her disease” and that “Something passed between us/ Like a bad crack.” Suggesting something in this relationship took a negative turn. From there he states that “She haunted at the corners of my mind.” Or more simply, that despite what has taken place, he remains addicted to her, this unfortunately for the character, continues until, “She burnt me like a furnace/ For my future suicide.” Meaning exactly what it says: his manic adoration of her driving him insane until he claims his own life.
From there begins the “Fix” in which the second verse, sung by Dani describes his torment as she leaves him in the rain with naught but a rose, which led to his decision to commit suicide, and by the lyrics suggestion by use of a razor to his wrists.
The Chorus suggests that perhaps she regrets her actions, maybe even that she even continues to love him, and also brings us our third example of the dual meaning in Nymphetamine: “I could always find/ The right slot for your sacred key.” This is a sexual reference, describing her…abilities…to satisfy her former love. The rest of the song continues in a similar manner describing their lost love of one another, Dani dead, six feet in the ground, his heart, even in death, wounded and that he had dedicated his love to her and her alone. -
A guy is in love with a beautiful young woman so she is his nymphetamine girl....
When he dies she brings him back from the grave with her vampiric powers.
It's about how he missed her when he died. -
I think this song is just basically about this guy who is lusting for this girl and at the same time is also crazily in love with her and would do anything for her,but she on the other hand just wants the sex(nymph=a female who has excessive sexual needs),so she plays along,does him and then leaves him,which shatters his heart.but later she realises that he really loved her and she tries to get back to him,but she can't because he is now emotionally dead after the experience she has givin him!
screw the video,its just commercial shit anyway
love the band and the song
cradle of filth fucking rocks!!!! -
I'm drawn with this song... I love it much and actually cover it with my band but have never fully understood it.
I think it's about the drug, that he's hopelessly addicted to, but I also think it refers to a woman who he is also addicted to, in the way that he's addicted to the drug. -
Ok.. well it all depends on which version on Nymphetamine your listening to considering there are three. "Nymphetamine(Overdose)" "Nymphetamine(Fix)" and "Nymphetamine(deva-fix).. although the lyrics for fix and deva-fix are the same. overdose suggests sex and depression,self mutilation. and all the rest.
"Evanescent like the scent of decay
I was fading from the race
When in despair, my darkest days
Ran amok and forged her face
From the fairest of handmaidens to
A slick perverted wraith
Nymphetamine
Heaving midst narcissus
On a maledict blanket of stars
She was all three wishes
Sex, sex, sex
A lover hung on her death row
I was hooked on her disease
Highly strung like Cupid's bow
Whose arrows hungered meat
And the blinding flare of passion
In the shade of narrow streets
Where their poison never rationed
All the tips they left in me
Two tracks
Bric-a-brac
Something passed between us
Like a bad crack
Upward-lit
I'd met another kind
Of rat
In fact
With every Rome inside me
Licked and ransacked
She haunted at the corners of my mind
In black
Cataracts
Wouldn't whitewash away
Her filthy smoke stack
She burnt me like a furnace
For my future suicide"
anyway. I think its more along the lines of being broken up with. Dani Filth may have wrote the lyrics. doesn't mean it was from his point of view. -
This song is about a girl/woman who is so beautiful and almost untouchable... every guy wants her but simply can't have her...
Nymph - fictitious mermaid-like woman
Amphetamine - drug
...It is a metaphor for a woman who infects every man's mind and life with her sheer beauty and radiance.
Cradle of Filth ROCK, by the way. m/ -
maybe possible about a girl and a guy who broke up she wants him back he is a bit hesitant about it and tells her how he felt when she left. She is like trying to seduce his state of mind saying that she's the answer to his wishes.
my teacher told me "slot to your sacred key" was sexual but I dunno I had a relationship like the one the song describes before and like now I see why he told me this was his song to me. anywho back on subject maybe it means like she could always find the right way to work things out with him.
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