Elize (song)

"Elize" is an old folk song of unknown origins. The earliest known recording of it is by American singer and cryptozoologist Holly Barton in 1873.
== Lyrics ==
Your beauty is beyond compare
With burning coils of violet hair
With marble skin and eyes of Scarlet Blue
Your smile is like the death of spring
Your voice is soft like winter rain
And I can’t hope to dance with you, Elize
(chorus 1.1)
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
Please don't do it just because you can
For years our city’s terrorized
By the beast who takes disguise
In the shell that calls itself Elize
Our sleep is stirred by quaking breath,
Eyes closed against the threat of death,
That lies behind the teeth of that Elize
(chorus 1.2)
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
I'm begging of you please don't force my hand
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
Please don't do it just because you can
The closer that you get to her, 
The more those edges seem to blur
To something that cannot be called, Elize
Banished to Earth from far beyond,
Nobody knows how far you've come,
They feared you just as much up there, Elize
You ate your first friend from inside,
She never knew just how you lied,
'Til you took her bones and wore her skin, Elize
(chorus 2.1)
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
I'm begging of you, please don't take my soul
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
We're at your mercy, don't consume us whole
We weep in ashes, paranoid
For when she leaves the Elder Void
Reality shall be unmade, Elize
Your teeth are sharp, your mouth agape
Your claws rend flesh, there’s no escape
From the judgement of eldritch one, Elize
They scream about you in their sleep
And when they wake do naught but weep
In terror of the one they call Elize
Blackening the summer skies
With burning wings and countless eyes
We tremble at the sight of you, Elize
(chorus 2.2)
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
I'm begging of you, please don't take my soul
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
We're at your mercy, don't consume us whole
We cower here beneath your gaze
That sets the Earth and sky ablaze
Have mercy at the end of days, Elize
And in your eyes, deep pools of vice,
No spilt blood will for you suffice
The Entities sing in her name: Elize
Her bloodlust has grown farther than
What mortal men may comprehend
Her mindless drones just screech her name: Elize
And star-spawn come with heavy tide
In Big Bay lie Great Dreamer’s hide
They cry with voices deep and high: Elize
And by the light of elder stars
In ancient tombs of bygone qzars
An unborn shape awakens as Elize
(chorus 2.3)
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
I'm begging of you, please don't take my soul
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
We're at your mercy, don't consume us whole
You’re All-in-One and One-in-All
All-Mighty Time is in your thrall
None may understand it all, Elize
And thus she spreads the pox and doom
And sentences the world in gloom
Her acolytes still praise her name: Elize
Dark Princes sit right by her side
The Plague Lord’s smile grows ever-wide
A whisper on the winds of doom: Elize
Changer of Ways is her left hands
And bloody gods will understand
All the meanings of her names, Elize
When lust of battle’s satisfied
Still victory are you denied
All failures lie in ashes ‘fore Elize
The children wake with gasping screams
For your will reigns in all their dreams
Their sleeping eyes fixed rapt upon Elize
(chorus 2.4)
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
I'm begging of you, please don't take my soul
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
We're at your mercy, don't consume us whole
Your armies toil across the plain
A future holding naught but pain
The rivers clot with those you’ve slain, Elize
From your maw, a hateful screech
To love despair is what you teach
For no soul can escape your reach, Elize
And I can easily understand
How you’d devour all sea and land
Death is the only merry now, Elize
You blot the sun out from the sky
The universe begins to cry
Your presence threatens space and time, Elize
What sacrifice will you demand?
What service to your mighty hand?
Whose head should roll upon the sand, Elize?
Your form takes on a gruesome hue
There's nothing now that we can do 
But flounder when we see you there, Elize
Your legs go on and on for days 
There's nothing we can do but pray
You'll spare us when you come around, Elize
(chorus 2.5)
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
I'm begging of you, please don't take my soul
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
We're at your mercy, don't consume us whole
The scent you spread around the town
Convinced the folks to burn it down
And now there's nothing left for us, Elize
A Queen in Yellow you are clad
From goodness comes nothing but bad
Moral high ground’s flattened ‘fore Elize
You've plunged us all into turmoil
And now we try to rise and spoil
Your horrifying charm on us, Elize
The foolish ones will run and hide
The wiser ones lie down to die
Escaping final judgement by Elize
Some surely can’t survive this fight
Upon the crops you've placed a blight
They're dying in the streets out there, Elize
You have the choice to feed on them
But I won't live in fear again
I'll kill you 'fore you take this land, Elize
You've lit a fire deep inside
This sword I'll plunge into your hide
Expect no mercy from this soul, Elize
You've been destroyed for now, and still
I fear you did not have your fill
Please don't come 'round to do us ill, Elize
(chorus 3.1)
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
I'll end this story just like it began
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
I'll take your teeth if you try to take my man
Madness claws at my deepest mind
She will devour all humankind
Taste for extinction she has got, Elize
When she returns to sow her seed
Of chaos, death and foul disease
I somehow want for this to be, Elize
(chorus 3.2)
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
I'll end this story just like it began
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
I'll take your teeth if you try to take my man
I’ve seen beyond that auburn hair,
My eyes have met your piercing stare,
And I am told I’m hard to scare, Elize
Your arms could break the spine of Death
Your voice could rob the winds of breath
No mortal can compete with you, Elize
(chorus 4.1)
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
I’m begging of you please don’t take my man
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
Think not of him, Elize, take me instead
I dream about you in the night
Of lying bare before the sight
Of your unblinking, countless eyes, Elize
And though I can’t say I would mind
If you my soul and skin divide
I’d stay there by your icy side, Elize
(chorus 4.2)
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
I’m begging of you please don’t take my man
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
Think not of him, Elize, take me instead
You could have your pick of breast
To feast upon inside your nest
It seems I have a taste for you, Elize
As object of appetency;
To feel your limbs enclosing me
Would sate my every fantasy, Elize
(chorus 4.3)
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
I’m begging of you please don’t take my man
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
Think not of him, Elize, take me instead
So Buried deep she lies in wait
A coffin Vast in space so great
The time will come to rise from death, Elize
The Dark surrounds us everywhen
Her watchful Eye will grow her ken
Expanding mental libraries, Elize
Her Flesh will part for mouth and eye
Her hands reach through to Hunt goodbyes
The chase until the end of time, Elize
In madness’ Spiral I did fall
A Web of lies weaved for them all
Trapped in the truth are you and me, Elize
Stranger things I’ve in mirrors seen
But Lonely times are claiming me
It’s you and I fight to the death, Elize
Desolation as I destroyed
Tried Slaughter of the very void
A violence without a plan, Elize
Corruption is made manifest
Her rot will bring the End at best
So sweet her smell of love’s farewell, Elize
(chorus 4.4)
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
I’m begging of you please don’t take my man
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
Think not of him, Elize, take me instead
Your names are unpronounceable 
To men your tongue unspeakable 
Our minds can only process one: Elize
And so I wish to speak your name
Escaping lips I use to claim
Obsessive love I know to blame, Elize
Elize
(chorus, slower and without music)
Elize, Elize, Elize, Elize
I’m begging of you please…
Just take my hand
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