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