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PERFUME EXOTICA song lyrics
by Joel Sattler

based on "Parfum exotique" by Charles Baudelaire
from FLEURS DU MAL

shut my eyes
shut my eyes on a warm autumn evening
my surprise
of the scent of your hot heated heart

and I see
happy shores all on fire and unfolding
in the flames
of the sun in its fiery monotony

there is a lazy island
where Nature doth bestow
limbs with a peculiar fruit
in the here and the now

men with bodies hard and virile
women with eyes so frank
guided by your slender perfume
to a place where I draw a blank

where the harbor is full of sails
I exhausted by the waves of the sea
while there flows though the circling air
the scent of green tamarind trees

and my soul
and my soul mingles in with the dreaming
to the sound
to the sound of the sailors as they're singing

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