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VAMPIRIC METAMORPHOSES song lyrics
by Joel Sattler based on Baudelaire

based on a translation of "Les Metamorphoses du Vampire"
from FLEURS DU MAL by Charles Baudelaire

her strawberry mouth her body writhing
like a snake on fire coals she
kneading bust gainst corset wires
dripping words of musk she told me

"my lips are wet I know the science
of losing conscience in the wild
so hot the tears burn on my breast
make old men laugh just like a child

"and those who see me fully naked
I replace moon sun and stars
I am dear scholar educated
in the copulation arts

"and when I choke a man with pleasure
bite me lewd and shy and free
the bed itself swoons with excitement
angels damn their souls for me!"

she sucked the marrow from my bones
I turned to kiss her full of love
but she turned horrid in my sight
and hideous I had enough

I closed my eyes in terror cold
when I awoke under the sun
the doll had lost all of her blood
was nothing but a skeleton

the framework rattled in the posture
in the place where she had lain
creaking though the endless night
like a stone cold weathervane


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