Baudelaire's curse Lyrics

They say they were spirits of the age

Taught in literature's somber page

Haunting still as punishment beyond their mortal veil

Anarchists with no moral line

Living life like a nightmare's sign

No wonder guardians of virtue fear their tale

Baudelaire Baudelaire cursed poets all

Scream aloud no one hears your call

Baudelaire Baudelaire you walk with me

Sometimes rock sometimes punk forever vagrancy

Debt blinds your sight

Critics frown on your lapel

Flowers of evil crown

The muse of poetry ransacks your drawers

Machiavelli laughs at your plight

A thousand teens you teach to write

And your editor returns your work with scorn

Baudelaire Baudelaire cursed poets all

Scream aloud no one hears your call

Baudelaire Baudelaire you walk with me

Sometimes rock sometimes punk forever vagrancy

For your strange hobbies you're shunned

Surprised when known faces start to run

your truth too sharp a blade they can't abide

Eternal dissatisfaction opposition's knight

Speaking truths in shadows of the night

Cursed by those who fear what you deride

Baudelaire Baudelaire cursed poets all

scream aloud no one hears your call

Baudelaire Baudelaire you walk with me

Sometimes rock sometimes punk forever vagrancy

Baudelaire Baudelaire your hobbies strange and you wonder why your friends estrange

Baudelaire Baudelaire cursed poets all forever restless always in opposition's thrall