Baudelaire - David J

Lily White, she was walking and talking, as usual, out on the floor

While Ruby was deep into her pantomime

Me, I just stood staring at my reflection in my glass of bourbon over by the

door

Still couldn’t find those friends of mine

When Ruby turned and pirouetted

Like a ghost dancer up the marble stair

I felt myself set free in a city without weather

And my own dream of Baudelaire

Now Lily White, she leans so close to you and whispers

And you will see diamonds falling all around her mouth

Ah, but Ruby moves her lemon-scented body

Just like the breezes from the south

So somehow, I got tangled

Oh, tangled in her long red hair

And I woke up to the taste of danger

Feeling such a lot like Baudelaire

Here comes the night to fill my glass just one more time

While all the lovely ladies, they get up and they adjourn to the show

And my head is so anointed with the blood and the wine

That I almost seem to know

Of all the secrets that are on the holy street

Where the vagrants they come down and go

And of the secrets in the eyes of cats and other vagrant lovers

Where the cruel waters flow

But Ruby seemed to know the secrets as old as the ages

Of the blood and wine flowing in the fountains on the city square

And I crawled to her to be drowned and driven

Feeling such a lot like Baudelaire

With the vanity of Baudelaire

Ah, feeling such a lot like Baudelaire