femme fatale

Smoking a cigarette
Head bent back
Over the balcony
A complete degenerate
Who rejects
Propriety
All her scandals and affairs
They're there
For everyone else to see
Making up for lost time
Since she turned nineteen
Corset clings to her so tight
As she's
Getting the eyes of all her passersby
Every night

So this is what you're stuck with
Didn't someone warn you
"She's a mythic bitch"
A myriad of men trail in her wake
She's a femme fatale
But you signed up for this

Early men from ancient centuries
Declared women
The root of all disease
The face that launched a thousand ships
From Sparta to her lover, Paris
Guess she's the Helen of Troy
Reincarnate
Thought you'd rid her of these sins
Thought that you would be different
But instead

This is what you're stuck with
Didn't someone warn you
"She's a mythic bitch"
A myriad of men trail in her wake
She's a femme fatale
But you signed up for this

New age courtesan
Fate writ by Dumas
Leave you to cry out
Is this really what you want
To end up so Cleopatric
Make men into fanatics
No, it's all just a defensive tactic

So this is what you're stuck with
Didn't someone warn you
I'm a "mythic bitch"
A myriad of men trail in my wake
I'm a femme fatale
But you signed up for this
I'm a femme fatale
And you've only got yourself
To blame