The Byronic Man Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Dressed2Depress 

Cover art for The Byronic Man lyrics by Cradle of Filth

"byronic man, bassed on lord byron, witt, and womanizer. "

Thats interesting considering that Byron was notoriously bisexual, to apply the anachronistic term...

They call me bad Mad Caliban with manners Dangerous to know

This is almost a direct quote from Lady Caroline Lamb, who had an affair with Lord Byron and described him as "mad, bad and dangerous to know". I guess Caliban (which is the name of a character in Shakespeare's The Tempest) is a duel reference to both the literary of Lord Byron (he was a poet) and I guess possibly either the inhumanity and cruelty that he dispalyed in social and personl relations or perhaps his deformed leg...