Now in Vienna
there's ten pretty women
There's a shoulder where
Death comes to cry
There's a lobby
with nine hundred windows
There's a tree
where the doves
go to die
There's a piece
that was torn
from the morning
And it hangs
in the Gallery of Frost
Ay ay ay ay
Take this waltz
take this waltz
Take this waltz
with the clamp
on its jaws
Oh I want you
I want you
I want you
On a chair
with a dead magazine
In the cave
at the tip
of the lily
In some hallways
where love's never been
On a bed
where the moon
has been sweating
In a cry
filled with footsteps
and sand
Ay ay ay ay
Take this waltz
take this waltz
Take its broken waist
in your hand
This waltz this waltz
this waltz this waltz
With its very own
breath of brandy
and Death
Dragging its tail
in the sea
There's a concert hall
in Vienna
Where your mouth
had a thousand reviews
There's a bar
where the boys
have stopped talking
They've been sentenced
to death by the blues
Ah but who
is it climbs
to your picture
With a garland
of freshly cut tears
Ay ay ay ay
Take this waltz
take this waltz
Take this waltz
it's been dying
for years
There's an attic
where children are playing
Where I've got
to lie down
with you soon
In a dream
of Hungarian lanterns
In the mist
of some sweet afternoon
And I'll see
what you've chained
to your sorrow
All your sheep
and your lilies of snow
Ay ay ay ay
Take this waltz
take this waltz
With its I'll never
forget you you know
This waltz this waltz
this waltz this waltz
With its very own
breath of brandy
and Death
Dragging its tail
in the sea
And I'll dance
with you in Vienna
I'll be wearing
a river's disguise
The hyacinth wild
on my shoulder
My mouth on the dew
of your thighs
And I'll bury
my soul
in a scrapbook
With the photographs
there and the moss
And I'll yield
to the flood
of your beauty
My cheap violin
and my cross
And you'll carry me
down on your dancing
To the pools
that you lift
on your wrist
Oh my love
Oh my love
Take this waltz
take this waltz
It's yours now
It's all
that there is
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