Take This Waltz

Now in vienna theres ten pretty women

Theres a shoulder where death comes to cry

Theres a lobby with nine hundred windows

Theres a tree where the doves go to die

Theres 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 loves 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

Theres a concert hall in vienna

Where your mouth had a thousand reviews

Theres a bar where the boys have stopped talking

Theyve 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 its been dying for years

Theres an attic where children are playing

Where Ive got to lie down with you soon

In a dream of hungarian lanterns

In the mist of some sweet afternoon

And Ill see what youve chained to your sorrow

All your sheep and your lilies of snow

Ay, ay, ay, ay

Take this waltz, take this waltz

With its "ill never forget you, you know!"

This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz ...

And Ill dance with you in vienna

Ill be wearing a rivers disguise

The hyacinth wild on my shoulder,

My mouth on the dew of your thighs

And Ill bury my soul in a scrapbook,

With the photographs there, and the moss

And Ill yield to the flood of your beauty

My cheap violin and my cross

And youll 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

Its yours now. its all that there is.