Take This Longing

Many men have loved the bells
 You fastened to the rein
 And everyone who wanted you
 They found what they will always want again
 Your beauty lost to you yourself
 Just as it was lost to them
 Oh take this longing from my tongue
 Whatever useless things these hands have done
 Let me see your beauty broken down
 Like you would do
 For one you love
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 Your body like a searchlight
 My poverty revealed
 I would like to try your charity
 Until you cry, "Now you must try my greed"
 And everything depends upon
 How near you sleep to me
 Just take this longing from my tongue
 All the lonely things my hands have done
 Let me see your beauty broken down
 Like you would do
 For one your love
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 Hungry as an archway
 Through which the troops have passed
 I stand in ruins behind you
 With your winter clothes
 Your broken sandal straps
 I love to see you naked over there
 Especially from the back
 Oh take this longing from my tongue
 All the useless things my hands have done
 Untie for me your hired blue gown
 Like you would do
 For one that you love
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 You're faithful to the better man
 I'm afraid that he left
 So let me judge your love affair
 In this very room where I have sentenced mine to death
 I'll even wear these old laurel leaves
 That he's shaken from his head
 Just take this longing from my tongue
 All the useless things my hands have done
 Let me see your beauty broken down
 Like you would do
 For one you love
 Like you would do
 For one you love