Take This Waltz

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
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 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 hallway 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
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 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
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 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 it, I'll never forget you, you know
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 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