Charmalae
Charmalae
Bathed in blue on the avenue
Your form took shape from the mist in the warm night air
Compelled to speak, "ca va?"
You replied, "Bon soir"
Your vision shimmered on that fateful boulevard
On your left, a black-lace tattoo
The year said one eight three two
My soul the fee
I could see through you
You could "see through" me
Turning Ghostly tricks
On the Rue de Peccātrīx
Pale were the sweet lips that I saw
Pale the lips and fair the form
I floated with her in a sorrow storm
Chase the night Charmalae while the mist is falling
No lights burn in the shadows you are haunting
Tortured moonlight po-faced silently presiding
Watching all
As I fall
Abandonne tout espoir celui qui entre
Then you held out your hand
You set my spirit free
You gave, you stole
Read my mind, stripped my soul
You siren from the underworld
Now from dark until dawn
I walk these lanes alone
The Second Circle for your sweet bloom
Join now with me and greet your doom
Pale were the sweet lips that I saw
Pale the lips and fair the form
I floated with her in a sorrow storm
Chase the night Charmalae while the mist is falling
No lights burn in the shadows you are haunting
Tortured moonlight po-faced silently presiding
Watching all
As I fall
Walk with me Charmalae
See the misery unfolding
All the grace you concede
Spawns another victim crawling
And you feed on them
On the lustful and appalling
Fading now
Away from day
Dissolves my darling
Charmalae
Charmalae
In these fateful lanes
I search for you
For you I long
My rightful place
In nothing, nothing
I belong
Charmalae