Greg Lake/Geoff Downes)



She looked at me across the room

Emerging from a silk cocoon

Alone beneath Venetian chandeliers

Against the moon her body rocks

Her eyes were cunning like a fox

The wings of passion fly on all frontiers



>From this fire there's no returning

No escape your heart is burning

Love becomes a lethal weapon

No one is too smart

In affairs of the heart



Now upon the bridge she waits

Dreaming of our tangled fates

Her face was like a ghost with eyes of jade

I fell just like a falling star

A victim of this coup d'etat

I could not see behind this masquerade



Be careful where you start

In affairs of the heart



Sometimes I think I'll never learn

Were all those promises in vain

Do the wings of fire still remain



All is fair in love and war

The tender draw the shortest straw

Like autumn leaves they vanish in the air

Is this the time we say goodbye

I call her room there's no reply

Tonight we end this fleeting love affair



>From this fire there's no returning

No escape your heart is burning

Love becomes a lethal weapon

Sharper than a dart

In affairs of the heart

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