Once in a night

I spent in Istanbul

I had a dream of a forbidden world

Where even angels

Fear to look upon

A place where all of love is doomed to die



Her face appeared

Through clouds of bitter wine

Sour as the morning's early hours

She took my hair

And she curled it around

Her fingers

I was but a fool for love



The scent of Turkish oils

Mixed with the harsh tobacco

In the overcrowded bar

Hashish

And cool mint in her hair

I was a fool for love

I was a fool



She sang to me

A torch song softly laced

With mysteries Arabian

It poisoned my mind

A sickness in my soul

I tried

I didn't want to hear at all



A curtain fell

Before my eyes I did

Succumb into her healing breast

She sang that song

I gave her all my soul

And my all

To the pleasures of the flesh



I cried that night

For those forsaken times

Those times when I was

Simply satisfied

I turned to dust

That night a thousand times

That night a thousand times I died inside

And through what's left

Of my sad life I hear

Her singing in the fevers of the night



Look into the mirror of my eyes

And tell me what you see

It's not your love I need

You'll see

Sorrow, tears and darkness

These are the pleasures

Beyond your dreams



The stars were out

That night in Istanbul

I realised that I'd run out of time

You looked into my eyes

What did you see?

You saw a fate worse than a thousand deaths

Waiting for me



I started to run

Up through the old bazaar

In my head the soun