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Marc Almond - She Took My Soul In Istanbul

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McGee/Almond



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



I found myself

Down by the sea a hundred

Years ago when I was in my teens

And years go by

I turned into a man

My childhood trapped within the sand

I crawled through life on broken glass

Though hell it seems I wakened

My desires

And woke one day with the sweat of fear

Wet with the sweat of fear

As now with you



I'll reveal your mother

Come to me

I'll take you to the safety of the womb

Tell me your secrets

Sorrow, tears and darkness

Pour out your heart

Sorrow, tears and darkness

You'll be a fool

A fool for love



And hell had never

Seemed so good

As when I lost my soul

Became a fool for love



Help me, please to find my way



Look into the mirror of my eyes

Your kiss has clouded up my mind

And tell me what you see

I was a fool, a fool for love

It's not your love I need

I cried for those forsaken times

You'll see

She took my soul in Instanbul

Sorrow, tears and darkness

She left me on that night to die

These are the pleasures beyond your dreams

These are the pleasures beyond all my dreams



I am lost

Help me to find my way

Here in a world where angels fear to gaze

My love is doomed to die

Alone tonight in Istanbul

And I a fool

For

Love