[Verse 1]
Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women
There's a hallway 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

[Chorus]
Ay, ay, ay, ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws

[Verse 2]
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

[Chorus]
Ay, ay, ay, ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take its broken waist in your hand
[Bridge]
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
With its very own breath of brandy and death
Dragging its tail in the sea

[Verse 3]
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

[Chorus]
Oh, my love, oh, my love
Take this waltz, take this waltz
It's yours now, it's all that there is

[Outro]
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