Oh take this longing from my tongue
I love to see you naked over there especially from the back
Let me see your beauty broken down
Until you cry, now you must try my greed
Like you would do for one that you love
So let me judge your love affair in this very room
Your beauty lost to you yourself just as it was lost to them
Hungry as an archway through which the troops have passed
Let me see your beauty broken down
Let me see your beauty broken down
I'll even wear these old laurel leaves that he's shaken from his head
You're faithful to the better man, I'm afraid that he left
Oh take this longing from my tongue
All the lonely things my hands have done
Like you would do for one your love
Untie for me your hired blue gown
Just take this longing from my tongue
I stand in ruins behind you
Just take this longing from my tongue
All the useless things my hands have done
All the useless things my hands have done
Your body like a searchlight my poverty revealed
Like you would do for one you love
With your winter clothes, your broken sandal straps
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me
Like you would do for one you love
I would like to try your charity
Whatever useless things these hands have done
Where I have sentenced mine to death
They found what they will always want again
