Take This Longing
Ton : DCapo 2English
Couplet
CMany men have loved the Gbells
CYou fastened to the Grein
EmAnd everyone who wanAmted you
EmThey found what they will DalAmways want aDgain
F#mYour beauty lost to you Bmyourself
Just F#mas it was lost to Bmthem
Refrain
GOh take this longing from Dmy tongue
WhaGtever useless things these hands have Ddone
GLet me see your beauty broken Ddown
F#mLike you would Gdo for one you Dlove
Couplet
Your body like a searchlight
My poverty revealed
I would like to try your charity
Until you cry, "Now you must try my greed."
And everything depends upon
How near you sleep to me
Refrain
Just take this longing from my tongue
All the lonely things my hands have done
Let me see your beauty broken down
Like you would do for one you love
Couplet
Hungry as an archway
Through which the troops have passed
I stand in ruins behind you
With your winter clothes, your broken sandal straps
I love to see you naked over there
Especially from the back
Refrain
Oh take this longing from my tongue
All the useless things my hands have done
Untie for me your hired blue gown
Like you would do for one that you love
Couplet
You're faithful to the better man
I'm afraid that he left
So let me judge your love affair
In this very room where I have sentenced mine to death
I'll even wear these old laurel leaves
That he's shaken from his head
Refrain
Just take this longing from my tongue
All the useless things my hands have done
Let me see your beauty broken down
Like you would do for one you love
Like you would Gdo for one you Dlove