| Life is sweet with all it’s mystery
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| The death of sleep when Eros kissed me
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| Your hand in mine, descending deeper
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| With you beside me, sleep is sweeter
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| The perfect touch of love and fire
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| The touch that kills with pure desire
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| A touch of lust that spares no feeling
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| The touch that sends your senses reeling
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| Close my eyes with silken thread
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| Let me rest my heavy head
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| Close my eyes with silken thread
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| I am yours when you are not here
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| I’m mad with pain when you are not here
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| Mad with longing, you are not here
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| A silent scream without my god near
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| Madness, take my senses from me;
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| Rip at my eyes, bring death upon me
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| Destroy my hearing and my memory
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| Flesh be gone for you offend me
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| Close my eyes with silken thread
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| Let me rest my heavy head
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| Close my eyes with silken thread
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| Heart, be quiet, pulse be still now
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| Eros, go, I’ve had my fill now
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| You vex my mind, I do not know how
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| A god of love has to kill now
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| Body weak, senses drifting
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| Oh, so sweet, the feeling lifting
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| Higher still, higher, higher
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| Stripped of love and dark desire
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| Close my eyes with silken thread
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| Weave my dreams in gold and red
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| Lie here close within my bed
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| Close my eyes with silken thread
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| Sing me songs about the dead
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| Tell me things you’ve never said
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| Life is sweet with all it’s mystery
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| The death of sleep when Eros kissed me |