Excruciating Allure

Lyrics

When you gypsy lips and fingertips Touched my heart in want of an arrow Eros pulled the string and let go Oh, the excruciating allure Of the unavailable The tempest raged in a China teacup As two leaves fell for you to pick up And press inside the pages of a book of days The river rushed on so fast beneath us As the stars all held their breath above us And the planets slipped into a lunar phase Oh, the excruciating allure Of the unavailable Oh, the excruciating allure Of the unavailable You were nymph to my satyre Flame amidst, the pitter-patter Of the falling rain inside my soul Now you're haunting my dreams Like a succubus You were anima to my animus But where you once stood Now there's a screaming hole Stretched on the wrack of a mad obsession Crushed by the screws of a lost possession The phantom of your touch Is much too much Agony to bear for my heart to stand it Pokers in the fire 'cos your lover's a bandit Who stole you in the torture chamber of my mind Oh, the excruciating allure Of the unavailable Oh, the excruciating allure Of the unavailable Oh, the excruciating allure Oh, the excruciating allure Of the unavailable