Excruciating Allure

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