Forbidden Love (Brown)


Long I have dreamed when the night holds its sway
Comrades leave rings on the room service tray
Who'll talk of love in the cold light of day
My love and me
When it's dawn on the docks, on the dockside
there are places, they say,
where a half-whispered name can be heard
Were that that name were mine -- my voice and my word

I burn my candle down
waiting for night to have done with me
Salt tears are a drop in the sea --
cry if you want for all men to be free
To taste the sweetest forbidden love

This is no common cry. No one heart burns but mine.
Nobody knows but me

Fine, this eye, this moon casts my brilliant career
down the spine of the earth -- 'cross our towered frontier
and the view from your keyhole that you've paid for so dear
If men denied us what we threw away
would the keeping it have saved us
would the grace to fill my hands, to stand and bleed again
and then

I burn my candle down
finding where someone may wait for me
Salt tears run a path to the sea --
cry if you want for all men to be free
to taste the sweetest forbidden love




All songs © 2009 SHANGHAI LOVE MOTEL