Once in a night
  I spent in Istanbul
  I had a dream of a forbidden world
  Where even angels
  Fear to look upon
  A place where all of love is doomed to die
  
  Her face appeared
  Through clouds of bitter wine
  Sour as the morning's early hours
  She took my hair
  And she curled it around
  Her fingers
  I was but a fool for love
  
  The scent of Turkish oils
  Mixed with the harsh tobacco
  In the overcrowded bar
  Hashish
  And cool mint in her hair
  I was a fool for love
  I was a fool
  
  She sang to me
  A torch song softly laced
  With mysteries Arabian
  It poisoned my mind
  A sickness in my soul
  I tried
  I didn't want to hear at all
  
  A curtain fell
  Before my eyes I did
  Succumb into her healing breast
  She sang that song
  I gave her all my soul
  And my all
  To the pleasures of the flesh
  
  I cried that night
  For those forsaken times
  Those times when I was
  Simply satisfied
  I turned to dust
  That night a thousand times
  That night a thousand times I died inside
  And through what's left
  Of my sad life I hear
  Her singing in the fevers of the night
  
  Look into the mirror of my eyes
  And tell me what you see
  It's not your love I need
  You'll see
  Sorrow, tears and darkness
  These are the pleasures
  Beyond your dreams
  
  I found myself
  Down by the sea
  A hundred years ago
  When I was in my teens
  And years go by
  I turned into a man
  My childhood trapped within the sand
  I crawled through life
  On broken glass through hell
  It seems I wakened my desires
  And woke one day
  Wet with the sweat of fear
  Wet with the sweat of fear
  As now with you
  
  I'll reveal your mother
  Come to me
  I'll take you to the safety of the womb
  Tell me your secrets
  Sorrow tears and darkness
  Pour out your heart
  Sorrow tears and darkness
  
  You'll be a fool
  A fool for love
  
  And hell had never seemed so good
  As when I lost my soul
  Became a fool for love
  
  Help me, please to find my way
  Look into the mirror of my eyes
  Your kiss has clouded up my mind
  And tell me what you see
  I was a fool, a fool for love
  It's not your love I need
  I cried for those forsaken times
  You'll see
  She took my soul in Istanbul
  Sorrow tears and darkness
  She left me on that night to die
  These are the pleasures beyond your dreams
  These are the pleasures beyond all my dreams
  
  I am lost
  Help me to find my way
  Here in a world where angels fear to gaze
  My love is doomed to die
  Alone tonight in Istanbul
  And I a fool
  For
  Love