The Masochism Tango-Tom Lehrer

[ti:The Masochism Tango] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:In Concert] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Masochism Tango - Tom Lehrer [00:01.03]Another familiar type of love song is the passionate or [00:03.15]Fiery variety [00:04.02] [00:04.78]Usually in tango tempo [00:06.13] [00:06.98]In which the singer [00:07.92]Exhorts his partner to haunt him and taunt him and [00:11.84] [00:12.53]If at all possible to consume him with a kiss of fire [00:15.90] [00:18.00]This [00:18.39] [00:24.94]Particular illustration of this genre is called [00:27.19] [00:27.85]The Masochism Tango [00:28.88] [00:41.51]I ache for the touch of your lips dear [00:45.53]But much more for the touch of your whips dear [00:49.32] [00:50.32]You can raise welts [00:51.41] [00:51.93]Like nobody else [00:53.72]As we dance to the Masochism Tango [00:56.95] [01:01.70]Let our love be a flame not an ember [01:04.81] [01:05.52]Say it's me that you want to dismember [01:09.52] [01:10.67]Blacken my eye [01:12.15]Set fire to my tie [01:14.27]As we dance to the Masochism Tango [01:17.60] [01:21.07]At your command [01:23.31]Before you here I stand [01:25.30]My heart is in my hand [01:26.91] [01:28.13]Yeechh [01:28.76] [01:36.60]It's here that I must be [01:39.29]My heart entreats [01:40.76]Just hear those savage beats [01:42.68]And go put on your cleats [01:44.66]And come and trample me [01:47.24] [01:49.52]Your heart is hard as stone or mahogany [01:53.33]That's why I'm in such exquisite agony [01:57.38]My soul is on fire [01:59.51]It's aflame with desire [02:01.01] [02:01.63]Which is why I perspire when we tango [02:05.32] [02:06.02]You caught my nose [02:09.21] [02:10.39]In your left castanet love [02:13.97] [02:14.95]I can feel the pain yet love [02:17.35] [02:18.10]Ev'ry time I hear drums [02:20.64] [02:22.13]And I envy the rose [02:24.64] [02:25.80]That you held in your teeth love [02:29.78] [02:30.57]With the thorns underneath love [02:33.16] [02:33.90]Sticking into your gums [02:35.56] [02:38.64]Your eyes cast a spell that bewitches [02:41.85] [02:42.74]The last time I needed twenty stitches [02:45.82] [02:46.68]To sew up the gash [02:48.57]You made with your lash [02:50.41]As we danced to the Masochism Tango [02:53.51] [02:54.03]Bash in my brain [02:55.39]And make me scream with pain [02:57.25]Then kick me once again [02:58.69] [02:59.25]And say we'll never part [03:00.64] [03:01.78]I know too well [03:02.65] [03:03.19]I'm underneath your spell [03:05.14]So darling if you smell [03:06.96]Something burning it's my heart hiccup [03:09.02]'Scuse me [03:09.63] [03:10.16]Take your cigarette from its holder [03:14.20]And burn your initials in my shoulder [03:19.24]Fracture my spine [03:20.72]And swear that you're mine [03:22.24] [03:22.86]As we dance to the Masochism Tango