I've Heard it Said

I've heard it said
In ancient books
That travelers to Araby are rewarded with tears...

Flesh to flesh, manhood to manhood.
That gift you gave me, fresh as blood in my memory!
But travelers to Araby are rewarded with tears...

I loved you, my weakness found repose
In your embrace,
But travelers to Araby...

So now I play Faure this Christmas time,
And drink, and smoke and remember those nights
Of sweet sanctuary in Araby...

Adrift now, lost, the sea all around me,
Lost, lost,
Araby...

The look that I need

I saw a look in your eyes,

I saw it a number of times.

Extremely tired eyes, red.
Very dark they were, intense and shrewd...

Exactly the look that I need! 

I didn't see it for a while now,

Not since I told you that you're not welcome here...

Though in fact you were very welcome.

Welcome to look, welcome to love, welcome to hate,

Exactly the life that I need!