TOM LEHRER Song Lyrics

Album:
"Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer"

1) Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
2) Bright College Days
3) A Christmas Carol
4) The Elements
5) Oedipus Rex
6) In Old Mexico
7) Clementine
8) It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier
9) She's My Girl
10) The Masochism Tango
11) We Will All Go Together When We Go

Album:
"That Was the Year That Was"

1) National Brotherhood Week
2) MLF Lullaby
3) George Murphy
4) The Folk Song Army
5) Smut
6) Send The Marines
7) Pollution
8) So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)
9) Whatever Became of Hubert?
10) New Math
11) Alma
12) Who's Next?
13) Wernher von Braun
14) The Vatican Rag

Album:
"Tom Lehrer Revisited"

1) I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
2) The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
3) The Old Dope Peddler
4) Fight Fiercely, Harvard!
5) Lobachevsky
6) The Irish Ballad
7) The Hunting Song
8) My Home Town
9) When You Are Old And Gray
10) The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
11) I Hold Your Hand In Mine
12) Be Prepared

TOM LEHRER
EVENING WASTED WITH TOM LEHRER

The Masochism Tango

Another familiar type of lovesong is the passionate or firy variety, usually in tango tempo, in which the singer exhorts his partner to haunt him and taunt him and, if at all possible, to consume him with a kiss of fire. This particular illustration of this genre is called The Masochism Tango.

I ache for the touch of your lips, Dear,
But much more for the touch of your whips, Dear.
You can raise welts
Like nobody else,
As we dance to the Masochism Tango.

Let our love be a flame, not an ember,
Say it's me that you want to dismember.
Blacken my eye,
Set fire to my tie,
As we dance to the Masochism Tango.

At your command
Before you here I stand,
My heart is in my hand. Ecch!
It's here that I must be.
My heart entreats,
Just hear those savage beats,
And go put on your cleats
And come and trample me.
Your heart is hard as stone or mahogany,
That's why I'm in such exquisite agony.

My soul is on fire,
It's aflame with desire,
Which is why I perspire
When we tango.

You caught my nose
In your left castanet, Love,
I can feel the pain yet, Love,
Ev'ry time I hear drums.
And I envy the rose
That you held in your teeth, Love,
With the thorns underneath, Love,
Sticking into your gums.

Your eyes cast a spell that bewitches.
The last time I needed twenty stitches
To sew up the gash
That you made with your lash,
As we danced to the Masochism Tango.

Bash in my brain,
And make me scream with pain,
Then kick me once again,
And say we'll never part.
I know too well
I'm underneath your spell,
So, Darling, if you smell
Something burning, it's my heart.
Excuse me!

Take your cigarette from its holder,
And burn your initials in my shoulder.
Fracture my spine,
And swear that you're mine,
As we dance to the Masochism Tango.

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