Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women
  There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry
  There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
  There's a tree where the doves go to die
  There's a piece that was torn from the morning
  And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
  Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
  Take this waltz, take this waltz
  Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws
  Oh I want you, I want you, I want you
  On a chair with a dead magazine
  In the cave at the tip of the lily
  In some hallways where love's never been
  On a bed where the moon has been sweating
  In a cry filled with footsteps and sand
  Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
  Take this waltz, take this waltz
  Take its broken waist in your hand
  
  This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
  With its very own breath of brandy and Death
  Dragging its tail in the sea
  
  There's a concert hall in Vienna
  Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
  There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking
  They've been sentenced to death by the blues
  Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
  With a garland of freshly cut tears?
  Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
  Take this waltz, take this waltz
  Take this waltz it's been dying for years
  
  There's an attic where children are playing
  Where I've got to lie down with you soon
  In a dream of Hungarian lanterns
  In the mist of some sweet afternoon
  And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow
  All your sheep and your lilies of snow
  Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
  Take this waltz, take this waltz
  With its "I'll never forget you, you know!"
  
  This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz ...
  
  And I'll dance with you in Vienna
  I'll be wearing a river's disguise
  The hyacinth wild on my shoulder,
  My mouth on the dew of your thighs
  And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
  With the photographs there, and the moss
  And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty
  My cheap violin and my cross
  And you'll carry me down on your dancing
  To the pools that you lift on your wrist
  Oh my love, Oh my love
  Take this waltz, take this waltz
  It's yours now. It's all that there is