Standard (EADGBE)

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

(XX1212)

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

Which is 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

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