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