She looked at me across the room
Emerging from a silk cocoon
Alone beneath Venetian chandeliers

Against the moon her body rocks
Her eyes were cunning like a fox
The wings of passion fly on all frontiers


From this fire there's no returning
No escape your heart is burning

Love becomes a lethal weapon
No one is too smart
In affairs of the heart


Now upon the bridge she waits
Dreaming of our tangled fates

Her face was like a ghost with eyes of jade
I fell just like a falling star
A victim of this coup d'etat

I could not see behind this masquerade

Be careful where you start

In affairs of the heart

Sometimes I think I'll never learn

Were all those promises in vain
Do the wings of fire still remain


All is fair in love and war
The tender draw the shortest straw
Like autumn leaves they vanish in the air

Is this the time we say goodbye
I call her room there's no reply
Tonight we end this fleeting love affair


From this fire there's no returning
No escape your heart is burning

Love becomes a lethal weapon
Sharper than a dart
In affairs of the heart