12. "Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss"

My lips kiss with such passion

I really don’t know why
Men start to talk of love
When they are close to me,
Looking into my eye
and kissing my hand.

I really don’t know why
They speak of magic
That no-one can resist
when seeing me pass me by.

But when the red light gleams
At the midnight hour
And they hear my song
Then the reason’s clear:

My lips kiss with such passion
My arms embrace softly,
It’s written in the stars
You must kiss, you must love.

My feet are floating,
My eyes gleam and beckon,
And I dance in ecstasy for I know
My lips kiss with such passion.

 

In my veins
flow a dancer's blood
For my beautiful mother was
The dancing queen at the Golden Alcazar!

She was so magnificent
I have seen her so often in my dreams
The raptures when she danced;
She beat the tambourine in a wild dance
and every eye was entranced.

Her spirit wakes in me again,
I share her fate.
I dance as she did at midnight,
feeling just one thing:

My lips kiss with such passion
My arms embrace softly,
It’s written in the stars
You must kiss, you must love.

My feet are floating,
My eyes gleam and beckon,
And I dance in ecstasy for I know
My lips kiss with such passion.

Giuditta by Franz Lehár tells the storyof the Army officer Octavio and his consuming love for Giuditta, a passionate spitfire, who leaves him because he refuses to desert the colours for her; their chance meeting several years afterwards comes too late, though they realise how much they have lost.

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