10000 Maniacs - Cabaret lyrics

Music by 10,000 maniacs - lyrics by mary ramsey<br><br>Shards of glass cut through my gaze<br>Broken streamers hanging at my legs<br>Drunk and giddy full of fate<br>At the cabaret<br>Smokey stares from the bar<br>Do stray bottles tumble<br>I feel the misty spray<br>What a perfect, perfect day for the cabaret<br>From afar he sees<br>Venus rise overwhelmingly beautiful<br>He sighs the look of love was in her eyes<br>Puts his hand upon her leg<br>Looking closer his lust begins to fade<br>What a drag the queen did say.<br>Could this be a dream I'm in? ( fellini would be proud )<br>Gluttony enfolds the scene<br>Give them one last round ,<br>Shining faces dance away<br>Swinging skirts between the panted legs<br>Kaleidescoping<br>Then shassez in a blink the glasses fly<br>Suddenly joy becomes a fight<br>There they tossed and turned a sight.