Oh, Because It s a Crime

Fall the leaves and the rain, nature changing its costumes so lightly,
Drift at night ‘bove the river the clouds and the mist,
Oh, your hair and hands, and your shoulders and eyes are to die for,
It’s a crime for a beauty like yours in this world to exist,

Oh, because it’s a crime…Oh, because it’s a crime,
It is simply a crime for a beauty like yours to exist…
Oh, because it’s a crime…Oh, because it’s a crime,
It is simply a crime for a beauty like yours to exist…

Fall the leaves in your palms, a mosaic of paints and of colors,
Young no more, on the meadow they fall in the fall’s whirling stream,
And you play with my heart like those leaves, it is helpless and fallen,
Tossing it in the flames…Don’t you burn it – our love and our dream.

Refrain

I’m afraid of your lips – they are fatal, they’re potion and poison,
In the lamp’s dimming light, waves your hair and drives me insane,
Oh, I wish I could leave all your charms, all your spells, but I am frozen –
How could I? I couldn’t exist without you, I must say.

Refrain