Take Me to Shanghai - 梅林茂 (うめばやし しげる)/Íse Downes/John Hughes

Liberty swathes this city of shades

Like gloves on the wings of a bird

The silken smoke of the words you spoke

Still rises where you lay

Take me to Shanghai

Take me to Shanghai

To the town where I belong

The pathways were red the lanterns alive

Diamonds adrift in the sky

You're standing here when I close my eyes

This slumber leaves me blind

Take me to Shanghai

Take me to Shanghai

To the town where I belong

The night was mine to set alight

Every cord and every chain

Your hands were ice within the fire

And it burned like poison rain

My throat was dry my tongue ashamed

Of all the words I could not say

Your eyes were night within the day

And mine the moon in flames

Take me to Shanghai

Take me to Shanghai

To the town where I belong

The blood in these veins the streets that it stains

Fevers unbroken by death

Their shadows ride on this ruby tide

And the waves that toss my breath

Take me to Shanghai

Take me to Shanghai

To the town where I belong