[audience applauding]
["Take This Waltz" playing]
♪ Now in Vienna
There's ten pretty women ♪
♪ There's a shoulder
Where Death comes to cry ♪
♪ There's a lobby
With nine hundred windows ♪
♪ There's this tree
Where the doves go to die ♪
♪ There's a piece
Torn from the morning ♪
♪ And it hangs
In the gallery of frost ♪
[women in chorus]
♪ Ay, ay, ay, ay ♪
♪ Take this waltz
Take this waltz ♪
♪ Take this waltz
With the clamp on its jaws ♪
♪ I want you, I want you
I want you ♪
♪ On a chair
With a dead magazine ♪
♪ In that cave
At the tip of a lily ♪
♪ In some hallway
Where love's never been ♪
♪ On a bed where the moon
Has been sweating ♪
♪ In a cry filled
With footsteps and sand ♪
♪ Ay, ay, ay, ay ♪
♪ Take this waltz
Take this waltz ♪
♪ Take its broken waist
In your hand ♪
♪ This waltz, this waltz,
This waltz, this waltz ♪
♪ With its very own breath
Of brandy and death ♪
♪ Dragging its tail
In the sea ♪
[vocalizing]
♪ There's a concert hall
In Vienna ♪
♪ Where your mouth had
A thousand reviews ♪
♪ There's this bar ♪
♪ Where the boys
Have stopped talking ♪
♪ They've been sentenced
To death by the blues ♪
♪ Ah, but who is it climbed
To your picture ♪
♪ With a garland
Of freshly cut tears ♪
♪ Ay, ay, ay, ay ♪
♪ Take this waltz
Take this waltz ♪
♪ Take this waltz
It's been dying for years ♪
[mellow guitar music]
♪ There's an attic
Where children are playing ♪
♪ Where I've got to lie down
With you soon ♪
♪ In a dream
Of Hungarian lanterns ♪
♪ In the mist
Of some sweet afternoon ♪
♪ And I'll see what
You've chained to your sorrow ♪
♪ All your sheep
And your lilies of snow ♪
♪ Ay, ay, ay, ay ♪
♪ Take this waltz
Take this waltz ♪
♪ With its "I'll never
Forget you, you know!" ♪
♪
♪ This waltz, this waltz,
This waltz, this waltz ♪
♪ With it's very own breath
Of brandy and death ♪
♪ Dragging its tail
In the sea ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ And I'll dance with you
In Vienna ♪
♪ I'll be wearing
A river's disguise ♪
♪ The hyacinth wild
On my shoulder ♪
♪ My mouth on the dew
Of your thighs ♪
♪ And I'll bury my soul
In a scrapbook ♪
♪ With the photographs there
And the moss ♪
♪ And I'll yield to the flood
Of your beauty ♪
♪ My cheap violin
and my cross ♪
♪ And you'll carry me down
On your dancing ♪
♪ To the pools that you lift
On your wrist ♪
♪ Oh my love, oh my love ♪
♪ Take this waltz
Take this waltz ♪
♪ Take this waltz
It's all that there is ♪
♪ La la la ♪
♪ La la la ♪
♪ La la la ♪
♪ La la la ♪
♪ La la la ♪
♪ La la la ♪
♪ La la la ♪
Your sweet shepherd
of strings.
[Leonard]
On the laud, Javier Mas.
-[audience applauding]
-[women singing]
♪ Ay, ay, ay, ay ♪
The master of breath
on instrument of wind,
Dino Soldo.
[audience applauding]
♪ La la la
La la la ♪
The signature of steady
on the pedal steel
and the electric guitar,
Bob Metzger.
[audience applauding]
[women continue humming
in the background]
[Leonard]
The prince of precision,
our time keeper on the drums,
Rafael Bernardo Gayol.
♪ Ay, ay, ay, ay ♪
On the Hammond B-3
and the keyboards,
the impeccable Neil Larsen.
[crowd cheering and applauding]
♪ La la la ♪
♪ La la la ♪
♪ La la la ♪
♪ La la la ♪
My collaborator,
the incomparable
Sharon Robertson.
[crowd cheering and applauding]
♪ La la la ♪
Hattie and Charley Webb,
the sublime Webb sisters.
[audience applauding]
Our guardian and sentry,
our musical director
on the upright and
the electric bass,
Roscoe Beck.
[crowd whistling and applauding]
[women continue singing]
Thank you so much,
dear friends.
Thank you for this
memorable evening.
[women continue humming]
[crowd cheering]
[women continue singing]
[cheering and whisting]
♪
[audience cheering loudly]
