Patti Scialfa - Spanish Dancer lyrics

Oh Mama there's this spanish dancer whose steps I follow when he comes near the red dress of temptation over a long black slip of fear will I fall beneath the shadow of some broken cross my arms emptied and all my treasures lost still like that spanish dancer I throw my roses down for him across these beds of darkness he opens his arms and gathers them in Oh Mama the bridges were burning over a river black and cold but I walked when love commanded me up to the edges of his soul but I'm still frightened of that dark divide will I gain entrance or be denied still like that spanish dancer I throw my roses down for him across these beds of darkness he opens his arms and gathers them in Oh Mama when you were a young girl did you ever love a man so much as if he were some fantastic j**el that you should never be worthy of but all those illusions strip and fall and he is just a man after all just like that spanish dancer I throw my roses down for him across these beds of darkness he opens his arms and gathers them in Just like that spanish dancer I Just like that spanish dancer I