The Wages of Sin / Danse De La Beauté lyrics

Time loves a hero

Everybody hopes it's a mirror image

Did you get the news from across the river?

Someone say a prayer for the prince of fools

What's it gonna mean in the final hour?

What's it gonna be when the bell-ringer's tower

Comes tumblin' down?

Never a moment of kindness

Only the laughter, only the anger

Under the big top

It's a beggar's world, but it's real

The holy sidewalks are now the highways

And home to the sinners and thieves

Beware the eyes of the beholder

Watch out, watch out

Look over your shoulder

Livin' like a storybook gypsy princess

Lookin' like an angel in rags

Let 'em even try to resist, it can't be done

Someone put the chains on the dancer

Lock her away, break her spirit

Pay her with shame and salvation, the wages of sin

Woe to the unholy masses

Watch out, you children of Egypt

Inside the palace, it's the dealer's game

You gotta play

There is no justice

Only a hangman who patiently waits

Beware the eyes of the beholder

Watch out, watch out

Look over your shoulder

Beauty and the Beast again forever

Truly the age of the mask

Hiding and dying for love, but too frightened to ask

Steal her away, be a hero

Save her from a fate sure as death

Chances are it's only the light of the moment that lasts

Never a moment of kindness

Only the laughter, only the anger

Under the big top

It's a beggar's world, but it's real

The holy sidewalks are now the highways

And home to the sinners and thieves

Beware the eyes of the beholder  

Time loves a hero

Everybody hopes it's a mirror image

Did you get the news from across the river?

Someone say a prayer for the prince of fools

What's it gonna mean in the final hour?

What's it gonna be when the bell-ringer's tower 

Comes tumblin' down?

Just drop the curtain

All that you need is a personal ending

It's only fiction

But it's an age-old, well-known, sold-out show

Just take your chances

Lay down your hopes on the vanishing line

And roll the bones

Watch out

Look over your shoulder

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Watch out, watch out

Look over your shoulder

• Artist:Santa Esmeralda
• Album:Beauty (1978)