Why ever should it be That men at once make love to me? When they are near me There they stand Their eyes look deep in mine They always kiss my hand Why ever should it be They speak of magic charms in me That no man can resist? For every time they look at me these charms Persist But when the soft lights glint and glance As midnight hours go by They hear me sing, they see me dance It's then that I know why On my lips every kiss is like wine In my arms love is more than divine Its engraved in the stars high above me Men must kiss me, men must love me When my feet haunting rhythms inspire In my eyes gleam the flames of desire When I dance, then I know Fate's design On my lips every kiss is like wine I have a dancer's blood That rules me like a throbbing flood My mother was the dancing star Without a rival at the Golden Alcazar! How great she must have been! In dreams I have so often seen The raptures when she danced She held each heart enthralled and every eye Entranced Her spirit wakes in me again My fortune wills it so At night I dance as she did then And this is all I know On my lips every kiss is like wine In my arms love is more than divine Its engraved in the stars high above me Men must kiss me, men must love me When my feet haunting rhythms inspire In my eyes gleam the flames of desire When I dance, then I know Fate's design On my lips every kiss is like wine