[ Featuring Original Broadway Cast of Lempicka ]
[TAMARA]
Beauty on the Rue du Faubourg
Men stop, lascivious panting
I can't move, I can't speak, do her feet touch the ground?
This goddess among us, this beauty
Beauty takes your breath, takes your breath
Beauty grabs your heart in its fist
Beauty leaves you lost, just the taste
Come back, beauty, come back
Let me breathe you, beauty
If I ever see her again
I will speak, ask her name, ask her back to my rooms
She will take off her clothes, lie down
And I will
Paint her
I will
Heart, stop!
Am I losing my mind?
She's just a woman who's pretty
But she's flesh and she's chrome
She is steel, she is bone
Her eyes looked right through me like nothing
If I ever see her again
I will speak, ask her name, ask her back to my rooms
She will take off her clothes, lie down
And I will paint her
I will paint her
Oh, paint her
I will
Is this how it feels
When God sends you a muse
And you let her walk away?
I won't rest til I find her
Won't rest til I have her
Portrait
Til I have her portrait in my portfolio
Beauty takes my name, takes my soul
Beauty is the hand at my throat
Beauty, her mouth red with my blood
Come back, give back my soul
Let me love you, beauty
If I ever see her again
I will speak, ask her name, ask her back to my rooms
In the afternoon sun, inhale her perfume
Take her coat, then be close
Smell the scent on her neck
Smell the sweat on her skin
Move her lips, put her hand on her breast
See her there in the light
And I will paint her
I will paint her
I will paint her
I will paint her!