12 - Oh Shanghai

Our love is a flower that blossoms in China
Cigarettes in boxes with roses and cranes
I write your short name on my wrist in China
Ink so black that night you're renamed
Ooh, and trouble in the name
Oh, Shanghai, who do you belong to?
Who do you care for and who do you forget?
Admit I got lost in your embrace
What to care for and what to forget?
Came another night and slow the wind rolled through Shanghai
Purple and green, the light under bridges and in the parks
It's not like in my Russian days when my brain shot with wit and style
But the bars are ours and my heart is yours
And our love is a flower and a running horse
Ooh, oh, stallion with your shiny polished black hooves
Oh, Shanghai, who do you belong to?
Who do you care for and who do you forget?
Admit I got lost in your embrace
What to care for and what to forget?
And sparks outshine the stars when men will scrapers in the sky
Thick hot night and they're burning clouds dark with their torches
On the ground, underground
Can you feel the underground?
It's really not here, it's a bit below
To cover the hole is to cover the hole
Ooh, to say farewell to you and to mean it too
Oh, Shanghai, who do you belong to?
Who do you care for and who do you forget?
Admit I got lost in your embrace
What to care for and what to forget?