Tango in Macao

LETRA

Tango in Macao

You said there'd be shutters
And rusty ceiling fans
And broken-hearted gangsters
With roses in their hands
There would be tango in Macao
That's what you told me
And I believed in you somehow
Believed all your baloney
We've come half way round the world
I guess I'm stuck with you for now
I'm not saying that you lied
But it was definitely implied
There would be tango in Macao

I don't know how it happened
You got past my defences
And brought me all this way
On distinctly false pretences
I asked the concierge, he said
There's nothing like that now
And neither has there been since
Before the days of Chairman Mao
You'd be a man true to your vow
At least that's what I thought
You said we'd tango in Macao
But we've done nothing of the sort

But we've still an evening left
To salvage this somehow
We've only one last chance
To find some tango in Macao
Perhaps there'll be a club
Down one of these dark alleys
Where they tango really close
Like they do in Buenos Aires
Or down by the harbour
Along the cobblestones
We'd dance under the lamplight
To a wind-up gramophone
Then there'd be tango in Macao
Just the way you told me
Oh yes, we could tango in Macao
All you have to do is hold me

You said there'd be shutters
And rusty ceiling fans
And broken-hearted gangsters
With roses in their hands
There would be tango in Macao
That's what you told me
And I believed in you somehow
Believed all your baloney
We've come half way round the world
I guess I'm stuck with you for now
I'm not saying that you lied
But it was definitely implied
There would be tango in Macao