Coimbra lyrics

The crooked streets of Coimbra are smoking a cigar
The students singing fado with a black cloak and guitar
The orange peel's unwinding through the robust underbelly
Of the gilded maze of Coimbra
There’s a whore with an umbrella

And you quaffed too many ports 'cause that bottle was a flirt
The African with half a face flicks ashes into dirt
Your compass is unpeeling, it’s hanging upside-down
And the sinister cafe sings another round

And the cobbled streets pursue you
There’s a beckoning pitch face
At the end of gilded walkways
They put alleys in the place
The bridge lurches into water
To escape your leg’s embrace
And she smiles a cracked smile
The prostituted daughter

Ah, my Severa
I long for Lisboa
The sheets on the bed are clean
You'll be my countess
I’m called Vimioso
Shall I escort you to the ring
Severa
Beijinhos
Severa

Severa
Beijinhos
Severa

[Instrumental]

In the crooked streets of Coimbra
There'an envoy of the ages
He kisses alleys with his cane
His sulfur lips are faded
Read a sonnet to a countess
That his raspy breath intones
She kissed the air so long ago
She lies underneath the stones

The crooked streets of Coimbra
Are the arms of a black widow
She folds you into orange blossoms
Cinders cradling the middle
Like a stillborn tourist stumbling
Into cracked and wet skinned pavement
My brain is singing far too fast
The alleyways are mumbling
Like a tavern or a monastery
Sobbing out its miscreants
The misfits of these alleyways
Are hardening the ambiance

Then here comes the dreamless night
Ah, f*ck, here comes the dreamless night
But I'll only dream of crooked streets
But maybe of Severa

Ah, my Severa
I long for Lisboa
The sheets on the bed are clean
You'll be my countess
I'm called Vimioso
Shall I escort you to the ring

[Instrumental]

Aaah!

Severa!


Beijinhos!
Severa!

Aah!

Severa!