Upstairs By a Chinese Lamp

Upstairs By A Chinese Lamp - Laura Nyro

Market in the cool white mornin'

Merchants sell while women buy

Milk tobacco soap and matches

Sweep the floor

While the dishes dry

Spring whispered in her ear

Like soft Mediterranean wailin'

Sleepy woman by the window

Dreamin' in the morning air

Of the one who takes her sweetness

By a chinese lamp upstairs

The steam of china tea

You could hear the woman sing

In the soft flames of spring

Spring has swept the scarlet side streets

Winds caress undress invite

Upstairs by a china lamp

They softly talk in the cool spring night