Back in the days of knights in armor
There once lived a lovely charmer
Swimming in the Rhine
Her figure was divine

She had a yen for all the sailors
Fishermen and gobs and whalers
She had a most immoral eye
They called her Lorelei

She created quite a stir
And I want to be like her

I want to be like that gal on the river
Who sang her song to the ships passing by
She had the goods and how she could deliver
The Lorelei

She used to love in a strange kind of fashion
With lots of hey-ho-de-ho-hi-de-hi
And I can guarantee I'm full of passion
Like the Lorelei

I'm treacherous, yeah-yeah
Oh, I just can't hold myself in check
I'm lecherous, yeah-yeah
I want to bite my initials on a sailor's neck

Each affair has a kick and a wallop
For what they crave, I can always supply
I want to be just like that other trollop
The Lorelei

I want to be just like that other trollop
The Lorelei

Back in the days of knights in armor
There once lived a lovely charmer
Swimming in the Rhine
Her figure was divine

She had a yen for all the sailors
Fishermen and gobs and whalers
She had a most immoral eye
They called her Lorelei

She created quite a stir
And I want to be like her

I want to be like that gal on the river
Who sang her song to the ships passing by
She had the goods and how she could deliver
The Lorelei

She used to love in a strange kind of fashion
With lots of hey-ho-de-ho-hi-de-hi
And I can guarantee I'm full of passion
Like the Lorelei

I'm treacherous, yeah-yeah
Oh, I just can't hold myself in check
I'm lecherous, yeah-yeah
I want to bite my initials on a sailor's neck

Each affair has a kick and a wallop
For what they crave, I can always supply
I want to be just like that other trollop
The Lorelei

I want to be just like that other trollop
The Lorelei

there was a time when we sailed on together
once had a dream that we shared on the way
there was a place where we used to seek shelter
I never knew the pain of the price I would pay

You led me on with a clook and a dagger
and I didn't know you had made other plans
and had me believe we were meant for forever
I really thought my heart would be safe in your hands

Lorelei
My ship has passed you by
and thought you promised me to show the way
you led me astray
you were my lorelei
what kind of fool was I
cause I believed in every word you said
and now I wonder why
Lorelei

There was a time when we held one another
Baring out souls in the light of the flame
Those were the days now I've lost my illusions
Sometimes I wake in the night and I call out your name

Lorelei
My ship has passed you by
and thought you promised me to show the way
you led me astray
you were my lorelei
what kind of fool was I
Cause I believed in every word you said
and now I wonder why
Lorelei

now there's a light that shines on the river
Blinding my eyes from so far away
Shot through the heart but now I know better
As hard as it is to resist the song that you play

Lorelei

(Philip Chevron)
You told me tales of love and glory
Same old sad songs, same old story
The sirens sing no lullaby
And no-one knows but Lorelei

By castles out of fairytales
Timbers shivered where once there sailed
The lovesick men who caught her eye
And no-one knew but Lorelei

River, river have mercy
Take me down to the sea
For if I perish on these rocks
My love no more I'll see

I've thought of you in far-off places
I've puzzled over lipstick traces
So help me God, I will not cry
And then I think of Lorelei

I travel far and wander wide
No photograph of you beside me
Ol' man River's not so shy
And he remembers Lorelei

River, river have mercy
Take me down to the sea
For if I perish on these rocks
My love no more I'll see

If I should float upon this stream
And see you in my madman's dream
I'd sink into your troubled eyes
And none would know 'cept Lorelei

River, river have mercy
Take me down to the sea
For if I perish on these rocks
My love no more I'll see

But if my ship, which sails tomorrow
Should crash against these rocks,
My sorrows I will drown before I die
It's you I'll see, not Lorelei

River, river have mercy
Take me down to the sea
For if I perish on these rocks
My love no more I'll see

You told me I better walk away.
Just like to me to never hear what you say.
Tempting fate.
The story unfolds.
Should have seen it.
You told me I better walk away.
And just like me to never hear what you say.
Twisted fate.
The story is told.
Never say never, cause you don't know what lies ahead.
Better to follow your heart.
Mistakes comes from choices made.
Does it mean no damage done?
Not a chance in the world.
Cause there was never a day that went by without regret.
Turn it around.
The past still haunting me.
I gotta give it away.
I made a choice for me.
Just one mistake and it's haunting.
I saw someone never wanted to be.
The story's told and it's haunting.

(Dennis DeYoung and James Young)
When I think of Lorelei my head turns all around
As gentle as a butterfly she moves without a sound
I call her on the telephone, she says be there by eight
Tonight's the night she's moving in and I can hardly wait

The way she moves, ooh-ooh
I gotta say
Lorelei let's live together
Brighter than the stars forever
Lorelei let's live together
Brighter than the stars forever

Her eyes become of Paradise, she softly speaks my name
She brightens every lonely night, no one's quite the same
She calls me on the telephone, she says be there by eight
Tonight's the night she's moving in, it's time to celebrate

The way she moves, ooh-ooh
I gotta say
Lorelei let's live together
Brighter than the stars forever
Lorelei let's live together
Brighter than the stars forever

Can't look out, can't look in
Can't kiss right
Get yourself get right
Lift up your toes, in my mouth
We'll make love and we can go

And we can go
And we can go

We're covered by the sacred fire
But when you cut me, you cut me to the bone

<repeat verse>

Without a doubt

We're covered by the sacred fire
But when you cut me, you cut me to the bone

Can't look in
Guilty boy, guilty girl
Cause you're both cursed
Lift up your toes in my mouth
We'll make love and we can go

Can't look in
Guilty boy, guilty girl
Cause you're both cursed
Lift up your toes in my mouth
We'll make love and we can go