[Verse 1] Good morrow, what a hall is this? A thousand lights do leap and hiss The floor doth shake, as if 'twere mad By Jesu, I am oddly glad Their garbs are bright as painted flame Their feet do strike one endless game A pulse, a roar, a fitful swarm 'Tis witchcraft dressed in modern form [Pre-Chorus] Yet I stand here, half undone By all these souls who rave as one They cry "come on" through smoke and heat And every heart keeps time with beat [Chorus] O damn, this place doth move me so O damn, the colours steal the show But red wine costs a cursed fortune By my faith, that's bloody extortion O damn, this place doth move me so O damn, I cannot let it go [Verse 2] A glass was set before mine eye For which I had to well-nigh die The price, I swear, did make me choke A shilling? Nay, a monarch's joke "Good sir," quoth I, "what bloody nonsense? Must I sell books for one small essence?" They grinned as if 'twere naught at all And set me thus to pay the toll [Pre-Chorus] Then back I danced, though vex'd in soul My ruff well lost to bass and roll The maidens laughed, the lads did shout And all my wrath was trampled out [Chorus] O damn, this place doth move me so O damn, the colours steal the show But red wine costs a cursed fortune By my faith, that's bloody extortion O damn, this place doth move me so O damn, I cannot let it go [Bridge] What age is this, where night burns blue? Where every fool doth leap like new? I came for peace, and found a storm A thousand joys in modern form Yet if the tavern break me clean I'll curse this age and all between For joy may dance in fiendish light But wine, my friends, doth ruin night [Final Chorus] O damn, this place doth move me so O damn, the colours steal the show But red wine costs a cursed fortune By my faith, that's bloody extortion O damn, this place doth move me so O damn, I cannot let it go
