Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp

Song Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp
Artist Laura Nyro
Album Season of Lights...Laura Nyro in Concert

Lyrics

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 teaYou 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