Your lips are like morphine   And your eyes are deceit   The make-up runs down into   The bullet wound in your cheek      There's a secret I can share now    Just don't tell   And is all about lust   There's a world I can show now    Just don't cry   A black planet of rust      Will this hand destroy you...      Venus in arms   I'll strip you off   In the flood of the light   Venus in arms   You'll taste the dark   Yet so innocent white      Your tongue taste like strychnine   And your long hair is torn   The fancy wings are broken   And a black star is born      There's a venom can you taste it   Let out your tongue   And it tastes so sweet   There's a diamond can you see it    Open your eyes   Black sugar deep in the meat      Will this hand destroy you...      Venus in arms   I'll strip you off   In the flood of the light   Venus in arms   You'll taste the dark   Yet so innocent white      And I will suck you   Into the magic turbines of the night   I will lead you to me   And I will tear them down.   All the white stars in your eyes   Then I'll bury them deep      There are the victims of the vices   Which I try to protect   They are the servants of the crisis   Which I try to protect