Outside I can hear the fireworks   Beyond the paper walls   Where the symbols painted black and white   Run together when the rain falls   And the wind chimes across Kyoto   Each time the earth moves   Was it the quake that shook me   Or was it something to do with you      And the hot wind heats the bamboo blinds   And your almond eyes always shine   Sitting cool behind your painted fan   All the secrets of the east   Conceal the beauty and the beast   For tender is the man in her Japanese hands      Flesh on silk looks different   Than on a cotton sheet back home   Where no one wears their hair like yours   Beneath those oriental combs   And with your thirsty fingers   Running up and down my spine   You forget the western woman   When you're sleeping on Kyoto time      And the sky explodes   and the moon grows cold   To the distant sound of drums   And the sky explodes   And the moon grows cold   As the dragons on the mainland   Wait to heat the sun