BEATRICE:

You are all that I can think of.
You are all that I can see.
When I close my eyes, you're close by
in the darkness there with me.
You are all that I can think of,
like no-one ever was before.
I'm awake, yet I am dreaming
tender dreams, and I want more.
And I think you feel the same way as I do,
that you're craving me as much as I crave you,
and I think you long to hold me in your arms so very much
to get as close as we can get, and yet not touch.

And he interrupts:

CONTI: Beatrice, what are you doing here? How did you get into my room?

(And she's off and singing again)
The night is dark and lonely,
and the house is fast asleep,
no-one here to punish me for the company I keep
for the night is dark and lonely,
and I long to hear your voice,
for I cannot stay away from you,
I have no other choice,

I have to know what you would say to me
will you say the words you'd say if we were free
if we could just be lovers for an hour, for a day,
tell me just what you'd be aching most to say.
(And Conti answers, spoken: I would say I have never desired anyone more than you. But, Beatrice, we can't...)

BEATRICE
and I would say you touch me, you touch me deep
where no-one else has gone
yes, you touch me, you make this sweet
anticipation linger on
and it's agony to stay away
and I long to kiss your lips
and it's dangerous to come so near
but make your hands my hands, my sweet,
and I'll touch you as you have touched me here (her heart)

(She sings it again, and he responds, now fully a part of it)

CONTI:
the forbidden fruit is sweeter
the forbidden grass is greener
the forbidden love is loveliest of all
and how I long to hold you
and how I long to kiss you
and I'm falling for you like a waterfall.
and it's agony to stay away
and I long to kiss your lips
and it's dangerous to come so near
but make your hands my hands, my sweet,
and I'll touch you as you have touched me here (his heart)