Velvet Afterglow

Verse

The sun is dipping low behind the canyon wall

I watch the shadows stretch and wait for you to call

But the line is dead, just static in the breeze

I’m humming melodies that bring me to my knees

Got my red dress on, but nowhere left to go

Just dancing with your ghost in the velvet afterglow.

Pre-chorus

And the radio is playing something old and sweet

While the asphalt’s burning underneath my feet

I’m a Hollywood starlet in a tragedy

Lost in the neon of a broken memory.

Chorus

Kiss me once for the road we didn't take

Hold me close for the heart you didn’t break

Blueberry winters and wine-stained nights

Fading away in the pale city lights

Oh, it’s a beautiful sorrow, a bitter design

To know that you’re yours, and you’ll never be mine.

Verse

The palm trees are swaying like they’re mourning the light

I’m driving 100 through the middle of the night

The ocean is calling, a deep, heavy blue

It looks just as lonely as I feel without you

Got my mascara running, but I’ve never looked better

Wrapped in the ghost of your old cashmere sweater.

Chorus

Kiss me once for the road we didn't take

Hold me close for the heart you didn’t break

Blueberry winters and wine-stained nights

Fading away in the pale city lights

Oh, it’s a beautiful sorrow, a bitter design

To know that you’re yours, and you’ll never be mine.

Bridge

I’m a movie that ended ten minutes too soon

A hollow reflection of a silver-white moon

Don’t wake me up if the dream is still fair

I can still feel your fingers running through my hair...

Outro

Velvet afterglow...

(Everything is fading)

Just let the music go...

(Everything is changing)

Summer’s gone, and I’m still here

In the velvet afterglow...