[Verse 1]
Melanie walks slow
Through the blue-lit room
Pearl on her throat
Knife in her bloom
Eyes like a locked door
Soft but untamed
Everybody knows
Nobody names
[Pre-Chorus]
And she smiles like she’s leaving
Before she arrives
All that gold in her shadow
Still asking why
[Chorus]
Melanie, Melanie
Don’t fade away
Melanie, Melanie
Stay for the real thing
Melanie, Melanie
What are you chasing?
Melanie, Melanie
Love with a heartbeat
[Verse 2]
She keeps her distance
Like it’s stitched to her skin
Laughs at the surface
Then slips back in
Sour on the tongue
Dour in the air
Still she reaches
Like somebody’s there
[Pre-Chorus]
And she moves like a signal
Half lost at sea
All that shine in her silence
Still after me
[Chorus]
Melanie, Melanie
Don’t fade away
Melanie, Melanie
Stay for the real thing
Melanie, Melanie
What are you chasing?
Melanie, Melanie
Love with a heartbeat
[Bridge]
Maybe the moon knows
What she won’t say
Maybe the cut glass
Can learn to stay
So if you’re aching
Don’t run too far
Real is a hand
And a shaking heart
[Final Chorus]
Melanie, Melanie
Don’t fade away
Melanie, Melanie
Stay for the real thing
Melanie, Melanie
What are you chasing?
Melanie, Melanie
Let it be me
Melanie, Melanie
Don’t fade away
Melanie, Melanie
Stay for the real thing