From a motel on the coast
With your cigarette emotions
And your promises like ghosts
I wore that cherry perfume
You liked when we were teens
Now it smells like silence
And a hundred broken dreamsYou kissed me in the backseat
Of a car we couldn’t own
Talking ‘bout forever
On a payphone all alone
I played your favorite records
Now they just sound wrong
Like every song’s a memory
Of where we don’t belongWe're just velvet ghosts in neon light
Dancing slow in the middle of the night
You say my name like it’s still yours
But baby, I don’t cry like I did before
We burned too soft, we died too loud
Now we’re just strangers in a crowd
Velvet ghosts in faded jeans
Still haunted by what love once meansMaybe we were always doomed
A love written under a silver moon
But I still wear your name in my head
Like a line from a poem I never readVelvet ghosts in neon light...
Fading slow into the night...