Velvet Ghosts

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...