[Verse 1]
Paper lanterns fade on a winter glass
We were spinning gold while the hours would pass
In the dusty attic where the shadows grow
Every silent promise that we used to know
[Verse 2]
Photographs are burning in a quiet frame
On the edge of winter I can hear your name
We were chasing lightning through a paper sky
Now the empty shadows let the echoes die
[Bridge]
And the glass begins to fracture in the cold light
All the ancient rivers turning in the deep night
Key of sorrow, key of grace
We are falling outward from this resting place
[Chorus]
Through the metal thunder and the Europop beat
We are breaking down on an empty street
Soprano voices rising through the bitter dark
Leaving every sorrow with a silver mark
Rock and ruin, let the midnight fall
We were only shadows on a mirrored wall
[Verse 3]
Clockwork gears are turning in the velvet floor
We don't cross the threshold of that room no more
Every spoken secret is a loaded gun
Sleeping till the rising of a broken sun
[Verse 4]
Silver threads are snapping in the empty air
Looking for a ghost that isn't standing there
We were painting oceans on a canvas floor
Now the tide is washing underneath the door
[Bridge]
And the harmonics are shifting in the high tower
Counting down the ruins of a dying hour
Key of longing, key of fire
Burning every word of our divine desire
[Chorus]
Through the metal thunder and the Europop beat
We are breaking down on an empty street
Soprano voices rising through the bitter dark
Leaving every sorrow with a silver mark
Rock and ruin, let the midnight fall
We were only shadows on a mirrored wall
[Verse 5]
Curtains draw together on the final act
Every golden fiction turning into fact
We can leave the theater in the pouring rain
Never to re-enter through the glass pane
[Bridge]
Keys are lifting upward as the shadows part
Resonance is breaking through the quiet heart
Final overtone ascending high and clear
Disappearing softly into starry fear
[Chorus]
Through the metal thunder and the Europop beat
We are breaking down on an empty street
Soprano voices rising through the bitter dark
Leaving every sorrow with a silver mark
Rock and ruin, let the midnight fall
We were only shadows on a mirrored wall
[Outro]
Fading down to silence on a harp string
Listening to everything the echoes bring
Fading down to nothing where the cold winds blow
Fading out to where we used to go
[Instrumental]