The Girls from the Streets

[Verse 1]
Suffocating eyes and fast hellos and last good-byes
Surround the night of me
Mustache large like smoke from his cigar
Coughs up a joke and laughs a net of sound
Swallowing the pinwheel clowns
Consuming all the women
Like a giant sponge

[Verse 2]
Snap! The waiters animate
Luxuriate like planets whirling 'round the sun
Collapsing next to me
Shouts, "Don't look sad
Things aren't so bad
They're just more wrong than right"
His brandy-brimmed voice whispers
"Come with me I hold the key
The city's ours tonight"

[Pre-Chorus]
Pays the barmaid, slaps her ass
She shrieks her gold teeth flash
With rapturous delight
Earthquaking the sawdust ground
He grabs my arm and out into the famished night

[Chorus]
Now, two blazing leaves burning up ground
The tiny waltz of a merry go round
Cascading lights for every heartbeat
Tonight we'll sleep with the girls from the streets

[Interlude]

[Verse 3]
Hurry, faster, don't look back
His coattails snap, his laughter's burning in my ears
I ride upon this giant storm
Through rust-red rooms where shadows breathe from every board
The world is up for auction sales
A thousand lies descend
The women's tear-tracked cheeks

[Pre-Chorus]
Still we'll dance them on and on
We can't stop now
Not now
Until we reach the dawn

[Chorus]
Quick give us your lips
Give us your thighs
Give us your sad and devouring eyes
Cascading tears for every heartbeat
Tonight we'll sleep with the girls from the streets

[Outro]