Shine - The Ballroom Thieves

Tears of light drip through my hotel window

And into tired eyes

They yawn across the ceiling

Cracked and flaking like old stones

Resting on the dresser

With the coffee and the key

Shine a light

Turn the night back into morning

Shine a light

Take the night away from me

Will I wake up somewhere quiet and palatial?

A museum or a daydream

Will I wake up in a town I should have slept

Through?

Oh

Oh

All the minutes feel like hours

Feel like seconds

Feel like days

Am I here?

Are you awake?

Am I away?

Am I anyone at all

Do I even have a body anymore?

Tears of light drip from my eyes

Through the floor into the lobby

Where they pool like blood or water

Til the sun burns down the dawn

Pulls the vapor back up to my starving lungs

And into corners

Of my brain

That I don’t know or even care to

Am I here?

Am I alone and do I dare to

Shine a light

Turn the night back into morning

Shine a light

Take the night away from me

Shine a light

Turn the night back into morning

Shine a light

Take the night away from me