Mama, don’t wait up tonight the neon’s got ahold of me again I got whiskey on my lipstick and strange hands on my skin Lord, these barroom lights are hungry they chew right through my name Every shot burns a little softer than rememberin’ the pain And I been runnin’ with the jackals down these rain-soaked alley veins Laughin’ like a fallen angel dancin’ naked in the flames Somebody said my eyes looked different said they shimmer black and gold I just smiled and drank another felt my blood run cold Ohhh, Isabel’s sinkin’ way down below the tide And Isolden’s at the window singin’, “Let me come inside…” She says “Baby, all your hurt is holy you don’t gotta carry shame Come and drown inside the silence you don’t even need your name…” So bartender, pour the bad stuff til the whole room starts to sway I wanna lose myself completely before the break of day I got ghosts beneath my ribs now I got salt beneath my tongue And every man that tries to hold me feels the winter in my lungs Lord, I kissed a stranger laughing while the jukebox cried and moaned But his face kept turnin’ sideways like somebody I had known And the mirror in the bathroom wouldn’t look me in the eye There was somebody standin’ in it smilin’ when I cried Ohhh, Isabel’s fading like smoke above the floor And Isolden’s in the hallway now scratching at the door She says “Baby, all your memories are just splinters in your veins Let me wash you clean forever let the dark erase the pain…” So line up all the bottles and let the whole world spin If oblivion’s a woman I think I’m dancing with her again Yeah oblivion’s a woman and tonight she’s wearin’ my skin…
