[genre: psychedelic hard rock, glam rock] [instrumentation: electric guitars with heavy reverb and distortion, bluesy organ lines, dramatic drumming, walking bassline] [mood: theatrical, mysterious, seductive, darkly glamorous] [tempo: mid-tempo groove, slightly hypnotic] [era: 1970s-inspired sound] [vocal style: gritty male rock vocal, deep and sensual tone] [emotion: dramatic, slightly sinister, seductive] [delivery: spoken word in bridge, powerful chorus vocals, laid-back verses] [Verse 1] She paints her smile in crimson glass Drinks champagne from an hourglass Mirrors talk when the curtains close “Who’s the fairest?” Nobody knows [Pre-Chorus] Velvet whispers, silver smoke Plastic gods in golden cloaks [Chorus] Welcome to the parlor of vanity Where the lights kiss your insanity Every mask wears a memory In the parlor, in the parlor of vanity [Verse 2] Perfume lingers like a ghost She makes a toast to what she lost Dancing on a marble lie With diamond tears she never cries [Pre-Chorus] Candle eyes and leather dreams Pretty monsters stitching seams [Chorus] Welcome to the parlor of vanity Where the lights kiss your insanity Every mask wears a memory In the parlor, in the parlor of vanity [Bridge – spoken] And in the corner, he watches still A man of wax with time to kill He says: “Beauty dies, but the frame remains” And laughs like thunder in champagne rain [Final Chorus] Welcome to the parlor of vanity Where the truth sleeps with profanity You lose your name for divinity In the parlor, in the parlor of vanity [Guitar Solo] Welcome to the parlor of vanity Where the truth sleeps with profanity You lose your name for divinity In the parlor, in the pa
