[Verse 1] You were standing In the rain While the streetlights Traced your frame Black coat, a cigarette, you lit the midnight cold Like someone I was never meant to know Cars moved slowly through the street Lamplight trembling at your feet And every time You turned away I hoped you'd come back each day [Pre-Chorus] I thought I knew what lonely meant Till you looked back at me I thought you were the one outside But maybe I was the one trying to leave [Chorus] Silhouette! Standing in the silver rain Silhouette! Like a memory without a name I wondered who you were Marie,... Yvette… perhaps even... Claudette? And then you were gone... Silhouette! [Verse 2] Night after night I took that café chair And somehow You were always there One red ember By your face A little flame the rain could never chase Sometimes headlights took you away Sometimes you came back before day I built a whole life In my head From things you never did and words you never said [Pre-Chorus] I thought maybe I could save you Take you somewhere far from here Then you caught me staring through the glass And smiled upon my fear [Chorus] Silhouette! Standing in the silver rain Silhouette! Like a memory without a name I wondered who you were Camille,... Colette... maybe just... Juliette? And then you were gone... Silhouette! [Bridge] Cigarette! Left there in the ashtray... Cigarette! Red lipstick where your lips had been Still burning down Like there was something you forgot to say Cigarette!... Before you walked away [Break] I still see you Through the rain Smoke masking your eyes One red ember in the dark Then you left with the night Rain running down the window Smoke disappearing into blue Till all that's left inside my mind Is the shape I have of you... [Final Chorus - fuller, aching, but still unresolved] Silhouette! You only come back with the rain Silhouette! Every window brings back the pain I thought that you were lost Till you looked at me and spoke my name And then you were gone... Silhouette! [Outro - rain, low synth, lone guitar] ...in the rain
