The Velvet Ceiling

The walls are melting into liquid blue I’m losing track of what is false and true A bottle of lightning, a pill for the sun The long-distance race that we’ve already won The ceiling is lowering, a velvet weight Counting the hours at the garden gate The smoke is an architect building a room Where shadows are flowers that refuse to bloom. One more sip to stop the spin Let the silver needles in The world is a whisper, a mile away We’re hiding in the ruins of the day. Oh, we’re drifting through the neon haze Lost inside a chemical maze! The frequency is bleeding, the signal is thin We’re waiting for the gravity to let us in! Transparent faces on the studio floor I don’t remember what we were fighting for The gold in the glass is a beautiful lie A piece of the ocean in a desert sky Mercury veins and a heart made of tin Watching the kaleidoscope begin to spin We’re kings of a kingdom that’s made of dust In a temple of silence and holy rust. Can you hear the hum? It’s getting louder... TEAR THE VELVET! Oh, we’re drifting through the neon haze Lost inside a chemical maze! The frequency is bleeding, the signal is thin We’re waiting for the gravity to let us in!