[Verse 1] The daylight is a ledger of the things I haven't done I’m standing in the kitchen hiding from the setting sun My shadow is the only one who listens when I speak A monument of porcelain, so terrified and weak. I tried to find a savior in the strangers on the street But concrete never softens when it's underneath your feet So I pour a glass of nothing and I wait for 2 AM To resurrect the phantom of what could have been again. [Pre-Chorus] But I don't fear the shadows when the velvet pulls the sky I let the heavy curtains close the waking from my eye The daytime is a prison, but the nighttime is a key I'm slipping through the keyhole into my reality... [Chorus] 'Cause midnight is a kingdom where the lonely get to reign A technicolor canvas where I wash away the stain I close my eyes and suddenly the world is on its knees And the bitter, biting darkness tastes exactly like strawberries. Red and ripe and bleeding through the fabric of my mind Leaving every shattered piece of who I am behind In the velvet nothingness, where I do as I please The loneliness tastes just like strawberries. [Verse 2] The silence in the hallway used to cut me like a knife A quiet little tragedy I called my waking life But now I know the secret that the heavy sleepers keep The only time I'm truly living is when I'm asleep. I wander through the gardens that the daylight couldn't grow I meet you by the river where the silver waters flow No gravity to hold me, no reflection to pretend Just a temporary heaven where the heartbreak finds an end. [Pre-Chorus] So I don't fear the shadows when the velvet pulls the sky I let the heavy curtains close the waking from my eye The daytime is a prison, but the nighttime is a key I'm slipping through the keyhole into my reality... [Chorus] 'Cause midnight is a kingdom where the lonely get to reign A technicolor canvas where I wash away the stain I close my eyes and suddenly the world is on its knees And the bitter, biting darkness tastes exactly like strawberries. Red and ripe and bleeding through the fabric of my mind Leaving every shattered piece of who I am behind In the velvet nothingness, where I do as I please The loneliness tastes just like strawberries. [Bridge] (Music builds up dramatically - Strings soaring, bass driving) They say I’m isolated, say I'm losing all my grip But they don't know the nectar that I'm holding on my lip! I'm a god inside my slumber, I'm the architect of grace I can paint a whole horizon on the tear tracks of my face! I can build a perfect lover, I can build a summer breeze, I can plant a burning forest raining down with strawberries! Yeah, I plant a burning forest raining down with strawberries! [Chorus] (Explosive, full power, belting vocals) 'Cause midnight is my kingdom and the lonely get to reign! A technicolor canvas where I wash away the pain! I close my eyes and suddenly the world is on its knees And the bitter, biting darkness tastes exactly like strawberries! Red and ripe and bleeding through the fabric of my mind Leaving every shattered piece of who I am behind In the velvet nothingness, where I do as I please The loneliness tastes just like strawberries.
