Watch the stars turn you to nothing
Now blush and smile as they whisk you away
Part your lips a bit more, I'll swallow your fear
I will show you how
All the bite marks impress
A need to be here
A need to see...

City lights, like rain
Dance and explode
Fall upon debutants
Reeling from nights that
Kiss and control
All of our broken hearts

Velvet burns the wrists while restraining
You blushed and smiled and you said you would stay
One more time steal my breath, I'll feed you the sky
I will show you how
Steal the glamour from death and before you die
Oh you should see

City lights, like rain
Dance and explode
Fall upon debutants
Reeling from nights that
Kiss and control
All of our broken hearts

"We all want to die like movie stars," you said as you jumped from the height of our cutting room floor while above us, glowing, exploding, our dreams burst forth in light and death. Hold me and tell me "We'll burn like stars. We'll burn as we fall. Watch as city lights dance for us."

City lights, like rain
Dance and explode
Fall upon debutants
Reeling from nights that
Kiss and control
All of our broken hearts


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    I think it might be: "Part your lips a bit more..." (: Beautiful song. Especially the spoken part.

    miss_melancholyon May 27, 2006   Link

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