Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
"On High Heels Through Nights Of Broken Glass"
I cleanse my skin in flames of hell
From blood and shame and lepers' smell,
Flowers unnamed and forsaken by reason
Are growing like weeds in the garden of treason.
As man is my victim it's he who I torture
Engaged in perversions with Judas's daughter,
I salvage my soul in the essence of violence
My gospel is wisdom but censured and silenced.
We dance in nights of broken glass
Where stars collide and dreams collapse,
We dance in nights of broken glass.
The past we disowned will awaken again
Our conscience of bloodshed bears witness to shame,
The world we pursue is forsaken by man,
The earth is my kingdom it is where I dance.
I salvage myself in perversions and wine
Consumed and depraved by the bondage of time,
In lust I redeem all my yearnings and needs
Let's murder in nightmares of pleasures besieged.
We dance in nights of broken glass
Where stars collide and dreams collapse,
We dance in nights of broken glass.
Defiance of worship on thorns I decay
The twilight of conscience my salvage portrayed,
The penance of forfeit your verdict received
In judgement we dream of confessions deceived.
The killing of mankind won't ever desist
I'm God, I am Satan, I'm all that there is,
The sun is my kingdom, it is where I dwell
In high heels we wander through heaven and hell.
We dance in nights of broken glass
Where stars collide and dreams collapse,
We dance in nights of broken glass.
We dance in nights of broken glass
Where stars collide and dreams collapse,
We dance in nights of broken glass.
I cleanse my skin in flames of hell
From blood and shame and lepers' smell,
Flowers unnamed and forsaken by reason
Are growing like weeds in the garden of treason.
As man is my victim it's he who I torture
Engaged in perversions with Judas's daughter,
I salvage my soul in the essence of violence
My gospel is wisdom but censured and silenced.
We dance in nights of broken glass
Where stars collide and dreams collapse,
We dance in nights of broken glass.
The past we disowned will awaken again
Our conscience of bloodshed bears witness to shame,
The world we pursue is forsaken by man,
The earth is my kingdom it is where I dance.
I salvage myself in perversions and wine
Consumed and depraved by the bondage of time,
In lust I redeem all my yearnings and needs
Let's murder in nightmares of pleasures besieged.
We dance in nights of broken glass
Where stars collide and dreams collapse,
We dance in nights of broken glass.
Defiance of worship on thorns I decay
The twilight of conscience my salvage portrayed,
The penance of forfeit your verdict received
In judgement we dream of confessions deceived.
The killing of mankind won't ever desist
I'm God, I am Satan, I'm all that there is,
The sun is my kingdom, it is where I dwell
In high heels we wander through heaven and hell.
We dance in nights of broken glass
Where stars collide and dreams collapse,
We dance in nights of broken glass.
We dance in nights of broken glass
Where stars collide and dreams collapse,
We dance in nights of broken glass.
Lyrics submitted by Scissors333
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