[Verse 1]
What this night wants is what it gets
Strung in silken knots, lit by cigarettes
Flaring side by side with the streets all wet
Is the only thing that's bright

[Verse 2]
And I don't need to cross that bridge, I find
I'm swinging and sailing over the pit tonight
I'm hanging from a hit tonight
Was wild enough to order up and toss across my lips

[Verse 3]
What's making all my tears
Is taking all my fears away
But I don't need to cry
'Cause now I'm clear, ooh

[Verse 4]
A moth that's swerving through the sage
A creature crashing from a cage
A shadow vaporized by a new sun ray
A day she spends the night

[Verse 5]
And I can hear her sigh
As she's almost asleep on one side
I lie back on my pillow
And ask what her husband is like, ooh
[Verse 6]
And she says
"I smile polite and I tip and tithe
And I see the sights with a well-trained eye
But I calmly cry
'Cause I'm too much mine without him

[Verse 7]
And I lie reclined, where the room is quiet
And it's quiet at night, the soft silk is fine
And the waves are white
But the wind has died without him

[Verse 8]
And I scream my smiles and I want my wires
And I need my stripes and I read the lines
Till I lid my eyes
And I'm losing time without him."

[Verse 9]
And she says
"And I ignite inside and I flash with fire
And I limp from life and I'm blazing blind
And I'm surging live and give up my mind
When with him."
[Verse 10]
And then every dream inside
Turns to flames, fades to grey and is dying
And the smoke rises into
A white, blank, bare, broke-open sky, ooh