Blue in the Velvet Glow

I'm sitting in this jazz bar where the shadows softly sway

A saxophone is sighing while the night drips slowly

The candlelight is trembling on a glass of amber wine

And every lonely heartbeat keeps on falling out of time

Oh, the room is full of strangers, but I'm singing like I'm known

With a voice cracked open wide, I let the hook come home

I'm blue in the velvet glow, baby, flew down to my bones

Lost in a bittersweet tune where the trumpet moans

If love was a fire, mine burned out long ago

Now I'm just a lonely sun in a smoky overflow

The bartender keeps polishing the glasses old and bright

Like he's trying to buff the sorrow from the edges of the night

Every face around me blurs beneath the stars

In this sleepy neon haze

And I'm dancing with the memories

That haunt my softer days

Oh, the room is full of strangers

But I'm singing like I'm known

With a voice cracked open wide

Come home

I'm blue in a velvet glow

Bathe her through down to my bones

Lost in a bittersweet tune

Where the trumpet mumbles

His love was a fire

Mine burned out long ago

Now I'm just a lonely song

In a smoky overflow

Let the piano cry for me

Let the midnight spill the tape

I've been holding back a river, now I let the levees break

If tomorrow brings no mercy, I'll still raise my glass and sing

'Cause even broken-hearted angels need a little swing

I'm blue, you look velvet gold

Baby, look down to my bones

Lost in a bittersweet tune where the trumpet moans

If love was a fire, mine burned out long ago

Now I'm just a lonely song in a smoky overflow

So I'll stay until the sunrise finds me wrapped in thin cigarette light

Singing blues to the shadows in the foul-bred Sunday night

Blue in the glow

I'll go slow