Midnight Masquerade for Grown-Up Ghosts

The candles lean and whisper low

As velvet shadows start to glow

Your mask is black, your smile is sly

I catch your eye and let it lie

The room is warm with danger's grin

And every secret wants to win

We trade our glances slow and sweet

While rhythm curves beneath our feet

Dance, dance to the midnight smoke

Laugh like every lock me broke

Spin me where the moonlight slips

Taste the truth between our lips

Dance, dance, let the whole room hush

Hearts in the dark go rush, rush, rushed

At the mast party, bold and bright

We make our mischief out of night

The clarinet begins to tease

Like borrowed breath in old champagne grease

Your fingers brush my satin glove

A wicked kind of almost love

The upright bass just purrs below

The justy piano keeps the show

And Brastrom sketch a haunted beat

That follows every tending stick we meet

Dance, dance to the midnight smoke

Laugh like every lock can be broke

Spin me where the moonlight slips

Taste the truth between our lips

Dance, dance, let the whole room hush

Hearts in the dark go rush, rush, rush

At the masked party, bold and bright

We make our mischief out of night

Sang my seagull, don't you dare

Let it hang like lace in air

King voices sing from the stair

Playful shadows everywhere

If trouble's coming, let it come

We're already beating like a drum

One more waltz, one more sin

Let the masquerade pull us in

Dance, dance through the midnight smoke

Laugh like every lock-me-book

And spin me where the moonlight slips

Taste the truth between our lips

Dance, dance till the candles fade

Till the whole sweet spell is made

At the master party, wild and right

We make a mystified of night