Moonlit Velvet Parade

I step into the city in a handmade coat

Stitches like secrets over on the throat

Streetlights bloom as I cross the square

Every glance on me feels like a prayer

I was only fabric, thread, and flame

No aviator knows my name

I'm walking in the midnight glow

Turning slow where the breakers go

Every eye that follows, I feel it change me

Every step makes a stranger in me fade free

I'm not who I was when I left my door

I wear the night like a living form

Heartstrings shimmer through the chill of air

Muted beats keep time like a heartbeat there

Cellar rises under every breath

Like I'm dancing with the edge of death

And the neon pulls me into life

A borrowed ground in the velvet night

If I tremble, let it show

I was built for this afterglow

Seen by the city, remade by the view

I become more real when they look me through

I'm walking in the midnight glow

Turning slow where the bright cars go

Every eye that follows, I feel it change me

Every step makes a stranger in me feel free

I'm not who I was when I left my door

I wear the night like a living form

And the whole street lends my name

As I walk through the frame of the flame