Velvet Parade on Moonlit Streets

We slip into the lantern ring

Two faces stitched to the same refrain

Fetters in the alley, glitter in the scene

Walking like a rumor through a half-lit dream

Every mask I lace is more than my name

Every painted smile burns like a flame

I try to hide, but the truth comes through

In the crack of the night, I call finding you

Midnight calls to

Under glowing signs

Every disguise feels like I can fade in disguise

Spin me through the crowd, let the brass strings out

I'm the thing I fear, the thing I'm about

Midnight calls to

My heart's beating loud

We're saints in sequence, lost and proud

Say it with a laugh, say it with a shout

Every disguise feels like a confession now

The accordion sighs from a curbside band

Hand drums tap like a nervous hand

I wore a fox pin, you wore a crown

But the honest parts kept slipping down

The streetlight haze was on a borrowed skin

All the little lines that the picture in

I heard my shadow sing a tune

As the parade rolled past the moon

We may cast in love under glowing suns

Envy disguised feels like a confession in disguise

Spin me through the crowd, let the brass rings out

I'm the thing I see, I'm the thing I'm about

Moonlight cast in wall, hearts beating loud

We're saints in sequence, lost and proud

See it with a laugh, see it with a shout

Every disguise feels like a confession now

Take off the glitter, keep the ache

Let the real heart tremble away

No more hiding in a borrowed skin

I confess what I am, let the night begin

Midnight costume walk under glowing signs

Every disguise feels like a confession in disguise

Spin me through the crowd like the

The grass rings out

I'm the thing I hear

And the thing I′m about

In my costume walk

Hearts beating loud

We're saints in sequence

Lost and proud

See it with the laugh

See it with the shout

Every disguise

Feels like a confession of