Yellow Lights

Yellow moon
Lamplight haze
Plastic bags
Look like flowers growing in the yellow light

Siren serenade
Through the broken heights of the cityscape

The world is ours tonight
All bathed in yellow light

Gas lamp flames
Dying low
Neon flickering
While the oil drum embers glow
You wear a crown of the Pleiades
Your hair is dancing in the cold night breeze

The world is ours tonight
All bathed in yellow light

Shuttered windows
Nailed down doors
You find an opening
Where someone has been before
You climb inside of the silent room
Stand side by side in the misty gloom
The walls are closed in tight
Blocking out the yellow light

Tear the chipboard from the mantelpiece
Reveal the fireplace behind
Kindle fire with faded magazines
And all the wood that we can find

And soon the room will fill with yellow light
Yellow light
Fills the room
Flames are dancing
In the gloom

And now I see you in the ember glow
No time for words, no time for games
We dive deep into the undertow
While the world outside goes up in flames

Breathing slows
Heart beat calms
The one I love
She is lying in my arms
I touch your hand in the ember light
You murmur low in the city night
You're like a star
Shining on
Through the dark hours
But in the morning you'll be gone

We lie so close in the yellow light
Your skin is gold in the ember light

Bathe in the yellow light
Bathe in the yellow light
Bathe in the yellow light
Till the cold light of the dawn