Down the hall from the entrance to the ballroom, there’s an elevator
I get in and press for the top floor
I want to be as far above from everyone
And as close to the moon as possible
I step out and find myself in another ballroom
This one completely empty
Except for myself
The carpeted floor blots out the sound of the music below
The towering drapes keep the moonlight from pouring in through the giant windows
It seems like this room hasn’t been used in a long timе
I walk to the center
The ballroom crowded
Days of old
The aura rose and gold
Music and light
Clashing perfumes
The taste of wine
The warmth of June
Laughter and kisses emanate from every mouth
Invisible, inaudible
A ghost from a different time
Who does not belong
I see a pretty redhead
Her eyes shine like the moon
She speaks but out comes my own voice
I notice that her face is Valerie’s
And my mother’s
And an amalgamation of every woman I’ve ever loved
Of every redhead I’ve idealized
Everyone whose soul my eyes have dyed
She’s not real
Never was, never will
The ballroom is empty again
The lights are dim again
The sound of my breathing is all I can hear again
The city lights are twinkling below
Messy, convoluted, unappealing by day
But tantalizingly beautiful when she becomes bejeweled at night
Those city lights look so warm
I feel like everyone in the world is down there except for me
I wish to be there too, though it was I who chose to come up here
Now I turn my gaze upward
And I remember that the moon doesn’t actually shine
It only bounces sunlight
Off its dark, dead face
The windows
Shatter into
Smithereens
Casting
Shards of glass
Nowhere as
Piercing as the
Cold air
That torrents in
I fall on
My knees
Oh, put your warm hands on me. I’m freezing
Won’t you put your warm hands on me? I’m freezing
Oh, put your warm hands on me. I’m freezing
Anybody put your hands on me. I’m freezing
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Kamikaze Prom Night Lyrics – Penthouse Phantom