I wore my satin dress tonight, my silver high-heeled I dabbed my with sweet perfume, the one you helped me choose I did my hair the way you like, up in a simple You touched my face to take away an eyelash that I You said "Let's not go out tonight, let's not go town" And as you kissed my neck, I said "We let people down" And now the evening's over, I don't what to do I watched two fall in love, and one of them... Was you
And now we're only inches apart it might be twenty miles And it's a kind of dying inside As I see your smiles The air is loaded with we cannot say I try to you, but you sigh and turn away I tell we're not estranged But in one evening, everything's
You my hand as we walked in, each detail I recall I moved around the party making small-talk, very You soon in conversation with a girl I didn't know She reminded me of someone else: me, ten ago I found you still there two hours later, long since time to I wonder, did you I saw her hand upon your sleeve? Then you home or was it me? The journey is a blur I two people fall in love, and one of them... Was her
And now we're lying only apart Though it might be miles And it's a quiet kind of inside As I see your radiant The air is loaded with things we say I try to hold you, but you and turn away I tell we're not estranged But in one evening, everything's
And now two people lie beside other in the dark One sleeps, the other cannot, and dissects each chance The satin dress upon its hanger shimmers a ghost To illustrate the transience of things we've the most The shoes are in their box, not kicked aside in haste And as you turn the lights off, your is strangely chaste Now our familiar sanctuary feels and new I watched two people in love, and one of them was you
And now lying only...
And it's a kind of...
The air is loaded with things we say...
I myself...
changed.