Voices Lyrics

Only saw you when the light turned red

Through a streak of rain

Lying writing in your unmade bed

What story were you telling?

Were you writing of your city

Of concrete and glass

Your noisy neon palace

In this dreary underpass?

They tried to coax you out

With promises of warmth

And for a moment you thought you might

But it didn't go far

They hid the dark from view

Showered you in light

The promises they made faded in the night

In the night

And you were always going back

Always going back

To the voices you lost in the dark

This altar of red and white

This carpet of stone

The placards of protest

That decorate your home

Perhaps they live here too

Those sweet girls of yours

In echoes of laughter you hear

From passing cars

And you were always going back

Always going back

To the voices you lost

Those voices you lost in the dark

Do you write of their beauty?

Of memories of sun?

Singing voices you lost

Those voices you lost