Dark and Velvet Nights (Live from the Luck and Strange Concerts)

I didn't think that this could be

All that unto death do we

'Til you managed the lock and magicked the key

After a night of hard drinking and ecstasy

It's softer than words that are spoken

Blackened on paper that's shredded and torn

Or carved into stones lying shattered and broken

Branches beckoned along the wrong path

Winding up in the past

And this dark and velvet night that surrounds us

This dark and velvet night, I will wrap around us

It's softer than words that are spoken

Or painted as slogans and flung to the lions

Written on slips as the punters wait smoking

A leap of faith, the odds sky-high

Said goodbye to your place or mine

Don't like to make promises that I can't keep

Don't want to hurt this old heart or wreck my sleep

Thinking how will we part?

Will I hold your hand or you be left holding mine?

Between this breath and then

There's this airlock of time

This airlock of time

And this dark and velvet night that surrounds us

This dark and velvet night, I will wrap around us

It's softer than words that were spoken

In the towers of great cities that toppled and drowned

Engraved on gold rings or some other love token

No walls, no bells to sanctify this dark and velvet night