The neon nights still flicker in my mind
Where bourbon flowed like rivers love was blind
We danced on tabletops laughed at the moon
But the band packed up and the curtains fell too soon
Oh those velvet voices hummed my tune
Each dame a verse each glass a fleeting swoon
Now my flats a stage with no applause
Just echoes of I dos lost to hollow cause
Faded reels of blue play my foolish youth
A leading man who forgot his truth
The wines turned sour the rosesash
And every sorry drowned in midnights crash
Old time movies frame my shame
Im just a ghost who forgot his name
The jukebox crooned Regrets my dear
But I waltzed on deaf to the tears
Her perfume lingers in empty halls
A thousand faces haunt these walls
I traded vows for velvet lies
Now dawn breaks cold with no goodbyes
The tuxedos threadbare the gold watch stilled
A lifetime of conquests poorly billed
The saxophone weeps a lovers lament
Photographs fade where the smiles went
I chased the spotlight let love adjourn
Now the final acts a solo nocturne
So pour me one last toast to the fools we were
To the hearts I broke in a haze of fur
The credits roll on this lonely screen
Forgive me angels for the scenes unseen