Wolves

There were wolves lying the dark

As she was raining sparks into the room like that

She was dancing in a neon cave with a tilted smile and a lover's laugh

Embossed upon her in the darkness

Like a light at the edge of night beside her

And as the drugs get in their heads they growl and circle at the edge beside her

There are wolves lying in the dark and so she rises up like a butterfly

She's still spinning in a scarlet dress and though the music stops and though the echoes die

She carries unknown things inside her like old volumes they will never read without her

And as the moves get in their heads they know that they don't know something without her

There were wolves

There are wolves hiding in the woods and they can smell the blood on the summer air

And they run beneath a million stars and in a million taxis and they're going where

They drink their beer from plastic glasses 'til they find the words to make the first move

And when the fear dissolves itself they find the means to execute the first move

There were wolves