We enter where the neon thins
Still warm from what the dance became
The walls return us piece by piece
But none of us look quite the same
Our colors drag along the glass
Our mouths still shaped around the beat
We laugh because the hall is bright
Then hear the floor forget our feet
We came in loud
We came in near
But one wrong pane
Makes distance clear
Your shoulder slips
From mine in blue
The crowd goes on
I come through
Cracked and clear
Cracked and clear
The glass gives back
The face I didn’t wear
Cracked and clear
Cracked and clear
I danced so bright
I forgot I was here
The ceiling bends my borrowed smile
Then folds it wrong across my mouth
The lights keep running down my skin
But colder glass divides me out
I touch the place where color stayed
Expecting heat beneath my hand
The glass replies with one thin face
I cannot lose or understand
Cracked and clear
Cracked and clear
The glass gives back
The face I didn’t wear
Cracked and clear
Cracked and clear
I danced so bright
I forgot I was here
Look
Back
Stay
Still
Bright
Gone
Me
Here
I do not blame the broken pane
It only learned to tell me straight
The night did not invent this face
It waited there beneath the paint
If I was lost inside the us
Then let this silver make it plain
A little alone returns to me
A hairline shining through the pane
Cracked and clear
Cracked and clear
The glass gives back
The face I didn’t wear
Cracked and clear
Cracked and clear
I danced so bright
I forgot I was here
Cracked and clear
Cracked and clear
The crowd moves on
But I remain near
Cracked and clear
Cracked and clear
I find my face
Then carry it back to us
The hallway turns
The music thins
I leave one hand
Against the silver skin