So maybe you're standing

In some foreign town

You've walked for miles

Till the heat slows you down

And your jeans and your curls

Are bleached and split

And your money and your anger

Are all used up

Maybe i'm sorry

About the light in this place

Makes my heart seem cold

As the words on these pages

Maybe i'm reminded

By a shop window display or a decoration

Like some church candle that might just burn



'cause we're dancing under chandeliers and i'm telling you

Caught in the headlights and i'm yelling it at you

Why is it girl when the world is lit by lightning

That i keep telling you that i love you



So you're ten miles out

Of this city at night

When do coloured lights

Become paint and glass and dust

And how i wonder

What light to trust

The light of the distance

Or the candle that might just burn



'cause we're dancing under chandeliers and i'm telling you

Caught in the headlights and i'm yelling it at you

Why is it girl when the world is lit by lightning

That i keep telling you that i love you



Seraphim and cherubim

Skies full of gold dust

Moonshine and starlight

Pockets full of rainbows

Windows and mirrored balls

Porcelain and silverlake

Dance hall neons flash and swing

Blow out your candles

It will call you angel

Angel

Angel

When the world knows your name



Dancing under chandeliers and i'm telling you

Caught in the headlights and i'm yelling it at you

Why is it girl when the world is lit by lightning

That i keep telling you that i love you



I love you

I love you



'cause we're dancing under chandeliers and i'm telling you

Caught in the headlights and i'm yelling it at you

Why is it girl when the world is lit by lightning

That i keep telling you that i love you