Deadlight Cabaret

The curtain rose
But no one lived to clap
Spotlight flickers on a hollow stage
Your eyes were fire behind the cage
We danced in blood and broken grace
Each bow a bruise, each smile misplaced
This show was stitched with fractured skin
We wore our grief like sequined sin
Deadlight cabaret, don't blink, don't breathe
The ghost applause beneath the sheath
You sang with lies I can't unhear
But I still sway when no one's near
Each curtain call just carved me thin
You cued the fall-I danced within
The drumline choked my final cue
But I kept spinning-just for you
Your voice was velvet, soaked in knives
Still echoing in shattered lives
Deadlight cabaret, don't blink, don't breathe
The ghost applause beneath the sheath
You sang with lies I can't unhear
But I still sway when no one's near
The script was death, the stage was you
But I still bowed-like love was true
Deadlight!
Spin me!
One more lie to dim the scene!
Deadlight!
Sing me!
One more act-then cut the string!
Lights down
Nothing left to play