Midnight

Midnight at the oasis Send your camel to bed Shadows paintin' our faces Traces of romance in our heads Heaven's holdin' a half moon Shinin' just for us Let's slip off to a sand dune, real soon And kick up a little dust Come on, Cactus is our friend H

Billy, I can hear you sing seems almost silly now like a magnetic field switched on somehow I think it's safe to say I'll watch his chest hair turning grey and as the stairs align the most unfortunate of signs that led me to your arms love's not over

And it starts... Sometime around midnight Or at least that's when You lose yourself For a minute or two As you stand... Under the barlights And the band plays some song About forgetting yourself for a while And the piano's this melancholy soundcheck