Dancing Shadows

The curtains drop the lights grow dim

A trembling note begins to skim

Across the echoes of the room

A love's refrain that met its doom

The saxophones both weave and wail

Two voices lost within the pale

Of memories that softly slide

Where shadows dance and dreams abide

Oh play it slow just let it flow

The electric strings they seem to know

A harmony so bittersweet

Where love and pain could once compete

The double bass it hums so low

A heartbeat beats to let me go

The piano whispers soft and light

Through every tear spilled in the night

We met as strangers hand in glove

In fleeting scenes of outworn love

Now melodies are all that stay

To mourn the song that slipped away