Fade away—
Never to fade away
Tried to say—
What I'm trying to say

If reason has guided my life,
Then reason is all over that dance floor tonight
But you don't dance—
Wait I don't dance.
Why don't we dance?

Fade away,
Never to fade away
Passions never seem to completely fade away

But that's ok—
I mean, who would I be if I didn't sometimes lose my way?

—We could be indifferent lovers
Dancing with blank faces all night long
We could be inches away in bed
Who knows where you might find my head—
So can I just tell you that my heart is in my mouth?
Everything's so beautiful right now

Behind the screen there is the flattened cinematic dream
Unveil me tonight, because I promise you! I'm not who I seem!
I'm trying, trying, trying, trying, trying, trying, trying I'm
Trying to say—
Well thoughts go in and thoughts go out so if I could just say

My heart is in my mouth! (Can I say that my heart is in my mouth??)
Well everything's so beautiful right now!
(We could be indifferent lovers, dancing with blank faces all night long)
<Follow the thread until it ends,
what good is living if you act like you're dead,
you know
you know
you know>
(Trying to get rid of the voice in my head that says
"Keep it together you're embarrassing yourself
Keep it inside man you're embarrassing yourself again")

Feeling everything that I thought was dead
I've got so many freaked out voices bouncing round in my head, saying
"You are not this, this is not you
And in a couple months you're gonna want something new—"
That was not true.
I guess I was into you.

(Could I just say)
My heart is in my mouth
Everything's so beautiful right now
—We could be indifferent lovers, dancing with blank faces all night long—
<Follow the thread until it ends, what good is living if you act like you're dead>
("Keep it together you're embarrassing yourself again")


Can I just tell you that oh God, my heart is in my mouth
Well everything's so beautiful right now
Oh God, my heart is in my mouth
Everything's so beautiful right now

—
Now that we've set the stage, so to speak, we can get into what actually happened.