Curtain Shadow

Curtain shadow on your cigarette hand

Streetlight honey on the glass again

You do not move, but the room still sways

Like quiet music hiding in the shades

A neighbor radio leaks through the wall

A soft cumbia pulse under it all

I should leave, but my feet stay slow

As if the dark is telling me to go

Curtain shadow, hold your ground

Say it clean, no pretty sound

If you want me, pull me near

If you don’t, make it clear

Curtain shadow, close the light

Let the brass cry once at night

Then let the silence do its job

On the edge of what we lost

Your collar smells like rain and steel

I watch your mouth forget to feel

One small laugh, then it breaks in two

Like a match that never turns to blue

A neighbor radio leaks through the wall

A soft cumbia pulse under it all

I should leave, but my feet stay slow

As if the dark is telling me to go

Curtain shadow, hold your ground

Say it clean, no pretty sound

If you want me, pull me near

If you don’t, make it clear

Curtain shadow, close the light

Let the brass cry once at night

Then let the silence do its job

On the edge of what we lost

No mariachi in the street tonight

Just one trumpet far and tight

Not a song for celebration

Just a line of resignation

Curtain shadow, hold your ground

Say it clean, no pretty sound

If you want me, pull me near

If you don’t, make it clear

Curtain shadow, close the light

Let the brass cry once at night

Then let the silence do its job

On the edge of what we lost

Curtain shadow

Fade slow