Velvet Carousel

[Intro]
[Verse]
The RMI is spinning slow
Pink clouds on a paper cone
Did the ocean always glow?
Or is the salt just coming home?
Neon signs blink twice
Melting cubes of lemon ice
Everything is twice as nice
When you pay the sugar price
[Pre-Chorus]
A lilt in the air
Candy floss in my hair
Don't you see the colors bleed?
This is all the light we need
[Chorus]
Golden hour soap bubble dreams
Nothing's ever what it seems
Floating on a Mellotron breeze
Over the velvet seas
We’re spinning, spinning
Just beginning
[Post-Chorus]
(Ooh, ooh, ooh)
(Aah, aah, aah)
Softly we go
In the afterglow
[Verse]
Jangle of the twelve-string ghost
Butter on the morning toast
Polaroid is curling white
Captured in the magic light
Sticky fingers, purple stains
Summer running through our veins
Tilt-a-whirl is calling names
Playing all the carnival games
[Pre-Chorus]
Shadows on the sand
Take me by the hand
Hear the flanger in the sky
As the wooden horses fly
[Chorus]
Golden hour soap bubble dreams
Nothing's ever what it seems
Floating on a Mellotron breeze
Over the velvet seas
We’re spinning, spinning
Just beginning
[Bridge]
Up is down and left is right
Hold the railing very tight
Is it then or is it now?
Wipe the glitter from your brow
Vertigo is just a kiss
Falling in a blue abyss
[Verse]
The boardwalk stretches miles away
Into a violet yesterday
Why is the sun still standing still?
Behind the shadow of the hill
Soap bubbles pop with silver chime
We’re running out of borrowed time
But the lilt is sweet and prime
In this Technicolor mime
[Chorus]
Golden hour soap bubble dreams
Nothing's ever what it seems
Floating on a Mellotron breeze
Over the velvet seas
We’re spinning, spinning
Just beginning
[Post-Chorus]
(Ooh, ooh, ooh)
(Aah, aah, aah)
Softly we go
In the afterglow
[Outro]