Title: "Neon Blue (July Rain)"
(Intro – soft piano, strings, like an old film)
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(Verse 1)
I close my eyes and see your shadow on the highway
White dress soaking wet, cherries in the haze
You and me were two ghosts in a motel without a light
Drinking from the same old wound, what a sweet thirst
(Pre-chorus – slide guitar enters, weeping)
And the heat is burning my skin
But it's a cold goodbye I'm feeling again
Plastic flowers on the pier
They look just like my heart in here
(Chorus – Wall of Sound drums, high strings explode)
Oh, baby, this is summertime sadness
A loaded gun and a touch of madness
You said "let's die young and beautiful"
But I've been dead since last year's July
Under the electric moon of July
I just wanted to feel alive for a while
(Post-chorus – piano and falsetto voice)
Neon blue, neon blue
There's no salvation for a love like me and you
(Verse 2)
Your fingers wrote poems on my back
With the tip of a stolen lighter
We were as beautiful as a car crash
As broken as the statue in the garden
(Bridge – waltz tempo shift, cellos, spoken)
You said "no one understands our language"
And you were right – not even us
(one bar pause)
I dressed in black in the middle of spring
'Cause I knew you were gonna leave
(Chorus – slower, more orchestral, almost sacred)
Oh, baby, this is summertime sadness
A stray bullet inside the piano
The air smelled like salt and gasoline
And your mouth was my only theology
Under the electric moon of July
I just wanted to feel alive…
(Outro – strings dissolve, distorted church organ + rain sounds remain)
…one more minute
…one more minute
…neon blue
(mmm…)
