Paper Moon

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Paper moon above the highway, suspended by a delicate thread. Everyone calls it beautiful, yet no one asks what keeps it there. Plastic angels in storefront windows watch the traffic pass below. The city wears a borrowed face that few truly know. [Pre-Chorus] Cracks rarely spread all at once. They emerge gradually, like seasons. [Chorus] So we keep dancing through the silence, under stars painted on the ceiling. Calling it living, calling it healing, while the walls slowly lean. And we sing louder than the echoes, trying to believe what we're feeling. Everyone talks of tomorrow, like it's already real. [Verse 2] Newspapers caught in chain-link fences, old headlines slowly fading away. Every promise becomes architecture, every memory takes on form. And the streets hum unfamiliar melodies through wires beneath the ground. As though the city dreams of itself when no one is around. [Pre-Chorus] Some things do not disappear. They simply become part of the landscape. [Chorus] So we keep dancing through the silence, under stars painted on the ceiling. Calling it living, calling it healing, while the walls slowly lean. And we sing louder than the echoes, chasing the light through the night sky. Everyone talks of tomorrow, like it's waiting nearby. [Bridge] I found a map without directions, only circles folding into lines. Every road returned a question I could not leave behind. So I stopped searching for an ending, stopped asking where it leads — some doors only open wider; they never truly close. [Final Chorus] So we keep dancing through the silence, long after the music fades away. Still holding on to the rhythm of words we never say. And the paper moon remains suspended, quiet above the avenue — as though it understands something about us we have yet to discover.