Karaoké Dark and Velvet Nights David Gilmour

I didn't think that this could be all that unto death do we

'Till you managed the lock and magicked the key after a night of hard drinkin' and ecstasy

It's softer than words that are spoken

Blackened on paper that's shredded and torn or carved into stones lyin' shattered and broken

Branches beckoned along the wrong path

Windin' up in the past

And this dark and velvet night that surrounds us

This dark and velvet night

I will wrap around us

It's softer than words that are spoken or painted as slogans and flung to the lions

Written on slips as the punters wait smokin'

A leap of faith

The odds sky-high

Said goodbye to your place or mine

Don't like to make promises that I can't keep

Don't want to hurt this old heart or wreck my sleep thinkin' how will we part

Will I hold your hand or you be left holdin' mine

Between this breath and then there's this airlock of time

This airlock of time

And this dark and velvet night that surrounds us

This dark and velvet night

I will wrap around us

It's softer than words that were spoken in the towers of great cities that toppled and drowned

Engraved on gold rings or some other love token

No walls, no bells to sanctify

This dark and velvet night