Blue Light

Your shoes are by the radiator
Like somebody staged the scene
Half a glass beside the sofa
Lipstick printed clean

The TV talks in subtitles
I don't even know the show
But I read into every sentence
Like I'm supposed to know

You say you're thinking too much again
While fixing up your hair
Funny how the room gets colder
Soon as I get there

In the blue light
Everybody looks a little dishonest
In the blue light
Every laugh sounds carefully polished

And your friends all lean like they're hiding something
Eyes glittering like electric wires
In the blue light
You make me nervous without even trying

Taxi smoke and peppermint gum
Outside the convenience store
You keep checking your reflection
In the microwave door

And I keep making conversation
Just to hear if your voice shakes
Funny how a perfect evening
Always feels a little fake

You touch my wrist for half a second
Like you nearly changed your mind
Now every tiny movement's
Running laps around mine

In the blue light
Everybody's teeth look cinematic
In the blue light
Every silence turns automatic

And your shadow moves before you do
Like it's arriving seconds prior
In the blue light
You make me nervous without even trying

Outside, the buses hiss
Like they know something we don't
And your name sits on my tongue
Then suddenly it won't

In the blue light
You looked over like a warning signal
In the blue light
Nothing ever feels accidental

And I walked home through empty streets
While the windows glowed like tired eyes
In the blue light
Everything means more than it should tonight