The Echo (maybe Tonight)

The sinners and the saints and the suicide girls

Passion into darkness and the pawnshop pearls

One place, one time, one love, we owned the night

And the tender souls wondered where the faith has all gone

And the neon on Lamar came rumbling on

We swore they wouldn't take us down without a fight

Hopeless hearted hunters waging war on the stars

We cheered the revolution from a rooftop bar

And swore to one another only we could make it right

We said

Maybe tonight

Maybe tonight

Maybe tonight we can

I remember your kiss like TNT

How it rattled every long gone part of me

And in the heat of the night you shook when you said my name

And the precious drop of sweat running down your back

Like a southbound train burning down the track

Two martyrs in a world that would never be the same

Among the midnight runners and the teenage stunners

Searching for the light of day we hoped against hope we could find one voice

To sing what we were desperate to say

We said

Maybe tonight

Maybe tonight

Maybe tonight we can

And the tears running down your face

Like a sad broken prophets parade

While this dirty city sleeps tonight

To the Gutterat serenade

Underneath that holy streetlight

We can take it all back again

And it's the echo of the wounded heart in the night

That proves we were born to win