Lyric

“After the Red Is Gone”

Verse 1

The moon don’t call me anymore

Red ink packed up, slipped out the door

Doctor said, soft and dry

“Just nature passing by.”

Like last call light over a closing floor

He swirled his glass

Ice talked back

Little cracks in crystal skin

It clinked

I blinked

Something ended from within

(Call / all、door / floor、glass / cracks、clinked / blinked)

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Verse 2

Smoke writes slow

On a nicotine sky

The man across

Has his kind of eyes

Five long years

In a cologne disguise

But he’s younger in the angle

Lighter in the lie

Cruelty’s shallow

When it hasn’t learned to hide

He doesn’t ask me “Any children?”

Bless the dark tonight

Silence fits

Like satin tight

(Slow / smoke、sky / eyes / disguise / lie / hide、tight / night)

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Chorus

Guess I’m no longer a woman—

That’s what they’d say

Maybe I’m easier now

Less to explain

No ticking clock

No nursery rhyme

Just bourbon time

Men mostly wear

The same straight suit of skin—

Dead serious

When they want in

(Say / explain、clock / rock内韻、skin / in)

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Verse 3

I wore the ring

I played the part

White dress, small church, careful heart

But vows dissolve

Like sugar in gin

No bells rang—

Just ice again

No child to name

No child to mourn

But I can drink

Till the dirty dawn

Not for love

Not for wrong

Just because

The night is long

(Part / heart、gin / again、mourn / dawn / wrong / long)

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Bridge

That man in smoke

Leans like you—

Half cruel

Half true

Maybe I’m selfish

Maybe I’m free

Lonely ain’t

What it used to be

(You / true、free / be)

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Outro

The moon’s retired

But the night still sings

I move my hips

To quieter things

Slow sway

Low flame

No one left

To blame