I came to your party dressed as a shadow and you never knew, you never knew I rolled through the halls like a velvet wave, as quiet as an empty stage I blackened your eyes and stole the light from your glass But in the cold calm of the morning, lay like a death-kite on your lawn I came to your party dressed as a shadow, without invitation, without a motive I parked three streets from the moonlight - the soft walk to your house on a silver string You were dancing in the backyard to a biscuit-tin beat I slunk between the notes, posting them off to the night This is symptomatic of you and me : i have jars full of your breath I have shelves of your words but you have nothing of me but a space where i would be