New Years Eve

I fell in love 

Sitting on that windowsill

Cig in your mouth 

And eyes full of fleeting glances 

The sky burned bright 

With minutes left til midnight 

Then the sky came down 

And the streets went up, up in flames 

A red night, a smoky room 

Foreign faces and foreign tongues 

Shutters thrown open to the streets below 

Only one story up, but we were oh so high  

A year passed in the blink of an eye 

Those champagne bubbles now long gone, soaked into the sidewalk

But the same songs still sing in my mind

And my jacket still smells of that night