why this last dance

as we dance, here in this empty apartment, echoes of laughter, long live here after, put your memories in boxes, cut all your losses, romance left this place long ago, if these walls could talk, then they'd tell me it's time to go, you gave this place so much colour, i don't know why i did not see that before, you gave life to this place, without you it's empty space, as we kiss, knowing that it's our last one, pull the sheets from the mattress, sleep hasn't found us, tear the curtains from the window, let the world see this last dance, and now, what is left for us, turn all the lights out, lock the door behind us, you gave this place so much colour, i don't know why i did not see that before, you gave life to this place, without you it's empty space, someone else can hang pictures over the holes in the walls. duck and take cover from the screams in the hall. sing you to sleep when you're hurt from the fall, and somehow i will miss this. all, let's burn this place down, scatter the ashes, paint it with gasoline, start throwing matches, somewhere in this wreck remains dying love, you gave this place so much colour, i don't know why i did not see that before, you gave life to this place, without you it's empty space, someone else can hang pictures over the holes in the walls. duck and take cover from the screams in the hall. sing you to sleep when you're hurt from the fall, and somehow i will miss this. all, as we dance, knowing that it's our last one, if these walls could talk, they'd tell us it's time to go