Madeleine Peyroux Lyrics
"Blue Alert"

There's perfume burning in the air,
bits of beauty everywhere.
Shrapnel flying... so you hit the dirt.
She comes so close, you can feel again,
She tells you no and no again.
Your lip is cut on the edge of her pleated skirt.
Blue alert...

Visions of her drawing near
rise by and disappear.
You try to slow it down,
it doesn't work.
It's just another night, I guess,
all tangled up in naked mess.
You even touch yourself - you're such a flirt.
Blue alert...

You know how nights like this begin,
the kind of night your heart gets in.
Any way you turn, it's gonna hurt.
There's perfume burning in the air,
bits of beauty everywhere.
Shrapnel flying... so you hit the dirt.
Blue alert...

She breaks the rules so you can see
she's wilder than you'll ever be.
You talk religion but she won't convert.
Her body's twenty stories high,
you try to look away.
You try, but all you wanna do is get there first.
Blue alert...

You know how nights like this begin,
the kind of night your heart gets in.
Any way you turn, it's gonna hurt.
There's perfume burning in the air,
bits of beauty everywhere.
Shrapnel flying... so you hit the dirt.
Blue alert...

Blue alert... (4x)