The Spell Is Broken (Live at the Black Obsidian Amphitheatre)

The spell is broken The spell is broken

I was walking on invisible threads Suspended high above the ground Gravity meant nothing when you smiled Now I’m falling without a sound (Falling down)

The colors drained right out of the sky Like someone flipped a switch backstage The music stopped mid-symphony And I’m alone here on this page (On this page)

One moment changes everything One word can snap the strings (Snap the strings)

The spell is broken, shattered like glass The magic vanished, couldn’t last I was sleepwalking to the edge of the world Now I see clearly, the banner’s unfurled (Banner’s unfurled) The lights came on, the curtain fell I woke up from your velvet spell (Your velvet spell)

You’re still dancing like nothing’s changed Moving through the same old scene But I can see the wires now The machinery behind your dream (Behind your dream, behind your dream)

Those invisible chains that bound us tight Dissolved like smoke into the air The phantom weight around my chest Evaporated, I can breathe in here (I can breathe, I can breathe)

One crack appears and then the flood One truth can thin the blood (Thin the blood)

The spell is broken, shattered like glass The magic vanished, couldn’t last I was sleepwalking to the edge of the world Now I see clearly, the banner’s unfurled (Banner’s unfurled) The lights came on, the curtain fell I woke up from your velvet spell (Your velvet spell, your velvet spell)

[Bridge: { stripped to horns and strings }] How quickly wonder turns to dust How fast the golden turns to rust The same face that held me in a trance Now I see through the circumstance (See through it all)

The bubble popped!

In the theater of attraction Where illusions play their part A single gesture, one distraction Can expose the hollow heart (Hollow heart) Not with malice, not with scorn Just the natural death of dawn When the nightclub lights ignite And the spell dissolves in light (Dissolves in light)

The spell is broken, shattered like glass The magic vanished, couldn’t last I was sleepwalking to the edge of the world Now I see clearly, the banner’s unfurled (Banner’s unfurled, unfurled) The lights came on, the curtain fell I woke up from your velvet spell The spell is broken (Broken, broken, broken) And I am free (I am free)

The invisible threads have all come undone The strange attraction’s lost and won (Lost and won) The spell is broken (The spell is broken) The spell is broken (I can see)

Finally