There were wolves Lying in the dark As she was raining sparks Into the room like that She was dancing in a neon cave With a tilted smile and a lover's laugh Embossed upon her in the darkness Like a light at the edge of night beside her And as the drugs get in their heads They growl and circle at the edge beside her There are wolves lying in the dark And so she rises up like a butterfly She's still spinning in a scarlet dress And though the music stops and though the echoes die She carries unknown things inside her Like old volumes they will never read without her And as the moves get in their heads They know that they don't know something without her There were wolves There are wolves hiding in the woods And they can smell the blood on the summer air And they run beneath a million stars And in a million taxis and they're going where They drink their beer from plastic glasses 'Til they find the words to make the first move And when the fear dissolves itself They find the means to execute the first move There were wolves