Night Sins - Evangeline

the city whispers in the night
you've bathed in cigarettes and lovers on the shelf
the city lingers in the night
I dream of better men so I'll forget myself

I've seen the coming days
in your freezing rain
Evangeline
looking for love but we settle for shame
could you learn to love the heartache
and taste the shame, Evangeline?
going down for for her staircase, climb away

and I couldn't stop myself
dreamers quarrel through today
saint Lawrence in a bed of snow
and her staircase climbs away
illuminate my heart with silver
paint the world in flakes of gold
bleeding out in Amsterdam
with a brand new pair of arms to hold

is that siren in my head
or the train outside?
maybe I'm a little fucked
maybe I'm alive