The Best Woman

Verse 1

Silver rain

Dripping off a rusted wire

I am dragging my heavy thumb across these strings

Bruised

Angry

Feeling the salt in the wind

St. Petersburg is a hollow shell tonight

The faces

All the painted faces

Watching the clock and waiting for the end

Tired of the masks

So tired of the masks

Empty eyes and artificial smiles

Chorus

Svetlana

Svetlana

Drowning out the thunder

Breaking the spell

My Russian angel

You are the truth

The only truth

Svetlana

Svetlana

The best thing I ever knew

Post-Chorus

Oh oh

In the rain

Oh oh

Svetlana

Verse 2

Quiet

A certain kind of iron

Standing there like a lighthouse in the fog

Hard spirit

Soft skin

She does not need the diamonds

She does not need the fame

Walking through the smoke

Leaving a mark on the stone

Better than the rest

Better than the rest

She puts the fire back in my chest

I would crawl

I would bleed

Just to stay where she can see me

Chorus

Svetlana

Svetlana

Drowning out the thunder

Breaking the spell

My Russian angel

You are the truth

The only truth

Svetlana

Svetlana

The best thing I ever knew

Post-Chorus

Oh oh

In the rain

Oh oh

Svetlana

Bridge

The others are just shadows

Moving in the grey

You are the color

Burning the cold away

Svetlana

Svetlana

My Svetlana

Chorus

Svetlana

Svetlana

Drowning out the thunder

Breaking the spell

My Russian angel

You are the truth

The only truth

Svetlana

Svetlana

The best thing I ever knew

Outro

Just you

Against the world

Svetlana

The best

The very best

My angel

Wait for me