Starting with you, the night unwinds in velvet blue,
your sigh a saxophone solo curling ’round my shoes;
every streetlamp bows, every shadow starts to swing,
when your fingertip begins to tap the tempo of my skin.
From the first hello, the city turns to smoky song,
neon notes ascend, then drift like cherry-glow confetti;
I was just a beatless heart till your smile slid me in—
now the rhythm writes our names across the moonlit bar.
Hold the last low tone, let it tremble, let it linger,
tomorrow may be gray, but tonight the groove is true;
whatever blues may come, the riff begins and ends—
starting, always starting, starting with you.