The joker left the ballroom queen And now he’s tryin’ to fix his broken dreams In foreign starry nights But the ballroom queen stays restless She stumbles on the floor The mirror ball has stopped to turn What’s humming through the hall? The noise of more than a decade Oh I still can feel it’s weight and it’s getting late tonight I chase the ghost who stole my sleep You know once when we were wild These days we used to ride the wave That took us and left us kind of swaying But I stranded on an island and it feels like I’m fraying This brings back a friend at a gas station saying Welcome to paradise We've got chocolate and soda And in artificial light, the prom of the loners Sparks spray through the sky and a princess is waiting My very paradise And my hobo friend is saying Could this be the last sunset in earth!? The joker is still out of sight He’s chasin down the coastline roads Tryin’ to catch what he once threw away Back in his wasteful days The velvet haze slowly descends But now I fear to see your face again Oh my dearest friend, I’m riding alone again And the pulse of time, continuously beating While a voice inside my tv is quietly repating Welcome to paradise We've got chocolate and soda And in artificial light, the prom of the loners Sparks spray through the sky and the princess is waiting In my very paradise And my hobo friend is saying Could this be the last sunset in earth!? And the joker hides somewhere While I’m standing alone in the surf