Monaco Mirage
Girard
Monaco Mirage
Verse 1
Neon tides on a silver sea,
Champagne fog where the truth should be,
Palms are plastic, the sky’s been sprayed,
Gold leaf sunsets that never fade.
I saw a yacht float through a dream,
No one’s ever quite what they seem,
Smiles are stitched with designer thread,
Whispering words that they never said.
Pre-Chorus
And every mirror’s got a crack in the frame,
But it still spells out a richer name…
Chorus
Monaco Mirage, shining too bright to be real,
Dancing on water you don’t even feel,
Diamond illusions in a borrowed sky,
Everybody’s rich, but nobody knows why.
Monaco Mirage, blink and it bends,
A kingdom of moments that nobody spends,
We’re glowing, we’re gone, like a cigarette flame—
In Monaco Mirage, nothing stays the same.
Verse 2
Marble laughter in a rented hall,
Echoes climbing the casino wall,
Perfume oceans and velvet lies,
Reflected in a thousand eyes.
A prince of nothing signs his name,
On paper made of borrowed fame,
And every truth that tries to rise
Gets drowned in the sparkle of alibis.
Pre-Chorus
Reality’s just a guest list fade,
At a party where the rules are made…
Chorus
Monaco Mirage, shining too bright to be real,
Dancing on water you don’t even feel,
Diamond illusions in a borrowed sky,
Everybody’s rich, but nobody knows why.
Monaco Mirage, touch it and break,
A beautiful promise that starts to ache,
We’re glowing, we’re gone, like a cigarette flame—
In Monaco Mirage, nothing stays the same.
Bridge
Take off your glitter, what do you find?
A pocket of silence dressed up as divine,
Strip all the gold from the edge of the frame,
And the ocean forgets it ever had a name.
Final Chorus
Monaco Mirage, fading to grey,
Luxury’s just a trick light plays,
We were kings of a paper throne,
In a city of glass where no one’s home.
Monaco Mirage, gone in a blink,
More real than the world wants you to think…
We’re glowing, we’re gone, like a cigarette flame—
And nothing in Monaco stays the same.