Pulse Before Dawn (Version 2)

Verse

Neon bleeding on the alley floor

Cigarette smoke curling out the door

Your jacket open wide enough to see

That silver necklace hanging loose and free

Four a.m. shadows stretching down the block

Nobody's calling for the night to stop

Streetlights hum like they know our names

City's holding its breath in this same place

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel it rising under my skin

Something older than the morning starts to come in

I don't want it over yet, I'm not ready to let go

So keep your hand on mine and hold onto this glow

Chorus

Pulse before dawn, pulse before dawn

Burning through the dark where we don't need the light

Fingers laced tight while the traffic lights turn cold

This is ours alone, no goodbyes, no closing doors

Just you and me and whatever's left of the night

Verse 2

Empty bottles rolling down the sidewalk

Your laugh cuts loud over the city noise

Subway tunnels humming with people asleep

But I don't want to wake up yet, I just wanna keep

The bassline living under my skin

So let it stay, let it all come in

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel it rising under my skin

Something older than the morning starts to come in

I don't want it over yet, I'm not ready to let go

So keep your hand on mine and hold onto this glow

Chorus

Pulse before dawn, pulse before dawn

Burning through the dark where we don't need the light

Fingers laced tight while the traffic lights turn cold

This is ours alone, no goodbyes, no closing doors

Just you and me and whatever's left of the night

Bridge

Maybe tomorrow I'll wake up different

But right now it doesn't matter

We're the only ones still moving in time

So don't let go, not yet, not tonight

Let the whole city wait just one more song

Hold on tight until the sun comes home

Chorus

Pulse before dawn, pulse before dawn

Burning through the dark where we don't need the light

Fingers laced tight while the traffic lights turn cold

This is ours alone, no goodbyes, no closing doors

Just you and me and whatever's left of the night