Streetlights Remember

Verse

Copper haze on the window pane

Six pm bleeding into gray

Rooftop water tank, my only friend

Watching taxis learn the lanes again

Paper cup gone cold on the ledge

Steam that gave up hours ago

Every window down there got a story

I don't need to know

Pre-Chorus

So I let my shoulders drop

Let the traffic hum turn soft

Somewhere between the ground and clouds

I stop

Chorus

Streetlights remember

Every name that walked below

Streetlights remember

Slower than the cars, we go

Floating over amber rivers

Nowhere left I need to be

Streetlights remember

What it's like to just breathe

Verse

Neon sign missing half its glow

Still spells something soft I know

Fire escape ladders climbing nowhere fast

Shadows stretching long and slow at last

Radio hiss from a cab below

Static wrapped around a song

I don't catch the words but the feeling

Carries me along

Pre-Chorus

So I let my shoulders drop

Let the city turn to fog

Somewhere between the wire and the sky

I'm caught

Chorus

Streetlights remember

Every name that walked below

Streetlights remember

Slower than the cars, we go

Floating over amber rivers

Nowhere left I need to be

Streetlights remember

What it's like to just breathe

Bridge

Maybe I'm the one collecting

Every hush the evening keeps

Maybe drifting is its own arriving

Maybe this is how the city sleeps

Mm, the current's warm tonight

Mm, I'll ride it out of sight

Chorus

Streetlights remember

Every name that walked below

Streetlights remember

Slower than the cars, we go

Floating over amber rivers

Nowhere left I need to be

Streetlights remember

What it's like to just breathe