Last Beat Before Dawn (Version 2)

Verse

Four a.m. and the smoke machine dies

Strangers' faces blur into one long line

Your thumb on my spine finds the beat again

Floor goes soft where the speakers have been

Bass drops out but the room still moves

Nobody's checking the clock, nobody chooses

Just your chest against mine, slow and low

This is all we need to know

Pre-Chorus

One more bar before the light comes in

Your hand stays close where my heart begins

Chorus

Keep me dancing one last beat before dawn

Skin on skin where the music is gone

Hands up high till the black turns gold

We keep moving, we don't fold

Verse 2

Neon flickers then it's dark again

Same four counts where the silence lives in

Your breath falls steady against my neck

Floor still holds us though the lights went check

Bass drops out but your heartbeat stays on time

Room holds its shape even when there's no rhyme

Pre-Chorus

One more bar before the light comes in

Your hand stays close where my heart begins

Chorus

Keep me dancing one last beat before dawn

Skin on skin where the music is gone

Hands up high till the black turns gold

We keep moving, we don't fold

Bridge

Maybe the song stopped but it's still here

Body remembers what the mind forgets this year

No more strobe, just your hand in mine

This beat keeps time with my heart and yours combined

Chorus

Keep me dancing one last beat before dawn

Skin on skin where the music is gone

Hands up high till the black turns gold

We keep moving, we don't fold