Oyster Card Heartbeat (Version 2)

Verse

Card taps green on a half-lit gate

Turnstile hums like it knows my weight

Platform tiles hold the day's last heat

Bassline ghosting under my feet

Three more stops till the party thins

Mascara smudged where the night begins

Nobody's counting, nobody's home

Just the tunnel wind and the shuffle tone

Pre-Chorus

Do we stay till the numbers blur

Do we ride till the streets recur

Something's ticking under my skin

Let the doors close, let it begin

Chorus

Oyster card heartbeat, tap and go

Moving through the dark till the lights come up slow

Oyster card heartbeat, don't let go

Riding out the hush till the lights come up slow

Verse

Escalator sighs, we don't look down

Neon spelling out a sleeping town

Someone's got a chorus stuck on repeat

Trainers scuffed from the same old beat

Change at the junction, nobody moves

Headphones leaking two-step grooves

Balance running low but the pulse stays high

Sky's still navy, we don't ask why

Pre-Chorus

Do we stay till the numbers blur

Do we ride till the streets recur

Something's ticking under my skin

Let the doors close, let it begin

Chorus

Oyster card heartbeat, tap and go

Moving through the dark till the lights come up slow

Oyster card heartbeat, don't let go

Riding out the hush till the lights come up slow

Bridge

Maybe the map don't matter tonight

Maybe the last stop's just a light

Hold on the rail, let the carriage sway

We're not going home till it turns to day

Chorus

Oyster card heartbeat, tap and go

Moving through the dark till the lights come up slow

Oyster card heartbeat, don't let go

Riding out the hush till the lights come up slow

Outro

Tap and go, tap and go

Till the lights come up slow