Lights Come Up Slow 4

Verse

Concrete cooler than the air around it

Streetlights hum a slow amen

Shutter rattles down from the one apartment above us

Bassline bleeding through the wall of everyone we love

Curb still holding yesterday's shadow

Folks asleep but my feet won't fold

Phone dead, no reason to check it

Skyline turns soft and I'm gold

Pre-Chorus

Something in the chest says hold this feeling

Somewhere down below is a reason

Every window's a mirror now

Nobody's moving, we all move slow

Chorus

Lights come up slow behind us

We don't need to chase them home yet

Feet still know where they're going

Lights come up slow, so let it go

Verse 2

Taxi rank gone quiet around six a.m.

Same four corners, different kind of scheme

Corner shop lights flicker then steady on

Streetlamp's our only star in the dark zone

Girl from flat three calling out her name

Somebody's dog runs once, stops to stare at the flame

Shoes come off where the pavement breaks clean

Night still moving through me like a stream

Pre-Chorus

Something in the chest says hold this feeling

Somewhere down below is a reason

Every window's a mirror now

Nobody's moving, we all move slow

Chorus

Lights come up slow behind us

We don't need to chase them home yet

Feet still know where they're going

Lights come up slow, so let it go

Bridge

The sun comes up through the same cracks we made last night

Nobody here's counting time, just keeping pace with the light

I leave my shadow on this corner block

This town wakes soft, that's what I love about it

Chorus

Lights come up slow behind us

We don't need to chase them home yet

Feet still know where they're going

Lights come up slow, so let it go