Fading Like Neon (Version 2)

Verse

Sneakers scuff the rain on Shinjuku stone

Last light fading off your skin alone

I'm running down a highway I've known since grade school summer

Feeling like I'm leaving half my soul behind

Packing up the stereo tape that we used to share

Writing out my name in ink across the dashboard air

Pre-Chorus

So maybe someday I'll find my way back home

Maybe this is just another stop along the way, but it's a stop of mine alone

Can you hear the engine humming, can you feel the wind pull tight?

This isn't goodbye tonight, this is leaving with all my might

Chorus

I'm fading like the neon lights we left behind

Fading on your doorstep, fading out of time

Every window's a memory that I'll never let go of yet

But I won't look back, no, not even once tonight

I'm fading into headlights, fading into the smoke

Fading into something bigger than my own poor heart beats

Verse

Old train station clock still ticking through the wall

Your suitcase by the door with a receipt from last week's mall

Penny's left behind at the ramen shop we used to haunt

Empty bottle of sake and a ticket stub that says we're not a pair

I drove all night just to watch the Tokyo skyline fade to gray

Said I'll be back before September but I don't know what that means today

Pre-Chorus

So maybe someday I'll find my way back home

Maybe this is just another stop along the way, but it's a stop of mine alone

Can you hear the engine humming, can you feel the wind pull tight?

This isn't goodbye tonight, this is leaving with all my might

Chorus

I'm fading like the neon lights we left behind

Fading on your doorstep, fading out of time

Every window's a memory that I'll never let go of yet

But I won't look back, no, not even once tonight

I'm fading into headlights, fading into the smoke

Fading into something bigger than my own poor heart beats

Bridge

Somewhere down this empty highway there must be more to see

Every exit sign a ghost town version of me and you and us and me

I'll never forget the way your collarbone caught the last bit of glow

But right now I don't want to know if this is goodbye or just a stop for a while, okay?

So let's stay lost in amber, let's dance under neon rain

Tonight we're not leaving anything behind but our own names

Chorus

I'm fading like the neon lights we left behind

Fading on your doorstep, fading out of time

Every window's a memory that I'll never let go of yet

But I won't look back, no, not even once tonight

I'm fading into headlights, fading into the smoke

Fading into something bigger than my own poor heart beats