City Lights Fade Lyrics
Three in the morning and the avenue glows, With nobody left but the neon and crows, My jacket's too thin for the autumn wind bite, But I walk these blocks to feel something right. The coffee shop's shuttered, the cinema's dark, Someone's left a bicycle chained in the park, And the rain on the asphalt smells like yesterday, When you still had a reason, a reason to stay.
City lights fade, but the memory stays, Burning like a bulb at the end of its days, I've been standing on this corner since the summer turned cold, City lights fade, but we never grow old. City lights fade into the early grey, We were perfect for a moment, then you slipped away, I keep your name like a song I can't complete, City lights fade on this rain-soaked street.
The subway exhales with a breath like a ghost, Carrying strangers to wherever they go most, I count every window where someone's still up, Holding their worries inside a paper cup. You always said this city was too loud to love, But now all its noises just aren't quite enough, The billboards keep selling a life I don't own, And the city's never quiet when you're really alone.
City lights fade, but the memory stays, Burning like a bulb at the end of its days, I've been standing on this corner since the summer turned cold, City lights fade, but we never grow old.
And if this city is a story, Then we were a chapter torn out clean, Left between the lines of someone else's glory, The most beautiful page that no one gets to read. No one gets to read.
City lights fade — city lights fade. City lights fade — but I stayed. City lights fade.