Memories

City lights stretching in a line
After midnight, you cross my mind
Radio soft, playing low
Why your echo won't let go
Driving slowly through these streets
Every corner brings your feet
Songs we used to sing out loud
Now they drift above the clouds

Your reflection in the glass
In every car that happens to pass
For a moment it feels so real
Like you're somewhere in the wheel
I tried bars, I tried the noise
Fake laughs with different crowds and boys
But the second I'm alone
Every road just leads me home

After midnight, I still think of you
Every streetlight shining blue
Close my eyes, you're still somewhere in my head
After midnight, every memory glows
Through the silence no one knows
Even if you're gone, you're the voice inside my soul

Phone screen lighting up my face
Type your name then leave no trace
Every message I erase
Still says what we can't replace

We were fire in the cold
Young and reckless, brave and bold
Now the story's getting old
Still I never let it fold

Your jacket hanging on a chair
Sometimes I still feel you there
Maybe love don't disappear
Maybe it just changes air

After midnight, I still hear you breathe
In the quiet next to me
Every headlight draws your silhouette in light
After midnight, reaching through the blue
Like my heart remembers you
Even when you're gone, you're the reason that I move

We said forever back then
Didn't know where forever ends
Now forever means your name
Burning softly like a flame

Different cities, different skies
Still the same look in your eyes
Every song I used to skip
Now I play on endless repeat

Remember dancing in the rain?
Laughing loud inside the lane
You said storms would wash the pain
Guess they only kept your name

After midnight every road feels like before
Every red light stops me at your door
After midnight chasing shadows of our past
Even knowing nothing ever lasts

Friends say time will let it fade
That the heart will rearrange
But time just learned to imitate
Every move you used to make

Someone passed me with your hair
Turned around, you weren't there
Crazy what the mind can do
When it's still in love with you

Almost called you tonight
Not to fix what we lost
Just to hear your breath again
Maybe love never ends
Maybe it just bends with time
If we met somewhere again
Would our hearts still lose the line?

After midnight, window rolling down
Cold air drifting through the town
In the silence I can hear what we once were
After midnight, if you think of me
Know the night still sets me free
Memories don't burn the same
Now they whisper through my veins