Blue light from my screen
Three hundred feet above the street
Rain moving down the glass
The whole city under me
New towers in the distance
Old signs glowing below
Scooters running through the alleys
Just like long ago
It feels like Taipei City at night
So many windows alive
The skyline changed while I was gone
But the streets still know their names
Ooh
I circle the world and come back again
Ooh
Nothing waits for me to return
Between the old streets and the rising lights
I see how far this city has come
And maybe how far I've come
Every place I leave behind
Keeps moving without me
A station takes another name
A shop becomes a memory
I thought I stayed the same
Just moving place to place
But every border that I crossed
Left something in my face
It feels like Taipei City at night
Rain on the ground below
I see the years between the lights
Though I never felt them go
Ooh
I circle the world and come back again
Ooh
Nothing waits for me to return
Between the old streets and the rising lights
I see how far this city has come
And maybe how far I've come
While I was looking elsewhere
This island changed its place
Now something made beneath these lights
Runs through the world each day
Inside a phone, inside a car
In servers far away
The smallest things we cannot see
Keep everything awake
It feels like Taipei City at night
Old markets under towers
The world depends on what is made
Beyond these hotel windows
Concrete, rain and neon signs
A temple beside the train
A tower rising over streets
That still remember every name
From the highest room tonight
The distance becomes clear
The city did not wait for me
And neither did the years
Ooh
I circle the world and come back again
Ooh
The streets remember more than I do
Between the old lights and the changing sky
I see what time has done below
And what it has done to me
Ooh
I never noticed I had changed
Ooh
Until I came back here
The city moved the world while I was gone
And somehow
I was moving too
Blue light from my screen
Three hundred feet above the street
Taipei City at night
And in the rain across the glass
A different face looks back at me
- Lyricist
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- Composer
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- Producer
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"Taipei City at Night" was inspired by a view from a high-rise hotel above Taipei.
From the window, new towers stood beside old markets, scooters moved through narrow streets, and rain reflected the city lights below. The scene captured two sides of the same place: a city moving rapidly into the future, while everyday life continued at street level.
Returning after time away made those changes impossible to ignore. Taiwan had become one of the places quietly powering the modern world through semiconductors found in phones, cars, and servers across the globe.
But the song is not only about the city.
It is also about realizing that while a place changes in your absence, you do too. Travel, distance, and time leave their mark, even when you do not notice it happening.
"Taipei City at Night" is a song about returning, looking down at a familiar city, and seeing both the world and yourself differently.
