Lyric

Some lights are left on

For someone who won’t come home

Across the street, a window keeps its flame

Above a city too tired to say your name

The rain has stopped, but the road still shines

Like it remembers every last goodbye

I used to think the dark would make things clear

That missing you would fade if I disappeared

But every room I pass, every quiet floor

Looks like someone waiting by the door

We don’t all break loudly

Some hearts just stay awake

Holding on to small things

No morning ever takes

There are lights left on in the middle of the night

For the words we never found, for the ones we couldn’t write

I keep walking through the silence like I know where I belong

But every window tells me someone else is holding on

There are lights left on where the lonely people hide

Where the city keeps a little bit of yesterday alive

And I don’t know who I’m missing

I just know they’re never gone

When I see those lights left on

A coffee cup, a book beside the bed

A message typed and left there unsent

The smallest things refuse to disappear

They gather in the corners of the year

Maybe you are somewhere under another sky

Learning how to sleep with a different light

Maybe I am only talking to the rain

Because it sounds a little like your name

We don’t all move forward

Some nights move through us slow

Leaving little windows

In places we don’t show

There are lights left on in the middle of the night

For the words we never found, for the ones we couldn’t write

I keep walking through the silence like I know where I belong

But every window tells me someone else is holding on

There are lights left on where the lonely people hide

Where the city keeps a little bit of yesterday alive

And I don’t know who I’m missing

I just know they’re never gone

When I see those lights left on

If you ever pass my street

Long after midnight rain

You might see a single room

Still carrying your name

I won’t ask the night for answers

I won’t call what we had wrong

I will only keep this quiet

Like a light that stays on

There are lights left on in the middle of the night

For the love we almost saved, for the time we left behind

I keep walking through the silence with the city breathing low

Every window has a story that it never lets go

There are lights left on where the lonely people hide

Where the morning finds a little bit of yesterday alive

And I don’t know if I’m healing

I just know I’m moving on

Past all those lights left on

Some lights are left on

For someone who won’t come home