Late night shadows on the station floor
Your reflection fading from the door
I still hear your footsteps in my head
Like a song I never should’ve left
You were standing there beneath the lights
Cold wind moving through the quiet night
I remember every little thing
The way you smiled before leaving
I said “maybe someday, maybe soon”
Like I had forever left to lose
But time moves fast and never waits
Now I’m drowning in the words I didn’t say
Every street still leads me back to you
Every memory cuts straight through
The Leap, The Leap I couldn’t take
The Heat, I still feel wide awake
Maybe you’d still be by my side
Maybe we’d still chase those city lights
The Leap, The Leap still cuts so deep
Your Dreams, I still see in my sleep
One touch, one touch that slipped away
And now I miss you every day
I still see your jacket in the rain
Still hear your laughter in the trains
Everybody says I’ll be alright
But they don’t know what haunts me every night
Maybe love was standing right in front of me
Maybe I was too afraid to see
Too afraid to lose control
So I watched the best thing let me go
Now the silence screams louder than before
And your name still echoes through my door
The Leap, The Leap I couldn’t take
The Heat, I still feel wide awake
Maybe you’d still be by my side
Maybe we’d still chase those city lights
The Leap, The Leap still cuts so deep
Your Dreams, I still see in my sleep
One touch, one touch that slipped away
And now I miss you every day
People say regrets will fade away
But some stay burning every day
Like headlights disappearing slow
On roads you can’t return to anymore
And if I saw you one last time
I think I’d finally cross the line
No fear, no waiting, no disguise
Just your hand reaching into mine
The Leap, The Leap I’d take tonight
The Heat, I still feel deep inside
Even if it breaks my heart
I’d still run back to where you are
The Leap, The Leap still follows me
Your Dreams, I still hear endlessly
One chance, one chance to make it right
But now your ghost fades with the light
Late night shadows, empty trains
Your ghost still running through my veins
One small moment changed my life
The night I didn’t hold you tight
- Lyricist
i-Jay
- Composer
i-Jay
- Producer
i-Jay
- Programming
i-Jay
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The Leap
i-Jay
Late-night platform. Your reflection fading through the door. Footsteps you still hear like a song you should've never walked away from.
You said maybe someday-like there was time. There wasn't. You were right there under the lights, and fear kept you from jumping.
The Leap you couldn't take still burns. The heat. The dreams. The one touch that slipped away-and the city lights you might still be chasing together.
It builds from a quiet, aching intro into a chorus that hits like confession, then breaks open in the bridge: If I saw you one last time, I'd finally cross the line. By the final chorus, you're ready to run back-even if it shatters you. Then the outro pulls the light away, and you're left on empty trains again.
A night-drive pop/R&B heartbreak record for anyone who loved too late.
Artist Profile
i-Jay
Music that moves freely inside pop - pulling from soul, R&B, ballad, and the atmosphere of city nights - without locking itself into a single genre. The color changes with the emotional temperature each song demands. It begins quietly, grows in layers, and opens at the peak - every rise and fall deliberately built, not accidental. From sparse arrangements to grooves that move through the body, from inward tracks to ones that expand outward, no two pieces share the same shape. What they share is what remains after listening - not a flash of noise, but warmth that stays. The sonic world carries night streets, distant light, a brightness with ache underneath. Not only darkness, not only joy - many feelings rising from the same place. Music that reaches the ear directly, without asking you to perform for it. Genre-crossing, but never rootless. Different worlds in each track, held together by one aesthetic - the flexibility of a trackmaker, the presence of an artist. That is the outline of this music.
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