Lyric

Wipers count the seconds

Red tail lights in a row

Rain painting on the windshield

Koto crying soft and low

Left turn past the shuttered store

Steam rising from the gutter

Late text half-written

I read it, then I stutter

Dashboard glow on your old name

Saved there under something vague

City in the rearview

Heart stuck in a half-remembered phase

Empty seat where you would laugh

Window fog where you would trace

Little hearts and crooked stars

Now it’s just my breath and your ghost in this space

Tokyo night drive, I still see you

Every rainy sign, every tunnel feels true

All these streets remember what we tried

Neon on the puddles, but it’s you in my mind

Tokyo night drive, can’t outrun us

Memories in the mirror, turning into rust

If I hit the gas, if I let it slide

Will your shadow stay or slip into the sky?

Drive-thru line, blue umbrella

Couples sharing paper cups

I kill the engine for a moment

Let the silence fill us up

Your song on an old playlist

Starts soft, then cuts too deep

I skip, then I skip back

Guess I like the way it makes me lose sleep

Green light, I don’t move

Rain races down in crooked lines

Feels like every drop

Is another version of our time

Tokyo night drive, I still see you

Every rainy sign, every tunnel feels true

All these streets remember what we tried

Neon on the puddles, but it’s you in my mind

Tokyo night drive, tracing old routes

Passing every corner where we burned out youth

If I let it fade, if I let it slide

Are we just a rumor on the other side?

Maybe you’re a few blocks over

Different taxi, same soft rain (Oh)

Different coffee, same cold hands

Different story, same old pain

So I loop this empty exit

Like a circle I can’t break

Hoping in some version of this city

You’re still running late

Tokyo night drive, I still see you

Every rainy sign, every tunnel feels true

All these streets remember what we tried

Neon on the puddles, but it’s you in my mind

Tokyo night drive, last time ’round here

Signal blinking slow like a dying fear

If I let you go at this yellow light

Will you live forever in this Tokyo night?