Lyric

The room stayed open

After you were gone

One glass on the table

Catching streetlight wrong

I did not call you

I did not move

I let the late hour

Take the shape of you

Outside the window

The loading doors glow

Blue white rectangles

In a row

Nothing is moving

But nothing feels still

The city keeps working

Against my will

Warehouse Lights After Midnight

Burning through the gray

You left in silence

But the night won’t fade

I close my eyes

And the room stays bright

Some people leave

But they keep on lighting the night

A truck turns slowly

Under sodium gold

I count its reverse lights

Instead of getting cold

Your side of the bed

Is flat and clear

Like even the fabric

Knows you are not here

I wanted darkness

Something complete

A clean little ending

Under my feet

But every window

Across the quay

Keeps one small version

Of you awake in me

Nothing shuts down

When a feeling is done

The harbor keeps humming

Under no sun

I tell myself

This is only light

But I still look for you

In the windows at night

Maybe love ends

Without a sound

Not with a door

Not with a breakdown

Just one body leaving

One room turning wide

And too many lamps

Still burning outside

Nothing shuts down

When a feeling is done

The harbor keeps humming

Under no sun

You are not coming

I know that part

But the lights stay open

Like a wound in the dark

After midnight

After you

The city still works

And I do too