Track Insight / Lyrics
Stranger's breath so close
Pleading in the darkening closes
Fingers tracing script on my hand
Then gone, as if in another land
Worn soles still sifting grime and dreams
While neon splashes purple rainbows' gleams
Yet in this concrete canyon deep
We share a memory, tears weeping
For moments now forever lost
In sync our hearts like firecrossed
Fuel for flight, the neon hum
Erupts inside my lonely room
Redirected, the city's noise
Is music to my restless joys
Tethered to a downtown hub
Around me, a world that's numb
I'll ride this pulse all night
Until the lights begin to bright
Neon labyrinth descending
Through streets where strangers are vending
Time is currency, desire the trade
Wired and wanting, I'll not be swayed
A video store where I once sought refuge
Now echoes, vacant, like my youth's excuse
For not finding meaning 'neath the neon glare
Settling instead for the digital scar
A life of clicks and likes and swipes
As the pulse of the city swells, I drift, I rouse
Yet in this concrete canyon deep
We share a memory, tears weeping
For moments now forever lost
In sync our hearts like firecrossed
Fuel for flight, the neon hum
Erupts inside my lonely room
Redirected, the city's noise
Is music to my restless joys
In this city where nights never end
I'm embraced by the endless spin
Of roulette wheels, card games, and dreams
Where hope and hopelessness entwined seem
Yet here I find a home, a place to be
Free to lose myself in this neon glee
Neon undercanopy, I fall in love
With the pulse of the city above
Where every face is a stranger's heart
And we're all just chasing the neon's art
In this virtual world we design
To escape the emptiness that confines
Our searching for a meaning that's real
Under the neon, our souls can heal
