Neon Lullaby

**Neon Lullaby**

 

 

verse 1

 

you hum under your breath like it’s a secret code

 

lights from the street draw lines across your jaw

 

i learn the map of your face by the way you slow

 

when the world stops asking why we almost fall

 

 

pre-chorus

 

you say you don’t believe in houses made of us

 

but you keep knocking on my ribs at night

 

 

chorus

 

sing me a neon lullaby, love me in fluorescent hush

 

hold me like a rumor, like something too loud to trust

 

we’ll trade our small apologies for something dangerous and soft

 

sing me, sing me that neon lullaby until the city turns off

 

 

verse 2

 

you leave your jacket in my chair like it’s proof

 

of a morning that might bend to us somehow

 

we talk in half-smiles, like it’s truth, like it’s proof

 

and the silence learns to wait for the sound of your vow

 

 

pre-chorus

 

you tell me you’re terrified of staying, and of staying gone

 

i tell you that’s okay—i’m learning to want

 

 

chorus

 

sing me a neon lullaby, love me in fluorescent hush

 

hold me like a rumor, like something too loud to trust

 

we’ll trade our small apologies for something dangerous and soft

 

sing me, sing me that neon lullaby until the city turns off

 

 

bridge

 

(let’s pretend forever is just tonight stretched thin)

 

your breath in my ear is a reckless kind of hymn

 

i’d burn the calendar for the second in your hands

 

count the heartbeats like dollars, spend them where we stand

 

 

breakdown

 

i don’t need promises wrapped in gold—just noise that sounds like you

 

a quiet chaos in the dark, a steady maybe true

 

 

final chorus

 

sing me a neon lullaby, love me in fluorescent hush

 

hold me like a rumor, like something too loud to trust

 

we’ll trade our small apologies for something dangerous and soft

 

sing me, sing me that neon lullaby until the city turns off

 

 

outro (soft)

 

when the streetlights blink and the world forgets how to shine

 

stay with me in the half-light—be the unfinished line

 

hum me that neon lullaby, keep my hands in your hands

 

and if morning comes we’ll learn to stand.