The rooftop hums in borrowed light White lines divide the concrete gray A thousand stars beneath my feet Keep blinking through the city haze The wind is tugging at my hood My hands are colder than the air The world is beautiful tonight And doesn't know that I am here Twinkle, twinkle, stars below You blink as if you're watching me Twinkle, twinkle, stars below I've carried words across the page From lives I'll never get to know But there's a silence in my chest No language tells me where to go A traffic light turns red to green And people keep on going home I watch the world move on below While I remain as still as stone How can the light be everywhere And never find its way inside? My lips remember every song My throat remembers only night Twinkle, twinkle, stars below Can you hear me from this height? Twinkle, twinkle, stars below Not a sound escapes tonight All your windows open wide Like a thousand arms of gold Will you catch me if I fall? Twinkle, twinkle, stars below Twinkle, twinkle, stars below All your lights reach out like hands Twinkle, twinkle, stars below I never heard the footsteps come I only felt the sudden pull The sky and city traded places The night was neither kind nor cruel A silver frame against the dark One tiny light upon the glass And someone I had never known Was close enough to stop the fall Twinkle, twinkle, stars below Can you hear me from this height? Twinkle, twinkle, stars below There is someone at my side All your windows open wide Still too distant, still aglow I don't know if I can stay But I haven't let go
