The room wears midnight like perfume Low lamps and unfinished truths Your reflection bends in crystal and smoke Like a city learning how to disappear Ice writes circles in the glass Slow enough to hear the years Someone laughs where we used to sit Now even echoes have moved on And all this amber light Keeps pretending it can stay But every beautiful thing Has a quiet way of slipping away Manhattan We drink the night until it turns to memory Manhattan Your shadow in the glass grows older than me Skyline folded into amber Stars outside and smoke within Manhattan Nothing stays untouched by morning You said time never leaves It only changes clothes Becomes another face at the bar Another song nobody chose The piano still remembers Hands that don't belong here now And every empty chair tonight Feels sacred somehow Outside the windows The city keeps its endless pose But somewhere between the last call Even constellations let go Manhattan We drink the night until it turns to memory Manhattan Your shadow in the glass grows older than me Skyline folded into amber Stars outside and smoke within Manhattan Nothing stays untouched by morning Maybe that's the secret Nothing beautiful survives unchanged Not the skyline Not the bottle Not the names Only the warmth we leave behind Only the songs that stay too late Only this glass between my hands And time Learning patience Manhattan We drink the night until it turns to memory Manhattan Your shadow in the glass grows older than me Stars dissolve into the ceiling Morning waits beyond the room Manhattan Stay a little longer Before you disappear Manhattan Stay a little longer Just until the ice lets go Manhattan
