[Intro — piano + low cello + faint cable hum] [Verse 1] Midnight wires above the street Cold fog drifting through the beams Empty seats and flickering light City breathing through the night Rain is tracing down the glass Blurring all we thought would last Faded ghosts begin to roam On the last cable home [Verse 2] Every word we threw away Echoes softly in the gray Every truth I tried to hold Now feels distant, thin, and cold Streetlights shimmer through the rain Like a quiet kind of pain Moving slow through streets I know On the last cable home [Chorus] And the city drifts away Like the words we couldn't say Every shadow overthrown On the last cable home Maybe silence understands All the things we couldn't mend Every mile I ride alone On the last cable home [Bridge — cello swelling] Maybe I was never wrong Maybe I just stayed too long Maybe truth was always there Hiding in the midnight air [Final Verse] The car humming underneath Like a heartbeat in the street Every mile pulls me from The things we couldn't keep City lights begin to fade In the glass where shadows stayed Every turn the cable climbs Pulls me further from those times [Final Chorus — full emotion] And the city drifts away Like the words we couldn't say Every memory overthrown On the last cable home Now the night begins to close And the fog around me grows Every street I've ever known Leads me on this ride alone [Outro — piano slowing, cello holding] Rain still tracing down the glass Blurring all we thought would last The car hums soft beneath my feet Like a heartbeat in the street …and somewhere in the quiet now my chest can finally sleep.
