Lanterns After Midnight

[Intro] After the rain After the bells The city keeps secrets It never tells [Verse 1] Midnight fell on the mushroom towers Blue-black roofs in candlelight Every window held a ghost Every street remembered night The umbrellas closed like sleeping wings The puddles turned to glass And I saw another version of me In the lanterns as I passed [Pre-Chorus] The moon was caught in a balcony rail The stars were tangled in the vines And somewhere deep beneath the stones A forgotten river turned through time [Chorus] Meet me where the lanterns burn after midnight Where the rain becomes a mirror for the dead Where the mushroom kingdom dreams with golden windows And the moonlight crowns the rooftops overhead I know I lost that world when morning found me I know the spell will break before the dawn But tonight I hear my other life calling From a universe where I belong [Verse 2] There was music in the alleyways Accordion soft as breath A music box inside the walls Playing lullabies for death The palace on the hill was dark But its chandeliers still shone Like frozen lightning trapped in amber For a queen who danced alone [Pre-Chorus] I followed footprints made of silver Past the lamps and dripping leaves To a door that knew my sorrow And opened only in dreams [Chorus] Meet me where the lanterns burn after midnight Where the rain becomes a mirror for the dead Where the mushroom kingdom dreams with golden windows And the moonlight crowns the rooftops overhead I know I lost that world when morning found me I know the spell will break before the dawn But tonight I hear my other life calling From a universe where I belong [Bridge] Was I loved beneath those rooftops? Was my name carved into stone? Did I leave my heart behind me In a world I never owned? There are faces in the window glass There are voices in the rain They say, come back through the midnight door Before you wake again [Final Chorus] Meet me where the lanterns burn after midnight Where the old bells ring for kingdoms underground Where the mushroom towers lean into the starlight And every lost soul knows the sound I know I lost that world when morning found me I know the spell will break before the dawn But tonight I hear my other life calling From a universe where I belong [Outro] After the rain After the bells The city keeps secrets It never tells Lanterns after midnight Windows full of gold I dreamed another universe And woke up growing old