TITLE: APARTMENT LIGHTS [Intro – Processed vocal fragments, distant city ambience, reverse piano, ghost vocoder echoes] [MALE - distant] Still awake... [FEMALE - distant] Me too... [Ghost Vocoder] third floor... window light... [Ambient electric violin enters softly] [Verse 1 – MALE] 3:17 in the morning Keys hit the counter Work shirt still on Name tag hanging half off Third night this week I beat the sunrise home City breathing through the window Like it can't sleep either Cold coffee in the kitchen TV glowing in the dark And across the street Third floor Same apartment Same light Every night [Ghost Vocoder] still awake... [Verse 1B – FEMALE] 2:48 in the morning Laundry still turning Half-read book beside me Same page for an hour Rain tracing little rivers Down the edge of the glass Everybody says get some sleep Like it's something you can ask Across the street Same window Same silhouette Every night [Pre-Chorus – DUET, layered] [MALE] Don't know your name [FEMALE] Don't know your story [MALE] But I look for that light [FEMALE] Before I close my eyes [DUET] Every night... [Chorus – Massive future soul, electric violin counter-melody] [MALE] Somebody still got their lights on [Ghost Vocoder] (apartment lights on...) [FEMALE] Somebody still got their window glowing [Ghost Vocoder] (window glowing...) [MALE] Makes me feel a little less alone [FEMALE] A little less alone [DUET] Maybe we're awake for the same reasons Maybe we're just trying to make it through the night Somebody still got their lights on And somehow That feels alright [Electric Violin Response] [Verse 2 – MALE] Mama called around noon Asked if I've been getting rest Said I sounded tired lately I laughed and changed the subject Dust on the guitar case By the door where it always sits Funny how you can miss yourself Without noticing it [Verse 2B – FEMALE] My sister says I work too much Says I never leave the house Truth is I keep meaning to Then another week runs out Plants reaching toward the window Coffee growing cold again Sometimes I forget What day it is [Ghost Vocoder] not alone... [Pre-Chorus – Bigger harmonies] [MALE] Maybe we're strangers [FEMALE] Maybe we'll never meet [MALE] But every night [FEMALE] You remind me [DUET] I'm not the only one awake [Chorus – Fuller production] [MALE] Somebody still got their lights on [Ghost Vocoder] (apartment lights on...) [FEMALE] Somebody still got their window glowing [Ghost Vocoder] (window glowing...) [DUET] Makes me feel a little less alone A little less alone Maybe we're both carrying something Maybe we're both holding on Somebody still got their lights on And tonight So do I [Instrumental – Ambient electric violin lead] [Felt piano and electric violin dialogue] [Ambient cello enters] [Muted flugelhorn swells] [Bridge – Beat drops away, ambient synths, digital choir] [MALE] Maybe we're all just windows Trying to stay lit [FEMALE] Waiting for somebody To notice we're there [MALE] I thought I was alone [FEMALE] So did I [DUET] Across the darkness Across the city We were both awake All this time [Long Pause] [Ghost Vocoder] I'm here too... [Electric Violin Carries Melody] [Final Chorus – Emotional reveal] [MALE] Somebody still got their lights on [Ghost Vocoder] (apartment lights on...) [FEMALE] I've been looking at your window too [Ghost Vocoder] (window too...) [MALE] Makes me feel a little less alone [FEMALE] Funny... You do that too [DUET] Different rooms Different lives Same city Same night Somebody still got their lights on And for the first time in a while I don't mind the night [Outro – Reverse piano, electric violin, city ambience] [MALE] Third floor... [FEMALE] Same window... [Ghost Vocoder] still awake... still awake... [DUET] The city keeps humming The rain keeps falling And the apartment lights stay on... [Ambient electric violin fades into silence]
