[INTRo] I kept your name in the blue light on the cracked screen by the stairs, watched the rain make little rivers through the dust on the repair. There was static in the hallway, there was heat under the door, and the city kept on blinking like it knew we’d been here before. [VERSE ] You said, “Don’t wait for morning,” so I didn’t call it night. I just stood beneath the cables while the trains cut up the sky. Your last signal hit my handset, one thin bar and then the drop. I could hear the bassline folding through the sirens on the block. Let it fall, if it’s burning through the wire. Let it go, if it only feeds the fire. I won’t hold what is already gone. I won’t beg the dead tone for a song. [PRE-CHORUS] There’s a neon pulse tonight under every broken sign, and the people moving past me wear the same rain in their eyes. For the ones who walk with nothing but a charge inside the chest, for the ones who keep on breathing when the dark won’t let them rest— [CHORUS] Let it fall, let it fall, let the sky come down in chrome. Let it go, let it go, you don’t have to drag it home. Last signal from you in the neon pulse tonight. I hear it break in two but I still walk through the light. Let it fall, let it fall, all the weight you couldn’t show. Let it go, let it go, for the ones who go through ghosts. [POST-CHORUS] Last signal— let it— last signal— let it go. Neon pulse tonight, neon pulse tonight. For the ones still moving with no way back inside. [VERSE 2] I saw your shadow in the window of a closed-down liquor store. Not a ghost, not a warning, just the shape I waited for. My hands shook over nothing, phone dead against my palm. Somewhere under the overpass a kid was singing through the alarm. I wanted one more message, one more lie with your voice in it, one more little piece of mercy from the damage we were living in. But the tower lights were fading, and the clouds were hanging low. What love can’t keep from breaking you have to loose before it grows cold. [PRE-CHORUS] There’s a neon pulse tonight on the wet skin of the road. Every step becomes a signal when there’s nowhere left to go. For the hearts that keep transmitting after no one says their name, for the hands that open slowly and release what they became— [CHORUS 2] Let it fall, let it fall, let the sky come down in chrome. Let it go, let it go, you don’t have to drag it home. Last signal from you in the neon pulse tonight. I hear it break in two but I still walk through the light. Let it fall, let it fall, all the weight you couldn’t show. Let it go, let it go, for the ones who go through ghosts. [BRIDGE] I won’t turn the street around. I won’t chase the ending down. Your voice is rain in the receiver, then it thins into the sound. I put the phone under my jacket, kept your silence near my ribs. The city opened all its windows. Something cold came breathing in. [BUILD] Let it fall if it won’t stay. Let it go if it cuts the vein. Let it fall with the power lines. Let it go through the neon night. Let it fall— let it go— last signal— don’t come home. [FINAL CHORUS] Let it fall, let it fall, let the whole night overflow. Let it go, let it go, where the lost transmissions go. Last signal from you in the neon pulse tonight. I hear it fade from blue into static, into light. Let it fall, let it fall, for the names we couldn’t hold. Let it go, let it go, for the ones who walk alone. Let it fall, let it fall, let the signal leave the bone. Let it go, let it go, you don’t have to die to grow. [OUTRO] Last signal from you. Neon pulse tonight. For the ones who go through. For the ones still in the light.
