[Intro – distant male whisper] Don’t wake your mother. Don’t turn on the light. [Verse 1] Three soft knocks against the glass, Seven floors above the ground. Bare feet hanging in the rain, But the rain passed through him somehow. He wore midnight like a coat, Had a smile too old to trust. When I asked him for his name, He drew a circle in the dust. [Pre-Chorus] He never asked to come inside, He only asked me why I stayed. Said every lock was someone’s fear, And every home another cage. [Chorus] There’s a boy at the window, He doesn’t cast a shadow. He says the night is young, He says I’ll never grow. There’s a boy at the window, Smiling like he knows Every name I’ve ever loved And where the lost ones go. [Post-Chorus] Open. Open. Open the window. [Verse 2] He knew the crack beneath the stairs, Knew the words I never said. Knew which dreams I kept alive And which ones I had buried dead. He said mothers learn to leave, Fathers turn their hearts to stone. But somewhere past the final star, No one ever sleeps alone. [Pre-Chorus] His fingers rested on the glass, The frost grew outward from his hand. He promised me a world untouched By time, by grief, by grown-up hands. [Chorus] There’s a boy at the window, He doesn’t cast a shadow. He says the night is young, He says I’ll never grow. There’s a boy at the window, Smiling like he knows Every name I’ve ever loved And where the lost ones go. [Bridge – male lead] Come away before they change you. Come away before you’re old. I can give you endless summer. I can keep you brave and cold. No goodbyes and no tomorrows. No one leaves and no one dies. All I need is your permission. [Female whisper] Why are there teeth behind your eyes? [Instrumental Break] [Female lead] I tried to pull the curtain closed. I tried to wake the sleeping house. But every room had lost its voice, And no one heard me call it out. [Final Chorus] Now the boy’s beyond the window. He’s standing in the room. He doesn’t need a shadow. He brought the darkness through. Now the boy’s beyond the window, And every clock is slow. He took the name I tried to save To where the lost ones go. There was a boy at the window. There was a hand against the glass. There was someone in this bedroom. Why can’t I remember who it was? [Outro – male whisper] You opened it.
