[Intro] (soft guitar arpeggios + city ambience) Fourth floor apartment 2:37 AM The city never really sleeps It just gets quieter [Verse 1] You're leaning on the balcony rail Watching headlights crawl below Summer air drifting through the buildings Like a song nobody knows The neighbors left their TV on again Blue light flickering through the blinds And somewhere down the avenue A siren disappears into the night You tell me everybody's changing Faster than you thought they would Pictures hanging on your bedroom wall Filled with people you barely know The moon hangs over downtown Like it's listening to us talk And neither of us wants to mention How soon it'll be morning [Pre-Chorus] The city glows silver The city glows silver Across your tired eyes And everything feels temporary For the first time tonight [Chorus] Cigarettes on the balcony (x2) Watching all the traffic lights Blinking red and turning green Like they're trying to tell us something Cigarettes on the balcony (x2) Talking about our future lives Like we've got all the time we need Like we're never leaving Oh-oh-oh (x2) Cigarettes on the balcony [Verse 2] There's an old record spinning slowly Inside your living room The same album we've heard a hundred times Still sounds different with you You laugh about the stupid things We thought would matter forever High school crushed and broken friendships And all that teenage weather The skyline stretches endlessly Beyond the apartment roofs Every window holds a story We'll never get to know And somehow that makes me feel better Like we're all figuring it out One late night conversation At a time [Pre-Chorus] The streetlights shimmer underneath us The streetlights shimmer underneath us Like reflections in the rain And every passing minute Feels impossible to explain [Chorus] Cigarettes on the balcony (x2) Watching all the traffic lights Blinking red and turning green Like they're trying to tell us something Cigarettes on the balcony (x2) Talking about our future lives Like we've got all the time we need Like we're never leaving Oh-oh-oh (x2) Cigarettes on the balcony [Bridge] (distorted guitars begin to swell) Maybe one day we'll forget this night The details and the words we said Maybe these buildings will be torn down And somebody else will live here instead Maybe we'll become old photographs Buried somewhere in a box But right now the city feels endless And the clock forgot to talk You smile into the darkness Like you're seeing something I can't see And suddenly the whole world feels A little less heavy [Instrumental Break] (shimmering guitar solo) Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh The skyline fades into the dawn Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh But neither of us wants to go home [Final Chorus] Cigarettes on the balcony (x2) Watching all the traffic lights Blinking red and turning green Like they're trying to tell us something Cigarettes on the balcony (x2) Talking about our future lives Like we've got all the time we need Like we're never leaving Cigarettes on the balcony (x2) The city slowly wakes below While we're suspended in the glow Between tonight and tomorrow Oh-oh-oh (x2) Cigarettes on the balcony [Outro] (city ambience + fading guitar) The sun starts rising over downtown The record reaches the end And for a moment Nobody says anything.
