[Intro: warm analog chords, tape hiss, distant falsetto choir. No drums.] [Verse 1] We drove until the highway Turned into another world You had your feet up on the dashboard Hair blowing everywhere The radio was dying But we knew the words somehow You said, "Nothing lasts forever" I didn't understand you then I think I understand you now [Eight-bar instrumental: gentle arpeggio emerges] [Verse 2] There are ghosts inside the photographs Smiling like they know How quickly all the beautiful things Come and then they go We thought we'd live forever We thought we'd never change Now I would give almost anything To live one ordinary day again [Refrain: subtle bass enters, still no full drums] All those nights All those years They didn't disappear All that love All those tears Somehow they're still here [Instrumental transition] [Verse 3] Sometimes late at night I take the old road out of town Past the empty gas station Where we used to mess around And for a second in the darkness I swear I see your face Then another car goes passing And you're gone without a trace [First full drum pattern finally enters] [Instrumental Build: pulsing bass and arpeggiator gradually intensify. Guitar plays fragments of an unknown melody. Huge tom fills begin appearing. Falsetto choir grows louder.] [Everything drops except vocal and pad] [Main Chorus] Meet me after the sun goes down Where all our memories are still around Where we were young Where we were free Where you were still lying next to me Meet me after the world moves on I'll be waiting where the light has gone And maybe somewhere beyond the sun Everything we lost becomes one [Synth Solo: soaring emotional analog lead transforms the chorus melody; live-feeling toms, huge bass and shimmering arpeggios; guitar eventually doubles synth melody] [Drums suddenly switch to half-time] [Final Chorus] Meet me after the sun goes down Where all our memories are still around Where we were young Where we were free Where you were still lying next to me [Backing vocals repeat "after the sun"] Meet me after the world moves on I'll be waiting where the light has gone And maybe somewhere beyond the sun... [Long pause] Everything we lost Becomes one [Extended Outro: 45–60 seconds. Main vocal disappears. Falsetto choir repeats fragments of "after the sun." Synth solo returns more distant and degraded. Drums gradually vanish. Tape saturation increases.] After the sun... After the sun... [Only arpeggiator remains] After... [Arpeggiator slows unnaturally like a dying tape machine] [Final warm major chord rings for several seconds]
