Verse 1 Streetlights blinking in uneven rows A tramline hums beneath my shoes Billboards flicker half a sentence Someone cut the evening loose The pavement shifts in quiet patterns Every step repeats the last Taxi meters tick like insects Counting seconds as they pass ⸻ Pre-Chorus Every corner folds again Like a map that won’t stay flat ⸻ Chorus On the neon conveyor The city slides by slow Windows glowing like aquariums With faces I don’t know On the neon conveyor The same night rolls along Every block another echo Of a half-remembered song ⸻ Verse 2 Subway cables breathe in rhythm Through the tunnels underground Escalators climb forever Without caring where they’re bound Someone laughs beside a payphone Static chewing through the line Every signal turns to amber Right before I cross the sign ⸻ Pre-Chorus Every corner folds again Like a map that won’t stay flat ⸻ Chorus On the neon conveyor The city slides by slow Windows glowing like aquariums With faces I don’t know On the neon conveyor The same night rolls along Every block another echo Of a half-remembered song ⸻ Bridge Trains are carving silver circles Underneath the sleeping streets Traffic lights blink out of sequence Like a code nobody reads I could walk for hours here Past the laundromat machines Watching shirts spin in the windows Like mechanical daydreams ⸻ Final Chorus On the neon conveyor The city slides by slow Every shadow on the asphalt Moves somewhere I won’t go On the neon conveyor The same night rolls along Every block another version Of the place I started from
