[INTRO — NIGHT WIND + DISTANT INSECTS] [one dry guitar harmonic] Where does the light go When the sun goes down? [brief silence] [whispered, higher] Does it disappear… Or does it wait? [granular guitar pulse begins] [VERSE 1] We were standing in the garden Bare feet on the grass You were talking about forever Like forever could last There was thunder in the distance But the sky was turning gold You looked at me like something You were scared to let me hold I didn’t say it I should have [PRE-CHORUS] Now every evening Turns your way Every shadow Knows your shape And I keep waiting For the dark To give you back [CHORUS] Where does the light go When it leaves the sky? Where does a love go When you don’t say goodbye? I still feel you In the air tonight Where does the light go? Does it disappear? Or does it wait Somewhere near? [POST-CHORUS — HIGH WORDLESS MELODY] Ah-ah-ah Ah-ah-ah Somewhere near Ah-ah-ah Ah-ah-ah I can feel it here [VERSE 2] The rain came down in summer And washed the road clean You would’ve loved the smell of it The way the earth turned green I walked beneath the trees alone With your voice inside my head Funny how the world feels louder After someone leaves it The birds kept singing I hated them for it [PRE-CHORUS] ’Cause every living thing Just carried on The river kept moving The morning came And I was still standing In the same place [CHORUS] Where does the light go When it leaves the sky? Where does a love go When you don’t say goodbye? I still feel you In the air tonight Where does the light go? Does it disappear? Or does it wait Somewhere near? [BREAK — NATURE SOUNDS + GLITCHED VOCAL] [whispered fragments] Wait… Wait… Don’t go… [beat fractures] [BRIDGE] Maybe nothing disappears Maybe it changes Maybe you become The rain on my window The song in the trees The warmth on my skin Maybe that’s why I still find you Everywhere [FINAL CHORUS — WIDE GUITARS + IDM PERCUSSION + FALSETTO] Where does the light go When it leaves the sky? Where does a love go When you don’t say goodbye? I still feel you In the air tonight Where does the light go? Does it disappear? Or does it wait— [melody rises] Somewhere near? Where does the light go? Where does it go? [high harmony] Maybe it never left Maybe it never left [OUTRO — WIND + DISTANT BIRDS] Maybe it never left…
