Chicago Nights
// TRANSMISSION LYRICS — TX_046
Lyrics
[Intro]
Neon drips on rusted chrome,
Another night, I walk alone.
Cabs fly low, the skyline sighs,
Every street reflects my lies.
[Verse]
I meet their eyes in borrowed light,
Each stranger burns a little bright.
They buy me drinks, they say my name,
It never feels quite the same.
Sometimes I laugh, I touch, I spin,
But something still burns deep within.
A ringless hand that aches to hold,
A story half-retold.
[Chorus]
Chicago nights, they blur my face,
I chase the warmth I can’t replace.
His voice still echoes in my mind,
A man I loved in another’s time.
Chicago nights, they never sleep,
Each touch I find I cannot keep.
I feel his ghost through someone new,
I know it’s wrong, but it feels true.
[Verse]
Cigarette smoke and static air,
He says I smile like I don’t care.
I close my eyes—his face appears,
The one I’ve loved a thousand years.
He’s not the one, I know, I know,
But memory’s a cruel show.
It plays me back what I can’t own,
A love that isn’t mine alone.
[Bridge]
(trumpet solo with whispered vocal layers)
I wear her past like perfume faint,
Sweet and sad, a holy taint.
I kiss to feel what she once knew,
I live her life in shades of blue.
[Chorus]
Chicago nights, they blur my face,
I chase the warmth I can’t replace.
His voice still echoes in my mind,
A man I loved in another’s time.
Chicago nights, they never sleep,
Each touch I find I cannot keep.
I feel his ghost through someone new,
I know it’s wrong, but it feels true.
[Outro]
Neon rain, another lie,
I live, but she’s the reason why.