Neon Bones

The gridlock breathes below me, a slow electric vein

This glass is cool, your ghost is in the rain

A million answering machines inside the sodium glow

(And the silence is a frequency I'm starting to know)

The concrete knew your footsteps long before we met

It holds the echo now, a cold and final debt

So turn the voltage up inside this hollow chest

Drown the memory out in frequencies and static stress

This skyline stole the words right from my tongue

You built me of neon bones

And left me here alone

In the echo of your crowded streets

You built me of neon bones

A signal and a tone

That the traffic just repeats

(Alone, alone)

My reflection in the window of a closing downtown train

A blur of passing streetlights, circuitry and pain

You gave me algorithms for the shape of a kiss

(Now the data just confirms everything I miss)

These skyscrapers are temples to a borrowed light

I'm a temporary tenant in the permanent night

So flood the circuit, break the connection at the source

This city's love was just a rerouted, brutal force

It drafted all the blueprints for our great undoing

You built me of neon bones

And left me here alone

In the echo of your crowded streets

You built me of neon bones

A signal and a tone

That the traffic just repeats

(Just repeats)

So is this what you wanted? Just another light to fade?

Another broken pattern in the display that you made?

You composed the chaos where our timing slipped

(Your streets held the secret of the final eclipse)

You're not a place, you're a pulse a cold electric prayer

And I'm the one left vibrating in the empty air

You built me of neon bones

And left me here alone

In the echo of your crowded streets

You built me of neon bones

A signal and a tone

That the traffic just repeats

(Just repeats)