Glass City
Drift
Skyscrapers reflecting night. Vocals shimmer over urban rhythm, the sound of a city made transparent by darkness. This track is downtown as cathedral.
Lyrics
Through the window, the city's made of glass
Every building a lantern in the dark
Someone's awake in every one of them
Writing their own story in the dark
And I'm one of them now
Just another light
Glass city, let me in
To your constellation of insomnia
Where everyone's a stranger
And everyone's a friend
Glass city, hold me here
In your comfortable loneliness
I poured a drink I didn't really need
Just to have something in my hands
The ice clicks like a metronome
Keeping time with traffic lights
And I'm counting them now
Red and green and white
Glass city, let me in
To your constellation of insomnia
Where everyone's a stranger
And everyone's a friend
Glass city, hold me here
In your comfortable loneliness
I don't need to be anywhere
I don't need to be anyone
Just here with the humming streetlights
And the silence between songs
Glass city, you and me
Comfortable in our solitary
All these lights, all these lives
Beautiful at this time of night
Variations
- Glass City 3:18
- Glass City (Variation) 2:39
- Glass City 2:49
- Glass City (Variation) 2:13