Quiet Streets After Sundown

A cooler thread of lightthe city starts to rest

Crosswalk paint is fading, lamps begin to bloom

Windows hold a softness, circling the room

Footsteps slow to whispers, breathing with the air

Every gentle corner tells me you are there

Quiet streets after sundown, keep me in your care

Hold a calm embrace around this open square

Quiet streets after sundown, steady, warm, and kind

Leave a little brightness in my mind

Early stars are rising, silver over stone

Doorways learn a silence only we have known

Pockets find a rhythm, hearts arrange the time

Every easy moment falls into a rhyme

Quiet streets after sundown, keep me in your care

Hold a calm embrace around this open square

Quiet streets after sundown, steady, warm, and kind

Leave a little brightness in my mind

If the wind grows sharp and tries to turn us back

We will draw a quiet line across the track

If the voices thin and every color slows

We will keep a gentle spark that never goes

Quiet streets after sundown, keep me in your care

Hold a calm embrace around this open square

Quiet streets after sundown, steady, warm, and kind

Leave a little brightness in my mind

Leave a little brightness in my mind