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Verse 1

Well, the city was hummin’ like a telegraph wire,

And the night leaned in like a half-tired choir.

I was walkin’ down a street where the lamplight froze,

Thinkin’ ’bout the noise and the shape it chose.

And a breeze rolled by with a cough and a grin,

Said, “Kid, this whole damn town’s breathin’ out, breathin’ in.”

Chorus

’Cause the noise is a ghost—

yeah, a ghost with a dream,

Driftin’ through the alleys

like a secondhand scene.

And I follow that whisper

where the broken lights glow—

The city’s asleep,

but it talks soft and low.

Verse 2

Some old bus rattled like a suitcase of bones,

And a drunk sang a love song to nobody’s home.

A paper bag danced like it just got free,

Spinnin’ little circles ’round the corner of me.

And I laughed to myself, though the street felt cold—

Said, “Buddy, this town’s got a heart made of stories untold.”

Chorus

’Cause the noise is a ghost—

yeah, a ghost with a dream,

Driftin’ through the alleys

like a secondhand scene.

And I follow that whisper

where the broken lights glow—

The city’s asleep,

but it talks soft and low.

Bridge

Maybe it’s tired, maybe it’s wise,

Maybe it’s blinkin’ with old whiskey eyes.

Maybe we’re echoes it can’t let go—

Songs it keeps hummin’

from some years ago.

Final Verse / Outro

So I tipped my hat to the wind and the night,

Said, “Alright old ghost, you can lead—I won’t fight.”

And the sidewalks cracked a smile underneath my shoes,

Like they’d heard every secret and they’d paid all their dues.

Yeah, the city kept dreamin’, and I walked along slow,

Till the dawn hit the roofs

and the ghost let me go