Nighttime Museum

Verse 1

You wore a jacket made of maps

Said the highways hum when you laugh

Lit a match in the hallway mirror

Said, “Nothing’s real but it’s getting clearer”

We drank the buzz from a radio storm

You curled up like a question mark, warm

Told me secrets in a stranger’s voice

Like the truth was just a broken choice

Chorus

We were soft like film in a dying machine

Flickering still in a midnight scene

I said your name like a song half-learned

In the nightlight museum where the stars don’t burn

Verse 2

You had a shoebox full of falling skies

Said, “Memory’s just a trick of the eyes”

We carved our names in a fiction book

Then ran away cause we weee both shook

Bridge

And I don’t know where the dream ends now

Or if it ever mattered anyhow

But I still wear that crooked grin

You drew on me when the world caved in

Final Chorus

We were soft like film in a dying machine

Flickering ghosts in a window screen

I lost your name in a cloud-shaped turn

In the nightlight museum where the stars don’t burn

Outro (spoken or softly sung)

I walk through the halls with a flashlight heart

Looking for you in the lost and the art