After midnight. (Edit)

[Intro — whispered] You are still awake? I know you are not. After midnight you always come to me. --- [Verse 1] The city drowns in wet neon light, the raindrops draw their lines on glass. I am alone inside this empty room, but still I call your name at last. No answer flickers on the screen, the clock is stuck at zero, zero, zero. I try to let the memory go, but your ghost knows my password, dear. The hallway lamp is dying slow, a breath is hovering behind my back. I spin around so fast, so sharp... But no one stands upon the track. And in the mirror, standing still, a figure stares with hollow eyes. I know that face, I know that chill: it is not me in that disguise. --- [Pre-Chorus] I close my eyes so tight, but footsteps echo in the hush. I let you go each night, yet you return without a rush. And if this is a dream, then why the frost upon my skin? Why does your voice still seam itself into the dark within? --- [Chorus — powerful] After midnight you come to me again, you always do. I shut my eyes so blind, but I can see your shape in black and blue. After midnight there is no place for me to run. I know you are a fading trace, but still I wait for you, undone. You live between the sleep and waking, between the love and all the ache. After midnight you become the shape I cannot break. --- [Verse 2] I smashed your photograph to bits, but kept one shard of glass so small. Your eyes are living in that slit, as if you never left at all. The coffee cools upon the wood, a second cup is waiting there. I have not touched it since you stood, but someone drank from it with care. My phone ignites with sudden light. A hidden number. Just: "Hello." I do not answer, not tonight... Because I know the hand that wrote it slow. --- [Pre-Chorus 2] Outside, a red light blinks and hums, the city sends its warning sign. I scream: "You are not real, you come from nowhere!" But the voice is mine. And if this is a dream, then why do I remember all? Why does your reflection gleam and stare at me against the wall? --- [Chorus — stronger] After midnight you come to me again, you always do. I shut my eyes so blind, but I can see your shape in black and blue. After midnight there is no place for me to run. I know you are a fading trace, but still I wait for you, undone. You live between the sleep and waking, between the love and all the ache. After midnight you become the shape I cannot break. --- [Bridge — music almost fades] Hush... Do not turn around. She is standing behind you. I know. I see her too. --- [Final Chorus — epic] After midnight you do not ask to come inside. You just stand in the mirror's glow and watch me burn where I reside. After midnight I finally understand the truth: I was not waiting for your ghost... I was waiting for my youth. --- [Outro — whispered] Zero, zero, zero. Night again. Mirror again. But now... it is not me who stands within.