Blue After midnight

Cigarette smoke and a slow-burn tune

Moonlight resting on this quiet room

Your shadow sways with the stand-up bass

Time slows down when I see your face

The piano cries what we never say

Every note bends my heart your way

Old bar stools and a half-told truth

I sip my doubts, still drunk on you

Chorus

’Cause I get blue after midnight

When the lights turn soft and low

Your love lingers in the silence

Like a song I’ll never let go

Yeah, I get blue after midnight

When the stars lean in too close

Every goodbye tastes like bourbon

Every memory like smoke

Verse 2

Trumpet weeps in a lonely key

Sounds like it knows too much of me

Your laugh cuts through the dim-lit air

Like a promise that was never fair

Hands shake when our fingers meet

This kind of love don’t come discreet

We dance between the wrong and right

Two lost hearts in borrowed time

Chorus

I get blue after midnight

When the jukebox sings our song

Your perfume stays on my jacket

Long after you’re gone

Yeah, I get blue after midnight

When the truth hits hard and slow

Love like ours don’t fade easy

It just learns how to go low

Bridge (Spoken / soft)

Funny how love sounds better

When it’s a little broken…

Verse 3

Dawn creeps in through cracked-glass dreams

Morning don’t know what we been

One last kiss by the closing sign

We leave our hearts on borrowed time

Final Chorus

I get blue after midnight

But I’d do it all again

’Cause loving you, even lonely

Beats never loving then

Yeah, I get blue after midnight

Still, your melody remains

Some loves don’t need forever

They just need a little pain

Outro

Piano fades…

And so do we… 🎶