After Midnight I Forget

[Verse 1]

It’s a quarter past too late

You’re a name I shouldn’t say

Staring at your number

Like it’s drinking all my will away

One glass

Two glass

Slow drag

Lip print on the rim

Jet black

Tell myself I’ve grown past this

Then your ghost leans in and pulls me back

[Chorus]

‘Cause after midnight I forget

All the reasons you’re a wreck

All the nights I swore “that’s it”

But my fingers still betray my lips

I know better

I know better than this call

But your echo’s in the dark

And it’s dialing through my heart

After midnight I forget it all

[Verse 2]

Pillow on the cold side

Phone face down

But it still shines

You’re a habit in my veins

Little rush behind my eyes

Red dress on the chair

Unworn

I’m rehearsing saying “ignore”

But my thumb’s already shaking

On the secret door

[Chorus]

‘Cause after midnight I forget

All the reasons you’re a wreck

All the nights I swore “that’s it”

But my fingers still betray my lips

I know better

I know better than this call

But your echo’s in the dark

And it’s dialing through my heart

After midnight I forget it all

[Bridge]

I trace your name

On the fogged-up glass

Ask myself

“How long can this last?”

You’re the rule I love to bend

Wrong beginning

Wronger end

Still I’m waiting on that ring

Like it’s oxygen (oh)

[Chorus]

‘Cause after midnight I forget

Every promise

Every debt

All the reasons we don’t fit

Fade to you and your magnet

I know better

I know better than this call

But your echo’s in the dark

And it’s dialing through my heart

After midnight I forget it all