Lanterns at Midnight

I walk the streets where the moonlight spills

Over shuttered windows and silent hills

Every lantern flickers with a secret name

And the night keeps breathing my own fear back the same

I hear the ticking in the hollow air

Like a hidden heartbeat calling me there

Through the mist, through the chill, through the seam of the door

Something waits with a trembling spark

In this mullet town, I'm not alone

Every shadow knows the way home

Phantoms glow like a whispered prayer

And the cold old fear just dissolves in the air

Oh, the deeper I go, the brighter I see

What once was a nightmare is waking in me

In this moonlit town

Where the strange feels true

I found a little wonder

Walking into the blue

Pass the bakery, pass the iron gate

As the clock that never learned to wait

Lows strings hum like a warning turned soft

And the star hangs close like a secret aloft

Now the dark is a velvet cloak

Not a curse, not a wound, not a cruel joke

I follow the glow with a whisper start

And I feel my pulse like a lantern heart

In this moonlight town, I'm not alone

Every shadow knows the way home

Venters glow like a whispered prayer

And a cold old fear just dissolves in the air

Oh, the deeper I go, the brighter I see

What once was a nightmare is reckoning me

In this lonely town where the strange feels true

I found a little wonder

Walking into the blue

If the stars go dim and the silence calls

I will meet the ecto in the midnight walls

Hands in the dark, I won't run away

I can hear the mystery asking me to stay

In this moonlit town

I′m not alone

Every shadow knows their way home

Lanterns glow

Like a whispered prayer

And the cold old fear

Just a sauce in the air

Of a deeper echo, a brighter I see

What once was a nightmare is waking in me

In this moonlit town

I've learned to trust

Even haunted streets

Can turn to stardust

One by one, the lanterns rise

And the night opens both its eyes

I walk on, soft and slow and free

With wonder glooming quietly in me