Nightfall in D Minor

City lights flicker on velvet streets

Shadows tracing where our silence meets

You left your coat on the back of my chair

Long after your perfume faded from the air

I count the footsteps, just echoes remain

Your laughter lingers soft and low

Drifting through this room I know

In the slow collapse of midnight hours

I speak aloud to empty walls

Hoping memories unfold their powers

But longing only softly calls

Nightfall in D minor, where my heart stalls

Glass of red swirls, untouched, half-drained

Rhodes hums quietly, framing my pain

Saxophone sighs in some distant bar

I whisper your name to the cold of my car

Lost in the hush before sunrise again

Your laughter lingers soft and low

Drifting through this room I know

In the slow collapse of midnight hours

I speak aloud to empty walls

Hoping memories unfold their powers

But longing only softly calls

Nightfall in D minor, where my heart stalls

Rain draws riverlines on these old windows

I play the same four chords, just letting go

Each note a question, each breath a plea

Are you somewhere remembering me?

The city sleeps, but you haunt me so slow

In the slow collapse of midnight hours

I speak aloud to empty walls

Hoping memories unfold their powers

But longing only softly calls

Nightfall in D minor, where my heart stallsDimming light, a closing sigh

I sing to the silence, and say goodbye