Stories Shared Under the Flickering Streetlamp in the Rain

[Verse 1]

You said your train was late again

Coat soaked through

Ticket ink running

Name blurred too

I laughed and held my coffee up

Like a fragile flame

You said, “Guess we’re both stranded

In this small-town rain”

[Chorus]

Under the flickering light

We were saints, we were liars

Just two tired hearts

Trading little fires

Every secret felt safe

Every scar seemed right

Two strangers sharing stories

Under the flickering light

[Verse 2]

You traced a map on your paper cup

Cities you left

Dreams you dropped, half-folded

On a borrowed desk

I talked about my father

How he stayed, then split

You watched each word fall slowly

Like the drops that hit

[Chorus]

Under the flickering light

We were saints, we were liars

Just two tired hearts

Trading little fires

Every secret felt safe

Every scar seemed right

Two strangers sharing stories

Under the flickering light

[Bridge]

Cabs rolled past like chances

We let them slide on by (mmm)

You said, “I never talk this much”

I said, “Yeah, neither do I” (oh)

Rain kept writing circles

On the dark wet stone

For a moment in that shimmer

We were almost known

[Chorus]

Under the flickering light

We were saints, we were liars

Just two tired hearts

Trading little fires

When the downpour turned soft

And the sky eased to white

We walked off, separate shadows

From that flickering light