Midnight in Slow Motion

You trace my shoulder In the half-dark of the room Curtains barely breathing Traffic humming in the gloom Your heartbeat on my back Like a clock I never mute You say nothing Stay But the silence feels like truth Outside, the city keeps on moving But we're frozen in this room Every word we keep avoiding Gets a little louder too Midnight in slow motion You pull me in Then you push me away Skin against the ocean Waves in your eyes keep changing shape Hold me Then let go I'm hanging on the afterglow Midnight in slow motion Say you want me Or fade with the smoke Glass ring on the table Waterline where your hand was Lip print on the bottle Tiny proof of what we were You laugh a little softer Stare right through the ceiling fan Like you're already leaving From the middle of my hands Outside, the streetlights shimmer Blue against the windowpane I could ask you where this ends But I don't want to hear your answer If you stay Don't stay halfway If you go Don't haunt this place Your name in the vapor Your touch inside the bass Every breath between the beats Says the things we never speak Midnight in slow motion You pull me in Then you push me away Skin against the ocean Waves in your eyes keep changing shape Hold me Then let go I'm hanging on the afterglow Midnight in slow motion Say you want me Or fade with the smoke