Rainy conversations

You arrived with a cigarette smile And a story you’ve rehearsed for a while The jukebox cried a forgotten tune While we argued with the shape of the moon Your lipstick mark on a paper cup Like a little crime we never gave up The taxi lights were painting our names On the puddles outside in the rain We’re just rainy conversations In a city full of strangers’ faces Running circles around what we meant Spending all of our borrowed moments And the night keeps playing tricks Like an old movie with a broken script But I still know your silhouette When the whole damn world forgets You said, “Nothing ever stays the same” Then you disappeared without a trace Now every corner knows your voice Like the city never had a choice I keep finding pieces of you In the songs and the places we knew Like a ghost in a leather jacket Laughing where the lights are static Maybe we were just a scene Cut from somebody else’s dream A black-and-white catastrophe That looked like poetry to me Final Chorus We’re just rainy conversations Lost between the stations Still dancing with our mistakes Till the morning finally wakes