(Verse 1) Underneath the city lights, I’m counting morning trains, Your laugh’s an ember in the folds of my coat — it still remains. There’s lipstick on the coffee cup, your name fogs the corner glass, Empty rooms keep echoing the way we used to pass. (Pre-Chorus) My heart keeps counting seconds, like footsteps in the hall, I tape the door shut with my questions, but your shadow slides the wall. (Chorus) Can you be mine? — Stay this time. Can you be mine? — Hold the line. Through the storm and through the glass, if you’re coming back, Can you be mine? — Stay this time. (Verse 2) I still wear that jacket you liked, the one with frayed blue sleeves, A ticket stub from our last fight lives folded underneath the keys. You came back with trembling pockets and a dozen quiet tries, Saying sorry in the doorway while the city learned to sigh. (Pre-Chorus) My pulse keeps writing questions, ink that won’t erase, If you mean every promise, say it slow and look me in the face. (Chorus) Can you be mine? — Stay this time. Can you be mine? — Hold the line. Wipe the salt off of the past, teach these scars to laugh, Can you be mine? — Stay this time. (Bridge) Meet me where the neon bends — two truths, no disguise, Where the subway hums our secrets and the night writes alibis. If you mean it, say it to my eyes — no rehearsed replies, Say you’re staying for the small things: morning coffee, midnight drives. (Instrumental Lift) (Short guitar break: palm-muted verse into open, distorted chords; build backing harmonies before the final chorus — 8 bars) (Final Chorus - key lift) Can you be mine? — Stay this time. Can you be mine? — Stay this time. Break the silence, break the sky, if you’re truth then don’t deny, Can you be mine? — Stay this time. (Outro / Vocal Tag) Stay this time — (stay, stay) stay this time. Stay this time — (ooh) stay this time. Underneath the city lights, I’m hoping you’ll say, Can you be mine? — stay this time, stay this time.