[Verse 1]
VHS static in the rearview glass,
Chrome dashboard hums, midnight freeway's fast.
Neon arcade flickers—tokens in a cup,
Cassette hiss counts down while the city wakes up.
Your jacket smells like vinyl scars and rain,
LED horizon paints the windowpane.
Tail lights melted into a ruby seam,
We chase electric traces of a half-remembered dream.
[Pre-Chorus 1]
Shadows trace the letters on the glowing sign,
Heartbeat syncs to the metronome of time.
Every flash a memory, sharp against the night,
Lost and found in the shimmer of the light.
[Chorus]
Neon dreams light up my night (Ne-on dreams light up my night)
Colors burn across the LED (Co-lors burn a-cross the LED)
Hold me close in chrome and glow (Hold me close in chrome and glow)
I reach for you where the circuits flow (I reach for you where the cir-cuits flow)
[Verse 2]
Your eyes are cathode moons behind the glass,
Cassette-click smiles from a film that never lasts.
Arcade echoes press our names into the night,
Quartered promises in pixelated white.
We ride the midnight freeway, radio low and thin,
Wind writes our names where the tailwinds begin.
I trace the seam where analog meets code,
Fingers on the fader, watching color overload.
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Now the signal wavers—static at the seam,
Plastic promises flicker in the screen.
Do I follow sunrise or the neon glow?
There’s a choice between the city and the road.
[Chorus]
Neon dreams light up my night (Ne-on dreams light up my night)
Colors burn across the LED (Co-lors burn a-cross the LED)
Hold me close in chrome and glow (Hold me close in chrome and glow)
But I can feel the shore of morning grow (But I can feel the shore of morn-ing grow)
[Bridge]
Under ultraviolet sky I learned to trade the sun,
Traded morning for your glow, the daylight come undone.
Is this heaven or a screen that keeps us pinned and clean?
I sold my sunrise for your color, cassette-slick and mean.
A moment of clarity — the chrome shows my face,
I hear the cassette click and taste the empty space.
I loved the shimmer more than I had known,
Now I weigh the cost in pixels, in the weight of being alone.
[Chorus — Final]
Neon dreams light up my night (Ne-on dreams light up my night)
Colors burn across the LED (Co-lors burn a-cross the LED)
Hold me close in chrome and glow (Hold me close in chrome and glow)
This time I let the horizon teach me how to go (This time I let the ho-ri-zon teach me how to go)
[Outro]
VHS ghosts on the dashboard fade to white,
Cassette hiss dissolves into morning light.
We learned to live inside electric seams,
But dawn remembers more than neon dreams.
