Last Light Fades

(ahhhh) Sitting up on this ridge above the bay

Watching the evening fade slowly to gray

One by one the avenues surrender

to dusk

Metal and concrete turning to quiet dust

Just me and the cooling stone under my hands Now the windows

go dark across the grid

Softly hiding all the secrets that we hid

Nothing broken, nothing left to mend

Just quiet stars waiting at the end (hummmm)

The last substation clicks and says goodnight

Swallowing up the final amber filament of light

No sirens cutting through the valley floor

No engines rumbling past the corner store

Only the night wind breathing in the pines

Now the windows go dark across the grid

Softly hiding all the secrets that we hid

Nothing broken, nothing left to mend

Just quiet stars waiting at the end

(yeah,

just the quiet stars)

I pull my coat tight against the chill

The world is finally peaceful and still

(ahhhh) Goodnight, old world