Lyrics
[Intro - distant rain, subway rumble, Rhodes] Two thirteen Whole block sleeping Screen still breathing [Verse 1] Streetlights bleeding through the blinds again Coffee getting cold beside a pile of plans Little blue glow painting shadows on my hands One more frame One more world One more chance Everybody tells the night to call it quits But the quiet's when the broken pieces fit Timeline full of places that don't exist Till I pull them from the dark And give them somewhere to live [Pre-Chorus] I don't wait for daylight I learned to make my own Turn a little room to somewhere Nobody's ever known [Chorus] These are my render lights Burning through the middle of the night Blue on my face City outside Building whole worlds while the real one goes quiet Render lights Every little failure comes alive Static into stars Frames into skies If morning finds me here Then I survived another night [Verse 2] Rain turns every window into cinema Sirens bend to rhythm when they're far enough Half-made creatures staring from another tab Spaceships, forests, songs Things I never knew I had I know that spinning circle way too well Ninety-nine percent can feel a lot like hell Then the picture moves The speakers wake And suddenly There's something here that yesterday was only me [Pre-Chorus] No crowd inside the room No spotlight from above Just stubborn little sparks And all the things I haven't made enough [Chorus] These are my render lights Burning through the middle of the night Blue on my face City outside Building whole worlds while the real one goes quiet Render lights Every little failure comes alive Static into stars Frames into skies If morning finds me here Then I survived another night [Bridge - drums fall away] Maybe I was always built for after-hours Maybe some things only grow without the sun Every strange idea that wouldn't leave me alone Found a home One by one [Final Chorus - huge, cinematic] These are my render lights Look how far they reach into the night Blue becomes gold Dark becomes bright A thousand little worlds in every window tonight Render lights I don't need the city to go quiet Let the trains roll on Let the skyline shine I'll still be making something When the morning hits the sky [Outro] One more frame One more light One more world Before daylight